Convoluted connections #496 in a series - it must be the heat!

A view up my (very hot) back passage... [click to embiggen]

Phew! What a scorcher!

Yes indeed - exactly as the Met Office forecast - the thermometer in our extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers hit (at least) 32C/89.6F this afternoon. And to think, last week we had the heating on in the evenings... Britain, Britain, Britain.

To celebrate the arrival of summer, this:

Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City

Pretty little things, weren't they? {{cough}}

Of that song, however, it is this version I remember most fondly:

Tik and Tok - Summer In The City

Unfortunately I can't find an actual video of Tik and Tok performing that song, but here they are in their glory, doing what they did best!

Tik and Tok - Science laboratory mime [Three of a Kind, BBC 1983]

And finally, the band from whence Tik and Tok emerged - who I saw live way back in the early 1980s:

Shock - Angel Face

Ah, memories...

The face of an angel...

We went to Celine & Nite Wreckage album launch last night. Well I say launch, more of a melée, really - it was held in the tiny Alaska Studios next to Pleasuredrome sauna in Waterloo, and it was so hot we might as well have been in that salubrious venue!

John-John and I met up with Ange and another fan Drew at Waterloo Station, dressed up for canapés and cocktails, not quite knowing what to expect. The venue itself is like Pan's Labyrinth (but with dishwasher and speakers), but there was copious quantities of free champers available, so that was OK.

We spotted a few faded 80s celebs, including Steve Strange, Philip Sallon, Martin Rushent and Tim and Mo (aka Tik and Tok), and spoke to a (very nervous) Celine before the show took off.



Packed into a dungeon-like performance space - with loads of spotty yoofs who obviously just come along to see any old band, regardless - Celine gave a tonsil-wrenching performance of fab numbers from the album Evolution? Revolution!

Among the numbers we spotted the new single Popabawa and one of my faves Take Your Money and Run - which everyone agrees sounds like an Ian Dury song. We were blown away! Unfortunately we needed oxygen as well as music, so we headed off fairly quickly to the nearest pub for a refresher, before dispersing (after congratulating Dave on the set).

An interesting evening, and one I am very glad to have gone to.

Here's a clip of Celine & Nite Wreckage on stage in Germany:

Celine & Nite Wreckage - Live at Mera Luna (2010)

And here is a song that I couldn't get out of my head after seeing Tik and Tok in the flesh again after thirty years - their performance as part of the wonderful (and rumoured to be re-forming) Shock!

Shock - Angel Face

Celine and Nite Wreckage