I was born in 1973 so Margaret Thatcher was PM for my formaive years.
I very vaguely recall “Sunny Jim” and have no recollection of that fat treachorous oaf Ted Heath or of that deranged buffoon Harold “bloody” Wilson. He thought MI5 were gonna kill him. If only…
So she was my PM. In eleven years [...]
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Maggie
Does it feel the same to you…
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Well does it? Listen to the lyrics again.
One Way or Another…
I was speechless - literally - when I heard of this cultural malfeasance. It was like some scrote had drawn a cock and balls on the “Rokeby Venus” with a magic marker and then sniggered. This is sheer musical vandalism.
The epically crap “boyband” One Direction have “covered” (under the aegis of the deranged and [...]
Kevin Ayers. RIP.
Bugger! another good man gone.
I have at least 2 other posts going round in my head that I have been meaning to put up for you delectation, but I had to do this one when I heard the news.
So who was Kevin Ayers? I’m sure most of you will never have heard of him, but [...]
Happy New Year Y’all!
Well do the best you can in the circumstances , eh?
Some of you will be seeing it in with Jools’ Hootenanny, but I give you this…
Counting Cats lyrics and sentiments for the New Year…
“Cause talk and suspicion, give an exhibition, find out what it’s all about…”
And you can’t whack Garcia in full lyrical flow, [...]
Hell’s Bells!
RING IN THE OLYMPICS! Aunique bell-ringing event will soon be taking place nationwide.
Martin Reed, the Turner-prize-winning artist and musician was commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad to create a piece to welcome the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games.
“Work No.1197. All the bells in the country rung as quickly and loudly as possible” by Martin, a [...]
Peter Hitchens - Miserable Sod.
Pop goes the Monarchy: The Queen listened to Paul McCartney - and I heard the end of the Royal Family
- So says Hitch.
The worst moment of all was the Buckingham Palace concert, where the poor Queen pledged allegiance to the vile new culture of talentless celebrity. Any institution that has to suck up to [...]
The Worst Song Ever.
Now there are some contenders here. But this is shocking. It was recorded in 1969 and for fairly obvious reasons didn’t see the light of day until 1980.
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you The Shaggs and “That Little Sports Car” from their album (yes, they recorded an entire album of this utter shite) amazingly [...]
Something for the weekend…
Let us imagine…
It is Saturday night and onto the stage, in front of Simon Cowell and the rest, Ant & Dec usher on youthful (or indeed even alive - this is fantasy)…
Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Debbie Harry, Elvis Presley…
What happens next?
And no I’m not being an old git here because the same would happen with [...]
My best CD…
… I am listening to “Panic of Girls” but without a shadow of doubt the best set of tunes laid down by man, woman or beast was Blondie’s “Parallel Lines”. Epic. I may never have believed in God but dear sweet fuck I have always believed in Harry and Stein (and Infante and Burke). My [...]
Eurofission
It’s the Hump! Yes, Engelbert Humperdinck shall represent the UK at Eurovision. Oh, yes! Can you think of a better way to piss from a stratospheric height on Angie’s Merkin and Nick’s Sarcophagus? The Leicester (he was originally named Arnold George Dorsey) crooner who lives in Vegas. He has a simulacrum of an East Midland’s [...]
Musical Journalism.
This is one for RAB.
It is an ever growing idée fixe of mine that The Telegraph is going rapidly downhill.
I don’t mean in editorial PoV but in terms of quality of writing.
This deranged piece is shocking. It is essentially a piece of alleged music journalism by someone who clearly has no idea. Apart from anything [...]
Will the agony never end?
I heard on the car radio yesterday that ITV1 is reprising “Dancing on Ice”.
Here is the misfit’s parade of hasbeens and neverbeens who shall risk broken ankles for our “entertainment”…
1. Charlene Tilton.
Lucy Ewing from Dallas.
2. Corey Feldman.
Former “Goonie” and “Lost Boys” vampire hunter from the age when Coreys ruled the world. You might know [...]
The Statutory Rape of Justin Bieber…
… sounds like the sort of ghastly play (possibly with Daniel Radcliffe in the eponymous role - well the boy wizard did get his wand out in ‘Equus’ on the London stage a bit back) that wins Olivier awards…
Well, as RAB said earlier I have been in Poland so missed the “Cats-astrophy” he mentions [...]
