I went to my niece’s 40th birthday party last night.
Without getting into a punch up?
If it’s any consolation to you, the first two times I was ever drunk, two of the group of open air vodka drinkers accompanying me were a classmate of mine and his nephew. The nephew was older than his uncle by about six months.
End of an era. Hard believe they lasted this long.
The curtain is finally drawn on 28 years of Select MTV with Donna Air. I wonder has Donna yet worked out where “Island” is.
I wonder what Richard Blackwood will do now. He could pitch up at Lyric FM.
The Hitman and Her on ITV followed by the Chillout Zone on MTV was a great way to finish off a Saturday night.
I’d never seen or heard this until I saw it on MTV 2 (which I’d recently seen for the first time on a new Sky Digickal box) at about 2:30am on Sunday February 25th, 2001. I was fucking hypnotised by it and I still am.
Orbital - Halcyon
I immediately pressed record on a blank VHS video cassette, which I had bought specifically to record music off MTV 2 late at night and got about nine minutes of the total eleven recorded (9/11). I thought to myself "it sounds like that song “It’s Going To Be A Fine Night Tonight, It’s Going To Be A Fine Day Tomorrow”.
Immediately afterwards they played “It’s A Fine Day” by Opus III, which is that song. This was quite logical as these tracks had the same singer, Kirsty Hawkshaw, the daughter of TV theme composing legend Alan Hawkshaw (he did the Channel 4 News theme), singing essentially the same tune in each, and Kirsty features in both videos, though she looks very different in each of them. I could never remember whether it was Opus III or Opus II, because the first girl I ever fell in love with liked that song and used to joke about whether there was an Opus II as well as an Opus III.
There’s a music shop on High Street in Galway called Opus II which opened in 2001 and I recently (about eight months ago) bought a guitar case there.
The streets will remember…
Mtv2 120 minutes was a brilliant show
Beeaaaayve
This is very funny. Shelley’s Laserdome in Stoke on FA Cup Final night 1989. Special guests are Jason Donovan and an international team of “spinners” wearing Butlins style red coats. The crowd and the vibe is reminiscent of the crowd in Chasers nightclub in Slough in The Office. The best bit is near the end where Pete Waterman sings Ferry Cross The Mersey.
A year later Shelley’s Laserdome was re-launched and became a Mecca for acid house and ECSTASY TABLETS and became Britain’s second most famous/infamous nightclub after the Hacienda, attracting massive numbers of punters from across Britain and scandalising the media. It got shut down in September 1992 and was demolished not long afterwards.
TikTok killed the video star.
Yearssss ahead
Glenshane pass is you kid
Many’s the time I passed up n over it
Into the ‘ ponderosa’otw back from the Kesh
That’s a massive endorsement
Go for it boy:ireland:
a great part of the world
Produced Ireland’s finest thereabouts
Hard to beat the ppl of South Derry
I drove through the Glenshane Pass myself recently and passed the Ponderosa. I immediately thought of @glenshane. I suspect a renaming is unnecessary.
Edit. I wasn’t coming from Long Kesh.
Ponderosa pub good backers of Watty Graham’s.
Pretty sure I passed Watty Graham Park on my drive.