and struan does unzip his fly in the beginning of expectations, a tape glitch i
... 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: 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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+