Firstly just a note that the December 4th Book Club show is now available on Radio Newcastle's Listen Again feature:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2006/02/09/radio_newcastle_book_club_feature.shtml
The books featured on the show are:
1. John Fisher - Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing(HarperCollins)
2. Carol Clerk - Pogue Mahone: The Story of the Pogues (Omnibus)
3. Rodney Hinds - Black Lions (Sports Books)
4. Elizabeth Chadwick - The Scarlet Lion (Little/Brown)
5. Brian May, Patrick Moore & Chris Lintott - Bang! The Complete History of the Universe (Carlton Books)
The original plan was also to feature David Freemantle's Rats, Bats & Strange Toilets (Zymurgy Publishing). But, sadly it had to be dropped at the last moment due to time restrictions (I talked too much about Tommy Cooper and the Pogues, basically!).
Next month, I'll include a full list of the various other books I've received recently along with the January Book Club details - the programme will be on 8th January as the 1st is a Bank Holiday.
I've also been very busy doing a lot of work for Visual Imagination recently:
http://www.visimag.com/index.htm
I particularly draw readers attentions to TV Zone issues 209 and 210
http://www.visimag.com/tvzone/t209_display.htm
http://www.visimag.com/tvzone/t210_display.htm
and Xposé issue 100 and Special 31
http://www.visimag.com/xpose/x100_display.htm
http://www.visimag.com/xpose/xs31_display.htm
all of which feature LOADS of me. But, you know, don't let that put you off.
I'm currently covering Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Torchwood and The State Within for TV Zone and there's yet another "no-honestly-this-is the-last-Buffy-article-I'm-ever-writing" coming up in a forthcoming issue. As somebody noted recently, "I keep trying to get out and they keep pulling me back in!"
Oh, and finally, an answer to one of the questions I posed in an earlier posting - "whatever happened to Arthur Two-Stroke and the Chart Commandos"?
My good mate Malcolm Holt, author of the excellent Magpies Memories and More Magpie Memories (Breedon Books)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magpie-Memories-Conversations-Newcastle-Players/dp/1859834213/sr=1-1/qid=1165678233/ref=sr_1_1/202-3692400-7618213?ie=UTF8&s=books
rang me this morning to note that he'd recently attended the opening night of a rather excellent looking "30th Anniversary of Punk" retrospective, PUNK76!, at Newcastle's Discovery Museum which runs from early December to late January 2007 (I'm gonna have to get along to that myself at some stage). Anyway, Malcolm mentioned that at the event he'd bumped into not only Old Stroke-y himsen but, also, one of his Commandos. I was really pleased to hear that. Reminded me of seeing the band at the Allendale Community Centre in about 1978 or 79. Until you've heard their version of 'The Theme from Hawaii 5-0', you've never lived.
Next week on "whatever the hell happened too...?", whatever the hell happened to David Baird, singer of the mighty 'Friday Neet (Gannin t'the Toon)'? And, where the hell can I find a copy on CD? I really want to put in on my MP3 Player!
And is there anyone out there who has a copy of 'Is There Anyone Out There?' by Mighty Mighty on CD? Another one from my vinyl collection that deserves a place being digitised!
Recently viewed:
Casino Royale - excellent but half-an-hour too long.
Recently Read:
James Owen - A Serpent in Eden (Abacus)
Catrine Clay - King, Kaiser, Tsar (John Murray Publishing)
Brian Southall & Rupert Perry - Northern Songs: The True Story of the Beatles' Song Publishing Empire (Omnibus Press)
at least a couple of which will be featured in the January Book Club.
Keep your Mincers Peeled For...:
A good next couple of months on TV both in the UK (Waking the Dead, Life on Mars, Steve Moffett's Jekyll & Hyde) and the US (24, Lost, S60, Veronica, BSG).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2006/02/09/radio_newcastle_book_club_feature.shtml
The books featured on the show are:
1. John Fisher - Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing(HarperCollins)
2. Carol Clerk - Pogue Mahone: The Story of the Pogues (Omnibus)
3. Rodney Hinds - Black Lions (Sports Books)
4. Elizabeth Chadwick - The Scarlet Lion (Little/Brown)
5. Brian May, Patrick Moore & Chris Lintott - Bang! The Complete History of the Universe (Carlton Books)
The original plan was also to feature David Freemantle's Rats, Bats & Strange Toilets (Zymurgy Publishing). But, sadly it had to be dropped at the last moment due to time restrictions (I talked too much about Tommy Cooper and the Pogues, basically!).
Next month, I'll include a full list of the various other books I've received recently along with the January Book Club details - the programme will be on 8th January as the 1st is a Bank Holiday.
I've also been very busy doing a lot of work for Visual Imagination recently:
http://www.visimag.com/index.htm
I particularly draw readers attentions to TV Zone issues 209 and 210
http://www.visimag.com/tvzone/t209_display.htm
http://www.visimag.com/tvzone/t210_display.htm
and Xposé issue 100 and Special 31
http://www.visimag.com/xpose/x100_display.htm
http://www.visimag.com/xpose/xs31_display.htm
all of which feature LOADS of me. But, you know, don't let that put you off.
I'm currently covering Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Torchwood and The State Within for TV Zone and there's yet another "no-honestly-this-is the-last-Buffy-article-I'm-ever-writing" coming up in a forthcoming issue. As somebody noted recently, "I keep trying to get out and they keep pulling me back in!"
Oh, and finally, an answer to one of the questions I posed in an earlier posting - "whatever happened to Arthur Two-Stroke and the Chart Commandos"?
My good mate Malcolm Holt, author of the excellent Magpies Memories and More Magpie Memories (Breedon Books)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magpie-Memories-Conversations-Newcastle-Players/dp/1859834213/sr=1-1/qid=1165678233/ref=sr_1_1/202-3692400-7618213?ie=UTF8&s=books
rang me this morning to note that he'd recently attended the opening night of a rather excellent looking "30th Anniversary of Punk" retrospective, PUNK76!, at Newcastle's Discovery Museum which runs from early December to late January 2007 (I'm gonna have to get along to that myself at some stage). Anyway, Malcolm mentioned that at the event he'd bumped into not only Old Stroke-y himsen but, also, one of his Commandos. I was really pleased to hear that. Reminded me of seeing the band at the Allendale Community Centre in about 1978 or 79. Until you've heard their version of 'The Theme from Hawaii 5-0', you've never lived.
Next week on "whatever the hell happened too...?", whatever the hell happened to David Baird, singer of the mighty 'Friday Neet (Gannin t'the Toon)'? And, where the hell can I find a copy on CD? I really want to put in on my MP3 Player!
And is there anyone out there who has a copy of 'Is There Anyone Out There?' by Mighty Mighty on CD? Another one from my vinyl collection that deserves a place being digitised!
Recently viewed:
Casino Royale - excellent but half-an-hour too long.
Recently Read:
James Owen - A Serpent in Eden (Abacus)
Catrine Clay - King, Kaiser, Tsar (John Murray Publishing)
Brian Southall & Rupert Perry - Northern Songs: The True Story of the Beatles' Song Publishing Empire (Omnibus Press)
at least a couple of which will be featured in the January Book Club.
Keep your Mincers Peeled For...:
A good next couple of months on TV both in the UK (Waking the Dead, Life on Mars, Steve Moffett's Jekyll & Hyde) and the US (24, Lost, S60, Veronica, BSG).
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