tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853971.post6579310456927906046..comments2023-10-09T11:55:29.299+01:00Comments on Cheeseford - Barfe's blogdom: Louis Barfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500085182214151483noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853971.post-1666487805866908082009-09-24T08:41:35.231+01:002009-09-24T08:41:35.231+01:00I'd love to see a big LE TV show featuring an ...I'd love to see a big LE TV show featuring an orchestra too. If it's Gavin (he wrote Sailing for Rod Stewart when he was two years old according to Wikipedia, which makes him even better than Mozart) I'd make him wear a bowler hat and conduct with an umbrella Hazlehurst stylee.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11979607671826391515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853971.post-6923244279758358812009-09-23T19:16:39.800+01:002009-09-23T19:16:39.800+01:00(well, he isn't quite the only bridge, because...(well, he isn't quite the only bridge, because there's also Cliff Richard - who headlined the highest-rated Palladium show, fronted by Brucie of course, ever 50 years ago next January - but Cliff can hardly be said to have reached a new audience this decade in the same way.)Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853971.post-3675325535842423302009-09-23T19:15:25.016+01:002009-09-23T19:15:25.016+01:00You don't even have to like Brucie to be awed ...You don't even have to like Brucie to be awed by him: nobody else played midwife to the transition from the old working-class culture of music hall and variety to the American-led mass culture that seeped through post-Suez, and yet stayed around long enough to be at the heart of perhaps the biggest shift in mass culture *since* then. He is the bridge - the only bridge - from Macmillan to Cameron. Strictly is off my radar, but I agree that when such a man does go, it should be as dignified as possible.<br /><br />(Incidentally, I think someone should tell BBC journalists what the correct British English past participle of the verb "to leap" is, before it becomes a completely lost cause.)Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853971.post-72798061695420120312009-09-23T18:40:11.201+01:002009-09-23T18:40:11.201+01:00Who is this Gareth Sunderland of what you speak? I...Who is this Gareth Sunderland of what you speak? Is he cheap? And will he wear an Alyn Ainsworth wig to replicate the 'Sammy and Bruce' effect?<br /><br />Seriously, I wonder if anyone in authority would buy the Gavin Sutherland Band Show? I'd watch.Louis Barfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09500085182214151483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853971.post-8803224314832097732009-09-23T17:50:19.309+01:002009-09-23T17:50:19.309+01:00I love the TC1 idea. I think "Gavin Sutherlan...I love the TC1 idea. I think "Gavin Sutherland and His Orchestra" are available.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11979607671826391515noreply@blogger.com