Oblivion Based Humour And Bullshit Based "Music"

Plenty of laughs have been the order for tonight in the form of two vintage episodes from the first Series of Room 101 almost 15 years ago to the day.

The first one I had a gander at was Ian Hislop who is the only person who has appeared on the programme twice as a guest.

My favourite of Ian's choices had to be Postman Pat, not that I'm condoning him being placed in the torture chamber, but because it was possibly one of the earliest and definitely one of the funniest examples of a programme for younger viewers being dissected on an "adult comedy" show.

I won't give away any of the jokes as they can be seen here at about five minutes in.

Nick Hancock was a lot tougher than Paul Merton was at deciding what went in or not, even to the point of disregarding the audiences response to an item being sent in or rejected.

I also watched the Jo Brand episode from the same series where I had to fast forward through one of the choices which was spitting.

Others that were nominated included the Mona Lisa, and one that was already guaranteed to go in from the beginning, jazz.

That being "modern freeform jazz" and Nick compared it to a child at a fete at a village hall messing about with the piano that's in the room.

It's definitely utter bollocks and having looked back at some earlier blog posts, I found one from last summer slating an Outhouse gig and why I decided to go and see them again this year I've no idea.

Basically it's taught me a lesson not to go to any more jazz performances that Dad invites to although Nick Hancock gave his take by writing a "freeform novel" which was basically scribbling on a sheet of paper.

Because believe me, how that can even be regarded as "art" let alone music is one of key examples of bullshit in current culture.

I'm surprised how any of the bloody musicians can remember what they do in a specific order and how each song is supposedly "different" from the rest.

I'm very tempted to subject any discerning friends of the family to my favourite Spyro Gyra or Shakatak tracks on their next visit just to give them an idea of how it should be done.

Then again I only really like those records as it reminds me of people from University who I really like.

But decent jazz music doesn't have to be synthy. One of the better traditional acts currently around have to be Finnish act "The Five Corners Quintet" as at least their material actually has tunes within it and you can dance to them if you see them live.

More reminiscent of what you'd get on a seventies cop show.

Good Night.