…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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘BEATLES’
And The Winner Is…
October 22, 2009Posted in Interactive Fun |
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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Diamond Life
June 25, 2009As the post below this one, about the peculiarities of BBC children’s continuity, has proved to be the most widely critically acclaimed Out On Blue Six rambling since that one about The Beatles thwarting plans to ‘rob’ Penny Lane, it’s well worth shamelessly capitalising on this by doing the odd occasional further diversion into the [...]
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Tags: "SCHOCH HORROR - MUSIC TIME TO BE REPEATED", "the op-en u-ni-ver-si-ty - it will kill a-gaaaaain!", 'politically correct brigade :(' sez "HURRAH FOR PEARLY WHITE MINSTRELS", as seen on tv 'grimleys', bart, bawrence follows shortly, bbc pie chart, bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, benny hill, creedence clearwater revival, dc follies at bay: that gopher meets a dog that isn't darrell's dog it's just a dog that darrell has access to follows shortly, doctor who, dr andy durrant says "too fast", fatty fudge doing that thing where he used to have about fifty tongues at once, gene hunt demands installation of bbc schools 'oops chart, glam goose, GRR GRR MATHS IN A BOX, harry palmer has sixty seconds to stop big ted from releasing the 'formula', i like it when benny hill blacks up and tells sexist jokes, impressed with henry woolf (and that 'charlie' thing), john cura, johnny rotten, kate thornton, kate thornton remembering parma violets exploding, michael parkinson, national treasure andrew sachs, not affiliated with 'ruby' the band with that woman out of silverfish in them, parky, patrick troughton, pelvis parsley, play school, programmes for schools and colleges, quatermass, quatermass and the programmes for schools and colleges, remember the days of the old nationwide theme, richard wilson drives past bbc schools 'planet' and fails to believe it, rod hull & emu, ruby, sam tyler, soft machine, space school, take a new look at BEATLES follows shortly, telesnaps, the birds eye teddy boys, the grimleys, the late late breakfast show has been cancelled... BY THATCHER, the open university, the patrick mower auditions were not going well, 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, tv 'clown' (test card) consults lawyers, tv 'girl' (test card) consults the gaping chasm of lava-spewing evil, waltham green east wapping carpet cleaning rodent and boggit extermination association, whither those two cartoon birds in hats?, why no telesnaps of eve myles tits?
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Free This Way Up – Now 23% Free-er!
February 15, 2009After being away for frankly far too long, superlative long-running purveyor of ’sideways looks’ at the latest happenings in cult television This Way Up is back at last with its blockbusting 22nd issue, containing features on The Sarah Jane Adventures, Merlin and Arthur C. Clarke, as well as my own thoughts on series two of Heroes [...]
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Tags: "eh? doctor who? what's he talking about?", "green noah demon tree evil fingers can't catch me!", "it's alexander's flute!", 'dinners', 'oops, adam monroe, alec christie, andy pandy, anyone got the box of delights theme single?, bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, beaus, catherine tate, celation, codename: icarus, daleks, dania ramirez tits, doctor who, flowerpot men, foxy-faced charles, gearon, gene hunt, george harrison, heroes, john barrowman, life of brian, life on mars, live from mars, malpha, matt parkman, monty python's flying circus, MOONDIAL IS RUBBISH, nathan petrelli, nick berry, rag tag and bobtail, russell's rateometer, sam tyler, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, sentreal, terry nation, the box of delights, the children of green knowe, the dalek masterplan, the delegates, the enchanted castle, the moon stallion, the phoenix and the carpet, the sarah jane adventures, this way up, time bandits, trantis, tv cream, warrien, watch with mother, withnail & i, zephon
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This Is Easy (In 2004)
February 14, 2009A short while back, we took a look at the tracks that had disappeared down the back of a flourescent leopardskin print sofa between the original 1996 release of epochal vogue-surfing compilation This Is… Easy, and the rearranged 2004 version. Now, in response to popular demand (a whole one reader!), here’s an overview of the [...]
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Tags: "not a lot", "now that's magic!", "say yes paul", "your trousers - jean paul sartre", 'belouis' 'some', 'dinners', andy williams, astrud gilberto, austin powers, bear asking for 'cookies', BEATLES, big train, bill hicks, billy j kramer, blankety blank, blur, brigitte bardot, burt bacharach, california dreaming, cavatina, chris montez, cilla black, condensed milk sandwiches, count indigo, DO NOT PLAY TRACK THREE, engelbert humperdinck, GRR GRR THEY MADE SKETCHES WITHOUT ASKING MY PERMISSION FIRST, house of bamboo, it was amusing to hear it in eastenders (when it was good) that time though, jane birkin, jason king, je t'aime... moi non plus, john walters, jose feliciano, leaving on a jet plane, let's just forget about the version by the cast of 'allo 'allo, mama cass, mary mungo & midge, mary whitehouse, mas que nada, mersey so-called 'beat', michael caine, mike flowers, mike lindup, morph, morrissey, mr bennett, nick berry, oasis, paul daniels, peter egan, peter paul & mary, peter petrelli, peter sarstedt, peter wyngarde, quincy jones, rod serling's night gallery, room 101, rubber soul, sandie shaw, saturday night at the sunday palladium, serge gainsbourg, sergio mendes, simon mayo, simon pegg, ski sunday, stereolab, stevo from home and away, sunshine on leith, the dream warriors, the evil dead, the gallery, the girl from ipanema, the grimleys, the jimi hendrix experience, the mamas and the papas, the proclaimers, the secret service, the smiths, the white one, the young generation, this is... easy, tony hart, tv's mr pastry, vic reeves, victor lewis-smith, where do you go to my lovely?, whither tony ferrino?, wizbit, womack and womack, wonderbra, wonderwall
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Is This Christmas Music? Part Eleven – Watch ‘The Nativity’
December 19, 2008So how can a celebration of the art of the Christmas single, which has defended the use of simplistic seasonal iconography, struck a blow for purveyors of production-line pop and overlooked the presence of a sidesplittingly tacky saxophone, become so suddenly enamoured of a barbed and acidic assault on the very concept it endorses? Well, [...]
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Tags: "a thousand pardons sir i am obliged to be going out to see the world", "hello word watchers!" [THWACK], bagpuss, bbc records and tapes, bbc schools diamond, bbc1, BEATLES, bill oddie, car lorry bus lorry bus lorry car NNEAOW!, Christmas!, clap your hands and be cheery (CLAPYOURHANDS), joe and the sheep rustlers, kate thornton, look and read, louise hall-taylor, peter egan, peter kay, play school, ragtime, stock aitken waterman, that mike smith bloke, the saturday night armistice party bucket, the waitresses, there must be room!, tv cream, watch, watch with mother
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Is This Christmas Music? Part Nine – Greg Lake ‘I Believe In Father Christmas’
December 17, 2008Anyway, back to Christmas, which these progressive rock types seem to have been rather keen on. Emerson, Lake And Palmer are amongst the most famous exponents of the genre, well known and lightly mocked the world over for their concept albums about giant mechanised armadillos fighting mythological beasts, liking for causing sufficient onstage damage to [...]
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Tags: "hello word watchers!" [THWACK], bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, cadet roussel, Christmas!, emerson lake & palmer, forever changes, jim davidson, jingle bells, joe and the sheep rustlers, jonathan cohen, king crimson, leroy anderson, lieutenant kije, look and read, love, music time, peter combe, ruralists, sleigh ride, that annoying trilly woman, the king's singers
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Is This Christmas Music? Part Seven – Paul McCartney ‘Wonderful Christmastime’
December 15, 2008Spiceworld, the underrated madcap big screen venture that stands as one of the only remaining and permanent reminders of just how exciting The Spice Girls were to begin with, seems to be rapidly becoming a Christmas television favourite. Although humourless Lennon-idolising purists would no doubt baulk at the merest suggestion of the idea, Spiceworld was [...]
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Tags: "azhuwa shoop ziiip", 'dinners', alan driscoll lead singer of the techno band thewomb, band aid, BEATLES, carnival of light, chant of the ever circling skeletal family, day of the daleks, day of the triffids, ding dong, do they know it's christmas?, eve myles of the tits, father of the five towns, flight of the condor, gary numan, george harrison, king of the rocket men, kraftwerk, land of the giants, lemming of the bda, match of the day, mull of kintyre, nigel kennedy, of of the the, roy of the rovers, rupert of the bear, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder of the heroes, shockeye o' the quancing grig, song of the south, spiceworld, story of the blues, TEH DRUGZ DRISCOLL!, the adventures of rupert bear, the frog chorus, the spice girls, tomb of the cybermen, top of the pops, war of the worlds, we all stand together, winston o'boogie, year of the cat
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Is This Christmas Music? Part Six – Leroy Anderson ‘Sleigh Ride’
December 14, 2008Band Aid II may have done their bit for famine relief in 1989, but there was one individual who had been doing his own low-key but no less admirable bit for charity for several years before that, and would continue to do so for several years afterwards. By the mid-1980s, with the dadaist pan-European giant-inflatable-cow-costume-toppling-into-paddling-pool [...]
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Tags: "yes of course - christmas on 4!", 'canned goods', 'dinners', are you the real santa?, band aid ii, bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, bill cosby, bing crosby, Christmas!, flavour'n'shake, follyfoot, from the collection of matthew gulliver, frosty the chevron, grattan catalogue, greaves and hall, HELLO CHARLES MANSON, herb alpert & his tijuana brass, incorporating the dying fly, it's a knockout!, jagger meets lennon, jennifer aniston, leroy anderson, look north west, sleigh ride, stuart hall, The mayor (you could tell he was a mayor because he was wearing his hat and chain things) sitting in a bath eating chips in the opening titles of Look North West, the partridge family, the spice girls, the vickory, the waitresses, watch
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Is This Christmas Music? Part Four – The Waitresses ‘Christmas Wrapping’
December 12, 2008‘Walk Out To Winter’ represents what floppy-fringed pioneers Frame, Collins, Grogan and the innumerable others who followed in their counting-me-in-and-couting-me-out-ripping-it-up-and-starting-again-not-talking-to-me-aboutlo-o-ovvvvve musical footsteps got up to around the Christmastime. But what of their transatlantic contemporaries, with their obsession with college radio airplay, the use of the hideous term ‘alt-rock’, and insistence on singing “O! Christmas tree, [...]
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Tags: "power to the people!", 'dinners', a charlie brown christmas, altered images, aztec camera, BEATLES, blondie, i remember punk rock, jennifer aniston, joe jackson, kurtis blow, martine mccutcheon, not affiliated with noel edmonds the television presenter or telly addicts the game show, orange juice, stepping out, television, the american saxophone, the housemartins, the ramones, the spice girls, the velvet underground, the waitresses, top of the pops, vic reeves
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Dear Father Christmas, I Would Like The Following (In 1986)… Part 4
December 4, 2008More 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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