Futtocks

Shaun Wane ought to take notes from this, after last night's result. Warning: after a normal start, the swearing just keeps ramping up.

You may recognise the Standells' Dirty Water, without having known the name of the song or band. It does get used sometimes in TV programmes and adverts. The Vagrants feature the guitar and voice of Leslie West, later of Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing. And Nazz was Todd Rundgren's first band. Seriously, check out 'Nuggets' - it's even more ace than Cas Vegas!

Indeed - brill compilation overall: Side 1 The Electric Prunes: "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" The Standells: "Dirty Water" The Strangeloves: "Night Time" The Knickerbockers: "Lies" The Vagrants: "Respect" Mouse: "A Public Execution" The Blues Project: "No Time Like the Right Time" Side 2 The Shadows of Knight: "Oh Yeah" The Seeds: "Pushin' Too Hard" The Barbarians: "Moulty" The Remains: "Don't Look Back" The Magicians: "An Invitation to Cry" The Castaways: "Liar, Liar" 13th Floor Elevators: "You're Gonna Miss Me" Side 3 Count Five: "Psychotic Reaction" The Leaves: "Hey Joe" Michael and the Messengers: "Romeo & Juliet" The Cryan' Shames: "Sugar and Spice" The Amboy Dukes: "Baby Please Don't Go" Blues Magoos: "Tobacco Road" Side 4 The Chocolate Watchband: "Let's Talk About Girls" The Mojo Men: "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" The Third Rail: "Run, Run, Run" Sagittarius: "My World Fell Down" Nazz: "Open My Eyes" The Premiers: "Farmer John" The Magic Mushrooms: "It's-a-Happening"

'Jihadi John' went to the same school as Fred Housego and Suggs. Not at the same time, obviously.

'Nuggets', the legendary 1972 garage band* compilation whose sleevenotes contain possibly the first use of the phrase "punk rock". If you don't already own this, why not? *before the term was diluted/polluted by an obscure dance music subdivision and, more recently, the Apple software of the same name.

Good stuff, especially 'Apostrophe'. For a night on the whisky, I'd personally have gone for 'The Grand Wazoo', 'Make a Jazz noise here' or 'One Size fits all', but let's not be picky, eh?

Depends on the Zappa album.

Caol Ila 'Moch' - lighter than the standard version, but still smoky. Very nice, and marked down at my local Waitrose to only £2 more than own brand.

Okay, ITV's Pop Gold - few surprises in the choice of bands and songs, but refreshing to see different performances. I look forward to the rest of the episodes (8 in all). Highlights include the Pogues doing a (slightly cleaned-up) rendition of 'Boys from the County Hell', Arthur Brown in full nutter-mode and Johnny Cash at San Quentin Jail. Crusty old punks would enjoy the Pistols and the Clash, old rockers can enjoy The Who doing 'Relay' and Motorhead's 'Overkill'..

Heads up - in a couple of minutes (10:45), ITV open their music archives for the first since who knows when, with episode 1 of 'Pop Gold', this first week with the theme of "hellraisers". And Oasis.

Surely the flaccid measurement is influenced by ambient temperature? Even the legendarily-equipped* actor David Niven described his own appendage as looking like an acorn when he almost got frostbite while skiing. *Patrick McNee, once asked if Niven's plunger measured nearly a foot, said something along the lines of "well I wouldn't say it was quite that thick..."

Referring back to an earlier post, here's the MST3K take on 'Space Mutiny'.

Ooh! Just sampled a few scenes and this stinks the place out magnificently! Here's the badmovies.org review: http://www.badmovies.org/movies/megaforce/ MST3K may have gone, but Rifftrax have revived the concept, with the input of some of the original guys. It turns out that Rifftrax fans have been requesting a treatment on 'Megaforce' for a while now.

On a Ronnie Barker tangent, Matt Lucas' new comedy show appears to be a direct ripoff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futtocks_End

Plus Legs & Co, of course - always had a bit of a thing for Sue.

The Floyd one looks like Cassoulet to me. The cloves, tomatoes, tomato puree and smoked sausage may be a regional variation, but the overall ingredients are what you'd expect. It is a pretty fatty dish, and not something you ought to have too often, but done right, it is delicious. Edit: the Hairy Bikers do take a fair few liberties with traditional recipes. This doesn't mean it will be bad, just different (sometimes a lot different) from the original.

Corrected your typo...

I'm not saying it's bad - in fact it looks very tasty, and in my experience the Bikers are a good source of recipes. But it just isn't a Cassoulet.

A combination that reformed only last year. I know a fan who bought the reunion album and loved it!

It is from their diet book - essentially a bowdlerised 'lite' chicken stew.

Got some big beef short ribs for tomorrow - I will be applying a spice rub tonight and letting it marinate.

When I was young, I listened to Radio 1 and Radio Luxembourg. Apart from some of the specialist slots, the programming was fairly mainstream, and it was only more recently that the internet allowed me to discover all the really good stuff I missed at the time. BBC Six Music is a very good source of a more varied musical output, as are certain Radio 2 programmes. The dinosaur era of Radio 1 got its first death-blow from local radio. Their musical output was usually just as vanilla, but morning and afternoon shows could offer localised traffic reports, which Radio 1 couldn't. And, after many years, listeners could finally vote with their radio dial about how beloved the likes of Simon Bates, Dave Lee Travis and Whooh! Gary Davies really were once there were alternatives available.

Point 1: Rabbitohs gear with a ginger-haired person is a bad colour clash. Point 2: The only bit of the awards I saw was Sheeran's anodyne strumming, underwhelming vocals and shallow wordplay. He doesn't deserve Rabbitohs gear - Crowe should have given him an England RU shirt.

Chick peas? Chicken? Tomatoes? Keith must have been seriously hammered when he wrote this. Here's a reasonably authentic recipe: http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/anthony-bourdain/articles/cassoulet It says three days, but if you buy pre-soaked white beans (i.e. canned), that's a day cut out already. You can also buy tins of confit duck legs - another day less, so now we are down to a normal recipe timescale.

RIP Robert Z'Dar. .