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Welsh Megaman · 01-09-2017 09:29PM

Tom Jones going round for round with the Stax legends - the boyo done good!

mollser · 01-09-2017 09:37PM

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

... Probably because it totally lost the plot in its last few years on air...

I remember cduk and was quite fond of it actually, prime audience I guess at the time. Just curious as to what happened the last few years on air? ?

Arthur Daley · 01-09-2017 09:42PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Tom Jones going round for round with the Stax legends - the boyo done good!

Voice holding up fairly well at 77

Welsh Megaman · 01-09-2017 09:49PM

Eddie Floyd still got the moves.

Welsh Megaman · 01-09-2017 09:58PM

'Green Onions' - AAAH YEAH! :cool:

Go Harvey Go · 02-09-2017 01:31PM

mollser wrote: »

I remember cduk and was quite fond of it actually, prime audience I guess at the time. Just curious as to what happened the last few years on air? ?

Cat stayed on after Ant and Dec left - but as she was offered more and more TV work, so she presented the show less and less, with guest presenters of varying quality filling in (a bit like on TOTP in '95 and '96).

The show also started cramming in exclusives from McFly, Franz Ferdinand and the like, which weren't really necessary and only really appealed to the teenagers.

And then in 2005, there was a massive relaunch with Myleene Klass, Lauren Laverne and the "MiTracks Countdown", a chart that was determined by viewers and hence was even less accurate than the official chart. It proved to be the final nail in the coffin...

Channel 5 considered reviving the show in a Saturday evening slot shortly afterwards, with Caroline Flack as one of the presenters, but it came to naught.

Ol' Donie · 02-09-2017 07:20PM

Watching some of this Electric Picnic here.

That fella from Madness has a very nice Les Paul.

Jordan 199 · 02-09-2017 07:36PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Watching some of this Electric Picnic here.

That fella from Madness has a very nice Les Paul.

Great guitars. Alex Lifeson likes to play them.

BandMember · 02-09-2017 08:03PM

Where the f**k do RTE get all these airheads (both male and female) with those annoying fake American accents??? :mad:

Having been to EP, I can safely say that this absolutely rubbish coverage does not represent what is (or used to be anyway) a really great festival.

Skid X · 02-09-2017 08:17PM

Watching Whitney Houston on BBC2, knowing it's all going to go rapidly downhill when Bobby Brown is first mentioned.

Ol' Donie · 02-09-2017 08:34PM

Do people still make EPs?

These are the second people to say that. How does it work? I thought people didn't even bother doing CDs anymore.

Ol' Donie · 02-09-2017 08:40PM

BandMember wrote: »

Where the f**k do RTE get all these airheads (both male and female) with those annoying fake American accents??? :mad:

Having been to EP, I can safely say that this absolutely rubbish coverage does not represent what is (or used to be anyway) a really great festival.

I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would.

Even if Madness are the only band I've heard of.

However, my heart did sink a bit earlier when one of the singers the interviewed had a secret...she had worked in Disneyland Paris for 6 mths. Not she woke up to find someone OD'ed in the bathtub, or her band had to cancel a couple of gigs because she got so wrecked she ended up in the wrong city. She worked in Disneyland.

'Sake.

BandMember · 02-09-2017 08:45PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would.

Even if Madness are the only band I've heard of.

However, my heart did sink a bit earlier when one of the singers the interviewed had a secret...she had worked in Disneyland Paris for 6 mths. Not she woke up to find someone OD'ed in the bathtub, or her band had to cancel a couple of gigs because she got so wrecked she ended up in the wrong city. She worked in Disneyland.

'Sake.

Welcome to the Irish music scene in 2017. Depressing times.

Gen.Zhukov · 02-09-2017 10:03PM

Thought I'd keep it old stuff tonight.

Skid- "9pm & 3.30am Rock and Roll: Death (Sky Arts) New!
Part 1of 10:Death - Documentary drawing on concert films, fly-on-the-wall tour chronicles and archive interviews to chart the history of rock 'n' roll, beginning with the subject of death"

Pretty good so far. Not half as morbid as title sounds:cool: (although Black Sabbath did give it a go):D

mollser · 02-09-2017 10:13PM

London grammar, nice to listen to on a CD and what not. But headlining? Jaysus think I'll go back to my muse video from last week or radiohead from a few weeks before that. Very downbeat stuff this

Edit I see The XX came on after on Friday, what a low key way to start a festival wtf??

Ol' Donie · 02-09-2017 11:47PM

What the **** is this?

The crescendo to the evening is Pete Tong and an orchestra playing a bunch of sh*tty 90s dance tunes that weren't even good in the 90s?

This is appalling.

Look it is real music! You can get trained musicians to play it!

Horse ****.

Ol' Donie · 02-09-2017 11:50PM

It feels like they've just spent ten minutes playing the tension music from Twin Peaks.

sligojoek · 02-09-2017 11:54PM

Blues Bros. on RTE1

Ol' Donie · 02-09-2017 11:56PM

sligojoek wrote: »

Blues Bros. on RTE1

Thank you.

****in seriously, thank you.

Illinois Nazis. As if, it's a bit far fetched.

Skid X · 03-09-2017 12:09AM

The Blues Brothers was released in 1980 and apparently something called 'Ordinary People' won the Oscar for Best Fillum that year.

How could you look at yourself in the mirror and pretend you deserved that Oscar if you were involved in the making of Ordinary People?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_Academy_Awards

sligojoek · 03-09-2017 12:20AM

I haven't seen it for about 15 years. I forgot how mad it awas. Must show it to the teenagers tomorrow

Ol' Donie · 03-09-2017 12:27AM

sligojoek wrote: »

I haven't seen it for about 15 years. I forgot how mad it awas. Must show it to the teenagers tomorrow

I saw it as a teenager. My favourite bit was the Steven Spielberg cameo.

For shame.

sligojoek · 03-09-2017 12:30AM

The Illinois nazis arre on now

sligojoek · 03-09-2017 12:35AM

Watching it now on a HD tv compared to an old worn VHS tape on a 22 in. crappy tv .
Some difference

Skid X · 03-09-2017 12:39AM

I think Aretha Franklin acted really well there, for someone who never acted before** possibly http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291349/#actress

sligojoek · 03-09-2017 12:45AM

"Curl up and dye"
So that's where it came from.

The Nal · 03-09-2017 08:27AM

Skid X wrote: »

Watching Whitney Houston on BBC2, knowing it's all going to go rapidly downhill when Bobby Brown is first mentioned.

Fairly bog standard documentary. Loads of talking heads and nothing we didnt know before.

Skid X · 03-09-2017 09:17AM

The Nal wrote: »

Fairly bog standard documentary. Loads of talking heads and nothing we didnt know before.

Yeah, I expected more from it.

03-09-2017 03:05PM

Walter Becker- Steely Dan Guitarist and co-founder RIP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4848554/Steely-Dan-founder-Walter-Becker-dies-67.html

Welsh Megaman · 03-09-2017 03:17PM

Sad news - you can't top the Dan

RIP

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