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Welsh Megaman

Portishead's 'Dummy' - absolute classic album

Skid X

Apparently the 'Mercury' in the Mercury Music Prize was a Telecoms company which once sponsored the awards, but which got taken over years ago. They still use the name as it sounds good.



Pulp! Never gets old.

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Soo-waaaaayed

That's how Brett Anderson would say 'Suede'.

Dear Santa,

Please make Bernard Butler rejoin Suede.

I've never got over him leaving. It's just not the same. Especially when him and Brett formed The Tears after he went. Bernard rejoining Suede could should must and will happen

Thanks.

Welsh Megaman

Skid X wrote: »

Dear Santa,

Please make Bernard Butler rejoin Suede.

I've never got over him leaving. It's just not the same. Especially when him and Brett formed The Tears after he went. Bernard rejoining Suede could should must and will happen

Thanks.

Bernard is currently on tour with David McAlmont to commemorate the 20th. anniversary (:eek:) of 'The Sound Of'. 'Here Come The Tears' was a great album

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Bernard is currently on tour with David McAlmont to commemorate the 20th. anniversary (:eek:) of 'The Sound Of'. 'Here Come The Tears' was a great album

Seen them here a few weeks ago

Brilliant gig. Very few at it, surprisingly.

Skid X

This was one of the best clips on Pat Shortt's show (last week, I think)

Lovely stuff, I would really like to see more of whatever show that clip first appeared on.

Go Harvey Go

Skid X wrote: »

Apparently the 'Mercury' in the Mercury Music Prize was a Telecoms company which once sponsored the awards, but which got taken over years ago. They still use the name as it sounds good.

Yep, Mercury Communications - a major competitor to BT in its heyday.

Its phone cards have, perhaps unsurprisingly, become collectors' items:





Mercury also set up one2one, whose ads famously used this quirky tune by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZygIVDql8Bk

On the subject of the prize they originally sponsored, is it fair to say that KT Tunstall should have won in 2005? After all, Antony and the Johnsons weren't even based in Britain...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqT20iMnn5U

Skid X

That Mercury prize is a bit of a joke. It's continued existence relies on a cabal of Journalists and Record Company Liggers. Every year they pick a bizarre line up of popular and unheard of acts to do battle. The one who the least amount of judges dislikes gets the award.

No-one ever remembers who wins (except for people who hope Richard Osman will select it as a round on Pointless)

It doesn't even get much publicity anymore, I'd be surprised if many of the nominees will see a significant spike in sales.

Go Harvey Go

Skid X wrote: »

That Mercury prize is a bit of a joke. It's continued existence relies on a cabal of Journalists and Record Company Liggers. Every year they pick a bizarre line up of popular and unheard of acts to do battle. The one who the least amount of judges dislikes gets the award.

I'd still put it above the Brit Awards, though.

No-one ever remembers who wins (except for people who hope Richard Osman will select it as a round on Pointless)

You certainly don't hear much these days about 1998 winners Gomez (who beat the likes of The Verve, Massive Attack and Catatonia) or 1999 winner Talvin Singh (who fended off competition from Stereophonics, the Manics and the Chemical Brothers).

Nor do you hear much about 2009 winner Speech Debelle, or 2010 winners The xx.

Klaxons, the 2007 winners, aren't talked about a lot either - although I do like "Golden Skans", I have to admit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-SJjFcnsGs

It doesn't even get much publicity anymore, I'd be surprised if many of the nominees will see a significant spike in sales.

With the very greatest of respect, the likes of Eska, Ghostpoet and Wolf Alice are perhaps a little too obscure for their sales to go up significantly as a result of their nominations.

I could be proved wrong, of course...

loyatemu

Go Harvey Go wrote:

Nor do you hear much about 2009 winner Speech Debelle, or 2010 winners The xx.

Well Jamie xx was in The xx.

paddylonglegs

Watched "The Wrecking Crew" on Netflix. Good doc about a band of session musicians playing on famous tracks in the 60s. Had never heard the story before or knew that they played on Pet Sounds. Worth a watch

Ol' Donie

Tom Dunne said they'd be talking about Elvis Costello after ten on his radio show tonight. (At least I'm pretty sure that's what he said).

New book out or something?

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Tom Dunne said they'd be talking about Elvis Costello after ten on his radio show tonight. (At least I'm pretty sure that's what he said).

New book out or something?

Probably to do with his autobiography, 'Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink' - came out a few weeks ago

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Probably to do with his autobiography, 'Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink' - came out a few weeks ago

Yep, and you can hear the man himself reading extracts from the book here in 5 parts, from Radio 4's Book of The Week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06p7b7n

Available to stream for the next 3 weeks or so. I haven't started it yet. The book itself is meant to be very long.

Skid X

Hi, it's a Burt Bacharach, easy listening sort of thing this weekend on BBC Four. A rare chance to put your slippers on and enjoy Mike Flowers contributing to one of those docs.

Elsewhere TOTP starts to get Christmassy and Pat Shortt's yoke promises 'variety'. But he said last week's episode was a Country Special, before introducing a performance by Therapy? ! Although, in fairness, I'm in no position to be having a go at others for not staying on topic, ahem ...



Thursday

7.30pm & Midnight Top of The Pops
Peter Powell presents an edition from December 4, 1980, with music by Eddy Grant, Jona Lewie, AC/DC, the Boomtown Rats, Abba and St Winifred's School Choir

10.30pm & 2.05am The Life of Rock with Brian Pern
Middle Age of Rock The host profiles a selection of rock stars who, like himself, applied their creative energies to acting, charity singles and protest songs. Plus, former Top of the Pops presenter Noel Edmonds reveals how Russians tried to take down the aircraft carrying Phil Collins from Wembley to Philadelphia during Live Aid in 1985. Spoof rock documentary, starring Simon Day

11.35pm The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
Music performances filmed at the Windmill Lane Recording Studios in Dublin, continuing with Sharon Corr, the Pale and Declan Sinnott

12.05am Later with Jools Holland (old) (TG4)
The Kaiser Chiefs showcase tracks from their album Off with Their Heads, Seasick Steve brings a touch of his festival-stealing magic to the studio and the Streets perform songs from their fourth opus Everything Is Borrowed. Indie-rock band TV on the Radio also drop by, and Boy George pops in for a chat and a song



Friday

7.30pm Sounds of The Seventies
Archive performances by groups and solo artists from one of the most energetic and exciting decades of popular music, including Crosby & Nash, Neil Young, America, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Carole King, Eagles and Seals and Crofts

8pm Easy Listening Hits at The BBC
Archive performances by some of the best-known easy-listening musicians of the 1960s and 70s, including Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, Burt Bacharach, the Carpenters and Andy Williams

9pm & 1am Burt Bacharach: A Life in Song
Coverage of a unique concert staged at London's Royal Festival Hall celebrating the music of songwriter and performer Burt Bacharach. Some of his most famous songs are performed by artists including Alfie Boe, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Shaun Escoffery, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Hayward, Michael Kiwanuka, Laura Mvula and Joss Stone. Burt himself also performs, accompanied by his band, and chats to Michael Grade about the art of songwriting and shares the stories behind some of his best-loved hits

10.30pm & 2.30am The Joy of Easy Listening
Documentary charting the history of the genre, from its emergence in the 1950s to its heyday in the 60s, through its survival in the subsequent two decades and revival in the 90s. The programme explores the people behind the songs and the mark they have left on modern life. Featuring interviews with Engelbert Humperdinck, Richard Carpenter and Jimmy Webb

Midnight Kings of 70s Romance
Lesley Joseph narrates a documentary celebrating unlikely sex symbols from the world of pop in the 1970s, when the songs of Gilbert O'Sullivan, Barry White, Leo Sayer, David Soul and Demis Roussos conjured up images of candle-lit dinners, red roses and cosy nights in. Featuring contributions by Gloria Hunniford and Martha Kearney

8pm TFI Friday (Channel 4)
Chris Evans continues the revamped series, broadcasting from a new home in central London, with features and raucous stunts, and guests including Ronnie Wood, Ellie Goulding, the Vamps, Wolf Alice and Jamie Lawson

8.30pm Pat Shortt's Music from D'Telly (RTE 1)
Variety is the order of the day as Pat Shortt discovers footage of everyone from Debbie Harry to Christy Hennessy as he reviews rarely seen performances and much-loved songs from six decades of RTÉ music television production



Saturday

All repeats:

11.10pm TFI Friday (Channel 4)

Midnight: Burt Bacharach A Life in Song

1.30am Top of The Pops 1980

2.30am Easy Listening Hits at The BBC

3.05am Sounds of The Seventies



And that, as they say is that. Film action comes from Dreamgirls (Comedy Central Extra, Saturday 1pm) and Sister Act (Channel 4, Sunday 5.25pm) but Wayne's World is on Comedy Central on Sunday at 9pm, so lets see that again!

Ol' Donie

Woo! Party on dudes it's...

*record scratches*

Easy listening weekend?

What's the word for something that's called one thing, but in fact is very much the opposite of that one thing?

Like the way "easy listening" is called easy listening, when in all cases it's quite difficult to listen to, and in some cases is quite uncomfortable?

Welsh Megaman

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Woo! Party on dudes it's...

*record scratches*

Easy listening weekend?

What's the word for something that's called one thing, but in fact is very much the opposite of that one thing?

Like the way "easy listening" is called easy listening, when in all cases it's quite difficult to listen to, and in some cases is quite uncomfortable?

Chill, my friend - Toy Show

No doubt Hometown and Nathan Carter will be providing musical malarkey :pac:

Welsh Megaman

RED ALERT!

IIRC, the Easy Listening documentary features contributions from N*** S*d*k*

:eek: :eek: :pac:

Welsh Megaman

Boardsies feel free to use this jpg throughout this evening...

grey_so_what

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

RED ALERT!

IIRC, the Easy Listening documentary features contributions from N*** S*d*k*

:eek: :eek: :pac:

It's time to dig a hole and hide....:(

grey_so_what

A tribute to Burt Bacharach is one I'd pay for....


The cast is not bad either!

grey_so_what

Magic!

Wonderful - what a composer!

grey_so_what

What a beautiful sounding piano....

Burt B playing must be a dream to listen to live....

grey_so_what

And cue Sax.......

Wonderful!

grey_so_what

Loving this!

Strings galore!




Thanks as always to Skid for the heads up! xxx

Skid X

grey_so_what wrote: »

A tribute to Burt Bacharach is one I'd pay for....


The cast is not bad either!

Looking forward to seeing that show at some stage.

Burt is a terrific composer/songwriter. Must be up there as one of the greatest of the modern era.

As an aside, I love this in one of the Austin Powers films. What the World needs now is more musical legends doing cameo interludes in films.

Bellerstring

RainyDay wrote: »

Episode 1 seems to have dissappeared off the RTE player very quickly, though episode 2 is listed as being up there for another month.

I really wanted to the Tom Waits Late Late Interview on episode 1 - have I any other options?

Tom Waits was on last night.
An absolute fukkin travesty.
Pat Short spent 30-40 seconds introducing the clip.
Then Gay Byrne (from 1981) spent nearly a minute and a half introducing Tom.
THEN, they fukkin edited out the first 3 and a half minutes of the masterpiece that is "On The Nickel", to just show the last 40 seconds of this performance, followed by a (very, very) truncated interview with the genius that is Tom.
Whoever is responsible for butchering this never before seen piece of music history on Irish TV, should be put in the fukkin stocks.
Yeah, I'm talkin bout you David Heffernan.
A real missed opportunity.

Skid X

Bellerstring wrote: »

Tom Waits was on last night.
An absolute fukkin travesty.
Pat Short spent 30-40 seconds introducing the clip.
Then Gay Byrne (from 1981) spent nearly a minute and a half introducing Tom.
THEN, they fukkin edited out the first 3 and a half minutes of the masterpiece that is "On The Nickel", to just show the last 40 seconds of this performance, followed by a (very, very) truncated interview with the genius that is Tom.
Whoever is responsible for butchering this never before seen piece of music history on Irish TV, should be put in the fukkin stocks.
Yeah, I'm talkin bout you David Heffernan.
A real missed opportunity.

They should put the full archive version of all the performances featured on the show onto the RTE Player for a while.

Some of the clips are butchered to bits in order to squeeze too much in.

RainyDay

Bellerstring wrote: »

Tom Waits was on last night.
An absolute fukkin travesty.
Pat Short spent 30-40 seconds introducing the clip.
Then Gay Byrne (from 1981) spent nearly a minute and a half introducing Tom.
THEN, they fukkin edited out the first 3 and a half minutes of the masterpiece that is "On The Nickel", to just show the last 40 seconds of this performance, followed by a (very, very) truncated interview with the genius that is Tom.
Whoever is responsible for butchering this never before seen piece of music history on Irish TV, should be put in the fukkin stocks.
Yeah, I'm talkin bout you David Heffernan.
A real missed opportunity.

Yep, what a shame - would have been a real gem for fans of Tom worldwide;

Here's the brief clip, from about 14:30 onwards

http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/pat-shortts-music-from-dtelly-30003648/10498419/

Skid X

Hello, new programmes about 10cc and Bruce Springsteen this weekend with all the usual repeats thrown in. That one about the Richest Songs in the World hasnt been on in months, maybe they taped over it ...


Thursday

7.30pm & 12.20am Top of The Pops 1980
Richard Skinner presents an edition from December 11, 1980, with music by Adam and the Ants, Madness, Stray Cats, Status Quo, Queen, Abba and the Police

10.30pm & 12.2am The Life of Rock with Brian Pern
Death of Rock The host concludes his guide with a look at the various causes of band splits, including drink, drugs and `creative differences'. He also profiles a selection of rock stars who are focused on saving the world, and examines the state of contemporary music. Spoof rock documentary, starring Simon Day and featuring cameo performances by John Humphrys and Peter Gabriel

11.30pm The Windmill Lane Sessions (TG4)
Music performances filmed at the Windmill Lane Recording Studios in Dublin, continuing with The Four of Us, O Emperor and Mary Coughlan

Midnight Later With Jools Holland (old) (TG4)
Coldplay return to the show to play songs from their million-selling fourth album Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends. Brooklyn-based rockers the Hold Steady also perform, along with country singer Glen Campbell and former Zero 7 singer Sia. Plus, singer-songwriter Amy LaVere makes her TV debut



Friday

8pm TFI Friday (Channel 4)
Chris Evans continues the revamped series, broadcasting from a new home in central London. Guests include Kylie Minogue and Daniel Radcliffe, while music is provided courtesy of Florence and the Machine, Mumford & Sons, and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats

8pm Pat Shortt's Music from D'Telly (RTE 1)
The presenter shares rare archive footage of Joan Armatrading

8.30pm Sounds of The Seventies
Archive performances by prominent rock solo artists and groups of the decade, including Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Bad Company, the Faces, Nazareth, Whitesnake and Black Sabbath. Energy, enthusiasm and at times on-stage chaos characterised one of the most exciting decades of popular music

9pm & 12.30am Forever Young- How Rock n Roll Grew Up
Documentary exploring the ways rock 'n' roll stars have coped with growing old after being symbols of rebellion from the genre's roots in the 1950s. The programme uncovers how artists have enjoyed comebacks in the 21st century, and examines what happened to the mantra `live fast, die young'. Featuring contributions by Iggy Pop, Lemmy, Rick Wakeman, Suggs and Alison Moyet. Narrated by Cherie Lunghi

10pm & 1.30am I'm Not In Love: The Story of 10cc New!
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of their hit song, the original members of 10cc reunite to tell their story. Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme share the secrets to some of their most successful records, from the writing and the recording, to the tours and the tensions. Other contributors include the band's manager Harvey Lisberg, lyricist Tim Rice, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, producer Trevor Horn, and musicians Stewart Copeland, Graham Nash and Dan Gillespie Sells

11pm & 2.30am The Old Grey Whistle Test: 70s Gold
Archive performances from the BBC music series, featuring Elton John, David Bowie, Captain Beefheart, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Curtis Mayfield, New York Dolls, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Brinsley Schwarz, Gil Scott-Heron, Blondie, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Jam, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop, Cher and Greg Allman, Argent, Steppenwolf, Lindisfarne, Dr Feelgood and Johnny Winter


Saturday

11.05pm Bruce Springsteen: The Ties that Bind (TG4) New!
Documentary charting the creation of Bruce Springsteen's celebrated 1980 album The River, the success of which saw the rock musician catapult to the heights of fame as an arena-filling performer, and featured his first top 10 hit, Hungry Heart. The film makes use of archive footage from the star's River tour, as well as recently unearthed photographs of Springsteen and the E Street Band during recording sessions

and all the repeats on BBC four as usual

The Blues Brothers 2000 is on ITV4 on Sunday at 5.30pm but it's probably sh1te so here is a clip from the real thing instead