Paul Haitch
@paul-haitch.bsky.social
Refugee from Twitter. Loves to talk about music. Darlo fan.
It wasn't just me then. I managed to endure it until the first lot of adverts. He's turned into The Who of stand-up.
December 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It wasn't just me then. I managed to endure it until the first lot of adverts. He's turned into The Who of stand-up.
I only experienced 1964 for 69 days, and one of those days was just the 4 hours, but I'm sure I was grooving in my nappy while it happened!
December 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I only experienced 1964 for 69 days, and one of those days was just the 4 hours, but I'm sure I was grooving in my nappy while it happened!
I've got bittersweet memories of it. My Dad was in a hospice with cancer, those weeks were his last. He watched it on TV, it gave him a focus, lifted his spirits, gave us something different to talk about as his deterioration accelerated. Then he died just before Sunday's closing ceremony.
July 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I've got bittersweet memories of it. My Dad was in a hospice with cancer, those weeks were his last. He watched it on TV, it gave him a focus, lifted his spirits, gave us something different to talk about as his deterioration accelerated. Then he died just before Sunday's closing ceremony.
Wow! Teenagers with short hair- in 1972! They look like the geekiest geeks of Geek St. that never got invited to parties.
July 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Wow! Teenagers with short hair- in 1972! They look like the geekiest geeks of Geek St. that never got invited to parties.
Wow Sniffer Clarke has had quite the career turn since he was banging in the goals for Leeds and England hasn't he?
May 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wow Sniffer Clarke has had quite the career turn since he was banging in the goals for Leeds and England hasn't he?
I thought that was your weekend name! 😉
March 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I thought that was your weekend name! 😉
Surely The Pop Group is just The Band taken to the next level?
March 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Surely The Pop Group is just The Band taken to the next level?
Ah the 'blessed hedge finds'! Always a good reason for a young lad to go cycling up country lanes.
February 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ah the 'blessed hedge finds'! Always a good reason for a young lad to go cycling up country lanes.
Sid Vicious went 46 years ago today as well. Imagine a 67 year old Sid these days? Buddy Holly went 65 years ago tomorrow, tbh, I think he would have had a huge influence on the world if he'd lived. Sid, I'm thinking Celebrity Big Brother and crap like that.
February 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Sid Vicious went 46 years ago today as well. Imagine a 67 year old Sid these days? Buddy Holly went 65 years ago tomorrow, tbh, I think he would have had a huge influence on the world if he'd lived. Sid, I'm thinking Celebrity Big Brother and crap like that.
I'm 60, don't think I can recollect such a shit January in my life. 2016 when Bowie died was a bad one, but this year's has just been a massive clusterfuck. RIP Marianne.
January 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'm 60, don't think I can recollect such a shit January in my life. 2016 when Bowie died was a bad one, but this year's has just been a massive clusterfuck. RIP Marianne.
Have you heard of iBroadcast? I don't like streaming sites, so I convert all my music to mp3, and upload to iBroadcast. It's Cloud-based, so you won't bust your device's memory. It's free if you are happy for 128kps playback, but you can pay a tenner for 320 kps playback.
January 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Have you heard of iBroadcast? I don't like streaming sites, so I convert all my music to mp3, and upload to iBroadcast. It's Cloud-based, so you won't bust your device's memory. It's free if you are happy for 128kps playback, but you can pay a tenner for 320 kps playback.
I had a cassette recorder like that too, Xmas present in 1974. I was still using it in 1985 until I could afford a ghetto blaster with actual stereo speakers.
November 17, 2024 at 4:26 PM
I had a cassette recorder like that too, Xmas present in 1974. I was still using it in 1985 until I could afford a ghetto blaster with actual stereo speakers.
It's got more hooks and twists than a Victorian lady's dress!
November 16, 2024 at 2:32 PM
It's got more hooks and twists than a Victorian lady's dress!
I had Close Another Door from that album cemented in my head for days on end!
November 16, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I had Close Another Door from that album cemented in my head for days on end!
I'm a big Dave Edmunds fan, at the time he was flexing his newly-honed production muscles, he was like a one-man Phil Spector. Obviously without the paranoia and guns and stuff!
November 14, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I'm a big Dave Edmunds fan, at the time he was flexing his newly-honed production muscles, he was like a one-man Phil Spector. Obviously without the paranoia and guns and stuff!
When those movies were made, they collectively covered a period of about 14 years through to 4 years prior, yet they seemed like ages ago at the time, things were moving so quickly back then. If they did a movie now covering 2006-20, it wouldn't really seem any different!
November 14, 2024 at 10:08 PM
When those movies were made, they collectively covered a period of about 14 years through to 4 years prior, yet they seemed like ages ago at the time, things were moving so quickly back then. If they did a movie now covering 2006-20, it wouldn't really seem any different!
Stardust was a longer time-span than That'll Be The Day, so it had to be a bit whistle-stop,going from the Beat era to psychedelic times really quickly, it would have seemed like that at the time for bands caught up in the whirlwind of the time. I got both soundtracks 2nd hand,they educated me.
November 14, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Stardust was a longer time-span than That'll Be The Day, so it had to be a bit whistle-stop,going from the Beat era to psychedelic times really quickly, it would have seemed like that at the time for bands caught up in the whirlwind of the time. I got both soundtracks 2nd hand,they educated me.
The movie it was on the soundtrack of, 'That'll Be The Day' is one of the greatest rock movies of all time, only surpassed by it's follow up, 'Stardust'. The soundtracks for both movies are absolutely sensational, so evocative of the 50's and 60's.
November 14, 2024 at 9:22 PM
The movie it was on the soundtrack of, 'That'll Be The Day' is one of the greatest rock movies of all time, only surpassed by it's follow up, 'Stardust'. The soundtracks for both movies are absolutely sensational, so evocative of the 50's and 60's.
REM 1984,85,&89.
Jesus & Mary Chain 87
The Damned 85
Echo & The Bunnymen 87
Julian Cope 86&87
Pixies 88
Camper Van Beethoven 87
Cramps 86
Billy Bragg 03
Suede 23
Paul Weller the other week.
Saw loads of other gigs between Tifany's,City Hall,Riverside Mayfair,& Tyne Theatre, but they were the best.
Jesus & Mary Chain 87
The Damned 85
Echo & The Bunnymen 87
Julian Cope 86&87
Pixies 88
Camper Van Beethoven 87
Cramps 86
Billy Bragg 03
Suede 23
Paul Weller the other week.
Saw loads of other gigs between Tifany's,City Hall,Riverside Mayfair,& Tyne Theatre, but they were the best.
November 13, 2024 at 9:56 PM
REM 1984,85,&89.
Jesus & Mary Chain 87
The Damned 85
Echo & The Bunnymen 87
Julian Cope 86&87
Pixies 88
Camper Van Beethoven 87
Cramps 86
Billy Bragg 03
Suede 23
Paul Weller the other week.
Saw loads of other gigs between Tifany's,City Hall,Riverside Mayfair,& Tyne Theatre, but they were the best.
Jesus & Mary Chain 87
The Damned 85
Echo & The Bunnymen 87
Julian Cope 86&87
Pixies 88
Camper Van Beethoven 87
Cramps 86
Billy Bragg 03
Suede 23
Paul Weller the other week.
Saw loads of other gigs between Tifany's,City Hall,Riverside Mayfair,& Tyne Theatre, but they were the best.