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“Team GB match London 2012 medal haul” the BBC website boasts. A nice way of saying “We failed to capitalise on the success of Rio and have taken one step forward and two steps back, but still live on past glories of that summer when the Olympics came home”.

Not cool and that’s me talking about your behaviour. I may have pissed people off in the Covid thread saying we should just get on with our lives after 16 months of that sheiße of playing grown-ups versions of playground games where you have to keep well away from everyone, while missing your...

Low budget TV shows like “Bargain loving Brits in the Sun” and that other new life abroad thing or whatever it’s called. The awful cheap graphic of a globe with a plane flying round it before and after ad breaks just sums up its naffness. You also get people wearing facemasks in it which is...

Disappointing end there to the tour after a close result, but was a good game nonetheless. It don’t make me ignore the fact how awful and arrogant the referees have been though.

Most of the sports we win medals in are the obscure minority ones nobody cares about any other time of the year. The sort of rubbish from back in the 90s you were forced to watch on Grandstand because you didn’t have a Sky subscription. Horse dancing to a Maroon 5 song for one, give me a break.

We’re good at sport as a union, but at the end of the day suck hugely at the things that matter at the end of the day, with the main one being controlling a virus. Give me that over winning medals any day, it’s all very well and good saying things like “This is something nice for us to...

Oh yes. It was a label called Jive who were indie and later bought out by a major label and the name later seized. The ITV Chart Show did have Jason Donovan in it a few times as well as Kylie for a while, as PWL was an indie label. NME might not have used the official one and used a different...

It was the guitarist of Compulsion who later became Jackknife Lee I think. Garrett Lee his real name is.

Pretty good that, seems like they had different styles and sounds on one album.

They seemed a really good band from the videos I’ve seen, listened to their first album on Spotify on the back of the YouTube Chart Show stuff. Is a good one too.

I remember that one and the Twix sponsorship bit. Near the end of its run I did lose interest, as I thought it lost its charm by getting rid of the operating system graphics, but when CD:UK took over, I realised what a great show we lost.

The drummer of Compulsion would later become the record producer Jackknife Lee, who produced Bloc Party and did the rock remix of Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet”, that Kerrang TV would play loads once upon a time. This chart does make me realise that it’s independent labels, so we have Senser...

Like listening to the Swedish band Kent really. I preferred their Swedish stuff, but also owning the English translations of their albums was nice to have so I knew the lyrics.

That Gyres song only made No.111 on the main chart, one of a very few times I actually see a song chart that low and agree with the public. Hurricane No.1 was the band Andy Bell was in after Ride and before Oasis, then Beady Eye before he went back to Ride.

Great band, much prefer the Icelandic version of Birthday though.