Sinister: Dad's Barmy

[Michael Jones]

... 70s BBC sit-com pilot set in a post-war English coastal town in
which Ian Lavender struggles to look after his increasingly senile
father, played with great sensitivity by Arthur Lowe.  

The tape's been long wiped of course, along with that Beatles/Stones
episode of "Juke Box Jury" and all the Apollo 11 coverage.  It
must've been mad working at the Beeb in those days... "quick, we need
a tape for the 2:30 Dulux/Novotel Handicap Stakes from Chepstow" -
"Oh, use the one marked 'Nixon resignation speech' - just don't leave
it running, there's some rare Andy Pandy footage at the end".

Those of us who weren't damp in anticipation on Friday night at the
PoCaff were certainly moist in other ways, as 3 times as many folks
than was truly comfortable crammed into the basement to witness live
pop action.  As perspiration dripped from the walls, Tim H and his
Visitor cohorts ripped through seven tales of Devonian desire and
longing, sounding for all the world like they'd be written the week
before, rather than a decade ago.  The Lucksmiths were a blast of
pine-scented air conditioning through a sodden cellar; on borrowed
gear, they stole our hearts.

Stopped wincing ?  Good. 

Tapes (or MDs) are available of the above, but only to folks who can
answer the following simple question: how did Stevie Trousers come by
his nickname ?  Please note that I haven't yet thought of a
sufficiently abstruse answer to this, so you may all win.  Or all
lose.  E-mail me privately with the subject heading 'Milk Pistol'.

Blake E. Carrington wrote:

> and struan does
> unzip his fly in the beginning of expectations, a tape glitch i
thought to
> be a tape glitch that isn't that at all.

It sounds too high-pitched to be a trouser-fly, unless those famous
silver pants are of unusually flimsy construction in the groinal
region.  I'd venture it's a dress-zipper - the girl's getting ready
for school after all.  This is all rather reminiscent of when the
Beatles bores got their hands on remastered Fab Four CDs in the late
80s - "ooh, you can hear Ringo's drum pedal squeak", "you can hear
John's face screw up in disgust as Paul sings 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da'". 
More of it, I say.

Not too thrilled with the vinyl "Tigermilk" though - my copy sounds a
bit sibilant (stylus could be on the way out I guess), is pressed
noticeably off-centre and comes in a slim cardboard sleeve with no
appreciable spine.  I was looking forward to owning the
LP-as-artefact almost as much as the CD-as-music with this re-issue. 
Ho-hum.

This week's edition of ThaiFacts has been postponed.  To make way for
the 3:20 Doris Lessing Steeplechase from Doncaster.

Mike.

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