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Welsh Megaman

I preferred his vertically challenged tribute act, Midget Ure.

I’ll see myself out.

Snake Plisken

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

I preferred his vertically challenged tribute act, Midget Ure.

I’ll see myself out.

Lol! I’d say he was delighted to get to number one after Vienna was kept off the top spot by Joe Dolce’s “Shaddap you face”

Skid X

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Lol! I’d say he was delighted to get to number one after Vienna was kept off the top spot by Joe Dolce’s “Shaddap you face”

2 minutes in "For two hundred thousand million pounds, and the royalties from your fantastic single Shaddup ya Face, then these pics need never see the light of day! "

Skid X

New on Netflix today is 'Grace Jones - Bloodlight and Bami', which is a documentary film including footage of her concert in Dublin's Olympia a few years ago

Bloodlight And Bami – Jamaican patois for the red light of a recording studio and bread – follows the incomparable Grace Jones across the globe as she visits family in Jamaica, appears on French television, and performs in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre. Despite Jones’s varied history as actress, model, disco legend, and pop culture icon, rather than create a traditional documentary narrative recounting her past achievements using archive footage and talking heads, director Sophie Fiennes instead focuses firmly on present-day Jones, taking a fly-on-the-wall approach to her subject.

While the access gained grants Fiennes moments such as Jones discussing the brutal beatings she endured as a child, and shows her softer side as a mother, daughter, and aunt, she retains the air of mystery and severity cultivated throughout her career, and is still capable of being the full-on diva fans know and love.

https://ifi.ie/film/grace-jones-bloodlight-and-bami/

Welsh Megaman

Good ole SHAKY

The weekend starts RIGHT NOW!

Welsh Megaman

The ‘Take On Me’ video still looks amazing, 33 ( :O ) years on.

Jordan 199

Take On Me. Reminds me of the Sleeping Dogs videogame.

Skid X

Four years later "Elton, it's me, Nikita - the fall of communism means we can be together, now and forever !"

Elton "Eh, hello Nikita - have you met David Furnish? ..."

Mike Litoris

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Good ole SHAKY

The weekend starts RIGHT NOW!

Hehehe. Nice!


Level 42 - Something about you on the Breakers there. Such a good song.

Welsh Megaman

‘Slave To The Rhythm’.

Greatest pop record of the 80’s, hands down.

Mike Litoris

I'm partial to a bit of Trapped too! Great memories of my youth.

Welsh Megaman

Mike Litoris wrote: »

I'm partial to a bit of Trapped too! Great memories of my youth.

The Colonel trapped in his valet uniform.

Welsh Megaman

‘St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion)’ at number six.

*air-grabs*

*beats chest*

*turns wind machine to full blast*

*dozen more air-grabs*

Skid X

I like that St Elmo's Fire video where John Parr goes around each of the cast to tell them to keep their chins up.

I always confuse the Colonel's Trapped with Alexander O'Neal's Criticize

Jordan 199

John Parr. Apparently he likes to finish a golf game on level parr.

Mike Litoris

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

The Colonel trapped in his valet uniform.

Man, back then I thought his jacket was fkin cool!

Skid X

I think that's my least favourite of the 80s Power of Love songs

Mike Litoris

Skid X wrote: »

I think that's my least favourite of the 80s Power of Love songs

Yeah, never liked it either. The aul wan loved it. It's an aul wans song!


Gambler is poxy as well.

Welsh Megaman

Jordan 199 wrote: »

John Parr. Apparently he likes to finish a golf game on level parr.

Would you believe he released an album called ‘Under Parr’?

:O

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Parr

Snake Plisken

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

‘Slave To The Rhythm’.

Greatest pop record of the 80’s, hands down.

Fantastic production from Trevor Horn particularly love the 12” version

Gizmo55

Fab 5 Freddy meeting Debbie Harry was a huge deal.

Welsh Megaman

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Fantastic production from Trevor Horn particularly love the 12” version

Agreed - ZTT’s finest hour

Without a doubt, Horn wanted to create the Cecil B De Mille of pop records - from Grace’s perfomance, to having the best session musicians in the world, with one of the best studios in the world.

Can’t believe it only reached number twelve. :O

Ol' Donie

It's strange watching a music programme when you've literally never heard of anyone in it at all till they mentioned James Brown there a minute ago.

Ol' Donie

I've seen enough to wish Nigeria the best of luck qualifying from their world cup group.

Snake Plisken

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Agreed - ZTT’s finest hour

Without a doubt, Horn wanted to create the Cecil B De Mille of pop records - from Grace’s perfomance, to having the best session musicians in the world, with one of the best studios in the world.

Can’t believe it only reached number twelve. :O

Highly recommend ABC’s Lexicon of Love fantastic lush production from Trevor Horn and brilliant orchestrations from fellow Art of Noise member Anne Dudley It was the first Album I bought on cassette back in 1982 from Woolworths

Welsh Megaman

If you watch only one documentary this year where Glen Matlock’s flatmate is interviewed, make it this one!

AndrewJRenko

sligojoek wrote: »

I proceeded to tell her about a gig i'd been recently at featuring Tommy Ramone and his wife doing bluegrass.

I don't care what they were smoking, what was the music like?

Skid X

Hello, lets have a look at the listings for this week - well, if you consider The Irish Post Music Awards (co-presented by Malachi Cush from Fame Academy) a big thing then you are in luck. Bits and pieces elsewhere, The Arctic Monkeys doing a low profile BBC set and some new shows on Sky Arts. There was a story recently that Sky Arts might go free to air soon which would be nice https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057878096 , anyway here's the shows ...



Thursday
9.30am Discovering Music - The Beach Boys (Sky Arts)

2.30pm Discovering Music - The Monkees (Sky Arts)

7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1985 - October 31st (BBC4)
Simon Bates and Janice Long present the October 31 edition, featuring Feargal Sharkey, Elton John, King, Jennifer Rush and Shakin' Stevens https://www.thetvdb.com/series/top-of-the-pops-uk/episodes/5858006

9.30pm The Irish Post Music Awards (TG4) New!
Coverage of the event from the INEC Killarney in Co Kerry, featuring performances by Una Healy, Phil Coulter, the Blizzards and Beoga. Presented by Sile Seoige and Malachi Cush

11.15pm Film Prince - Sign O The Times (Sky Arts)
Concert film by the musician featuring highlights from gigs in Rotterdam and Antwerp on his 1987 European tour, as well as footage shot at his Paisley Park studio in Minnesota. Including performances of Sign o' the Times, I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man and If I Was Your Girlfriend, and the promo video for U Got the Look, featuring Sheena Easton

12.45am Sid Vicious - Who Killed Nancy? (Sky Arts)
A look at the controversy surrounding the death of Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and whose body was found in a New York hotel room in 1978

2.45am Manic Street Preachers - Escape From History (Sky Arts)
Documentary telling the story of the band's acclaimed 1996 album Everything Must Go, which was recorded in the wake of the disappearance of lyricist and guitarist Richey Edwards



Friday
2.30pm Discovering Music - Peter Gabriel (Sky Arts)

7pm Live From The Artists' Den - Damien Rice (Sky Arts)
Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice performs at the Greenpoint Loft in Brooklyn, featuring material from his 2014 album My Favourite Faded Fantasy

7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1985 - November 7th (BBC4)
Peter Powell and Steve Wright introduce performances by A-ha, Far Corporation, Level 42, UB40 and Jennifer Rush. First aired on 7 November https://www.thetvdb.com/series/top-of-the-pops-uk/episodes/5858007

8pm & 1.30am Top Of The Pops Big Hits 1978 (BBC4)
A selection of classic songs from 1978, a year in which punk music and new wave rebellion co-existed with pop, disco, soul, reggae and prog rock. Featuring appearances on the show by Ian Dury, Elvis Costello, Blondie, Bob Marley, the Boomtown Rats, Kate Bush, Sham 69, Brotherhood of Man, Dan Hill, Boney M, 10cc and Manfred Mann's Earth Band

8pm Video Killed The Radio Star - Aretha Franklin (Sky Arts)

8.30pm Discovering Music - Stevie Wonder (Sky Arts)

9pm Black Music Legends Of The 1980s - Prince (BBC4)
Prince: A Purple Reign Profile of the enigmatic American musician, who rose to fame in the 1980s with hits including 1999, Kiss and Raspberry Beret. As well as achieving significant commercial success around the world, he won critical acclaim for his adventurous, genre-blurring albums, such as Sign O' the Times and Around the World in a Day - while also making headlines for his sexually explicit lyrics and stage shows, as well as his legal battle to retain control of his name and music. Featuring contributions by guitarist Dez Dickerson, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, soul singer Beverley Knight and Paisley Park label president Alan Leeds

9pm & 1am Hip Hop Evolution (Sky Arts)
Ep 3/4 A look at how Run-DMC and Def Jam bridged the gap between rock and rap, while innovators like Marley Marl and Rakim ushered in a new sound and Public Enemy rose to prominence

10pm & 2.30am Africa - A Journey Into Music (BBC4)
Ep2/3 South Africa Rita Ray heads to South Africa, home to distinctive vocal harmonies that have travelled all over the world. Visiting Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, she discovers the songs and harmonies that have given the country a voice abroad. Rita meets social campaigner Denis Goldberg, who was imprisoned as part of the anti-apartheid movement, Sipho Mabuse, a giant of the nation's music, Cape Town rapper Kanyi Mavi, singer and innovator Thandiswa Mazwai and Madosini Latozi Mpahleni, aka Madosini - a cultural icon who has performed at Womad festival

10pm & 2am The Agony & The Ecstasy (Sky Arts)
Ep 2/3 Party People v The Establishment A look at how the people who pioneered rave culture and the dance music scene took on the establishment, with the government creating the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

11pm When Pop Went Epic - The Crazy World Of The Concept Album (BBC4)
Rick Wakeman examines the roots of the concept album, a musical format usually based around a structured narrative, though sometimes tied together by a loose theme. He unpacks some of the most ambitious - and ridiculous - projects, from Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads to Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes. Other works considered include the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, George Clinton's Mothership Connection, The Wall by Pink Floyd and the Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

11pm BST Hyde Park Concerts 2016 (Sky Arts)
Highlights of the British Summer Time events from July, 2016 featuring performances by Florence and the Machine, Take That, Mumford & Sons, Carole King and Stevie Wonder

11.05pm Arctic Monkeys Live at the BBC (BBC2) New!
The rock band perform live at the Maida Vale studios, with tracks from their new album Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino. Plus, classics from their back catalogue of anthems
https://ihouseu.com/news/bbc-radio-1-bring-arctic-monkeys-live-bbc.html

12.30am Oh! You Pretty Things: The Story Of Music and Fashion (BBC4)
Ep 3/3 Image The final episode of the three-part documentary series focuses on the 1980s - a decade in which image became everything thanks to the arrival of the music video. From Dexys Midnight Runners in their dungarees to the flamboyant New Romantics of London's Blitz Club and the band with the look that typified much of the decade - Duran Duran. Plus, a look at the emerging popularity of urban street wear, led by Jazzie B and Soul II Soul. Narrated by Lauren Laverne. Last in the series

3am Rock and Roll: Anger (Sky Arts)
Ep 8/10 Ice-T, Rage Against the Machine, Kasabian, Beth Ditto, Henry Rollins and Public Enemy's Chuck D are among the artists offering their views on anger within music and how rage and rebellion helped shape the genre



Saturday
3pm Phil Collins: Going Back (Sky Arts)
Concert of Motown favourites performed by Phil Collins

5pm BST Hyde Park Concerts 2016 (Sky Arts)
Highlights of the British Summer Time events from July, featuring performances by Florence and the Machine, Take That, Mumford & Sons, Carole King and Stevie Wonder

7pm The Summer Of Love (Sky Arts)
The story of the cultural, social and political changes that were brought about following the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco

7pm Boogie Fever: TOTP2 Disco Special (Yesterday)

8pm The Stones In The Park (Sky Arts)
The Rolling Stones' 1969 Hyde Park concert dedicated to the memory of the band's guitarist Brian Jones, who had died two days previously

9pm & 2.10am Come Together: The Rise Of The Festival (Sky Arts) New!
Documentary examining the evolution of the music festival, from Newport, Monterey Pop, Woodstock and Isle of Wight in the 1960s to modern events such as Glastonbury and Coachella
https://www.sky.com/watch/channel/sky-arts/come-together

9pm TOTP2 80s Special (Yesterday)

10.30pm Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival (Sky Arts)
The musician's last-ever UK performance, at East Afton Farm on the Isle of Wight in August 1970, just 18 days before his death. The show features classic hits including Voodoo Chile, All Along the Watchtower and In from the Storm

10.45pm Later ... with Jools Holland (BBC2 NI)
Extended version of the music programme. Christine & the Queens performs Girlfriend, taken from her highly anticipated second album. Plus, jazz saxophonist and band leader Kamasi Washington makes his debut on the show, and Texan multi-instrumentalist St Vincent showcases tracks from her fifth studio album Masseduction. There are also performances by R&B soul singer Daniel Caesar and British singer-songwriter Daniel Blumberg

11pm Top Of The Pops 1985 - October 31st (BBC4)
As Thursday

11.10pm A Celtic Awakening (TG4)
Faith Marion Robinson performs a selection of Irish songs in a concert recorded at the Masonic Temple Chapel in Detroit, Michigan, and on location in Ireland. The vocalist offers renditions of ballads and tunes including The Fields of Athenry, The Town I Loved So Well and She Moved Through the Fair

11.30pm Top Of The Pops 1985 - November 7th (BBC4)
As Friday

Midnight Big In America: British Hits in the USA (Sky Arts)
Compilation of British rock 'n' roll acts in performance, featuring songs that crossed over to the US charts. From the Dave Clark Five to Coldplay, the Brits have rocked America and sometimes even done better across the pond than on home soil. A Flock of Seagulls, Supertramp and Bush also feature, alongside darker British global exports like Black Sabbath and the Cure

12.15am Rock and Roll: Excess (Sky Arts)
Ep 9/10 A look at the extremes of rock 'n' roll, from the loudest and wildest bands to the biggest concerts. Featuring contributions by Tony Visconti, Rick Wakeman and Martin Kemp

1.45am Anarchy on Thames (Sky Arts)
Documentary about Sex Pistols' infamous appearance Bill Grundy's TV show, featuring contributions by then bassist Glen Matlock, publicist Eric Hall and studio director Tony Billey

2.20am Adele in New York City (RTE2)



Sunday
9pm The Us Festival 1982: The Us Generation (Sky Arts)New!
The story of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's 1982 music festival in California headlined by the world's biggest acts including The Police and Fleetwood Mac

11.15pm Santana Greatest Hits Live At Montreux 2011 (Sky Arts)
Carlos Santana and his band play classics including Black Magic Woman and Oye Coma Va at the 2011 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland

1.30am David Bowie - The Last Five Years (RTE2)
A portrait of David Bowie, told by the people who knew him best - his friends and artistic collaborators. It also takes a detailed look at his last albums The Next Day and Blackstar, and his play Lazarus. Through the prism of this last work, the film shows how, in his final five years, Bowie not only began producing music again but returned to the core and defining themes of his career. Among the contributors are Tony Visconti, Gail Ann Dorsey, Toni Basil and Michael C Hall

1.55am Hip Hop Evolution (Sky Arts)
As Friday






RTE2 putting Bowie on at 1.30am there to give all their other shows a chance. News this week that the GAA's Joe Brolly once did security at a Public Enemy gig in Trinity, which Sky Arts should consider for their next Urban Myths series. They've already had a Public Enemy story but nothing like this https://theblackpoolsentinel.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/public-enemy-30-years-on/


That's about it, hopefully there'll be more coming soon

I reckon the best Tina Turner Lookalike Dance Off of The Week might be found in Limmy's Show (GOLD, Friday Night 12.55am)

chicorytip

Snake Plisken wrote:

Fantastic production from Trevor Horn particularly love the 12†version

Stephen Lipson was the producer of that particular record. Horn is overrated. He was trying to reproduce the Pink Floyd sound using eighties technology but never really succeeded.

Welsh Megaman

From ‘Teenage Kicks’ to ‘A Good Heart’

Feargal really did jump the Shark(ey). :cool: