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    General music thread

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    Seventies Stevie is as good as it gets, Innervisions is probably my favourite.

     

    Harking back to Grace Jones, check out her version of La Vie En Rose, a wonderful Tom Moulton production that is pure Balearic sunset material.

    My Best Film: Carry On!

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    A bit of a specialist subject for me... The late seventies/early eighties Saturday nights consisted of watching Starsky & Hutch, Match Of The Day and a Carry On after Grandad went to bed...

     

    Anything pre-Cabby meant little to me, National Service, boarding schools and no Sid, until he joined the regular cast I feel the Carry Ons weren't proper Carry Ons.

     

    I always thought the best Carry Ons were the seaside postcard ones, ...Camping, Abroad, Girls and Behind and the historical epics, Up The Khyber, Dick, Cleo etc. I'll lump Behind in there as perhaps the best of the post-Sid era with Windsor Davies doing an admittedly poor man's Sid, Elke Sommer was certainly responsible for a few pre-teen awakenings. I am keeping dirty caravan and am looking for scrubbers...

     

    To this day, and to the bemusement of my much younger other half, I refer to chips as chippings.

    The Pavel Florin Supporters Club and Cricket Thread

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    TMS was on top form yesterday. For some reason that I must have missed but was probably as a result of filling the extended rain delays they were discussing collective nouns for various creatures when they mentioned that the collective noun for baboons is a flange. A dirty smoker's cough suggested that Tuffers was beginning to corpse when Aggers *innocently* asked what a flange was. They strung it out for 20 minutes with lots of giggling while Aggers played the straight man - "lots of tweets providing different definitions of the word flange" - while Tufnell kept repeating "I couldn't possibly comment". Schoolboy smut at its best.

    General politics discussion thread

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    I actually disagree that Muslims are "made into hate figures."...

     

    Some individual Muslims are made into hate figures - Abu Hamza and the like probably got more abuse than they actually deserved, and they deserved a good deal. As a rule though, any time there is any sort of badness committed in the name of Allah, the media trip over themselves to get talking heads in to proclaim Islam as a religion of peace, perverted by lunatics....

     

    ...you'd get a bit of foaming at the mouth from the Sun and the Daily Mail...

     

    While the BBC really do trip over themselves to be balanced, even to the extent of giving homeopaths, anti-vaxers and other woo merchants the same right to reply as the medical profession, I would say the media in general are not remotely balanced on their stoking of Islamophobia. To mention the Sun and the Daily Mail/MoS as if they represent a small splinter group is grossly inaccurate, they have the biggest circulation of any newspapers in this country. Add in the reporting in the rest of the Murdoch press and Desmond's grubby little rags and the print media is overwhelmingly progating all manner of right wing myths and horror stories to undermine multi cultural society in this country.

     

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    Radio Ga-Ga

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    Radio was absolutely crucial to me growing up in the Home Counties in the mid-80s. As hip hop, breaking and graffiti culture were blowing up there were only two ways to keep up with the music - Morgan Khan's Electro albums (on cassette for the boom box) and Mike Allen's radio show on Capital. I was living right on the edge of Capital's reception range so I could only pick it up upstairs and even then some nights were better than others but most shows were dubbed to a C90 and accompanied me on my Walkman for the rest of the week. I wish I still had those tapes, they get uploaded to blogs from time to time and the memories come flooding back - the Roxanne Wars, Doug E Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew's The Show being number one forever... I suspect Duane was of a similar age and geography so I expect he has similar memories before the tin foil started blocking the signals ;-)

     

    After Mike Allen I got my London hip hop from Dave Pearce on A Fresh Start To The Week (Mondays on GLR - now BBC London). Forget the Dave Pearce who bangs out dance anthems these days, this was a great show. Dave was involved with the famous Def Jam tour and I can remember they broadcast the PE concert that appears at the start of Nations Of Millions... Later Westwood got a show on Capital, way before he became a caricature, if memory serves this was late on a Friday and was preceded by another Don of broadcasting who opened my ears to reggae and dancehall for the first time - David Rodigan.

     

    This post is turning into a proper "not as good as it used to be" thread. The next big radio memory was the launch of legal Kiss FM in September 1990. I had heard all about the station but never been able to pick it up but when it launched it had an incredible roster of DJs covering the full spectrum of dance music - Graham Gold and Judge Jules dropping house, Colin Dale and Colin Faver with their techno shows, Max & Dave on the hip hop tip and the legendary Norman Jay's Musiquarium. Norman was a guy who I followed for years, through to his Giant 45 shows on Radio London, and is probably my favourite DJ of all time, such an homour to finally work with him on New Years Eve last year!

     

    On to the present day and I am a DJ myself, playing two hours of classic house one week and two hours of funk/soul/disco/anything goes the other on internet-based SS Radio. It is something I love, sharing my passion for my music in the same way all the guys I listened to over the years have done. If I may briefly shill a new radio show that I am enormously looking forward to I have to mention my mate Steve KIW (Keep It Wheel). A long time mate of mine and someone I have been desperate to get to present a show since I got involved with SS Radio's Funk & Disco channel. He is a serious collector but no soul boy snob (he is as likely to play David Bowie or Kate Bush as a James Brown track) and launches Thursday 3rd Feb 8-10 PM with Steve KIW's A-Z of Digging. I don't imagine it will be the most polished show ever but I am certain he will be pulling classic after classic out of the hat. Definitely my current recommendation of the week, goes out at funk.ssradio.com - yes he is a mate, yes it is my station but ultimately I am recommending this one purely as a fan!

    What's the worst date you've ever been on?

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    Good to know my ex is back dating again...

     

    My worst had to be the girl I had been flirting with at work for a few weeks, chatting loads about this and that before agreeing to meet up.

     

    Now I have been known to drift off in conversations from time to time but I am sure I would have remembered her mentioning her infant child. So she rocks up on a hot day with her nipper in a pram, apologising she couldn't get a babysitter. As she hadn't mentioned the baby I thought it wise to ask if there was anything else she had neglected to mention - apart from the husband banged up for GBH there wasn't much else. Kids are one thing, married and married to a psycho are whole different ball games.

    Jesse Ventura Link...now something else

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    Just in case Loki or anyone else says I've dropped out of this discussion and not answered them, I wanted a chilled vibe for my birthday today ;)

     

    Happy birthday Duane. One thing that has been troubling me is that Loki mentioned you were from Bournemouth but of course thats only where you live now. The truth is that you first became aware of the great global conspiracies when you were abducted by aliens in your old manor of Woking. You tried to alert the world to the Alien threat but it was covered up by "The Man" who merely insisted you had been in a state of "some refreshment" and passed out by the Martian Tripod.

     

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    Jon Venables back in prison

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    Whatever it is, I bet it uses the word 'tot', a word that you never see anywhere else but in shit newspapers talking about kids that are dead or molested. 'Tragic tot'

     

    I'll take your "Tot" and raise you a BBC with a Ross kicker. Double or quits on a "Broken Britain". Ever played Daily Mail bingo?

    Idiots at work

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    This seems as good a place as any to mention a cracking blog I have been following. Silent Koala not only works with an idiot, said idiot is his boss.

     

    http://goodaftermornings.blogspot.com/

     

    Enjoy it while you can, I think things are coming to a head and I am not sure Koala can take much more. My favourite recent highlight unfolds over two entries to give you a little flavour of the insanity -

     

    http://goodaftermornings.blogspot.com/2010...ccountable.html

     

    And the facepalm punchline -

     

    http://goodaftermornings.blogspot.com/2010...mmediately.html

    Idiots at work

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    I'm having to blatantly bump this, because the lads who I normally vent to aren't here and I need to tell someone, anyone, before my head starts to bleed.

     

    The idiot has struck again, twice in ten minutes. Here's the gist:

     

    On overseas communications:

    "My mate is going on honeymoon on Friday, she got married last week but they couldn't get a flight until Friday"

    "That's nice"

    "Yeah, they're going to Hawaii"

    "That's nice"

    "She's really excited, but I don't know if she'll be okay talking to people"

    "Why?"

    "Well I know some people in the hotel will speak English, but it might be difficult if she meets people because she doesn't speak Mexican"

     

    I didnt like it there, everybody spoke Mexicoan

    What have you been watching on (proper scripted) telly?

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    I have started watching Battlestar Galactica. About 7 episodes into season 1 and it had a strong start and seems to be growing into something really special. I know alot of people love it, and while just know I only just really like it I can definitely see it becoming a favorite if the episodes keep getting better and better like they have so far.

     

    It's amazing and I'm surprised there's not a thread for it on here to be honest. The final ever episode is tonight so I recommend you picking up the full box set when it's all over.

     

    http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/5446707/Bat...et/Product.html -

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