Heartland

***Alert from your media monitor***
strange as it may seem, tonights South Bank Show is dedicated to those jesters in spandex, ITV1 10:45pm Sunday 21, November

i'm taping it so i can watch when i'm on my own.....

emilystrange wrote:i'm taping it so i can watch when i'm on my own.....

too much information?

depends what happens.. mr S might not like it if i faint in front of him for justin and dan

i've set the dvdr... *is excited* an hour of 2 hawkins, one poullain, and one very sweet graham...
*THUD*

well I really enjoyed that, more power to The Darkness say i!

saw a bit of it. they seemed like nice blokes, but I'm still not buying one of their CDs

I caught the end of it....... It was ok i guess

Have to say Steven Tyler was the highlight

Paddy.

One for fans only I think.

The programme was essentially loads of random live footage with a few clippets of interview thrown in randonly. Great for a fan but didn't really offer any real insight or analysis.

To me it had the feel of a first documentary attempt edited by someone who has only ever worked on 'reality TV'.

As an avid consumer of rockumentary and music biography I was really dissapointed by the programme - very shallow and very poor.

I expect more from the south bank show!!!!

i always used to feel intelligent and "culturally aware" when i found i had actually heard of someone on the south bank show.

and now we have the darkness?

ahh, tv really is dumbing down isn't it?

Quiff Boy wrote:i always used to feel intelligent and "culturally aware" when i found i had actually heard of someone on the south bank show.

and now we have the darkness?

ahh, tv really is dumbing down isn't it? :inncoent:

The South bank show has always had its fair share of 'populist' profiles in and amongst the obscure highbrow types. As such a profile of the Darkness is perfectly valid and in keeping - my main point it that it was such a poor programme - it has none of the usual depth and analysis you'd expect from the strand.

This wasn't as in depth as stuff like 'planet rock profiles', 'classic albums' or the excellent 'blood on the turntable' series.
This programme was to the music profile documentary what those thin, floppy backed, glossy, picture heavy, text light, cash in (soon to end up in the bargin bin store) 'books' are to the serious 300 page band biography with a few pix in the centre pages.

Which is a shame, as I suspect the Darkness story told right could be very interesting!

Thought it was a good programme but SBS always is.

I have 100% respect for those guys, at Guilford a vouple of years I saw them putting flyers on every car in the car park, no roadies, just them doing the job themselves, thats deadication and all the hard work paid off.

Matt

I can gladly inform you, that I didn't see it

allfear wrote:Thought it was a good programme but SBS always is.

I have 100% respect for those guys, at Guilford a vouple of years I saw them putting flyers on every car in the car park, no roadies, just them doing the job themselves, thats deadication and all the hard work paid off.

Matt

I'm just imagining Emily in that carpark now

doing what, exactly?

does anyone want a copy of the next fanzine issue? out Dec 18th....

(small self-advertising announcement)

emilystrange wrote:does anyone want a copy of the next fanzine issue? out Dec 18th....

(small self-advertising announcement)

nope...

suit yourself... hee
we've had a lot of paddy in previous issues....

emilystrange wrote:suit yourself... hee
we've had a lot of paddy in previous issues....

paddy here, and paddy there

well he got some publicity for Grinn out of it, lol...

best thing about the south bank show is the intro music...mmm paganini

LOL. The drugs scene in Lowestoft! You couldn't make it up could you?

Aww i seemed to have missed that! What a shame!!

emilystrange wrote:well he got some publicity for Grinn out of it, lol...

Yeah, look at the bright side

And in your heart, you know that you love me

and that publicity went to brazil, new zealand, finland, france, america, canada.....amongst others. and they keep coming back. still getting orders for ish 2.

Quite frankly, i think thats pretty good for a bunch of girls with no help, no experience and no money, printing at home. it looks ok. people like it. job done.

i KNEW there was a reason we didn't advertise on here...

BTW, i still need a Smurphs gig review from someone soon.