Don't jump before you look

You know you're getting old when...

...you discover that the elfin Andy Bell of Erasure was 60 years old yesterday!

How fitting, as the joyful prospect of the impending weekend hoves into view, that we have an excuse (as if any were needed) to start the party with one of the great man's crowning glories!

Thank Disco It's Friday!

Erasure - Stop!

We'll be together again
I've been waiting for a long time
We're gonna be, we're gonna be
Together again
I've been connected to the right line
We'll be together and nobody ain't never
Gonna disconnect us or ever separate us
Or say to us you've got to

Stop!
Stand there where you are
Before you go too far
Before you make a fool out of love
Stop!
Don't jump before you look
Get hung upon a hook
Before you make a fool out of love

We'll be together again
I've been waiting for a long time
We're gonna be we're gonna be
Together again
I've been connected to the right line
We'll be together and nobody ain't never
Gonna disconnect us or ever separate us
Or say to us you've got to

Stop!
Stand there where you are
Before you go too far
Before you make a fool out of love
Stop!
Don't jump before you look
Get hung upon a hook
Before you make a fool out of love

We'll be together and nobody ain't never
Gonna disconnect us or ever separate us
Or say to us you've got to

Stop!
Stand there where you are
Before you go too far
Before you make a fool out of love
Stop!
Don't jump before you look
Get hung upon a hook
Before you make a fool out of love

Utterly faboo!

Many (belated) happy returns, Andrew Ivan Bell (born 25th April 1964)

Have a great weekend, dear reader!

The Prom, Prom, Prom! Where the brass bands play, "Tiddely-om-pom-pom!"

What do Daniel Barenboim, Doctor Who, Dvorak and Disco, Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, Benjamin Britten, Bruckner, Brahms and Burt Bacharach, Kirill Petrenko, The King’s Singers and the Kanneh-Masons, Sir Simon Rattle, Symphonie Fantastique, Sakari Oramo, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Smith and Smetana, Henry Mancini, Handel and Holst, Charles Villiers Stanford, CBeebies, Carmen and Clara Schumann, Antonio Pappano, Anne-Sophie Mutter, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Angel Blue, the Paraorchestra, the "Pathetique" (Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6), Purcell and Puccini, as well as Mendelssohn, Marisha Wallace, the BBC Singers, VOCES8, Fauré, Nick Drake, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Laura Mvula, Yo-Yo Ma, Stevie Wonder, Wynton Marsalis, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Verdi's Requiem, Florence and the Machine, Jules Buckley - and Rule, Britannia! - have in common?

Yes, of course - the mightiest musical "festival" on Earth, the BBC Proms Season has been announced, and every one of  'em is in the mix of delights on offer...

The Proms 2024 is coming!

Read a basic guide to The Proms, its history and other associated bits'n'pieces, courtesy of Country and Town House magazine.

The comprehensive guide to the entire season on the BBC.

The Proms Season opens on 19th July, and the Last Night of the Proms is on 14th December 2024. Enjoy!

Another bit of sparkle has gone from our lives

Sad news, as we bid a fond farewell to a stalwart of the drag circuit in the UK for the last thirty years, Miss Jason - who has departed for the Cabaret Tent in Fabulon:

Miss Jason - Short Documentary

Cheers, dear!

RIP, Miss Jason aka Jason Sutton

Thought for the day

Kath & Kim.

A classic - now available on Netflix, for those of you who subscribe to it.

Red, white and blue, what do they mean to you?

[The real story]

Happy St George's Day to all our English chums!

Here, have an anthem...

Tiny Tim - There'll Always Be An England

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PS

Hoist the flag would you, dear boy?

Don't make no lifer out of me

This is how I always greet a Monday. NOT!

Too soon, too soon. I'd hardly got in the "weekend mood", and here we are again. Same old shit, different day week.

Hey ho.

Among a raft of birthday celebrants that include Issey Miyake, Glen Campbell, Bettie Page, Kathleen Ferrier, Jack Nicholson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Nabokov, Dame Ethel Smyth, Immanuel Kant, Henry Fielding, Charles Mingus, Peter Frampton, Donald Tusk, Aaron Spelling, and - erm - Vladimir Lenin, it's "The Pope of Filth" John Waters' birthday today!

On this Tacky Music Monday, we deserve this - a double-bill of Johnny Depp at his most gorgeous, in one of Mr Waters' finest films...

Johnny Depp [dubbed by James Intveld] - High School Hellcats [Cry-Baby (1990)]

Johnny Depp [dubbed by James Intveld], Amy Locane [dubbed by Rachel Sweet] - Please, Mr. Jailer [Cry-Baby (1990)]

Have a good week, dear reader.

Ooh, slip out the back, Jack

It's a bit of a slow day today, after another mammoth drinking-session-cum-Film-Club with our chums yesterday...

What better than some "Sunday Music", courtesy of our "house band" here at Dolores Delargo Towers [who we are going to see in the glittering London Palladium in a fortnight's time]?!

That'll do nicely.

Postmodern Jukebox ft. Ashley Campbell - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon New Orleans "Second Line" style cover)

We love Postmodern Jukebox!