Standing by a golf course Dressed in PVC I chanced upon a Golf Girl Selling cups of tea She asked me did I want one? Asked me with a grin For thruppence you can buy one Filled right to the brim So of course I had to have one In fact, I ordered three So I could watch the golf girl See she fancied me

You Know My Name Nobody Does It Better We Have All The Time In The World

Cancelled? Poor old Cyrus T Rabinowitz and His Pyramid of Dogs denied a crack at the headline slot again. Cruel, cruel fate.

Before The Sopranos there was... nothing. Just a void. Nobody working in television anywhere did anything worth paying attention to before The Sopranos. At least, that does seem to be the case everytime one of these things rolls around.

Can't wait to read about Peter Spork, Dinky Molens, Spikel Snesmith and Gravy Joans.

There's a copy of "The Compleat Beatles" on YouTube. Looks intact - I don't know if there are any dead spots for music reasons, but it seems to be all there. Settle in and enjoy something very, very great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_d3...

All this talk of Beatles is making me want to dig out "The Compleat Beatles" again. Made in 1982, narrated by Malcolm McDowell : the story from beginning to breakup, done in 2 hours. My primer. My baseline knowledge of the Beatles story comes almost entirely from this superb thing.

Fully expecting someone to do a Beatle film revealing them as undercover agents going into Hamburg to steal secrets from the other side. Answerable only to their handler, a man known only as Tony S : George gets sent home after an unfortunate security breach. Happened to the Remo Four too, later.

Beatle biopics again is it? <whispers> "We've got Backbeat at home. We don't NEED any more"

So many Big Train sketches seem to be wired into my system, and reappear at the most unexpected moments. The duck assassination. The jockeys. Chairman Mao turning into Bryan Ferry. The brawling mascots. I'm in love with a set of traffic lights. The Evil Hypnotist. It's all in there.

She promptly escaped to the Los Angeles underground where she survives as a soldier of fortune…

Features one of my favourite bits of television ever - when you realise that my god, Brigit Forsyth's "Miss Maitland" and a JCB are about to interact in the most spectacular way. First time I saw it, I might have actually punched the air and cheered.

The anniversaries are piling up. 15 years ago (so FB tells me), I came back to my flat after an arduous late shift to find a row of my DVDs rearranged so the first initial of each spine title spelt "Lesley is the Mole". Doogy Rev, Luisa. Doogy Rev.

America, promise me one thing. If Trump decides he's putting his face on Mount Rushmore, slit him up a treat. Can you do that for me, America? Please?

This is *fantastic*, and will absolutely make your day. It did mine.

Meowie Antoinette

I have told some people on a Facebook group that Top Gun is rubbish and it's as if I punched their mums.

Darren Fletcher said ‘the long, illustrious history of PSG.’ They weren’t actually founded until August 12th 1970 making them one day older than Alan Shearer.

Just coughed and farted at the same time and I think I've taken a screenshot

Following a tipoff from @andylemon.bsky.social , I've dug out Ennio Morricone's "Come Maddelina" disco mix and they're absolutely right - it's superb stuff. youtu.be/09zymfLwBoc...

Would now be a good time to mention Ennio Morricone's bewildering, bewitching and frankly brilliant jazz-freakout music for "Spazio 1999"? Oh, I think so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNax...

Just had a marvellous mental image of Harry Hill at his TV Burp desk. "On one side, the Eighth Doctor. On the other, the Eric Roberts Master. But who's best? There's only one way to find out. FIIIIIGHT" Rumble. Al Murray crashes in as the Roberts Master. Little Alan Hill as McGann.

🚨 DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR PIZZA BOX PLASTICS! 🚨 use them to make little tables for a mouse cafe where they can hang out and discuss cheese and things

There's so much to love in here. but at the end of "the give love, give love" section at 1:16, when it's clearly working well, Brian May looks back at Lennox singing and gives a look of sheer joy at what's happening. Hell of a thing, music.

I would like one of these immediately please, but I would also point out this does look like the innocent pie has just been eaten by the predatorial roll which has snuck up behind it.

If you were to push me to it - if you were to absolutely push me to it, and if "Gambit" didn't exist - I'd be tempted to say "Sarcophagus" was my favourite ever Blake's 7. However, "Gambit" does exist, so "Sarcophagus" will have to squeak in at 2nd place, but it's still *magnificent*.

Restarted my newsletter with this review of the Paul Simon gig from a few weeks ago. TL;DR it was one of the few gigs I've seen where an artist of his generation has confronted ageing and mortality and made quite profound art about it.

I've just scrolled all the way to the far end of the "Top cast" display on IMDB:

It’s always a delight when Nicholas & Alexandra is re-shown on the BBC. I remember hiding behind the sofa as a young child when my mum got lined up by the firing squad – MORE FOR MY THERAPIST. Here she is with Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning & Fiona Fullerton. On BBC Two today – at 14:00!

A three hour epic on BBC2 this afternoon - "Nicholas and Alexandra". Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman superb at the head of the cast, and it's quality all the way through, up to and very much including Tom Baker, electrifying as Rasputin. A remarkable film. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

The lady opposite me on the train was reading this. To be fair she was only on the first chapter.

Just listening to "The Kink Kontroversy" and attendant singles. Older I get, the more partial I'm becoming to a really good mono mix. The sound of this lot thundering straight through the middle of my head and ignoring the sides is more and more attractive.

And sometimes life sucks, and sometimes your mate disappears with the woman who likes to fuck to the soundtrack of the animated Lord of the Rings movie

Harpo Marx, plugging "Harpo Speaks" as only he can, by gatecrashing his brother's gig on "You Bet Your Life". A textbook "put the leg in someone's hand" moment, doling out books willy-nilly, not a single scene left unstolen, out and done. I love that man dearly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdFg...

Jacket sleeves pushed up past the elbows. Stick mike. A completely gratuitous but strangely perfect modulation a minute before the end, and the look of a man who's living absolutely his best life, and knows it. Oh, Nico Haak. I salute you.

Was listening to his music for "The Adventures of Robin Hood" just the other day. One of the most carnivalesque, freewheeling, downright joyous film scores anyone's ever done.

Twilight Cafe by Susan Fassbender; Waiting On A Train by Flash and the Pan; One To Another by The Charlatans; Eloise by Barry Ryan; Never Let Her Slip Away by Andrew Gold Can't narrow it down more than that. Don't ask me to or I'll start to whimper.

A lovely interview. Anyone who's interviewed McCartney or read enough interviews with him knows the usual pitfalls, the bromides and oft-told tales disguised with easy familiarity, but this felt fresh and funny. A tough gig.

"I'm not bloody hanging around while Howard Quartz writes me off as a tax loss..."

Just stick it all through "Kevin Toms' Football Manager" and we can all go and do something else until it chunters out the results.

I don't know Boards of Canada at all. I've never heard a single thing by them, to the best of my knowledge. So many people on here are responding to their return with such delight and joy though, I'll shortly be listening to them for the first time. Looking forward to it very much.

Every rose has its thorn Just like night has its dawn Just like playing at this gig Would be wrong, wrong, wrong

++Freedom++ ++Terrifying horrible <bzzt> Freedom++

Happy birthday to the one, the only - Blaze Bayley!

Delighted to see this pop up again. Next Generation's "Best of Both Worlds", done like it was its Filmation animate predecessor. Everything about this is spot on. Picard's little side-eyes. The music. The colour of the Borg cube. So, so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKlS...

Very much enjoyed this interview with Greg and Alex during which they're asked which Taskmaster contestants they'd take with them to help forge their way through the American West. Some surprising choices, and the warmth between the pair of them is lovely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtpZ...

LOVELY post about living in the Barbican.. eleanorcordingbooth.substack.com/p/the-barbic...

I spoke to Harpo Marx's son Bill about his father – and a newly unearthed recording of his dad talking, at what would be his final public appearance www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Up there with Netflix choosing a still for an action movie that is just two people facing each other behind a grey cubicle wall, but at least a real human chose that utterly uninteresting image.