Posts Tagged ‘1986’
October 22, 2009
…well it was a very close-run thing, but just edging half a point ahead (and actually due to his specialist subject rather than his expert knowledge of the Large Hadron Particle Collider) is A Ben Baker Of Keighley – congratulations on becoming the Out On Blue Six Telly Addicts Champion Of Champions 2009. And here [...]
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Tags: 1986, a bit fo fry & laurie, adam monroe, alain carazze, alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb, ananda shankar, ant jones on saturday superstore, ‘oops, ‘uncle’, “we’re back!”, bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, ben baker, bottom, brenda off rising damp, camberwick green, captain snort, children of fire mountain, chris hughes, chu-eeze, dan quayle in space, desmond off lost, dexter, doctor who, dougal, dylan, e’s dead chief!, elephant stone, elle bishop, ethan i. rom (i’m an other), eve myles, eve myles tits, falcon island, fatboy slim is jerk, gabriel gray, garreth f hirons, gaz top, gene hunt, gordon honeycombe, gordon murray, hartley hare, heroes, hey it’s my birthday too!, hoofer doofer, hurley, interstellar overdrive, janet dibley, jaymi bantok, life on mars, little ted, lost, matilda mother, max headroom, michael parkinson, mickey murphy the baker, monty python’s flying circus, mr rusty, nathan petrelli, nicholas lyndhurst, nightingales, noel dressed as a caterpillar in all-star record breakers in 1978, noel edmonds, noel’s addicts, parky, patrick troughton, peter hazel the postman, peter petrelli, phil pope, pig, pink floyd, pipkins, play school, porkpie, rik & ade, rising damp, roland rat, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, rubovia, russell t. davies, see emily play, slim john, spitting image, stanley unwin, stephen salmon, strom, suede, syd barrett, sylar, TEH DRUGZ DRISCOLL!, telly addicts, the charles collingwood auditions were not going well, the dalek masterplan, the delegates, the goodies, the krankies, the lost islands, the magic roundabout, the secret service, the stone roses, the tomorrow people, tomorrow’s world, topov, tortoise, trumpton, tv ''slim charles'' (wire), tv squash, vetoed stylophone, why was max headroom in the opening titles for about six years after he stopped being on tv?, windy miller, xtc, yorkshire tv chevron, zebedee
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October 12, 2009
Yes at last… it’s the answers that at least seven of you have been waiting for!
Round 1
1. Eve Myles’ Tits from Torchwood
2. Strain 138 of the Shanti Virus from Heroes (honestly, why did so many of you confidently state it was the Sonic Screwdriver?)
3. The objects next to the Music Box from Camberwick Green
4. Gene [...]
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Tags: "ah i remember doing this bit - walking across the yard...", "dexter! de-e-e-ex-ter! here he come an' he wan' go home", "ding a dong we're from poland/when you hit a roland/make sure it is with cricket bat bat bat", "don't splash little noel-y", "eh? doctor who? what's he talking about?", "here is a box... a musical box... wound up and ready to play", "house/house/grumpy man/flouts convention when he can", "i didn't allow camberwick green in my studio", "it's telly addicts ma", "say yes paul", "wanna be a fly upon your wall/wanna be a fly-y!", "what do you think this is hamuel? some sort of pigsty??", 1986, adam monroe, alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb, alfresco, annie cartwright, anyone want a spare copy of manuel's good food guide?, based on the novel by alan driscoll, bbc schools diamond, binful of alan on the '45 ("hey!" - herring), brenda off rising damp, camberwick green, captain jack, caroline mabilia, children of fire mountain, chris skelton, clarke peters, deleg, dexter, didn't he play one of the ones that went 'blind' (ie every single bloody character) in little house on the prairie?, dobbin, doctor who, dougal, driscoll (alan) holdings ltd, dylan, e's dead chief!, elle bishop, empty entry sheet marked 'd. maclaine', eve myles tits, facon island, falcon island, fawlty towers, fred harris singing penny lane with little ted as the fireman, gabriel gray, gaz top, gene hunt, gordon honeycombe, GRR GRR OBLIVION BOYS, gyrocopter escapes from alan driscoll, hartley hare, hazel the macwitch, here come the... delegates! delegates! diddle-a-diddle-a-diddle-a, heroes, hey it's my birthday too!, house, how the fuck did candyland find their way into a tag??, hurley, i won't get up noel i can't, i'm ronnie corbett and i'm very very sorry, in the house of bam-boo! (THUNK-A-DUNK-DUNK), janet dibley, jaymi bantok, john barrowman, john barrowman can have sex with a photocopier, john barrowman escapes in a gyrocopter, just another manic monday/i wish it was sunday/cause that's my fun day/my watch the lost islands day, life on mars, little ted, lost, max headroom, max headroom's even less successful third single, michael mcdonald was not on cd:uk, michael parkinson, monty python's flying circus, mr benn, mr claypole, mr davenport, mr rusty, nathan petrelli, nicholas lyndhurst, nightingales, noel dressed as a caterpillar in all-star record breakers in 1978, noel edmonds, noel edmonds wearing shirts that look like a tv turned on its side and having bad reception, noel gives blood, noel's addicts, noel's got a new raleigh, noel's house party, nookie bear, not affiliated with noel edmonds the television presenter or telly addicts the game show, not quite free nelson mandela, NOT THE SONIC SCREWDRIVER, or is he just channeling sylar's ability to work a photocopier?, parky, patrick troughton, peter petrelli, pig, pipkins, play school, porkpie, rentaghost, rising damp, roger waters... 45! roger whittaker... 45! roger de courcey... 45!, roland rat, roland rat - the series, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, roland rat tries to escape in a gyrocopter but still gets hit with a cricket bat, rubovia, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, skin roland rat alive and shout hooray, slim john, spitting image, stanley unwin, stephen salmon, sylar, tat whalley, TEH TELLY ADDICTS DRISCOLL!, the 'hurley bird', the answer to number three is mac and me, the delegates, the goodies, the krankies, the lost islands, the magic roundabout, the noel edmonds saturday roadshow, the secret service, the tomorrow people, the torchwood one would write itself, the wire, this is... eve myles tits, topov, torchwood, tortoise, tros y gareg means over the stones/we'll go over them with griff rhys jones/till we come to the land of 'uncle' and then we'll punch him until he cries, trumpton, tv 'clown' (test card) consults lawyers, tv 'bubbles' (wire), tv 'clown' (test card), tv 'prop joe' (wire), tv 'thirteen' (house), tv 'ziggy' (wire), tv-am, where is jaymi bantok?, where's alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb when you need him?, whitey sale!, whither an inappropriate scheduling of jagged edge?, whoever reported this blog for containing 'inappropriate content' can fuck off, why does noel look suspiciously more well-drawn than the others?, why was max headroom in the opening titles for about six years after he stopped being on tv?, zebedee, zephon
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February 17, 2009
It’s everyone’s favourite last desperate quick-the-hair-crimper-has-stopped-working gasp of New Romantic in the form of a bloke who arrived at the dawn of 1986, looked like a peroxided boxer, sounded like a less virile Kajagoogoo, had a major hit with the naughtily-videoed Imagination, had another less major hit with this ode to [...]
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Tags: 'belouis' 'some', 1986, kajagoogoo, montreux pop festival, new romantics, oh for the new romantic sitting alone at his eaving loom slowly weaving lace collars to the sound of the big bass drum, phil cool drinking citrus spring, sing hi! for the new romantic and the peacock feather in his cap silver buckles rattling frilly shirt flapping in the breeze, smash hits, the tripods
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December 11, 2008
In Julian Cope’s outstanding double-volume autobiography Head On/Repossessed, there is a moment in which The Teardrop Explodes are supported by the then-unknown Aztec Camera, and Cope is stunned to discover that the extraordinarily mature, accomplished and charming and lyrically expressive songs are the work of the band’s frighteningly young lead vocalist. Along with their close [...]
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Tags: "buy it today! buy it tomorrow! buy it on monday!", 1986, altered images, aztec camera, c90, chris morris, Christmas!, evening session, julian cope, london 0 hull 4, orange juice, skylarking, the flumps, the housemartins, the teardrop explodes, thom yorke's decathlon, walk out to nyder, xtc
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December 5, 2008
Concluding the chronicle of classic Christmas giftage from the year when Hardwicke House’s Adrian Edmondson said “send them some beef, you utter utter utter utter BARSTARD”…
THE UTTERLY UTTERLY MERRY COMIC RELIEF CHRISTMAS BOOK
While Comic Relief is undeniably serving a useful purpose and a good cause in general, it has to be said that much of [...]
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Tags: 1986, adrian mole, angus deayton, Christmas!, cliff richard, comic relief, comic relief people in grief send them some beef and they'll have tea tonight, douglas adams, jim yoakum is keeping africa starving, lenny henry, mel smith's greatest hits, out of the trees, rik & ade, spitting image, terry jones, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the young ones, yeah yeah yeah take your love actually outside please pal, yes minister
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December 4, 2008
More from the list of most desireable presents from the year when you might have seen Phil Cool impersonating Al Capone dancing the Charleston on top of a flagpole…
COOL IT!
“Get up them Pennine Hills!”. From the neon suits and is-he-alternative-comedy-or-isn’t-he? positioning of its rubber-faced star, to the Housemartins-like theme tune and accompanying pastel shaded semi-animated [...]
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Tags: 'dinners', 1986, bbc pinocchio can fuck off, bbc video, BEATLES, boney, carnival of light, Christmas!, citrus spring, daleks, doctor who, fawlty towers, mark lewisohn, national treasure andrew sachs, not phil collins, phil cool, phil cool drinking citrus spring, rik & ade, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, rolf harris, that's just the way phil cool drinks citrus spring, victoria wood as seen on tv, watch with mother, where's phil cool drinking citrus spring?, whither colonel culpeper's flying circus?, why no phil cool drinking citrus spring in the opening titles?
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December 3, 2008
Further perusal of the most keenly-sought-after Christmas Presents from the year when Robert Elms went on and on and on about Anita Baker and BBC’s Juice served up more Huey Lewis And The News than ought to have been legally permissible…
NOW! THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC… 8
Nowadays we’re all more familiar with the Now!… series [...]
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Tags: "whAT is payper!?", 1986, anita baker, big country, billy bragg, c86, Christmas!, cool jerk '86, dr and the medics, duran duran, eastenders (when it was good), geoffrey bayldon, huey lewis and the news, human league, it bites, kate bush, kim wilde, letitia dean, madness, magenta devine, nick berry, not greg grunberg, now! that's! what! i! call! music!, paul hardcastle, paul j medford, pet shop boys, phil collins, robert elms, run dmc, status quo, stock aitken waterman, sweet love, swing out sister, the clothes show, the communards, the housemartins, top of the pops, why no max headroom?
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December 2, 2008
Continuing our look back at the Christmas presents you wanted in 1986. Whether you realised it or not…
SANTA CLAUS IS ON THE DOLE
Following on from the Fat Les-esque irony-caked runaway success of supposed-to-be-a-sendup-of-novelty-hits-but-ended-up-a-novelty-hit-itself masterpiece The Chicken Song earlier in the year, and the ensuing album Spit In Your Ear which mixed spoken word material (including [...]
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Tags: 'charlie', 1986, advent calendar, alex james, chris morris, Christmas!, fat les, gabriel woolf, henry woolf, ian hislop, just don't bother with loadsamoney (doin' up the house), keith allen, red dwarf, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, ronnie hazlehurst, santa claus is on the dole, spitting image, the 11 o'clock show, the chicken song, threads, woolf morris, words & pictures
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December 1, 2008
These days it’s all Amazon Wishlists and what have you, but in Christmases of yore, however, people used to have to write up their Christmas Lists on lined notepaper torn out of a spiral-bound ’students notepad (feint rule)’, which didn’t have the power to magically inform you that ‘this item is no longer available’ (curse you, [...]
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Tags: 1986, a song for christmas, advent calendar, back to skool, captain zep space detective, doctor who, douglas adams, eastenders (when it was good), geoffrey palmer, grimleys, henry's cat, here come the zanies! (del boy theme), heroes, horace goes skiing, noddy holder, official comic genii peter vaughan, only fools & horses, open air, parky, peter petrelli at christmas, radio times, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, skool daze, slade, stewart lee, stop repeating that bloody clip of gary barlow, this time next year robney we'll own a million hares, wh smith, zx spectrum
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October 26, 2008
It’s very strange to think of now, but there was a time when Patsy Kensit was nothing more than a faded former children’s TV star (Dolenz-instigated sci-fi comedy oddness Luna, in case you were wondering) fronting a faux-’sixties revival’ pop group who if we’re being honest about should now probably be [...]
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Tags: 1986, cheggers plays pop, eighth wonder, girl on a motorcycle, luna, marianne faithfull, montreux pop festival, patsy kensit, stay with me, why didn't joanna wyatt ever make a record (well apart from the fact that technically she did)?
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