01. Christmas is the time I traditionally have a go at sorting out my video material. By comparing the American race-based class system to that of India and Nazi Germany, Isabel Wilkerson makes us see a familiar evil in a different light with her latest work, Screenwriter and musician John Fusco pens a soulful anti-street fighting man song, "It Takes a Man". Christmas is the time I traditionally have a go at sorting out my video material. It was so mellow and relaxed, yet had a definite groove. “No Peace for the Wicked” is a wonderful, shambling ode to pain and heartache with Peter Perrett’s distinctive voice asking “Why do I go through these deep emotional traumas?” before answering his own question… “I’m in love with extreme mental torture...”. It’s not perfect, but until the BBC opens up its archives it’s as good as you’ll get.If you find the site useful or interesting, please consider a micro-donation to help with running costs and the purchase of obscure Eastern European magazines containing interviews and so on. It’s the full Old Grey Whistle Test performance from December 10th 1985. Oui, ça le fait moins, comme on dit. Prefab Sprout:: “Johnny Johnny” (Old Grey Whistle Test) Wednesday May 2, 2012 “Johnny Johnny” doubles as “Goodbye Lucille #1” on one of the eighties’ finest records, Steve McQueen .
But the first half isn’t so easy to find.
"As a trained fighter, one of the greatest lessons I have ever learned is to walk away from a fight without letting ego get the best of you." K-pop boy band BTS are masterful at creating a separation between their public personas and their private lives. The Old Grey Whistle Test. It’s not on youtube in this form although I did distribute the restored first half around via dimeadozen and some other places. Lots of coffee.Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Summery synths bring highlife of the 1980s on a reissue of Nkem Njoku and Ozzobia Brothers' innovative On his debut album for Mute, Berlin-based producer Nicolas Bougaïeff applies meticulous care and a deft, trained ear to each track, and the results are marvelous. After one particularly slow, grueling day I was driving home listening to the radio when a song came on that I didn’t know but was exactly what I wanted to hear at that moment. With a few days holiday stretching ahead into an apparent infinite corridor of spare time, I attempt to locate everything I have, make sure it’s backed up somewhere, and tidy up anything that’s been hanging around waiting for some restoration work.The problem with video is it takes a lot more storage than audio, and it’s very fiddly to work with, so it’s never quite as tidy as you’d like. I took note of the title and found out it was by someone named Al Stewart.
The Old Grey Whistle Test was a live music show that ran on the BBC from 1971 to 1987. I do a lot of mixing and matching to get complete versions of things in the best quality I can, and I’m forever forgetting when I’ve done things and what I’d planned to do.Anyway some of the results will end up here, and here’s the first. En français, une traduction approximative pourrait être « Le test du sifflotement (effectué) auprès des portiers en costume gris ». The second half – “When Love Breaks Down” is commercially available on a BBC compilation, so please do go and buy it if you enjoy it here.
“The OGWT was live and went out live, I remember that one. Goodbye Lucille #1 02. Old Grey Whistle Test: (Broadcast) December 12th 1985. Perfect.Obviously with someone like Thomas Dolby, I knew “She Blinded Me With Science”, but it was through his performance of “Hyperactive”, included on volume two of the Here are 10 reasons to mourn the passing of one of England's most interesting directors, Sir Alan Parker.London producer Rival Consoles uses unorthodox approaches on his latest record, In a busy and exciting month for metal, Boris arrive in rejuvenated fashion, Imperial Triumphant continue to impress with their forward-thinking black metal, and death metal masters Defeated Sanity and Lantern return with a vengeance. However there were loads of dropouts which I laboriously fixed using frame by frame repair work and some bits and pieces from other copies. The song was “Year of the Cat” and this performance on The Only Ones are best known for the punk classic “Another Girl, Another Planet”, but that wasn’t their only great song.