Morning all



We’ve still got a bit of sun on the edge of East Anglia but I think it’ll fade fast. Congrats to yesterday’s menshees (and OSMs) – heard bits and pieces of the show but wasn’t on-line as I was determined to catch-up with ironing and various bits and pieces of housework I’d ignored in favour of sunbathing at the weekend....



Suzieee – an unbelievable feat in that heat from your nearest and dearest. I feel ill just thinking about it!



I do love Paul Weller and Stanley Road in particular has been played over and over again in the last decade or so. Looking forward to tonight’s live set.



Invisible oldies: (there’s a joke in there somewhere…..)

She’s Not There – The Zombies

Invisible Touch – Genesis

Have You Seen Her – The Chi-Lites



Will poop back later ....

Good morning! Where has summer gone?



Will get the tunes out of the way



Sweet Invisibility - Hue & Cry



Invisible - Alison Moyet



Invisible Sun - The Police



Hope all well in blogpoppetland.



Can't wait for Paul Weller. Big fan.



Back later to catch up.



x

Happy Tuesdays all round and Hello Simon, the Driveteam and Constructors

:^)



PICTURE THIS - BLONDIE



SHE'S NOT THERE - ZOMBIES



INVISIBLE SUN - POLICE



INVISIBLE TOUCH - GENESIS



INVISIBLE - ALISON MOYET



THE INVISIBLE MAN - QUEEN

Good morning everyone



Looking forward to hearing Paul Weller on tonight's show!



INVISIBLE TOUCH ~ Genesis



SHE'S NOT THERE ~ The Zombies



CAN YOU SEE ME? ~ Jimi Hendrix



HAVE YOU SEEN HER? ~ MC Hammer



HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY ~ Radiohead

Hi Simon and everyone



Ooooh its very quiet in here, I can hear the tumbleweed and quiet on the previous blog.



I remember those tape recorders pushed next to the radio each Sunday to record the Top 40 and I was well chuffed at 15 to have a radio cassette combi! Woo hoo!



Oh well, time for the invisible toonage:



1.INVISIBLE TOUCH - Genesis or was it Phil Collins on his lonesome?

2. SEE ME HEAR ME THRILL ME - Simply Red



Definitely have to poop back after CBuzz remedy...caffeine inspiration!



Laters



Mandy

Morning all



YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET - BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE

Just beat me to it Pennyforem! Not arf!

Some other non-BTO oldies then:



Nothing ever Happens - Del Amitri



Do Nothing - The Specials

Just imagine I've typed these words ...







A PICTURE OF YOU - JOE BROWN



PICTURES OF YOU - THE CURE



VIRTUAL INSANITY - JAMIROQUAI



SENSES WORKING OVERTIME - XTC



LOOK AWAY - BIG COUNTRY



LOOKING FOR CLUES - ROBERT PALMER



LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE - GENE PITNEY





:^)

Good morning everyone.



I'll do my best to improve on my poor performance yesterday. I feel responsible for it being such a slow day on here.



Theme:



HOW TO BE INVISIBLE by KATE BUSH would do nicely, thank you very much.



Be back later.

Thunk!



1. INVISIBLE SUN - Sting or the Police

2. HAVE YOU SEEN HER? The Chilites

3. INVISIBLE - Taylor Swift

4. INVISIBLE - Alison Moyet

5. SOMEBODY'S WATCHING YOU - Rockwell

6. SHE'S NOT THERE - Zombies

7. HERE I AM - Bryan Adams

9. WHEN YOUR'RE GONE - Bryan and Mel



Really must press on



Have a nice day



Mandy ;)

Mornin all,



I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR - U2



Should do nicely ta :o)

Morning all



I'll just add my vote to:



INVISIBLE SUN - Police

INVISIBLE - Alison Moyet

INVISIBLE TOUCH - Genesis



Or for those that 'saw' something in the artwork:



SEE ME, FEEL ME - The Who



Tortie x

Last one...



Blind Vision - Blancmange



(I wasn't so keen on the pink dessert but Waves by the band Blancmange is one of my favourite all time records)

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



I'm suggesting



INVISIBLE by Alison Moyet



INVISIBLE TOUCH by Genesis



SHE'S NOT THERE by Santana, or the Zombies



YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET by Bachman Turner Overdrive



~X~

#7, More than happy to share :))

Good Morning All :)



Not much of a lie-in as it turns out, but nice to have an unharrassed morning anyway.



I hope you get an afternoon snooze, Simon. It'll be a long weary day for you otherwise.



Oldie suggestions...



MISSING - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL



DISAPPEAR - INXS

#10 Yeah. Me too.

;^)

Good morning, everybody!



Settling nicely into my new 'work home'.

Aches and pains from shifting too much stuff and desks about yesterday.



As for todays oldies, all I can muster would be



YOU WON'T SEE ME - THE BEATLES



Probably not much time for blogness today either, what with having to re-configure my desk and cupboards.



Off to the (new) coffee machine...



--

cBzz

Good morning Simon, Team and fellow blogsters,



Woke up to a very humid and overcast day in NW Essex, after a thunderstorm and flash flood yesterday. This sort of weather makes me feel weary.



Anyway, I have thought of a few oldies:



INVISIBLE SUN by THE POLICE



GHOST DANCING by SIMPLE MINDS



HIDE & SEEK by HOWARD JONES



AIR THAT I BREATHE by THE HOLLIES



madchick x

Morning all



Another fine morning here, disappearing from the office is so tempting.





How to be Invisible – Kate Bush



How to Disappear Completely – Radiohead



Nothing Man - Bruce Springsteen



White Blank Page – Munford & Sons



Empty Space – Teenage Fanclub

Picture This - Blondie



x

Oh dear, now I've read back it seems I don't have a single original suggestion - and I thought I was being clever with the BTO one too...



#10 #18 LOL! Yes, me three... hoping for a quieter day today.



~X~

Another quickie:



WHO IS IT? by MICHAEL JACKSON

Morning Simon, team, NYM and transparent bloggers



Ah, the days of holding the cassette recorder up to the radio on a Sunday night, record button on pause, waiting for the right moment to press. And no amount of clever editing afterwards could get it just right. There are some songs which, to this day, I hear on the radio and still wait for DLT's dulcet tones to appear towards the end. Because that's the version I listened to over and over again.



Invisible oldies, you say.



SHE'S NOT THERE - Santana



EMPTY HEART - Rolling Stones



HONEY PLEASE, CAN'T YA SEE - Barry White



CAN'T YOU SEE - Bob Marley

THE BEATLES - I'm Looking Through You



RONAN KEATING - Nothing At All

#23 quieter working day, that is - ie more time for blogging...



;o)

Imagine - John Lennon



Just My Imagination - Temptations



Your Imagination - Hall & Oates



Really must go and get dressed & go out. Being on holiday is making me very lazy.



x

A couple more:



CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE by THE REAL THING



GONE GONE GONE by JOHNNY MATHIS

ART FOR ART'S SAKE by 10CC

WILLIAM IT WAS REALLY NOTHING - The Smiths



I WHO HAVE NOTHING - Shirley Bassey



(Perfect R2 combo!) There's also a version by - unbelievably - Joe Cocker!

Nothing new to add - just supporting the following



Invisible Sun - Police

Invisible Touch - Genesis

Invisible - Alison Moyet

You cant touch this - MC Hammer

#28 Mo, Lovely songs all three. Never tire of hearing John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

Good morning Simon, team and poppets,



'Twas a very quiet Monday! *note to self* must try harder.... but it was just one of those days and obviously not only for me. And it seems I missed a mensh too! Thank you Simon, I'll take a listen back, as and when. Congrats to any fellow menshees last night.



As for today's theme how about ....



MONEY FOR NOTHING - DIRE STRAITS



I hope a Happy Tuesday is on the offing for all

Jx

Still pushing for exclusivity, I've just found on my MP3 player:



I'LL SEE THROUGH IT by TEXAS



A BBC Jonathan Ross session if I remember correctly :0)

One last one:



KARMA CHAMELEON BY CULTURE CLUB

THE GREAT PRETENDER - The Platters (or the Freddie version, if you need your daily DT dose of Queen!)

A few more oldie suggestions...



JUST AN ILLUSION - IMAGINATION



I CAN'T BELIEVE MY EYES - AIR SUPPLY



ALL OR NOTHING - SMALL FACES

Morning all,

Thanks for the #2 child, son and heir congrats on his marathon run in 3.47 and the all important 10 seconds, it was nothing of my doing, can assure you (unless like Dolly Parton I was to launch into 'for the 9 months I carried you, growing inside me, No Charge' etc etc!)



Re theme, first thing that popped into my head was 'SHE'S NOT THERE' by the Zombies, or of course 'HAVE YOU SEEN HER' by the Chi-Lites (more of a PSL offering!)



Not particularly on the ball today, having had 4 days off for various reasons...



Going back now to read back - back later if inspiration strikes

Morning everyone..........bit grey here.........but I'm optimistic that the big old yellow thing will apear at some time.....................................................





MONEY FOR NOTHING - DIRE STRAITS





BLINDED BY THE LIGHT - MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND





JUST AN ILLUSION - IMAGINATION





THE INVISIBLE MAN - QUEEN





and of course ........................has to be...........................................





YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET - BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE





Hope all is well with everyone..................................................................



Dougal x...............................................................................................

#39 It struck

I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING (BUT YOU) by the Bee Gees...

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THIS - Omar



ANYONE OUT THERE? - Duran Duran



HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN HANK? - The Waterboys

Still here. Just ridculously busy.



THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN - Something In The Air



THE WHO - I Can See For Miles

This one takes me back....





SEE YOU - Depeche Mode

*Today's Blog Title Lyric Puzzler*



♪♫ Sup up your beer and collect your fags... there's a row going on down near Slough ..



The Eton Rifles - The Jam 1979

I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR - U2







Dougal x............................................................................................

WHEN WILL I SEE YOU AGAIN - The Three Degrees





That's m'lot m'Lud.

Morning All,



'She's Not There' Santana



Have a good day everybody

I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW - JOHNNY NASH







Dougal x...............................................................................

When will I see you again? - The Three Degrees.

Morning,





Have you seen her - The Chi-Lites



The Seeker - The Who



See through you - Alanis Morissette



Disappear - R.E.M



Invisible touch -Genesis



Invisible man - Queen

Not chosen so far ... I think



IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE - CONWAY TWITTY or GLEN CAMPBELL



THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES - SINEAD O'CONNOR



WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES - DOOBIE BROTHERS

'Is Vic There' Department S

Good morning all



(Cant you see me) STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE - FOUR TOPS



NO FACE, NO NAME, NO NUMBER - TRAFFIC



CAMOUFLAGE - STAN RIDGEWAY

Whatever happened to...



IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE - Tonic

I CAN'T GO FOR THAT (NO CAN DO) - HALL & OATES









Dougal x.....................................................................................

Last one from me



Art For Art's Sake - 10cc



Really must go now. Promise to read through & catch up later. Will definitely be listening to tonight's show.



x

Some brilliant suggestions above! My brain clearly isn't in gear this morning, but I'm on my second coffee so maybe inspiration will stike later. When it's much too late...



Suzieeee, can I add my congrats to your son's achievement at the weekend! My cousin is into marathon running - her first one was the London marathon 5 years ago when she was 50, in the middle of an April heatwave. We were in the Caribbean at the time...



#45 It took me a while KatyMatey, but I got there in the end...



;o)

#57 Are you dressed yet, Mo?



;o)

Just remembered this one.....



HIDDEN AWAY ~ Josh Groban



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnPICiigM5Q&ob=av2e

Good Morning Each!





















Is that enough?

Good morning all - another sunny day in South Essex.



Having paid to go in and see.....................nothing.........



WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN - THE WHO



JW

Apparently web use was down 20% because of the good weather over the weekend



Another few suggestions



Invisible – Paul Weller



Invisible Kid – Metallica



Empty – Del Amitri



Empty Chairs – Don Mclean



Empty Hearts – Alison Krauss



Cold Blows the Wind – Bellowhead [the wind being invisible]

#52 Doobies - Brill suggestion, second that What a fool believes...

This invisible exhibition reminds me of the bricks laid out in the Tate Modern - not sure I would call that 'art' myself, more 'foundations'.

Is this 'invisible'?



SOME KIND OF NOTHINGNESS ~ Manic Street Preachers

Morning all



'Invisible Sun' may be a little too prophetic for the jubilee weekend!



How about:



'Out Of Sight' - James Brown



N x

Doubt it will get played, but:



EMPTY CHAIRS AND EMPTY TABLES - from 'Les Miserables'

#59 If there's a Bafta or Sony Gold for procrastination then today I would be in with an excellent chance of winning LOL.



I was another one who taped the Top 40. Happy days. You just don't get the same fun with mp3 players - how many cassettes got ruined with the tape getting jammed in the player?



Ken Bruce playing Rumer's album of the week. Stunning voice. Rumer obviously. Have never heard Ken sing but I'm sure there's a reason he presents Eurovision and doesn't enter ;-)



x

4'33 by John Cage.

Is Sunny Sal still sunning herself as I haven't seen a message from her today, or yesterday -- unless I had missed a few posts, yesterday, dashing in and out of the garden (planting and gazebo painting, not sunbathing)!

#61 Clever.

t'is amazing what you can imagine doing in a blank

















space

#69 that was an answer on Pointless last night



#uselessinforus



x

ps if anyone hasn't seen Have I got news for you from last Friday (repeated Saturday as 'Have I got a bit more news for you') you should watch it - we Laughed Out Loud yesterday eve watching it.

William Shatner is guest presenter and when he got into his stride, he was fab.

I mention it because they included the blank picture frames and plinth in one round of the quiz - the panellists, I'm sure you can imagine, had pithy comments to make!

I CANT TELL THE BOTTOM FROM THE TOP - HOLLIES

I'm sure this exhibition will provoke much laughter but doesn't it raise questions about what modern society values? An empty plinth on which Andy Warhol once stood ................ is that any more absurd than valuing a brush that he once held?



What about a piece of paper where someone once wrote her/his name?



Is tangibilty of more value than imagination?



If the purpose of art is to provoke a reaction, to make us question our beliefs, despite the invisibility of the exhibits, it seems to be doing a pretty good job.



Much of what we value in the 21st century is ridiculous; perhaps this exhibition will highlight this?

Chores done, bread cooking in the breadmaker; what will this afternoon hold? Probably sorting out some little seedlings that need potting on into larger pots and more fish - counting (yesterday was interupted by thunder and lightning and a quick shower which was no use to man nor beast!)



Is your wrens' nest still active Harry?



JW

Missing Summer Set Sal's posts! Has anyone seen her or has she become 'invisible'?

#76 Jennie, unfortunately not; it's been deserted.



I've been told that this isn't unusual: the male wren builds several nests and the female then chooses the one she wants .................... women, eh???? ;0)

Afternoon Everyone,



Sun is out and looking better than earlier.



Photograph - Michael Stipe & Natalie Merchant



LB,x

Afternoon blogpoppets



Still dry here so that's good news. Watching a bit of the French Open while I do some planning for next term: 3 Brits on court today and early success for Heather Watson is great news.



Need to try and get myself motivated for doing something constructive this afternoon .... Or possibly not ;)

I'm with you AG. Haven't got anywhere yet. Except a little further through my book ;-). Have to be somewhere at 2 though. Will miss the Murray match. Being off the same week as tennis majors isn't good for me getting anything done.



LB I'm glad the sun is shining somewhere. It made a fast exit from my part of the world.



#78 Harry!



x

#78 - that's a shame Harry, but as you say, we women know what we want and perhaps a gas meter cupboard was not high on her list of priorities!!



I promised an occasional update on Mr's Worm Cafe - it's seems to be doing fine. He keeps adding chopped up kitchen waste and crushed egg shells and the compost level is rising. It will soon be time to add the next layer and check if there is any liquid in the base to be used as a fertilizer.



JW

Suzie - Very well done to your son :) It was quite an achievement, and in such high temperatures too.



I meant to watch that HIGNFY with William Shatner, I think I'll pop over to iThingy now :)



Harry - My mister did a degree in fine art back in the 90s, and we regularly had these kind of discussions about modern art. I could certainly see the value to some things, not necessarily monetary value, but in making folk stop and think, and by challenging conventions. But other things classed as modern art, I struggled to get anything out of at all. I think I've mentioned before, the exhibit I went to to 'showcase' the mister's fellow students' work. Where I was subjected to a short film of someone 'defiling' a trifle... Yes, I certainly struggled to see any artistic value in that!



It is very strange how much we will pay for things that have been signed, or otherwise handled by a famous person. I've never been an autograph hunter, although I will confess to having a personalised signed picture from David Tennant. I didn't pay anything for it though, he did it for free.

#83 Zoe, I agree that some modern stuff can be very difficult to interpret. I have to confess I don't understand what Damien Hirst is about but then I've never seen any of his works except in books and magazines.



I once went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I'd seen loads of Jackson Pollack in books and could never understand what all the fuss was about; a seemingly random scattering of splodges and drops of paint ............... and then you see one 'up close and personal' ............. my God! I was just gobsmacked and I've no idea why. The paintings simply induce a visceral reaction. Remarkable.



I went to see the Magritte exhibition in Edinburgh in 2001(?) and that had a similar effect. One made me cry; such loneliness was heartbreaking.



Perhaps the defiling of trifle would have a similar effect but for totally unrelated reasons ;0)

#77 Flo - I think Sal is out-and-about for a few days - perhaps without access to the 'web. She'll check in as soon as she's ready.

:^)

#84 Harry - LOL yes, I was sad for the waste of a good trifle!



I agree about Jackson Pollack, I have only seen one example of his work, but it had more effect on me than I thought it would.



I found, to my surprise, that I was affected by quite a lot of modern art. It's easy to be dismissive of it, but if you really open your mind, and consider the concepts behind the pieces, it can be very rewarding.

#82 Thanks for the update on the Worm Cafe (love the name) Jennie! Glad to hear it's doing well.



#83 I really don't get why people pay for autographs, or indeed collect autographs of people they've never met. To me an autograph is just a souvenir of the occasion when you've met a famous person and while it's nice to own a book signed by the author I wouldn't bother unless they have signed it for me personally. And yes I know, Harry, that that makes the book less valuable! But I don't think that any of the books I've had signed by their authors are ever likely to be collectors' items anyway...



~X~

OK Katy.... thanks! I wanted to show this to Sal as she's like me and likes birds!!!



For anyone into birds, from the weekend at a race circuit near me!!!! I hope this Oystercatcher's nest and eggs stays safe and that she doesn't wander across from where it is positioned, into the path of motorbikes and sidecars hurtling past, a couple of feet away, (once they've done a lap and thin out) at over 150mph!!! It's on our local race circuit and the weekend's meeting was the first since the middle of April, so it was probably deserted and very quiet when she laid her eggs.



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This is how close the bikes and sidecars whizz past.... the nest is between the tyre-wall and the white line nearest the back of the picture!!



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Imagine the noise of this lot hurtling a few feet from your nest... poor thing!



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Our next meeting is the middle of June and I guess the eggs will have hatched by then so I hope the parents and chicks will remain safe!

#whatisart?



I think I'm quite a fan of Modern Art - love going to Tate Modern whenever possible and up until a couple of years ago, usually managed to visit the Turner Prize short list exhibits at Tate Britain on the Embankment even though 's gladly take up arms against the disenfranchisement of the over 50s. How very dare they?



However, in modern art - I prefer what we used to call 'sculpture' - especially the multi-media exhibits or installations- to a 2-dimensional 'painting' in a frame hanging on a wall. I'm still way too impressed by classical and skilful artistry and portraiture to be truly moved by splodges of colour, etc.

As an example - my abiding memory of Musée Picasso in Paris - always his sculptures.



However, in either case, I still prefer to having something tangible to look at/see in order to form an opinion ... all this empty space stuff is a complete p*sstake.

Someone's havin a larf.

:^D

#86 Zoe, I think we agree on many things .............. or at least one: trifle!



#87 Deebee, as I understand it, and I've spoken to a lot of people who collect signed books, the signature proves that the author has held the book. It's no longer just a mass produced item but an artefact that has been handled by the artist and is imbued with a unique quality as the signature is never the same. I don't get it either. I'd have thought that reading the book, allowing the author to speak with you directly, unmediated, was enough.*



But, isn't that the question that the empty plinth addresses: why isn't the place someone has stood as desirable as something they have held?







*NB: I may not understand it but I'll happily charge you extra if an author has written their name in it :0)

#73 Suzie - I just watched HIGNFY on iThingy. William Shatner is a total legend. I was crying with laughter, and I loved the bit where he sang clues. His version of 'Rocket Man' is always worth a look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I



#90 Harry - The plinth thing is making me recall the forth plinth 'One and Other' Antony Gormley installation, that they had going in Trafalgar Square. That was an interesting concept, and it's a shame it only ran for 100 days.

#90 Ah, but surely it's not that an author has held the book that is significant, but that they have written their name in it. So maybe if the plinth was empty other than the artist's signature, that would hold more value...



Or maybe not.



;o)

OK - I'm making an effort ...



*limbers up*





Race you to the 100 ...

No-one playing?



No probs - I'll go it alone



:^D

#93/#94

Katy, does frivolity still count?

I seem to remember it was allowed a few weeks ago...



Liking the new coffee machine...



--

cBzz

#93.........#94............Katy...........as long as you give me a head start!...........



;0)

#97



cBzz - Frivolity is the new Austerity!

OK Katy, I'll join in..... 3, 2, 1

Is this my head start?.................................................................................

Hatty Hat Time!