Vladimir PUTIN “Mr Jackson, I lost my virginity to your song Ben. Rest in Peace.”

Barack OBAMA “Poor Jacko is now forever blowing Bubbles. It is a damn shame.”

Podcasts

Roy Budd, Jazz Pianist

Roy Budd, Jazz Pianist »

Dur. 19 mins 42secs Roomybonce’s guide to Roy Budd, composer of ’70s scores from Get Carter to The Wild Geese, pitch perfect child prodigy, Lalo Schifrin impersonator, and defender of the Jazz Pianist faith. Buy his...

April 6 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »
For Jane

For Jane »

A very personal podcast this, dedicated, as it is, to a very old friend who died last month. I really don’t recommend you listen to it unless you knew Jane and she touched your life as profoundly as she...

March 22 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Film

Everybody was kung-fu biting »

Everybody was kung-fu biting

Here’s something a little different to celebrate Peter Cushing’s birthday back in May. It’s the album version of the Hammer/Shaw Brothers co-production ‘Legend Of...

Jun 9 2009 / No comment / Read More »

I Dismember Mama!!!! »

I Dismember Mama!!!!

I thought we’d give For One Night Only a little rest. I’ll come back to it at some point, maybe dip in and out...

May 18 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Death Of A Silly Man »

Death Of A Silly Man

The recent death of Dom DeLuise saddened me. I grew up in the 70’s and his clowning littered the films and videos I watched...

May 6 2009 / 6 comments / Read More »

Classless Society »

Classless Society

How does a film about a serial killer set during Pinochet’s reign in Chile end up being a feel-good movie? I think it was that...

Apr 21 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »

Received Wisdoms & Sir Roger Moore »

Received Wisdoms & Sir Roger Moore

I’ve been getting so much stick from workmates for daring to criticise Roger Moore’s action epic ‘The Sea Wolves’ in the Roy Budd Podgasm,...

Apr 11 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »

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TV

Viva Diversity! »

Viva Diversity!

Creative dance tour-de-force Diversity inched out borderline sociopath Susan Boyle last night to snatch the Britain’s Got Talent crown from under the YouTube phenomenon’s florid nose & thunderous brow. Fair play, if La Boyle had nailed a fresh song rather than falling back on her Les Mis breakthrough things might have been different, but Diversity brough...

May 31 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Godzilla Vs The Love Monster »

Godzilla Vs The Love Monster

Godzilla as you’ve never seen him before – getting down & dirty with a rampant Sea Monster. ...

Apr 24 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »

The King of the Stringers »

The King of the Stringers

For those of you who don’t know, a ’stringer’ is a freelance journalist hired by a news network to report on a certain area. Instead of a regular wage they’re paid by the piece, and Malcolm Brabant is their God. He’s been the BBC’s man in Athens for an age,...

Apr 15 2009 / 3 comments / Read More »

Toons

Wise Old Owl »

Wise Old Owl Hey, another multi-panel cartoon. I must have too much spare time on my hands. Looking back over my cartoons, I can definitely see the influence...

Jun 26 2009 / No comment / Read More »
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News

Fart Rape

Fart Rape

Who hasn’t experienced the situation where somebody in your vicinity thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to slyly break wind? They know the anonymity of being in a group of people is protecting them, and...

Jun 17, 2009 / More »

Net

Cassetteboy

Cassetteboy

Homoerotic it may be, but Cassetteboy is just the kind of tragically marginalised knobsessed cut n’ paste genius I would love to lick bone dry of a morning. And there are two of them, so...

Jun 11, 2009 / More »

Music

OLD MAN ROOMY remembers…

OLD MAN ROOMY remembers…

Swine Flu & The Spands This must’ve been back in ‘83. I was on the road with Spandau Ballet - it must’ve been off the back of the ‘True’ album, a long player so massive...

Apr 29, 2009 / More »

Books

J. G. Ballard: 1930 – 2009

J. G. Ballard: 1930 – 2009

I am actually a huge fan of J. G. Ballard. For me, his work was the perfectly polarised companion to the Star Trek adventures of the early 80’s, novelisations around which I read widely, expanding my sci-fi universe...

Apr 21, 2009 / More »

Mags & Rags

D-Day vets in Brown storm

D-Day vets in Brown storm

And by that I don’t mean an MRSA squittercane. I’m talking about Gordon Brown jumping on the D-Day 65th anniversary bandwagon at the mearest hint that Barack Obama might stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the increasingly few surviving...

Mar 21, 2009 / More »

Sport

Stoke-on-Trent: Cradle of Darts

Stoke-on-Trent: Cradle of Darts

Yes! It is! Wedgwood and Royal Doulton – the once proud pottery flagships of my glorious hometown - may be slipping beneath shit creek as Yankees by the coachload decide not to fly 2,000 miles to buy...

Jan 14, 2009 / More »

For One Night Only

For One Night Only Vol.2 – XTC

For One Night Only Vol.2 – XTC

Right, let’s keep this short and straight to the point. I think there was too much waffle on the last post, especially when this should essentially be about the music. Feels like I...

May 10, 2009 / More »

radio

Sir Clement Freud: 1924 – 2009

Sir Clement Freud: 1924 – 2009

  A great man once said: “If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer”. That was Clement Freud: Liberal MP, ‘celebrity chef’ over...

Apr 18, 2009 / More »
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