So often overlooked in the sphere of media - TV, radio, print, podcasts, buses.
Posts by Backdrifter
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The dynamic young people could be helping the silly band people to rake in more than the mere zillions they've already made IF ONLY THEY WOULD LISTEN
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Guy Garvey just playing the Seconds Out Carpet Crawlers on his 6Music show, which he's played before and says is his preferred version.
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I'm amazed and don't understand how many of these record label and band people don't understand really simple things.
It is indeed baffling that they haven't simply consulted you. It's the obvious thing to do. Dah! These label and band people, eh?
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Sounds worth a look. I'm often not just late to the party but miss it altogether - I still haven't seen breaking bad or the wire. But some succession finale (I think) made a splash a few months ago on Twitter and had has me thinking about it for a bit.
I'm always tempted and interested by stuff with media/political intrigue and machinations. I'm an admirer of Brian Cox and he is at the top of his game here as the ruthless patriarch but, like his take on Lecter, he doesn't overplay it - a lot of the time he's quite mild but this emphasises his single-minded nastiness and makes his occasional explosions of anger more effective.
The english actor Matthew Macfadyen (many us here in the uk know him from various tv dramas) plays an absolute blinder and for me this is his finest hour. His character is engaged to one played by Sarah Snook who has, erm, quite an - ahem - effect on me.
Obviously the "dysfunctional family" scenario is a frequent device in drama and having most of the characters being essentially dislikeable is a potentially dodgy game but they pull it off and you actually even warm to some of them. There's a character who you sometimes want to just shut up played by Kieran Culkin but he still makes the guy very entertaining.
I'm approaching the end of s1 and looking forward to moving on to s2.
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I'm also midway through The English on the BBC iplayer. It features a refined woman travelling from her plush London home to the untamed American West in 1890 to singlemindedly fulfill a personal mission, about which we're gradually learning more as the story unfolds. With her genteel accent and nice London clothes she cuts an incongruous figure amid the conflict and bloodshed of the Wyoming hills and plains, and as the show depicts the constant on-edge nature of life there the tension is at near-unrelenting levels. So much so at one point Mrs B was unsure she could continue with it through sheer anxiety!
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I'm often late to popular shows and Succession is no exception. This last week I've been watching season 1 and am absolutely hooked. I've got that "can't wait to see the next one" excitement but bar one evening of two back-to-back episodes I've been very restrained, watching one per evening.
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I've seen him a number of times on various tours from 1980 through to whenever the orchestral one was. They've largely been visually striking in some way, with the exception of that orchestral one and 07, and always overall enjoyable. I'm going to two of the UK ones and looking forward to them.
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singer auditions 1996
Never mind that. What about the tapes of singer auditions 1975? Didn't they try 30 or 40? I think it's outrageous us fans have for these last 5 decades been deprived of the boxset that could clearly be harvested from those tapes. It'd be a huge seller.
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I must have missed a step or two here. How did we get to "3 albums from rehearsals"?
🤦♂️You had to ask...
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Hmmmm.
Thanks for that Captain Cheerful.
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My slow-roasted tomatoes are the best. The best, I tell you.
Don't even attempt to tell me yours are better. They're not.
Today: a bowl of bran flakes with a few raisins and light sprinkling of oat museli. Keeping it light ahead of lunch and dinner out. Extravagance!
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Slightly off topic, but, without googling or imdb-ing, which of the above list of people appears in an episode of Father Ted? (UK comedy set in Ireland)
Eno, as "Father Brian Eno"
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Rock Around The Clock was an all-night themed broadcast of music programmes (concerts, documentaries, interviews, music videos etc) shown annually between 1984 and 1986 on BBC2. It would start on a Saturday afternoon/evening and run for around 15 hours until early the next morning, hence the title. The programme with Genesis for example was shown at 2:15 am.
Ah ok, now you've described it I think I remember the feature but not the Genesis segment. What was the theme and what did they show?
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This is a really tenuous one: listening to an episode of Chris Difford's excellent podcast I Never Thought It Would Happen, in which he interviews musicians (including Mike Rutherford), he interviewed Sharon Corr who cites Genesis as a big part of the music she remembers from her childhood.
Look I said it was tenuous okay!
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Interesting claim that it's the most consistently bestselling of the back catalogue. If that's true, I wonder if it relates to the flagging of it as the 'cool' Genesis album that it's "ok to like", so it has some appeal beyond the core fanbase.
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Bloody Amazon. Can't avoid them.
...that said, I've just won an amazon gift card so at least I can offset the cost.
I love "With their last ounces of strength, the musicians wrestle an enigmatic masterpiece from themselves"
My god, the drama of it! I have an image of them slumped or lying on the floor, weak and trembling as they just about manage to slide the faders for the last time before collapsing completely. This is going to be gripping!
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the idea is to have discussions about the different versions individually, rather than mixing that all up in one thread.
there still is a general i/o threadBesides, we have an I/o album subforum where all related threads can be found
K 👍
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I'm losing track of all these PG i/o related threads, let alone the ones concerning this one track alone.
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What was Rock Around The Clock?