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Re: OFF-TOPIC NEW YEAR'S THREAD
"STUK" <BLOODYBRIGAND@TREBEK.COM> wrote in
news:JrmdnX7X0_6XrVnenZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@golden.net:
> I was in the North East and though I know of that station, we listened
> to Radio 1 and a local station called Metro 261 even Radio Luxembourg
> was around too. Radio 1 was rather poppy but 261 had the more eclectic
> mix. 261 also first played the demo recording of a local Newcastle
> band, you may have heard of them Dire Straits? ;^)
Radio Caroline played the same recording. Radio Caroline was a pirate
station on a ship in the North Sea. A friend from Liverpool told me that
the ship finally burned under suspicious circumstances. He said it was
believed the government had something to do with it. Yeah, like that has
ever happened anywhere. ;0).
> Radio 1 used to announce the top 10 at lunchtime on Thursdays and I
> used to
> hear it and hightail it to school just in time. All my classmates
> would have to wait till the Top of the Pops that night to hear it
> unless I took pity on them and told them the new number 1.
>
> Top of the Pops was fairly lame but you got to see a few great acts
> but usually lip syncing. MTV gets most of the credit for "the video"
> but videos were the way
> the better bands wouldn't have to lower themselves to appear on the
> cheesey Top of the Pops program yet still realizing that TotP was very
> important to getting sales.
Yeah, I remember some of the first videos from there. George Harrison comes
to mind.
>
> I saw Garry Numan ( Tubeway Army) premiere with "Are Friends Electric"
> on TotP. He is apparently one of Marilyn Mansons biggest influences
> but I won't hold that against him!
>
> The best music show in England then was "The Old Gray Whistle Test".
> It showed actual live bands in serious studio setting. I was lucky to
> see the Police, Tom Robinson Band and the Boomtown Rats among the few
> I recall.
I remember this show also. I remember some cute blond was one of the hosts.
> It was great time musically and I was lucky to get away from the
> North American music scene those two years to experience the post punk
> "New Wave" Alternative genres at a critical age. Luckily when I moved
> back to Canada the new music started to become more widespread as the
> 80's hit.
Here's one for you...
Ian Drury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
--
Larry S.
TS 52
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