Step Into Christmas…

“Hello again! Starting tomorrow, it’s time once again for all your friends at Out On Blue Six to start the Annual Christmas Bonanza, so we can look forward to twenty five whole days of entertainment for all the family, including – it says on this piece of paper I have in my hands here - favourite [...]

The Nathan Petrelli Script-O-Matic!

Struggling to work out what to get for Christmas for that hard-to-buy-for person in your life? Well wonder no longer – The Nathan Petrelli Script-O-Matic is here to put an end to your present-buying woes!
Simply take any page of dialogue, and pick out one of the special NathanCards(TM) to select a word to randomly place [...]

An Open Letter To James Corden

“Dear James Corden,
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT [...]

Top Cat Or Boss Cat?

What would you – yes, you personally – call the loveable cartoon character depicted above? Top Cat? Boss Cat? 01:30:56:10? It’s quite an interesting poser.
…y’see, when the BBC bought the rights to Hanna-Barbera’s most popular long-running Bilko-riffing battle of wits between a bunch of wisecracking cats and the long arm of the law set on Precinct [...]

Take A New Look At Penny Lane

Now this is the sort of thing that YouTube was invented for; an episode of the demented Beatles cartoon series – the one that opened with that animated recreation of A Hard Day’s Night-style chased-by-fans slapstick madcappery with added racially dubious gags – in which they overhear plans to “rob Penny [...]

Escape From eBay

You just can’t make this stuff up, even in the midst of all this post Ross/Brand upsurge in Complainer Culture. Escape From Colditz, the allies-favouring older-brother-and-his-mates-centric million-hour-lasting World War II-themed ambitious intellectual board game from the late seventies, has got TV Cream Toys author Steve Berry into a spot of bother over at eBay. Better forget [...]

Pick Of The Lazy Embedded YouTube Pops – Boy George ‘Sold’

Following on from the surprisingly popular unearthing of The Wishing Well, here’s another rewardingly oddball effort from young Mr. O’Dowd’s offbeat ‘comeback’ phase, namely a rap about Thatcherism and how “if Mr Botha was a man, he’d tip the hat he’d pass the can, but he doesn’t speak for you and [...]

“…It’s Practically Invisible!”

Back in the late sixties/early seventies, it was apparently required by law that any official single version of a popular TV theme had to be as unlike the version heard onscreen as was musically possible. Consider the evidence – the funked up workout loosely based on The Prisoner, the Uptown Topov Ranking reggaefied Inigo Pipkin, the [...]

Pick Of The Lazy Embedded YouTube Pops – Equipe ‘84 ‘29 Settembre’

Here’s another bunch of chancers who found a modicum of fame – of a sort – through Kenny Everett’s World’s Worst Wireless Show: Euro-prog pioneers Equipe ‘84, sounding just as shambolic in their native Italian as they did on the English Language re-recording, weirdly choosing to illustrate their oh-so-serious number 29th [...]

CARNIVAL OF LIGHT WHEN RELEASE?

It’s a bit hard to understand what all the sudden fuss is about Paul McCartney confirming to Mark Lawson that the legendary unreleased Beatles ’sound collage’ does actually exist and isn’t urban myth after all. Call me old fashioned, but hasn’t its existence always been sort of confirmed by the fact that it was commissioned for and [...]