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This prog is basically Harvey Goldsmith bringing up some old names and reviving their careers.

Yesterday, Samantha Mumba, next week some opera company, and soon it's some Heavy Metal group (re)living their Spinal Tap moments...

Hilarious? Dudder? Or just "I dunno, he looks a lot like Alan Sugar to me!"

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

I can't imagine this is going to be much cop. The last programme where they tried to revive old music careers (I can't remember what it was called, but it had him out of Spandau Ballet, that short dumpy girl from Liverpool with the massive gob, and Elkie Brooks in it) was absolutely dire.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:01 (eighteen years ago)

This isn't a music programme, more a programme about the music industry. Well, a series of meetings in which Samantha Mumba turned up late to, anyway. And Harvey Goldsmith going "where the bloody hell is she?". Repeat until funny.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oh well then. It might be better than I feared, if nobody actually gets to sing.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

and soon it's some Heavy Metal group

yeh, fuckin' saxon! madchen and stet especially should appreciate the value of this :)

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

i met one of saxon once, outside one of the 2 big venues in cambridge, i forget which one.

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

Well, a series of meetings in which Samantha Mumba turned up late to, anyway. And Harvey Goldsmith going "where the bloody hell is she?". Repeat until funny.

A review in this morning's Metro said she pretty much considered herself to be still a pampered diva despite the evidence to the contrary. Bizarrely the reviewer finished with "expect to see her in a d-list reality show before long" - I thought you just did?

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

The biggest "oh shit" moment was when Harvey found out she'd never sung live with a band before.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

Did Mumba get signed? If anything, that programme will do more to prevent her making a successful comeback. HG was there to help her yet she was coming out with all this "I bet he's not used to a strong woman talking back to him" crap. I'd had her pegged as someone sweet and inoffensive before this, surprising to see her behave like such a spoilt little brat.

― NI, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

This all fizzled out, didn't it?

I only saw the mumba one.

How did it all end?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

anyone?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

Goldsmith was transfixed by a spear of frozen liquid waste on the corner of Mattock Lane, W13.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

It was all a dream and Mumba woke up in the shower while still having a career.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

well we found out Saxon write songs in a shed in the wilderness with only a diet of bean feats and porn mags. tHAT WAS A SURPRISE.

'you thought you were here to see The Cure..but Heeerrrees SAXON !'

― Geordie Racer, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

bean feats are notoriously tricky

― Geordie Racer, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

The Saxon one was hilarious. Shitty series but that episode should be seen by everyone.

― NI, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

The Mumba one was something else too.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

I saw Samantha Mumba mentioned on another thread, it remnded me of this prog.

Apparently, lowest ratings evah, but god! This show was amazing.

I missed this, but the last three shows got shown late-night out-of-schedule, and included Mike Read on some "All-hits radio" living in a shared house with DidDav Amilton, and all those other.

― Mark G, Thursday, 25 August 2011 14:55 (fourteen years ago)

The Mumba one was ZZZZZ, Saxon were like a low rent Spinal Tap, Mike Read was an exercise in people in total denial. Later I saw one of those "clear crap outta yer house" programmes which featured Read and his fiance.

― Hysterically Hardcore (snoball), Thursday, 25 August 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

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