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Quote: john tregorran @ 19th April 2020, 6:02 AMThe Troggs - Love Is All Around
Lots of official footage online now of the main 0WT show.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3_C7BwcV0kBlJbBFHTPJQ
The Stones one is an early favourite, partly because of the questions it poses.
Where can I buy an invisible crash cymbal like Charlie's?
What's the imposing black book on Keith's table?
What are the two prints behind Mick? One's a stormy sea.
How many of those albums behind Charlie are jazz classics? All of them?
Who chose Mick's curtains? How much were they?
Why has Charlie got three cushions piled higgledy-piggledy on top of each other on his armchair? Couldn't he just buy a new armchair?
Why is Ronnie's room so boring looking, with nothing of note apart from the monkey ornament?
Answers on a postcard please to Michael Monkhouse Esq.
Isn't this on terrestrial TV tonight?
Anyway listening to Beck Ola for the very first time. Difficult to judge after all these years. Rod's vocals were of course great.
Quote: Chappers @ 19th April 2020, 2:54 PMIsn't this on terrestrial TV tonight?
BBC1 tonight 7.15pm - 9-15pm
Ch5 tonight 10.55pm - 1.10am
MTV tonight 10pm - 12.30am
They've expanded the BBC prog by half an hour since the original listings in RT etc.
Quote: George Kaplan @ 19th April 2020, 1:45 AMThanks, man! Really glad if it helps, even in a small way, and even better if it's of benefit to a warmhearted, generous, genuine, moral dude like yourself who's put a smile on my face with some of the funniest, original, poetic posts on these boards.
The gig's a mixed bag, as I expected, but there've been some fun bits already.
Oh wow.
Thank you.
Very kind.
I'm hoping when they cart me in for saving, they won't take personal offence and realise I try to be a force for good. 
Posh Princes
Jack Johnson - Mudfootball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4BA4gdsNI
The Carpenters - Rainy Days And Mondays:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFoQxjgbrs
Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AywIL5_eYM
Sex Pissed Dolls - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs1Rqoh2UsI
Poor Paupers
Vince Hill - Look Around You'll Find Me There:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pIjUJCZ6B4
Confetti's - C in China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hSnodaOMkA
Kevin Bloody Wilson - I Think I've Outlived Me Cock!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A5okpqdGAE
Last Night of the Proms - Those Dark Satantttic Mills/When She Dies, Goodbye Britain:
Quote: A Horseradish @ 19th April 2020, 12:01 AMI hoped it might be a bit more "World Music"
Here you go.
Quote: George Kaplan @ 19th April 2020, 3:15 PMBBC1 tonight 7.15pm - 9-15pm
Ch5 tonight 10.55pm - 1.10am
MTV tonight 10pm - 12.30amThey've expanded the BBC prog by half an hour since the original listings in RT etc.
The Beeb version was specifically for a UK audience. People on DS are saying that the Ch 5 one is the one that was aired on US television.
Quote: A Horseradish @ 19th April 2020, 4:29 PMI'm hoping when they cart me in for saving, they won't take personal offence and realise I try to be a force for good.
Just wear a bunch of footy shirts of the numerous teams you now support. Somebody else somewhere is bound to support one of them.
Quote: George Kaplan @ 19th April 2020, 10:10 PMHere you go.
The Beeb version was specifically for a UK audience. People on DS are saying that the Ch 5 one is the one that was aired on US television.
Just wear a bunch of footy shirts of the numerous teams you now support. Somebody else somewhere is bound to support one of them.
Oh yes......VFT. Great call. I will do this one.
Arsenal, York, Millwall, Newcastle, Exeter, Ipswich, QPR, Aston Villa, Charlton, Brentford, Blyth Spartans, possibly Wolves and West Ham - pretty much in that order. Elsewhere, Marseille who are by far my favourite EU team as they are nuts, then AC Milan, Ajax, maybe Valencia or if not Real Betis or Deportivo and FC Haarlem and Evian Thonan Gaillard, now sadly defunct. Scotland is difficult. I can't say that the same big emotion is there but, on balance, I go for Dundee Utd, Arbroath, Inverness, Ross County, Stranraer, Queen of the South and Berwick Rangers. Northern Ireland - Glentoran. Wales - Aberystwyth Town. USA football should not be encouraged but at a push Portland. Local - Merstham, Sutton Utd, Whyteleafe. Truly international - anything from the West Indies or Africa plus Brazil-ish. Ta for asking. I suppose the real me is indeed found in the footy shirts I own. That's the first nine teams I mentioned. I'm a member of all those teams.
Useful when they play one another.You can be both sad and happy or vice versa.
Quote: john tregorran @ 19th April 2020, 10:34 PMUseful when they play one another.You can be both sad and happy or vice versa.
I'm very clear in my mind about this as I am not a controversialist who wants to be beaten up.
So I always go in the home end as I see it.
I've mainly been as safe as houses while surrounded by some very lairy people (HELLO BIRMINGHAM, IS PRINCE WILLIAM ALSO HERE?) so most problems - although they are rare - link in to when I've kicked my own head in.
What is so lovely about these memories - some quite recent - is that I'm very for the people in my mind. Being initially a bit feeble and thinking I would be a target for thugs, I was always surprised and pleased at my motivation to get stuck in anyway. I did witness some dubious moments but they were never directed personally at me. I conveyed I liked the atmospheres. Was tolerant of a bit of dodgy and even warmly disposed to it. That was why it was ok. I know I was right now. The appearance of aggro is community in disguise and positively docile compared with the wicky-wack of today. But to be fair, I do blend in there other than what's in my head. Whereas if I stepped out of my front door now, .I'd be arrested.
For me the loneliest place on earth was my only time in the home end at Villa Park.
Quote: john tregorran @ 19th April 2020, 10:57 PMFor me the loneliest place on earth was my only time in the home end at Villa Park.
Who do you support, John?
I love Villa Park. Really, really love it.I think it is our greatest remaining big ground - it reminds me a lot of what Highbury was : a bit of classy tradition - and I would be gutted if it was massively altered - and I joke about the fans because I really like them even though they are all drunks. The old White Hart Lane, on the other hand.......oh dear oh dear oh dear. 
No. I'm so sorry. I feel I am on tenterhooks here. You must have been for Brum or Brom.
Which is fine - I don't recall you mentioning it - but my sleep patterns are bad as it is without this worry too.
Spurs is always difficult for me. I can be good in the company of Spurs fans - "a lot of my mates were" etc - but a lot of dodgy types think I look Jewish. Which I sort of do. I happily had a few beers alongside Spurs fans in Southampton then cheered on the Saints in the Southampton end. I was for Southampton that day. They were doing badly before but with my support "we" won. I can be a good luck charm in football ironically. The bloke next to me was so ecstatic about the impact of my presence he kept throwing his arms around me and lifting me into the air. The next morning I was walking round the shopping centre and this Chinese bloke came round the corner and did a lot of anti semitism at me. I have to hate Spurs fans but I love them really as followers of a rubbish team. And some must get that horrible crap all the time. Southampton were on my list - "a lot of my mates were" etc, - unimpressive ground, great club/fans, but it put me off.
This is what I did for Villa when I got there.
Genuinely....totally genuinely : I can show you the programme : it was 'effing unbelievable : I was so pleased:
My home town ,Cardiff City.
Most of my adventures were in the 2nd Div apart from the occasional Cup match.I've seen most of the cities of England albeit from some dirty back street where most of the grounds are usually situated.
Whatever happened to this man?He started off so well too.
Quote: john tregorran @ 19th April 2020, 11:49 PMMy home town ,Cardiff City.
Most of my adventures were in the 2nd Div apart from the occasional Cup match.I've seen most of the cities of England albeit from some dirty back street where most of the grounds are usually situated.Whatever happened to this man?He started off so well too.
Oh yes, yes, I do recall now. Do you have a Welsh accent? I really don't know Cardiff as a city and, I think, it was originally a town as was the team. I've got mixed stuff here in my head. First, you are kind of like the Welsh Millwall. No nonsense so full respect. Secondly, before I ever fell in love with the North, I fell in love with Pembrokeshire. It was my first love but a long way away. Ask the love that was Mrs Wootton-Woolley though obviously she won't be alive now. You can find her younger family on Google. And thirdly, you change colours so often that it should carry a television warning to people like me and then you totally muck up our heads by making Neil Warnock suddenly really likeable. As for the backstreets, that is my favourite kind of town. I didn't go down Bootham Crescent to Bootham Crescent for nothing - and I am glad I did.
This is what I did when I turned up to support Southampton:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47424850
I'm known for being unlucky but when my emotions are warm but not intense I bring totally unexpected good fortune.
Errr....me back on topic
I don't rave about his records and I don't knock them. I expect if he goes before I do I will speak warmly in a way that surprises me. Commitment, bringing so much happiness to others, a British institution. All pluses. I won't buy the rock n roll thing but I'm appreciative in the main, mildly protective of him and supportive. Re, MUSIC. It has to be the Tarney era because it was and is vibey, cool, no!, actually yes, also re-inventive, and I do think important. Unless I check I won't know which are his so I might have this wrong. But, yes, I like Cliff. I don't think he has had life easy yet he totally gave it his all.
Over to the Psychology Department : The one thing I really, really like about him is that I think he was mainly non sexual and he was subjected to so much sex speculation crap. He was before his time in doing non sex life, liking it, and loving to give people joy. He could have been cooler but, hey, constituencies get what is available to them at any given time. You know what really does it though. As I said last night, I don't knock music people. He is steeped in music. Totally devoted.
We Don't Talk Anymore - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8FCZ5x8Gpg
(This is the big monkey, isn't it, younger viewers need to know it sat exactly in the time's contexts)
Some People - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3UclsQc8KA
Miss You Nights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvJmOCuL8vQ
(I really do like this one but it probably isn't Tarney as it pre-dates that and I have sentimentalism)
Devil Woman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgomTOOgl8M
Wired For Sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57eqtN2K7E
Oh my gawd - I'm multi posting - that represents the surprise.