Nostalgia – it’s not how Andrew Collins remembers it used to be. But for forty five minutes it’s exactly how it used to be for you! And probably for Andrew Collins a bit too.
Yes, if you’re feeling ever so slightly tired of how all of those clip-structured ‘sound collage’ nostalgia shows always seem to use the same well-known and relatively heavyweight archival footage to evoke the sociocultural ‘mood’ of Phil Cool drinking Citrus Spring, then here’s the alternative! Turning the approach of The Rock’n'Roll Years and Sounds Of The 20th Century upside down, the Talk About The Passion team are putting together a series of podcasts covering specific years, featuring half-forgotten mid-chart hits with clips from cult TV and radio shows, underachieving films, annoyingly inescapable adverts and other assorted (mostly puppet-driven) ephemera. In other words, the pop cultural past as YOU remember it. And probably Andrew Collins a bit too.
The first of these podcasts covers 1992, so if The Bouncer by Kicks Like A Mule, Zig & Zag interviewing East 17, and the difference between ‘Football’ and ‘Muggy Bonehead’ mean more to you than Shakespear’s Sister and the European Monetary Union, get ready for forty five minutes of Rob Newman-era past-remembering thrill-packed retro fun!
Talk About 1992 was put together by Ben Baker with Tim Worthington and Phil Catterall. And probably Andrew Collins a bit too. And if you like it, please say so somewhere as we’d like to do more of these but would equally like to be sure that people are listening and enjoying first…!
And now the important bit: you can hear The TATP Years: 1992 at Talk About The Passion, and download some of our other podcasts while you’re there, would you? That means you as well, Andrew Collins. Cheers!
“It’s answers, pals!” read the original draft for this post. And how different from that original draft this finished version will be. Because pals, it’s answers! Yes, it’s time to find out exactly what those thirty five mysterious and not-particularly-informative titles of long-forgotten TV shows that you probably weren’t that interested in to begin with (apart from Hey, It’s My Birthday Too!) were actually all about, and indeed to find out the identity of the winner of the coveted title of Out On Blue Six TV That Time Forgot Quiz Champion Of Champions 2012 (LOGO)!
Yes, it’s time for another plug for That Quiz Based On Trying To Work Out What Thirty Five Hopelessly Obscure TV Shows Might Have Involved From Their Titles Alone Which Somewhat Ironically Doesn’t Actually Have An In Any Way Concise Or Descriptive Or Evocative Title Itself Will Do Your Level Best To Comply With Your Wishes And Find True Happiness On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie Of St Bartholemew’s Eve Which Prohibits Them Equally From Stealing Bread Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict So Until Next Week From This Week Next Week Argh Forgot To Include That One In The List Oh Well Etc Etc! The entries are pouring in thick and fast – seemingly most of them from what appear to be regular readers with the first letters of their name and surname transposed – but there’s still time to get yours in.
Yes, It’s Out On Blue Six Quiz Time! Or, judging from the response to previous excursions into the interactivity-heavy question-and-answer format, more like Out On Blue Six Quiz Couple-Of-Days-Until-It-Becomes-Painfully-Obvious-That-Nobody’s-Actually-Really-That-Interested. And it’s probably as impenetrable as Cabbages & Kings, as pointless as Vintage Quiz, and as likely to get booted into a less prominent timeslot mid-run as A Question Of Entertainment. Still, it’s all formatted and ready to run, so you’re getting a quiz whether you like it or not.
“If it’s not famous for being good, notorious for being bad, or full of retrospective cultural significance, chances are that the average (in both senses) TV show – especially in the days when almost everything was made basically to be shown once – will soon fade from the public memory”
Yes indeed, it’s time for the 
