Strictly Come Tweeting (21.09.19)

Tonight, another Strictly series started in earnest with an opening show as long as a Peter Jackson film, only more chintzy.

As per usual, I found myself tweeting along with the action. See below for what was said and when should you be interested.

7:05PM: I'd like to remind you once again that the #Strictly studio's the same room where Jack Nicholson went mental as the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.

7:19PM: "Kicking off 2019". In September

7:32PM: All us musicians across the land, waiting for the edit.

7:36PM: 5-5-5-5: my PIN.

7:38PM: AJ: "How did you start vlogging?"

Saffron: "Well, my dad was a vlogger..."

7:40PM: Finally, AJ has a partner that makes him look like the adult.

7:47PM: Mike's miming break looked like Father Dougal doing Elvis. Fun though.

7:54PM: James Cracknell's channelling Paul Nicholas.

7:58PM: Tonight, Tess Daly's wearing an old man's trousers.

8:05PM: Were James Cracknell and Luba vaping at the beginning?

8:16PM: Well, Kelvin's rather good.

8:35PM: Well, Michelle's rather good too. Though Giovanni's shirt's only a shirt for tax purposes.

8:42PM: If I had a buttercup for each time I've played the song 'Build Me Up, Buttercup', everyone would know I FUCKING LOVE BUTTER.

8:47PM: BRING BACK TREASURE HUNT.

8:48PM: Bit of cartography-choreography from Kevin there.

8:57PM: How many roll-ups has Tess managed to squeeze n while people were performing tonight?

9:02PM: Will Bayley performed the arse out of that.

9:08PM: Replace Tess with a parrot and they'd be the highest-paid parrot at the BBC (and similarly repetitive).

Not The Bayeux One.

The Carole King album Tapestry has been my 'getting-ready-in-the-morning' soundtrack for the past few weeks. It's been a favourite album ever since I was a student, which makes for a pleasantly gentle way to usher in the start of a day. I've always been a fan of a well-crafted song, which is something of a Carole King hallmark, ever since she started writing with her first husband in the early Sixties. Tapestry may be an unimaginative choice for a favourite LP, as it suggests I haven't delved that far into her career, but it's still an undoubted classic; anything with '(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman', 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?' and 'You've Got A Friend' on it can't really fail; if nothing else, it proves she likes writing songs with long titles. Next month, she's set to perform the album live in its entirety for the first time at a gig in Hyde Park, which I would have loved to have gone to, if it weren...

Shakerpuppetmaker.

Have Parker from Thunderbirds and Noel Gallagher ever been seen in the same room? The resemblance is uncanny. So much so, I think something’s afoot. If my suspicions are correct, I've stumbled across a secret that will blow the music and puppet industry wide apart. In the mid-60s / mid-90s at least. It doesn’t take long to see the signposts. There’s the similarity between the name of Oasis’ first single, Supersonic, and Supermarianation, Gerry Anderson’s puppetry technique. The Gallagher brothers would often wear Parkas . Live Forever was clearly a reference to Captain Scarlet and Standing on the Shoulder of Giants to the size difference between Noel and his bandmates. The more you think about it, the more brazen it gets. It’s fishier than Area 51, Paul is Dead and JFK's assassination put together. The only glitch to the theory is scale . According to Wikipedia, Anderson’s marionettes were 1’10” and Gallagher is 5’8”. How does he maintain an illusion of avera...

'...I'm Gonna Look at You 'til My Eyes Go Blind."

Over the past week or two, I’ve been on a bit of a Sheryl Crow kick, largely thanks to rediscovering her cover of one of my most-liked Bob Dylan songs. She has one of my favourite female voices, yet despite this, I only own one CD and that’s just a single (her '97 release ‘Hard to Make a Stand’); on that basis, you can only imagine how much of her back catalogue I’d own if I hated her (it would fall into minus-figures). Dylan, conversely, takes up more of my collection than anyone else, save The Beatles and Paul McCartney’s solo work. He’s one of those artists who, when you get him, you really get him - and once I’d tuned into his style as a student, I'd time and again be blown away by his lyrics; he’ll have more jaw-dropping imagery in one track than other people fit in a whole career. These days, I mostly listen to music in the morning when getting ready, and more often than not, this will consist of a suggested YouTube playlist when I’m in the bath, r...

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