Absolutely 100% agree with this Rigid. How people manage to tolerate their pure rancid disgustingness is completely beyond me. Especially on a fried breakfast where they look like slugs. Evil, just evil.

Weren’t these programmes regionalised, as in different areas featured different clubs? In Greater London we always used to get Orient, Millwall, Brentford and Charlton as well as Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs etc. I […]

I’m hardly a metalhead @Gatz but I’ll admit a soft spot for 747 as well!

I’d totally agree about the Phill Savidge book, it is definitely a bit of a Suede love in isn’t it? Nothing against Suede particularly, who I thought were alright, especially their first album, but do they really […]

I live in Sunbury, just across the river from Walton on Thames, where many outside Monty Python sketches were filmed. In Sunbury itself, various street scenes from The Inbetweeners (very popular with the young […]

Your comments about starting an angry thread about this mess may have hit the nail on the head there Paul. What you say really strikes a chord with me.
With increasing age I have tended to steer away from […]

Very interesting to hear that Arthur. In all my work in education since, I have been so mindful of what I say to kids, as you never know what will end up having quite a significant effect on them. Generally if I […]

Exactly the same thing happened to me at school Salty, having to repeat the last year of primary school. God it was boring. I think that may have had an influence on me as well.

Oh I feel that pain Steve, yeah I can still hear my Dad’s comment of “well I’m extremely disappointed to read that” and the expression that went with it even now all these years later!

At school I was in the top groups for pretty much everything but was always “prone to bouts of silly behaviour” as my school report often said, but I managed to get by and succeed. However, when I formed a band, […]

They were, it has to be said, a bit obscure even at the time Rigid. I saw them a couple of times at Hammersmith’s long gone Clarendon and a re-union this year at the 100 Club. A lot of their recent publicity blurb […]

Apparently Michael Apted, the Director and Interviewer, is now 78. I hope he manages to make at least one more. If he is ever replaced it really needs to be thought about properly.

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Rocket Man. Was dragged by the family to see this but ended up quite enjoying it. Elton’s not really my cuppa but he did do some good tunes in the early days didn’t he?
Years and Years on TV started off […]

Cards on the table from the outset, I love this programme. I first saw it at around the age of 14 in a Sociology lesson at school (I’m now 51) when we were studying the class system and have watched every […]

It’s a very difficult task pinning it down to 3 but here goes…

Echo and The Bunnymen, Guildford Civic Hall, 1984. Having left school about 3 months before, I was there with loads of mates. With lots of Mac […]

I also saw Aztec Camera, but at London’s Dominion on what must have been the same tour as you @Bamber , with The Go-Betweens in support, who I was also getting into at the time. A great gig all round really, […]

I’ve had that happen to me, but again without the email. Loads of godawful playlists kept appearing. All I did was change the password and hey presto, never had any problems since. If memory serves, I clicked on […]

“Call centre microphone”, brilliant! Yes, what was he thinking of ?? Even at the time it looked like a slappable offence.

You might have a point there…I went to see them a couple of times in 83 and 84 and they were much heavier sounding than most of the post punk and indie type kids who liked them were expecting.