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albert 3rd Sep 2016		DVD Box Set The Story Of Beat-Club: Volume 1, 1965–1968 - Ard 1 Video	DISC 4: BEAT-CLUB 1967 Beat-Club 16 - 21/01/1967 (36m) Lee Curtis & The All Stars - Looking Back The Lords - Late Last Sunday Evening The Lords - Have A Drink On Me The Rattles - Love Of My Life / Good Time The Rattles - Hey Sally The Rattles - It Is Love The Animals - See See Rider The Animals - A Love Like Yours The Animals - Shake Rattle And Roll The Who - I'm A Boy The Who - Heatwave The Who - Happy Jack [Note: Special concert] Beat-Club 17 - 25/02/1967 (28m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances Twice As Much - True Story (mime) Sandy Posey - Single Girl (mime) Percy Sledge - Warm And Tender Love (promo) The Remo Four - Ain't Love Good Ain't Love Proud The Creation - Painter Man Graham Bonney - Thank You Baby (mime) The Equals - I Won't Be There Cream - I Feel Free (mime) [Note: Beatles standard promo for Penny Lane and something with George Harrison, NIXED, although the chart rundown includes a sample from Strawberry Fields] Beat-Club 18 - 11/03/1967 (36m) Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band - Que Sera, Sera Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band - Michael Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band - You Don't Know Like I Know Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers - Take What I Want Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers - I'll Take Good Care Of You The Smoke - My Friend Jack The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze The Who - Happy Jack The Who - So Sad About Us The Who - My Generation [Note: Special concert from the Marquee Club, Wardour Street, London, with Dave Lee Travis, unfortunately, and he then became host on later shows, unfortunately] Beat-Club 19 - 01/05/1967 (38m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Cool Jerk Whistling Jack Smith - I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman (mime) The Snappers - Upside Down, Inside Out The Who - Pictures Of Lily (soundtrack substitution) David Garrick - Please Mr Movingman (mime) The Dave Clark Five - You Got What It Takes (promo) Julie Felix - I Can't Touch The Sun The Escorts - From Head To Toe B.C. Go-Go Girls (Sandy Sarjeant) dance to Can't Stop The Want Jimmy Cliff - Give And Take (mime) Lee Curtis & The All Stars - What Are You Gonna Do Julie Felix - The Lost Children [Note: Beatles standard promo for Strawberry Fields Forever, NIXED, but about 2 seconds remain]
albert 3rd Sep 2016		DVD Box Set The Story Of Beat-Club: Volume 1, 1965–1968 - Ard 1 Video	DISC 5: BEAT-CLUB 1967 From this point onwards most of the artists were made to mime to their songs (or when an artist did a live performance the sound recording was later substituted). Also the studio audience by this time had been forced into seating and are now rarely seen - thereby losing much of the excitement of the early episodes. Beat-Club 20 - 20/05/1967 (35m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music The Equals - Hold Me Closer The Small Faces - I Can't Make It Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Touch Me, Touch Me The Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941 The Who - Pictures Of Lily (soundtrack substitution) The Kinks - Mr Pleasant The Dubliners - Seven Drunken Nights (promo) Cream - Strange Brew Whistling Jack Smith - I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Loos Of England Beat-Club 21 - 24/06/1967 (30m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Wilson Picket - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love The Latch - All Night Girl The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (soundtrack substitution) Twice As Much - Crystal Ball The Small Faces - Here Comes The Nice P.P. Arnold - The First Cut Is The Deepest The Exception - The Eagle Flies On Friday Lulu - The Boat That I Row The Marquis Of Kensington - The Changing Of The Guard Cat Stevens - I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to John's Children - Desdemoda Beat-Club 22 - 22/07/1967 (30m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to something (A Little Bit Of Soul) Jimmy Cliff - Give And Take The Hollies - Carrie Anne (promo) The Herd - I Can Fly (promo) The Dave Clark Five - Tabatha Twitchit (promo) The New Formula - Do It Again A Little Bit Slower The Troggs - Night Of The Long Grass (promo) Chris Farlowe - Moanin' Dave Davies - Death Of A Clown (promo) Chris Farlowe - Yesterday's Papers Beat-Club 23 was a compilation drawn from previous episodes. Beat-Club 24 - 23/09/1967 (41m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to The Young Rascals - Groovin The Small Faces - Green Circles Alan David - Completely Free Twice As Much - Crystal Ball Manfred Mann - Ha! Ha! Said The Clown P.P. Arnold - The Time Has Come Cat Stevens - Come On And Dance Keith West - Excerpt From "A Teenage Opera" Truly Smith - I Wanna Go Back There Again The Bee Gees - To Love Somebody B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Eddie Floyd - Things Get Better Cat Stevens - A Bad Night The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park Anita Harris - Just Loving You Manfred Mann - So Long Dad [Note: Black & White, although originally transmitted in colour]
albert 3rd Sep 2016		DVD Box Set The Story Of Beat-Club: Volume 1, 1965–1968 - Ard 1 Video	DISC 6: BEAT-CLUB 1967-68 Beat-Club 25 - 14/10/1967 (32m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Aretha Franklin - Respect The Equals - Police On My Back (with promo inserts) Family Dogg - Pattern People The Alan Price Set - Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear David Garrick - Don't Go Out Into The Rain You're Gonna Melt, Sugar The Herd - From The Underworld (with promo inserts) Bella And Me - Whatever Happened To The 7-Day Week The Fortunes - The Idol Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On The Alan Price Set - The House That Jack Built Beat-Club 26 - 25/11/1967 (33m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Stagger Lee Barry Mason - Rowbottom Square The Flower Pot Men - Let's Go To San Francisco Sharon Tandy - Hold On Johnnie Young - Craise Finton Kirk Family Dogg - The Storm Scott McKenzie - San Francisco Scott McKenzie - Like An Old Time Movie Small Faces - Tin Soldier (snippet) Felice Taylor - I Feel Love Coming On The Bee Gees - Massachusetts [Note: Beatles standard promo for Hello Goodbye, NIXED, although Beatle images appear in the new opening sequence] Beat-Club 27 - 30/12/1967 (33m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Never Gonna Give You Up The Flower Pot Men - A Walk In The Sky Billy Nicholls - Would You Believe Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - The Equestrian Statue Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Little Sir Echo The Bee Gees - World P.P. Arnold - Groovy Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Zabadak Marion - I Go To Sleep The Small Faces - Tin Soldier Beat-Club 28 - 13/01/1968 (31m) B.C. Go-Go Girls dance to Bonnie & Clyde Theme Carla Thomas - B-a-b-y Dave Justin - Everybody's Gone Home (promo) Neil Christian - Let Me Hear You Laugh Billie Davis - Angel Of The Morning Long John Baldry - Let The Heartaches Begin The Herd - Paradise Lost Dave Davies - Susannah's Still Alive Procol Harum - Homburg (promo)
albert 3rd Sep 2016		DVD Box Set The Story Of Beat-Club: Volume 1, 1965–1968 - Ard 1 Video	DISC 7: BEAT-CLUB 1968 Beat-Club 29 - 09/03/1968 (37m) Paul & Barry Ryan - Pictures Of Today The Moody Bues - Nights In White Satin B.B. King - Heartbreaker Nirvana - Pentecost Hotel Sharon Tandy - Fool On The Hill Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - The Legend Of Xanadu Amen Corner - Bend Me, Shape Me Traffic - Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush Georgie Fame - The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn [Note: Beatles standard promo for Lady Madonna, NIXED, likewise rehearsals at Abbey Road for their TV special, Hey Bulldog, and The Rolling Stones etc] Beat-Club 30 - 06/04/1968 (42m) Beat Club Go-Go Girls dance to Guitar Man The Equals - I Get So Exited Procol Harum - Quite Rightly So The Bee Gees - Harry Braff David McWilliams - The Days Of Pearly Spencer Arthur Conley - Funky Street Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart The Move - Fire Brigade Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Save Me The Hollies - Jennifer Eccles Beat-Club 31 - 27/04/1968 (34m) Beat Club Go-Go Girls dance to Rave On Big Boy Pete (actually its an actor standing-in for him!) - Cold Turkey The Exception - Rub It Down Family Dogg - I'll Wear A Silly Grin Arthur Conley - Shake Rattle And Roll Reparata & The Delrons - Captain Of Your Ship Gene Pitney - Somewhere In The Country The Bee Gees - Harry Braff (spoilt with competition winners overlays) John Walker - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight The Small Faces - Lazy Sunday Beat-Club 32 - 22/06/1968 (30m) Beat Club Go-Go Girls dance to Peter Gunn The Herd - I Don't Want Our Loving To Die Madeline Bell - Picture Me Gone Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (promo) Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony, Mony (promo) Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire The Small Faces - Lazy Sunday The Association - Time For Living P.J. Proby - Ling Ting Tong
albert 3rd Sep 2016		DVD Box Set The Story Of Beat-Club: Volume 1, 1965–1968 - Ard 1 Video	DISC 8: BEAT-CLUB 1968 Beat-Club 33 - 13/07/1968 (32m) Raymond Froggatt - Callow-la-vita P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning At Last The 1958 Rock And Roll Show (with Ian Hunter) - I Can't Drive P.J. Proby - What's Wrong With My World The World Of Oz - The Muffin Man Unit 4 Plus 2 - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (promo) Dave Justin - You Outside Gene Pitney - She's A Heartbreaker At Last The 1958 Rock And Roll Show - Great Balls Of Fire Beat-Club 34 - 31/08/1968 (31m) Beat Club Go-Go Girls dance to C'est Le Vie The Equals - Baby Come Back Tim Rose - Long Haired Boy Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone The Mirror - Gingerbread Man Ranee & Raj - Feel Like A Clown The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (promo) Bruce Channell - Keep On Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Last Night In Soho Beat-Club 35 - 14/09/1968 (63m) Beat Club Go-Go Girls Amen Corner - High In The Sky John Walker - Kentucky Woman / featurette (Pucki) The Equals - Laurel & Hardy Ben E. King - It's Amazing / featurette (Monika) The Nice - America Madelaine Bell - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (promo) featurette (cars) Status Quo - Ice In The Sun Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Last Night In Soho Canned Heat - On The Road Again (promo) Beach Boys - Do It Again (promo) Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music / Beat Club Go-Go Girls Leapy Lee - Little Arrows The Hollies - Do The Best You Can The Move - Wild Tiger Woman Ben E. King - What Is Soul
albert 3rd Sep 2016		Cinema The Baby Of Mâcon (1993)	In a possible attempt to become the most boring and tedious person on the planet, Peter Greenaway produced an accompanying book which, amongst other tiresome things, had a picture of every member of the play’s audience each with an invented back story of who they were and what their reason was for coming to see the play. I do quite like Peter Greenaway’s work, sometimes, but little wonder that most of his recent (last 13 years) films haven’t even had a UK cinema or DVD release [exception of Nightwatching].
albert 3rd Sep 2016		Cinema The Devil And Daniel Mouse	A reworking of The Devil and Daniel Webster story. A version of this short film was included on Odeon Entertainment's Rock & Rule DVD in the UK, unfortunately they sourced a cut down print used to fit in a TV slot. You can watch the complete version thanks to YouTube: [YouTube Video] The band Bauhaus took audio samples for their track Party Of The First Part.
albert 3rd Sep 2016		Video Game Star Wars - Atari	When Game On visits a city near you go and check it out. They have original arcade machines including the cockpit Star Wars, alas when they were at the Barbican in London (2002 first exhibition) someone had managed to damage the flight yoke - so it was a case of so close yet so far far away.
albert 31st Aug 2016		TV La Cabina (1972)	Review A creepy little tale about a man who steps inside a telephone box and then finds he cannot get out. The 35 minutes short begins like a comedy but things gradually get darker and more foreboding; the man’s eventual fate is more shocking than you’d dare imagine. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 30th Aug 2016		TV La Cabina (1972)	Made by Spanish TV, this was foisted onto an unsuspecting British public to fill the gap after a sporting event finished early. I doubt many people can remember the sporting event, but probably everybody who saw La Cabina (The Telephone Box) will remember it. The film is available on the RTVE website, watch it here (with 10 minute introduction by the director).
albert 29th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix	Good grief, Jimi Hendrix at Marks & Spencers.
albert 27th Aug 2016		Cinema Curse Of The Demon (Night Of The Demon) (1957)	Review Ace director Jacques Tourneur yet again proves his masterly atmospheric touch with this tense and chilling psychological horror based on M.R.James' short story Casting The Runes. American psychologist John Holden travels to Britain on the invitation of Professor Harrington, who is currently engaged in a public spat with occultist Dr Karswell. However Holden arrives to find that Harrington has been killed in a freak car accident during a storm, with Karswell gloating on his demise. Holden is keen to expose wealthy Karswell as a fraud who preys on vulnerable people, but Karswell proves to be a difficult case being both charming and hospitable one minute and then disarming and sinister the next. Karswell slips Holden a mystical parchment and then strange things happen that even Holden cannot easily explain away. Desperation takes hold as Holden is forced to believe the hex is real, but how can he break the spell? 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 27th Aug 2016		Cinema Curse Of The Demon (Night Of The Demon) (1957)	The British original is Night Of The Demon, the cut down American version is Curse Of The Demon.
albert 27th Aug 2016		DVD Curse Of The Demon And Night Of The Demon - Columbia TriStar	This Columbia Tri-Star DVD is actually regions 1,2,3 & 4, or at least it is on my copy.
albert 26th Aug 2016		78 RPM Eddie Calvert - Midnight / Margot's Minuet	Margot's Minuet. Sold an old record player on ebay, used B-side to demonstrate: [YouTube Video]
albert 25th Aug 2016		Cinema Django (1966)	The first Django and the best one. It didn't make any money when first released but it gained a massive following, particularly in the Caribbean and in Germany. It was one of those films we talked about but knew it was impossible to see, and then implausibly it got shown on British TV. I have the uncut remastered Blue Underground DVD with Italian and English Soundtracks and English Subtitles and it looks amazing, well recommended. Rough looking trailer (and bad dubbed English) here: [YouTube Video]
albert 25th Aug 2016		Cinema Django (1966)	Review A spaghetti western on steroids with a ridiculously high body count, copyist and yet distinctive enough to set it apart from the pack, Franco Nero looks amazing and the western set so lovingly created that you can almost smell it, just check out the streets of mud. Surprisingly there is a decent enough plot lurking behind the frequent and copious splashings of the tomato sauce, and thankfully nobody is wearing sunglasses. Django comes to town dragging his coffin behind, and when Django opens his coffin his enemies are swatted away like pesky flies. But when he gets involved with Mexican revolutionaries and they liberate a chest full of gold coins, Django finds that he cannot always come out on top. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 23rd Aug 2016		Cinema Those Redheads From Seattle (1953)	This Wikipedia article mainly discusses widescreen but is also cross linked to other formats so you may find some answers there. It also discusses masking and matte etc, (bit of an information overload really). I was also intrigued that cinemascope was not the first widescreen, though earlier innovations didn't seem to take off, quite an interesting read.
albert 23rd Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door	I think I'm right in saying that it has a magic paintbrush inner sleeve - just add water and the colours appear! (Not so great for anyone with sweaty hands).
albert 23rd Aug 2016		TV Man V. Food (2008 - 2012)	A man who eats that much food, I'd say don't let him use your toilet.
albert 23rd Aug 2016		Cinema Themroc (1973)	Review Experimental films rarely get as blackly comic as this one. Michel Piccoli's blue collar worker decides that he has had enough and regresses to his inner caveman self, taking a handful of neighbours along for the ride. Modern living literally goes out of the window as he trashes his flat and makes the ultimate man-cave, chowing on spit-roasted traffic cop and mating with his sister and the neighbour's wife. The film has no real language, the snippets of French make little sense and most of the dialogue becomes grunts and screams anyway. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 22nd Aug 2016		Cinema Ciao! Manhattan (1972)	I first saw this at London's Scala cinema and managed to miss the first 5 minutes including the disclaimer/tribute, making the experience all the more bewildering for me. It is a difficult and harrowing film to watch in part, the acting is fairly poor and the scenes of electroshock therapy and drug taking and abuse drag the film into exploitation territory, but when we zip back into the B&W footage all is forgiven. Youtube has no official trailers but is absolutely littered with people's crummy videos plundering the B&W footage and adding stolen music from The Doors and their ilk - please don't watch any of that stuff, it will spoil your enjoyment of this film. An all-regions DVD from Plexifilm was available many years ago and has a great transfer and special features, I would recommend that if you watch the DVD to turn off the volume until the disclaimer at the start of the film has passed. EDIT: now also available on Blu-ray/DVD in the UK.
albert 22nd Aug 2016		Cinema Ciao! Manhattan (1972)	Review A mess but a glorious mess. The film takes some amazing 1960's B&W footage of Edie when she was Andy Warhol's Superstar and mixes it with 1970's acted footage of Edie playing Susan Superstar, casualty of an excessive wild life, disturbed, drugged, frequently drunk, slurring her words, looking a mess. You can read about Edie's tragic life and watching this film it is hard to separate the screenwriter's cruel fiction from the exploitative fact, especially when it reaches the final scene. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 22nd Aug 2016		Cinema Malpertuis (1971)	The film is based on a book by Jean Ray (Raymundus Joannes de Kremer), though I haven't read the book. I checked the status of the DVD and it is still available from Cinematek, which is like the Belgium equivalent of BFI, I got my copy from their cinema shop. (actually that link shows quite a few titles I wouldn't mind owning, I wonder if they post to the UK).
albert 22nd Aug 2016		Cinema Wings Of Fame (1990)	This is a great film, very witty and quite unique, I think some of the ideas presented have a cultural slant and may be more familiar to our European neighbours but there is still much to enjoy. Peter O'Toole and Colin Firth are on top form. The DVD is available, I got my copy under its German title Hotel Zur Unsterblichkeit (it includes the English language soundtrack). I cannot find a trailer on youtube except this Czech one, still it gives you an idea of what to expect.. [YouTube Video]
albert 22nd Aug 2016		Cinema Wings Of Fame (1990)	Review Its what happens when you die, maybe. Playing about with the fickle nature of fame, your stay in the afterlife and the comforts that you enjoy there will be governed by how well you are remembered and loved back in the land of the living. Valentin, a once great movie star enjoying the last years of his life sometime in the 1960s is murdered by anonymous writer Brian Smith, furious that Valentin stole and claimed his work as his own. Smith also dies in the ensuing chaos and both end up in a very grand hotel populated by the likes of Hemmingway, Einstein, Lassie, and a bunch of others who may be famous dead people, or may be inventions to avoid lawsuits (like the anarchists). Valetin and Smith play a cat and mouse game of minds and both chase the same woman. There are philosophical questions to be asked, religious notions to debunk, charlatans to expose, and much fun is had with the changing parameters of fame such as humiliating room swaps and the fear of an eternity swimming in limbo. But for a lucky one there is also a chance for a second life, now in the 1980s present. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 21st Aug 2016		Cinema Malpertuis (1971)	Hard to find on DVD, I got my copy over in Belgium and its a 2 disc edition with the Cannes version and the Director's version, both in excellent shape. Both versions are worth watching but I prefer the Cannes version as its in English and the trims do not damage the story despite what the director thinks, [Harry Kümel, he of Daughters Of Darkness fame]. Susan Hampshire plays 3 or 4 parts at the same time. EDIT: youtube deleted the trailer. boo
albert 21st Aug 2016		Cinema Malpertuis (1971)	Review In a huge decrepit house somewhere in another time, another place, a dying old man gathers a strange collection of people to hear his will and final judgement. The people shall be rich but they must never leave Malpertuis forever. I cannot say any more without spoiling the plot, lest to say this is one of the strangest and most intriguing arthouse films you are ever likely to see. Mystery, myth and madness, the story is pure fantasy but played straight, the ending when it comes is a bit disappointing but then you realise you've witnessed something that will stay with you for a long time. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 20th Aug 2016		TV The Tube (1982 - 1987)	I young lady I knew used to appear in the audience pretty much every week, very weird seeing her Friday afternoon in class then on TV about 2 hours later. Great programme for chaotic interviews, if there was going to be trouble it always seemed to happen then, a couple of memorable ones were when Meatloaf crashed an interview with someone who had dissed him, and another with Divine (maybe?) when the crowd behind all started chanting Get Yer T!Ts Out, oh and another with Fay Waybill, things got very hostile with the crowd.
albert 20th Aug 2016		CD Album Jilted John - Jilted Jam	I had the original Jilted John LP for a while, it was a bit of a let-down after the single but the lyrics were still funny. However this new CD looks more promising, I visited the website and here is a quote from there: Fellows remains ambivalent about the LP: “To be honest, I was disappointed with it - particularly that re—cut of ‘Jilted John’. It all sounds so over- arranged and overproduced. Not Punk at all. By the time we did the album, Martin's musical taste had changed...he’d decided he didn’t like John Scott's guitar after all, so he kept John's contribution to a minimum. Instead he went for a far more commercial feel, using all the keyboards...Steve Hopkins played those. Consequently, the album ended up sounding very much softer than the songs had sounded at the rehearsals.” So if this CD has the rehearsals then it may be worth investigating.

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