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Media Studies gives you a chance to learn how to interpret the wealth of media products which surround us. It requires critical skills and the ability to analyse in depth aspects of popular culture. We look at how texts (e.g. programmes, magazines and films) are constructed and explore their social, historical and political context.
If you are interested in magazines, advertising and the world of television and online media, this course is for you. You will focus on interpreting how messages are packaged for audiences and learn how to write about these matters in an academic way. Students particularly enjoy transferring their analysis into practical projects such as TV adverts and music videos, which they might undertake for coursework.
Current Media Studies students say:
"The technical equipment helps with presentations, making them more visual. This also helps with understanding and learning."
This subject is exciting, interesting and challenging."
Lessons will vary from formal lecture style teaching to small group work, student research and presentation projects. Teaching is always interactive and due to the subject matter we expect students to bring their own experience of the media to discussions.
The media department is well resourced with its own TV studio, computers, DTP software, digital cameras and editing software. Homework will include background reading from academic textbooks, essay writing and research projects. We expect a student to undertake a minimum of 4 to 5 hours of independent study a week.
Component 1: Meanings and Representations in the Media – written exam 2 hours 30%
Component 2: Media Forms and Products in depth – written exam 3 hours 40%
Component 3: Cross Media Production Coursework – 30%
The course prepares you for a number of academic or vocational routes. It is a useful grounding in theory for those students who want to take a practical course at university. It should be noted that this AS/A Level course is largely an academic course and will not provide you with a portfolio of practical work. Many students go on to study film or cultural studies or more vocational areas such as public relations, advertising and communications.
Students should normally have achieved an A*- C grade profile at GCSE. For GCSE English and Maths where a new grading system has been introduced, a Grade 4 is equivalent to a Grade C.
You need to have an active interest in the world of media and enjoy watching films, TV and reading newspapers.
All students will be expected to provide their own stationery. Any further costs are outlined below:
Essential: £20 for textbooks.
Desirable: Costs for the practical work are estimated to be around £10 per student.
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Asia Frontier Capital Ltd. is a pioneering fund management company based in Hong Kong that specializes in investing in high growth Asian frontier economies by managing the AFC Asia Frontier Fund , AFC Iraq Fund and the AFC Vietnam Fund.
The AFC Asia Frontier Fund invests in public equities of Asian frontier countries that are seeing increasing consumption due to favorable demographic trends, rising incomes and high GDP growth. The fund invests in listed equities of companies that have their principal business activities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Iraq, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The AFC Asia Frontier Fund is positioned to take advantage of the continuing economic shifts in these countries and offers high returns combined with significant diversification opportunities. This fund is directed by the founder and CEO of Asia Frontier Capital, Thomas Hugger, who has been investing in frontier markets across Asia and Africa for more than 20 years.
The AFC Iraq Fund was launched on the 26th June 2015 and aims to achieve long-term capital appreciation for investors by capturing value and growth potential in the post conflict high-growth & resource rich Iraq market. The fund emphasises long term investment horizon to truly capture the opportunity in Iraq. The fund's investable universe consists of locally listed companies that have their principal business activities in Iraq as well as foreign listed companies that have the majority of the business in Iraq as a whole including the prosperous Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI). The AFC Iraq Fund offers access to investments in post conflict recovery potential of Iraq, including the KRI, and/or stability in its territory. The AFC Iraq Fund is managed by Asia Frontier Capital (Iraq) Limited, Cayman Islands under the executive leadership team of Thomas Hugger (CEO & Fund Manager) and Ahmed Tabaqchali (CIO) who have more than 47 years of investment experience as well as an extensive background covering global, emerging, frontier and MENA markets.
The AFC Vietnam Fund invests exclusively in listed Vietnamese equities to capture value in growth companies with a focus on the small to medium size companies. This market segment offers a unique investment opportunity as the valuation gap between large- and small-cap stocks in Vietnam is presently much wider than in comparable neighboring markets and the valuations are significantly depressed versus their regional peers. The fund adopts a fundamental-quantitative approach and employs an in-house earnings model to identify attractive companies where we see high growth opportunities. In conjunction with targeting the maximum upside potential the portfolio has been structured to mitigate corporate government and liquidity risks. The fund invests in a diversified portfolio of 70-90 attractively valued companies to carefully control concentration risk. This approach allows the fund to sell, or buy, positions without having a significant market impact. The fund is directed under the executive leadership of Thomas Hugger and Andreas Vogelsanger who have more than 50 years combined experience managing investments in frontier markets, Asia and around the world.
To subscribe to our monthly newsletter and register as a member on our website please click the 'Subscribe' button below. This information is restricted to qualified investors and Hong Kong professional investors. By registering you are indicating that you are a professional investor and will then be given access to our members area which contains the track record and performance of our funds as well as other information.
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- 30-03-2017 Asia Frontier Capital celebrates the 5-year anniversary of its flagship AFC Asia Frontier Fund with awards from the Investors Choice Awards and from Asia Asset Management
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- 12-02-2017 Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Fünf Fragen an Thomas Hugger (in German)
- 20-01-2017 Hedge Fund Intelligence (HFI) : AFC Asia Frontier Benefits from Pakistan Bangladesh Vietnam
- 12-12-2016 CNBC:How some investors are taking the 'long view' of Iraq despite war
- 14-11-2016 Value Walk: One Of Asia's Top Hedge Fund Managers – Why investing in India is possibly not all it's cracked up to be
- 18-10-2016 Hubbis: Vietnam beckons overseas investors - Interview with Andreas Vogelsanger
- 19-09-2016 Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Investieren in Schwellenländern - Asiatische Erzählungen (in German)
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- 02-08-2016 AFC Asia Frontier Fund winner in Corporate Livewire's Global Fund Awards
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- 02-06-2016 Dracula Capital: Who are the little known top investors in frontier markets (hint: Thomas Hugger)
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- 25-03-2016 Bloomberg: Stock Trading Comes to Myanmar With First Company Listing
- 08-03-2016 Nippon Wealth's interview with Thomas Hugger
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- 23-02-2016 Emerging Opportunities: Gavin Serkin interviews Ahmed Tabaqchali of AFC Iraq Fund
- 30-12-2015 CNBC: Frontier markets down? Blame the index
- 21-12-2015 AFC Wins AI Hedgefund Award: "Best Asian Emerging Markets Fund & Best Asian Frontier Fund (Since Inception): AFC Asia Frontier Fund"
- 09-12-2015 Bloomberg interviews Thomas Hugger about the opening of the stock exchange in Myanmar
- 26-11-2015 Thomas Hugger wins #1 Spot in Citywire/Lipper's Frontier Markets Equity Managers Review
- 11-11-2015 The Phnom Penh Post - Share price set Port's USD 5.2 Million IPO
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- 11-08-2015 lecourrier.vn -Les investisseurs étrangers confiants dans les perspectives du marché boursier vietnamien
- 10-08-2015 Bloomberg - Vietnam Stocks Remain Bright Spot as Fed Batters Southeast Asia
- 04-08-2015 Wegfall von Zöllen: EU und Vietnam einigen sich auf Freihandelsabkommen (German)
- 29-07-2015 Finanz and Wirtschaft - Exotische Aktienmärkte locken trotz Turbulenzen (German)
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- 25-11-2014 Reuters - Ahmed Tabaqchali Joins AFC as CIO of Iraq Investments
Asia Frontier Investments Limited, a subsidiary of Asia Frontier Capital Limited, is licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission "SFC" for Type 4 (Advising on Securities) and for Type 9 (Asset Management)
* The representative of the AFC Asia Frontier Fund (non-US), AFC Iraq Fund (non-US) and AFC Vietnam Fund in Switzerland is Hugo Fund Services SA, 6 Cours de Rive, 1204 Geneva. The distribution of Shares in Switzerland must exclusively be made to qualified investors. The place of performance and jurisdiction for Shares in the Fund distributed in Switzerland are at the registered office of the representative.
** The AFC Asia Frontier Fund is registered for sale to investors in Japan, Switzerland (qualified investors), Hong Kong & UK (professional investors), Singapore (accredited investors) and USA (accredited investors and qualified purchasers). The AFC Vietnam Fund is registered for sale to investors in Japan, Switzerland (qualified investors), Hong Kong & UK (professional investors), and Singapore (accredited investors). The AFC Iraq Fund is registered for sale to investors in Switzerland (qualified investors), Hong Kong & UK (professional investors), Singapore (accredited investors), and USA (accredited investors and qualified purchasers).
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Home › Forums › Commerce › Gear Swap › WTT: my son needs bigger size in Men's Capilene & nylon pants
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My son has outgrown some stuff I'd gotten for him, and I can't afford to replace it now so I'm looking to trade. Everything used I have is good shape – nearly always air dried, non-smoker
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Vbox7 is the biggest video sharing website in Bulgaria, where you can watch a wide variety of high quality videos. But you are restricted to only viewing the video on their website. And if you find some interesting videos and want to keep it for later viewing, you cannot simply download it to your computer. But with a great program, you can not only download videos from Vbox7, but also download and then convert Vbox7 videos to MP3 for playing on Apple devices or other MP3 players. Read on to check the 2 best solutions.
Part 1. How to Record Vbox7 in MP3 Format with One Click
If you want to save Vbox7 videos as MP3 files, you can try iSkysoft iMusic. This smart tool lets you download music from up to 300 music or video sites with one single click. You can freely customize the audio quality and format according to your needs.
The program will automatically receive the songs' information. You can also edit the ID3 tags manually. The recorded songs can be transferred to iTunes library from the application. Or you can also burn the music to an audio CD.
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Step 1. Install iSkysoft iMusic
Click the Download button to download the installation package of iSkysoft iMusic on your Mac or Windows PC. Install it on your computer and launch it. Click the "GET MUSIC" tab on the top of the software. From there, you can see the 3 options: DISCOVER, DOWNLOAD and RECORD.
Step 2. Download Music from Vbox7.com
Click "DOWNLOAD", then you can see the download box. Use your web browser to open Vbox7.com. Find the song you want to download and copy its webpage link. Paste the webpage link to the download box, set up the downloaded format as MP3 and click "Download".
Step 3. Manage the Downloaded MP3
All the downloaded music will be saved to your music library automatically. After then, you can click the "LIBRARY" tab, navigate to the downloaded music management window. From there, double-click a song to play it. Or connect your Android device, iPhone, iPod or iPad with computer, select songs to transfer to the device for enjoyment.
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To download MP3 from Vbox, a great Vbox7 Downloader like iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac is what you will need. With this tool, you will be able to download almost any Vbox7 video or music with a few clicks of your mouse. What's more, you can also convert the downloaded videos to MP3 for fun on your mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc.
iTube Studio not only works with Vbox7, but also supports tons of video sharing websites like YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Dailymotion and more. After the videos have been downloaded, you are able to convert them to other media formats you prefer just with the same application. iTube Studio also has a built-in media player, smart task scheduler, convenient video library etc. Download the program right now to explore more wonderful features.
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In the following tutorial, I will show you how to download and convert Vbox7 videos to MP3 on Mac (Yosemite included). If you are a Windows user, please install iTube Studio for Windows and then follow the same tutorial.
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iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac
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Step 1. Download a Vbox7 Video
Launch iTube Studio for Mac and then open your favorite browser to go to Vbox7.com. When you play the video you want to download, you are going to see a Download button on the top left corner of the video. Click the Download button will initiate a downloading of the video.
Tips: There are another two ways to download the videos: one is to drag and drop the video URL to the program; the other is to copy the video URL first and then resume to the program and click the Paste URL button.
Step 2. Convert the Downloaded Vbox7 to MP3 File
When the download is finished, you can convert the downloaded Vbox7 videos to MP3 format. To do so, first click the Downloaded tab on the left side of the iTube Studio to view the downloaded videos. There will be a Convert button next to the downloaded video. Click it will bring up a window asking you to choose the output format. Click the Audio tab and set MP3 as the output format.


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The risers are placed between the fork crown and the handlebars to raise the bars up 1 1/4" (32mm)and back 3/4" (19mm). The risers are for 1" diameter handlebars. This will help to relieve wrist and neck pain on long rides. Requires no change of any control cables, wiring, or hoses. Handlebar cap with Triumph logo is shown for reference and is not included.
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The setback on Treasuries this week turned into a rout on Tuesday following the release of the consumer price index report, which registered a 0.3% core gain and temporarily squelched imminent deflation risks. This helped yields continue to back-peddle higher from recent historic lows as the probability of a second-quarter point Fed cut was pared further to 50%, from more than 70%.
Accordingly, Fed fund futures shed multiple ticks and bruised deferred euro$ futures closed 11-15 ticks lower. Housing starts added insult to CPI injury, gaining 6.1% to a 1.73 million unit pace in May, well above median forecasts of a 1.70 million unit pace. Industrial production (+0.1%) and Capacity Use (74.3%) came in right in line with the consensus. The data clinched an over one-point drop in the September bond to 120-19, while loses were most pronounced in the belly as unwinding of convexity hedges by mortgage institutions gathered momentum.
The 2-year note and 30-year bond spread, however, closed unchanged at +307 basis points as the wings of the curve shared equally in the pain. Treasury Secretary Snow reckoned the tax cut deserved credit for recent stock gains, spying a second-half recovery and improved jobs growth. Fed Governor Ferguson stuck close to the topic of Basel II capital accords.


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The U.S. U-20 men's national team is one win away from reaching this summer's World Cup, and one player who could be on the team that isn't right now is Joshua Gatt. The 19-year-old attacker made that more likely with a start for Molde FK this weekend.
Having made his Molde debut by coming off the bench in the club's season opener two weeks ago, Gatt earned his first start of the season on Sunday. Gatt played 78 minutes in the team's 2-2 draw with Tromso, helping earn Molde its first point of the season.
Frank Simek and Carlisle United didn't win their first point of the campaign, but they did claim the Johnstone's Paint Trophy with a 1-0 triumph over Brentford. Simek started and played 90 minutes in the match.
It wasn't all good news this weekend. U.S. men's national team defenders Oguchi Onyewu and Jonathan Bornstein each failed to see the field for their respective clubs. Onyewu did not play in a 2-0 FC Twente victory over PSV Eindhoven that raised the Twente to first place, while Bornstein sat on the bench for Tigres UANL's 2-0 win versus Atlante.
Here is how the Americans Abroad performed this weekend:
- Tim Howard started and played 90 minutes in Everton's 2-2 draw vs. Aston Villa on Saturday.
- Clint Dempsey started and played 90 minutes in Fulham's 3-0 win vs. Blackpool on Saturday.
- Brad Friedel started, played 90 minutes and made three saves in Aston Villa's 2-2 draw vs. Everton on Saturday.
- Michael Bradley did not dress for Aston Villa.
- Marcus Hahnemann dressed but did not play in Wolverhampton Wanderers' 4-1 loss vs. Newcastle United on Saturday.
- Jonathan Spector dressed but did not play in West Ham United's 4-2 loss vs. Manchester United on Saturday.
- Stuart Holden did not dress in Bolton Wanderers' 2-1 loss vs. Birmingham on Saturday. He is recovering from a knee injury.
- Jermaine Jones started and played 89 minutes in Blackburn Rovers' 0-0 draw vs. Arsenal on Saturday.
- Conor Doyle did not dress in Derby County's 4-1 loss vs. Cardiff City on Saturday. He is with the U.S. U-20 national team.
- Zak Whitbread started and played 90 minutes in Norwich City's 6-0 win vs. Scunthorpe United on Saturday.
- Eric Lichaj started and played 90 minutes in Leeds United's 4-1 win vs. Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
- Robbie Findley did not dress in Nottingham Forest's 4-1 loss vs. Leeds United on Saturday. He is recovering from a thigh injury.
- Eddie Johnson started and played 59 minutes in Preston North End's 2-1 win vs. Swansea City on Saturday.
- Brad Guzan started, played 90 minutes, received a yellow card and made 5 saves in Hull City's 1-0 loss vs. Millwall on Saturday.
- Frank Simek started and played 90 minutes in Carlisle United's 1-0 win vs. Brentford in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final on Sunday.
- Anton Peterlin and Plymouth Argyle did not play this weekend.
- Mike Grella came off the bench and played 11 minutes in Swindon Town's 1-1 draw vs. Hartlepool United on Saturday.
- Maurice Edu started and played 90 minutes in Rangers' 3-2 loss vs. Dundee United on Saturday.
- Dominic Cervi and Celtic's match vs. Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Saturday was postponed.
- Steve Cherundolo started and played 90 minutes in Hannover 96's 4-1 loss vs. Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.
- DaMarcus Beasley did not dress for Hannover 96.
- Ricardo Clark started and played 90 minutes in Eintracht Frankfurt's 1-1 draw vs. VfL Wolfsburg on Sunday.
- Daniel Williams did not dress in SC Freiburg's 1-1 draw vs. Mainz on Saturday. He is recovering from a knee injury.
- Timmy Chandler did not dress in Nurnberg's 1-0 loss vs. FC Cologne on Sunday. He was serving a one-game suspension for last game's ejection.
- David Yelldell started, played 90 minutes, received a yellow card for a penalty kick foul and made one save in MSV Duisburg's 2-1 loss vs. SpVgg Greuther Furth on Saturday.
- Luis Robles came off the bench and played 34 minutes in Karlsruhe's 2-2 draw vs. VfL Osnabruck on Friday.
- Edson Buddle started and played 66 minutes in FC Ingolstadt 04's 2-1 win vs. Energie Cottbus on Friday.
- Amaechi Igwe did not dress for FC Ingolstadt 04. He is recovering from a knee injury.
- Bobby Wood did not dress in TSV 1860 Munich's 2-1 loss vs. Alemania Aachen on Sunday. He is with the U.S. U-20 national team.
- Alfredo Morales did not dress in Hertha Berlin's 2-0 loss vs. SC Paderborn 07 on Sunday.
- Carlos Bocanegra started and played 90 minutes in St Etienne's 1-1 draw vs. Valenciennes on Sunday.
- Quentin Westberg dressed but did not play in Evian Thonon Gaillard's 1-0 win vs. Nimes on Friday.
- Oguchi Onyewu dressed but did not play in Twente Enschede's 2-0 win vs. PSV Eindhoven on Saturday.
- Jozy Altidore came off the bench and played 4 minutes in Bursaspor's 0-0 draw vs. Fenerbahce on Sunday.
- Freddy Adu came off the bench and played 32 minutes in Caykur Rizespor's 3-0 loss vs. Mersin Idmanyurdu on Sunday.
- Sacha Kljestan dressed but did not play in RSC Anderlecht's 3-1 loss vs. Standard Liege on Sunday.
- Michael Parkhurst started and played 45 minutes in FC Nordsjaelland's 0-0 draw vs. Horsens on Sunday.
- Marcus Tracy did not dress in Aalborg BK's 1-0 loss vs. Odense BK on Saturday. He is recovering from a knee injury.
- Chris Rolfe came off the bench and played 14 minutes for Aalborg BK.
- Clarence Goodson did not dress in Brondby IF's 2-2 draw vs. Silkeborg on Sunday. He is recovering from a toe injury.
- Benny Feilhaber did not dress in AGF Aarhus' 3-0 win vs. Kolding on Sunday. He is recovering from a thigh injury.
- Alejandro Bedoya and Orebro SK play IFK Goteborg on Monday.
- Ryan Miller dressed but did not play in Halmstads BK's 0-0 draw vs. Kalmar on Saturday.
- Gale Agbossoumonde and Djurgardens IF play AIK on Monday.
- Mikkel Diskerud started and played 90 minutes in Stabaek IF's 2-1 win vs. Rosenborg on Sunday.
- Josh Gatt started and played 78 minutes in Molde FK's 2-2 draw vs. Tromso on Sunday.
- Jose Torres started, played 67 minutes and received a yellow card in Pachuca's 3-1 win vs. Morelia on Sunday.
- Herculez Gomez dressed but did not play for Pachuca.
- Edgar Castillo dressed but did not play in Puebla's 5-4 loss vs. America on Sunday.
- Sammy Ochoa did not dress in Estudiantes Tecos U.A. de G.'s 1-1 draw vs. Atlas on Saturday.
- Sonny Guadarrama did not dress in Atlante's 2-0 loss vs. Tigres UANL on Saturday.
- Jonathan Bornstein dressed but did not play in Tigres UANL's 2-0 win vs. Atlante on Saturday.
- Gustavo Adrian Ruelas did not dress in Santos Laguna's 3-0 win vs. Cruz Azul on Saturday.
Surprised Gatt earned his first start for Molde in just the second game of the season? What do you think of Simek and Carlisle United winning the Johnstone's Paint Trophy? Expecting Onyewu and Bornstein to get back into their club's starting lineups next week?
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Wow! So many players and only Bradley gets any significant attention from this list. I guess he's the guy everyone either loves or hates.
I would be more interested in hearing which forward would be useful in games where the US actually has possession. For example, it seemed to me that against Paraguay the US forwards were unable to get open or create space for each other. This is different than being able to make quick counters where the decisions are more obvious or latch onto rebounds. Of course, it is always unclear whether the run or the pass must come first, but to make a run to get open all that is required is a good idea and a bit of energy, to make a pass to reward that run takes some vision and skill. I do not see any of our forwards making the runs so we did not get to see if anyone had the vision to see them or the skill to get them the ball.
Josh D
Hasn't stacked up in practice, looked terrible in his time actually playing, and isn't where they thought he was. Happens all the time.
I hate this suggestion that the gaffer is some crazy nut case who hates Americans. He's a well respected manager with years of experience, who did give Americans a chance. I'd give him praise for sending Guzan out on loan and Lichaj.
Josh D
Thanks for pointing it out! We also have a couple players in Colombia – Ives can we expand this list?
Josh D
Doubt he did go through that. Villa is owned by an American and has a history of American (going back only a few years though), perhaps the owner wanted Bradley more than the manager.
Josh D
In a game like that, when the other team parks the bus – you rely on your midfield for the goals. Our midfield had no creativity and there's no use in keeping possession if we have no idea what to do with it or if we have to continually pass back to keep possession. At some point you have to try the pass.
William J
Weighing in… I have never been a fan of Bob Bradley as US coach. I believe his incredible lineup decisions in the Ghana WC 2010 game cost us the game and a deep run. I have been praying for JK to become our coach (twice now!) However, I believe Bob's son, Michael, is an outstanding young player and by far our strongest option at the deep holding mid position. When the chips are down, you want him in the game!(remember the Slovenia game anyone?)
Re: the unis, I like the new red (finally!) but with a white stripe for contrast. I'd also like to see a red stripe on the white home jersey. Right now the home unis are too boring (Penn State bland). A white/blue/white home "kit" would be colorful, very striking and distinctive. I do like the red/blue/red "third" uni. Viva Estados Unidos!!!
Re 'Houllier is crazy'; maybe a coach fighting for his job isn't convinced going with an EPL newbie will help.
Nahh, can;t be since that would be a simple logical conclusion.
bb said." only starters play". HIs son does not play any yet he is on the the team. His rules don't apply to his son.
My guess from watching him over the years is that he looks dangerous and exciting, but not quite in sync with the rest of the team at first. This seems reasonable as he is new to the team and might not know his teammates and role well. As this continues, it becomes clear that he is not linking up with players any better and is often poor positionally. It becomes harder and harder to play the guy as he does too many things that are bad for the team.


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The donkey cheese hailed as super healthy that costs £880 per kilo
It's the most expensive cheese in the world
It's the most expensive cheese in the world
Would-be criminals stole the donkey to use as their getaway 'vehicle'
Google has denied accusations that one of its Street View cars struck and injured a donkey in Botswana. The California-based company was forced to respond after a Google Street View image of what some claimed was an injured beast was widely shared online.
Denial comes after Twitter users posted images from Google Maps of what appears to be a dead donkey lying in a road
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A voyage around GK's Father is only half the story
It's the mother of all baby buggies and the ultimate status symbol for family outings. Despite coming with a hefty £1,200 price tag, the Bugaboo Donkey is galloping out of stores.
Vans are serving up classy dishes from authentic burritos to luxury chocolates. Alice-Azania Jarvis steps aboard
A donkey that was forced to go parasailing by her keeper last summer, causing worldwide revulsion, has died. The 18-year-old animal, named Anapka, suffered a heart attack after falling ill in December, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said.
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With the help of three guides, two donkeys and a cart, Jason Florio and his partner took a walk around The Gambia. That's 1,000km – give or take a few hundred metres
Israeli blockade leaves animals starving and owners with no choice but to sell up
You wouldn't have picked her out as the ideal holiday companion. Yes, she was pretty and petite, with soulful eyes and beguiling eyelashes. But Salomé was also narrow-minded, with a strident voice, crooked teeth, a curious body odour and a broad, hairy backside.
'People think I'm thick because of the parts I play'
Rick Stein has unveiled a touching memorial to his Jack Russell terrier and screen partner Chalky. The chef this week flung open the door to his refurbished seafood noshery in Padstow, Cornwall. The centrepiece: a bronze sculpture of his pooch, who died last year aged 17.


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He dug out his canteen, shoving it in her direction. "Here, go make yourself useful and fill this up," he ordered. They were the first words he had spoken to her since saying she could not come. He had not meant it to sound so harsh, but perhaps that would be best. He did not want her to think that he was happy with her presence. Maybe without her mother's nagging, she would decide to leave his company.
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Michael Bentine – A Goon gone potty
Despite leaving The Goon Show after just two series, Michael Bentine found many more outlets for his crazy sense of humour and ever active intellect.
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As anarchic and as offbeat as the ground-breaking The Goon Show was, for the decade it was broadcast it remained very much the creation and cherished troubled child of Spike Milligan. Despite various collaborating writers working on the show over the years, and sometimes despite even the absence of Milligan entirely, it was his anarchic vision, creative imagination and fierce determination that drove the show to succeed, to the detriment of his own mental and physical health.
The other Goons were never idle during this period of success though. Peter Sellers forged the foundations of a stellar movie career and Harry Secombe found his niche as a singer and performer of some note. The only Goon to have been frustrated by constraining his ambition and talents to fit in with the vision of Spike Milligan was Michael Bentine. After a mere two series of The Goon Show, Bentine left amid a fair amount of acrimony and more than a little press speculation about his motives and the possibility of his future career outside of the group. Fans need not have worried though, as over the years the singular talents of Michael Bentine found many unusual and creative outlets.
His background was certainly exotic and unusual. As if having a mother from Westcliff in Essex was not exceptional enough, having a father from Peru certainly was. Michael Bentine's father Adan Bentin, was the son of a silver miner and former President-elect of Peru. Sent to England to study engineering Adan was refused permission to fight for Britain in the First World War, so instead used his engineering skills to develop aeronautical innovations of his own devising, and rather obliquely, to run a music school where he met his wife and Michael's future mother Florence. After the war, Adam (as he was now known) was offered the chance to help build a new Peruvian air force. It was back in Peru that Michael was conceived and from where in 1922, his parents returned to England in an effort to make sure that their son would be born British, as is only right and proper.
Afflicted in his early childhood by a severe stammer it was not until Michael Bentine reached Eton that, with the help of a sympathetic master, he was able to start conquering his speaking difficulties. When the Second World War broke out Michael, like his father before him, was refused permission to serve in the RAF due to his Peruvian dual nationality. Jobs as a photo journalist, and a jobbing drummer followed before Bentine decided to capitalise on his new found confidence at public speaking, and try his hand at acting. It was in October 1942, during a production by Robert Atkins of The Merchant Of Venice, that the RAF finally decided it needed Michael's services, seeing fit to arrest him without warning as a deserter. Despite the potential ignominy, Michael Bentine remained proud to be the only British serviceman to be arrested while wearing doublet and hose for over four hundred years.
After the war, during which he eventually managed to fly in a plane, Bentine like many of his contemporaries found gainful employment at London's Windmill Theatre. Appearing on bills with Harry Secombe and his novelty shaving act, Bentine's act was no less bizarre. Lectures were delivered in a non-existent language of his own peculiar devising, and various props such as a walking stick, a rubber chicken, a bow and arrow, and finally the back of a broken chair were all used in Michael's idiosyncratic and inventive new brand of comedy.
That brand of innovation and love of a good prop remained evident in many of Michael Bentine's successful TV series over the years. Props, models, outlandish stunts and clever visual effects played a large part in the popularity of the It's a Square World TV show which ran from 1960-64, and became even more integral to the later Michael Bentine's Potty Time which starred an army of small puppets (known as Potties) all voiced by the vocal skills of Michael.
Those same ingenious and inventive ideas are also present on the It's a Square World album which was recorded in 1962. Aided by Parlophone's resident wizard of sound George Martin, Bentine plays with technology, sound effects and soundscapes as easily as he played with visual imagery on television. Not simply a comedy album of material transferred from one medium to another, the record is a resourceful and innovative exercise in its own right, and one which takes full advantage of the medium. All voices are the creation of Michael Bentine, and other than the extremely valuable input of George Martin's alchemy, the record is an extraordinary and masterful solo effort.
From the opening introduction, the possibilities of using sound for comedy are explored as Michael Bentine is unchained from his cell and dragged hesitantly before a microphone. The listener is then led on to the opening track of The Horse Show, complete with reverberating public address system and of course all the requisite sound effects of audience appreciation and snorting galloping horses. The plucky Brit who demolishes the course and smashes through the fences is praised while the crafty but highly competent Italian who glides gracefully over the jumps is treated with scorn and contemptible derision. As a piece of satire it is relevant today and still just as funny.
Some of Bentine's other ideas which were no doubt satirical and highly imaginative back in 1962 sound highly prescient today. Take for instance the Ice Cream Commercial, one of many mock adverts which break up the longer sketches. The premise of having curry-flavoured ice cream was probably quite novel at the time. Nowadays it's probably the proposed business model for a multitude of potential trendy hipster ice cream parlours. The Holiday Commercial with its proposal that tourists visit a coal mine is now, thanks to the death of the UK's coal industry, another example of Michael Bentine's comic yet prophetic prognostications coming true. Even if these days tourists do not have a ton or two of coke dumped on top of them as proposed in Bentine's sketch.
Elsewhere on the record, there are more satirical masterpieces such as the exploration of the possibilities of Dingleweed as a commercial crop. A crop that is so pointless and purposeless that it is grown only in order to grow ever more dingleweed. There are also sketches that exist solely for amusement, such as Tower Of London in which elderly and confused Beefeaters exchange keys amidst much clanking and creaking of sound effects. The record also sees a Geneva Convention of nations speaking unto nation in various nonsensical Bentine languages, interrupted by a succession of misplaced phone calls all searching for a sultry siren named Gladys.
There are also sketches which play with the medium of broadcasting. Tracks such as The Shrdlu neatly parodies wildlife documentaries with their months devoted to recording pointless animals being attacked and eaten by other pointless animals, in this case the ravenous Prairie Kumquat.
Michael Bentine also collaborates with his TV show writing partner John Law on the quite brilliant Football Results which sees a sports announcer's excitement rise as the possibility of a pools win appears. He is let down by the dismal efforts of Huddersfield and Barnsley, and soon returns to reality with an audible and gloomy acceptance of the fickle nature of fate. The track earned a deserved release as a single along with The Astronauts as a b-side. Equally inventive, the premise for this space age track sees a Russian lunar mission adopting ever more complicated composers' names instead of the usual NATO phonetic alphabet. Complete with humming of arias and unsolicited interference from the Americans, Michael Bentine plays each part with gusto and perfect timing.
Michael Bentine is often overlooked when The Goons are discussed. His part in that particular anarchic ground-breaking show may have been small but it was vital. The forty years he spent working outside of the Goons were never idle though and were filled with incident and innovation. Whether Michael Bentine was dabbling in various aeronautical innovations, leading the first hovercraft expedition up the Amazon, investigating the paranormal, or creating fondly remembered TV series, he approached everything with absolute enthusiasm, imagination and passion.
Here then is the last moments of the not particularly missed Desert Shrdlu, a creature exceeded only in worthlessness and irrelevance by the Prairie Kumquat.
Freddie Parrotface Davies – Spray it again Sam
With the unlikely combination of budgies, bowler hats and an incurable speech impediment, Freddie Davies created his alter ego Samuel Tweet.
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Samuel Tweet was not born. Like some end of the pier comic Frankenstein, Freddie Davies would have to create him from discarded props and unwanted speech defects, gradually constructing Tweet until he was ready to be unleashed into the world, to wreak havoc and spray unsuspecting passers-by with litres of superfluous spittle. Containing the monster and killing him off would take a lot longer…
Freddie Davies though was born, in this case in 1937 in Brixton. It was not long before the outbreak of World War 2 saw Freddie evacuated away from South London in order to stay with relatives in Salford. He soon became a regular at the Salford Hippodrome, watching from the wings as his grandfather (the comedian Jack Herbert) performed his act. After leaving school and inspired to follow his own path in showbiz, Freddie took to performing in charity shows while working at the local Co-op. It wasn't until after he finished his National Service in 1958 that Freddie finally resolved to follow in his grandfather's footsteps and pursue a career as a comedian.
Freddie received sound counsel from no less than Des O'Connor, eagerly pouncing on him as Des exited from a stage door. Des's advice was simple, and was the same advice as Max Bygraves had given Des some years before, namely become a Butlins Redcoat. So off Freddie went to Skegness, performing in weekly shows alongside fellow redcoat Dave Allen at the resort's Gaiety Theatre. All well and good, but Freddie had set in motion a chain of events that would cause a monster to be created.
Outside of the weekly show, a Redcoat's duty largely consisted of amusing the campers and falling in swimming pools. And as you can imagine, that duty is quite a strain after a while. The need to be funny all the time, spending every waking minute of the day as the epitome of hilarity, would tax some of the most adept and quick-witted of comedians. Freddie's solution was simple, rather than rely on his wits, he would simply adopt a silly voice. A daft over-pronounced lisp solved all of his problems. Suddenly announcements for knobbly knees competitions or glamorous granny pageants could be delivered to crowds of suitably amused campers, doubled up with laughter at Freddie's newly found speech impediment. What a simpler carefree age it must have been back then.
The next steps in Freddie's gradual mutation into Samuel Tweet came in 1963 after his stint at Butlins and while he was trying to make a name for himself on the northern club circuit. After accidentally buying a homburg hat that was a few sizes too big, Freddie decided that he was best off keeping it and ramming it down over his ears. Cue further instant hilarity. The final jigsaw piece came when an unsuspecting heckler challenged Freddie to tell a joke about a budgerigar. By chance he knew one, and as the joke involved two voices, he reused the lisping idiot voice from his Butlins day. The combination of an oversized bowler hat, a ridiculous lisp and an obsession with budgies had finally resulted in the creation of Samuel Tweet. The following year in August 1964, an appearance on Opportunity Knocks exposed Samuel Tweet to the nation and suddenly Freddie 'Parrotface' Davies was a household name. Like Trill.
TV and radio work followed, including in 1968 his own radio show The Golden Parrot Club which saw Freddie and the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra hosting an hour of variety with aspiring comedians like Les Dawson and musical acts such The Wurzels or Clinton Ford. Later in 1974, Freddie earned his own TV show The Small World of Samuel Tweet. The plot was minimal and revolved around the business machinations of Freddie's pet shop in the village of Chumpton Green, a settlement which owed its ancient feudal allegiance to the eponymous Lord Chumpton, played by Cardew Robinson. Needless to say a large number of parrots and budgies were involved. So popular was the series amongst children that a second series in 1975 was launched along with a novelty spinoff record.
For those of you unable or unwilling to remember what Samuel Tweet sounded like in his heyday, this LP is the perfect aide memoire. If you have been in therapy to try and forget, then it's probably worth giving it a miss. The songs themselves are, it must always be remembered, aimed squarely at the children's market, but even with that caveat they are exceedingly annoying. From the first track Keep Smiling onwards, Freddie is lisping and spraying saliva for all he is worth. The sentiments in Keep Smiling are admirable enough, encouraging children to keep grinning even if they are being smacked around. The song would be bearable if not for that lisp. Why Freddie why?
Even more unbearable is the lisp combined with deliberate mispronunciations as occurs on the last track on side one, Kindness To Animals. Again the sentiments are fine but Freddie's insistence on pronouncing 'animals' as 'aminals' would make the most ardent vegan want to punch a hamster. The children's chorus singing along with the Parrotfaced vocals don't seem to have seen the script and insist not only on pronouncing every 's' without a lisp, they also manage to pronounce 'animals' without sounding like they have suffered some terrible mass brain injury. The song clearly intends to teach children about animal care, and not about the joys of proper diction.
The album's crowning glory is of course side two, the conceptual masterpiece that is A Day In The Life Of Samuel Tweet. Set initially at least in Freddie's fictional Chumpton Green pet shop and featuring Damaris Hayman and Colin Edwyn from the TV series, the tale is a strange tale of parrots and drugged hallucinations, combining elements of The Wizard of Oz and Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake. Freddie is met and harassed by a Norfolk postman, Jock MacTavish (an angry Scottish policeman) and Mrs Higginbottom, a cleaner so posh you wonder who is dusting her Jacobean manor house while she is scraping layers of dried parrot guano and rat droppings off of Freddie's floor.
Due to a state of advance dental decay caused by excessive consumption of dog treats (I might have made that up) Freddie has to be rushed to see his dentist Mr Oppenheimer, who is also, like many dentists, a mad German scientist. Mr Oppenheimer may be the same scientist who worked on the Manhattan project, he certainly sounds and behaves as if is suffering from advanced radiation sickness. Under sedation at the dentist and succumbing to the powerful anaesthesia, Freddie meets up with canine incarnations of his friends, all of whom are jolly racial and regional stereotypes ready to amuse with daft accents and unlikely cravings for sausages and a little amorous 'woof and tickle'. Then just like Dorothy in Oz, Freddie manages to return, in this case by biting his dentist while in dog form. The dentist is then sensibly carried off for rabies shots. I hope at least some of that made sense, I gave it my best shot…
In the sleeve notes for his 1970 album Mr Parrot Face, Freddie Davies dropped some fairly unsubtle hints as to how he felt about his alter ego, Samuel Tweet. Comparing Tweet to Frankenstein's monster and bemoaning the indestructibility of both creations, the frustration is palpable. It would take another ten years or so before Freddie Davies managed to finally and irrevocably kill off his monstrous avian obsessed creature by escaping to the relative safety of cruise ship cabaret, a floating sanctuary where no one on board had ever seen or heard of Samuel Tweet. A further career as a straight actor has brought some semblance of order and peace to Freddie Davies' life, and he continues acting and performing to this day. Just don't mention budgies.
If the horror films of Hammer and Universal teach anything though, it is that nothing as grotesque and as gruesome as Samuel Tweet can be relied on to stay dead forever. Let's hope for the sake of humanity that he is safely spluttering away in some far off dimension under an irrevocable curse, never to return to trouble our world again. Keep smiling!
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Max Boyce – Know your arias from your elbow
Who would have expected an album recorded in a small Welsh rugby club would create a major superstar of 1970s comedy?
Max Boyce,
Live At Treorchy,
One Up OU 2033,
Nationalism can do odd things to people. I don't feel there is anything intrinsically wrong with believing your nation to be a fairly decent place full of thoroughly decent people leading highly decent lives. That nation of yours is going to be there every time you gaze out of a window or open your door, so you might as well try and like it, or at least feign some sort of passing interest. It is though, a short step from believing your respective country to be the best and by far the most decent, to experiencing a strong desire to conquer the known world and subjugate all other nations until they reach your required state of taste and decency.
Along with wanting to vanquish all the people of the world, nationalism also seems to bring with it certain other odd desires that are not entirely natural. Take for instance the sudden urge to address huge baying crowds from a balcony. Or the need to adopt emblems and insignia, and to wear stylistically improbable items of clothing. With their crisp black shirts, natty armband accessories, leather jackets, polished metallic eagles and shiny knee-length boots, nationalists have always managed to look stylish and cut a certain dash while they attempt to vanquish their foes and crush the peoples of the world. Apart from Nicola Sturgeon of course, who manages to look like a school dinner lady all dressed up for a night at the bingo.
Striding about the stage of some random Welsh town hall, adorned from head to toe in red with matching scarf and hat, Max Boyce certainly looked the part of the ardent nationalist. Add into that equation an enormous rosette the size of a cart wheel and a giant leek that was taller than Max himself, and you have the living embodiment of Welsh nationalism and its greatest ever comedian. Even Hitler or Mussolini in their prime would have felt underdressed and a tad shabby watching Max Boyce in his prime.
It wasn't always like this. The covers of Max Boyce's first two albums In Session and The World Of Max Boyce, both first released in 1971, show him in his pre-giant leek days. His chunky knitwear adorned with hues of brown and beige, his hair long but tamed, Max looks every inch a jobbing folk singer. By 1974 when Live At Treorchy was released, Max Boyce's amazing transformation from folk singer to the very personification of Welshness was well under way. Gone is the brown woollen uniform, replaced instead by the ubiquitous leek and Welsh rugby wear that he would make his own. The leek is just a regular vegetable at this stage, and Max's hair is still un-permed, but the puckish grin shows that he is well on his way to becoming the most Welsh person to have ever walked the valleys or waved a daffodil in anger. With the exception of 1977's The Road And The Miles…, which sees Max flirting with rock superstardom in denim flares and a shirt open to his navel, the red and white clad rugby obsessive was a look that would serve him well.
Much of the appeal at Live At Treorchy comes from the instant rapport between Max and his audience. Born in 1943 in the mining town of Glynneath, Max Boyce worked in the mines himself and his tales of hard toil and of the emotional release offered by rugby and beer come from the heart. There is no affectation or effort to ingratiate himself with his audience. It is simply a man at home in his surroundings and the response of an audience who recognize one of their own. The material and topics Max sings about are instantly familiar to his crowd.
Much of the material on Live At Treorchy makes reference to Welsh rugby, which enjoyed a period of exceptional skill and dominance during the 1970s. I could devote a doctoral thesis to investigating whether it was the dominance of Welsh rugby which gave rise to the mass appeal of Max Boyce or vice versa. Suffice to say, the album both begins and ends with rugby related comedy, with only a few non-rugby related songs included to prevent the audience from rising from their chairs in a frenzied state of nationalism and marching immediately on London to overthrow the government.
Opening track 9-3 tells for instance of the 1972 defeat of the mighty New Zealand All Blacks by the Carmarthenshire club side Llanelli. The match is still talked about and mythologised forty years on and the details are now a matter of sporting legend, but Max Boyce explores much more than just the minutiae of the match. He tells of the atmosphere that the match generated, the camaraderie and mass elation that the result provoked, and of the Felinfoel beer induced revelry that caused many a headache and absence from work the next day. And probably the day after that as well.
More rugby tales follow on The Scottish Trip which relates more about the experience of travelling to a match than it does about the enjoyment of watching the match itself. It is a tale of hard working men bonding on a rare day off, and also of the scarcity of toilets on the motorways of the early 1970s. A similar track Hymns And Arias finishes the album, telling this time of a trip to Twickenham, detailing the songs sung and the various ways the Welsh got one over on their English hosts. It is a rousing crowd pleaser on which to end the record, with the line 'Wales defeated England' inevitably earning the loudest, most raucous cheer of the night.
Less drunken tracks, such as The Outside-Half Factory, relate a tall yarn of Welsh rugby players being constructed deep below the ground, hidden from the scheming gaze of English rugby league scouts. There is also Asso Asso Yogoshi, a cheerful tale of glib casual racism blessed glossed over, that despite its obvious affection for the touring Japanese rugby side and their brave sporting spirit, is just the sort of song that gives the 1970s a bad name. Wales has yet to issue Japan a formal apology for the track…
Astonishingly though, there are songs which are not about rugby or annoying the English. The Ballad Of Morgan The Moon is a long rambling story/poem which tells about how the eponymous Welsh inventor made it to the surface of the moon in a coal powered rocket fashioned from an old winding-engine.
The non-rugby songs also showcase the serious side of Max Boyce. Duw It's Hard is a reflective lament for the lost pit in Max's home town of Glynneath which generates a moment of genuine pathos amidst all the musical merriment and rugger. Max is honest enough to acknowledge that life in the mines was tough and full of hardship, but the replacement of the pithead baths with a supermarket imbues the song with a reflective sadness at the inevitability of change and the loss of communities. Ten Thousand Instant Christians is another reflective number which marvels at the empty chapels dotted around Cardiff on the day of a rugby international, while inside the stadium hymns such as Calon Lân and Cwm Rhondda can be heard ringing out with such faith and devotion.
Did You Understand? is a track written about the 1972 colliery strike, the indifferent decision makers in power and how the nation's sympathies with the striking miners faded over time. With its portentous piano chords playing over Max's piercing vocal lament, it is a powerful moment of social commentary that reveals the folk club origins of much of Max Boyce's act.
For all its parochial Welsh charm, Live At Treorchy achieved great success for Max Boyce outside of his own safe heartland of support. The blend of working class humour and gentle comedy saw the album sell by the thousands, spending 38 weeks in the charts and reaching number 21 in the run up to Christmas 1975. The follow up album We All Had Doctors' Papers achieved even greater success becoming (so far) the only comedy album to have reached number one in the UK charts. Which, given the competition, is quite an achievement.
To end then, here is Duw It's Hard, Max's wistful farewell to the mining industry that made him and thousands like him into proud Welshmen.
Tommy Trinder – You not so lucky people…
In 1959, after his stint hosting Sunday Night at the Palladium had finished, comedian Tommy Trinder bowed out with an album recorded in an Essex holiday camp.
Tommy Trinder,
Tommy Trinder's Party,
Fontana TFL 5073,
Parties. Brilliant aren't they? If you host a party yourself you'll be a bundle of nerves as you spend the three months beforehand organising everything with the precision and attention to detail of an army quartermaster preparing for an invasion of Russia. The event itself will pass in an anxious few hours while you fret and worry that your guests are having the very best time of their otherwise drab mundane lives. There will also be the worry that gatecrashers are going to inveigle their way in and steal your plates of canapés, and the all too real concern that a group of boozed up acquaintances will decide to use your priceless collection of Beswick figurines of animals dressed as rustic country folk in an impromptu game of skittles.
If you're not the host of a party, then your worries are few by comparison. If you can cope with shame, ignominy and the enduring scorn of your peers, then the party is an ideal opportunity to lose friends and indulge your inner barbarian. After you have drunk a litre or four of spirits, thrown up over various pot plants, spiked the punch with dangerous hallucinogens and used a variety of precious vases as ashtrays, there remains not much else to do but fall asleep on the toilet or pass away the night face down in the host's front garden. The choice is entirely yours.
Why anyone would want a detailed record of a party is beyond me. Imagine all the gruesome details of a terrible party you would rather forget, committed to posterity via the means of a vinyl record. Quite a thought isn't it? Imagine then, if you can, a record of a particular awful party that you didn't attend and would have turned down immediately on receipt of the invitation. Imagine listening to the sort of people you would despise on sight, debauching themselves drunkenly in some repugnant orgiastic mockery of a chimpanzee's tea party. If for some reason that does appeal, then Tommy Trinder's Party is the record for you. Just because you weren't born in 1959 doesn't mean you can't relive a terrible party you would never have dreamed of attending.
Born in Streatham, South London, in 1909, Tommy Trinder had been an entertainer since leaving school. Early tours in revues led to stints in music halls and appearances on various national variety bills. With a face adorned by a jutting chin resembling the rear end of a dredger, and a toothy grin that could swallow lesser comedians whole, Tommy seemed an unlikely movie star but in 1938 he was deemed popular enough to be given his first big screen role in the low budget farce Almost a Honeymoon. It was during the Second World War that Trinder found true fame, making many appearances in shows entertaining the troops and starring in a succession of films shot at London's legendary Ealing Studios. Trinder's roles encompassed both serious roles as well as comic ones and by the end of the war he was, along with the likes of George Formby and Will Hay, one of the most loved and successful film stars of the day.
Tommy Trinder's career wasn't exactly in the doldrums when this record was released in 1959, but he had definitely reached his career peak. In 1958, Tommy Trinder had been replaced on Sunday Night at the Palladium by Bruce Forsyth. The handover had been somewhat acrimonious with Trinder convinced the younger presenter was stealing his act as well as his prestigious job hosting the popular variety show. Giving that Forsyth was (and remains) an irritable big chinned comic with a skill for adlibbing and bullying members of the public, it is easy to see how Trinder might have thought Forsyth was copying his act. On Forsyth's Palladium debut, Trinder physically hindered Forsyth's first foray onto the stage of the theatre as the two men shared the stage for the first and last time only, making it clear to the young usurper that he was not welcome and that the job was being taken from him under duress. The two did not even share a stage, or speak to each other, when years later they were cast together in a pantomime production of Aladdin. Forsyth was apparently so outraged at sharing the theatre with Trinder that before the pantomime had finished, he had paid off his manager (the notorious Miff Ferrie) at considerable expense and returned to a Trinder-free life of bliss and prime-time game shows.
After his Palladium stint had finished, Tommy Trinder moved on to star in his own BBC TV series, Trinder Box, which saw him host a variety show on a much smaller scale. It was Trinder's one and only starring role in a TV series and after it ended he retreated from the limelight, leaving the world free for Bruce Forsyth to conquer in the name of light entertainment. Before Trinder did retire ungracefully into the chairmanship of Fulham FC, he did leave the world with one more curious artefact, the 1959 recording of Tommy Trinder's Party. The record itself is a painful exercise in inanity, a mirthless, tuneless endurance test for audio masochists and people harbouring a grudge against their own ears. Tommy Trinder barges onto the stage of the Jolly Roger Bar at Butlin's Holiday Camp in Clacton-on-Sea, intent on bullying everyone into having a good time whether they want to or not. Luckily, filled as they are with candy floss, cockles and gallons of cheap booze, most of the crowd do. In fact they give the impression that they would applaud a bare brick wall if Tommy Trinder berated them enough.
With a group of drunken backing musicians plucked from the dingy backroom of a down-at-heel Clacton pub, Tommy launches himself into the record with gusto, leading his baying audience into singing one half remembered song after another. I say backing musicians, but in fact the only instrument that can be heard over the general din and raucous musical wailing of the drunken holidaymakers is the drums, played with a glorious tub-thumping incompetence and gusto. Sounding at times like a small child running amok in a kitchenware shop, pots and pans and other random objects are upturned and walloped heartily to a rhythm existing only in the mind of the drummer and no one else.
Highlights are few and far between. Considering that Tommy Trinder was a comedian of some note, there is a marked lack of any sort of comedy on the record. Jokes are absent and what humour there is takes the form of 'banter' as Tommy abuses random audience members and harangues them to join in his gruesome singalong. The audience are very obliging and sing whatever Tommy orders them to. Mainly the choices are pub standards, the sort of songs normally played on an out of tune piano with a handful of keys missing, by anyone able to hold a pint of gin in one hand and bang out Let's All Go Down The Strand with the other, preferably without spilling a drop.
Sometimes, Tommy leads the audience out of their musical comfort zone. Tongue twisters dealing with Susie 'sitting in a shoe shine shop' are rattled off at great speed, an 'around the UK' medley of tunes is attempted, and Tommy even performs a mind reading card trick. A vinyl record is not the best medium to bear witness to magic tricks, even more so when the audience member plucked from the crowd is crippled with nerves and unable to utter a word. Tommy struggles on gamely and nags her into completing the trick before resuming the cacophonic caterwauling once again.
It's quite a party. So in summary, parties are best avoided, especially if Tommy Trinder is hosting. Finding a highlight to play is difficult. Tommy's tour of Britain medley is possibly it, though you would be forgiven for sending me abuse after listening to it. Please do try to be gentle. The album cover with Tommy and his massive teapot is one of the finest I've ever seen, so try and concentrate on that instead.


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PORTLAND, Ore. — Consultants say some of the $175 million spent to plan a replacement Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River might not have been wasted — if another bridge is planned and if it has the same alignment as the bridge plan that has now been abandoned.
The $175 million is about what it would have cost to do seismic improvements to the two spans that make up the current bridge, The Oregonian reported Friday in a story about how the money was spent in the planning begun in 2004.
Although Oregon lawmakers approved its $450 million contribution, a matching contribution from Washington state foundered when Republican senators declined to consider a $10 billion transportation package.
If it had been built, the bridge would have cost a projected $3.4 billion.
"We generated a lot of data that shouldn't be discarded," said Gary Peterson, a senior vice president for Shannon &Wilson Inc., which got $4.8 million for drilling large-diameter shafts more than 250 feet deep and doing tests to make recommendations for the bridge's foundation.
"It's debilitating to see all the years and dollars of hard effort ready to go to bid, and then it just gets thrown out," he said. "That's just amazing."
The Oregonian said the largest chunk of money went to David Evans and Associates Inc., the prime consultant. The Portland-based design and management firm billed more than $37 million.
Geologic studies could possibly be useful for a future project.
"We have a very good understanding of the subsurface conditions of the Columbia River on that alignment that may end up being useful in the future," said Jay Lyman, a David Evans senior vice president in Vancouver. "Or if another alignment is picked, it may not be."
The accounting shows that most of the money went to consultants, many local, who did engineering, excavation, architectural, archaeological and other work.
One company, Enviroissues Inc., handled communications, the project's website, social media, advisory groups and community presentations. Its bill was $7.7 million.
Among subconsultants on the project is McCaig Communications &Opinion Research Inc. — paid $418,121 through April 30. Patricia McCaig was Gov. John Kitzhaber's top adviser on the bridge.
Two ethics complaints have been filed against McCaig, who did not register as a lobbyist with the state of Oregon.


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In its attempt to regain the lost ground in Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will address a rally in New Delhi on Sunday, just 10 days ahead of Lok sabha polls which will decide the fate of seven seats of the city.
"The party has made an elaborate preparation to make the rally at Ajmal Khan Park in Karol Bagh a huge success so that a message can be sent that the party is on the path of winning hearts of people again," Mukesh Sharma, chief spokesperson of Delhi Congress said.
To give final touches to the preparations for the rally, AICC general secretary and in-charge of Delhi Affairs Shakeel Ahmed, Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh, senior leader Haroon Yusuf among others inspected the Ajmal Khan Park on Saturday.
"We have made preparations for 30,000 people. It will be a very successful rally. The Congress rally will give a befitting reply to the anti-Congress propaganda by the BJP," said Sharma.
"People will also arrive by the metro rail and Congress workers will be deployed at the nearest metro station at the Ajmal Khan Park to ensure that they are not put to any inconvenience," said Sharma.
He said that the party, after taking the security aspect into consideration, has decided to make small galleries for the smooth entry of people so that they can listen to the speech of Congress President. Big digital screens are being installed in the park, he said.
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We called comedy legend Steven Wright to ask him what else he had going on besides his upcoming national tour to support his new album I Still Have a Pony. I gotta put air in one of my bike tires, Wright said, then realized he had inadvertently answered the question. I dont know if you should put that in maybe you should. Its up to you, youre the one writing. Wright was a pioneer in comedy in the 80s, known for his deadpan style, monotone voice and off-the-wall one-liners. He says it wasnt intentional; he speaks and acts the same on and offstage and says its always surprising to hear people talk about his style. I never even thought about it as a style, I just tried to think of a joke [people] would laugh at, Wright says. He says he never realized he was different until he read a review in a local Boston paper. It said abstract jokes, and I thought, Oh, abstract jokes, well geez, maybe they are abstract jokes, and He talks in a monotone voice the whole time. [I thought] A monotone? Do I talk in a monotone? Wright says. All through school, growing up in my family, in my neighborhood, Little League all that no one ever said: Hey, you know you talk with a monotone? Wright will continue to try and make people laugh today after opening act singer/songwriter Ruth Gerson starts things off at 8 p.m. Stafford Centre, 10505 Cash Road, Stafford. For tickets and information, call 281-208-6900 or visit www.staffordcentre.com. $39.50.
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