Wednesday, 29 June 2011

The Alternative TOTP Canon #19: Junior Murvin - Police And Thieves

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Proof that even on the smallest stages with a close viewing audience, one person on their own on the TOTP stage can be a very lonely existen...
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Monday, 27 June 2011

The Alternative TOTP Canon #18: Marillion - Lavender

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He'd be miming anyway! He's led the audience in under false pretences!
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Friday, 24 June 2011

TOTP 10/6/76 (tx 23/6/11): Tea Party mandate

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Odd Twitter #totp comment of last week, which was spotted during the Saturday showing: "do the bbc have any old totp from 1976 that DON...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011

The Alternative TOTP Canon #17: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - New England

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Don't worry, Jonathan has spent most of his career making the unwary this baffled. There's a very definite pregnant pause after they...
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Sunday, 19 June 2011

The Alternative TOTP Canon #16: Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around

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An early chance to see how TOTP coped with the house music influx, a full year before Ibiza was discovered, and a showcase, described as ...
Friday, 17 June 2011

Going badly

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From BBC2's much recalled TV Hell theme night of 1992, John Peel runs through the best of the worst, I assure you nowhere near as famili...
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011

TOTP 3/6/76 (tx 13/6/11): here comes the summer

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This repeat run is evidently proving so successful BBC4 have to keep moving it around to give other programmes a chance. No messing about fo...
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