Let me start by saying that I went through all my old vids and maybe only one or two weren't on YouTube already.

Having said that, I recently watched Pop Gear again. This movie has some phenomenally oddball performances. Annnnnd....90% of them were in fact on YouTube. So- I gleaned 'em and here's a bunch well worth a look.

It's introduced by Jimmy Savile - possibly king of the jerkoffs. (Okay, okay, great guy etc., etc.- but hey I ain't English!)

HOWEVER- first up is something from that film that wasn't on YouTube: the gold pants dance sequence - if you like gold pants like I do, then this video is for you. You're welcome for the upload, massive fan base!



Comes next, (as my son used to say when he was a baby) is the Honeycombs singing Have I the Right, which is notable for two reasons:
The friggin' mentally-challenged-cousin-type on rhythm guitar, and the fact that the drummer, I'm pretty sure, is a dude in drag....



Tommy Quickly gives a performance of Humpty Dumpty that can only be described as excruciating. I want to punch his face off every time I see it. If I didn't have such a nice TV, I might punch it. This video infuriates me so.......

I'm punching you in my mind Tommy Quickly! In fact, I'm punching punching itself!!



UPDATE could this be another version of a sort of cultural idiom? Help me, massive fan base!!!


The Four Pennies doing Where Did you Sleep Last Night ain't no Leadbelly, but their interpretation is such a screamingly loud (for the era) go at it, sort of an end-of-folk-Dylan-at-Isle-of-Wight event, that it's quite enjoyable.



Billie Davis singing Whatcha Gonna Do? is like watching a live Thunderbirds character singing. Exquisite. Dee-lish. Helium-y. Puppet - puppet - puppet.



Steve Winwood in the Spencer Davis Group stands as exemplar of some of the great performances from this film (The Animals, Herman's Hermits, et al) so I'm including it.



Last is the creepy butt dance being done by the Roger Daltrey clone in this performance of Tobacco Road by the Nashville Teens (whatta name!) The Butt dance is mesmerizing in a scoliosis/back brace/uncontrolled intestinal problem kinda way. The performance is good tho.


All the great performances, with the exception of Matt Munro, a super boring lounge singer, will be watched over and over by me.

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Lex10's people, half of them, came from the Old Sod in the 19th century.

Oh boy! I hope I meet an Irishman-from-Ireland so he can remind me that this is really completely MEANINGLESS holiday to the Irish......they just love doing that!

Please no emails from 1800 hours -5 GMT until 2000 hours. I'll be watching Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

Bloody Hell! It's caused me to add a whole new page a' me Amazon Store!

Cartes-Postale from the GlyphJockey collection. All originals.



Ah, the joys of being Irish - why curtail your ire, express it on a Holiday greeting?



This one's exquisite in big. Oh yeah, as is often the case here at GlyphJockey, most pix link to bigger versions



Man! I want that Font!


AND finally, a loovely wallpaper in the link at the picture below.....



" I'm fucking Irish, I'll deal with something being wrong for the rest of my life." - Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan in The Departed

Labels: Irish

Captions: "Piss Off!" (courtesy GlyphJockey youngest daughter)
"Begorrrah! Why ti feck will ye no suck me pit clane, y'half oonshik amodon?"
"Och aye, will ye no mek my cesspit braw as well, laddie?
"Pip pip, good show, care for a pot of tea....and some crap smell?"
"Royt, luv, oi'm 'ere to clean out yer Tom Tit - y'know yer Eartha Kitt, the results of yer 2 Bob Bit, yer William Pitt....erm i could go on..........."

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