https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/ en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:10:23 GMT vBulletin 60 images/misc/rss.png https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/ https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/music/songs/309012-a-sad-emotive-british-indie-song-from-the-90s Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:37:50 GMT
It's a male singer and very ballady but still indie sounding. I could sing it if it helped, but the words fail me. The only lyric I recall is something like "things will be better when we were young." (which is probably wrong as it doesn't make sense)sung three times then lots of high notes, almost falsetto. The band name had the word BLUE or OYSTER in it. It wasn't blue oyster cult as Grok keeps telling me. Nor was it OYSTERBAND. It was firmly 90s. It wasn't the Bluetones or BLUE. It wasn't a famous band at all. So not DEACON BLUE.

That was the only time I heard that song on the radio, when I taped it. And they never had another one of the radio etc. But it was a FANTASTIC and miserable song.

I actually tracked the song down already, maybe ten years ago but flipping lost track of it!

Anyone?

update...there is a site that lets you upload a song and then it names it. I'll try that if you guys can't help. I'm not much of a good singer and the song is all high notes. I suppose I could pitch shift it.]]> Songs albie https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/music/songs/309012-a-sad-emotive-british-indie-song-from-the-90s https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/television/309011-kids-tv-show-odd-do-you-recall-it Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:47:51 GMT
It involved wind up toys as the main characters. They lived in a wood and these little wind up toys would walk through or across the grass where there was a small town, their size. The main character was a male with a head like a tomato. Red and round. You couldn't see the mechanisms that moved them btw. It may have been British, but only 70% sure on that.

It was only on once and never saw it again.

It felt disturbing to me, but wasn't meant to be. I think it was meant for very young kids. Not teens.

No, I'm not funning you. It was on. I saw it.

Hope I hear some pennies dropping.]]> Television albie https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/television/309011-kids-tv-show-odd-do-you-recall-it https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/holidays/308979-worst-start-to-a-holiday-you-have-ever-had Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:15:01 GMT Turned up to find the house had flooded. Turned up to find the house had flooded. Holidays Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/holidays/308979-worst-start-to-a-holiday-you-have-ever-had https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/school-days/308978-what-was-your-least-favourite-school-subject Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:13:30 GMT Art Art School days Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/school-days/308978-what-was-your-least-favourite-school-subject https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/world-events/308977-what-was-the-first-news-story-you-remember Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:12:39 GMT James Bulger in 1993 James Bulger in 1993 World events Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/world-events/308977-what-was-the-first-news-story-you-remember https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/adverts/308970-i-could-do-with-a-d-brooke-bond-d Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:23:31 GMT There is at least one particular advert which was mostly on ITV region screens between around 1986 and 1988 which I found rather exciting, yet its jingle could be annoying at the same time. The word Yuppie was the basically the word Chav of the second half of the 1980s, and Yuppie sounded more like... There is at least one particular advert which was mostly on ITV region screens between around 1986 and 1988 which I found rather exciting, yet its jingle could be annoying at the same time. The word Yuppie was the basically the word Chav of the second half of the 1980s, and Yuppie sounded more like an adjective to describe it. At the time it did remind me of that slightly irritating sitcom Watching, and in particular, actress Emma Wray (she who was responsible for that mondegreen: fourteenth carrot whip [sic] in the theme tune) playing the annoying Brenda Wilson who a bit like a Liverpudlian version of Lexie Patterson out of Prisoner: Cell Block H. They never did an episode called Annoying as far as I know.

Alright, does anyone remember these adverts? And can anyone identify the two people featured on the nightshirt that she wore in the first one? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I63czQQ4wyw

Brooke Bond D probably was not as well-known as their other main brand of tea, PG Tips, not even in the mid-1980s, and with PG, their chimpanzee-themed advertising campaign that ran almost as long as advertising has been permitted on British television, did feel as if I was taking more trips to Twycross Zoo in the commercial breaks than the late Molly Badham did back then. Brooke Bond D seemed to cater for those with more than enough on their plate, never mind their cup and saucer. I keep bumping into this advert on YouTube (almost on purpose), so therefore I thought that I would write about it for the sake of doing so.

At the start of the advert, we are greeted on the left of the screen by an analogue clock with negative-looking blue eyes perched on a wooden bedside table which, because it was 8.20 in the morning, allowed it (or him?) to have a frowning face as well as to represent a suitable time that most people get up to; the opposite of the smiling 10.10 or 1.50 clock faces frequently seen in magazines and catalogues, and 3.40 felt too early or too late. The clock has a metal left arm (and not hand) and hits its (his?) owner on the head, producing several cartoon-alike yellow stars.

The owner in bed getting up just happens to be a young woman in her late teens or early 20s back then (minus the Oil of Ulay or the Nivea), and, according to a YouTube comment from a few years ago, she was the actress Sally Anne Jackson; someone with a full IMDB plate and she was also that teenage girl who had appeared in Coronation Street back around the same time as its twentieth anniversary celebrations in 1980 as Karen Oldfield, a girlfriend for Elsie Tanner's niece Martin, who he had proposed to, but soon afterwards, Karen had broke off the engagement before she left the series and had left the engagement ring on the table at Number 11. She might have worked on the machines in Mike Baldwin's factory as well.

In the advert, after the inflicted bump on the head, Jackson's character gets out of bed as if she has been sleeping for eight hours (although the reality is that it is close to eight minutes if not eight seconds), and in doing so, she is sporting a white nightshirt or long t-shirt which looked very 1980s looking, and seemed to have a black silhouette of two members of a very 1980s pop group of the day on; two men with sunglasses on and had a hat with a jacket and tie on - (could anyone on here identify who they could have been, which group they were a member of, and whether the nightshirt could have been available to buy at the time? - I have always liked the look of it!) Please let me know if you can!

Our nightshirt-ed hero walks along the landing from her bedroom, yawning and she did so, she passes either an older sister or even her mother, already dressed and carrying a yellow towel on her left arm; we see full view of her great-looking nightshirt with the two males on the front of it. She turns left (i.e. our right) into the bathroom and passes a peach bathrobe young lady (another sister, perhaps?) just about to come out of there at the same time. In the bathroom (which was only seen on the 40 second versions of this advert, and not the 30 second version), she looks in the mirror, still in her nightshirt, and the glass cracks presumably due to the fact that it simply could not cope with her first-thing-in-the-morning stare, and, we assume, seven years of bad luck would be ahead of her, blighting her life even further. She breaks the fourth wall and gives us one of those stroppy feminine looks to the camera. We then see an image of the box of teabags with an animated picture of someone putting teabags into a cup on the front of it.

Our hero has to get changed because she needs to get to work in her office; here, she is wearing a yellow and black bumblebee jacket. A man with pink tie and a hand on his watch, gesturing to her that she is late as she speeds along to her seat and looks as if is about to do Leroy Anderson impressions with her black typewriter. She works at such speed that the Out pile on her left is greater than the In pile on her right. The man is impressed, fluffs his hair and goes over towards her, but the girl catches him with the platen part of the typewriter, giving us a poetic justice expression to the fourth wall. Tea in a white mug with a yellow band at the top of it, is stirred.

After work, Jackson's character walks down the street with an animated rain cloud following (or perhaps even stalking her?) as she goes; she looks up but still looks happy enough. She joins the back of a queue of what looks like 20 to 30 women in a line, dressed in white, with rain cloud still just above her. We get to see her black shoes below which look like plimsolls that have dark green bows on them, and we also see cartoon hammering, sawing and nailing on top of her shoes.

We return to the animated box of teabags and a female hand lifting the full cup of tea from the illustration. Finally, we see her at home on the sofa drinking tea from presumably the same mug; the camera pans back to reveal the two other females who we saw on the bathroom landing enjoying a cuppa as well; one sitting with legs on the seat and the other perched on the arm (we do not see her face as she was sitting so high up). The advert ends with a green (very 1980s) graph-paper grid pattern as a background to the words: D Revives U and Brooke Bond at the bottom in capital letters. The 30 second version of the advert omits the breaking mirror in the bathroom scene and the rest of the advert looks slightly sped up to fit within the time frame.

The song sung in the advert I Could Do With a D (which I doubt that Sally Anne Jackson herself had sung it) does get slightly annoying, even for the 40 second duration of the advert. It did seem to be aimed at women, usually the Take a Break or Jackie magazine readers, unlike the masculinity of Brian Glover doing Gaffer's voice for Tetley teabags which is a brand that I usually use when I put the kettle on. While Tetley teabags are still being sold in places like Tesco (even if the original Tea Folk had been long retired), Brooke Bond D has seemed to have disappeared from supermarket shelves; when did they stop making them, I wonder, in particular as PG Tips have never gone away? Some in the educational system (that is, kids at school), had parodied the song in the school playground as I Could Do With a Pee and other word variations.

In 1993, (as observed during a Carlton ad break of Mary Poppins on Easter Monday that year), there was a revived (pun intended) and more colourful version of the advert, put the song almost remained the same. Here, a woman was asleep in bed and all of a sudden, some animated children, one banging a drum and one holding an orange basketball or football; the girl was playing up, and the boy was in tears. Downstairs in the kitchen, their stereotypical Mum was in her dressing gown (we assume); she has a cup of tea while some light green squiggly images start to appear around her head with other colourful shapes coming from the girl's direction. The mother gets the kids into a white K-reg car (which dates this definitely to early 1993); she is seen in the driver's seat, while a moustachioed man with sunglasses, looking like a ginger-haired Desmond Lynam in a black Capri-alike sports car looks on. The mother shouts out, and the man's black car speeds off in a sub-Hall of Mirrors animated way.

Continued in the next post...
]]> Adverts George 1978 https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/adverts/308970-i-could-do-with-a-d-brooke-bond-d https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/308917-what-did-your-life-look-like-when-you-were-half-your-current-age Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:55:26 GMT I was 16 in my first year at six form college I was 16 in my first year at six form college Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/308917-what-did-your-life-look-like-when-you-were-half-your-current-age https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/birthdays/308912-what-is-the-worst-birthday-you-have-ever-had Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:43:11 GMT 16th broken leg 16th broken leg Birthdays Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/birthdays/308912-what-is-the-worst-birthday-you-have-ever-had https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/people/308911-who-was-your-first-celebrity-crush Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:41:38 GMT Chelsea from Eastenders Chelsea from Eastenders People Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/people/308911-who-was-your-first-celebrity-crush https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/introduce-yourself/308861-hi-there Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:22:11 GMT Just stumbled across this site by accident! Just stumbled across this site by accident! Introduce yourself iMatt https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/introduce-yourself/308861-hi-there https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/movies/308792-a-chorus-line-1985 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:21:35 GMT One... singular sensation... every little step she takes... One... thrilling combination... every move that she makes... (ad infinitum). Every time I tune into Elaine Paige on Sunday on BBC Radio 2 when having my Sunday lunch microwave meal, I always half expect her to play it nearly every other...
Directed by Richard Attenborough (a pity that he never lived as long as his brother), this 1985 film, made just ten years after the publication of the original stage musical, makes me think as if it had been made more like 1982 or thereabouts, probably because it does remind me of Fame which was made at around that time. Cue Michael Douglas as Zach, a choreographer, looking for eight dancers (in pure Strictly tradition, four ladies and four gents, hence four male-female partnerships), and has them introduce themselves, but this was certainly no reality TV. Zach interviews them and gets them involved in a number of issues and subjects. We learn about how the dancers were originally influenced into dancing, and delves further into sexual relationships and family hardships; this prompted Paul to mention how he was sexually molested as a child whilst watching musicals on 42nd Street. His parents couldn't look him in the eye when they found out that he was homosexual and was also performing in drag; such an observation made by such conservative parents which does date this film even to pre-1980s levels. No doubt that such a character wouldn't have been made today without caution and a heavy bounce to the cutting room floor, even a ban from appearing on outtake programmes. As soon as Cassie enters the stage, assistant choreographer Larry takes the wannabe dancers to a rehearsal room (even though "wannabe" feels more like a 1990s term because of the Spice Girls). The dancers are soon brought back on stage their new routine they have only just learnt.

Paul slips and injures his knee and is rushed to hospital (so much for "break a leg"); there were no sub-Bruce Forsyth "Irish oven glove" jokes, thank goodness. In receipt of Paul's absence, Zach asks his fellow dancers what they can do just once which they could no longer perform. The remaining dancers, knowingly Val, Cassie, Bebe (aka Beatrice Ann), Diana, Mike, Mark, Richie, and Bobby are all chosen to be in Zach's line. Fast forward a few months and the eight-some are now in identical costumes, perform one in front of a theatrical audience (as well as the viewers at home or in the cinema). Of course, One wasn't the only song performed; others include I Can Do That; I Hope I Get It and At the Ballet. A recent YouTube download afforded me to have a quick look through the film, and the early to mid 1980s excitement which performances like Fame had impressions on me, they certainly had the same affect in this film. The song One made me assume that it certainly pre-dated the 1980s and had more roots within the fifties and sixties. The female cast members wearing their "swimsuit" leotards while wearing belts for not much reason at all, while one or two others wearing keep-fit costumes, almost prompting an inviting territory which we saw on Fame, one was almost expecting the risque: "getting changed into their outfits in the dressing room" and "white knickers" scenes, and the fashions making the film around three years older than it really was.

Apart from Douglas, one has to say that not to many of the fellow actors and dancers and certainly not familiar names to myself; again, character names come to mind but not the actor who plays them. Character Bobby Mills was not the man who did In Bed With MeDinner or Win, Lose or Draw, and the actor who played Mills, Matt West, didn't open any High Street banks in Great Britain either. The film was eventually premiered in the UK on BBC 1 on Saturday 17th August 1991 in the traditional 8.10 pm Casualty slot, although a repeat of the medical drama was also seen on the same evening at 10.25 pm. The synopsis in The Times, extended the title of its most familiar tune to: "One Singular Sensation" as well as listing the obscure (to a British audience) cast members. The YouTube version modernises the film at the start in order to include the famous MGM lion and website address at the bottom. The credits towards the end quite helpfully gave us character and actor labelled with a picture of the relevant character while the song One continues to be heard: "Nicole Fosse as Kristine"; "Alyson Reed as Cassie"; "Michelle Johnston as Bebe" and so on. Sharon Brown played Zach's secretary Kim, who was almost the token black character seen back in the day when she would have stood out a lot more than now. Again, due to the nature of the film, one feels that character names are more like stage names.

A great film which needs another showing on terrestrial television.
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