David Pascoe
greasepaintpeel.bsky.social
David Pascoe
@greasepaintpeel.bsky.social
Bluesky feed for The Smell of the Greasepaint and the Sound of John Peel. Cornish amateur dramatics and John Peel mixtapes, together at last!

https://greasepaintpeel.blogspot.com/
Drop the height down a bit and it can be used with the woodland desk terminal in your banner image.
December 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Ladybird and the two mayors are the only ones whose British accents don’t sound out of place with the characters saying them.
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My biggest shock this year while listening to 1993 files for the Peel blog was discovering that The Waitresses were a “proper” group with records released either side of Christmas Wrapping. I’d always assumed that they were a one-off outfit, for just that record.
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just going to add the Philly Remix here because:
a) It’s great.
b) It appears to have been inspired by the work of Ronnie Hazelhurst.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=vo0l...
I Love You Always Forever (Philly Remix)
YouTube video by Donna Lewis - Topic
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December 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
They went to a break yesterday during Soccer Saturday and under the music, I swear could hear someone trying to insert festive chimes under the break music.
December 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It says everything about the thinking process that they reviewed the 4-1 defeat in India and decided that the real problem was that the best wicketkeeper in the world couldn’t bat with the tail.
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Is that from John Lee Hooker or the Kinks performance?
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
From That Mitchell and Webb Sound - Posh Waiter sketch

W: You can’t talk to me like this, I want to see the manager.

M: How can I possibly introduce you to the manager. You haven’t shaved, you’re not wearing a tie and you hold your knife* like a pen!

*Changed to a ladle in the TV version.
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There’s a case to be made that Gas Panic is their only 21st Century song which is anywhere near as good as their 94/95 output.
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“I think the Radio 1 Fun Computer has been at work here….”
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Quite fitting in the weekend of Tom Stoppard’s death to see a poster created which is based on the end of Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind.
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
See also Lee Blessing’s comedy, Fortinbras.
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Quite right too: everyone knows that the patron Saint of being fired and rehired instantly was Barry Fry under Stan Flashman at Barnet.
November 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I love the instrumentation on it, especially that opening keyboard riff. But the lyrics are unspeakably awful.
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
”I tell ya, Georgie, my wife’s sleeping around with everyone but me. When I try and get frisky with her she says she can’t because she’s observing a religious holiday. Yeah, Passover.”
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“I tried but I couldn’t get arrested after 1976…”
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Mirek’s political hero, pictured below:
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Nick the dummy, round up 3 friends, go to the beach and you can spend the day recreating the video to Arnold Layne.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I have a distinct memory of seeing all of them when it was first shown. Blink and you’d miss ‘em, sure, but they were definitely included in that sequence in 1995.
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM