@samholloway.bsky.social Couldn't listen earlier, forgot to have my usual guess. Was it the 8s? I'll catch up tomorrow (with probably hour 2 of the big show, but listening live for now!).

I don't mind Ferrari mugging themselves, but I do mind them robbing us of what should have been an even more exciting race. Twats.

With all the excitement of a new era, there would be a certain irony if this race is ultimately decided by a good old traditional Ferrari strategy screw-up. #F1

I will be expecting some serious humble pie on The Race podcast after this. Certainly if they want me to keep listening this year.

All penalties should be notified like this in future.

No! Oscar! Oh man. #F1

Proper indiepop night at Esquires tonight: The Cords, supported by Project Overload.

What's this they're playing between bands? It's Veronica Falls - that tested my powers of recall!

Stage times on the morning of the gig - tremendous. (And I'm being completely serious - I've got stuff I need to try and fit in before this gig, so this massively.)

@samholloway.bsky.social from songs 1 and 2, I'm definitely thinking 4s...

Unpopular opinion: after the first couple of Bond films, the quality absolutely plummeted with Goldfinger.

@samholloway.bsky.social Is this the album version of the Lightning Seeds track? There's a verse in there I've no recollection of at all...

Incredibly, some people are talking themselves into believing this set is now more likely because of this release! It's like a doomsday cult...

Also: destroys the dreams of the online fans who had groupthinked themselves into believing the Bluray range would include a 'Wilderness Years' box set.

I mean, I'll be buying it. But the TV Movie is best enjoyed as an artefact of the mid-90s rather than as good Doctor Who, IMHO. (Paul McGann's audios with Sheridan Smith are some of my favourite Doctor Who ever made, but the TV Movie is his second best on-screen episode.)

Photographic evidence! Paul and Daphne on-stage with Jemma Redgrave.

Last time I watched the TV Movie (and first time in nearly 20 years) was after seeing Paul McGann and Daphne Ashbrook reunited in Bedford and having a lovely time just hanging out together.

My god. This is amazing. Absolutely amazing. Never thought it would ever be realistic to get that film out of the archive and properly scanned. In HD, never mind 4K! We get spoiled, us Doctor Who fans.

@samholloway.bsky.social I'll be on catch up today... Is it the 3s?

I remember it well.

Overlooked classic?

@samholloway.bsky.social Independent Love Song? 5s, I think.

The Boo Radleys: Now That's What I Call A Career-Spanning Set!

Support comes from Freya Beer, whose parents' CD collection, I would be willing to bet, was decidedly heavy on Suede, and almost as heavy on Placebo.

Re-formed Britpop bands at Bedford Esquires; an occasional series.

@samholloway.bsky.social I do indeed remember that F1 crash! Didn't get it from just the audio, to be fair...

@samholloway.bsky.social Can never remember if Golden Brown is 80 or 82, but Stay must be 1992. Maybe No More Heroes was 1980 and that's what trips me up...

John Virgo. Firmly in my column of 'genuinely nice celebs I've worked with'. Had a lovely conversation with him about how he got Big Break and how Davidson encouraged and coached him to do more in front of camera. He was supposed to be the ref. He ended up as the straight man in the act. RIP JV.

Goodnight JV.

@samholloway.bsky.social Probably going to be guessing on the Goldbug alone... 1996, was it?

Oh goodness me, terrible news that Danny Coughlan has died. Tremendously talented man. His Crybaby album is one of the great heartbreak records. Here he is on (slightly) more upbeat form with Tracyanne Campbell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU8J...

Just Joans! On such good form. Very good to see them again. And with an encore - how long since I last saw them do Friday Afternoons Down the Union, a decade? Also really looking forward to Carla J Easton's new album - very glad she was on the bill too.

Forgot to post excitedly yesterday about my first gig of the year, but anyway - Fightmilk! Great!

I am not grateful to have been told this.

@samholloway.bsky.social Only song 1 gives me any idea this week, but I have a nagging feeling I might have got it wrong before... So, with low confidence: the 5s.

So I forgot to do a running commentary on this. Finished this evening - devoured it. Just such a satisfying 13 episodes of television. Not sure it's on any of the streamers, but the DVD is 11.99 or it's on YouTube if you're cheap. The best of that crop of short-lived 00s shows by a mile, IMO.

ZOMG!

@samholloway.bsky.social I feel sure the Big Show will want to mark this!

This is a sensible time to watch Team America for the first time in 20 years, right?

@samholloway.bsky.social I definitely remember hearing Jakki Brambles playing this Jesus Jones track when I used to listen to her on Radio 1... In 1991, maybe? Or possibly it was the year before but hung around on the radio for a while...?

Everyone else's Instagram feed full of cats in North America demanding to be let outside then meowing in protest at the cold and walking away once the door's opened? Just mine?

Seem to have started a new DIY project. The stairs in my flat have always had this wooden panel where you'd expect to see spindles. In fact it's some sort of modern-ish fibre board - I know because I stripped all the paint off when I repainted it all. There's another one on the inside face.

This year's January re-watch: Wonderfalls. Already seen it through many times (5-6 years last?), so doubt there's much I'll have forgotten, but... three minutes in and a) gosh they look young, and b) yep, those big fast-forward camera moves date it to the mid-noughties. Still look cool, mind.

Very well observed, this. If I try a new podcast and just hear minutes of blah at the start without getting to the thing I'm interested in, I invariably conclude it's a bad podcast, switch it off, and never come back. Radio programmes know they have to fit in a schedule so tend not to do this...

Here it is, then - part two of my rough digest of what I've been listening to over the past quarter-century. Last show from me for a while, but more in 2026... at some point. www.mixcloud.com/bedfordradio...

Experiencing slight dissonance this morning from all the accounts giving good wishes for 2026 to be better than 2025, and nobody mentioning the inevitable massive global recession and decade of terrible consequences. Oh well.

Here it is, if you missed it last night: part 1 of a show 25 years in the making. Going through the first quarter of the century, one album per year. Part 2 is on New Year's Eve, but will be available on catch-up if you're busy that night for some reason. www.mixcloud.com/bedfordradio...

Two hour special! Lots of good stuff coming up...

Just occasionally I manage to get my various interests to align, so here's a happy combination of radio, history, transport and Bedford.

This is great - probably all the more effective if you don't know the twist beforehand, so DON'T look it up!