Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 289603 times)

alfapete · « **Reply #2375 on:** 23 November, 2023, 10:12:04 am »

Rat ta tat ta tat...

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2376 on:** 23 November, 2023, 10:45:52 am »

Hebcelt listings are up.

Del Amitri
Elephant Sessions (they were on in 2022 and so good).
Face the West (not headliners but I really like them)
Sharon Shannon
lots lots more.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2377 on:** 23 November, 2023, 08:51:05 pm »

David is playing music by Muzio Clementi on the piano.
'I know that toon.' thinks I.

A Groovy Kind of Love wot were Sung by Phil Collins, methinks.

I see Clementi is credited when I do some searching...

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2378 on:** 24 November, 2023, 07:24:36 am »

In the news today: the ~~SHIT~~ BRIT Awards recently went gender-neutral because the previous male and female categories excluded non binary artists.

Result: no female artists were nominated in some categories. So it's back to the drawing board.

Possible explanations: the awards very much have a "pop" bias, and pop music is purchased by teenage girls. Or, Ed bloody Sheeran was nominated five times for everything

Ham · « **Reply #2379 on:** 24 November, 2023, 07:17:53 pm »

Episode Deux.

Ok Google, play some Indian raga

Sure, here's an album called Indian Raga on Spottiface

Score! Yay! Indian instruments start twanging

(click to show/hide)

sam · « **Reply #2380 on:** 26 November, 2023, 01:26:12 am »

I wasn't aware until just the other day that the boy half of the dueling banjos in Deliverance wasn't actually playing his banjo: he wore a special shirt, and his arms belonged to a ~~magician~~ musician.

Jaded · « **Reply #2381 on:** 26 November, 2023, 01:27:05 am »

I imagine the squealing was done by someone else as well.

sam · « **Reply #2382 on:** 26 November, 2023, 01:45:00 pm »

Swineherd Bill McKinney was last spotted peddling Doritos.

Ham · « **Reply #2383 on:** 27 November, 2023, 09:31:42 pm »

Listening to KT Tunstall's Psycho Killer made me think, whatever happened to songs with French bits in them? They used to be quite a thing, from Beatles through Blondie and quite a few others, I always thought to help their French sales, but it has completely dropped away and I can't recall one in recent years. Is that my ignorance or a real thing?

hellymedic · « **Reply #2384 on:** 27 November, 2023, 09:47:31 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 23 November, 2023, 08:51:05 pm

David is playing music by Muzio Clementi on the piano.
'I know that toon.' thinks I.

A Groovy Kind of Love wot were Sung by Phil Collins, methinks.

I see Clementi is credited when I do some searching...

Cheesy tune, with cheesy lyrics...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2385 on:** 27 November, 2023, 09:49:41 pm »

Yes, that sonatina was used by a popular beat combo about 55 years ago.

Peter · « **Reply #2386 on:** 27 November, 2023, 11:58:21 pm »

Everybody who has ever played a major scale has played that tune.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2387 on:** 28 November, 2023, 04:41:32 pm »

Forwards and backwards...

Regulator · « **Reply #2388 on:** 12 December, 2023, 02:18:46 pm »

DUNE - Part 2 is out in March 2024... and it's 2 hours 46 minutes in length.

Is there some sort of weird film length arms race going on?

citoyen · « **Reply #2389 on:** 12 December, 2023, 02:21:54 pm »

Quote from: Regulator on 12 December, 2023, 02:18:46 pm

DUNE - Part 2 is out in March 2024... and it's 2 hours 46 minutes in length.

Is there some sort of weird film length arms race going on?

My theory is that it's being driven by cinema chains who want us to spend as long as possible per visit so we can spend more on food and drink.

Kim · « **Reply #2390 on:** 12 December, 2023, 02:24:37 pm »

They stopped having to edit films properly when everyone (except cinema-goers, who presumably have the same hardened bladders as the people who need cars that can do 500 miles without refuelling) had a pause button.

But if the first film's anything to go by (they move house, stuff starts to happen, the end), two hours of that could be wasted on epic scenes of mostly sand.

T42 · « **Reply #2391 on:** 12 December, 2023, 04:52:14 pm »

Well, it is a sort of space-going Lawrence of Arabia. Gotta have sand.

citoyen · « **Reply #2392 on:** 13 December, 2023, 03:30:05 pm »

Mentioned to my dad that I'm going to a gig tonight...

"Who are you seeing?"

"Jockstrap"

"Are they the support act?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2393 on:** 13 December, 2023, 06:11:46 pm »

Ba-dumm and, moreover, tish!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2394 on:** 19 December, 2023, 02:56:58 pm »

Yesterday, I tried to explain Elvis Costello to a 20-year old from Hong Kong. Later, a 70-year old from Edinburgh tried to explain Georgian choral music to me. I think all that can be said to have been achieved is that we now all know these things exist, and maybe we'll explore them in our own time.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2395 on:** 19 December, 2023, 03:01:38 pm »

All I really know about EC is that he isn't a real Costello*, he has big glasses, and he's probably better at writing and producing than he is at performing his own stuff.

*I know a real one, and she's quite sniffy about him appropriating the name

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2396 on:** 19 December, 2023, 05:16:02 pm »

Then Joshua (I don't suppose that's what his family and other Chinese speakers call him, but he always introduces himself as Joshua) is one up on you as he now knows EC comes from Liverpool.

mattc · « **Reply #2397 on:** 22 December, 2023, 07:08:51 pm »

Quote from: Ham on 27 November, 2023, 09:31:42 pm

Listening to KT Tunstall's Psycho Killer made me think, whatever happened to songs with French bits in them? They used to be quite a thing, from Beatles through Blondie and quite a few others, I always thought to help their French sales, but it has completely dropped away and I can't recall one in recent years. Is that my ignorance or a real thing?

Thanks for that. God she's great (and that's even before her brilliant Ivor Cutler docco).

But clearly the French ain't cool any more. c'est fini <shrugs>

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2398 on:** 22 December, 2023, 11:49:34 pm »

Jan and I just watched some 32-year-old rubbish in the form of Bernard and the Genie, with Henry, L. and Atkinson, R., as recommended to me by my pal Liz. I'd not seen it before, which is perhaps something of a surprise since it was made at about the time (1991) that it would have really appealed to our kids. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2399 on:** 23 December, 2023, 08:34:07 pm »

From the big box of "Did that person really play this?" comes an album of psychedelic folk by... Debbie Harry!
https://youtu.be/mA6IY6qc6zQ?si=b4RgqTUh0J5ZFOWU