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The runny boyband ballad and bouncy disco pastiche have mercifully taken a dive in popularity. Instead, we have the sexy, percussive rumble of Rachel Stevens's Sweet Dreams My LAX, Kylie Minogue's darkly minimal Slow and Holly Valance's fantastic State of Mind, a record that finally manages to attach the grinding, synthesized noise of the short-lived, uber-hip "electroclash" movement to a decent song.

Petridish vs Carlin FITE!!

anyway, nu-totp sounds like rockist tosh -- it's going out live and there'll be loads of presumably terrible punditry, 'reports', etc. well, it's hardly perfect now, but this sounds rubbish to me.

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

a decent song

He needs to know that indecent songs are all the rage, daddio. Uh, yeah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ARGH as long as it doesn't have that dreadful stick from Saturday morning TOTP co-presenting in which case I might have to claw out my own eyes in irritation.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The runny boyband ballad and bouncy disco pastiche can be good too of course!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Nu-TOTP could go either way, to be honest. I think in Peters they've got a producer who understands what a modern teen audience want (T4's been pretty much an unmitigated success since day one, even though I think it's dreadful). This new MTV guy... I honestly don't know. They're getting rid of the Star Bar, at least.

Anyways, as I've said before: if they want to turn Top of the Pops' audience figures around they need to look at how BBC2 relaunched Top Gear to show how you do a magazine show nowadays.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My request for James May to help the new TOTP will, sadly, be ignored.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Starry Sarah dissing out Fern Cotton. It cannot be. She r grebt.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

interestingly Top Gear runs on Sunday nights which still strikes me as a potentially better slot for a new age TOTP, more than early Friday evening anyway (times have changed a little). if nothing else they could just devote more energy and resources to TOTP Saturday and try to win back ground lost to the superior CD:UK

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you could be onto something there stevem... have they decided what their audience is yet? Families? Tweenagers? The 15-21 demographic?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

this guy is seriously young. younger than me. and therefore i hate him already.

'darkly minimal 'slow''.

oh for fuck's sake!

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

TOTP must return to thursdays.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor old Petridish - the proverbial Japanese soldier who comes out of the bushes 50 years later still thinking it's WW2. It's all over! Try and keep up, lad!

I presume that the new-look TOTP will not feature DLT coming onstage with a broom and comedy cloth cap to sweep up while the Darkness are on. And as I've said millions of times before, if they're going to keep scheduling it against Corrie there is NO POINT IN UPDATING IT BECAUSE NO ONE WILL BE WATCHING!!!! More anonymous "presenters" with their "cool" voices trailing off when they finally get around to announcing the artist. Plus onscreen karaoke lyrics. Can't they just get Timmy Mallett to present and have done with it?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 24 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

TOTP back to Thursdays

yes but ONLY if now working as a preview to the following Sunday's chart rather than the previous Sunday's

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps they could go back to being hosted by Alex and Edith!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Scheduling against Corrie is the time-honoured BBC way of getting to kill off the unkillable.

― Sad Dr Who Fan (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

For "Alex" read "Colin"... he does look like an Alex, though.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but TOTP is the Notts County of television, even if it slips to 2 million it'll still be on TV because it's Top of the Pops and you Can't Let It Die.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

have they decided what their audience is yet? Families? Tweenagers? The 15-21 demographic?

that's the thing - as i stated in my recent FT article it seemed more that in the past TOTP was genuine universal viewing with something for everyone (in the case of your parents or grandparents this often meant the something was merely something to moan about) so i'm not convinced this demographing is necessary, even today

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Scheduling against Corrie is the time-honoured BBC way of getting to kill off the unkillable" cf DrWho? except...

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

since no-one buys singles any more they've made the sensible decision of playing stuff from upcoming weeks as well as present hits.

i used to think it was stupid to put it on friday, when i used to go out fridays (or, more accurately, go out before 8 o'clock on fridays), but now i can see the logic. i don't watch corrie anyway. i just want a show that plays a lot of pop songs that my friends and i can judge in a slightly better spoken version of beavis and butthead. no punditry, sarky comments or reports from the studio, thanking you.

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Why is the TOTP-esque Live Chart Show on CBBC rather than BBC Three?

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Fern Cotton is rubbish!

Idiot Pete.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd like to see last week's for 'Lucky Star' - i'd like to see this week's for 'Miracles', assuming the Ver Petters will be on

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

they were on week b4 last.

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

if nothing else they could just devote more energy and resources to TOTP Saturday and try to win back ground lost to the superior CD:UK

I'd be interested to see the recent viewing figures for these shows. Personally I'm sick of Cat Deeley and CD:UK and find Fearne Cotton's TOTP Saturday very refreshing. Fearne admittedly devalued herself by cavorting about idiotically with a saxophone alongside Shane Ritchie a few weeks ago but generally the show works very well.

― David (David), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

CD:UK's success is more down to it's timing - it's hard to avoid on Saturdays unless there's sport on

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

or, like a sane person, you are still in bed asleep.

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

are you accusing my mother of being a mentalist?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

person here=member of cd:uk demographic

are you saying my mother's old etc etc

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

no i'm saying she's fat

― steve manning (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

aha! made you reveal your NAME

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i was surprised to hear that andi peters is behind all this,i kind of presumed he'd ceased to exist
is it still only half an hour?
maybe since no one buys singles any more they should have a run down of the top rings tones
its what "the kids" are all into now,apperently

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

not a bad idea. ringtones are qt accurate now. i heard 'frontin' on someone's mobe and it was basically the real ting. 'slow' sounds quite ringtoney.

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

andi peters was also responsible for T4 IIRC

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

CD:UK also used to ride off the back of SM:TV, so it built up its fanbase along with that. The peaking of SM:TV also coincided with the bigstyle decline and fall of Live and Kicking and the shiteness of The Saturday Show's early days (Joe Mace and Dani Behr, a presenting team rivalled in vileness only by Andrew Neill, Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo. Excluding all makeover and property shows, natch).

Course, during the post-Ant and Dec years that wouldn't really have helped so much, but then it had become such a fixture that SM:TV probably got viewers solely off its success. The 'Saturday chart' certainly changed the game for pop programmes, shifting the focus off the Sunday chart a fair bit. Also, because of the longer slot, it meant there was more time to talk to the artists, so they got a greater affinity with the show itself. TOTP just offered you a performance, CD:UK gave you a little bit extra - banal as Petridis reckons they are, that little bit means a lot.

Also, his thing about 'pop stars have no personality' - FARMER OF COCK. The top ten this week is filled with artists that most people could find at least something interesting to say about (poss exceptions of Wee Kev and Westlife, true). All the records either have some kind of back-story to them (Girls Aloud, Pet Shop Boys, Alex Parks, Britney, to an extent Westlife), or are that interesting that they create their own kind of mythology, such that it doesn't matter about the artist cos the song itself is that damn good (Wee Kev, Outkast, Fatman Scoop, possibly Lemar). True, 11-20 presents a bit more of a problem, but even there you've got The Alesha Dixon Phenomenon, the amount of little quirks buried in the Blazin' Squad single, the continued tenacity of Superstar and Where Is The Love... though finding something to say about Enrique charting at #11 is hell on stilts, true.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i was fuckin robbed!

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

a presenting team rivalled in vileness only by Andrew Neill, Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo.

mentalism! i quite like the sparkiness of this trio

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i kiss you (by which i mean ruggedly handshake) for 'hell on stilts' tho

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You have seen my teeth, then.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

WBS - surely you've got that the wrong way round? Outkast and Fatman Scoop are brimming over with personality in a way in which Girls Aloud and Westlife and even Britney just aren't. I don't think this is necessarily to their detriment (Westlife excepted).

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i think outkast and GA both have personality, admittedly there's more in outkast.

― enrique (Enrique), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

See, I've got this very long and boring theory about how Girls Aloud have it in them to be the most interesting act in pop today personality-wise, but my fingers are very, very cold right now.

Agreed that Fatman and Outkast have more personality than the other two, but the other two have more interesting circumstances/back stories, in the sort of "Rise & Fall Of..." mode - for instance, pre-this week, most people would've predicted a slow easing into retirement for Westlife after the relative chart failure of 'Hey, Whatever', but returning to the dull-as-ditchwater balladry has put them back on top again, thus meaning they could carry holding everyone down for years to come yet. It's not like they rely on keeping their looks.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheyrl Tweedy's personality is 'interesting'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Westlife's interview in the last Popworld was the most entertaining thing in it by a mile.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno - I think there are two types of 'personality' here and we're talking at cross purposes - there's the type that you have to actually know about the tabloid/Heat magazine history to fully appreciate, and the type that jumps out of the screen and slaps you in the face after just one TOTP performance when you know bugger all about the band members themselves. I've got to say that I'd plump for the second type any day.

They're not mutually exclusive, of course - I suppose the Spice Girls were the most effective combination of the two.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It was rather funny when Mark Westlife was on CD:UK and got a good grilling from Cat Deeley.

"So boys, last time you were here you said no more covers"
"Yes"
"But your new song is a Barry Manilow cover"
"Yes well er they told us to er er er"
"Har har"

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Westlife have also compared S Cowell to Hitler.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Who used to make his top SA men perform incessant Andy Williams cover versions apparently.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

only difference = Hitler knew about art

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem OTM about Abbot and Portillo (meet the Scottish Vampire), Short and the Widdecombe just don't have the same sexual chemistry.

As for TOTP, Clarkson would be excellent as he'd obviously hate everything on it with the sole exception of the Darkness perhaps

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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Just worked out - from eleven new entries in the chart, they managed to play... one. I think Mis-Teeq were meant to appear, but then didn't. I may have been too busy having spasms of rage to notice, however.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 29 November 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Holly Valance's fantastic State of Mind, a record that finally manages to attach the grinding, synthesized noise of the short-lived, uber-hip "electroclash" movement to a decent song."

That's marvellously provocative.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 29 November 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

As I recall Mis-Teeq were on first, William! I've always felt that TOTP's job is to play the #1 and the big new entries or high movers (in the days when records moved up the charts). But if you do that on a Friday, you are hopelessly behind the times, and not showing what people are interested in now, so switching more to what people are buying this week and what they'll be buying next week makes more sense for any music show. The dilemma for TOTP is that this takes them away from the very raison d'etre of the show, reflecting the charts. Running it on Monday based on the brand new chart would be some kind of decentish compromise, but that feels too early in the week to me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 29 November 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, they were - saw again last night, turns out I tuned in a tiny bit late on Friday, assumed they'd be starting off with Elton. Oh well.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 30 November 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

they played a lot of 'future hits' which is probably a wise move; records have such a long prerelease life nowadays that by the time they get in the charts most people are overfamiliar with them.

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 30 November 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It was rubbish, like some awful grown-up version of CD:UK, with this terrible presenter. I guess it'll be easier for the BBC to de-commossion TOTP now.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 30 November 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

jel is turning into ian paisley!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 30 November 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a great moment when Kaz/Kash/Him was caught in the headlights of the camera. He stared at me. I stared at him. I think we shared a moment. Can't someone give him an autocue?!

― Sarah (starry), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

He has one. Without it he's nothing. With it, he's not much either, but when things go wrong he can't sing along. Witness the moment where the ringtone doesn't come through and he tries to ad-lib. By not saying anything. Him shouting out to the crowd and not noticing that they aren't there. The man is terrible.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Why can't we just have videos and miming?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

And an hour is too long!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It's half an hour next week. Considering how curtailed a lot of things were this week, that's gonna be nightmarish.

What odds they have Maiden on?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

HOPE SO!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The clearly gay presenter who's been hired by the very gay Peters saying that will young is a growing and maturing artist just sends shivers down my spine. And when the hell did Will Young develop this lisp he's currently sporting? is he trying to one-up Gareth?

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

But it's surely easily Will Young's best ever record!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 30 November 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

aren't you all forgetting something? THEY REVIVED THE TITLE THEME MUSIC FROM 1992!!!!! what an absolute howler - out of all the TOTP themes there have been this is well known to have been the least popular - they haven't done much to it tho funnily enough it does seem more appropriate for the new format (charmless, unimaginative, utterly homogenous and unoffensive). give me 'Yellow Pearl' or 'The Wizard' anyday - of course i said that ten years ago too.

also the new logo is a shameless rip off of the Obsessive Records logo
http://www.dotmusic.com/images/obsessive/obsessive.jpg

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/includes/banners/logo.gif

Nothing like it...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I must have been asleep throughout 1992 as I don't remember that at all, slugger.

Swiggit, surely he couldn't have had an autocue as he kept looking down at what I assume were his "notes" every other two seconds! This just having one presenter lark is a load of bobbins anyway. They should have a SQUAD.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Kelly Osbourne/Gareth Gates double 'interview' should have been more awkward.

― Nu-Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The clearly gay presenter who's been hired by the very gay Peters saying that will young is a growing and maturing artist just sends shivers down my spine.

This is definitely erroneous, folks. There's nothing gay about Tim, except for his industry standard mildly camp let's-appeal-to-kids-and-grannies delivery. In fact, I'd almost go so far as to say he's ungay.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Enrique - wasn't the fact that neither of them had any reason to be there aside from some bizarre 'star power' enough?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

re the logo: it's inside it, flipped horizontal and switched to another secondary colour! i don't like the typeface much either. if up to me i would probably connect TOTP, TOTP2 and TOTP Saturday more somehow visually (perhaps they are doing this?) ala BBC's own ident perhaps - keeping the TOTP title (txt msg lingo the kids can dig it right?) - i suppose this new one is equally steeped in 60's iconography/aesthetics but possibly too corporate?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

the presenter should be as GAY as humanly possible. gay > tediously cool

does no-one else remember the music that replaced 'The Wizard' and how the new theme is just a scant update of it?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you know how many companies use a similar logo? There was an ongoing thing in Private Eye about this when the ill-fated Consignia chose a swirly circular thing.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

He wasn't cool, he was tepid.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That logo's a stylised speaker cone, right?

But isn't that an old thing? Surely we've have 'headphones' type images used in the TOTP logo before? Like, in the 1980s? So this is a step back, yes?

Shouldn't the logo of the TOTP of today be a stylised iPod?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Re the logo:

http://www.my-generation.org.uk/vert1.jpg

Though the designers of the Vertigo label logo probably got the idea from somewhere else. It's an age-old optical illusion thing surely.

The Kelly Osbourne/Gareth Gates double 'interview' should have been more awkward.

This was interesting to see Gates' control of his stutter start to slip (as it did during a stressful moment in the celebrity driving test programme he appeared in..he mostly has it under control now).

― David (David), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I did shout out "Kelly what are you wearing?!?" it's true.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Kash: "well you've both got new singles out but i can only play one of them...and it's Gareth's"

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

But I really think that the poor state of TOTP reflects the poor state of pop in 2003. Lots of groups/singers etc, releasing stuff that's not as good as the stuff they released a few years ago. Oh dear, that was rockist wasn't it?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, I didn't give any songs a 9 or a 10 in the focus group (which I sent in too late).

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem, i remember the totp intro music, i was surprised that they'd revived it as well as its easily the worst one. kash looked both assured and deeply nervous at the same time. weird.

― zappi (joni), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder what 'the kids' think tho, all the moaning is coming from over 16s it seems

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The kids watch CD:UK and music TV all day though, don't they?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Thing is - there was only time for one of the videos, and it was the chorus at that. What were they making time for, exactly?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

That Blazing Squad bit.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Right - here is the lineup for this week's show.

Big Brovaz
Sting
Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne
Victoria Beckham (twice)
Will Young

... and that's it.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

That sound you hear is of hundreds of UK tellys being switched off.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Good grief, five acts? And only one record I like (the Will Young).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey, the only bit I wanna see is Ozzy and Kelly.

TOTP over by X-mas?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I will keep watching for a while - there might be another revamp along in a few weeks. Also, I'd feel as if I was kind of giving up something important to drop it. That's hard to explain - maybe it's just that in over thirty years of loving music, it's been the most constant thing, the only thing that ties back to buying my first records (single: T. Rex; album: Slade) over three decades ago.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

What on earth are they thinking...?
Peters most emphatically does not seem to have any answers; he's making things far worse, from all accounts.

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 1 December 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.marktab.org/gif/wcgmw.gif

― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

fern cotton is hot

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 29 January 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

actually, im not sure

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 29 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

She would be better at 19:30 on a thursday.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 29 January 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I saw her in the flesh this morning. I was at the TOTP taping. She's really not that hot. And she's a miserable cow too, it seems. We got to see Beth Orton, Graham Coxon, Orson, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ashlee Simpson. It wasn't so great. I was front centre for Orson and Orton. So look out for me on the telly next week/the week after.

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 29 January 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

fern cotton is hot

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 29 January 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

BBC4 is broadcasting complete episodes of TOTP from 1976 for some reason. The one I saw was quite staggeringly awful: Sailor, Brotherhood of Man, a bunch of rubbishy singer-songwriter types whose names I've forgotten, and Pan's People dancing to Jungle Rock. All highly uncomfortable.
The only thing of interest was Fox doing S-S-Single Bed. Oh, there was Diana Ross & Abba, but only on tape, and THREE Beatles singles in the chart rundown. Desparate times.

Surprised these haven't been discussed on ILM.

― bham, Monday, 18 April 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

ILM is on it
The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread.

― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 18 April 2011 15:38 (fourteen years ago)

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