And to @geoffers for clarifying my muddled thinking. Of course the Rani timetravelled from 1865 to 2025. Similarly, we (and the world’s…[Read more]

Yes! Let’s all have a good rant down the pub.

Hey! I just posted a major essay into the ether. Tsk probably a good thing.

The quintessence:

Ruth is fine but the continuity is weird. It probably needs a bit of retro conversion.

The Division is reminiscent of The Obsidian Order/ Tal Shiar/Section 31. But it and t…[Read more]

I’ve spammed them.

Apologies to everyone for being AWOL but life has kinda got in the way recently. I will get back to normal service before the New Year episode.

I’m planning an update to the site (as the version of Wordpress it works on is out of date). It will probably annoy some but will be a good framework for the future.…[Read more]

The not-always-good Captain is front and centre in one of the BBC publicity photos, so it’s now as official as it gets.

To be honest, the reason given for the original rumour (police box is to be changed because of the way the police are perceived by the public) sounds like something someone’s made up for its click bait value.

The whole reason the BBC still has the trademark was because the Metropolitan Police lost their case that t…[Read more]

I suspect it MAY be connected with the Fugitive Doctor/Timeless Child storyline. The Judoon still have that millennia old arrest warrant and a very, very annoyed officer who had his horn removed. So it may be that the Doctor realises that the appearance of a Police Box results in a squad or more of Judoon appearing – and TEMPORARILY…[Read more]

Great to see you back! I really hope all is well with you? Thank you for the links. There’s been a few on this page in the past month but I hadn’t kept up. So thanks to @bluesqueakpip @blenkinsopthebrave  @geoffers @pedant @cathannabel for links & nudges.

Indeed:

 Noor Inyat Khan – I’ve been borderline obsessed with her since readi…

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Cheers

Janette

That’s very interesting! It has a punk feel but it’s the chord structure & refrain which is REALLY interesting. That ‘twiney’ steel sound, lots of heavy bass, a deep voice, niiice chord changes which go somewhere different than you think.  @pedant @geoffers

I have another ear worm -more so a need to resolve what it is that makes 80s and…[Read more]

He he – don’t worry – I think we all knew “its easy” was tongue in cheek!
I loved the wild meanderings my Youtubing and listening took me (much I saved everyone from!) trying to get it.

And it may shock you to learn, but you could have posted the song as a hint and I still wouldn’t have guessed it!

;¬D

I’ve not heard of the…[Read more]

45 degrees is no joke. It’s not easy to stay cool, here, but you’re far worse off.

I know Thane purchased a $2 pkt of ice and tipped it the bath to have an ice bath. Yeah, right. The so-called cold tap…[Read more]

I know! Saying “something is SO easy” is a bit like me saying to Thane “listen, this the ‘doh’ pitch and THIS is the ‘sol -mi’ sound. It’s easy just SING it.”

See, this is what happens when I try to be funny?  Smiley faces or emojis are confusing. Some people use them first to write “hey, this is HILARIOUS” whilst others add them in…[Read more]

That’s the argument against a lot of music, isn’t it? Just how impenetrable it can be. Despite trying, JM Jarre wasn’t easy for me. Oxygene’s brilliant. But after 30 mins I panic and freak out. I find the intense orchestration and lack of pitch variation monotonous. Obviously I was hated for this opinion! “Ah, Puro you are SO lite! You…[Read more]

@whisht That’s a terrific story!  The da-da duh in p…[Read more]

However – I must take umbrage with “the 90’s weren’t the best decade for music”
and declare that the 90’s were…. OK and stuff.

Now, if this became a serve/ return of your 80’s classics to my 90’s then I’m sure you’d win but… hol…[Read more]

Yeah, that’s not too far off what they use!

I have heard this too! But it wasn’t a grocery store -or any ‘real’ store but a chiropractor and physio’s HQ. The music they played was that 20th century stuff mum loves. Not nice listening & a lot of screechy violins. Maybe they think if the patients can deal with the music they can handle the pain of a ‘cracked back.’…[Read more]

Heh.

The Jessops (photo gear store) in Milton Keynes is occasionally prone to piping out really abstract expressionist jazz – I call the times they do this “We don’t want no steenkin’ customers” days

The thing you have to keep asking yourselves is “How likely is this to turn up on a grocery store mix tape”?

With a lot of grog on hand (she’s allowed now on account of her teeth…long story).

We have crossed Tom and Mr Parson’s off the list (but it looks like there’s no apostrophe). Unfortunately. They were awesome songs and I personally haven’t heard them before. Through the door I gave her a bar piece (a sentence of music) and she…[Read more]

Actually, I think this search for a song that we never heard, will probably keep us all busy through 2019.

;¬)

The parker-isms are probably my mis-interpretation but I feel the bebop thing & am probably the only one in the world to do so! 🙂

When you wrote “Keith…” it was on one line and so I thought (I made a bet) you might write… Jarrett but you wrote “Emerson” so I lost…except I actually ‘won’ what with Emerson being awesome ‘n’ all.…[Read more]

But I am hearing stuff/references/influences but can’t place my finger (earlobe??) on them (maybe this is a good thing that they’ve…[Read more]

Moving the discussi0n of Halloween here, since it doesn’t have much to do with music beyond the Strictly Come Dancing connection.

Halloween, the eve of the Christian festival of All Saints/All Souls/All Hallows, has long been marked in many parts of Western Europe, and emigrants from there took it with them to the US where the…[Read more]

@miapatrick Thank you for expounding so eloquently on how and why Graham is such a good role model, period. We can’t go too far wrong in trying to emulate him, regardless of our race, sex and other innate characteristics.

is halloween a thing in britain, too?

Increasingly so over the past three or four decades, with the importation of customs such as elaborate dressing up, usually in something spookily appropriate, and the practice of trick-or-treat. Not so much when I was growing up in the 1940s and 50s, although we did sometimes have parties in a room…[Read more]

Ah! Yes, I mean the band: Yes. 🙂 Wakeman played the mellotron along with scores (pun not intended) of other instruments and thus David Bowie approached him for Space Oddity.

Aaaand the mellotron (I know a lot of people despise this as much as peanut and jelly sandwiches) was utilised by King Crimson. It really is a very ‘close’ thing…[Read more]

@juniperfish @pedant @anduril (Halloo! if you are a new member: welcome -yes, indeed it was around the red and blue tie/ balloon that I found this site with its super-clever bonkerising)

Red Shift:  and the Doctor’s, “let’s get a shift on!”

Is it all related?

@geoffers. I…[Read more]

I’ve just realised what my issue with the coda was.

Yes, it did have a flavour of ‘Now, children, sit up and pay attention’.

On first viewing I was inclined to excuse it on the grounds that you stated; that it was information necessary for most young viewers, and perhaps some older ones unaware of the historical details, and that it was j…[Read more]

@cathannabel This is the first episode since the doctor returned to the Tardis.  So, cloning could be standard protocol; the outfits do get a lot of wear.  Maybe the outfit was duplicated with self-cleaning fabrics and som…[Read more]

For me, it’s that plus the swallowed consonants — but I had trouble with “Deep Throat” for the same reason, and I’ve been watching with subtitles on ever since.  It helps a lot!

the redesign of the Tardis interior; at first glance it seems vi…[Read more]

Oh, and where the hell did those sunglasses come from?

From dialog just before Graham complains about getting sand in his eyes:

“Oh, I forgot I put stuff in these pockets”

And then, after given the shades to Graham

“Like and old pair of mine…I say mine; can’t remember…. etc etc”

So was directly addressed in…[Read more]

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186364-d213579-Reviews-Police_Box-Sheffield_South_Yorkshire_England.html

@geoffers Re the sunglasses, those definitely weren’t 12’s shades (sonic or otherwise), were they…  Judging by the style Audrey Hepburn was a more plausible previous owner – but how did t…[Read more]

Good to see you bonkerising with the best! And apologies, you tagged me after I tagged you regarding your birthday & I failed to do so back. I think your QUEST is spot on. I need an acronym for that. And possibly an anagram & an algorithm too.  ((**))

@blenkinsopthebrave Greetings from Brisbane where we’ve had (shock, horror & also awe)…[Read more]

In the rumour’s favour is the point that this is a new production team – and the new Head Writer clearly wanted a lot of new people, to shake the series up a bit. Given Russell T.…[Read more]

@geoffers We are all starving for news right now. I check in every day and some nights I go hunting through other…[Read more]

From yesterday’s BBCAmerica’s Doctor Who’s Day Roundup, it’s possible to get to  bbc.in/2Be3O9h#DoctorWho with the claim “Hey, look! All the trailers, clips, pics and need-to-know facts about this year’s Christmas Special in one handy place” and “She is coming” is th…[Read more]

Web of Caves Doctor?

Gatiss played number 3 in the ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ extras…

…maybe the transition (in universe/story and in reality) will be easier to accept if he CHOOSES to regenerate into a woman (perhaps in an attempt to honor missy’s and bill’s sacrifices)?

It’s a little difficult to see the Doctor getting to a position of making that sort of choice (and has had precious little control over previou…[Read more]