Rain and plenty of it at the Test The quintessential English way to end hopes of regaining the Ashes. Changing tack somewhat... Well done though to The 1975 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66281846 Refusing to play gigs in Nations with homophobia built into their constitutions. Just perhaps a little remiss of them not to find out what kinds of places these were though, before arranging to go there. They've made a stand though rather than just pocketing the money.
Rapper gets a drink thrown at her while on stage, so she throws her microphone at the offender... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66358971 ...but her voice continues to come out over the loudspeakers Oops! caught lip-syncing
Twats throwing stuff onto the stage at bands they have paid to see seems to be a bit commonplace. Weird behaviour. But this is right back to the musical callibre of Milli Vanilli back in the eighties. Who wants to watch a mime artist when you've got Spotify
And England unexpectedly nick the final test. It's a shame the weather washed out the previous one, and tried to bog this one down, so the Ashes go back down under, but a great test series. I wish Spanish TV would show it - these heathens need a bit of cricket in their lives !
Sadly it's a sign of how immature people can be when they get together and probably have a few drinks. Brings out their inner moron. Throwing things is something that babies do. By the time we're 2 years old most of us have learned it's wrong and silly. Unless you're at the Valley protesting against Roland of course Even in the theatres, audiences who should know better have been disrupting performances and behaving like idiots.
EARTH The TV equivalent of big glossy coffee table books on modern art. Covering the 4 billion years of geological history, each episode seems to last about 4 billion years. I've had my interest held better watching test cards. This evening we learned how blue-greens gave us a breathable atmosphere. 50 minutes that took. Around 45 years ago the BBC jointly produced LIFE ON EARTH, presented by a very young looking David Attenborough. In the first of 13 episodes, Attenborough covered the same subject in about three minutes, and in a way that was about a hundred times more interesting. LIFE ON EARTH was a masterpiece of Natural History television. It set a very high new bar for excellence, which sadly this latest offering utterly fails to reach. Even now it stands up to all the more modern types of programmes, now crammed with CGI effects. I must have watched the whole series a hundred times over, but it is so well made that it is a joy to watch every time. Attenborough is a towering figure in this field, whereas the bloke who presents the Earth programme is lamentably over-the-top.
Anyone else listen to Charlton Live? It's a good listen, next edition on You-Tube live at 7 tonight. After that the podcast is on Spotify, or there's probably a link to it on Google. Louis Mendez does a good show.
The Giant Pandas had better hope not I've never had much time for Packham. This latest BBC bore-athon has not changed that view. Even the Planet Earth series a few years back, which were little more than stunning (mostly aerial) film sequences with David A doing the voice-overs, was much better coffee table TV than what we're being served on Monday evenings.
As far as I know he's never worked for Charlton. He writes CHarlton reports for SLP, that's all I know about him. I don't think he gets paid for doing Charlton Live, so he must have another day job.
I thought he left the Newshopper to then report the game in some capacity. My understanding was it was not full time, purely when games were played.
Caught a program called Car SOS this morning about a couple of guy's in the west midlands refurbishing old beaten up cars. Normally something of zero interest to me, but the story was on this occasion, the car was owned by an ex firefighter from Scotland who planned to refurbish an old Rally car, but was forced to retire due to a back injury, which also meant he couldn't refurbish his old car which was left to rot in the garage. Watching the mechanics refurbish the car, seeing how it ended up, and finally seeing the look on the guy's face when he was presented with the finished item, looking as if it had just rolled off the factory floor was a joy to behold. If only they could do one about fixing broken football clubs
