A Little More Web Kipple
A couple of bits of The Young Ones ephemera I’ve stumbled across.
The first, a trailer – with a trailer – for the first season of The Young Ones.
(Pinched from here!)
And in the second, a Friends Provident advert from 1990, Vyvyan and Neil sellout long enough to try and flog us insurance and investment products whist running around a supermarket.
(Pinched from here!)
Taken Summer 2022.
Insomnia by Faithless. Live on a 1997 edition of Later… with Jools Holland.
So I’ve added 561 additional map images of Durham from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series.
Interesting places covered this update include:
And, of course, Durham itself.
And here is a mid-90s Britpop-related show. ‘Britpop Now‘ featured performances by Pulp, Blur, Supergrass, Elastica and others – and all with very little filler. Oasis are, however, notably missing.
Continue reading “Britpop Now (BBC2 / 1995)”Sometimes it’s hard to remember the initial panic and horror that surrounded the 9/11 attacks or possibly you were even yet to be born. Either way, Archive.org’s Understanding 9/11 TV timeline is a good place to start your understanding what it was like to watch things unfold on that day.
The Polyphonic Spree‘s cover of Nirvana‘s Lithium.
It’s been something of a slow summer season for films this year.
And in the beginning there was ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels‘, and the people saw it and liked it and told their friends, who also saw it and liked it and told their friends.,
And then, after some time, it had earned 28 million dollars on a budget of just 1.4 million.
And the film executives and producers and directors looked at this return and saw that it was good.
And thus began the late 90s wave of UK-based dramedy crime capers.
Continue reading “Recent films – Summer 2022”I’ve just added 575 map images of Dorset from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series to the map project.
Interesting places covered in Dorset update include:
