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Hamlet commented on the post, Reading & Leeds Festivals 2 days, 21 hours ago
You know music is buggered when bands rip off others bands’ names, let alone their music. Is it designed to entice myopic fans of 80s folk/indie, who will buy tickets to see Pogue Mahone and Echo and the B […]
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Hamlet commented on the post, Greatest commentaries 1 week, 3 days ago
Poor Dave – he sadly died aged 58; he was a genuine cult hero amongst Bolton fans. I seem to recall him describing Tony Kelly as Zico!
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Hamlet commented on the post, Greatest commentaries 1 week, 3 days ago
Love that! Reminds me of Bolton’s in-house commentator, Dave ‘Ding-dong-do’ Higson.
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Hamlet commented on the post, Greatest commentaries 1 week, 3 days ago
Yep, a bad ‘un, but you could always forgive Barry – he was the best. At least it’s not as awful as Motty’s limp correlation of the Year of the Rat with Kevin Ratcliffe lifting the FA Cup. I’m just glad it wasn’t […]
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Hamlet commented on the post, Successful musical offspring of well-known actors, artists, writers, etc 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Was it Nora Jones, Arthur?
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Hamlet commented on the post, Anybody else disappointed? 2 weeks, 5 days ago
According to George Harrison, Brian Epstein offered the Beatles
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Hamlet commented on the post, Q magazine – The Best 100 Record Covers 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Just my opinion, but Nirvana are the most overrated band of all time. They did 4 good songs, and that’s it.
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Hamlet commented on the post, Botticelli Painting sells for $120m 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Looks like a young Robin Gibb holding a pic of an aged Barry.
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Hamlet commented on the post, So Morten Harket Was Viking On The Masked Singer… 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Stay on these Roads is a lovely tune, albeit slightly hidden beneath an 80s sheen.
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Hamlet commented on the post, T.S. Eliot sticking it up your ass 3 weeks, 6 days ago
I studied a lot of poetry at uni, and we read a lot of Eliot in detail. I don’t recall people enjoying it, as such; I appreciated the intertextuality and the deconstruction of traditional forms, and it felt i […]
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Hamlet commented on the post, We Will Sing Our Own Song. With Your Voice 4 weeks ago
In the 80s, George Michael and Elton John sounded like they were from Tennessee.
Tim Buckley, certainly in his earlier work, sounded very English – like a medieval minstrel.
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Hamlet commented on the post, Potential Break Up of the UK 1 month ago
Andrew Neil’s dismantling of Nicola Sturgeon’s arguments ( interview before the last election) doesn’t bode well for the practicalities of an independent Scotland. Sturgeon simply couldn’t answer the major […]
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Hamlet commented on the post, Bygone brands 1 month, 1 week ago
(Puts glasses on and peers like a 19th-century handmaiden) Ah, bugger! Predictive text on iPhone!
I didn’t mind a Hooch, back in the 90s. The blackcurrant one wasn’t too bad…after your eyes stopped stinging. -
Hamlet commented on the post, Bygone brands 1 month, 1 week ago
Hooch -specifically the lemonade one – went away but has retuned.
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Hamlet commented on the post, Bygone brands 1 month, 1 week ago
My abiding memory of Fray Bentos pies is cutting into them – and realising they were 99% puff pastry, with just enough actual filling to cover a titmouse’s water biscuit.
I once found what I thought was a h […]
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Hamlet commented on the post, Phil Spector dead 1 month, 1 week ago
Yes, I like Death of a Ladies’ Man. I remember reading somewhere that the vocals were only intended to be guide vocals, but Spector wouldn’t let ol’ Len record them again.
Memories is one of his best records, […]
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Hamlet commented on the post, Tell us a joke 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The nurse at the sperm bank asked me if I’d like to masturbate in the cup. I said, “Well, I’m pretty good, but I don’t think I’m ready to compete just yet.”
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Hamlet commented on the post, A Question. 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Yep, they’ve got their grubby fingers in many dubious pies. You may have seen the HSBC adverts espousing the idea that no man is an island/we’re all liberal and European; they don’t mention that, at the behes […]
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Hamlet commented on the post, Who gets to ring in the bells first here? 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Are Steve McManaman and Andre Rieu morphing into each other?
Why does Andre seem to be – perpetually – on the set of a 90s ferrero rocher advert?
I firmly believe the coming year will answer these […]
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Hamlet commented on the post, Have we done George Michael? 2 months ago
The Faith album is a great listen: packed with top tunes. At his best, his music was something a lot of people get sniffy about, i.e. it was fun and enjoyable.
I think he fell to the eternal curse of the pop […]
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