Nick's Blog
'Tis The Season To Be Blogging
26/12/2008 @ 17:03
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Or not as the case has been these last few weeks. I can't claim any rush of busyness or being weighed under so much choring; it's that I got lazy and didn't have anything profound or witty to write about.
Today, Boxing Day, is different. For today is the day that my central heating system and my dishwasher have packed up. It's always around this time of year...New Year being a favourite time for machinery that keeps me clean and from freezing to death to stop working.
Mind you, this domestic disaster has had a positive effect on my blogging: Namely that I find typing a good way to stop my fingers from getting frostbite. I'm determined to tough this out until the plumber gets here tomorrow morning but if I hear one more weather forecaster appearing on my TV screen with a leering grin and saying "tonight is reckoned to be the coldest night of the year" I will add a broken TV to the list.
Blogadoodledandy
08/12/2008 @ 15:55
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Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch.
Legends of sixties pop. Well, maybe. Depends if you don't count The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys and The Who as legends. Nevertheless they had a string of hits including The Legend of Xanadu, Hold Tight, Zabbadak and...erm...the other one.
It's true that nostalgia is no longer what it used to be...not when you can put together a reunion or a tribute act. Most middling 60s bands who had a few hits have reformed and done tours in recent years. However, it's the case that you never get the whole original line up because either someone decides that to reform to trot out the same old is beneath them or else they're dead. So you get The Tremeloes but without Brian Poole, The Searchers but without the drummer and bass player and The New New New New Seekers.
But Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky, Mick & Titch can't do that because you need all of them for a proper reunion. How would Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Phil look on a poster outside of Croydon's Fairfield Hall? True, you can try and find a new Titch, so long as he's not 7' tall unless you're into irony but if Dave Dee pulls out then you're truly buggered: How many Dave Dees willing to front up a reformed pop group are there in the world? Again, Kenneth Potts, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Phil doesn't have the same ring to it. If the original Dozy pulls out, who would want to be his replacement? Who'd want to be "the new Dozy"?
And the lads don't exactly lend themselves to tribute acts; even if the songs were good. Dave Dee-ish, A Bit Dozy, On The Beaky Side, Michael and The Small One doesn't trip off the tongue.
But their musical legacy remains...mostly on compilation albums and You Tube and lest we forget that they were the first of the eponymous band member bands: Without them we wouldn't have had Emerson, Lake & Palmer or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Sobering thought.
