Episode 2 - Six-Five Special

08/18/19 • 145 min

“We announce the arrival of the delayed Six-Five Special to your listening device; we apologise for the late running of this service, this was due to knackered computers on the line.”

Enjoy Episode Two of our podcast, it turned out to be something of an epic, with a huge amount of performers, artists and crew to talk about – will it be the greatest contrast between the brevity of the synopsis and length of episode we’ll come across? We’ll find out...

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Playlists:

Season 1 Episode 02 : Six-Five Special playlist

Train Kept A-Rollin' - an Evolution

Links:

Stream Six-Five Special here

...or purchase it on DVD/Blu-ray here

Lonnie Donegan Live at 27th Trowbridge Village Pump Festival (2000) [Matt was in the audience!] - begins at 1hr 1min

Billy Bragg’s essential tome on the rise & importance of skiffle: “Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World” (2017)

Jim Dale - One Show (2015)

Murder in Soho: Who Killed Freddie Mills? (2018)

We played: "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Bradshaw/Mann) & "Jack o' Diamonds" (Trad arr Donegan)

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“We announce the arrival of the delayed Six-Five Special to your listening device; we apologise for the late running of this service, this was due to knackered computers on the line.”

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BPMOACA/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bpmoaca

Playlists:

Season 1 Episode 02 : Six-Five Special playlist

Train Kept A-Rollin' - an Evolution

Links:

Stream Six-Five Special here

...or purchase it on DVD/Blu-ray here

Lonnie Donegan Live at 27th Trowbridge Village Pump Festival (2000) [Matt was in the audience!] - begins at 1hr 1min

Billy Bragg’s essential tome on the rise & importance of skiffle: “Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World” (2017)

Jim Dale - One Show (2015)

Murder in Soho: Who Killed Freddie Mills? (2018)

We played: "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Bradshaw/Mann) & "Jack o' Diamonds" (Trad arr Donegan)

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Previous Episode

Episode 1 – The Young Ones

In which Matt and Gavin discuss Cliff Richard’s 1961 movie “The Young Ones”

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Links:

Episode 1 - The Young Ones Spotify Playlist

The Young Ones (1961) on DVD

...or if you can find it, this triple-DVD pack with “Summer Holiday” and “Wonderful Life” which features commentaries from directors Sidney J Furie & Peter Yates

Cliff Richard – Desert Island Discs (1960) - Cliff discusses his career thus far and his upcoming starring movie role

On the set of The Young Ones (raw footage)

David Frost pays “tribute” to Norrie Paramor (TW3 1962, begins at 13’30”)

The Ipcress File (Opening Sequence (1965))

Harry Enfield parodies Cliff movies in "Keep Your Hair On, Daddio" (Norbert Smith: A Life (1989))

We played: "Got a Funny Feeling" (Welch/Marvin)

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Next Episode

Episode 3 - Band of Thieves and Dateline Diamonds

After several months hiding out in a safehouse owned by Jimmy the Greek, Matt “Fingers” Bragg & Gavin “The Tonsils” Lazarus feel the heat’s died down enough to head back daaaaaahn the old manor with a swag-bag containing the latest episode of Brit Pop Movies of a Certain Age - a Pop-and-Cop double-bill, giving it plenty of verbal regarding the movies “Band of Thieves” (1962) and “Dateline Diamonds” (1966).

Singin’ like bleedin’ canaries they are. But stick it in your shell-likes or we’ll send the boys raaaahhhnd.

Oh - and you ain’t seen us - orwright?!

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Playlists:

Season 1 Episode 03: Pop-and-Cop Playlist

“This is a Journey Into Sound...” Playlist

Links:

Band of Thieves and Dateline Diamonds can both be found on Renown Pictures’ excellent DVD box set “Films With a Beat”, available to purchase here

“Owning Up”, George Melly’s fine memoir detailing the Trad Jazz scene of the 1950s

“Small Faces: The Young Mods' Forgotten Story by Paolo Hewitt (1995)

“All or Nothing” - The Small Faces musical

...and if you’re still in Lockdown and gagging for a pint, have a vicarious trip down the boozer via the BFI’s “Roll Out the Barrel” DVD set; includes the short films “All in Good Time” (1964) and “Under the Table You Must Go” (1969) as referenced in this edition of the podcast

We played:

“All I Wanna Do is Sing” (Acker Bilk/Norrie Paramor/Peter Pavey)

“I Think of You” (David Gold/Keith Mansfield)

“I’ve Got Mine” (Steve Marriott/Ronnie Lane/Jimmy Winston/Kenney Jones)

ERRATUM: Regarding the owners of the Ruskin Arms pub in Manor Park, Jimmy Winston's family name was actually Langwith. Just thought we'd clear that up.

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