Cool Retro TV W/C 29th September

Barry Murphy once more trawls the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from Friday 29th September to Thursday 5th October.

Highlight of the Week
Nothing worth highlighting this week, except for the repeat of the Mose Allison documentary on BBC2.

Friday 29th September

TV

Decisive Moments: the Photographs That Made History - UKTV History. 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Landmark moments in the 1960s, including student protests at Kent State University.

Stiff & Co at the BBC (1/2) - BBC 4. 8.30pm - 9.00pm
Archive hits from Stiff Records artists. With Elvis Costello, Dr Feelgood and Ian Dury. Continues at 11pm.

If it Ain't Stiff... - BBC 4. 9.00pm - 10.30pm
Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Suggs and Shane MacGowan share memories of the maverick record label Stiff. Adrian Edmondson narrates. First shown in two parts.

Sinatra: Dark Star (2/2) - UKTV History. 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Family and celebrity comtemparies talk about the singing superstar's links with the underworld, as well as powerful political figures.

Stiff & Co at the BBC (2/2) - BBC 4. 11.00pm - 12.00am
With archive performances from the Pogues, Ian Dury and Madness.

Mose Allison: Ever Since I Stole the Blues - BBC 2. 11.35pm - 12.35pm
Van Morrison and Pete Townshend pay tribute to the 78-year-old from Mississippi known as the "jazz sage".

Tales of the Unexpected - ITV 3. 11.35pm - 12.05am
A killer accepts his victim's hospitality.

Jonathan Ross's Japanorama (4/6) - BBC 3. 11.35pm - 12.00am
Bizarre Japanese humour, from comedy extremists to rib-tickling robots.

Lene Lovich: Rock Goes to College - BBC 4. 12 midnight - 12.50am
Lene Lovich, the part English, part Yugoslavian star of the Stiff label brings her proto-goth new-wave pop to Liverpool University in a performance from 1980. 

Radio

Stop the World - it's Anthony Newley (4/4) - BBC Radio 2. 7.00pm - 7.30pm
Jonathan Ross concludes his profile of the singer-turned-film -producer, focusing on the Las Vegas years when he was feted by the likes of Sammy Davis Jr, Liza Minnelli and Tony Bennett before returning to Britain and vertual anonymity in the 1990s. A special edition of Friday Night Is Music Night follows with a tribute concert.
 
The Funk & Soul Show with Eddie Piller - BBC Radio 6. 7.00pm - 10.00pm
3 hours of the best funk, soul and blues. Essential.

Alfie (1/7) - BBC Radio 2. 9.15pm - 9.30pm
Another chance to hear an abridged version of Bill Naughton's 1962 play about a sexually driven Londoner, read by Nick Moran.

YouTube: The Fuzztones

Seeing as they're back touring and appearing very soon at Crossfire 8 in London, it seems a good time to re-visit The Fuzztones. This clip is from the band's 80s heyday - the video for The Witch - which you'll either love or hate, depending on where your tastes lie!

Electric Underground (Birmingham)

If your tastes stretch to 60s garage, including the likes of The Sonics, The Mothers, Electric Prunes, The Monks and The Seeds, you might want to get down to the Electic Underground, which will feature all of those, plus much more in a similar vein.

It's on Saturday 4th November from 8pm until late. And admission is absolutely free.

Venue details:
Sunflower Lounge (Down Stairs)
76 Smallbrook Queensway
Birmingham

For further details, email battyerichard@hotmail.com or visit www.myspace.com/richardbattye.

Mose Allison - on TV and live

If you weren't able to tune into the excellent Mose Allison documentary when it went out on BBC4, here's some good news - it's getting an airing on BBC2 this Friday (29th September) at 11:35pm. Here's the preview:

Mose Allison : Ever Since I Stole the Blues

Mose Allison, white Jazz and Blues legend from the Mississippi Delta, inspired key figures in Rock'n'Roll. As Pete Townsend says in the film: ‘Without Mose I wouldn’t have written My Generation’. The film also features Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Frank Black, Loudon Wainwright, Ben Sidran, Keb Mo’ and Georgie Fame.

Taking Mose back to the Southern crossroads where he was born, we journey with the man they call the Jazz Sage across 50 years of cool philosophical lyrics and hip piano playing on songs like Parchman Farm, Your Mind is On Vacation and Everybody Cryin’ Mercy. The film also contains exclusive performances of Mose classics by Van Morrison and Loudon Wainwright - along with The Who’s barnstorming take on Mose’s Young Man Blues.

And if you want to catch the man live, you can see him at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho from September 21st to 30th. For details call 020 7439 8722 or visit the website.

Trouble logging onto the forum?

Just thought I'd remind you about the forums, as I've had a number of emails of late.

We moved to a new forum a couple of months back. This was a completely new start, so if you were an existing member of the old forum, you would need need to sign up again to use the new forum (your old login will not work). But here's the good news - you can keep the same username when you sign up again.

You'll find the new forum at:
http://www.modculture.co.uk/forum2/

And if you have anymore problems with using the forum, please contact me and I'll do my best to get you online.