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metal mickey commented on the post, Pet Shop Boys – It Can Happen Here 3 weeks ago
It started life as a South Bank Show profile, with Neil & Chris suggesting some staged inserts relating to their upbringings, so it wouldn’t just be the usual talking heads interview scenario, then SBS regular d […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Derry Girls finale 1 month ago
Well, yeah, I geddit, but I can’t help feeling there must be some middle-ground between (say) The Office UK (14 episodes) and The Office USA (201 episodes)… and bearing in mind the US version was one of the […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Derry Girls finale 1 month ago
I loved the series overall, though I agree there was a slight dip in quality in series 3, not helped by having to shoot around Claire and Sister Michael’s various issues, but I really enjoyed the finale, which […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Pet Shop Boys – Dreamworld Live 1 month ago
Marc Almond has tended to alternate “hits” tours with those with more obscure setlists. He’ll throw in plenty of one-off covers (I’ve seen him do Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Syd Barrett, Bill Fay and Lewis […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Great docu on telly about the best Disco film ever ever ever made. 6 months, 1 week ago
It’s a fine movie, but actually a bleak, rather nasty indie drama that would fit well in a spiritual double-bill with Mean Streets, but just happened to have a zeitgeist-setting disco subplot and an era-defining s […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Songs bands wont leave out of their sets 7 months, 3 weeks ago
It must be especially difficult for one-hit wonders… much as I love Fountains Of Wayne, I was annoyed when I saw them and they tossed off Stacey’s Mom in a different arrangement (semi-acoustic bossa nova) that […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, When it's time to pull the plug on performing live 7 months, 3 weeks ago
In the sage words of David Hepworth (formerly of this parish), “most rock stars are either poorer than you’d think, or richer than you can imagine…”
Who knows quite where Phil Collins comes on this scale… […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, The really good bit at the end 7 months, 3 weeks ago
I came back to this thread to double-check no-one had mentioned this track, and I can’t believe it didn’t instantly come to mind for me… one of those outros that actually takes up half the track, it’s the album […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, The really good bit at the end 8 months ago
Shame on you BC 🙂 for not mentioning Depeche Mode’s New Life… with the verses & choruses out of the way, each Mode joins in one at a time into 4-part harmony, before exploding into a “whoah!” and a whole new syn […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Afterword Nerd Facts 8 months, 2 weeks ago
80s edition:
1) The “old man” in the spoken part of The Human League’s “Love Action” is Lou Reed. The sub-title of the song is “I Believe In Love”, the name of Phil Oakey’s favourite Lou Reed track.
2) Wh […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Not that one – lesser-known nominative doppelgänger bangerz 9 months, 1 week ago
Only because this thread made me think of it, here’s the gameshow “Homonym!” from the peerless 30 Rock…:
(And in Iranian!)
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metal mickey commented on the post, Don't Shut Me Down 9 months, 3 weeks ago
That would be “What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?”, and yes, it’s great (I prefer it to “Evergreen”, to be honest…)
… and I couldn’t help noticing that “Evergreen” came only 10 years after the last […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Don't Shut Me Down 9 months, 3 weeks ago
More than anything, I’m impressed at how much like “Abba” these songs sound, which I know is ridiculous (who else would they sound like?!) but they’re reassuringly of a piece with their later catalogue, though […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Well I never 9 months, 3 weeks ago
As John Oliver put it, cryptocurrency is “everything you don’t know about finance, multiplied by everything you don’t know about the internet”…
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metal mickey commented on the post, Well I never 9 months, 4 weeks ago
I believe he may have been living in Japan for a while now, which could well have given him a good head start in the NFT field and crypto in general…
… though he did have a song called “MC Escher The Impos […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, ATM 16mm transfer 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Epping, since you ask – how about yourself?
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metal mickey commented on the post, Scritti Politti in Norwich 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Believe it or not, bearing in mind I’m trying to sell my 2 tickets for Leeds on the 28th, I might be interested, as Norwich is reach-able for me and I can make the 21st, but I can’t justify it unless I find a home […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, ATM 16mm transfer 9 months, 4 weeks ago
As a lockdown project last year I used http://www.blackcatvideo.com/cinefilmtransfer.html in Potters Bar in Herts. to convert my shoebox full of 8mm films. They’re local to me so I did it in person, but they’ll do […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Well I never 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Sometime around 1980-82, there was a BBC documentary where they gave David Hockney a then-brand-spankingly-new digital paintbox to try out and see what he thought of it.
The artwork he did was so-so, but he […]
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metal mickey commented on the post, Scritti Politti tickets – Leeds 28th September 10 months ago
Thanks for the wise words Paul, I’ll be sure to cover all fronts one way or another!
And yes, should be a great gig – I think Green still has Rhodri Marsden in the band, who’s done an amazing job of recreating […]
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