Thursday, 29 September 2011

TOTP 23/9/76 (tx 29/9/11): duck and cover

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Relevant information: Pan's People And TOTP Dance Troupes will have an interview with Lulu of Ruby Flipper (and at that time she was on...
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Monday, 26 September 2011

The disappeared: 16/9/76

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There's a little awkward patch of wiped shows here. From September to before Christmas 1976 six shows out of 17 have been wiped, and whi...
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Thursday, 22 September 2011

TOTP 9/9/76 (tx 22/9/11): the great pub rock revival

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Something of a sea change for the rest of the 1976 run as all the remaining shows are half an hour long in their original form, so no excuse...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011

The Alternative TOTP Canon #34: REM - Orange Crush

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Well, how's Simon Parkin meant to know what it's about? All REM songs were cryptic crosswords in tone around then. An expert team of...
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Monday, 19 September 2011

The disappeared: 2/9/76

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Another of the wipeouts comes next, this one with Diddy David Hamilton in charge, which is interesting for reasons I'll get to. Pussycat...
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Thursday, 15 September 2011

TOTP 26/8/76 (tx 15/9/11): prepared loads of material about Can, then BBC4 went and edited it out of the prime time version

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And that's despite featuring it in the introductory documentary. I SIGNED THAT PETITION AND THIS IS WHAT THEY DO? What did they consider...
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011

The Alternative TOTP Canon #33: Sue Wilkinson - You Gotta Be A Hustler If You Wanna Get On

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One thread running through a lot of this Canon, and quite a few of the accepted faces of TOTP legend, is oddity or plain being out of place,...
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