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Post by stuhuggett on Jan 18, 2008 0:36:32 GMT 1
OMG! ITNG!*
(*Trans: "Oh my God! 'In The Night Garden'!)
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Post by marcusjr on Jan 18, 2008 10:41:07 GMT 1
Yes my name is Igglepiggle and I am funky.
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Post by stuhuggett on May 20, 2008 23:43:32 GMT 1
'Home Again' - the documentary following Edwyn Collins' recovery from illness - is currently up on the i>Player.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 6, 2008 23:12:28 GMT 1
Hey, Doctor Who may have finished, but somewhere the BBC have started re-showing The Sarah Jane Adventures... Episode 1 is up on the i>Player now. Yay!
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 18, 2008 7:56:39 GMT 1
Listen out for Frankie Boyle's Hastings joke on last night's Mock The Week. ;D
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Post by stuhuggett on Sept 11, 2008 23:41:16 GMT 1
On the i>Player's Radio section:
15 minute Torchwood/Martha Jones special on the Large Hadron Collider!
Hmm...
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Post by carrie on Sept 12, 2008 21:38:56 GMT 1
Maybe on the wrong thread.
did anyone see south east today on thursday?
they had a feature about sid little (concrete king not bad comedian). it had clips of two films, one 'sands of time' (1949) had lovely shots of hastings (and apparently other places round these parts) and more excitingly 'a peep into the future' which is film of sid littles model of hastings town centre with underground bus system.
any idea if these films are available/on show in any way?
we really want to see 'a peep into the future'.
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Post by michael meep on Sept 14, 2008 11:00:22 GMT 1
I think they run the same film at Hastings museum
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Post by stuhuggett on Oct 24, 2008 12:50:59 GMT 1
Over on www.itv.com there's now a very select amount of prgrammes available for streaming (Harry Hil, Corrie), in the same way as with the BBC i>Player, and without having to install any software. There's also a TV Classics area of the ITV site, which has quite a bit of popular archive programming for streaming (Metal Mickey, anyone?) That'll pass some evenings... |
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Post by stuhuggett on Dec 3, 2008 1:08:36 GMT 1
The classic London To Brighton In Four Minutes film is up on the i>Player until Saturday - Always worth putting full-screen with the volume up before bed.
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 14, 2009 12:19:19 GMT 1
I didn't watch BBC4's Rough Trade night yesterday, as we got bogged down in Comic Relief (only finally shouting at the telly and turning it off when Katie Brand came on), but it's all up on the i>Player now.
Picked out Do It Yourself: The Story Of Rough Trade documentary first. Press play: Duffy. Press stop.
I suspect it's not worth watching...
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Post by Krustys Stinky Shoes on Mar 14, 2009 20:07:17 GMT 1
So wrong. Documentary's great. Performances programme also very good and starts with Young Marble Giants then the Raincoats but some duff moments (James 'Sit Down') and some curiosities (inclusion of Pulp's 'Common People' even though only because Geoff Travis and Jeanette Lee managed them, and Mazzy Star's 'Fade Into You' from 1994 even though this was released on Capitol with only their first album on Rough Trade which didn't include the aforementioned song, if I'm not mistaken) when they could have included Jonathan Richman's 'I'm a Little Dinosaur' (from a Rough Trade compilation video) and surely some Rough Trade-era Go-Betweens footage survives ('Cattle and Cain' performances certainly do, from around this time, if YouTube's anything to go by)). And some Cabaret Voltaire wouldn't have gone amiss.
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Post by Krustys Stinky Shoes on Mar 14, 2009 20:24:38 GMT 1
'Cane' obviously, not 'Cain'. Oops.
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 14, 2009 23:47:46 GMT 1
Well, I've only watched the documentary so far, which I felt started well, then fizzled out (I'd rather see the whole of the original feature they were lifting from - that one that keeps getting strip-mined by the BBC with Scritti Politti assembling Skank Bloc Bologna sleeves - whatever the show is). It was trailed at the start as being about the whole Rough Trade empire (shop, label, distribution, management) rather than just the label: hence Pulp (who it was repeatedly pointed out were signed to Island - rather at the expense of higlighting Warp Records' involvment with raising the group's profile, but still). Although it did later imply that Duffy was a Rough Trade label artist (I'm fairly sure she's not, but I've never paid enough attention to her to find out).
I guess you can criticise in two ways, either the documentary itself (no mention of Warner Brothers?!), or Rough Trade itself (are Bernard Butler and Jeanette Lee the only people in the UK to not know that Duffy came up through TV talent contests?)
Disregarding all that: anyone got a favourite artist from Rough Trade's 'lost' 90s period (when the name was basically being run as a subsidiary of One Little Indian )? Even the Black Dog Publishing book on Rough Trade glosses over these years, unless Geoff Travis hasn't actually got a file on what bands were signed then - some of us remember Carter USM & My Jealous God!
But anyway, yeah: Disco Inferno.
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 15, 2009 0:27:36 GMT 1
Ah, Krusty's right - you've got to watch the Rough Trade At The BBC show though. Or at least, most of it... No spoilers!
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Post by stuhuggett on Apr 7, 2009 16:33:33 GMT 1
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - includes Hastings diss...
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Post by marcusjr on Apr 7, 2009 18:56:21 GMT 1
Further disrespect on Mark Steel's In Town on Radio 4. On Lewes's reputation for revolutionaries and malcontents (Tom Paine, firework dissent etc).
(In the manner of a school teacher) "Lewes why can't you be like Eastbourne? Hmm? Or Hurstpierpoint?"
(Surly School kid) "What about Hastings sir?"
"You know very well that Hastings was expelled last term"
I think we are officially a national joke.
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Post by caroline on Apr 7, 2009 19:00:35 GMT 1
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle - includes Hastings diss... Hmm...much as I love Stewart Lee, last night's dig...rankled slightly. Don't know why. |
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Post by stuhuggett on Apr 7, 2009 19:41:17 GMT 1
He has, of course, been to Hastings a couple of times in recent years, so maybe he had indeed attempted to use a Scottish banknote in a Hastings grocers before. Substitute 'Hastings grocery' for 'Bexhill toyshop' and that's exactly what would have happened, veiled racism and all.
I didn't mind the Mark Steel joke anyway. It kind-of put Hastings on the same side as Lewes, rather than the Eastbourne/Hurstpierpoint one, for the purpose of the gag, I thought.
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Post by marcusjr on Apr 7, 2009 23:00:47 GMT 1
I thought the Mark Steel gag was very good. But it is a sign of the times when 2 Hastings gags are broadcast in the same week, both pre-supposing a level of knowledge of the alleged character of the town.
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Post by stuhuggett on Apr 7, 2009 23:26:10 GMT 1
('Bakery' modified to 'Grocery', as per Stewart Lee's actual joke, when we re-watched it on the i>Player just now. All the Red Button mini-episodes with Armando Iannucci are readily available on YouTube, by the way).
Of course, it's co-incidental ('cos of recording dates) that both Lee's & Steel's gags were broadcast in the same week, but I take your point. The Catherine Tate gag (as repeated on the Dave channel recently) is still funny too.
Mind you, we picked up a Sunday Observer freebie CD in a charity shop the other week, with an old 90s Jo Brand skit about Hastings on it too.
Steve Furst/Lenny Beige does it best though.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 26, 2009 23:25:33 GMT 1
Nice to see Coast back again - Lots of interesting Hastings-Brighton bits in this first episode. |
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Post by stuhuggett on Sept 16, 2009 0:29:43 GMT 1
Dave Valentine (Bexhill's next Mayor) linked to this on the i>Player: Jaguar Skills' unmissable History Of Hip Hop audio megamix. Essential, as they say on Radio 1. |
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