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I miss my "cowing Bovril"!

Wait till we get the bill.....

London Calling
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Rock the Casbah

Wizard- I Wish It Could Be Christmuss Everyday

Slade - Merry Xmas Everyone

Darlene Love - All Alone On Christmas

RIP Jimmy. A true superstar.

You have to pinch yourself at times. Is this really happening?

Sudanese national murders woman who worked at hotel they were being put up in.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/14/walsall-rhiannon-whyte-murder-trial-deng-chol-majek-wolverhampton-crown-court

I knew this man very well. A more inoffensive (although streetwise) fella you never met.
Birmingham is a very dangerous place now.

BBC News - Tram stop killing: Birmingham man sentenced to life - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-43346807?app-referrer=deep-link

The Jean Genie
John I'm Only Dancing
The Young Americans

John Jones - Rudy Mills
5446 Was My Number - Toots and The Maytals
Monkey Spanner - Dave & Ansell Collins
Israelites- Desmond Dekker
Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
Buttercup - Winston Scotland
Stop That Train - Clint Eastwood and General Saint
Dat - Pluto Shervington
Wet Dream - Max Romeo

Off the top of my head.

Dark Hearts on iPlayer is terrific. French special forces squad chasing Isis targets in Iraq in 2016.

Cheers for the recommendation, enjoyed it.
One thing: do the French ever make a show without Thierry Godard (the Colonel) in it?

Had tickets for the gig tonight, we spent more on them than we should have, shifted them on at face value once we factored in the total cost of the trip across.
Watched the gig, zero emotions re not being there. In these expensive days, they bogged the arm in no end, greedy hoors. Working class, yes, heroes to many, but definitely not working class heroes these days

(first 2 albums, 10/10 BTW)

Where/how did you watch the gig?

Twitter, there's was around 950k watching it. Video obviously not great but the audio was spot on

I'd never even think of that. 

Had tickets for the gig tonight, we spent more on them than we should have, shifted them on at face value once we factored in the total cost of the trip across.
Watched the gig, zero emotions re not being there. In these expensive days, they bogged the arm in no end, greedy hoors. Working class, yes, heroes to many, but definitely not working class heroes these days

(first 2 albums, 10/10 BTW)

Where/how did you watch the gig?

Monto
The Rising of the Moon
Boolavogue

Could change them all tomorrow.

No Soul, Motown fans on here?
Smokey Robinson, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, The Temptations etc?

I believe Carlsberg Special Brew now at 7.5% instead of the 9% when I were a lad. I can't recall the last time I've seen a can of it in the wild.

That was wonderful stuff.

Turning Point: The Vietnam War on Netflix.  It's decent.  A solid 8/10, but it really isnt much of what we havent seen before. I preferred the Ken Burns 10 part series that was out a few years ago.

I had hoped for more of a Vietnamese focus, and more specifics about the actual war and battles etc. Sometimes I feel these docs go too far into what effect the war was having on society in USA, while completely skipping over the specifics of what was going on in the actual conflict in late 60s and early 70s.

Turning Point: The Vietnam War on Netflix.  It's decent.  A solid 8/10, but it really isnt much of what we havent seen before. I preferred the Ken Burns 10 part series that was out a few years ago.

I had hoped for more of a Vietnamese focus, and more specifics about the actual war and battles etc. Sometimes I feel these docs go too far into what effect the war was having on society in USA, while completely skipping over the specifics of what was going on in the actual conflict in late 60s and early 70s.

Very true.
Has anyone seen anything pertaining to the break up of India and in particular the division of Pakistan?
There's never been much said about the conflict between these two countries and yet it has to have the potential of a Nuclear war.
They really do not get on.