Big Band Collection
Last week I went for Kate Bush as the weekend’s aural/visual feast for your lucky ears and eyes. This weekend it’s something a little different: big band music! Andy Kirk & His Orchestra – Apollo Groove Russ Morgan & His Orchestra – Limehouse Blues Don Azpiazu & His Havana Casino Orchestra – El...
Kate Bush Collection
Now, see, your average Scaryduck likes to put up a video every weekend on that common-or-garden website of his and a video – in the singular – is okay for your run-of-the-mill viewer but over here we like to go one better(*) and grace your eyeballs and earballs with three videos. That’s how we roll. With rumours of a Kate Bush release (that sounds dirty, but it isn’t) later this year it seems appropriate for the lazy-minded (me) to supply the beautiful people (you) with a trio of her music videos (these): Experiment IV with Hugh Laurie, Dawn French, and Peter Vaughan Sat In Your Lap with Disco Ku Klux Klan! Them Heavy People John Woo learnt everything he knows from Kate’s fight scene (*) Three is not one better than...
Football Terrace Songs
Attend a football match and you’ll hear singing and chanting from all around you. You won’t be joining in because carrying on the chant into a new verse or repetition of the chorus when everyone else instinctively knows to stop – thereby isolating your rather weedy-by-comparison vocal strength, inability to hold a note, and apparent misunderstanding of what exactly those lyrics were anyway, and ensuring a swift turning of heads for rows in either direction followed by mocking laughter – is something you only ever do once; the fear controls your actions thence onwards. Have you ever wondered just why certain teams’ fans seem to like to sing certain songs at football matches? Are you wondering it now that I’ve put the thought into your head? What about now? If the answer is "yes" or "oh, just get on with it" then you’re in luck because you’ve arrived at the right page on the internet. Liverpool – You’ll Never Walk Alone Get yourself along to Liverpool’s Anfield football stadium, or watch Liverpool on the television and you could be forgiven for thinking that Liverpool fans sit politely in silence for entire games. In fact, this is only nearly true. Pay special attention and you will find that if Liverpool are actually winning (it happens sometimes) and the game is within the third minute or more of extra time then a tiny core of Liverpool fans who decided to remain will almost certainly strike up a chorus of this maudlin showtune from the musical Carousel. The adoption of the song by Liverpool F.C.’s fans is purely coincidental. The first purpose-built cinema was not opened in Liverpool until February 1957. Prior to that date a mobile screening of the popular movies of the day took place in a number of venues around the city, including one in the Kop stand of Anfield. The very last movie to be shown in the football stadium was Carousel (although it was scheduled to be The King And I which could have changed footballing history considerably) and in an unusual show of emotion the Liverpudlians who liked both films and football decided to honour the former at so-called spectacles of the latter by performing the entire score during the eighty-five minutes of lull in the game. It was only in the nineteen seventies, with the earlier arrival of entertaining Emlyn "Crazy Horse" Hughes and his hilarious, in-game grass-eating antics that the number of songs was reduced to a more manageable one: the dirge "You’ll Never Walk Alone". Portsmouth – The Pompey Chimes It’s a simple chant – Play Up Pompey, Pompey Play Up – and...
Vintage Industrial Collection
A small selection of vintage pioneers and influences of industrial music. Perfect listening for a Sunday morning after the Saturday evening before which turned out to be the tail-end of athe Saturday afternoon that began with beer on the stroke of midday. What I’m saying is: I’ve got a hangover. Cabaret Voltaire – Sensoria Ministry – Over The Shoulder Roxy Music –...
Anne Francis
The actress Anne Francis – notable for her roles as Honey West in the TV series of the same name, and as Altaira Morbius in the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet – died on Sunday, January 2nd, 2011. I liked her. I like pertness. She had a pert nose. It was pleasing to my...
Eurovision
Well, it’s the Eurovision Song Contest final tonight so I’ll be drinking and mocking and adoring the spectacle and coming over all nostalgic for when the show was really great back in the 1970s. And with that thought – and with this one: I really should update this site more often – why not present a selection of "classic" (or, more accurately, "random") videos of Eurovision’s yesteryear? I can’t think of a reason why not; after all, it’s a lazy way to refresh the site’s home page and video embedding will slow down the render time to a crawl when YouTube has one of its inevitable funny five minutes annoying any passing or potentially regular (who knows?) visitors so that’s the double whammy of excellence in my view. It might even kickstart my brain into thinking of new things to write so I can push this post off the front of the site sooner rather than later. You never know. Stranger things have happened. Never say never. Too many cooks spoil the bird in the hand. And so on. 1970s Eurovision Song Contest Videos… ACTIVATE! Helen & Joseph (full names Helen Micallef and Joseph Cutajar) performing ‘L’imhabba’, the Maltese entry at the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. I would kill for that shirt. Jacques Raymond and Lily Castel performing ‘Goeiemorgen,Morgen’ (Good Morning, Morning), the Belgian entry at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest. A bit of a Diana Rigg look going on there from Lily. Nice. Anne Karine Strom performing ‘Mata Hari’, the Norwegian entry at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest. If, like me, you’re always forgetting just when it was that one-piece gold trouser suits and glasses with lenses the size of grapefruits was in fashion then here’s a helpful reminder that it was 1976. Chocolate Menta Mastik performing ‘Emor Shalom’ (Say Hello), the Israeli entry at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest. Let’s bypass the awesomeness that is the awesome name of Chocolate Menta Mastik and concentrate on the three women performing this song instead: stunning choreography (I was stunned) and faces that are somehow more disturbing than those multi-mouthed, quad-eyed singers from Battlestar Galactica equals major win. Nicole and Hugo performing ‘Baby, Baby’, the Belgian entry at the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest. Classic. Who doesn’t look good in purple? Nobody, that’s who. Fun fact: Phil Spector was so influenced by this song that he stole a white afro wig from one of the backing singers. The Les Humphries Singers performing ‘Sing Sang Song’, the German entry at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest. Nonsense lyrics, no coordination in the clothing, not even a semblance of dance choreography or even the...
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