A New Year's Message to Britain. From Hughie Green.

Jameson Tonight

BathTubShitter Brutal Kitty Cat Dance

What says 'Holiday Season' more than a couple having a romantic dance to a track performed by the Japanese group Bathtub Shitter?



Nothing. Or as the lady says at 1.00ish... "Yahtzee!"

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas 'Mounders

Enjoy some Muggy Bonehead...

Merry Christmas

Not Wallace & Gromit

So what were your favourite BBC Christmas idents?

Surely 1980 has to be a classic...

This is the age.....of the train!

Memories

How I wish I could find more than a 30" trailer for this



Channel 4 sitcom about a radio presenter.. Kit Curran. King of the Airwaves he was.

Memories

Protect and Survive Ringtone

From Nick Packham online:
http://nickpackhamonline.wordpress.com/the-cold-war/protect-and-survive-ringtone/

When Radio Reporters ATTACK! or Hughie Green

Think Sachsgate and huge controversy in radio is new?

Feast your ears on this.



"Radio Trent has withdrawn an invitation to Television Star Hughie Green to appear on the station this afternoon... after an incident at the Cavendish Woodhouse Furniture Store in Nottingham..."

Ouch! Bags at dawn in Stereo!

Hughie Green - host of the 'recently cancelled' Opportunity Knocks 'stepping to' a reporter John Darby. By controversially claiming he's from Radio Nottingham. And calling him "Four-eyes". It seems. When Canadians Attack. See if you can detect the Hugh-ster on the perv. ughghghghghgh.

This is what they should bring back.



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More Matthew Butler on TISWAS. Brick In The Wall.

As tiswasonline states...

"Matthew Butler's second appearance on Tiswas didn't feature a rabbit costume or Bright Eyes. This time he tackled Pink Floyd's Brick In The Wall, while dressed in some kind of punk/hippy outfit. I question the wisdom of whichever ATV staffer thought he should wave around a real hammer..."

Sing along now.

"We don't need no education...
We don't need no thought control."

CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE - FREIHEIT - KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE

Well. Not exactly. Keeping the Dream Alive. "It reached the top 15". This IS the sound of Christmas. Though I don't think it was ever intended as such. Never knew they are actually known as Münchener Freiheit. And not to be confused with the Munich U-Bahn station of the same name. Ah, wikipedia.



But don't watch that. Watch this! The mound goes all austro... germanic...

...Followed by... the news.






MORE HERE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münchener_Freiheit

BUY THE MP3 (cough... in German) HERE!


Tomorrow. Poland! No. FALCO! oh, done 'im.


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Charlie Bit My Finger... apologies

Huge apologies for the inclusion of this.

I know Internet Phenomenae have no place on 'the mound'.

And that I'm behind the curve on this. Just wanted to put Harry, and Charlie, stuff here.



And there's more.

Here's THAMES VALLEY TONIGHT with Wesley Smith and Mary Green



AND THE INEVITABLE REMAKES

"My sister and i being bored and remaking the video. Thanks for all the positive comments Hope you enjoy it! Oh & for those that were wondering we're mexican."




"Charlie bit me" 15 years later




"Charlie bit me an' tha' really hurt"
50 years later




"Charlie bit me" the hiphop remix from therotherhamboy



And Austria:
Ein 56-Sekunden-Clip mit den Titel "Charlie Bit My Finger" ist derzeit der Hit im Internet: Schon 65 Millionen Menschen haben dabei zugesehen, wie der zweijährige Charlie Davies-Carr seinem fünfjährigen Bruder Harry in den Finger beißt – und unglaublich keck lacht. Obwohl es sich genau genommen „nur“ um das witzige Heimvideo eines stolzen Vaters handelt, ist der Clip inzwischen das zwölftpopulärste Internet-Video aller Zeiten. Auf der ganzen Welt haben sich sogar Fanclubs formiert, die eigene „Charlie Bit My Finger“-Videos drehen. Bei uns kannst du dir das Video - oben ins Bild klicken! - sowie eine Auswahl der besten "Remakes" (siehe unten) ansehen!
http://www.krone.at/krone/S2/object_id__124729/hxcms/

And Brazil:
Um vídeo de duas crianças colocado pelo pai delas no site YouTube para que pudesse ser visto pelo padrinho que mora em outro país teve mais de 65 milhões de acessos.
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Tecnologia/0,,MUL911862-6174,00-VIDEO+DE+BEBE+MORDENDO+IRMAO+VIRA+FENOMENO+NO+YOUTUBE.html

And Daily Telegraph:
Parents Howard and Shelley Howard Davies-Carr, from Buckinghamshire, said that they had been overwhelmed by the popularity of the video, which they posted in March 2007.
"To say the response has been insane is not even close. My sons are now almost legendary. People want their autographs – it's just crazy," said Mr Davies-Carr, an IT consultant.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3564392/Finger-biting-brothers-become-YouTube-hit.html


And the OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE PAGE (according to their dad's youtube channel, HDCYT)
http://www.zazzle.com/charlie+bit+gifts

NO! IT'S... BA. BAH BAH! CHOO CHOO! BADDA BADDDADDA! From the top.

This is a good day at work.

Behind the scenes of Brian Wilson recording the Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds".

Wouldn't It Be Nice. If the Harps and Accordians can get it right.



Sing along now!

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older - then we wouldn't have to wait so long.
And wouldn't it be nice to live together - in the kind of world where we belong.
You know it's gonna make it that much better - when we can say goodnight and stay together.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.
Ooooohhhhhhh - baaa baaa baaaooooooooohhhhhh.
Oh happy times together we've been spending.
I wish that every kiss was never ending.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

Maybe if, we hope and pray and think and wish it might come true.
Run run runooooh.
Baby then, there wouldn't be a single day we couldn't do.
We could be married. And then we'd be happy.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

You know it seems the more we talk about it.
It only seems to make it worse to live without it.
But lets talk about it.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

"According to Carl Wilson, it took a week to record the group's vocals to Brian's satisfaction"

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The Krypton Factor's coming back

To celebrate, here's the greatest game they ever played..



Love the apology to viewers in the Channel Islands..

Wasssup... 8 years on...

Could be 16 years now for all I know -- so late at coming to this, you've probably seen it already.

It opens with the original ad... then... some more...

Train porn

I got one of these trains to work this morning. I get one most mornings. It's weird to think they were built more than thirty years ago by men in NHS specs.




(by the way, sorry if you're not interested in trains and stuff)