Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
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Our daughters are at this micro gig at the Fleece Bristol. Celia touched Howling Pele Almquist.
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Just heard on Boss Radio 66. It's a remarkable song with an ace backing. Enjoy.. Wiki
Our daughter CJ is up in London and went to a karaoke bar. She did Celebrity Skin (Hole). Pic by David.
. Moses Horler''s recollections are an insight into early Radstock before the coming of the railways. Extracts are printed in the book Radstock reminisces available from the Museum.
'However, I am sorry to be obliged to tell you, that when I was quite a boy, there was a great deal of fighting amongst the colliers here at Radstock and neighbourhood, and remember it as quite a common thing for these fights to last nearly an hour, and sometimes if the battle was not finished on Saturday nights, it would actually begin again on Monday, and they would even lose a day's work to finish it, and some of the gentry would go and see those fights, and I am afraid they sometimes helped to keep the battle going, by backing up one side or the other.'
The Sonics - The Witch.....Released in 1964. Wiki on the song
We used to cover this when Bos payed bass with us. He was fond of it. A great song that is simple and effective.
News story. Didn't hear about this til afterwards.
Been looking in the charity shops for a DVD of Conan the Barbarian see trailer here. No luck yet. Susan likes Arnie in it though I prefer this sequence. Good film though I reckon. I remember having a phase on 80s sword and sorcery films during the video days. Krull Beastmaster you know the ones. List of the best 80s Sword and Sorcery films
Cassandra Gava (born April 28, 1959) is an American actress and producer best known for her performance as the witch in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian, and as the slave woman Alessa in High Road to China.
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Saturday Night selection. For Algy Ward (bassist) who passed away this week. . I didn't like this song at the time. I remember thinking brass? That's not punk. But now I like it.
Wiki on this famous song here. Watch Louis Prima and Keely Smith's version from the 50s
A new commercial for their cider. We have visited the Thatchers factory and their orchards as it is fairly nearby. We used to go down there quite regularly when we had a car.
This is good. It starts off all restrained and then reaches a crescendo. One of my favourite Ike and Tina songs. RIP Tina
Just watched this. I picked it up on DVD in a 4 for a pound deal. It is very charming. Filmed in Devon partly I think and there is a scene from Bristol harbour posing as Weymouth.
Directed by Mike Newell and based on the best-selling and much loved novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY sees Lily James play free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Here from Amazon uk. Janet Tanner is a local hero. She writes novels set in a fictionalized version of Radstock. This was her first book and forms a quartet. She also writes under the name Jennie Felton. She wrote a series of books Fairley Terrace which were based on whitelands where we lived for 25 years. She has even done a book on Tucker's Grave a local pub. Author's webpage
I think this was 1994. Bought it. Loved it.
Introduced by John Peel. From about 1978. We bought this.
Not bad for an opportunistic snap! It 's a Sentinel Steam Lorry apparently.
For Fall Friday. Read the story behind this on the YouTube page.
Have you checked out this 24/7 radio site yet? It is here https://tunein.com/radio/Boss-Radio-66-s114109/ maybe give it a try. We are big fans
Documentary recently posted. I haven't seen it yet but it looks fine.
"MUDDY WATERS - CAN'T BE SATISFIED is the first authoritative documentary about McKinley Morganfield, an artist that paved the road for rock 'n' roll. It is a rich and compelling exploration of an American pioneer." Featuring Keith Richards, B.B. King, Chuck D., Bonnie Raitt, and Waters' close family and friends. Premiered on PBS American Masters 4/23/2003
Zardoz is a 1974 sci-fi movie. Wiki on the movie here
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Film's trailer here
Just heard on Boss Radio 66. It's a great song which gets better as it goes along.
Bristol had a great punk scene and both Susan and myself were in the place to witness it. This was a great band and this is my favourite.
. Great promo for a great song.
From this day in music. Not sure if the veracity of this as I am not a Style Council.
7 May 1983
Just heard on Marc Riley and liked it. I believe it's pronounced Zebra.
7ebra is the new project from 25-year-old twin sisters Inez and Ella from Malmö. Inez plays electric guitar, Ella plays a keyboard, organ and Mellotron - whilst also playing drum samples with her feet
British director has announced this will probably be his last movie. It is set in a in in a mining community in the North of England. Wiki
Happy birthday Link. Susan shook his hand when we saw him in the early 80s. This is one of my favourites.
This was also prominent in Barry Lyndon,
"Kilmersdon Colliery in Somerset is closing its mineshafts for good after over one hundred years extracting high-grade coal. The entrance to the mine was in Haydon and so the colliery was also known as Hayden Pit. The pit was established in 1875 as part of the Writhlington group of collieries and located directly above the Somerset coalfield. There has been evidence of coal extraction in the area dating to 1437.
During its life Kilmersdon became one of the deepest mines in Britain reaching over five hundred metres or sixteen hundred feet. The mine was nationalised after World War II becoming part of the National Coal Board and had the last gravity working industrial rope incline in the UK, a double track with an incline of one hundred and sixty yards and had a junction onto a section of Great Western Railways Bristol and North Somerset Railway. The mine was closed in August 1973 and its structures were demolished and its shaft filled and the area was landscaped. Kilmersdon is still home to the estates of Lord Hylton and the Joliffe family. The village said to be the home of the Jack and Jill nursery rhyme. "
Radstock. Watch for free at the BFI
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