The Tube was innovative, anarchic, riotous live television at its best. For five years the show brought music, humour and chaos into our living rooms on Friday evenings, making it the perfect start to the weekend. In The Tube Exposed, Maria Malone describes what made the programme so unique. With contributions from Jools Holland and … Read more
Time to get nostalgic. It’s almost thirty years since The Tube, the chaotic Channel 4 music show, first aired. I loved it. It came from Newcastle, and that’s where I’m from. The bands were great and it was live and you never knew what to expect. Even when it all went wrong no one seemed … Read more
View Post A hundred years ago humorist and storyteller Mark Twain travelled the world. Zig-zagging sedately along the Equator he dropped anchor in Hawaii and Fiji, Australia and New Zealand, in India, Mauritius and South Africa. He encountered a world painted red, a British Empire upon which the sun never set. A hundred years later … Read more