waltydunlop
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A band with a surprisingly high level of Pink Floyd content...
Unexpected #popmaster banger of the day
Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain [HD]
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December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A band with a surprisingly high level of Pink Floyd content...
Recorded at the height of Batmania, Adam West sings "Miranda". I'd expected it to be a straight ballad, sung as seriously as possible with no BatReferences whatsoever. Only goes to show how wrong you can be. This is so ridiculously, brilliantly silly I feel like saluting it.
Adam West - Miranda
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December 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Recorded at the height of Batmania, Adam West sings "Miranda". I'd expected it to be a straight ballad, sung as seriously as possible with no BatReferences whatsoever. Only goes to show how wrong you can be. This is so ridiculously, brilliantly silly I feel like saluting it.
8th of January, 1984 - "The Glasgow Style", looking at Glaswegian artists. Presented by Peter Capaldi, no less! www.youtube.com/watch?v=54lR...
1984: "The Glasgow Style" with Peter Capaldi | Spectrum | Fashion | BBC Archive
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December 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
8th of January, 1984 - "The Glasgow Style", looking at Glaswegian artists. Presented by Peter Capaldi, no less! www.youtube.com/watch?v=54lR...
BBC Archive's YouTube channel keeps throwing up treasure. From "Look Stranger", 1st March 1972 - a profile of Dorothea Woodward-Fisher, aka "Muvva Thames". www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1F...
1972: Mother Thames - Lady of the London docks | Look Stranger | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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December 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
BBC Archive's YouTube channel keeps throwing up treasure. From "Look Stranger", 1st March 1972 - a profile of Dorothea Woodward-Fisher, aka "Muvva Thames". www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1F...
Really rather liking this cover of "See Emily Play" by The Damned. They always were very Floyd-friendly. The Captain doing sterling service here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEDK...
The Damned - See Emily Play (Visualizer) | New Album "Not Like Everybody Else" Out 23rd Janaury
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December 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Really rather liking this cover of "See Emily Play" by The Damned. They always were very Floyd-friendly. The Captain doing sterling service here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEDK...
BBC4's doing a night of Michael Aspel stuff on Sunday, including - oh yes - an episode of "Ask Aspel" from 1978 in which Kate Bush pops in and performs "Kashka From Baghdad" while she's there. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Ask Aspel with Kate Bush
Michael Aspel hosts the children's request show, with guest Kate Bush. From 1978.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
BBC4's doing a night of Michael Aspel stuff on Sunday, including - oh yes - an episode of "Ask Aspel" from 1978 in which Kate Bush pops in and performs "Kashka From Baghdad" while she's there. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
"Always known as "Tibby", Clarke attended Charterhouse School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied law for a year before departing after he was caught impersonating a proctor and booking students for being out after dark without a cap and gown"
Of course he did...
Of course he did...
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"Always known as "Tibby", Clarke attended Charterhouse School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied law for a year before departing after he was caught impersonating a proctor and booking students for being out after dark without a cap and gown"
Of course he did...
Of course he did...
T.E.B Clarke, we need you more than ever
Michael Balcon and Ealing, thou shouldst be living at this hour
Sheringham Bus Shelter siege enters ninth day. Town Council to meet today in secret. County Council bailiffs conducting night raids
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
T.E.B Clarke, we need you more than ever
Been re-reading early Slaine recently. Well, I say re-reading, it's more staring in awe at what McMahon's up to. Oh, that stuff's beautiful. However - long term 2000AD fans will know the joys of Belardinelli spotting. Here's one I missed for years - he's in the Wicker Man in "Bride of Crom".
December 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Been re-reading early Slaine recently. Well, I say re-reading, it's more staring in awe at what McMahon's up to. Oh, that stuff's beautiful. However - long term 2000AD fans will know the joys of Belardinelli spotting. Here's one I missed for years - he's in the Wicker Man in "Bride of Crom".
The only time I want to see the word "Fury" in headlines relating to Doctor Who, is if I discover they're doing a Gladiators crossover at some point. Which, given past form, I'm hopeful for.
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The only time I want to see the word "Fury" in headlines relating to Doctor Who, is if I discover they're doing a Gladiators crossover at some point. Which, given past form, I'm hopeful for.
Couldn't just sit there with "Star One" waiting, could I? Bloody hell, that was *tremendous*. One of the all-time great season cliffhangers. When Blake's 7's highs are ridiculously high. It's lows are horribly low. There's little middle ground. This one... is one of the peaks.
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Couldn't just sit there with "Star One" waiting, could I? Bloody hell, that was *tremendous*. One of the all-time great season cliffhangers. When Blake's 7's highs are ridiculously high. It's lows are horribly low. There's little middle ground. This one... is one of the peaks.
Tonight's Blake's 7 - The Keeper.
Ah well. Can't all be great, can they? On the other hand, I'd have quite liked it to be watchable. I don't think I've seen that one since the early 90s. Feels like it'll be a long, long time before I go near it again. Hey ho.
Ah well. Can't all be great, can they? On the other hand, I'd have quite liked it to be watchable. I don't think I've seen that one since the early 90s. Feels like it'll be a long, long time before I go near it again. Hey ho.
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tonight's Blake's 7 - The Keeper.
Ah well. Can't all be great, can they? On the other hand, I'd have quite liked it to be watchable. I don't think I've seen that one since the early 90s. Feels like it'll be a long, long time before I go near it again. Hey ho.
Ah well. Can't all be great, can they? On the other hand, I'd have quite liked it to be watchable. I don't think I've seen that one since the early 90s. Feels like it'll be a long, long time before I go near it again. Hey ho.
Sequence of events, from top left to bottom right - Bishop Brennan, before, during and shortly after being kicked up the arse by Ted Crilly.
I regret to inform you Evil Annie is back on his AI bullshit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Sequence of events, from top left to bottom right - Bishop Brennan, before, during and shortly after being kicked up the arse by Ted Crilly.
Super Deluxe Pisces Aquarius Capricorn and Jones incoming. Probably the most consistently great Monkees album, for my money. Stereo and Mono mixes, new 2025 Stereo mix, loads of sessions and all the other things we've come to expect and love. Oh, I'm lookng forward to this one.
December 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Super Deluxe Pisces Aquarius Capricorn and Jones incoming. Probably the most consistently great Monkees album, for my money. Stereo and Mono mixes, new 2025 Stereo mix, loads of sessions and all the other things we've come to expect and love. Oh, I'm lookng forward to this one.
Hardy perennial at The Dreadnaught in Falkirk, where it was known to us all as "It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll".
One of the all time great uses of bagpipes in rock music. Soon as it starts, it's impossible to resist.
One of the all time great uses of bagpipes in rock music. Soon as it starts, it's impossible to resist.
#MusicHistory On this day, 1975, AC/DC released "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", the 1st track from the group's 2nd album T.N.T. This was a signature song for Bon Scott. Brian Johnson does not perform it, out of respect for his predecessor.
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AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top [Official Music Video], Full HD (Remaster, Resync and Upscale)
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December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hardy perennial at The Dreadnaught in Falkirk, where it was known to us all as "It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll".
One of the all time great uses of bagpipes in rock music. Soon as it starts, it's impossible to resist.
One of the all time great uses of bagpipes in rock music. Soon as it starts, it's impossible to resist.
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The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
ZZ Top's "La Grange" - an Asian Folk Metal cover. I love this. A lot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jufj...
ZZ Top – La Grange (Asian Folk Metal Cover) | NiNi Music
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December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
ZZ Top's "La Grange" - an Asian Folk Metal cover. I love this. A lot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jufj...
Since I've just mentioned, please enjoy Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson exploding onto the stage in January 1980 and giving F.B.I a good cuff around the lugholes. I love everything about this album, and this track's the perfect opener. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_c...
F.B.I. (Live)
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December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Since I've just mentioned, please enjoy Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson exploding onto the stage in January 1980 and giving F.B.I a good cuff around the lugholes. I love everything about this album, and this track's the perfect opener. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_c...
When I get mine working, I'm going straight back to 1980 to see the shows that resulted in Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson's "Welcome To The Club". After that, it's the Grafton Arms in the 50s, there to sit with a pint or two and watch comedy gods at play. Also to trip up Graham Stark. Probably.
I've never understood people who say that if time travel were posible, they'd use it to visit famous historical figures or witness important events. I'd use it just to piss about between 1970s and '80s high streets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSo...
1970: The Serious Business of Shopping | Tuesday Documentary: The Retail Game | BBC Archive
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December 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
When I get mine working, I'm going straight back to 1980 to see the shows that resulted in Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson's "Welcome To The Club". After that, it's the Grafton Arms in the 50s, there to sit with a pint or two and watch comedy gods at play. Also to trip up Graham Stark. Probably.
I strongly suspect - and god, I regret this and will to the end of my days - that no-one will ever again ask me to load a microfilm reader so that the reel is running not only in the right direction but is also the right way up. See also microfiches.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
In the summer of ‘88, I had a job where I installed cell phones into cars. No one has needed that skill in over 30 years.
In the summer of ‘88, I had a job where I installed cell phones into cars. No one has needed that skill in over 30 years.
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I strongly suspect - and god, I regret this and will to the end of my days - that no-one will ever again ask me to load a microfilm reader so that the reel is running not only in the right direction but is also the right way up. See also microfiches.
He's going to do a video where he raps while dressed as Poochie, isn't he?
PM's spokesperson on joining TikTok: PM is "intent on reaching audiences where they are and communication is changing...TikTok is simply another way to do that and reach that wider audience"
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
He's going to do a video where he raps while dressed as Poochie, isn't he?
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In fact, the Mary Rose wreck site had only recently been rediscovered when this was being filmed.
Fortunately, the Sea Devils left our divers alone...
Fortunately, the Sea Devils left our divers alone...
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
In fact, the Mary Rose wreck site had only recently been rediscovered when this was being filmed.
Fortunately, the Sea Devils left our divers alone...
Fortunately, the Sea Devils left our divers alone...
FB reminds me that on this day in 1987, I started work at Edinburgh Napier University. I stayed there until 2015. No matter what else happens, no matter where I go, there'll be a part of me still lives there. There's probably an echo of me ghosting around Craiglockhart grounds even now.
December 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
FB reminds me that on this day in 1987, I started work at Edinburgh Napier University. I stayed there until 2015. No matter what else happens, no matter where I go, there'll be a part of me still lives there. There's probably an echo of me ghosting around Craiglockhart grounds even now.
Haven't seen this one for a while so do please enjoy this clipping promoting Public Eye, featuring Alfie Burke looking like he's fallen out of a mid 90s pop band, glaring at a particularly wayward Carole Ann Ford.
December 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Haven't seen this one for a while so do please enjoy this clipping promoting Public Eye, featuring Alfie Burke looking like he's fallen out of a mid 90s pop band, glaring at a particularly wayward Carole Ann Ford.