Entertainment For Lively Minds
When Worlds Collide
Posted by Andrew F on 4 July 2011 - 10:57pm.
Bargepole's post about childhood tunes got me searching YouTube for other favourite things from my early years, and I stumbled across this - which I remember vividly. Even at the time, it seemed like a bizarre clash - Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain guesting on 'The Sooty Show'.
Can anyone think of a more incongruous partnership? There must be some bizarre intersections between the world of rock and the world of children's television out there...
- More from Andrew F.
- Login or register to post comments
-
Iggy Pop
having simulated sex with a teddy bear?
Was he
in the Sooty Braden Showband ?
The most inappropriate question for kids TV quiz
From Paul Hester, of course.
Bloody hell!
I remember that, it must be at least twenty years old that clip
Chegwin-fuelled
Esoteric mike-holdage technique:
(Is Vic There? by Department S)
Twice in two days...
...it must be a record ;-)
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/whats-sooty-you-prefer-master-of-p...
Blimey...
Didn't realise this had surfaced before. What are the chances? :)
REM
Didn't REM do Sesame Street?
For reasons I'm not entirely sure of
Appearing on The Muppet Show or Sesame Street doesn't do your credibility any harm.
Someone dig out that clip of Stevie Wonder doing Superstition on Sesame Street. It is a magical thing.
Nah!
They wouldn't do something like that
Prince and the Muppets
Small, surreal, weird looking and brilliant... and also the Muppets.
There have been some
There have been some fantastic Sesame Street performances.....even James Blunt does a good job on it;
1 - Feist on sesame street
2 - James Blunt on sesame street
3 - Tilly & The Wall on sesame street
This all leads me to wonder
why there isn't a prime-time Muppet Show on our TV's. Surely it would have parent\ ironic teenager \ stoner\ kiddie appeal and the film n music stars would be queuing round the block to appear
Prog! Tiswas!
Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford appearing on Compost Corner (COMPOST CORNER).
COMPOST CORNER!!!
That is all.
I'm struck
by how much Nicko McBrain looks like Robin Trower (when much younger) and how much Matthew Corbett reminds me of Richard Thompson.
More to the point, I still remember Gary Moore in his metal years appearing on No.73. A Saturday morning kid's tv show hosted by Sandi Toksvig in the '80's. He was in the full leather fronded jacket and knee length boots. It was live and at least twice something caught his eye while he was singing and he almost corpsed.
It must be on youtube. I'll have a look later.
About 1982
Motorhead on Tiswas, although that probably isn't such a clash of cultures.
Eggs 'n' Baker
Cheryl Baker of Buck's Fizz fame had a kid's show in the '80s/'90s that mixed cooking with all things rockular. It was totally bizarre. I'm at work so can't confirm this through the magic of YouTube, but at home I do have a Pele DVD that has a clip of two of the Scouse popsters (they had a number one record in South Africa, dont'cha know!) cooking up a storm in the kitchen.
The Smiths...
...With Sandie Shaw...on Charlie's Bus
Little kid: "Where are we going?"
Morrissey: "We're all going mad"
"I thought we were going to Kew Gardens"
Also check out Marr making a 'wanker' gesture to a child, at 0:19.
More The Smiths...
This time on Data Run with some puppets, and some kids singing This Charming Man. Happy days.