by Graeme Cumming | Sep 11, 2020 | Movies, Nostalgia, Television |
It’s happened again. A sign of my own advancing years, I suppose. And a reminder to get my arse into gear and get on with living my life. When Bowie died (was that really almost five years ago?), I realised that much of his music had formed a soundtrack to my life.... by Graeme Cumming | Feb 10, 2020 | Gogglebox, Nostalgia, Television |
In the mid-1970s, Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell, the main drivers of The Avengers, had another crack with John Steed and introduced The New Avengers. By the time that’d run its course, though, they had a completely different project in mind. Where The New Avengers... by Graeme Cumming | Oct 20, 2019 | Gogglebox, Nostalgia, Television |
It probably won’t surprise you to learn I spent a lot of time watching TV as a child. Since it was the only way to keep me quiet, the telly became a surrogate babysitter for me. Bearing in mind that channels in the 1960s didn’t generally start transmitting until... by Graeme Cumming | Sep 16, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years |
If you’re a regular concert-goer these days, the chances are you attend mainly large venues – arenas and football stadiums. For lesser artists – usually those who had their heyday twenty to forty years ago – you might catch them at concert halls. A place you almost... by Graeme Cumming | Jan 12, 2015 | Nostalgia, Television, Writing |
Brian Clemens is dead. I only just spotted that on the BBC News website. To be fair, a lot of people won’t even know who he was. Why would they? When you think about a TV series you enjoy, it’s easy to remember the stars, or recall the brilliant action sequences,...