Simon Tyers

Also, GO ON, CALUM SCOTT, DO THIS ONE NEXT, I DARE YOU #totp

I'm sure people watching this at the time were going "yes, this is definitely the woman who's going to influence the sound of intelligent pop in the next century" #totp

Tomorrow's BBC Four schedule, which is before midnight entirely comprised of Back To The Future, Funny Girl and The Graduate. It's much the same idea next Thursday too (All About Eve, Gladiator, When Harry Met Sally)

Really, tomorrow's BBC Four line-up is more interesting in its own way.

Noisebox Anthems III

At Noisebox Radio we have a love for the less obvious pop and each year we run a poll to ask you what you reckon are the best of those tracks we play. Its called Noisebox Anthems and its open now... noiseboxradio.com/anthems/

Ant-Man And The Wasp starting at 7.10pm on BBC1 yesterday had all the feel of a bank holiday.

Imagine how confused a lot of people might have subsequently become. #totp

Someone will know this better than me - are those members of Phoenix, who were playing live with Air at the time? #totp

Guessing it's because the 31st is the fortieth anniversary of The War Game's first TV broadcast (and I'm not sure it's been shown since) but making a theme night of it is a bit on the nose.

The credit sequence in the video includes Mark Hollis in the background attempting to enjoy himself, which of course wouldn't be remarkable then but...

Someone chose them on The Chain a few months ago and he remained awkwardly neutral.

Britpop was more than just guitar bands showing off - it was a celebration of British life In 1993, I was the deputy editor of pop bible the New Musical Express, and finding anything to like in the music we covered was getting harder with every issue

Also the band that made Maconie quit the NME and invent Britpop. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

YouTube video by @katebush_thecollection Kate Bush Interview “Saturday Superstore” (UK, 1982)

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Blimey. Watched this last year and aside from having its reputation for impenetrability reinforced, it's the degrees of separation common link between Daniel Day-Lewis and Alison Hammond.

Sky Sports News have just got to a major breaking football story that Sky News had already been running for about twenty minutes.

Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)

Think that was Goldie's Temper Temper (with Noel on guitar, hence charting so high) Strange, strange choice for unobtrusive backing music.

One of the episodes has been on iPlayer since last week, I assume it was moved for last Sunday's Yentob repeats and because of release/promotion schedules they can't just all be delayed a week.

Not The Nine has pile-ups of famous sketches too. The last one has not just Kinda Lingers but The Two Ninnies and Zak The Alien.

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Seems there's number ones missing since then, at least from streaming. www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic...

No greater modern television tradition than the year's first BBC4 Christmas special repeat airing on a hot day. #totp

Also, given you mentioned Yello, How How got played in a regular video slot on L&K once. I don't think it's even fondly remembered amongst their discography.

One of the other "it only ever got played once on the Chart Show but everyone who saw it remembers it" classics, The Sound Of Gyroscopes by Kev Hopper. (26th May 1990, apparently)

this is how I hit on people

*Self Esteem feels sudden chill wind*

It's Evan Dando #totp

IIRC it was because he was an illusionist but also made jokes, which was apparently incredibly novel for magicians. (Also someone else gave him it, which is why you shouldn't listen to people)

Obviously collapse at party/stomach pump/hospital somehow being able to separate results and tell how many men it came from, but I find it fascinating and telling that while it's made its way across eras of gay celebrities in Britain, the American version most often credits it to Rod Stewart.

Former professional snookersman Kurt Maflin giving the finger to the white ball. It was 2020 mid-lockdown, everyone was a bit like that.

The most famous person to come from it being Simon Beaufoy, getting in some location reports directing work to tide him over while writing The Full Monty.