At a pub quiz, and already well served when the quiz started, I earned early respect when the question 'What song features the refrain "sending out an SOS to the world"?' was asked, to which I immediately responded 'Massage in a brothel, by Los Polizei'. I was heralded as the exact pop gen...
Our Ron is all over the map April - July, including many places of convenience for folks hereabouts, eg London, Gateshead, Dublin, Cambridge et seq. http://www.ronsexsmith.com/tour/
As well as the 'Summer Holiday' reference aleady mentioned, there may also be a reference to Sir Cliff's 'On the Beach' (an otherwise p!ss poor parody of the original Elvis in beach party mode). Also, the chorus contains a nod to The Kinks 'See My friends'.
A low share ratio is a likely cause of your problems. DimeaDozen is very particular about it. You appear to have reached the position where you can't download any new 'torrents' so you have to up your ratio, either by continuing to seed the torrents you have already completed, or by uploading new sh...
How Will I Ever Be Simple Again Written by Richard Thompson Oh she danced in the street with the guns all around her All torn like a rag doll, barefoot in the rain And she sang like a child, toora-day toora-daddy Oh how will I ever be simple again She sat by the banks of the dirty grey river And tr...
Saw them in Derby recently. Just a bit special. The newly expanded band, adding strings & brass etc, can create epic settings for what might otherwise be simply melodramatic. Both sisters have excellent and distincttive voices, I'm particualrly taken by Rebecca's breathy vocals. The final song t...
Have finally managed to reauthor, and also make an NTSC version. So, if there are folks hereabouts who would like a single disc version, PAL or NTSC, please drop me a line.
He came up in pub conversation last night, and the consensus seemed to be "Who He?". Even Mrs RtHtW seemed unaware of the great man and his works, yet remarked on the contrast of good looking 70s Rock-Type with Naughties fat bloke in a wheel chair. However, when I played Solid Air she seem...
RT was phenomenal, though set list and banter seem little changed from reports of other nights (in pre Net days that didn't really matter, but we expect so much more now). However, a recent posting on RTs site led me to this rather wonderful corner of t'InterWeb: The Black Cab Sessions They have sho...
No, I haven't seen this show before (he's only done a few one offs of it in the UK, till now), but I have the DVD of a show in San Francisco (wherein he remarks that singing Shenandoah to an American audience makes him feel like a Rolling Stone c. 1965 - he's a funny chap). I think RT continues to m...
... I don't know if we have any big RT fans yes. ... Just him and two women, one a very good singer who also played keyboards Judith Owen Maid of these Isles, and wife of Harry Shearer. ... Probably the oldest gig I've been to ever, white haired wrinklies - average age 50 or more, I felt almost you...
I must say I've enjoyed the gorgeous Geordie tones of Cheryl's accent. Shame about her husband, though. Aye, shu sounds a dead canny lass. Mind you, shu's built like a spelk, tha's nay meat on them skinny bones, though but. Nowt tu get a hold of. Hey, mebbees that's the problem hubby wise - aah bet...
Who would have thought that this year's X Factor winner's song would be Hallelujah!?
I can't imagine what the boy Eoghan Quigg would have made of it, but Alexandra has a damned good stab at it.
Could this mean, Leonard Cohen get's the UK christmas #1 slot?
Elvis Costello out of tune as talk-show host By Randee Dawn December 2, 2008 ... ... In the end, not everyone can be Jools Holland, the Squeeze co-founder who since 1992 has hosted his own talk/music show in England. Sorry, couldn't let that pass. Jools has a certain awkward charm but he's a rubbis...
I think the 'policy' on TotP changed several times over the years. In the 60s we were all so innocent that we didn't realise that our idols were miming (although some were better at it than others). Later on, Musician's Union grief mean that a 'quota' of performances had to be re-recorded using some...
Please, not Band Aid (or anything by Cliff Richard ), but otherwise that list is a good starter. What goes down a festive storm hereabouts are the crimbo LPs of Phil Spector and Hanson , plus the obvious one offs from the likes of Wizzard , Mariah (the only one of that warbler's noises aloud house r...