"I ‘eard things like knives being sharpened…"
The great George Formby died 65 years ago today.
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"I ‘eard things like knives being sharpened…"
The great George Formby died 65 years ago today.
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Don't you rock me, daddy-o! It's time for trad.
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Harold Wilson in 1954. "And after dinner, I'll get the projector out and show you some slides from our holiday."
It ain't half trad, dad... New out today, here's my guide to the best of British revivalist jazz, click on link to read:
#jazzsky #musicsky @lionunicorn.bsky.social
"Mark Gatiss said of Yates’s ‘thrilling tales of buried treasure and Alpine inns’ that they were ‘addictive’, and Michael Gove talked of ‘mainlining’ on the books."
Today we shall be remembering Dornford Yates, who died 5 March 1960.
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In the Mood for Something Rude? It's @alwynturner.bsky.social's eighty favourite album titles from the 1980s.
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It ain't half trad, dad...
@benfinlay74.bsky.social takes you through the best of British Trad Jazz.
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"Even now, it’s hard to imagine anything as thorough in its anti-establishment stance as 'The Death of William Posters.'"
Novelist Alan Sillitoe was born 98 years ago today.
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Don’t Touch the Bang Bang Fruit...
...and other album titles of the 1980s.
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Readers of Private Eye are discerning folk.
"Deep Sea Skiving" and other 1980s album titles...
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From Let It Bee to Filth Hounds of Hades, the eighty best/worst British album titles of the 1980s.
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Steve Harley was born 75 years ago today. I included the debut album by Cockney Rebel in my list of the greatest glam albums - "bombastic, absurd, over-the-top and utterly magnificent".
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"To accompany their panoply of arresting visual images, Tony Garnett and Roy Battersby wanted intelligent, experimental music. They sought advice from John Peel..."
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"Things reach a rousing, and rather noisy conclusion with a gynecologically explicit childbirth scene during which Waters, and his Pink Floyd colleagues rock out with ‘Give Birth to a Smile’."
"The Body" is a very odd film.
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From the archive, ten years ago: What was going to happen to 3 million jobs if we voted to leave the EU?
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"Terrible things started happening to boys who wandered on to bombsites in British films..."
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On the centenary of Kenneth Williams's birth, let's celebrate his encounter with Glaswegian socialist Jimmy Reid, "a reminder that intelligence and civility once shared the same studio space and that we were all the richer for it".
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"Things got so bad that not even an adult Richard Attenborough was safe; he is seen on a bombsite by a nosy neighbour and as a result later accused of murdering a child."
@lordbonkers.bsky.social on the dangers of bombsites in post-war British cinema.
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"So dangerous did bombsites become for boy actors that Jon Whiteley ventured on to them twice and got caught up with a murderer both times."
I've written another piece for Lion & Unicorn blog: @lionunicorn.bsky.social
So primitive and demented that not even the Cramps' version could match it.
Look out for new articles from me on Central Bylines and Lion & Unicorn very shortly.
"Our philosophy is simple: if you are ready to work hard and there is work for you to do, then you are welcome here…"
A guide to what every incoming government since 1964 said about immigration in their manifestos.
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"There will be no further large scale permanent immigration..."
A quick guide to the manifesto promises made on immigration by each government elected in 1964-2024.
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"In Spite of Harry’s Toenail..." and other 1970s album titles.
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"Never trust a man who owns a sex guide. There are some things you should know how to do without reading a manual."
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Dandruff, Gluggo, Ass...
These and many more are to be found among my 70 favourite album titles of the 1970s.
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I'm honoured to be in the company of Joe Gormley. (And I've long thought his is the best title of any trade unionist's memoirs.)
Dandruff, Gluggo, Ass...
These and many more are to be found among my 70 favourite album titles of the 1970s.
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