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We've got a Mazda Bongo too (Massimo LuBongo if you're asking).
They are about 1/10th the cost of a VW and great little vans. Ours is a 95 Diesel, it's perfect for quick family getaways, even better for festivals. Two kids in the pop top, me and the OH on a rock and roll bed in the van. Just look out for rust, they are Japanese imports, so they hate salted roads! There's a garage in Felixstowe that's good with them and one near N*rwich which is great with them.
We bought ours on one of the many Mazda Bongo (Also called Ford Friendee) facebook groups.
I don’t think they are sadly. Quite a few passed away that year. The last that I had the name of died three or four years ago.
When we did the risk assessment for that show we discovered that the % risk of a veteran dying whilst commemorating the anniversary was almost identical to the % risk of dying during D-Day itself.
They were an amazing bunch, sitting in a cafe having a beer with them the night before was a real experience. We all just shut up and listened to them.
I had the immense privilege of making a radio show commemorating the 70th anniversary. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p020h5jp/p020h4p8 I met with dozens of veterans at various locations including care homes, Arromanches anf the Chelsea Pensioners home and recorded with many of them including this poem. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p020h0fc We ended up being dropped on to the beach 70 years to the minute. It was a truly life changing experience if I’m honest.
I’d also recommend D-Day Minute by Minute by Simon Mayo’s brother (can’t remember his first name)
At Watford they were massive pains about me having a normal sized rucksack. Had to leg it to a left luggage area on the other side of the ground just before kick off and then again at the end to retrieve it before it shut, missing the celebrations.
I'm currently having exactly the same fear about tomorrow night with taking a work laptop in.
Yep, Happiness Patrol actually stands up better than I'd remembered, clunky FX, but an Anti Thatcher, Anti Clause 28 serial on kids TV is something I can get behind, Silver Nemesis mocks the special relationship and predicts the re-emergence of the far right it an enjoyable romp (still no idea who Courtney Pine's agent had something over)... Meanwhile Feneric and Remembrance of the Daleks are both all time classics IMO.
For balance Caves and Earthshock great though they are, are pretty much the same story twice, but then Caves has the minus point of yet another baddie who has been badly disfigured in a half arsed Phantom of the Opera style (see also Black Orchid et al)... As much as I love the 5 Drs, you've conveniently ignored Timeflight, Snakedance and The Kings Demon which are all much worse than any McCoy era story.
Pertwee and McCoy were my favourites growing up. I was a fan just in time for the cancellation, but luckily my brother was an obsessive who knew fans who could get hooky copies of old eps 🙌 I’ve been rewatching a lot of Pertwee and McCoy and really surprised by how well it holds up. The Davison era on the other hand is an utter horror show with just occasional moments (Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks).
If you enjoyed the Pertwee era (and Troughton), there’s a really good audiobook called Who and Me, by the Producer Barry Letts that I would love to have included more info from. Loads of amazing stories of Pertwee nicking Who props to open fetes and chase “dolly birds” etc.
Full disclosure, I didn't manage to sneak any Town references in this time, but if you enjoyed the Rise and Fall of Britpop, you might also like these Dr Who Documentaries, which follow a similar pattern but cramming 60 years in to 114 minutes.
If we sign up for the friendlies tomorrow and are overseas for any of the early games do we get to view them or is there a separate international version of town Tv that you can’t see domestically? Keen not to pay once then pay again in France and it’s all as clear as mud. Not impressed with the new site etc so far tbh.
Suede were 100% part of Britpop. They may not have been keen on it in the long term, but they are literally part of the genesis of the genre... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n9dp
Weirdly one of the things I stumbled across whilst going through my loft before making the podcast was a poster I liberated from the Suede gig in Ipswich back in 93/94 (?)
Reminded me that at the time you could have seen Blur (I didn’t) Longpigs, Ash, Boo Radleys, Ocean colour scene, Embrace, Travis, Super Furry Animals etc (I did) in Ipswich. Made me very grateful for the work of The Brighten the Corners team in recent years in reinvigorating Ipswich as a place for live music. Perhaps The Murder Capital, Yard Act, Grove, Antony Szimerick etc will be those names for another generation.
And yet in Four Lions it is in one of the greatest scenes in modern comedy
Thanks for the kind words on the pod Whos Blue. If you haven't listened to it, it covers A LOT of the points made above. Plus you get to hear the Roger Osborne commentary in a new setting. What's not to like... Ep 8 also features Town fan and musician Bessie Turner and The Baths alumni Yard Act.
Basically he loves underdogs and he came to Town at a point where we were good, so then he went to Layer Road and it felt more punk. Hard to describe how annoying it is to sit with a bloke who did the entire cup run in 78 but still ended up a Col U fan, weirdly Dermot O'Leary who also grew up in the Essex hinterland ended up supporting Arsenal largely because the first cup final he was aware of was 78 and he wanted to support the underdogs Arsenal when everyone in the surrounding villages has blue and white bunting up... With a different result on the day we could have lost a star and gained two high profile fans :)
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