Richard Brooks
@thebrookso
Hello, Good Evening, Welcome...to nothing much. Music. Comedy. Beer. #cafc. Travelling On Buses. Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs. Tawdry Roberts.
Talk of buying the brand back is PR concocted guff designed to deflect from Watt’s excesses: early this week The Times reported there were Health & Safety breaches at Ellon during his tenure as CEO. Not that if you look through any news searches now you’d find any mention of it.
Any excuse to trot out this brilliant (and 100% real) #totp chart countdown slide from the original run.
My favourite Confessions film. Packed to the rafters with comic actors. And amazingly there are two actors in it that also plied their trade as In Vision Continuity announcers at various points - David Hamilton and…
Kenny’s 1983 LP “Half The Day’s Gone And We Haven’t Earn’ed A Penny” has a banger of a title track, plus a few songs written by the guys behind Star Turn On 45 Pints, another, “Average Man”, written by far right supporting former British tennis player Buster Mottram, and an amazing cover photo.
The one time I was in Minehead a few years ago, I walked from the Premier Inn along the front into town and found this. I’d like to think there was some sort of context alongside it that I’ve long since forgotten… but I’m not sure there was. I got the next bus back to Taunton.
Tonight’s BBC1 line up in 1986. Martin Sheen was in London about to star on stage in the play The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer at the Royal Court. officiallondontheatre.com/news/20-marc...
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No but he did some possibly ill advised monologues in the late 70s.
I’ve been walking along the Regents Canal towpath, enjoying the sunshine.
There’s definitely a fingerpost sign pointing to: HAM SANDWICH No Worth, but there is also DEAL in the other direction. Photo: Oast House Archive
Great post, the Free Trade Inn is one of my top 10 pubs. Welcoming, superb range of interesting beers, cask in great condition, enough areas inside to slink off to and just quietly enjoy the atmosphere. The views down the river on a clear day are sensational, the pub gets plenty of light as well.
The Tip! Maidstone’s finest export. Still going with original members, and playing dates up & down the historic county of Kent, even if their website design hasn’t been updated in 20 years. chicorytip.co.uk/index.html It’ll never not be bizarre seeing their name being advertised outside pubs.
No cheating the last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. (Warren would be great tbf. I will not accept Mary Whitehouse as a celebrity of any kind.)
Oh God, the 70s tv personalities are now f-ing around with AI. Jim Davidson is promoting his latest “Adult Panto” by using a stolen AI image created by and based on Man About The House’s Sally Thomsett, based on Catwoman.
When you go to the pictures wanting to see a particularly “arty” film, and yer Nan and Grandad insist on coming with you.
You know it’s slow day for new releases when Quo leads James Hamilton’s Record Mirror Disco page.
The Venue certainly had a great track record in getting amazing support bands in early 1992.
Some good granular analysis here of the sheer unfairness of this situation from The Barking Cat Alehouse in Poole. Independent venues appear to be bearing the brunt of some downright egregious RV increases. The price of a pint of cask there ranges from £4.50-£5.60. How long before the minimum is £6?
After they were dropped from #totp in favour of Zoo, Legs & Co were allowed to endorse and appear in ads, including for the Freemans mail order catalogue. One print media advert for Freemans contained quotes from the girls praising their service. Most were non descript. But here’s Lulu’s.