I just sent one member a PM with all of the post-1980 acts that I feature. Strangely enough the total is just over 40 - average about one worthwhile new artist per year by my reckoning, The 60s and 70s present far more options for my musical taste.
I do a show on Saturday evenings on the local FM station, 8:00 to 10:00. It's a bit of fun, gives me a reason to dredge through my collection each week for new material. I have online listeners from my past life, in Philippines, Australia, Canada, USA and Hong Kong. If there has been a notable death or anniversary I build a show around that, otherwise I just look for stuff that I think will sound good on the radio (which cuts out more songs than you might imagine).
www.hailshamfm.uk go to the Listen Live tag from a desktop or laptop browser. Tune a Smart Speaker to Hailsham FM Access from a tablet or mobile using TuneIn or RadioUK app
Everyone welcome, be gentle with the abuse ... I will check in to this site, any witty abuse I will read it out
'Life on Earth' is still the finest Natural History series ever made - and it's over 40 years old now. I never tire of watching it through. If that 13 part series was re-made today with all the latest advances in filming, it would be magnificent. Attenborough should be made a Peer of the Realm.
Not really. Lord Attenborough would have earned his title, unlike most of his peers... peers, geddit?
I always find it a bit diffucult to split music into decades. For me, the finest was the period from around 1975 to 1985 (coincidentally when I was growing up). There was the vestiges of glam rock (Queen. Bowie, Roxy Music) followed by Punk, Ska, and the electronic music of OMD, Japan and Ultravox which morphed into the New Romantics before winking out in a desperate chase to get number one hits. After that there were blips and bands <i liked. The new punk movement in the early nineties (Offspring, Rancid, Green Day etc) and the rock like Metallica were great but a bit of a false dawn. There was some BritPop stuff from Blur, but sadly I could never find it in my heart to like Oasis, and from there it seemed to be a slide into drivel. I'm sure that there must have been great bands, but I couldn't be bothered to look. But I will try and check into @PubLandlord 's musical offering at some point - change is good.
Waterloo compared favourably with some of the ESC winners. I didn't like the heavy onbeat in most ABBA music, but thought they wrote some well-constructed songs with decent melodies. Heavy onbeat spoils it though. Unlike most blokes I preferred the dark-haired one to the blonde.
