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.

Another nice one. A two cuppa morning. Ta. I'm a-talkin' 'bout the inane rambler Everybody got to read Well I'm a-talkin' 'bout the keyboard gambler The one you spied in vids before I'm readin' down the post so sadly A-listen and you'll hear me groan Well I'm a talkin' 'bout those US spellings That stuff has really got to go (Yeah c'mon) Talkin' 'bout the inane rambler The one you spied in vids before I'm talkin' 'bout the grammar mangler Did you see him not drop a 'u' at all He don't give Jeff a hoot of warning A-picking up those lyric woes

Ta. Will keep SubStack in mind as a back-up option for future tea break VC outage crises. I wonder if you're going to retrospectively copy/paste all you old reports there to make it a full archive back-up. That would really be a Wilco MVP labour of love.

Ta and Merry Christmas. Front row, second from left, pulling a cracker (as we used to say).

No idea how many times I’ve watched this, but always brings a smile, which is especially needed on this shortest day of the year. Only gets better after this. Possibly my answer to that age old question of ‘if you could go back in time to one day/place’. That day in Feb 68 at Abbey Road, before John and Paul got too hairy. And I could watch George eating baked beans all day. So meticulous with his knife and fork work. Also, I ve had beans on toast for Christmas meal, twice. True story.

Ta. Big fan of No Milk Today, as I’ve said before. Noise jams - not so much.

The Eddie and the Hot Rods song? That was one of the very early punk/New Wave songs on the radio that was as influential (to us listeners) as the Sex Pistols at the time. Good choice if so. Also, ta.

In the absence of Show Reports, I have drifted into watching The Daily Beast videos during my tea break. British presenter who talks quickly, which I like.

I was thinking a while ago about the punk + Nazis thing. Suppose punk would have been ‘cancelled’ now. Makes you think what the next youth rebellion will be though, if they can be bothered to look up from their mobiles . . . On the trend setting claim front, I still attest that I started the sports rap look by sitting for an afternoon in 1984 in a pretty run down (as was all of NYC then) Washington Square wearing my track suit bottoms watching body popping (or whatever it was called then) after finishing my PGCE in maths and PE (hence the tracky bottoms) at St Luke’s, then visiting

I wasn’t there then, but it was probably all face paint and dandy highwaymen by then. The attached sums up what was going down in Cardiff at the time. That makes it sound like quite a big venue but by today’s health and safety standards it would probably be ticketed for about 800. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p0m4hf43 Were you listening to this? I heard it advertised. Any good?

Found this. Disappointed not to see any gobbing. Kids these days . . .