Showing posts with label UB40. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UB40. Show all posts

Friday, 12 November 2021

You never fail to satisfy


Does my bum look big in this..?

Another long, drawn out week of dealing with trivia and absolute idiots is almost over. To quote Malcolm Tucker from The Thick Of It, and dedicated to this week: “Yeah, yeah. Andy Murray, Andy Pandy, fucking Ghandi, have a hand-shandy, whatever, just FUCK OFF out of my life!”

Now, breathe...

It is, after all, the day we look forward to (or at least dream about) getting in a party mood - and what better way to do so than with a proper Funk-fest?!

Sharing the day with another wildly disparate assemblage of "names", such as Jo Stafford, Grace Kelly, Sun Yat-sen, Les McKeown, Anne Hathaway, Booker T, Lucia Popp, Mariella Frostrup, Neil Young, Megan Mullally, Brian Hyland, Ryan Gosling, Nadia Comăneci (who is 60), Alexander Borodin, Tonya Harding, and - erm - Charles Manson, it would have been one of the masters of Funking, my eternal "secret teenage crush", the late, great Errol Brown's birthday today!

To herald in the impending weekend, let's have a portion [I wish!] of the great man and his incredible performing trousers - and Thank Disco It's Friday!

I never tire of it...

Have a great weekend, dear reader!


Footnote:

If you need your party a bit more "ramped-up", however...

This week, we lost two great contributors to the rich tapestry of "party music" - founder-member of UB40 Astro and Andrew Barker of 808 State. So, by way of a tribute, how about the "meeting of true minds" that was this techno oddity?!

Wickid!

Saturday, 9 November 2013

Sing it



It's been a hectic week, from Rita (Moreno) to Peter (Tatchell) [more on that later no doubt].

However, as a focus of both the Stonewall Awards [more later, too] and Mr Tatchell's LGBT rights at home and abroad speech was on the continuing struggle of our fellow gay people in Russia (and elsewhere) against oppressive new laws and brutal crack-downs, here's an anthem I haven't heard for ages - UB40 and Sing Our Own Song...


It may be about the fall of Apartheid, but the lyrics still have a meaning to oppressed minorities everywhere.

We will fight for the right to be free
We will build our own society
And we will sing, we will sing
We will sing our own song


Russian LGBT Network

Off to see the Lord Mayor's fireworks now - hectic is the word!