Tales From My Youth 2

This is The Dorch - The Album. Don't worry if the time seemed to have stopped in late 1995 - it might have actually have done.

Consolidated/Crack MC - You Suck

Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

Emf/ Reeves And Mortimer - I'm A Believer

Black Grape - In The Name Of The Father

Levellers - One Way

Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger

The Offspring - Come Out And Play

The Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Body Count - Body Count

Rage Against The Machine - Bullet In The Head

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman (Radio Edit)

Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness (Original Tweekin' Acid Funk Edit)

Blur - Country House

The Monkees - Daydream Believer

The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home

Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

Pulp - Common People

Skunk Anansie - Weak

The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Lump

The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Peaches

Paul Weller - The Changingman

The Jam - Going Underground

The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

Cypress Hill - Insane In the Brain (Explicit Album Version)

Supergrass - Going Out

Supergrass - Alright

Free - All Right Now

Various Artists - Are You Gonna Go My Way

Menswear - Daydreamer

Green Day - Basket Case

Cast - Fine Time

The Prodigy - Firestarter

Oasis - Roll With It

Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song

The Offspring - Self-Esteem

The Offspring - Nitro (Youth Energy)

Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape

German Market - Gala Opening (Some Pictures)

Hello again,

Quick flurry of updates this evening. Firstly, whoever nicked my printout of the beer-drinking newsreaders - booo. Secondly, some picutres.

This is the first two pints, at about 4.10.

This is several hours later, wearing a borrowed hat and after developing a scary hand. Sensibly, inside in The Wellington. 

Thirdly, if anyone recorded the Central News from Thursday, I'm probably marching towards the camera holding a sausage.

German Market - Gala Opening

Howdy blog,

It is my honour and a privilege to say these words:

1. The money lasted until pay-day
2. The German Market is OPEN
3. The Beer is good
4. The Sausage is good
5. I managed a Sue Lawley, then a Moira Stewart

This also may be the last time for a while I visit the market - the rest of the cash will have to go on Christmas presents! (And seeing as I'm peckish, possibly some pizza.)

Some photos will be uploaded shortly.

At the risk of adding too much in one day...

...and totally neglecting this thing for weeks, there are some things I might need to clear up.

The beer drinking newsreaders (list of the week) are all German Market related. If one is able to withhold using the toilets after one pint, that's a Peter Smith. Two, and you have made it to Moira Stewart. Three is a Sue Lawley - this is not very common, and is usually celebrated with a brief rendition of  "Sue Lawley! Sue Lawley!" to the tune of So Lonely by The Police. Four and five are almost uncharted territory. I say uncharted, because it may have been done. Four pints (really half litres) of spirited German lager is a lot. Four is a Peter Sissons, and five is a Sir Trevor McDonald.

There's a nominal raising scale of gravitas for each newsreader on the scale, although the actual reasons for choosing them have been lost in the midsts of about £300 of German lager. Also lost is the reason for marking this event, and why its done in this way.

For the benefit of people who may not know (with Wikipedia links);

Peter Smith was the news person for The Big Breakfast for the first few years, and has recently dissapeared from the face of the earth.

Moira Stewart has been one of the cornerstones of BBC News since the early eighties, and has recently not had her contract renewed as she is apparently "too old". 

Sue Lawley until 2006 presented Sesert Island Discs, a Radio Four institution, and is originally from Sedgeley. She is possibly most famous for being the co-anchor with Nicholas Witchell during the lesbian invasion of the Six O'Clock News in 1984.

Peter Sissons is not only a defector from ITN to the BBC, but has been lambasted in the national press for wearing an 'insensitive' maroon tie. He is four days older than my Dad.

Sir George (Trevor) McDonald is a broadcasting institution, and will return to The News at Ten soon. Voted "Most likely to kill using gravitas alone" shortly after his knighthood in 1999.

German Market!

This week sees the return to the centre of Birmingham, The Frankfurt German Market. This is a fabulous place. There will be a carousel with horses, a helter-skelter, lots of stalls with German hand-made items. Most importantly, there will be the small matter of the wonderous beer stall. To its left, the red or white wood-chip grilled sausages. To its right, the heat and smell of the blazing pig carcasses. I am excited to the point of combustion.

Mostly about the beer and pork, as you can tell.

Just five working days to go - which leads me onto another thing......