Monday 31 October 2011

JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH - THE YAMAHA YEARS


Back around the mid-late 80s, ex-"Jilted John" Graham Fellows regenerated into one of my favourite comedy characters: the self "styled singer songwriter from Sheffield, South Yorkshire" and "ex-security guard for a sweet manufacturer in the Rotherham area (which he can't mention for security reasons!)": John Shuttleworth. I first discovered the character when he appeared semi-regularly on Channel 4's Saturday Zoo in the early 90s in which he performed - on his Yamaha PSS portable keyboard - some of the self-penned comedy song classics that have been compilated on this must-own album called The Yamaha Years. Shuttleworth's uniquely British brand of comedy and music is always guaranteed to put a smile on my face. Fave tracks: "The Christmas Orphan", "My Wife Died In 1970", "Up And Down Like A Bride's Nightie" and, of course, the anthemic Eurovision entry wannabe "Pigeons In Flight".

1999
192 kbps
63 mb

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MICHAEL NYMAN - A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS



My all-time favourite movie score (besides Danny Elfman's score for Tim Burton's 1989 masterpiece Batman) for, likewise, one of my all-time favourite movies: Peter Greenaway's surreal, avant-garde masterpiece A Zed And Two Noughts. The entire score has remained constantly in my head ever since the movie was first shown on Channel 4 back in 1985. Favourite tracks: "Car Crash", "Prawn Watching" and the sublime "L'Escargot". Sublime is the word I would use to describe both the movie and the entire score.


MICHAEL NYMAN - A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS
1985
320 kbps
59 mb


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