Sonar and TOTP...
|18:08 UK time, Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Hola atcha...
A sad day today, with the news that Top of the Pops is coming to an end. Last one will be on telly in July. I know because I heard it on the news. Expect nostalgic features in all music magazines, broadsheets and, erm, here. My favourite Top of the Pops moments are;
Flaming Lips with Justin Timberlake dressed as an animal of the sea...
Super Furry Animals performing on it for the first time...
Divine Comedy onstage with lots of big summer flowers...
Mark and Lard and Harry Hill as presenters - now you're talking:)...
All those old clips from yesteryear with John Peel and Janice Long, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Saville hosting the show - it was all so simple back then etc etc...
Back from Sonar and a short break with my girlfiend after it (I actually went in the sea yesterday, a sigh to behold I can assure you) and had a lovely time. Listen in tonight for an hour of Live music highlights from the 13th Sonar Festival, with Kapital Band 1, Mwessle and loads more. bought a fair few records yesterday too in the winding streets of Barcelona, so expect some Chinese Dub and Bass, a few grimy Catalonian messed up bits and a band called I'm From Barcelona...
see youse tonight, 11pm!
...and Richard Blackwood's face when Fischerspooner appeared on TOTP. A sight to behold!
mine is Nirvana miming Smells Like Teen Spirt, they made it into a joke, really funny.
I remember Marc Bolan in 1970 with the guitar lead tucked into his back pocket - it wasn't just the sun that shone out of his...
today's a sad day too, looks like onemusic is going to be joining totp in September - going to really miss listening to you and Rob
My earliest memory of TOTP was when The Spice Girls first performed on it
with Wannabe that was the first ever episode of TOTP that I ever watched I was 9 years old at the time but my
favourite peformance on TOTP was when westlife performed their first ever single on the show.
GOODBYE TOTP I WILL MISS U
The last TOTP was as bad as the idea of having a last TOTP. The show was killed by producers with no concept. Popular music is one of the few things this country does well, now thanks to the current BBC mob they'll be no exposure for any new music on mainsteam TV. Death by a thousand cut-backs to Andy Peters, michael grade et all!
Grrr,
Simon - The Popin'Shop of Pop', London