Posts Tagged ‘alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb’

And The Winner Is…

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 [...]

Telly Addicts: The Answers!

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 [...]

Pick Of The Lazy YouTube Embedded Pops: Eurovision Special #4, Brainstorm ‘My Star’

May 15, 2009

Today’s venue on our Courtesy Of The Time-Bending Exploits Of One Peter Petrelli-style whistle-stop tour through the history of Eurovision is 2000, when, in one of the great what-the-fuck? television moments of all time (you can fuck off with your ‘that song about nuclear war off Alfresco‘ nonsense) when a Britpop band from Latvia stormed the [...]

Life On Mars – The Ultra-Rare Spinoff Singles (And Album)

April 7, 2009

Regular readers of these pages will have already seen the following amazing charity shop find – the 1973 Life On Mars spinoff album Simm Something Simple by The John Simm Band.

Side 1 – Life On Mars; Solving A Rape In The Past; I’m Hands Christian Anderson; Motown Medley; Handbags And Gladrags; I Disown My Country
Side [...]

Those Record Fines In Full

April 3, 2009

Exactly who it’s likely to benefit is a matter of some puzzlement, but it’s been announced today that the BBC have been fined £150,000 over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand calling Andrew Sachs a “Fawlty Towers Second Sitting (Now Reissued On The ‘Vintage Beeb’ Label) Stupidhead”, which if nothing else should please those RA RA [...]

Five Things I Hate About [CITATION NEEDED]

March 10, 2009

The rather fab Red Scharlach has recently been featuring one of those blog ‘meme’ things, based around responding to five things that someone automatically associated with you; hence in her case it was ‘drawing/art’, ‘gin’, ‘yummy bits of food’, ‘good-looking men’ and ‘your amazing ability to predict even the most insane of plot twists’.
Intrigued, I [...]

The Ninety Fifth Annual Out On Blue Six Gala Academy Tribute Special Salute To… Through A Glass Darkly!

March 6, 2009

Join us this evening on Radio Out On Blue Six for a special charity all-star tribute to Through A Glass Darkly! Yes, the seminal 1978 ‘lyrical adventure’ by Peter Howell & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop will be performed in full, in its original twenty six movements, by a cast of celebrity friends of Out On [...]

Banana Pertwee Minder

January 20, 2009

In celebration of nothing much in particular, let’s have a look at the most popular search terms that have brought readers to Out On Blue Six over the last six months. As opposed to the most weird search terms, which would have to include ‘alison hannigan as tits out jester’, ‘break dancing citrus spring teacher’, [...]

The Alternative Alternative Christmas Message

December 25, 2008

“Hello, this is yer old pal Baron Samedi Off Of Heroes here. When I’m not forming a quasi-religious militia, running down a corridor, or being twatted by Nathan Petrelli, I like nothing better than to take a look back over the last twelve months of Out On Blue Six. And what a twelve months it’s [...]

The Christmas Card That Keeps On Carding

December 21, 2008

Well, it’s time to unveil this year’s Out On Blue Six Christmas Cards… and we’ve recieved the grand total of one, from a Ben Baker off of Keighley. Still, we’re sure you’ll agree that nothing says Out On Blue Six At Christmas like Roland Rat with a seemingly detachable arm. Let snow battle commence! For some [...]