Split Enz were quite enamoured with Iris as well…

From wikipedia…

Valerie (Steve Winwood song), 1982
Valerie (The Zutons song), covered by Glee Cast, One Direction, Panic! at the Disco, Bruno Mars, and, most famously, Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse
Valerie, a […]

Either that, or it’s a life-sized submarine out of the 60s Thunderbirds show

It’s Trad Dad! (released in the US as Ring-A-Ding Rhythm) is worth seeing if only because it very much feels like a practice run for Hard Day’s Night. A lot of gags and cinematic similarities abound – be prepared […]

It’s 6:00am so I’m not about to start listing any examples, but I’d suggest any variation of Sue/Susie/Susan/Suzanne/Susannah might count as a nomination.

Blur or Oasis

Whizzer or Chips

Aaaaaaaand that’s a hamper for slotbadger.

A similar story with Oz mid-60s pop show Kommotion – sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. As Wikipedia puts it…

“Alongside the appearances by local pop groups, the producers also came up with a […]

“…groups would generally re-record the backing track and sing live over the top…

Often it wasn’t even that – recall an interview with a hitmaker lead singer who said the SOP was to have the BBC person arrive […]

GCU, as a plane bore you probably know about this site, but in case you don’t and like to read accounts of aircraft in movies (well, one in particular)…

What about the drains in Hackney?

Maho Beach ought to be on any planespotter’s list of places to visit

See any of these take off…?

Call me a grumpy skeptic, but I still can’t see how a young English boy, held for years in a Japanese POW camp in mainland China, would know what either a P-51 or Cadillac was.

If you’ve sufficient hits and heritage value up your sleeve, there’s possibly good money to be made doing corporate gigs.*

*I could be entirely wrong.

GeeBee
Lockheed Starfighter
Concorde
SR-71
Thunderbird 2
Angel Interceptor

Just about any WW2 plane, really (Could watch Battle Of Britain, Tora! Tora! Tora! or Catch-22 anytime, just for the aviation footage)

“Sorry, love, we’re right out of knighthoods at the moments…we’re expecting some MBEs in on Monday, but if you wait, I could do up a nice OBE so you couldn’t tell the difference…”

A friend of mine (pretty much the same one I always mention) does a lot of the photography at local meet’n’greets, and has related some interesting tales.

He reckons that Michael Buble is either the greatest […]

“…so that’s a good side career to have”

Has its own version of Hell, ie clients.

Apparently the movie which featured Wet Wet Wet’s “Love Is All Around” was “Love Actually” not “Four Weddings And A Funeral”