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BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976 - 1982)	It was that bleedin' TopPopper that uploaded it! I knew it! :-D
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV A Question Of Sport (1970 - Now)	F-ing A, zabadak. The theme tune was so lame. Really a show to watch as a last resort, when you couldn't be arsed to do anything else [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976 - 1982)	Argh biffbang, you've only gone and done it - uploaded an entry of my hate-show! You'll be praised by TopPopper but nay by me ;) Excruciating - the BBC using Radio hosts as TV presenters never really worked, the only exception being John Peel presenting Top Of The Pops totally dead-pan. The music was all mimed, the guests were people like, erm, John Craven (and others under contract to the BBC), and it just stank of the BBC's safeness and medocrity. (...deep breath and rest). Rant over. After purging myself of the above, I can ironically still remember the bloody phone-in no. : 01 811 8055
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Terry And June (1979 - 1987)	Seconded, biffbang. One of the most irritating shows ever. Mediocrity encapsulated in 30-minute portions.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV World Of Sport (1965 - 1985)	Second that biffbang! Nevetheless, as you say, the wrestling was fun, and much in the same vein as Channel 4's later Transworld Sport, at least World Of Sport showed different kinds of sports from around the world. While Grandstand on the BBC used to show Racing from a rainy track in Newmarket, World Of Sport would be showing bobsleighing from Norway. Much more interesting.
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Tiswas (1974 - 1982)	Perhaps this is the reason why I had a crush on Sally James (note Den Heggarty from Darts doing the buckets) [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Tiswas (1974 - 1982)	For biffbangpow - the great Frank Carson clip: [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Tiswas (1974 - 1982)	The great Compost Corner ("Compost Corner!") and see who's standing in the back - Collins and Rutherford from Genesis - wearing Peter Gabriel-like flower-headgear, no less! And check out the Thatcher joke at the end - great satirical way to let the kids know what the next 30+ years would be like, aye [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 14th May 2015		TV Tiswas (1974 - 1982)	Review Heh heh great comments guys ;-) Sorry to hear you missed out on it, biffbangpow :( Apologies also for you being a Swap Shop fan TopP. It must have been hell being beaten up every day at school! So you didn't have a crush on Edmonds then? Well there was always Maggie Philbin... Seriously though, these two shows (yes I did flip the channel to Swap Shop occasionally - know your enemy and all that) left indelible pieces of information ingrained in my memory. I can even remember their postal addresses: Tiswas was Birmingham B1 2JP. When someone uploads an entry to Swap Shop, the world will once again get to know their telephone number. Topic for a Forum discussion maybe - Tiswas vs. Swap Shop? Could even follow with World Of Sport vs. Grandstand too ;-) What gave Tiswas the edge over Swap Shop for me was the fact that there were top comedy entertainers as guests (as mentioned by biffbangpow) plus the fact that the show was loosely structured - giving them the chance to improvise and really show their talents. Russ Abbott, for example, used to do a turn as Cooperman - a cross between Tommy Cooper and Superman. He was much funnier and looser than his dedicated TV series on the BBC. John Gorman of Scaffold fame did turns as Smellows, the smelly gardener and The Masked Poet, an intense dressed-in-black guy going around reciting dire verse. The Frank Carson appearances were of course (like everything he ever did) stomach-achingly funny. And the late David Rappaport of Time Bandits fame, taking the mick out of the BBC's Blue Peter with his whistle-themed Green Nigel... The band Darts were regulars too, especially vocalist Den Heggarty, who once showed the nation his amazingly long-eyebrow hair. Ginger-afro'ed brummie comedian Ian "Sludge" Lees also got a bucket of water on many occasions. He used to have a pink suit with a Bassett's licorice allsorts pattern on it (he still does). Lenny Henry also did turns as the aforementioned Trevor McDonut, the very positive rasta Algernon with his condensed milk sandwiches and his catchphrase ("OoooooKaaaayyyy!") and David Bellamy impersonation, usually with his false beard peeling off and him and Chris Tarrant cracking up. As a kid, for me all this was total anarchy and freedom - the diametrical opposite of Swap Shop with its constrained, controlled, BBC-discipline. It wasn't until Trev and Simon did their hilarious turns on BBC1's Going Live! in the 90s, that the BBC's saturday-morning TV record was redeemed, ironically with a touch of Tiswas-like looseness. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
BiggieTembo 13th May 2015		TV Tiswas (1974 - 1982)	Amazing. Shown on Saturday mornings in the UK, on ATV. So many memorable scenes, including Robert Plant and the Pretenders as guests, and Trevor McDonald sneaking up on Lenny Henry doing his Trevor McDonut pastiche of the newsreader. Totally taken by surprise, but not wanting to break character, Henry exclaimed "Daddy!" and threw his arms around McDonald. [YouTube Video] I remember there being a rivalry between this show and the lame BBC Saturday morning clash-show, Swap Shop. Anyone who watched Swap Shop at my school got a thick ear because Tiswas was by far the coolest, if somewhat more ramshackle show... And I, as a 7 year old, had a huge crush on Sally James
BiggieTembo 13th May 2015		TV Peppa Pig (2004 - Now)	Sample dialogue: ALL CHARACTERS: Heh heh heh heh! Oink! Heh heh heh heh! Oink!
BiggieTembo 13th May 2015		TV Roobarb (1974)	Great animation from Bob Godfrey. He also did Henry's Cat, which was the same animation style, and even narrated it himself, if I'm remembering rightly.
BiggieTembo 13th May 2015		TV The Water Margin (1977)	Shown in the mid-late 70s on BBC2 in the UK. It always clashed with the news program my Dad wanted to watch on BBC1 (Nationwide ?), and after 5 minutes my Dad used to end up watching it with me and brothers anyway, because it was so, well, not like anything we'd see before. There was a hero called Ling Chung and he was of course the epitomy of cool. As far as I remember, he was just going around righting wrongs with a bunch of equally cool guys, each with their own special super-hero-almost thang: There was one guy with a huge hammer that he used to fight with, another lady who carried a sword on her back, and as I recall, while fighting this sword would split into two and suddenly she'd be there with a sword in each hand. She must have impressed me when I was 5 because I remember thinking that she was kind of nice... but couldn't work out why... Also distant dream-like memories conjure a baddie who was covered in dragon tattoos? I'm sure somebody remembers... Last time I saw this, it was 1977! A great series - with the bizarre wordplay overdubbing of Burt Kwouk - Kato from the Pink Panther films. No-one really understood the strange nonsensical left-field proverbs that were in the script - but they sounded all the more cool for it.
BiggieTembo 12th May 2015		Cinema Easy Rider (1969)	BILLY and CAPTAIN AMERICA ride up to a truck-stop, where several rednecks glare at them through the window: BILLY (singing): The man is at the window! The man is at the window!
BiggieTembo 12th May 2015		TV Worzel Gummidge (1979 - 1981)	In just about every episode, Worzel would say: Oh Mr. Crowman, Sir! Cup a' tea an' a slice a' cake for old Worzel! in Pertwee's great West Country dialect.
BiggieTembo 12th May 2015		TV Worzel Gummidge (1979 - 1981)	Joke going around at the time: Q: Why couldn't Worzel Gummidge shag Aunt Sally? A: He didn't have his fkin' head on!
BiggieTembo 12th May 2015		TV Worzel Gummidge (1979 - 1981)	WORZEL (to fishermen): Oi! You! Yeah you - you dang wankers! I'm talkin' to ya! [YouTube Video]
BiggieTembo 12th May 2015		TV The Banana Splits (1968 - 1970)	They showed this in the mid-late 70s in the UK on Saturday mornings. I'd never seen anything like it before - me being a kid of 4 witnessing total visual cacophany before my eyes. I was always strangely fascinated of the Moose's head on the wall - it's eyes used to move. The sound effects too were straight out of The Three Stooges, except the Banana Splits' comedy was more cartoonish. I loved it, and simultaneously was annoyed by it. A strange combination. I wouldn't have minded riding about the dunes in them dune buggies, though. Is anyone in the USA aware of the extent to which we in the UK were totally immersed in your pop culture? :D
BiggieTembo 12th May 2015		TV Desmond's (1989 - 1994)	Sample dialogue from Series 2, Episode 16 (Here Comes De Sun), first broadcast on Channel 4 (UK) 26th March 1990, where Porkpie starts a protest against the building of the Channel Tunnel: PORKPIE: Dem cyaant do dat! Mash down me flat for de Tunnel!
BiggieTembo 11th May 2015		DVD Gov't Mule - Concert At Higher Ground, Winooski, Vt. 02/10/1999	Hey Kab the images you've posted lately look like they're home-made. They use the same fonts and layouts, and look like they have been made with Paint or something. Are these bootlegs or home-tapings you've just made a mock-up cover for?
BiggieTembo 11th May 2015		TV The White Room (1994 - 1996)	Here's a (albeit really bad quality) clip of Iggy with his See-Through trousers on The Word. As you will no doubt observe, you can viddy his yarbles real horrowshow
BiggieTembo 10th May 2015		Cinema A Clockwork Orange (1971)	ALEX (to nurse): Cabbages... Knickers... It's got no beak!
BiggieTembo 10th May 2015		Cinema National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)	Went to see Police Academy II at my local cinema (in 1985), the Astoria, Chippenham, (Wiltshire, UK). It was a Monday night - the cheap night, where tickets were only a quid. About half way through, the projected image started to jump and get caught in the gate of the projector, and the image melted before our eyes. The poor projectionist tried to splice the reel together but it happened again. A third time made the audience (of about 25) restless, so the put-upon projectionist announced that all those who wanted to, could relocate to the other screen to see National Lampoon's European Vacation free of charge! CLARK GRISWOLD: Hey look kids! Big Ben! Houses of parliament!
BiggieTembo 10th May 2015		Cinema Quadrophenia (1979)	JIMMY (to boss): "You can take that franking machine, and all the other shit that I have to see to, and stick it right up your arse!"
BiggieTembo 6th May 2015		Live Music The Rolling Stones @ Cardiff Arms Park	This concert should have taken place a week before, but due to Keith Richards’ damaged-finger issue, the concert was postponed. Good for me, as I was in Amsterdam and couldn't attend on the original date. My brother got me a ticket so I could see them when I got back to the UK :) It was a very warm day. The gates opened about 3pm and as Kelley Jones confirms (see link below), outside the concert venue and throughout Cardiff there were many people already half-cut. I can’t recall when the Dan Reed Network started but it seemed a long wait. The grass surface of the Park had been covered in a kind of black rubber protective mat, which reflected the heat of the sun back into the crowd. By the time the Stones came on the light was fading, and I remember them looking smaller than I expected, even though I was four or five people from the front row. It was a great, loud concert. At one point a girl in front of me collapsed with the heat – just crumbled to the floor – people helped her up and the crowd’s outstretched hands transported her overhead to the front of the stage. Later on in the concert, I felt a great weight suddenly pushing down on my shoulder – it was someone walking on the crowd. He didn’t get very far – a few rows forward he came crashing down in an unseen gap. Stones timeline info from this website: July 10, 1990: Keith Richards is treated at a London hospital for a seriously infected finger and the Rolling Stones postone their next three concerts: one in Cardiff, Wales, and two more at Wembley Stadium. This is the first time in their history that the group has to postpone or cancel concerts because of illness. July 14, 1990: The Rolling Stones, minus Keith Richards, host a party at The Serpentine Gallery in London, England, with Jeff Beck and Elton John among the guests. July 16, 1990: The Rolling Stones resume the Urban Jungle tour with the rescheduled concert atCardiff's Arms Park, their first in Wales since 1966. Memories of the gig by The Stereophonics’ Kelly Jones here Setlist available here
BiggieTembo 4th May 2015		Vinyl Album Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out	Toolex Alpha was a Swedish company that made record pressing machines, and also pressed records themselves. More info about the company here. And here's one of their presses (which now resides in the USA) here
BiggieTembo 3rd May 2015		Live Music Johnny Gentle And His Group (Silver Beetles) @ Regal Ballroom	Re: my last comment - 'twas nought but a joke, Kab.
BiggieTembo 30th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Cliff Richard - Cliff In Japan	Silver on black label/bottom-centre-only EMI box label - this dates c. 1969-1971 according to this. Judging by the standard EMI inner and the LPs advertised on it (uploaded to confirm dating), it's around the 70-71 mark.
BiggieTembo 30th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out	Sleeve and labels added
BiggieTembo 30th Apr 2015		12" Single The KLF - Justified And Ancient (All Bound For Mu Mu Land)	Sleeve printed in Germany by Topac Matrix, Side 1: 111 DM F-7586 A-1 C [machine-stamped] Matrix, Side 2: 111 DM F-7586 B-1 C [machine-stamped]

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