Film 86 Michael Parkinson reviews Creepers Sitting in for an absent Barry Norman, Michael Parkinson doesn't mince his words with this review of Dario Argento's Creepers (aka Phenomena).

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: standing in on Film 86, Michael Parkinson seems to think the existence and release of Dario Argento's Creepers is a personal attack on him.

A huge thank you to Princess Julia for opening the Obscure shows last week (and on her birthday) with her excellent DJ sets, which you can relive at the Spotify playlist link below.

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McAlmont & Butler - The Sound Of… McAlmont & Butler cover. Photograph of the two artists, each looking in separate directions.

"It reminds of a very particular time in the mid-90s and ‘Yes’ was the one. It’s such an amazing song, I think. ‘Widescreen’ is a good way of describing it and it is such a massive canvas."

Mark Gatiss on McAlmont & Butler - The Sound Of… McAlmont & Butler

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Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug (Todd Terje Disco Dub) YouTube video by Bryan Ferry

Someone posted a video up of this being played on the night and I found it a bit wobbly and disconcerting. In a good way. #RaveyardShift

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Miserablism - Obscure Pet Shop Boys @ Electric Ballroom, London 10.4.26 YouTube video by Bro since 1979

The joy of this… 😍

Miserablism - Obscure Pet Shop Boys @ Electric Ballroom, London 10.4.26 YouTube video by Bro since 1979

Legendary…

My boyfriend (a journalist) was scheduled to interview Liza Minnelli over the phone this evening. I was unaware of this...

Liza rang our landline. I answered, mid-way through a mini Battenberg, and told her she had the wrong number. No one is speaking to me.

I’m reading Liza Minnelli’s autobiography, and it’s summoning some serious trauma from 11 years ago…

Ladytron - ‘Seventeen’(2002) single cover. Two faces from the band, one only showing half a face due to being placed on the border of the image, both in black with hair also that shade and lettering spelling the band's name in white and red.

"With this one, we felt that it was special from the very first demo. As soon as the vocal went down, and I filtered the vocal, everyone was excited about it. The lyrical repetition is like a passive hypnosis almost."

‘Seventeen’(2002) - The Strange World of Ladytron

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Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵
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Rheinzand - Love Games - 0266 YouTube video by Music For Dreams

Absolute classic. Very fond of Rheinzand’s cover too:

The reason the British have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol is that we have fuck all else to live for. We've impoverished ourselves, told our friends to fuck off, smashed our public services and closed our public spaces. A bitter, bored nation with nothing left but spite.

Premature Evaluation: Robyn 'Sexistential' Imagine if Kate Bush came back with an electroclash record, or if Björk’s first album in years was a straight-up pop concept LP about life as a fun, horny middle-aged single mom. That would be weird, ...

Robyn's new album 'Sexistential' is an idiosyncratic mega-pop blast; check out our Premature Evaluation review

user abbiistabbii: The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing. Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour. It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words!

That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go

It promotes a growth mindset!!
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Bernard Butler & McAlmont - Yes Video YouTube video by catcha2007

Yes? Yes.

A very odd horror, but I kind of love it for a truly remarkable climax alone.

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Imagine ‘Vogue’ not even being your best single.

Drowned world was a hell of an album opener back in 98. The joy of hearing it for the first time, and knowing immediately that Madonna was back on her game, is seared into my memory.

The vinyl lp of The Colour of Spring by Talk Talk

'Come gentle spring, come at winter's end.'

Released 40 years ago today.

There's nothing for you here!

The Fraggles are on this cover of the TV Times from February 1984

From w/c 4 February 1984 - The Fraggles appear on the front of the TV Times.

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As a nation we should be proud that American involvement in Doctor Who has fucked it twice.

Illustration of frogs embracing looking to camera Text reads: CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU* * our dual income is the only way we can survive financially Jaunty Art 26

Can’t Live Without You*

Threatened with cancellation to the point the show runners ended it. Then renewed. Then cancelled. Then the story lines were hastily wrapped up in an x-files episode. Amazing. Also, have to give mention to Eerie Indiana, and Nowhere Man.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t as dull a choice as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains