The original Heardle had LWTUA over the weekend but is was a version I'd not heard before - and I've heard a lot of versions of LWTUA over the years.

Indie At The BBC programme on BBC2 last Saturday night. Compilation of old clips ( was this an old repeat?)

Temptation from the August 84 BBC Rock Around The Clock bash was shown. Thing is they included Richard Skinner's intro to the programme at the start of the clip and I thought oh they're going to show Age Of Consent from the performance but then jumped straight onto Temptation. They cut it at the false end so omitted Barney's " Oh it's the last time, it fuckin' is!" from the later part of the clip.

Interesting to see the video quality. It did look VHS and it was mentioned in the caption about the original BBC tape no longer existed so they used a VHS recording. You could tell the poorer quality compared to the other clips in the programme.

Confusion 1983 Arthur Baker instrumental on 6Music this morning.I think Stuart Maconie meant to play Confusion main mix but played the instrumental by mistake.Or it could have even been Confused Beats, i get hazy on which is which with those 1983 mixes.Sounded cool on the radio though, either way.Part of 6Music's all day 80s rave today.

Umm, it's #18? It should be in the top 10, and NO WAY is Disclosure's Latch a bigger dance anthem than Madonna's Vogue.

Of course we know these lists are always subjective.

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Paper Girls

Music includes:
AOC - NO
BM - NO

"Work It (Soulwax Remix) - Marie Davidson
"Someone Great" - LCD Soundsystem
"The Cutter" - Echo & The Bunnymen
"Spit on a Stranger" - Pavement
"Golden Years" - David Bowie
and eh, Bon Jovi, Debbie Gibson, Cher...

full list.

Steve is the focus of the latest 'Electronically Yours' podcast from Martyn Ware. Presumably available through all major podcast providers (it's on Apple Podcasts, for example).

An hour and 25 minutes long interview with him. Should be good...

Gave the podcast a listen. Pretty good though i got a little lost on some of the tech chat.Stephen is writing another book? Or a novel, not clear. And there's a lot of swearing on podcasts these days isn't there? Is it necessary? Browsed through what other guests Martyn Ware has had on and there''s an episode with Roger Lyons. Might give that a go , wonder if he talks at all about his work on revamping and programming for the live version of Blue Monday back in the early 2000s. Also an episode with Will Sargeant and many more

Blue Monday features in yet another film. It's not exactly Wonder Woman...

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

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Yes i saw that film some years ago and remember YSF featuring. From what i recall, i'm not sure i was fully convinced the music fitted or was apt for the scene. Nice try but...dunno, maybe the song is too hardwired to my brain to associate it with a film scene about a hardened criminal. Of course, to anyone previously unaware of the song it may have worked brilliantly with the scene.

in the rebooted show 'quantum leap', there was an episode with blue monday playing.


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Yet another indicator of just how iconic Blue Monday has become: NYPost.com

I have a friend that's not really that into music (so we can never be that close). I made her a mix CD of New Order just to try to convey my obsession to her (she grew up on Linkin Park and Smashing Pumpkins, etc). I asked her what she thought and her response was "I'm addicted to the drums on Blue Monday". This says to me that track possesses the power to affect people that aren't even music fans.

Google alert?



I've heard of rock photographer Mick Rock (RIP) but was unaware of Sheila Rock. I guess if you're a photographer with the surname Rock, you're obliged to be a rock photographer!



For me it was more her langorous, long-pause style that stood out. Like someone needed to pep her up with speed or coke or something.

So the interviewers appear to be music journos, David Hepworth and Mark Ellen both formerly of the revamped 1980s "Whistle Test" (no Old Grey). I was looking at the Wikipedia page for Whistle Test and was less than thrilled to read that "the series was cancelled in early 1987 by Janet Street-Porter, who had been appointed head of Youth Programmes at the BBC". Thanks Janet, you gobby cow. I didn't like you much as a presenter, and don't think much of your 'decision' either. What did she replace it with? Anything?




Did you watch to the end? The last thing she says at 28:43 (not NO related) seems to leave both men speechless. Mark Ellen jumps in with "different times" whilst Hepworth seems to be moving his mouth but unable to get any words out! They quickly end the interview after that.

She says she told them to go back to Manchester, but clealry she did manage to get a couple of pictures, and they look quite familiar. So perhaps not a total waste of time.