Tuesday 30 June 2009

Major Lance ain't no Australian Army man

I ain't gonna bang on about the weather like some tight-ass Englishman so here's some fun,fun,fun for you schmo's out there in net land. So I've dug out some lip-smackin' Major Lance clips from the tube, current Thursday night fave 'Psychoville' and some tasty burlesque from Fancy Chance.



I love this guy- he looks like such a square in his high buttoned cardigans. Man this guy is like a rake! Check him out, but avoid that 'orrid version of 'Um,um,um,um.um' by the convicted criminal Wayne Fontana. I think this guy may be the only one to have put sides out on Okeh, Stax & Motown. Take away Lance (and yes that appears to be his real name!). Check out the duds in the early '70's track 'Since I lost my baby's love'





Den has been feasting his eye balls on a Thursday evening with Psychoville. You search the night high and low for a picture of Chelsea & Kelly Sue Crabtree and you can't find one so you have to settle with the cast photo...hey ho...




And last but not least the smokin' hot, inked, Fancy Chance. Yowza, yowza, yowza, if it ain't funny it ain't burlesque!



Wednesday 17 June 2009

Posh sausage sandwiches, fine coffee and out of reach platters

So, good news time; Den was out snarfin' and schlurpin' at the wonderful Rude Shipyard in Sheffield and buying up sides at the first Beat Miner's Social Club at The Washington, Fitzwilliam St (more of them tunes next week) and getting a free trip to The Lyceum to see 'Brief Encounter' whilst getting a free feed at Den Snr's...This time round: Billy Fury, Brief Encounter & Warren Speed.



So, whilst reading the cover notes of the fantastic CD 'The Rocker' which I borrowed from Den Snr (only £3 on Amazon!!!), it told me that Billy only expected to live to the age of 30 following a bout of childhood illness- jeez, he only made 43 but littered the 60's with more slabs of fantastic plastic than you can shake a stick at. I'm particularly fond of 'Bye bye', the B-side of 'I call my rose' from 1969 when Billy was the over-the-hill age of 29...Check 'em out...the version of Nothin' Shakin' makes The Beatles George Harrison-led version sound like the lily-livered pap it was!







I saw the fantastic stage version of 'Brief Encounter' on the company the other day, boy was it good! Best thing on the boards for a long time with a free glass of plonk and some nuts in the interval I was chuffed as little mint balls. See it!



So a little bit of 'boylesque' this week. I couldn't find the great Yorkshire routine by Warren Speed so the infamous chav-tastic attack will have to do. He knows how to work them knee high golf socks!  Dig it..



Saturday 6 June 2009

Technology is a bitch

It's been a week or two but I'm back with treats- blue eyed soul, Dexter & some douche-bag with fake eyebrows whose been in a long running series of terrible ad's that they show at the flicks. More soon......




Another one for the pop loving northern fans out there! Am I the only one? I never realised this was a British cover version of a Shelly Fabares track. Yeah, this ain't no down home soul track to eat grits to but according to this like Helen Shapiro she was a Jewish teenager from North London. I'm gonna have a head scratch to think up another one of these for next week...





OK, keeping with the blue eyed soul theme here's more for your tabs. Len Barry has a raft of fantastic plastic under his belt but is pretty much undervalued. This is a particularly good one found buried on the "My kind of soul" album. I snatched this up back in the day when you could get good sides in charity shops. For good measure i've also got The Young Rascals who I find it hard to warm to. Yup, there's some good sides but I don't know much about these schlubs. They were pretty hot stuff over the pond but over here...zip. Marvin Gaye pulls off a tidy version of "Groovin'" which I'll stick up some point down the road...Another one for you fact fans...The Marvelettes chose "Too many fish in the sea" over that out of date kipper that is "Where did our love go" by The Supremes...nice move gals.











As regular readers will know Den's pad is hardly tuned into what's hot on the one-eyed lodger, usually picking up on stuff way after all the hysteria and brew ha-ha has fizzled out. Case in point= Dexter. I've almost gorged down the first season and subequently stuck with Jennifer Carpenter as my wallpaper for the last few weeks before she was rudely elbowed out by long-term fave Audrey Tautou. Anyway, two episodes to go....I don't care about the ice-truck geek- I just hope "Morgan" gets out fully operational...though I think a stint back in uniform wouldn't do her any harm!




Just watched this guy's show reel- looks pretty good. Apparently this is that balding ginger bloke from the gag-free Orange TV ads...but don't let that put you off too much... I particularly dug the bit that went something like this...

"My son calls himself a DJ...I call him a loathsome p,p,piece of filth"...