Yeah. I'm guessing that, with the track selection, he mixed things up a little bit to keep it interesting.

I imagine he's been asked to contribute to similar discussions many times before and probably finds it boring to repeat himself with the same tracks over and over ('Ride A White Swan' / 'Voodoo Chile', being the first records he bought, 'Anarchy In The UK', 'Trans Europe Express', 'Warszawa' etc.).

'Twisted Tenderness' was a definite odd choice though. It hardly made him. He made it.

Maybe he was given a 'brief' prior to the programme which stated 'play some records that sum up you life and that you'd love to hear'.
Having never heard the programme before, it may be that guests do the same as Bernard each week.

Congrats to Zach, if he's reading this. Following on from Tom Chapman who (I believe) used to occasionally visit NOOL in the old days, we now have another forum member getting to work with Bernard - on one of his own songs no less. An absolute thrill, I imagine.

The live footage at 2.09 is presumably taken from Zach's support slot at a New York NO gig a year or two back; NO's name clearly visible on the left of screen.

The face masks/covid19 stuff is very au courant but part of me wants to forget about that stuff during the five minutes of this track...

Well, speaking of new music and Covid19, if this isn't an ideal opportunity for Bernard and Co to make some new music in lieu of live gigs, I don't know what is. Have a word Zach!

Congrats, Zach!

Fantastic!

A ventriloquist with an octopus, that had Simon Cowell’s head on, tonight was on Britain’s Got Talent. Then Blue Monday started playing.

What a bizarre scenario 😳

Sophie Ellis Bextor doing a cover of True Faith in her kitchen and surrounded by her numerous kids, anyone? Go to 12 minutes in

^ Wahey! Go on perspex lad, get in there! I've always kind of liked Sophie.She's alright i suppose, there's a lot worse people out there.At Reading 98 i remember me and my mate and bro walking past on of the marquees and theaudience were on.We stopped and watched for a few moments and weighed up going in but the crowd was too packed and we left it and moved on.I could see Sophie on stage in the distance and well, that's it really! That's the nearest i've ever come to seeing her.I liked some of her solo singles, think there was one or maybe two she did with Freemasons i think i recall quite liking.

Oh and i did love it when that Goovejet song she did beat Victoria bloody Beckham to number 1

^ Yep, i'm sure it was Reading 98 where we walked past a marquee/tent where theaudience (always annoying how they had their name like that) were playing.If it wasn't Reading 98 then god knows.

I vaguely recall seeing the Monaco set on the Sunday afternoon but the only thing i remember is my brother sighing and saying "They're like a New Order reserve team" haha! I found it hard to disagree with him.New Order that night were immense and i do remember Garbage afterwards being totally flat and indeed a few weeks later hearing Shirley Manson say in an interview how difficult it had been for Garbage going on after them.Apart from a bit of Monaco, the great New Order set and a bit of Garbage afterwards i can't remember seeing any other band that day.Oh apart from theaudience from a distance for a few moments.I did though like a few Garbage tunes back in the day -Happy When It Rains and Stupid Girl, off the top of me head.


I don't know how i stumbled across Sophie's lockdown kitchen disco things on YouTube.Must have been one night recent after a few wines and down a YouTube rabbit hole.I do like her kitchen set up though- the smoke machine and disco ball.Maybe i'll look around on Amazon for smoke machines and disco balls and kit my kitchen out.Sophie's kids look like a whole bunch of fun though she loses points for marrying the bass player from The Feeling.I mean, come on, Sophie (had to be careful to include a comma there).You could have done so much better! The Feeling? nonono

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Oh i see what you mean.Annoying.But then i often found Chris Evans annoying so nothing new there.



For me, Garbage were one of those bands i was quite into for a couple of albums in the mid 90s then my interest completely dropped off and then years after i just thought they'd quit/split up but then saw something about them recently and they've still been releasing albums and brought another new one out last year or something.But my interest has gone.

Yeah i remember when Phoenix Festival 98 was announced and New Order were to be headliners.I was quite chuffed as the festival was held not far from me, about 30 miles away at Long Marston Airfield near Stratford Upon Avon.So it was near to me and i quickly snapped up a couple of tickets.Sadly of course, it was cancelled but at least NO were shifted to Reading 98 and we could use our tickets.We went to Phoenix Festival once or maybe even twice, memory a bit vague on that! I deffo remember going to the 1996 one.Strangely though, i only seem to recall catching the very end of any band's set any time we did go to the festival.Like we caught the last song, Unfinished Sympathy, of Massive Attack's set one year, then another time we caught the last song of Bjork's set and then one time we caught the last few notes of the Minty (weird avant garde 90s band) set.Odd that's all i remember.Oh and we got interviewed once by a Brazilian tv crew who were making a short film about British music festivals.No idea if our drunken responses ever made it on to Brazilian tv and i'll never know.Probably for the best i never saw it if it was ever broadcast.My drunken ramblings being broadcast on Brazilian national tv is something i think i'd prefer not to think about.


Tee hee, glad you liked it.

Any idea which car? I quite like seeing ads withe bands music used in them.

It sure didn't look oversized in the video.

7 News using Stray Dog instrumental as background music while talking about the corona virus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7QbenhxhKs