From the OGWT 1981

Sorry I just posted similar. But Joe’s history deserves emphasis. I disagree though with your assessment of his time supporting The Clash, didn’t it open up lots of doors and inspire countless others?

Thanks Martin, I always look forward to hearing your picks to see what slipped through the cracks for me.

@alan33 I saw a young Welsh guitarist the other night, James Oliver, who sounded like the very reincarnation of Micky Gee. Highly recommended.

Just watched Farage at a live Press conference. To say he was “prickly” on the issue of his schooldays would be a gross understatement. His line of atttack on the ITV journalist was that they had Bernard Man […]

@dai Blimey, I get the sentiment but you are now giving a “pretty poor album” points in the rankings. Just leave it off.

@allium-salium Back In The USSR too mild? It’s Chuck Berry FFS!

Caught Between Two Plovers (an old Peter Buckley-Hill joke)

Fantastic entertainment once again. I’m not sure what it is that makes it addictive but it reaches the parts that other reality shows go nowhere near.

@gary Could it have been the Kursaal Flyers documentary from the 70s. Although they are from Southend, the film shows them touring the North. It was a BBC documentary and very revealing.

@dai Starts with a drum kick?

@nigelt They’re actually about to go on tour as The Manfreds with latter day Earth Band vocalist Noel Mcalla. So the full range of Mr Mann’s oeuvre will be on show.

“And Then He Kissed me”, the intro? Also part of God Only Knows, probably the “ah, ahhh, ah” break

Jimmy Tarbuck tonight. 85 and apparently was relishing it.

Looking forward to seeing this. Sadly I doubt it will threaten the Oscars much – the reality these days is that you need significant money behind you to mount the necessary campaign.

@sniffity Surely that was a straight duet rather than Bvs? I loved that video on Whistle Test

@nick-l Mr Elms is a great writer and broadcaster…..but he does think the world revolves around him, like a Zelig in Bowie Trousers. I remember him “discovering” Jazz in the 80s before anyone else (eye roll)

@dai Time (and maybe Money) changes everything

There is that brilliant “crane” shot in OUATITW, we see Claudia Cardinals at train platform level as she is directed to the ticket office, the camera rises to show us a budding small town on the other side of the […]