tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63911384638879138972024-03-13T15:23:34.355-07:00My 1970s DiaryA teenager's genuine diary from the 1970s. He grew up okay.Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre (and Kev F the comic artist)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13372875858541503502noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391138463887913897.post-36928442211030162742024-01-20T09:20:00.000-08:002024-01-28T09:29:35.494-08:00Snow and faded Banda - Jan 19 & 20 1978<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKOWVehP4utjQIWLMjZcU0d7Mrt3kf2ZdazVmihWyf-JnUK393bFEN1kP_KzPC0mAlpZKdh6WsO3P-pgfKRp4d0Oj-hRmRhlY40c5sYO8_xqAti-e36sX_Z29-d5XoY1vcuL8XgzgLjVK18nytcRmyPD-lVZ2AKnUlMph8hd5wutZvWe2RONSXiqTL2k/s4032/KevDiary(7)SNOWJan19&201978.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKOWVehP4utjQIWLMjZcU0d7Mrt3kf2ZdazVmihWyf-JnUK393bFEN1kP_KzPC0mAlpZKdh6WsO3P-pgfKRp4d0Oj-hRmRhlY40c5sYO8_xqAti-e36sX_Z29-d5XoY1vcuL8XgzgLjVK18nytcRmyPD-lVZ2AKnUlMph8hd5wutZvWe2RONSXiqTL2k/w640-h480/KevDiary(7)SNOWJan19&201978.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My heavily decorated Picture Diary was on its last legs by this stage, January 1978. I was 16 years old, and working towards my O levels that summer. I was also getting more serious about writing and drawing comics, and it was possible that things might actually start happening in my life. Or not, it certainly doesn't make a riveting read yet. Okay, it snowed. That was quite a big deal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The illustrations have, appropriately, faded too. They were from Banda, the school magazine which I edited and produced most of. It was run off on a Banda machine, which produced a weedy purple ink, with a smell much stronger than its actual permanence. These images have almost gone, haven't they? I should imagine the next time I look at these pages they'll have evaporated forever.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They're from a strip called The Hawk, co-written by me and Steve Noble when I'd visited him in Bristol over the Christmas and New Year period, and drawn by me through the novel method of pressing hard with a biro so you could make an impression on a carbon/purple copy sheet below. The type had to be hammered through, on a manual typewriter, on the same carbon paper sheet, with no scope for error.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Try and tell the kids today the effort we had to go to to see something in print, and they won't believe you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My Record For The Day was new at the time, though it's hard to imagine that ever being the case.</div> <p></p>
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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/904452281" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Denmark-Street-Shakespeare-graphic-ebook/dp/B0BSRC1G38" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Kindle</a><br /><b>Midsummer Nights Dream Team</b> - <span style="color: #2288bb;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Midsummer-Nights-Shakespeare-Graphic-Novels/dp/B0C7VD6QZL" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> </span>- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/904454413" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Shakespeare Omnibus Collection</b> (all 3 books) - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/144782654X" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Richard The Third </b>- <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Third-Shakespeare-Graphic-Novels/dp/1838082441" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> - <a href="http://kevfcomicartist.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/richard-the-third-kev-sutherland/1144120970" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a> - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/richard-the-third/kev-sutherland/9781838082444" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Waterstones</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Tales From The Bible</b> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1470951231" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1215940903" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/comic-tales-from-the-bible/list?title_no=913659" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Webtoons</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>The Book Of Esther</b> - <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/kev-f-sutherland-and-kev-sutherland/the-comic-book-of-esther-graphic-novel-pocketbook-edition/paperback/product-dkzdd5.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Lulu </a> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comic-Book-Esther-graphic-pocketbook/dp/1447608054" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/comic-tales-from-the-bible/list?title_no=913659" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Webtoons</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Captain Clevedon</b> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-Clevedon-Classic-Paperback-original/dp/1447725085" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Tales Of Nambygate</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Nambygate-including-Phallas-Sutherland/dp/1447505786" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div></div>Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre (and Kev F the comic artist)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13372875858541503502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391138463887913897.post-86959136049597333712024-01-19T08:57:00.000-08:002024-01-28T08:57:49.131-08:006 Million Dollar Man & er that's it - Jan 19 & 20 1976<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7BTM3KEPUrK9y83PyDEL6kCg5nelGV5bD-sw0bDJs7QiCq1qe_iRQ5JXkxONH0JA0NkuVJESo20_hjRCXRJTr-2WYZP-OySqKBo7Kk7R7DE6pSJWzXKnd2m1-Bmt3K0LUAVFp4KH7MAfprVtdNcgE5ViyvG5DLRsl0W5yvEh79IzuJfUdW7SV1XuBr60/s4032/KevDiary(3)Jan19th76.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7BTM3KEPUrK9y83PyDEL6kCg5nelGV5bD-sw0bDJs7QiCq1qe_iRQ5JXkxONH0JA0NkuVJESo20_hjRCXRJTr-2WYZP-OySqKBo7Kk7R7DE6pSJWzXKnd2m1-Bmt3K0LUAVFp4KH7MAfprVtdNcgE5ViyvG5DLRsl0W5yvEh79IzuJfUdW7SV1XuBr60/w640-h480/KevDiary(3)Jan19th76.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>My, someone had a whole load of nothing much going on in his life when he was 14 years old. January 1976 and you'd be hard pressed to find a less interesting couple of days of diary. A nifty, if lop sided, attempt at drawing The Six Million Dollar Man by me, and it looks like Fawlty Towers was being given a re-run which would mean me seeing it for the first time.</p><p>My Records For The Day were the long-forgotten follow up to Motorbiking by Chris Spedding (who must have been meeting the Sex Pistols for the first time about now), and Sgt Pepper, which I think I had recently bought with my Christmas money.</p><p> </p><p></p>
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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">My Books and where to get them:</b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Findlay Macbeth</b> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1714448967" style="color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Amazon</span> -</a> <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/904450475" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> <br /><b>Prince Of Denmark Street</b> - <span style="color: #2288bb;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1470990660" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/904452281" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Denmark-Street-Shakespeare-graphic-ebook/dp/B0BSRC1G38" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Kindle</a><br /><b>Midsummer Nights Dream Team</b> - <span style="color: #2288bb;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Midsummer-Nights-Shakespeare-Graphic-Novels/dp/B0C7VD6QZL" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> </span>- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/904454413" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Shakespeare Omnibus Collection</b> (all 3 books) - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/144782654X" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Richard The Third </b>- <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Third-Shakespeare-Graphic-Novels/dp/1838082441" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> - <a href="http://kevfcomicartist.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/richard-the-third-kev-sutherland/1144120970" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a> - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/richard-the-third/kev-sutherland/9781838082444" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Waterstones</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Tales From The Bible</b> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1470951231" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1215940903" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/comic-tales-from-the-bible/list?title_no=913659" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Webtoons</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>The Book Of Esther</b> - <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/kev-f-sutherland-and-kev-sutherland/the-comic-book-of-esther-graphic-novel-pocketbook-edition/paperback/product-dkzdd5.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Lulu </a> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comic-Book-Esther-graphic-pocketbook/dp/1447608054" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/comic-tales-from-the-bible/list?title_no=913659" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Webtoons</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Captain Clevedon</b> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-Clevedon-Classic-Paperback-original/dp/1447725085" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Tales Of Nambygate</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Nambygate-including-Phallas-Sutherland/dp/1447505786" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div></div>Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre (and Kev F the comic artist)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13372875858541503502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391138463887913897.post-6182790462931238722024-01-17T09:01:00.000-08:002024-01-28T09:08:40.549-08:00Me In A Spoon & Under A Shower - Jan 17 & 18 1975<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOFSXxU35NjK64ojoSCQLC3jJ-LTy3tXfqtS8M3dDK_Y_r5Qt1uWR0yQFjhuwjXL5lX_Tlqpx9OGLEcgGGTrw7RJnE-N1yYjJHURK7aRpebl7QGlt8pdM1IwGxsoiWutaSGJ7y1vj7HT3ZFiygONb7RYQmgLi4_wiOWNwChbdEfEWmM7pFoDL_OZhPIs/s4032/KevDiary(2)SPOON17TH18THJan75.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOFSXxU35NjK64ojoSCQLC3jJ-LTy3tXfqtS8M3dDK_Y_r5Qt1uWR0yQFjhuwjXL5lX_Tlqpx9OGLEcgGGTrw7RJnE-N1yYjJHURK7aRpebl7QGlt8pdM1IwGxsoiWutaSGJ7y1vj7HT3ZFiygONb7RYQmgLi4_wiOWNwChbdEfEWmM7pFoDL_OZhPIs/w640-h480/KevDiary(2)SPOON17TH18THJan75.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Excitement of excitement, something actually happens in this diary, and I even try and draw it. This is from the early days of what I called my Picture Diary, when I honestly thought I was going to make a comic strip of my life. Sadly this was as eventful as it ever got: me being pushed under a shower fully clad at Scouts, then having to walk home, and me drawing myself in the back of a spoon.</p><p>My fascination with what I was watching on TV was clearly worth spending more time over, with episode four of Doctor Who in Robot getting the full treatment, along with cameos from Jennie Hanely, Ed Stewpot Stewart, and Black Beauty. And, for no obvious reason, The Lone Ranger.</p><p>My Records For The Day were a couple of classics from Stevie Wonder and the Bay City Rollers.</p>
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text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/904452281" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Denmark-Street-Shakespeare-graphic-ebook/dp/B0BSRC1G38" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Kindle</a><br /><b>Midsummer Nights Dream Team</b> - <span style="color: #2288bb;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Midsummer-Nights-Shakespeare-Graphic-Novels/dp/B0C7VD6QZL" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> </span>- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/904454413" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Shakespeare Omnibus Collection</b> (all 3 books) - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/144782654X" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Richard The Third </b>- <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Third-Shakespeare-Graphic-Novels/dp/1838082441" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> - <a href="http://kevfcomicartist.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/richard-the-third-kev-sutherland/1144120970" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a> - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/richard-the-third/kev-sutherland/9781838082444" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Waterstones</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Tales From The Bible</b> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1470951231" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1215940903" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Etsy</a> - <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/comic-tales-from-the-bible/list?title_no=913659" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Webtoons</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>The Book Of Esther</b> - <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/kev-f-sutherland-and-kev-sutherland/the-comic-book-of-esther-graphic-novel-pocketbook-edition/paperback/product-dkzdd5.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Lulu </a> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comic-Book-Esther-graphic-pocketbook/dp/1447608054" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/comic-tales-from-the-bible/list?title_no=913659" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Webtoons</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Captain Clevedon</b> - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-Clevedon-Classic-Paperback-original/dp/1447725085" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Tales Of Nambygate</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Nambygate-including-Phallas-Sutherland/dp/1447505786" style="color: #2288bb; 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Here we have the day Elvis Presley died. A commemorative spread, and why not. We were on holiday in Montrose at the time, and my enduring memory is that, when I broke the news to Uncle Bill about Elvis he confessed he'd never been that big of a fan. I remember thinking that was a sacreligious thing to say, though in truth I wasn't that much of a fan either. It was my generation's Princess Di moment, and 15 year old me was happily swept up in it. Though I see that, by the following day, I've moved on from listing Elvis records in the RFTD slot and featured David Soul and Harry Chapin instead (let's face it, Harry Chapin knocks spots off Elvis).<br />
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Because there's been interest in using some of my childhood diary spreads in a BBC TV show called the Peoples History Of Pop - my Records For The Day caught the eye of a researcher - I've dug a few more out and put them up here on the My 1970s Diary. (I kept the Picture Diary from 1974 to 1978 but to date have only found a couple of volumes from 1977).</div><div><br /></div><div>UPDATE: August 2022. I'm running the Kickstarter for my new Shakespearian graphic Novel, Richard The Third, and I'd love your support. <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevfcomicartist/4th-shakespearean-graphic-novel-by-kev-f-sutherland-name-tba?ref=user_menu" target="_blank">Check it out here! </a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevfcomicartist/4th-shakespearean-graphic-novel-by-kev-f-sutherland-name-tba?ref=user_menu" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="935" data-original-width="1417" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiiibf7F6dXMUHFYLpDZ7fWjh-SUvqYtqSbRQ7xdeYLa1KyknYliINJ6Y3aA56WPff1zlBy4k2q3rA_llESls-Z4Pc_-M3CZa6xJ8qPi2eItA_JZQzQhzXmDfN3uAWq7rQAX-RzY0Ac-KsR-0PlVMceZJLtOOJqobAzGp5ZYpQxczAfM5stTkSJvwMPnA/w400-h264/Richard3TwitterPromo23Launch.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre (and Kev F the comic artist)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13372875858541503502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391138463887913897.post-69927333229863794382020-12-26T08:04:00.000-08:002020-12-26T08:04:19.777-08:00Frank Ifield in Panto - Dec 26 & 27 1974<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGKVLag2PgVHjtu07zAUBFst9xfl3NRXC1Yy8e0VdOMW6J-jK_f3oW7lfBKUVC_A9iC5_J_Rl0fm9jMJFle2PisdPMVnUUAJ5U8nh7Tk-MZKdD3oz0wclZlYx0DYSaVYKBdPw55R1GSHo/s2048/DiaryDec26%2526271974.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGKVLag2PgVHjtu07zAUBFst9xfl3NRXC1Yy8e0VdOMW6J-jK_f3oW7lfBKUVC_A9iC5_J_Rl0fm9jMJFle2PisdPMVnUUAJ5U8nh7Tk-MZKdD3oz0wclZlYx0DYSaVYKBdPw55R1GSHo/w640-h480/DiaryDec26%2526271974.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>As I post this at the end of 2020, it serves as a cruel reminder of what we're missing this year. Namely the Christmas panto. In 1974 we were treated to Jack And The Beanstalk starring comedian Ken Goodwin and yodelling Australian Frank Ifield. What I thought of it goes unrecorded here, my only note being an apology that I'd had to use an orange pen to colour his face in. A career as a theatre reviewer was definitely lower on my list than a career as a designer who colours things badly then finds excuses for it.<p></p><p>Some legendary TV on at the time, including On The Town (which we watched only a couple of weeks ago), MASH (which the Socks did a song about only last month) and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (about which I was reminiscing very recently). And this must, I assume, be the first time I'd seen Help! It was definitely the first time, and possibly the last, I tried drawing The Beatles.</p><br />
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Catch up with them on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ScottishFalsettoSocks/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a> for the latest. </span></div></div>Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre (and Kev F the comic artist)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13372875858541503502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391138463887913897.post-28527439188971104742020-12-26T05:03:00.003-08:002020-12-26T07:42:29.944-08:00The Christmas Dayth - Dec 25 1974<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggRk_Kc8E2V52yHGF395NstbiwUNQBsweDwTguWsDiDAwr4GhZ7AdQ36xHyhYlztZxCkZf-OWsN2485rHKDseDbHuAmpbT5ZlLeyYWblAchopKcyxshjeKNo2fr6EDiD6HoHT1RXRsTms/s2048/DiaryDec251974.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggRk_Kc8E2V52yHGF395NstbiwUNQBsweDwTguWsDiDAwr4GhZ7AdQ36xHyhYlztZxCkZf-OWsN2485rHKDseDbHuAmpbT5ZlLeyYWblAchopKcyxshjeKNo2fr6EDiD6HoHT1RXRsTms/w640-h480/DiaryDec251974.jpg" width="640" /></a><br>The first Christmas captured by my Picture Diary (which began life towards the end of term in June 1974) concentrates on illustrating the goodies I've received. Which include the legendary Goodies Files, a book that crops up regularly in second hand bookshops at pocket money prices. Does no-one realise the sheer quality of that book? With its cutout pages, overlaps and folds, and of course top notch comedy writing and pictures it is rivalled only by another pressie I got that year, The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok.<p></p><p>I had in fact been bought the Papperbox the previous Christmas (well, the hardback Bok version) by Mum who then took a lot through it and decided I was too young for it. She wasn't wrong. There are gags in this book that I wasn't going to understand for a few years yet. </p><p>That trouser belt was one I treasured and wore for the next five years, into my student days. It may still exist somewhere, it was a solid piece of brass was that buckle. That Giles book may well have been the foundation stone of my collection, which now included all but half a dozen very early books. To be honest, some could use replacing with less tatty versions. I wonder if I'll remember that in time for next year's Christmas presents?</p><br />
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Boy did I have no idea what the whole country would look like 45 years later (I'm writing this at the end of 2020, where ghost towns have been a familiar sight for a few months now).<p></p><p>The rest of post-Christmas 1975 looks much like it does today. Somewhere they'll be showing The Railway Children, Tom Thumb, and Dad's Army, and folks will be reminiscing about the time they saw Genesis Of The Daleks. In my case, it was at the bottom of page right.</p><br />
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How else to show off all those presents? Annuals galore, and what a lot of them. Not only the ones I had pictures of, but another three not shown, plus The Goodies Book Of Records, and the fantastic Happy Days book by Denis Gifford, that I still consult to this day.</p><p></p><p>The orange ball depicted on Dec 25 is my desk calendar, something I'd forgotten till now. You'd push a button and the date would flip over. The things we did back in the days before smart phones.</p><p>Quite the classic time for TV and pop music, with shows like the Porridge, Morecambe & Wise, and Some Mothers Do Ave Em Christmas Specials that still get shown on TV to this day, and brand new singles including my Records For The Day In Dulce Jubilo and Make A Daft Noise For Christmas.</p><br />
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Who remembered my Dad had appeared in a quiz show on Radio Leicester? Not I. Though I do remember he was on some sort of board or other, as a result of which we used to get a free Radio Times every week.<br />
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And as if that weren't starry enough, check out my description of the work on my forthcoming feature film: "..typed the shooting script for my latest film, Blunderbirds. ...I started planning it earlier this month. So far I've worked out the casting and shooting plans." The film did get made, and I have it copied to VHS somewhere. Sadly it's not made it into Youtube yet. But someday I'm sure we'll all get to see it.<br />
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In my Records For The Day is Look Out For The Giant by The Wombles, which I can safely say I have not heard once in the intervening 45 years.<br />
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An interesting little portrait here, of a "student teacher" called Mr Curtis, of which I have no memory. If he's out there anywhere, this is for him. In these early days of my diary (which I had started the previous summer) I was endeavouring to illustrate parts of my life, a tradition which soon evaporated. But here it continues, with me dressed as a tramp for a Tramps Supper, whatever one of those might be (at which I won a bar of soap, do people still run events like that these days?). I've also drawn myself in the bath. There are a few of these bath drawings in my diary, a very perplexing sight.<br />
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My Records For The Day run the gamut from maudlin to classic. Kevin Johnson's Rock And Roll I Gave You All The Best Years Of My Life is an odd one for me to relate to at the age of 13. Bizarre to see that the guy is singing about his musical career being over when, by his description, he's only been at it for about a decade ("bought all The Beatles records, sounded just like Paul"). That makes him younger than most of the acts on Jools Holland this year.<br />
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This is the first of my diaries to record the Sutherland family's legendary Hogmanay party. I say record, obviously being my diary it makes no mention of anything or anybody and devotes most of its space to TV shows and pop records. But we learn that the party started at midnight and I, aged 13, lasted till 1.15 in the morning. Lightweight.<br />
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The Star Trek pictures, which this chapter of my diary is peppered with, were cut from my weekly Valiant and TV21 comics, rendering them near worthless when I finally put them on eBay 45 years later.<br />
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My Records For The Day include something called Feet which, elsewhere in the diary, I discover was by someone called Mark Stephens. Researching this post I've heard for the first time since. It's not half bad.<br />
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A novel bit of page design from my diary of March 30th and 31st 1975, allowing me to squeeze the entire Osmond family into the page, coinciding with their TV special on the telly.<br />
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My diary suggests I did nothing but watch TV all these days, but clearly I was illustrating these pages while in front of the telly. Also, surrounding diary entries suggest, I was writing and drawing ongoing comic series, including my own version of Planet Of The Apes which seems to have run to more than 30 issues, and my superhero team the Galactic Union Of Superheroes, which you see references in those little squares at the outside corners of the pages. These are my versions of the Marvel diary panels that had been in recent comics.<br />
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I was also working on a movie, Blunderbirds, as other entries record, still to be blogged. Till then, let us enjoy again the faces of the Osmonds and those teeth which were, at the time, the whitest thing that had been seen on British TV. I remember Clive James commenting that, if you turned the brightness down on your telly, all you'd see are those teeth floating there. We took him literally and tried it.<br />
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My Records For The Day include the winner of the previous night's Eurovision Song Contest, a song I still love to this day.<br />
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Ooh look it's Leela off of Doctor Who, drawn by me from a picture in the paper, though Doctor Who's not on the telly that week so it must have been about to start. Not, I confess a big mystery there.<br />
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A bigger mystery is the book 8 Happy Dayz and whatever became of it. In this diary, written at the end of half term week, Nick and I have clearly been writing a book I'd totally forgotten about, called Happy Dayz. And, if memory serves, it was a book looking back at the week long school trip to the Italian alps we'd enjoyed in April that year. Which begs two questions. Where is this Happy Dayz book, cos I can't remember seeing it since. And where are my diary pages from April 1976, was it really that memorable a holiday? I'll have to dig them out and see.<br />
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My Records For The Day run the gamut from A for awful to B for bemusing. Jonathan King, who you don't hear much on the radio these days; Lalo Schifrin's theme for Starksy and Hutch, which which I seemed enamoured; and Rock Me Baby by the Steve Miller Band, which showed I wasn't totally bereft of taste.<br />
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Will you look at that picture by Frank Bellamy? If you're not familiar with his work, check it out. He did a legendary run on Dan Dare, created Heros The Spartan in the Eagle, and was the long running artist on the Daily Mirror strip Garth, but it was his illustrations for Doctor Who in the Radio Times that I had in my collection. And look how I treated them. Hacked out and stuck into my diary with cow gum.<br />
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My diary is as eventful as ever, trudging round the shops with Mum and moaning about what TV shows I've missed. I also seem to have written and/or drawn a strip called The Moronic Man, of which history has no record. It was a while before I was to have anything published.<br />
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This Bellamy illustration was for 1975's Doctor Who story Terror Of The Zygons. And we can see from the TV listings that, on Saturday, Sarah Jane's final adventure The Hand Of Evil was on.<br />
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My Records For The Day are classics, though one seems to have been a new release, If You Leave Me Now by Chicago. Andy Kim remains a favourite and, being two years old at the time, was obviously already one then too. Did that sentence make any sense?<br />
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A legendary line up graced the stage of The Monkhouse Comedy Club in Leicester in October 1988. Linda Smith headlined, supported by Henry Normal.<br />
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The club was run and hosted by Alan Seaman, who can take credit for booking the acts, most of whom also stayed overnight on the floor of his flat in Clarendon Park, and myself. I did the posters, including this one, produced with a mix of Letraset, freebie typesetting (which I would get done alongside official jobs at the design company I worked at, and much photocopying.<br />
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The shows took place every month above The Magazine pub on Newarke Street Leicester. Don't look for it, it's not there any more (demolished in the 1990s to make way for the Newarke Business Centre).<br />
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Linda Smith was easily the funniest act we'd had that year, and went on to be the star of radio 4's The News Quiz, before her untimely death to cancer in 2006. Henry Normal, then a performance poet, went on to work with Steve Coogan and co-found Baby Cow Productions, one of the most successful television production companies in the country. In 1988 they were both playing above a pub in Leicester for less than fifty quid each.<br />
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More on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Smith_(comedian)">Linda Smith</a><br />
More on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Normal">Henry Normal</a><br />
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By April 1978 the pressure of my impending O levels and the general busying up of my life meant that I didn't have the time to do the heavily decorated diary I'd been producing since mid 1974. I still managed the nice touch of a fold-out section in which I've written by review of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, but the rest of this period is just sped through.<br />
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In fact the letters I sent to Steve Noble in Bristol were where I was now putting my effort and, if he's kept his copies of mine like I've kept my copies of his, then between us we have some record of what we were up to for the next 18 months or so, until student life really puts paid to diary writing time.<br />
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My Records For The Day are quite the obscurities. Who remembered Slade's Give Us A Goal or Bill Withers' follow up to Lovely Day called, amazingly, Lovely Night?<br />
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Ho ho very satirical, wasn't I just the wag? Not only doing my April Fools Day in the style of my very first diary pages (the first of which <a href="https://my1970sdiary.blogspot.com/2019/01/found-all-my-long-lost-diaries-entry-no.html">you'll find here</a>) but also packing the page with details of my many injuries including my Hunting Expedition on the Shetlands and the fitting of my cybernetic arm. Oh stop, my poor aching sides.<br />
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My Records For The Day include the obscure Star Gazer by Neil Diamond, me neither, and the classic Strawberry Fair - rifle rifle come and get an earful.<br />
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Though not celebrated in pictures, and indeed no photos of the event exist, deep in the text of April 2nd 1976 you'll find the first and only gig by our band, then called Mercury. (Later that same year we became the legendary Walter Tottle).<br />
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Though my diary is more concerned with how hectic my day was - and it certainly seems to have been, from waking up with a killer cold, slogging through school, getting notice of the gig on the day, doing a paper round in the day, then playing in the school hall in the evening and not getting home till 10.30 - I can actually remember how the gig went.<br />
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We played House Of The Rising Sun, as an instrumental, because at this stage none of us was brave enough to sing, and at one point Nick's guitar fell over and he said 'shit' in front of the vicar. Why that didn't make it into the diary I do not know.<br />
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Check out that marvellous panel from On The Buses by Harry North, by the way. My Look-In comics, from which most of the illustrations in my diary, are going on eBay as I type and some buyers are expressing surprise that when I tell them the comics are cut to pieces, that they in fact as cut to pieces as I said they were. I eviscerated those magazines, all for the sake of a diary that no-one but me has seen until now.<br />
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My Records For The Day were minor classics that still leap immediately to memory, from the Carpenters and (maybe I wouldn't have recalled the name) Barry Mann.<br />
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For April Fools Day 1975, in which I have indulged in no foolery myself though by this time Noel Edmonds was doing them regularly on his Radio 1 show so I must have heard that, I seem much more obsessed by Planet Of The Apes. I'm reading the Marvel comics adaptations (which, at time of writing, I have just flogged wholesale on eBay), and that night I go with Peter and David Lloyd to see not one but two POTA films at the cinema.<br />
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When was the last time you sat through a double bill in the cinema? That must be nearly 4 hours of movie we sat through. Catch me doing that today.<br />
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Interesting to read about Scout Bob A Job week, for which I was raising 15p a job. And I can remember that goose that chased us off Briggs' farm, though my memory's been much kinder to Banger Lloyd who I had totally forgotten hid in a ditch. He's a vicar now.<br />
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My records for the day are both losts beyond the mists of memory. Well done anyone at home who remembered Take Your Mama For A Ride by Lulu or Naughty by Charlie Drake, both of which sound much more like Scissor Sisters records than anything else.<br />
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From the recently discovered, long-thought-lost early diaries hidden in a suitcase at my Mum's house for forty years, here's a spread from this week in 1976. Nothing much happens in my actual life, which is very much a theme in these things, but boy did I love my telly.<br />
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On the Monday I complain about a dentist visit, not because of any pain or discomfort, but because it makes me miss all "ALL" of the kids telly. And I seem rather obsessed by the fact that Tuesday's TV contains no first episodes of new series. An odd child indeed.<br />
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The 6 Million Dollar Man illustration shows you the level my drawing had reached by the age of 14. I was a dab hand with the felt tip pens, but had yet to master the realistic portrait. Hopefully I've got that together over the intervening years.<br />
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My Records For The Day go from most famous to most obscure quite nicely. I doubt there's anyone who's unfamiliar with Sgt Pepper, but who remembered Jump In My Car by Chris Spedding?<br />
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By January of 1975, my Picture Diary has almost given up on trying to tell my life story in comic strip form, but a few examples were still sneaking in. Here we see the dramatic incident of me being forced under a shower at Scouts - I was ever the unfortunate victim of lighthearted bullying it seems - leavened by the fun of me drawing my face in the back of a spoon.<br />
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On the right hand page we see Doctor Who among the TV shows that night. And coincidentally, as I type this, it's Tom Baker's 85th birthday. And on Friday night we see Ed Stewpot Stewart presenting Crackerjack. And what photo have I also just found among the piles of stuff at Mum & Dad's house..?<br />
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Mum and Dad with Ed Stewpot Stewart, at some event or other, sometime in the 70s.<br />
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By Jan 1975 I'd introduced the feature to my diary known as Record For The Day, this pair's treats being The Bay City Rollers' Saturday Night and Stevie Wonder's Boogie On Reggae Woman. I knew good music when I heard it.<br />
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From the newly discovered treasure trove that is my long-lost teenage diaries (discovered while clearing out Mum's house in January 2019, until now I thought only 3 volumes survived), here are the second and third entries, from June 1974.<br />
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The idea was, when I began my diary age 12, that I would turn my life into a comic strip. It wouldn't be long until I discovered my daily routine offered little in the way of visuals, and my diary morphed into a heavily decorated scrapbook of TV shows, music and comic reviews, with a little bit of diary squeezed in.<br />
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What a violent time I was having at Kibworth High School. Punched in the face and chucking someone down some steps <a href="http://my1970sdiary.blogspot.com/2019/01/found-all-my-long-lost-diaries-entry-no.html">yesterday</a>, and now having my dinner ticket ripped. The horror.<br />
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Clearing out the cupboards and hidden corners of Mum's house I found something that I thought had been lost forever - my missing diaries.<br />
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I have had, and been posting pages on this blog, just three volumes of my teenage Picture Diary, volumes 9, 10 and 11 (mid 1976 to late 1977). For years I've assumed they were the only ones to survive the various clear-outs and tidy-ups that have happened in the 40-odd years since I drew them. Now I know better and I couldn't be more pleased.<br />
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From the very first skimpy folded-paper diaries, through the hardcover art books, I now have them all. I began on June 24th 1974 and entries dry up in 1978 as I start taking my O levels seriously. A written diary continues into the 1980s, but the full colour fully decorated version lasted a little over four years. As you can see from this first entry, the plan was to do a comic strip of my life. I don't think it took long before I realised there was nothing in my life worth illustrating. Though I must say, Day One proved quite action packed.<br />
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I commemorated Christmas Eve 1976 by decorating my diary page with a Paul Sample illustration from the Sunday Times, an unusual treat given that I was more used to eviscerating my Look-Ins for these pictures. Paul was a regular in the Sunday Times and also produced the covers of the Tom Sharpe novels like Wilt and Porterhouse Blue, which I would devour a few years later.<br />
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As always it's the telly and pop music that seems to make up the whole of my life. The only thing I physically do in these two days of Christmas cheer, apart from watch TV and listen to Radio 1, is collect 70p in tips on my paper round. I was living my best life at age fifteen and no mistake.<br />
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TV highlights include the Rutland Weekend Television Christmas Special, which I've watched recently on Youtube, for the first time in over 40 years, and can't say it's aged well. George Harrison's in it, have a look, tell me if I'm wrong.<br />
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And look at the enthusiasm for Christmas summed up by those "countdown to Christmas" flashes at the corner of every page. I can't imagine being that excited about anything. On which depressing thought, what awful music have I chosen as my Record For The Day.<br />
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There are a few Christmas standards in there, including Lonely This Christmas which was only 2 years old at the time and had already entrenched itself. But for my Youtube finds, here a couple of the more obscure suggestions. Here's To Love by John Christie (not, one assumes, the one from 10 Rillington Place) and Bionic Santa by Chris Hill? No, me neither.<br />
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Here's To Love, I find on its first listening in four decades, is virtually an anagram of Gilbert O'Sullivan's Alone Again Naturally with Auld Lang Syne shoehorned in for no obvious reason. Oh yeah, you want to listen to it now.<br />
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Oh dear, I remember Chris Hill now. A DJ who fancied himself as a comedian and edited bits of records together to hilarious effect. Well I clearly thought this was funny at the time, god help me.<br />
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Before <b>The Monkhouse Comedy Club</b> came to be, Alan and I had started our stand up comedy careers at its predecessor, <b>The Magazine Jokespace</b>. Here we shared the bill with Arnold Bolt and the mysterious Comedy Counts in a one-off gig in March 1986.<br />
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If memory serves, <b>The Comedy Counts </b>were a very young Anthony King, now a stalwart of the comedy scene, still based in Leicester, and a double-act colleague about whom I'm sure he'll tell us more.<br />
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<b>Arnold Bolt</b> was a legend of the Leicester Folk Scene at the start of the 80s, and made a successful crossover into the comedy clubs that usurped the folk clubs' place (and, as we can see, shared their venues). Sadly Arnold, or rather his civilian alter-ego Martin Brown, died last year dreadfully young. For as long as our Leicester comedy clubs were around, he was always a headliner, never anything less. Memorable comedy songs such as Henry The Hedgehog and Dumped In Mary Lou's Barn were the staples of his set, and will live on in Leicester folk comedy history.<br />
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<b>John Dull </b>was Alan's alter ego, as character comedy was very much the order of the day for both of us. Given that Alan's surname is Seaman, you wouldn't have thought he needed any extra enhancement, but his character of a boring accountant worked very well at the time and lasted for a while.<br />
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My character, as you might be able to make out from the photo, was <b>PC Bharsted</b>, a caricature policeman. It was the 1980s, and doing a feeble impersonation of Griff Rhys Jones's policeman character from Not The 9 O'Clock News, with songs, seemed as good a way to start doing comedy as any. My songs, as PC B, included I Had To Nick My Girlfriend, a cover of The Goodies' Rock With A Policeman, and Driving In A Winter Wonderland. Tragically no recordings survive of this musical comedy act which, given the standard of both my singing and my guitar playing, deserves inverted commas round both of those words.<br />
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