Ashes to Ashes

Bloody good!
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Fr. Jack

The Un-Civil Servant

http://craggy-island.myminicity.com/

 

Not as good as Life On Mars, I thought. Bit average overall.

 

I was laughing out loud at bits
I repeated some lines out loud
I noticed that their copy of Tennis Girl wasn't signed by Martin Elliott
(like what mine is)

But it doesn't have the fresh feel of the original.

Despite firing up the Quattro

 

Agreed.

And the music isn't as good, either.

But Gene Hunt makes up for it.

 

I missed it.

Thankfully it seems to have made it to the bbc iplayer, so I'll watch it
tomorrow lunchtime.

 

<anorak mode>
Don't get me started on the Quattro.. Gene Hunt driving a RHD Quattro in
July 1981 when they weren't made RHD until late '82.

</am>

 

<Mode=Internet user>
Yeah, I read that too
</m

 

no decent totty this time

 

Apparently the producers are well aware of this fact, and DGAF. It's
a TV fiction/drama show, in which one character appears to have
travelled in time by some 27 years. If you can accept that, you can
accept one fucking car being wrong.

 

I thought that the music was spot on for the era. There was even a
lovely cameo of I'm In Love with A German Film Star by The Passions which
was masquerading as soundtrack and not a song IYSWIM.

All it needs IMO is lots and lots of The B-52's who were in their pomp at
the time.

Every right thinking UKRM deconstructed Male's role model without a doubt.

 

Yes. So it's shite.

 

heh. I was into Merkin art bands at the time for that very reason.

 

I was doing a similar thing about the Commodore tape deck on the shelf in
the radio store room - they weren't that shape until '82

 

Jeez, no. "Appalling Nazi bongo music"

 

:

<anorak mode>



Tower Bridge seemed to have moved somewhat also!

 

Great idea, thanks for that!

 

So, you were into poodle rock at the time, I imagine

 

prawn  wrote:

Heh. I was never much into poodle haired widdle fest music - liked
some of it, but generally a bit of everything, much as now really.

 

Me too. In '81, I house shared with two mates who were also
motorcyclists. The only rows that we ever had was about what music to
listen to (our tastes were completely different). Bizarrely, we only
agreed on The B52's, JJ Cale and Lightnin' Hopkins - so that's what we
spent most of our time listening to.

 

Checking the old 45s collection, I see from tonights show I have Gary
Numan, the Clash, the Passions...and I'm not saying I wasn't a metal
head as well!

Anyway, I largely agree with this review:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3328821.ece