Sunday, January 28, 2007

Kate Bush ruined my Saturday night

I was having a very pleasant Saturday night watching crap programme after crap programme on the TV, when UKTV G2 decided to ruin it by playing this clip of Kate Bush on Top of the Pops:



This was new to me; I would imagine this was one of her final appearances on TOTP. It also made me reflect upon the Futureheads' version - despite me voting it very highly in my 2005 singles of the year (link here), it really sound a bit shite next to the original now. Maybe I'm just saying that because the Futureheads' output after that was so weak compared to the first album.

The song brings back great memories for two reasons. Around the time that Ms Bush was on TOTP singing "take my shoes off and throw them in the lake", I was witness to Grant Wickham trying and failing to throw Peter Hamberger's shoes (bizarrely, at the latter's request) from one side of the pond at Coopers' Coborn school in Upminster. For some reaason my mind always harks back to that day.

Monday, January 01, 2007

Things Can Only Get Better

This was the first record I played in 2007.



Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Miss Dy-na-mi-tee.mp3

(Actually it's great. Otherwise I would have stopped it).

UOGB website

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