A MESSAGE FROM THE PRODUCERS.
We love pop music. We love most types of music. Of course we're biased, who isn't? This musicbloginternetculturethingy has, by and large, been put together from a sense of love/self-indulgence and despair. As I sit here in The Horse and Flipchart, typing this, nodding, grinning and babbling to myself like a cross-dressed woman with a fake beard, I am reminded of music shows of old, like The Tube, Dance Energy, Most Wanted with Ray Cokes, Party Zone with Simone, Peters Pop Show, No Limits, The Chart Show, Top of The Pops, the bizarre Formula One with John Leslie, Rapido, So It Goes...some were rubbish, some were good with rubbish bits, some were ace, works of art, ingenius even, but oh my sweet Lord, most of 'em are gone, they've gone for a Burton as the saying goes. 2011, you have few choices, most of them dire, unless you seek it out yourself, via youtube, Vimeo or can afford a hefty, questionable monthly fee for equally questionable cable services.
Titles rejected for this musicinternetblogthingy included Piccadilly Circus, Menu, Bateman Jukebox, Popnusik Embassy, Concept, Diagnosis Disco and Fox Tavern's personal favourite Justin Bieber's Postmodern Nightmare. I settled on Autobahn 1 today. This works because it shares the name of my Watford Gap motorway cafe, it sounds a bit like the early morning 1988 ITV pop music show Formula One, because I like Kraftwerk and because it was suggested to me by Solar Cower.
AUTOBAHN 1 will try it's best to stick to the format pioneered by Top Of The Pops, where we will showcase half a dozen videos and performances every week. Obviously they won't ALL be lifted from TOTP, but many sources and blogs, linked and anchored by your presenters, Keeky and Keeley. I'd like it to be a weekly thing but I fear it'll be irregular. Fox Tavern (the other producer) and myself won't make owt from this audacious venture and neither, I suspect will anyone else, although the acts will, I'm sure get promotion. Music, in all its ridiculous, beautiful and pompous forms, will be the winner. Hopefully this whole thing will be structured and fun. OK, to kick things off we feature the almost- world premiere of the new Memory Tapes single, Yes I Know. Keeky and Keeley will be here soon to bring you the first, special extended edition of Autobahn 1 soon. x
We love pop music. We love most types of music. Of course we're biased, who isn't? This musicbloginternetculturethingy has, by and large, been put together from a sense of love/self-indulgence and despair. As I sit here in The Horse and Flipchart, typing this, nodding, grinning and babbling to myself like a cross-dressed woman with a fake beard, I am reminded of music shows of old, like The Tube, Dance Energy, Most Wanted with Ray Cokes, Party Zone with Simone, Peters Pop Show, No Limits, The Chart Show, Top of The Pops, the bizarre Formula One with John Leslie, Rapido, So It Goes...some were rubbish, some were good with rubbish bits, some were ace, works of art, ingenius even, but oh my sweet Lord, most of 'em are gone, they've gone for a Burton as the saying goes. 2011, you have few choices, most of them dire, unless you seek it out yourself, via youtube, Vimeo or can afford a hefty, questionable monthly fee for equally questionable cable services.
Titles rejected for this musicinternetblogthingy included Piccadilly Circus, Menu, Bateman Jukebox, Popnusik Embassy, Concept, Diagnosis Disco and Fox Tavern's personal favourite Justin Bieber's Postmodern Nightmare. I settled on Autobahn 1 today. This works because it shares the name of my Watford Gap motorway cafe, it sounds a bit like the early morning 1988 ITV pop music show Formula One, because I like Kraftwerk and because it was suggested to me by Solar Cower.
AUTOBAHN 1 will try it's best to stick to the format pioneered by Top Of The Pops, where we will showcase half a dozen videos and performances every week. Obviously they won't ALL be lifted from TOTP, but many sources and blogs, linked and anchored by your presenters, Keeky and Keeley. I'd like it to be a weekly thing but I fear it'll be irregular. Fox Tavern (the other producer) and myself won't make owt from this audacious venture and neither, I suspect will anyone else, although the acts will, I'm sure get promotion. Music, in all its ridiculous, beautiful and pompous forms, will be the winner. Hopefully this whole thing will be structured and fun. OK, to kick things off we feature the almost- world premiere of the new Memory Tapes single, Yes I Know. Keeky and Keeley will be here soon to bring you the first, special extended edition of Autobahn 1 soon. x
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