This is undoubtedly the Platinum Age of television. The arrival of streaming services and premium channels like HBO has altered the landscape of television. When I was a teenager I would search through the Radio Times (a TV listing magazine that covered two channels) for the few things worth watching. Now the issue is thatContinue reading “Oh, the movie never ends”
Tag Archives: 80s
You’ll be alright tonight
2012 on tour in India. After a morning in Khajuraho we got a flight to Varanasi (formerly known as Benares in Colonial days). The airport in Khajuraho only had about five flights a day, but the security made us think it was a major hub. My suitcase was now very overweight due to souvenir purchasesContinue reading “You’ll be alright tonight”
First, they take your pride
Pete Wylie was part of the Crucial Three with Ian McCulloch (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/06/18/cause-man-must-be-his-own-saviour/ ) and Julian Cope (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/09/18/exploding-out-of-a-tunnel/ ) and was the last to succeed. John Peel and David Jenson fought for this to be a hit, they just kept playing in the evening until it finally made the charts and got daytime airplay. There wasContinue reading “First, they take your pride”
There’s a shadow on the door
The Police were perceived as a boy band (by the standards of the late 1970s – three blonde men, though Andy Summers was definitely not a boy). They were too good looking for their own good. (Andy Summers, Sting & Stuart Copeland) It is odd as their first single that was a hit was aboutContinue reading “There’s a shadow on the door”
To pay the rent now to pay our share
One of the worst things that the western world has done has been the way it treated indigenous peoples across the world. In Australia children of the native inhabitants were removed from their families in the period from 1905 to 1967 and placed in “white” homes or church missions. The practice continued into the 1970sContinue reading “To pay the rent now to pay our share”
There’s a band playing on the radio
Roxy Music are two groups. There is the innovative band that was effectively co-fronted by Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno in the 1970s. Eno left over clashes with Ferry and then the group went on hiatus in 1976. Famously they always had a woman on the cover of their albums. They reunited in 1979 andContinue reading “There’s a band playing on the radio”
Ride out protectors of the realm
Unpopular opinion – Black Sabbath were a better group with Ronnie James Dio as a lead singer. I remember discussing this with Jason Sainty back in 1992 and he was sceptical. To be fair most people are. It isn’t just that I think Dio is the best metal singer ever (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/09/05/just-like-somebody-slammed-the-door/ ), I mean thisContinue reading “Ride out protectors of the realm”
In this world we’re just beginning
After the Go Gos split up for the first time (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/09/07/when-you-looked-at-me-i-shouldve-run/ ) Belinda Carlisle went solo, as lead singers do. Her first album made no impact in the UK, but the title track of her second album was a huge hit. I actually prefer the third album, Runaway Horses, as it is more consistent. CharlieContinue reading “In this world we’re just beginning”
All my powers waste away
Each year when we finished our exams at university we wanted to eat out to celebrate. The first year we went to a steak restaurant, where I complained that the knives were too blunt. To illustrate it I ran one across the palm of my hand. Some people in our group missed it, so IContinue reading “All my powers waste away”
But the heart it yearns
After the truly awful PE2 exams (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/10/16/to-reach-too-high/ .) it was weeks waiting for the results. Like PE1 the results were published in the Saturday edition of The Times, but this time you did not even have to go to London to get them on Friday night (as it was printed in London early Saturday editionsContinue reading “But the heart it yearns”
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