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dr DEsperate on Half Decent Articles about HMHBGo »
I can’t see mention elsewhere of this rather good interview with HMHB Mk 1 from Kvatch fanzine #5, written by a Clare Wadd of Harrogate who went on to found the indie label Sarah Records. Internal evidence suggests it took place in May ’86, the band having appeared on OGWT “the other night”. In it Nigel claims that he came up with the name HMHB one Friday night on Aldershot railway station (presumably there for an away match), and that it could have been “Half Man Half anything really… Allotment or something”. He describes football as being more important than anything, nearly as good as writing on the bottom of your slipper with a biro (a year before the release of BAITDHSS), and it is revealed that his first purchase with money from the group was a video recorder. He also went on a coach trip to Emmerdale Farm, ending up in Harrogate where he saw Johnny Morris doing ‘Animal Magic’ and visited a shop called Smaugs. Anyway, read it for yourself. https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/8419018329/in/album-72157719131759728/
6 May 2024
Sylvian's Whippet on Rogation SundayGo »
It’d be a bit odd if I said “Rogation Sunday’s here again!” today, because I didn’t mark the occasion last year, on account of not knowing when it was.
But I can say it in another 55 weeks.
5 May 2024
Demibisquee on Rogation SundayGo »
Nothing to see here, if you ask me.
5 May 2024
dr DEsperate on Even More HMHB in the MediaGo »
I guessed 1969, 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins), 1989 (Mr Wet Underpants, LITWOS). Not really – I actually suggested 1999 (Prince) for Variant B, but didn’t get a shout-out for it (after two yesterday).
5 May 2024
EXXO on Even More HMHB in the MediaGo »
Well played to all who predicted entirely reasonably (though incorrectly it soon transpired), within the first couple of notes of the first song, that today’s Radmac Tea-tie-thee-tie (old jingle with the kid saying it) would be 1969 (Stooges), 1966 & All That (HMHB) and 1963 (Jonathan Richman). The rest of the world is wrong not us.
5 May 2024
Sylvian's Whippet on Rod HullGo »
Jeremiah Brandreth, who Gyles claims was his great-great-great-something-or-other, was convicted of plotting to overthrow the government in 1817. He and two fellow plotters (one of them a great-great-great-something-or-other of mine) were the last three men in the UK to be sentenced to death by beheading, although the executors had the decency to hang them first. Probably less messy.
Suspected ancestor of Rod Hull murder suspect, murdered.
4 May 2024
dr DEsperate on Ipswich TownGo »
As suggested by Exxo.
4 May 2024
Brumbiscuit on StranraerGo »
So, play-off ties against East Kilbride await on 11th May – away – and 18th May – home.
4 May 2024
Brumbiscuit on StranraerGo »
As I write, it looks like Stranraer are doomed, despite being one up against top-of-the-table and promotStenhousemuir. Clyde are spoiling the party by winning away at Elgin. The relegation play-offs offer a slender lifeline.
Not my day to do the lottery: Birmingham City relegated (deservedly, thanks Wayne); a Tory who’s done a very secretive deal with the bastard Warwickshire Hunt won the PCC election; now Stair Park could be hosting lesser league football next season.
Off on a banal tangent, ASDA’s Polish kefir is a very close substitute for the filmjölk I miss from my days in Sweden. Small consolation…
4 May 2024
Transit full of Keith on Rod HullGo »
The Curse’s ways are mysterious, if it selected Brandreth as its Minister of Doom on this occasion, best not inquire too closely.
Or, in Plank language, his two by four by ten and a half-th birthday?
3 May 2024
Alice van der meer on Bowling my left-arm occasionals againGo »
Having just attended the wake of a left handed cricketing mate who usually kept wicket, I slipped into the cricket club’s response in the book of memories that he’d been bowling his left arm occasionals. He also gave me his copy of AIWFCIADPAK. Far too soon mate far too bloody soon.
3 May 2024
OUR MARTIN ON THE OTHER HAND on Orange-Tipped ButterfliesGo »
By coincidence, one of the questions on the May 1st Morning Star, was “True or false: the male orange-tip butterfly has orange tips on its hindwings”. (And the following day had “Cowslip flowers are normally which colour?”…)
EXXO on You get the subterranean lovesick bluesGo »
Definite potential there. And a follow-up could perhaps be set a couple of decades or so later, when the protagonist realises his mistake, entitled ****ing the Wrong Grave for 23 years.
2 May 2024
Mr Trimble on You get the subterranean lovesick bluesGo »
I think this is due for a bit of creative video editing with the smash hit movie Saltburn. Film makers missed a golden opportunity there…
2 May 2024
Pirx The Purist on TallisGo »
I thought ‘Spem in Allium’ was a posh way of describing luncheon meat in garlic.
1 May 2024
Sylvian's Whippet on Your (latest) PBRs…Go »
Whoever runs that Devauden village site is quite the fan.
No chips allowed on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
@PF, pity you were like the reserve goalie who never gets on the pitch, you missed a right good laugh. The opportunity to irk the purists by ringing the bells at inappropriate moments was always, mischievously, on my mind
1 May 2024
No chips allowed on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
@JK, you and Mr Zimmerman are probably right. So it’s a, b and c then. Since 1964 Times have been a-changing, but Alphonse Karr may suggest, not always for the better.
1 May 2024
Demibisquee on TallisGo »
Hate that I know this, but the 40 part motet “Spem in Alium” is the favourite tune of Christian Grey, he of the 50 shades. I do wish the author had been a bit more kinky, and gone for the Black Lace parody version, “Sperm in Allium” featuring the Isle of Wight MILF (Ch)oral Society – their brackets.
1 May 2024
Demibisquee on Orange-Tipped ButterfliesGo »
I’m on my way back home after 2 weeks of spring on the ‘blong – the only butterflies to be seen here have been orange tipped ones and it has been delightful.
1 May 2024
erewiggo agane on “Equus On The Buses”, starring Mr EdGo »
Just 16 years late to this one but, with the line “No more the multiplex”, is Mr Blackwell summoning ghosts from Mr Betjemen’s Cockney Amorist?
“No more the Hackney Empire Shall find us in its stalls When on the limelit crooner The thankful curtain falls”
1 May 2024
dr DEsperate on BeltaneGo »
It is time for Nigel to keep his appointment with ‘The Wicker Man’.
My favourites were Birk n’ Head, the bottle snatchers.
30 April 2024
BAD LOSER on Rock FerryGo »
That brought back some nice memories JK. My grandmother worked in accounts at Higsons Head Office on Dale Street until she retired. I might have some Old Higsonians stuff in a box at my mother’s place. They used to print a fixture list with the relevant characters on before each season when you knew that the match would kick off at 3pm on the day stated, unless you were at home on Grand National Day. I can’t remember if, in later days, they included Tranmere on the fixture cards.
30 April 2024
paul f on Rock FerryGo »
…men.
30 April 2024
paul f on Rock FerryGo »
I remember maybe half a dozen of the Old Higsonians – but that’s a great link JK.
Going back to the Deaf School discussion from 8(!) years ago, I assume that quote from Du Noyer is from his excellent book, Wondrous Place. And although he might have said that Deaf School were the Liverpool band who mattered most, after The Beatles, I think he also said that he thought Liverpool’s second best band was Echo and the Bunny…
30 April 2024
dr DEsperate on PalfreyGo »
Still can’t believe I misnamed the actor who played Mr Palfrey’s assistant Mr Blair (q v) – Blair Clives matter (sorry).
30 April 2024
Steven Michael Muldoon on PalfreyGo »
A very menacing fellow Clive Wood as Blair, especially when threatening to put you in a bath of sulphuric acid. Good show.
29 April 2024
Johnny Kwango on Rock FerryGo »
Following on from Post #3 … having been a keen tegestologist since my youth in Manchester, the first I ever heard of Rock Ferry was when I picked up some Famous Old Higsonsians beer mats back in the ‘70s. Need to dig them out again, but having had a wee search on t’interweb I can see that there were a lot more designs produced than I happened to perchance upon:
It is of course ridiculously easy to find such information from the comfort of your own armchair these days, but back then it was a quite different kettle of fish (and somewhat more rewarding than just buying them on one’s mobile device).
Click, click, collection complete, what’s next on the list?
29 April 2024
The tutor with the beard and the polio on I’ll tell you about the Cuban’s eight-foot strideGo »
Does anyone else get a Smiths vibe with this one? Also thanks for the site, Chris. My brother got me into HMHB with Back in the DHSS when I was waaaaayy too young and I’ve been an ardent fan ever since. It’s amazing what you can learn from the lyrics. Managed to get an answer on pop master the other day thanks to HMHB. La belle epoque – Black is black. I don’t think I’ve ever even heard it, haha.
29 April 2024
Dumfries & Galloway on And you can thank your lucky stars that you’re notGo »
I’ve just found out that I’m living next door to the guitarist from mid-eighties Peel faves The Folk Devils. Their most famous song was, (apparently), “Bastard Son of Brian Jones”, so I wonder if Nigel pinched the title for this early HMHB classic
29 April 2024
Paul f on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
I must have been even uglier NCA, as I recall being sent by my teacher with a couple of others over to the church attached to our primary school to learn how to be an altar server, but was then never called on to perform the role at an actual Mass.
29 April 2024
Johnny kwango on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
Or perhaps, as sung by Mr. B. Dylan, option (c) you had God on your side.
28 April 2024
No chips allowed on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
Must confess that I, too, was an altar boy and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. However despite recent media scaremongering regarding the Catholic priesthood, I was never accosted, assaulted or asked to provide any personal favours for the said clergy. Leads me to the conclusion a, I was very lucky or b, I was one ugly cnut.
28 April 2024
dr DEsperate on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
A clue in today’s Azed crossword had me thinking for the first time in many years of the Sanctus Bell, a small instrument rung three times during Catholic Mass to alert the congregation (who at the time have their heads bowed) to the priest calling down the power of the Holy Spirit upon, and then elevating, the bread and wine. As my two brothers and I were altar boys, the ringing of this bell often fell to us – once literally, when my bro Chris famously (in our family) “slid on the mat and the bell went flying”. It now occurs to me that such a bell might be referred to as a Revelation (or Elevation) Bell.
28 April 2024
Cream cheese and chives on Your (latest) PBRs…Go »
Not sure if this is the right place but I have just been to see a director’s cut of King Rocker, the Stewart Lee documentary about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales. The director’s cut has been on tour but the following link takes you to the film if you haven’t already seen it. Very very good. Perhaps one day… https://kingrockerfilm.com/
27 April 2024
MULDOON LIVES! on Una StubbsGo »
She had a hip you know.
27 April 2024
dr DEsperate on PalfreyGo »
Yeah, Clive Wood, that’s who I meant.
27 April 2024
EXXO on PalfreyGo »
1980’s TV is very much Terra Incognita for me, but I though “blimey, Clive Owen is younger than me. He must have been about 20 in that series.” Clive Wood, it turns out.
27 April 2024
dr DEsperate on PalfreyGo »
As coincidence would have it, I was searching Mr Palfrey only this week – he isn’t streamable at the moment, but there’s a DVD box set available. I loved watching it 40 years ago, with Alec McGovern as the spycatcher and Clive Owen as his “more action-orientated assistant”.
27 April 2024
Johnny kwango on PalfreyGo »
No posts for Palfrey in the A to Z which I only noticed as it was in the count (0) list. Having readily discovered it was a type of equine (as I later found had been discussed elsewhere in the lyrics disentanglement thread) I knew I had heard the word before and fairly recently in another context. Turns out to have been Mr Palfrey of Westminster, which I had spotted on a look through the various offerings from the now very sadly defunct Network On Air. This in turn brought to mind A Man Called Horse, or at any rate, A Man Named After A Kind Of Horse.
27 April 2024
EXXO on Mick Exclusion ZoneGo »
Congratulations and hearty drinking to Mick’s foxy friends. The match in Hull now seems like a generational opportunity. Good luck CtSO!
26 April 2024
Demibisquee on RunrigGo »
@Jarg Alan did that wad you were inundated by have a Lancashire postmark?
I’d never heard of them until I was engaged to a person of Scottish parentage. He was a nice enough lad, but completely tone deaf. Having backed out of our ménage in 1996, thus putting paid to his dream of a wedding on a Caribbean beach (literally not even joking), I have lived happily, never even once desiring to add one of their tunes to a nostalgic Spotify playlist, to be muted immediately.
26 April 2024
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dr DEsperate on Half Decent Articles about HMHBGo »
I can’t see mention elsewhere of this rather good interview with HMHB Mk 1 from Kvatch fanzine #5, written by a Clare Wadd of Harrogate who went on to found the indie label Sarah Records. Internal evidence suggests it took place in May ’86, the band having appeared on OGWT “the other night”.
In it Nigel claims that he came up with the name HMHB one Friday night on Aldershot railway station (presumably there for an away match), and that it could have been “Half Man Half anything really… Allotment or something”.
He describes football as being more important than anything, nearly as good as writing on the bottom of your slipper with a biro (a year before the release of BAITDHSS), and it is revealed that his first purchase with money from the group was a video recorder. He also went on a coach trip to Emmerdale Farm, ending up in Harrogate where he saw Johnny Morris doing ‘Animal Magic’ and visited a shop called Smaugs.
Anyway, read it for yourself.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/8419018329/in/album-72157719131759728/
6 May 2024
Sylvian's Whippet on Rogation SundayGo »
It’d be a bit odd if I said “Rogation Sunday’s here again!” today, because I didn’t mark the occasion last year, on account of not knowing when it was.
But I can say it in another 55 weeks.
5 May 2024
Demibisquee on Rogation SundayGo »
Nothing to see here, if you ask me.
5 May 2024
dr DEsperate on Even More HMHB in the MediaGo »
I guessed 1969, 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins), 1989 (Mr Wet Underpants, LITWOS).
Not really – I actually suggested 1999 (Prince) for Variant B, but didn’t get a shout-out for it (after two yesterday).
5 May 2024
EXXO on Even More HMHB in the MediaGo »
Well played to all who predicted entirely reasonably (though incorrectly it soon transpired), within the first couple of notes of the first song, that today’s Radmac Tea-tie-thee-tie (old jingle with the kid saying it) would be 1969 (Stooges), 1966 & All That (HMHB) and 1963 (Jonathan Richman). The rest of the world is wrong not us.
5 May 2024
Sylvian's Whippet on Rod HullGo »
Jeremiah Brandreth, who Gyles claims was his great-great-great-something-or-other, was convicted of plotting to overthrow the government in 1817. He and two fellow plotters (one of them a great-great-great-something-or-other of mine) were the last three men in the UK to be sentenced to death by beheading, although the executors had the decency to hang them first. Probably less messy.
Suspected ancestor of Rod Hull murder suspect, murdered.
4 May 2024
dr DEsperate on Ipswich TownGo »
As suggested by Exxo.
4 May 2024
Brumbiscuit on StranraerGo »
So, play-off ties against East Kilbride await on 11th May – away – and 18th May – home.
4 May 2024
Brumbiscuit on StranraerGo »
As I write, it looks like Stranraer are doomed, despite being one up against top-of-the-table and promotStenhousemuir. Clyde are spoiling the party by winning away at Elgin. The relegation play-offs offer a slender lifeline.
Not my day to do the lottery: Birmingham City relegated (deservedly, thanks Wayne); a Tory who’s done a very secretive deal with the bastard Warwickshire Hunt won the PCC election; now Stair Park could be hosting lesser league football next season.
Off on a banal tangent, ASDA’s Polish kefir is a very close substitute for the filmjölk I miss from my days in Sweden. Small consolation…
4 May 2024
Transit full of Keith on Rod HullGo »
The Curse’s ways are mysterious, if it selected Brandreth as its Minister of Doom on this occasion, best not inquire too closely.
4 May 2024
MULDOON LIVES! on Rod HullGo »
Did he advise our Martin to go into the loft?
4 May 2024
Paul f on Rod HullGo »
So the curse isn’t real then?
4 May 2024
Transit full of Keith on Rod HullGo »
Rod Hull is dead – Why?
Gyles Brandreth’s fault, apparently.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/04/i-killed-a-man-gyles-brandreth-says-rod-hulls-death-was-his-fault
4 May 2024
POP-TART MARK on Conny PlankGo »
Or, in Plank language, his two by four by ten and a half-th birthday?
3 May 2024
Alice van der meer on Bowling my left-arm occasionals againGo »
Having just attended the wake of a left handed cricketing mate who usually kept wicket, I slipped into the cricket club’s response in the book of memories that he’d been bowling his left arm occasionals. He also gave me his copy of AIWFCIADPAK. Far too soon mate far too bloody soon.
3 May 2024
OUR MARTIN ON THE OTHER HAND on Orange-Tipped ButterfliesGo »
By coincidence, one of the questions on the May 1st Morning Star, was “True or false: the male orange-tip butterfly has orange tips on its hindwings”. (And the following day had “Cowslip flowers are normally which colour?”…)
3 May 2024
nige nnto on Conny PlankGo »
would have been 84 today
3 May 2024
Hendrix-tattoo on Geoff DaviesGo »
‘A global icon in a Half Man Half Buscuit hat’
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/a-global-icon-half-man-29102197
3 May 2024
EXXO on You get the subterranean lovesick bluesGo »
Definite potential there. And a follow-up could perhaps be set a couple of decades or so later, when the protagonist realises his mistake, entitled ****ing the Wrong Grave for 23 years.
2 May 2024
Mr Trimble on You get the subterranean lovesick bluesGo »
I think this is due for a bit of creative video editing with the smash hit movie Saltburn.
Film makers missed a golden opportunity there…
2 May 2024
Pirx The Purist on TallisGo »
I thought ‘Spem in Allium’ was a posh way of describing luncheon meat in garlic.
1 May 2024
Sylvian's Whippet on Your (latest) PBRs…Go »
Whoever runs that Devauden village site is quite the fan.
https://www.devauden.org.uk/events/village-fete.html
1 May 2024
No chips allowed on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
@PF, pity you were like the reserve goalie who never gets on the pitch, you missed a right good laugh. The opportunity to irk the purists by ringing the bells at inappropriate moments was always, mischievously, on my mind
1 May 2024
No chips allowed on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
@JK, you and Mr Zimmerman are probably right. So it’s a, b and c then. Since 1964 Times have been a-changing, but Alphonse Karr may suggest, not always for the better.
1 May 2024
Demibisquee on TallisGo »
Hate that I know this, but the 40 part motet “Spem in Alium” is the favourite tune of Christian Grey, he of the 50 shades.
I do wish the author had been a bit more kinky, and gone for the Black Lace parody version, “Sperm in Allium” featuring the Isle of Wight MILF (Ch)oral Society – their brackets.
1 May 2024
Demibisquee on Orange-Tipped ButterfliesGo »
I’m on my way back home after 2 weeks of spring on the ‘blong – the only butterflies to be seen here have been orange tipped ones and it has been delightful.
1 May 2024
erewiggo agane on “Equus On The Buses”, starring Mr EdGo »
Just 16 years late to this one but, with the line “No more the multiplex”, is Mr Blackwell summoning ghosts from Mr Betjemen’s Cockney Amorist?
“No more the Hackney Empire
Shall find us in its stalls
When on the limelit crooner
The thankful curtain falls”
1 May 2024
dr DEsperate on BeltaneGo »
It is time for Nigel to keep his appointment with ‘The Wicker Man’.
1 May 2024
Awkward Sean on Your (latest) PBRs…Go »
Rogation Sunday’s Here Again.
https://www.devauden.org.uk/living-in-devauden/church/church-newsletters/1161-rogation-sunday-s-here-again.html
30 April 2024
MULDOON LIVES! on Rock FerryGo »
My favourites were Birk n’ Head, the bottle snatchers.
30 April 2024
BAD LOSER on Rock FerryGo »
That brought back some nice memories JK. My grandmother worked in accounts at Higsons Head Office on Dale Street until she retired. I might have some Old Higsonians stuff in a box at my mother’s place. They used to print a fixture list with the relevant characters on before each season when you knew that the match would kick off at 3pm on the day stated, unless you were at home on Grand National Day. I can’t remember if, in later days, they included Tranmere on the fixture cards.
30 April 2024
paul f on Rock FerryGo »
…men.
30 April 2024
paul f on Rock FerryGo »
I remember maybe half a dozen of the Old Higsonians – but that’s a great link JK.
Going back to the Deaf School discussion from 8(!) years ago, I assume that quote from Du Noyer is from his excellent book, Wondrous Place. And although he might have said that Deaf School were the Liverpool band who mattered most, after The Beatles, I think he also said that he thought Liverpool’s second best band was Echo and the Bunny…
30 April 2024
dr DEsperate on PalfreyGo »
Still can’t believe I misnamed the actor who played Mr Palfrey’s assistant Mr Blair (q v) – Blair Clives matter (sorry).
30 April 2024
Steven Michael Muldoon on PalfreyGo »
A very menacing fellow Clive Wood as Blair, especially when threatening to put you in a bath of sulphuric acid. Good show.
29 April 2024
Johnny Kwango on Rock FerryGo »
Following on from Post #3 … having been a keen tegestologist since my youth in Manchester, the first I ever heard of Rock Ferry was when I picked up some Famous Old Higsonsians beer mats back in the ‘70s. Need to dig them out again, but having had a wee search on t’interweb I can see that there were a lot more designs produced than I happened to perchance upon:
https://liverpoolmiscellany.blogspot.com/2019/06/famous-old-higsonians.html
It is of course ridiculously easy to find such information from the comfort of your own armchair these days, but back then it was a quite different kettle of fish (and somewhat more rewarding than just buying them on one’s mobile device).
Click, click, collection complete, what’s next on the list?
29 April 2024
The tutor with the beard and the polio on I’ll tell you about the Cuban’s eight-foot strideGo »
Does anyone else get a Smiths vibe with this one? Also thanks for the site, Chris. My brother got me into HMHB with Back in the DHSS when I was waaaaayy too young and I’ve been an ardent fan ever since. It’s amazing what you can learn from the lyrics. Managed to get an answer on pop master the other day thanks to HMHB. La belle epoque – Black is black. I don’t think I’ve ever even heard it, haha.
29 April 2024
Dumfries & Galloway on And you can thank your lucky stars that you’re notGo »
I’ve just found out that I’m living next door to the guitarist from mid-eighties Peel faves The Folk Devils. Their most famous song was, (apparently), “Bastard Son of Brian Jones”, so I wonder if Nigel pinched the title for this early HMHB classic
29 April 2024
Paul f on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
I must have been even uglier NCA, as I recall being sent by my teacher with a couple of others over to the church attached to our primary school to learn how to be an altar server, but was then never called on to perform the role at an actual Mass.
29 April 2024
Johnny kwango on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
Or perhaps, as sung by Mr. B. Dylan, option (c) you had God on your side.
28 April 2024
No chips allowed on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
Must confess that I, too, was an altar boy and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. However despite recent media scaremongering regarding the Catholic priesthood, I was never accosted, assaulted or asked to provide any personal favours for the said clergy. Leads me to the conclusion a, I was very lucky or b, I was one ugly cnut.
28 April 2024
dr DEsperate on It might sound bogus – but it’s officialGo »
A clue in today’s Azed crossword had me thinking for the first time in many years of the Sanctus Bell, a small instrument rung three times during Catholic Mass to alert the congregation (who at the time have their heads bowed) to the priest calling down the power of the Holy Spirit upon, and then elevating, the bread and wine.
As my two brothers and I were altar boys, the ringing of this bell often fell to us – once literally, when my bro Chris famously (in our family) “slid on the mat and the bell went flying”.
It now occurs to me that such a bell might be referred to as a Revelation (or Elevation) Bell.
28 April 2024
Cream cheese and chives on Your (latest) PBRs…Go »
Not sure if this is the right place but I have just been to see a director’s cut of King Rocker, the Stewart Lee documentary about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales.
The director’s cut has been on tour but the following link takes you to the film if you haven’t already seen it. Very very good. Perhaps one day…
https://kingrockerfilm.com/
27 April 2024
MULDOON LIVES! on Una StubbsGo »
She had a hip you know.
27 April 2024
dr DEsperate on PalfreyGo »
Yeah, Clive Wood, that’s who I meant.
27 April 2024
EXXO on PalfreyGo »
1980’s TV is very much Terra Incognita for me, but I though “blimey, Clive Owen is younger than me. He must have been about 20 in that series.” Clive Wood, it turns out.
27 April 2024
dr DEsperate on PalfreyGo »
As coincidence would have it, I was searching Mr Palfrey only this week – he isn’t streamable at the moment, but there’s a DVD box set available. I loved watching it 40 years ago, with Alec McGovern as the spycatcher and Clive Owen as his “more action-orientated assistant”.
27 April 2024
Johnny kwango on PalfreyGo »
No posts for Palfrey in the A to Z which I only noticed as it was in the count (0) list. Having readily discovered it was a type of equine (as I later found had been discussed elsewhere in the lyrics disentanglement thread) I knew I had heard the word before and fairly recently in another context. Turns out to have been Mr Palfrey of Westminster, which I had spotted on a look through the various offerings from the now very sadly defunct Network On Air. This in turn brought to mind A Man Called Horse, or at any rate, A Man Named After A Kind Of Horse.
27 April 2024
EXXO on Mick Exclusion ZoneGo »
Congratulations and hearty drinking to Mick’s foxy friends. The match in Hull now seems like a generational opportunity. Good luck CtSO!
26 April 2024
Demibisquee on RunrigGo »
@Jarg Alan did that wad you were inundated by have a Lancashire postmark?
I’d never heard of them until I was engaged to a person of Scottish parentage. He was a nice enough lad, but completely tone deaf. Having backed out of our ménage in 1996, thus putting paid to his dream of a wedding on a Caribbean beach (literally not even joking), I have lived happily, never even once desiring to add one of their tunes to a nostalgic Spotify playlist, to be muted immediately.
26 April 2024