Albert Tatlock

The Unwelcome Guest. I shall keep you updated with reminders. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Interesting - there's been plenty of football ones over the years - by teams (used to be a tradition for FA Cup finalists especially in the 70s) or in association with actual artists when something like a World Cup comes around e.g. Rod Stewart for Scotland. Rugby doesn't have as much commercial muscle. This would be the most iconic (purely because many of the players had won the World Cup in 1966, and might have been one of the first actually. Featuring the worlds most famous comb-over. When entering Romania in 1986 in the depth of the night on a train -

When US football started being shown in the UK I remember there was The Fridge (wonder what happened to him) and I was a fan of John Elway. But the novelty wore off and rugby is in my DNÁ. Ta(co)

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Late to the party (free 3 months of Apple TV with a new iPad sp catching up on the 'best of' from teh past few years) - Severance. How good is this? Right up my street - slow thoughtful TV. Like all the best sc-fi, it's not all flashing lights, laser guns and CGI, just a great concept. Series 1 finale last night. Starting series 2 now. Fingers crossed (I think it's true) that it is a proper self contained set of programmes with a planned resolution, not like many of these shows where someone comes up with something that is successful so they string it out forever without said resolution e

The Greeks gave them a bad press. Filling in a few gaps after visiting Persepolis in 2019. A very long standing bucket list place done.

Every time. Ta. My heart did leap when I saw Mexico on the setlist. If only it could have been this. One of my 60s easy listening favourites, and the BBC theme song from the 68 Olympics.

(Quetzalcoa)ta(l) Nice to see Magazine also. In other news, I came up with the perfect company name for a small truck rental company: Nosferatu, with their strap line being, of course, Nosferatu the Van Hire. I’m quite proud of that and had to share. No idea why I way thinking of company names for small truck rental companies though. Quiet news day I suppose.

Hewn from fine Welsh anthracite, but sadly a flawed reject from the outside half factory. You will have to google that.

Firstly, a delayed ‘ta’ due to a long day trip back to the Motherland to watch Cardiff v Racing 92 (from Paris) in the Euro Challenge Cup. A great game/result and atmosphere at the Queen of rugby venues Cardiff Arms Park. I do miss the people of Cardiff, much nicer than Londoners. Secondly to get back on point. The Monkees were a core influence. Summer holiday weekday morning BBC schedules throughout the late 60s to mid 70s consisted of cycling repeats of:- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0qgUfvBw_FM “The Crab With The Golden Claws” is still my go to quote in Herge’s Ad

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

As an aspiring Bbop minion, I hope his Supreme Majesty will delight in this entry made on his behalf - faithfully pasted from https://paulsuwan.substack.com/p/jeff-tweedy-7-january-2026-largo Any formatting mess-ups are mine. If his Holiness doesn't want potential future interference (no guarantees I will do it again mind after VC had another wobble) then please shout. And lo it came to pass that Bbop spake unto the VC community:- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Fingers crossed JT has enough time to learn the chords and serenade you tonight . . .

I think you need an intern.