Imelda

There's a feeling of a South Sea Bubble about him... Give it a couple of years.

There seems to be a quite a bit of stuff bubbling under in the stand-up world when it comes to sex pests - there's been a few allusions to it recently. Thing is, it seems a number of perpatrators are in a position power within the industry (and a dodgy industry it is, what with the old Shappi Clause and all that). Dollars to donuts it'll be mainly the holier-than-thou wokesters that get collared when it eventually spills out...

Assumed this must have been a typo but yeah, only 42! Seems like there must be a story behind that - it's a decent track. Can't just be 'because punk'...

Those epilepsy-inducing high-speed cuts to the girls tits are something I won't forget in a hurry, cheers

Most wallys on Youtube doing covers of songs are terrible, but this guy nails a heavy metal version of Popcorn - a joy when it fully kicks in. Immense fretwanking.

Given the problems they've got with endemic corruption, weak governance and a marauding Islamic militia in the north, this could well be the next failed state unless the French troops there intervene.

The family of goalkeeping hero Dai Davies have asked people to share memories and stories after he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. He is now at Nightingale Hospice in Wrexham The 72-year-old from Llangollen played for Swansea, Everton, Wrexham, Tranmere Rovers and Bangor City and made 52 appearances for the Wales national football team between 1969 and 1987. https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/former-wales-everton-goalkeeper-diagnosed-18779850 Sounds like the poor fellow might not even last beyond this month.

They aren't the issue per se - Cowell's stuff isn't about talent anymore, it's about making Simon Cowell richer. Talent be damned.

Braindead TV for braindead people.

Dropping General Jaruzelski a few years ago was inexplicable - he went the following year. It was a miracle he'd made it that far, was perma hospitalised and had impending death written all over him.

Bugger me, he looks like Mr Tumble!

As an aside, I came across this site via the Popbitch weekly email. It's charting how music fades from memory (and, by extension, which newer music is known amongst the generations above). Say when you were born, pick a decade and listen to 10 snippets of music, and click on how much you recognise the song from 4 options. You can take as many goes as you want and test yourself from the 60's to 2000's. It's Billboard 100 stuff so US-centric, but plenty of fun and it's interesting to see just how much awful shit you know and recognise, whether you like it or not. https://pudding.cool/2020/04/music-challenge/

And 'front' they did, having just watched this! A quick note of ongoing thanks for putting this together, I'm having a great time delving into a load of stuff that's either new to me or is a lovely rediscovery from my early teenage years with Classic Gold on the background radio as I fell asleep. Top Deathlisting.

Did the vocals for my favourite Primal Scream track, many happy memories from Aberystwyth Uni back in 1998 when this was a regular on my stereo and I had a reputation for being 'Mr Indie'. Never quite converted the unwashed masses at IndieSoc to it though. Unlike Northside 56, jesus that's no age now is it.

31 July

Genuinely thought she'd hang on for at least another year. RIP, trailblazer!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/30/johnny-mandel-oscar-winning-composer-mash-theme-dies-aged-94 Johnny Mandel, the Oscar and Grammy-winning composer behind the theme from M*A*S*H and more, has died aged 94. Details of his death have not been released. Not suicide...surely??

What a fuckin state, looks like an oompa loopmpah doing a quasimodo impression. Who survives longest - Pele, Maradona or Gazza?

Sad to see him go. Will watch Alien later! Ash to ashes.

She was conspicuously absent doing any live broadcast interviews during VE Day celebrations despite promises beforehand. I thought then she must be closer to the exit door than we'd imagined (I assumed she'd go on for at least another year before that)

Watched it last night. His voice has completely changed (he sounds almost Oxfordshire farmer), he looks 70 and stutters a fair bit. He also has quite the thousand yard stare at times. Still necking the booze but the programme made out at the end that he's successfully reducing his consumption. A few years ago he went cold turkey and had a withdrawal seizure, which may go some way to explaining the sentence above. It's desperately sad. His very long-term partner has the pateince of a saint, can't be easy to live with. I'm guessing all the money TS made in the late 80's and early 90's disappeared up his bugle, as they live in what looks like a fairly small rented house. You'd assume he'd have had 7 figures coming in back then, he was never off the telly. It's worth a watch.

One missed from last year Tributes have been paid to ‘brave’ former Bristol City midfielder Jon Economou, who has died after a six-year battle with cancer. Economou, who played more than 70 times for the Robins in the 1980s,died on October 11, a fortnight shy of his 58th birthday. https://www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/tributes-pour-in-for-jon-economou-1-6337658

Really sad. Loved the band and Computerworld is one of all time great albums. He had quite an offbeat sense of humour, it was Ralf who really pushed the aloof side of Kraftwerk I think.

The first of many offers to get us going back abroad and keeping the airlines and airports going - https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/may/05/sicily-to-subsidise-post-covid-holidays-as-italy-considers-reopening-to-tourists Current plans include subsidising visitors’ accommodation costs, offering one night of a three-night trip for free, or two nights of a six-day trip, as well as vouchers for cultural and heritage activities. The plans were detailed in an interview with Sicily’s tourism director, Manlio Messina, on Italian news show Mattino Cinque. There have been reports that the funding may also be used towards paying for up to half of the cost of flights, but this has not yet been confirmed. Assuming that a) they go through with it and b) I can get out of the UK while it applies, I'm in...

Millie Small My Boy Lollipop, which reached number two in both the US and the UK in 1964. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52557332