While it’s not a vintage totp by any means this week there is still much to enjoy even if its Simon Bates hosting in a caramel colour leather jacket. Matchbox do the old double bass spin several times,. Keith Michell’s reading of Captain Beaky seems to go on for about ten years. There’s a video for Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down that sees Elvis hanging around in a French cafe while the Attractions…fall down; Jon and Vangelis’ awesomely silly video features a bloke in a leotard dancing on a flying moog; Dave Edmunds is in the studio doing Singing the Blues and Marti Webb is too doing Take That Look of Your Face from some Lloyd webber show. Kenny Rogers is no 1 with Coward of the County. The Shadows do one of the worst ‘lets go disco’ career moves ever with the lamentable Riders In The Sky. I feel strangely compelled to post Kiss’ I was made for loving you.
But the jewel in the crown is the Flying Lizards – on totp with not Money but TV – there are a lot of them onstage in some sort of performance art happening. The wonderful @totpfacts tells us the bloke saying ‘Very’ a lot is the Marshall from Marshall Hain of Dancing in the City Vein. If you see just one toppie clip this week….
Toppie. I am not liking this neologism. Please desist.
But what did you think of this week’s show?
It was very… very… very…very… very…
botttomie.
I’d forgotten all about legs and co. But them dancing to a Michael Jackson song because he’s … Not in the studio is hardly news.
I’m enjoying it now, MM, particularly Legs ‘n’ Co’s interpretation of MJ’s tune. I’m sure that ballroom dancing in tutus with invisible partners was just what Michael had in mind when he wrote “You’ve got to feel that heat, and we’re gonna ride that boogie”.
Watched Matchbox, Elvis and Dave Edmunds. Fast-forwarded through the dismal rest – as bad as you’d expect something presented by Simon Beast to be.