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Post by Gene Hunt on Dec 11, 2016 18:33:59 GMT
Yes, you can't pick and choose 'em can you, families!
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Post by Dirty Epic on Dec 13, 2016 15:44:14 GMT
Great clip Villain. I can see the likeness! That clip is priceless for you I expect. Gene. It's all in the genes, Gene, if ya know what I mean I think it was filmed around 1980/81 but I'm not 100% sure. On family visits to Nassau Road I can remember all kinds of strange people wandering in and out of the house. It's no surprise that Grandad and Felicitiy's daughter Jackie (my Mum's half sister) ended up marrying actor come music producer Philip Decosta who started his own studio up with the royalties from his part in 'Scum'. The family history on my Mum's side is quite complicated with divorces, remarriages, secret offspring and various / nefarious connections to showbiz types along the way. One day I might be able to untangle it all but the biggest mystery of all is how exactly my Grandad managed to bag himself such a large and very expensive house in Barnes after the war and set up his recording business there. I've asked my Uncle (Mum's brother also named John Hassell) and he hints at Grandad being a 'slightly more than successful' spiv during the war, looting bombed out houses in West London and flogging it on the black market. I'd love to know the full SP on that, he must have done something right though as he put my Mum through drama school when she was a kid. She was all set to be a singer / dancer in the theatre but when her first serious boyfriend died from epilepsy she kind of went off the rails a bit and gave it all up, from what I can gather this is about the time my Grandad cut her off so to speak, then when she met and married my Dad later on it got worse and created a lot of family tension which didn't stop until just before he died in 1991. Funny things, families! Villain Interesting Villain, thanks for sharing.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Dec 13, 2016 15:48:04 GMT
Very interesting Villain. I remember this unusual clip from when the documentary was first on in 2012. Dennis Bovell's actor brother Brian played Billy in the channel 4 series 'Prospects'. Dennis Bovell get's name checked/has a respected reputation quite a lot amongst muso's. Yeah did think he and Brian (Billy from Prospects) were related but didn't know for certain.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 13, 2016 16:25:51 GMT
Very interesting Villain. I remember this unusual clip from when the documentary was first on in 2012. Dennis Bovell's actor brother Brian played Billy in the channel 4 series 'Prospects'. Dennis Bovell get's name checked/has a respected reputation quite a lot amongst muso's. Yeah did think he and Brian (Billy from Prospects) were related but didn't know for certain. I know their names from 'Babylon', the 1980 film. Saw it on channel 4 in the late 80's but it's been released on dvd in more recent years. www.imdb.com/title/tt0080406/
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Post by Dirty Epic on Mar 7, 2017 20:24:38 GMT
May not be everyone's cup of tea but there's a documentary on Massive Attack on BBC Four on Friday. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07thrcgThink this was only shown before on BBC in the west country area. I'll be tuning in for sure have seen and like this 'Wild Bunch' for a long time.
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Post by Windy Miller on Mar 24, 2017 21:41:50 GMT
I'm watching Chuck Berry In Concert at the moment. It's absolutely amazing. What an incredible guy.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Sept 27, 2018 8:13:40 GMT
Can You Feel It - How Dance Music Conquered The World
I know this isn't everyone's thing on here but this BBC Four documentary currently showing may be of interest.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bl3cl5
Saw Episode 1 and quite liked it. Yes it's a bit of a re-hash of Channel 4's Pump up the Volume documentary from 2001 but quite rare for this sort of music to be featured in a fairly mainstream way... normally it gets lumped in with Hip Hop/R&B/Urban etc. which it isn't really a part of. Just hope they don't screw things up by giving those EDM %^@!'s a platform here as they've really diluted the scene from what it was to what it is now over the last decade or so IMHO!
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Post by Cartman on Sept 27, 2018 9:08:59 GMT
There are odd bits of dance music from the end of the 90s/early 00s that I do like. Remember going to a club one night, think it was Smiths in Warrington in late 2000 as a leaving do from work and enjoying it.
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Post by Del Boy on Sept 27, 2018 11:03:31 GMT
I grew up with it and it was the main thing for the youngsters in my area of London. All closely tied in to the pirate radio stations of course. I think those who grew up with gaming computers in the 80s got their love of electronic music initially from games. A lot of house music isn't too far away from those concepts so it gained a lot of fans in the mid to late 80s onward. The scene evolved in the early 90s with this ready made fan base old enough to hit the clubs Variants of House like Hardcore and Drum'n Bass ruled briefly. Bands like Blur and Oasis etc brought me back to guitar based music from the mid 90s.
Thanks for the heads up for this series dirty.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Sept 27, 2018 13:47:35 GMT
Strangely enough Del I gave up on computer games etc. and went full on into buying music when House etc. emerged in 88 onwards. Today's scene's don't have that excitement of buying a record Monday and listening/discovering something which this scene did have at the time for me.
It's interesting that you mention Hardcore/DnB Del. Yes they were the next movement that Rave went into but I also think a lot more of the intelligent side of electronic dance music - the likes of The Orb, FSOL, Orbital, Underworld, Aphex Twin, Mark Bell (LFO), Leftfield, Chems etc. all emerged around this same time and around the time Rave had a backlash and Britpop/Blur/Oasis thing became big too. Rather than competing with Britpop and the commercial side of dance music this side of the dance scene did some very good things too some of which are still very much remembered/revered today.
Yes I've heard of 'Mr Smiths' in Warrington Cartman... sadly never went but did know about the big following from Manchester/Liverpool and the North West it had. IRRC Stu Allen and similar DJ's used to be there quite regularly. Suppose I was a bit of a Cream snob at that time LOL!
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