This is what I call another hiding to nothing post but there are certainly elements of interest to singer, band, venue and that he’ll be dead one year later. Why a hiding to nothing? Well, just as most men and some ladies will simply not go for this music, just as happened to Willy de Ville himself, as in a Wiki comment:
American Hit Network said of the (debut) album hin 77), “Under-promoted, under-appreciated and ultimately under-sold, Cabretta is a sleeper masterpiece that sounds as good today as it did in 1977.”
… also mentioned was that the singer was tough but tender, lived on the street but wore his heart on his sleeve, as can be seen and heard in the songs … melodic, Spanish style, redolent of westside story, very 50s but released right in the punk era … the music is one thing and in this recording late in his life, he has a super band behind him, reminding me of The Wrecking Crew, but on tour …
… trouble is, the drug and booze addled life has caught up, a harsh voice for such songs, even if written by him … and they just did not grab the public quite enough in the “modern” era, certainly in America, he had some currency in Britain but where his main base was increasingly found was on the continent, esp. in Germany. This recording is from 1988 at the Rockpalast, Bonn:
… and the lady posting it is Agnes, whom I think can be seen right at the end of the third song (coming up Sunday), front row … I’d put her in her mid 40s, a very nice age. There are all sorts of elements … he seems shy, asocial, no graces, does not engage the audience, yet throws flowers to them at the end (Sunday). At one stage, he readies the guitar and a roadie tries to plug it in, W looks back, gruffly … this whole tough-tender-unaware motif.
Frankly, there are too many discordant elements to satisfy us and our musical preferences … and yet the band is very good. One of his regular openers was Venus of Avenue D, tomorrow is a mid performance Spanish Stroll, Sunday finale is Just Your Friends, run a few times at the old N.O.
(1030) Morning all, the thick poison-fog seems to have cleared. Elevenses are upon us. (1102)
10. To be served by humans, not machines
9. Moo corner
8. Will Jones at Lord Toby’s site
“The BBC has axed Football Focus after 52 years amid plummeting viewing figures following a ‘woke’ revamp that aimed to ‘modernise’ the show. The Mail has the story.
The BBC has announced that long-running football show Football Focus will be coming to an end at the end of the season after 52 years on TV screens.
First broadcast in 1974, the show has been a staple of televised football ever since, but dwindling viewing figures have seen the channel scramble to try and keep offerings of interest.
But they have failed to do that, amid criticisms that the show has been pedestrian, vacuous, uninspiring and uninformative in recent times in a bid to modernise programming.
In March 2024, Simon Jordan wrote in the Daily Mail that the show had become “too smug, comfortable and pally-pally” after Dion Dublin interviewed former Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag, and debate arose over why a gay West Brom supporter had been invited on to talk about his sexuality.
Former pundit and BBC regular Mark Lawrenson, meanwhile, has previously argued that the channel is “top of the woke league” following its rebrand that saw him lose his job.
And fans on social media appear to have seen the cancellation as a good thing.
One posted on X: “Good – it’s been an awful woke joke for years. #defundtheBBC.””
Were you to accept the CofStG, Saltire, Dragon, Ulster and Union flags, and let’s add Kernow and Eire itself … plus a local flag … in which order, top down, would you raise them on the pole? Which would you leave off?
6. IYE
“At this point, how could I think these are all coincidences now. CET Vest power plant in Romania just had a 10,000 kW transformer explode with 30 tons of oil on site. That brings the total to 5 major energy infrastructure incidents in 5 days across 4 continents, on top of every incident documented above since February 28. No missiles. No drones. Just “accidents” everywhere, all at once.” (Link in comments.)
JH: There’s that … and of course the dead or disappearing “scientists”. There is also this to consider re the explosions:
There are three items I’d like to run today … one’s our film or episode, one’s a three day posting of an enigmatic singer from the late 60s on, in three songs … Fri, Sat, Sun … then there’s Shona below here.
Frankly, I’m all at sea about timing today, particularly as there are zero shorts just now to use but there is one Haydn … maybe Sat, first break. Plus I can’t recall watching this episode below back in the day. Plus it’s Shona … one of two similarly sounding ladies, the other being Grifty … pleasant indeed, both. Plus Jane Greer’s in it.
The downside is that if one is no longer enamoured of Peter Falk, knowing too much about his RL, plus Columbo as a show tires after a few decades of repeats, then this might not “grab” as an idea. However, for the third time … it’s presented by Shona, it’s an hour of her, plus we learn things along the way. 🤔
In other words, what’s our, your, policy on foreigners celebrating our/your national holidays?
I’d suggest that if it’s someone clearly from another land, even within the borders, such as the ambassador above, then it’s a noble gesture of friendship … especially if the wording keeps that distance as host/guest.
Meanwhile, what of Braverman, ethnic origins clear, plus has worked against the British people … or the equivalent of Obama over there? Or Starmer here?
Well we come back to Windrush/birthright again, don’t we? And I’d suggest that that separates Reform and Restore, for example.
But what of that black American yesterday who Xed that he is from an unbroken line for 200 years from the plantations? Someone back then stole the fore-parents … what then? Can he ever be American? And don’t forget that there is constitutional, Christian America versus Woke left Demonrats and RINOs … cultural chasm.
What of Ben Habib? Thomas Sowell?
4. Have the Demonrats been played?
3. Steve at 1362
DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for Funding KKK, Defrauding Donors
Charlie Kirk Called Out the Southern Poverty Law Center as a ‘Hate Group’ Back in 2023
29-Year-Old NASA Nuclear Propulsion Engineer Who Was Reported Missing Found Dead in Burned-Out Tesla Wreck
Ukrainian Troops Go On Mutiny Near Kupyans
Vaccine Lies and Vaccine Truths
Daily blueberries linked to sharper mind, stronger heart and cellular defense etc. (JH: I already do this, it just happened, or else my Maker steered it that way)
Amazon US Bans Raspail’s Bestseller The Camp of the Saints (JH: A question of time, yes?)
Much more.
2. Op ed of sorts on two topics
a) The Ghana romance scam
Very first thing I looked for, reading Fri 1a, was a photo of the woman involved in the scam. Elderly white lady, maybe not too bright. Romance offer, give us your money. In her case, killed in Ghana.
Where to start? If you saw the details, would your eyes look up at the ceiling, whilst feeling sorry for people’s stupidity? And it’s not just African gangs … it’s eastern European, Mexican, anywhere, and has been since at least Sherlock Holmes’s time. In our case, not being Woke left, what if it were a Swedish au pair looking lass, or a western or eastern European?
Whilst we know about the Woke left feminist who ends up alone with her cats, there’s also the tragedy of a lady outliving hubby … there are all sorts of scenarios. How do we warn the elderly (these days also about DNR, euthanasia, organ donating clauses)? We can’t … both male and female still fancy their chances past 50. It’s sad.
There are some measures the oldster, plus you*g g*rl can take but it’s counter-intuitive:
(i) No landlines, only calls whatsoever on mobiles from those in the address book and they should only be gummint or utilities, or close circle friends … no agreement to take callback. I tell any official person my phone is dumb, not smart, no apps … you can text but calls go to the ether. However, I shall call back that day having analysed the text. Or not at all. Keeping strictly to my own rule, no exceptions. I cite “security reasons”, then maybe ohone to check.
(ii) No clicking, even on the X provided, on any panel or popup, under any circumstances. None. Anything I view is on a tab in the navbar. What of you and an NOWP number? Double click for a start … do you trust Higham to protect you?
b) Salacious content … in this case, at 1362:1, I let you down because it’s most salacious. No no, saith the writer … it’s because I insist people wallow in the fine details over and over and over, day after day, until inured, until brutalised by the constant filth … as designed to happen by Them.
This is why there’s nowhere to get your kicks at Unherdables as a rule and today is forewarned. This is why I never allow items which talk about depravity and filth … such as THIS (followed by graphic pictures). Sorry, Unherdables does not play that game for specific reasons:
(i) Security of the site, not giving ghouls or baddies the slightest ammunition;
(ii) Tone … any reader coming here to one of the Unherdable outlets will not see anything salacious upfront, that’s right out. However we may give a warning and a link and over there, that author has a link.
I’ve written on this countless times since the Amanda Know, plus P*d*sta days. You might call that censorship … I call it pre-censorship. It’s like going to a restaurant, sure it’s not a strip show dive, as the place presents itself in a certain way everyone is aware of.
1. DAD at 1362
a) UK. Janet Fordham, 69, traveled to Ghana to try to recover some of the money she had been defrauded of. She was killed in a car accident, driven by the man who had promised to help her…. (JH’s follow up in Fri 2)
b) New Migration Deal “Win-Win” for France—Bad All Round for Britain. Britain’s Labour government has signed another ‘small boats’ deal with France, following a fresh round of embarrassing migration reports ….
c) More on r@pe gangs.
d) ECJ Legal Opinion backs Offshore Migrant Detention—with rights caveat….
e) [Yesterday, I went to fill-up the car and found that there was no 95(10%) available at the two little supermarkets. Fortunately I use 98(5%).]
Isilme checks in with her early spring report … she and Beloved are busy on outside ventures right now …
“Meanwhile, due to our lack of time, we pay a gardener to come in once a fortnight. Basically he’s digging up the beds ready to take the flowers / crops (we currently have beans germinating in the dining room). And he mows the lawn. I don’t think it’s ever looked as good as it does now!
The apple tree* is also nicely pruned. And the blueberry bushes that we thought were dead, are actually alive. At least, one of them is. And the branches we cut off the blackcurrant last year and stuck into the ground along the back wall are all growing!! Wondrous. Blackcurrants are our favourite.
Bluebells under the apple tree
I’m a bit worried about the bay tree though. I didn’t do enough research (or any, really) when I put it in the ground. It had been in a pot forever. When I say ‘pot’ it was actually an old paint pot….. Anyway, it was looking very poorly, so I thought we should perhaps put it in the ground for a while. It shot up.
And now I find it can grow to around 40ft and that definitely is not on! So we are going to get the gardener to hoik it up and pot it again. We might have to pay for a huge pot, but at least it won’t compromise the garden wall or interrupt the light to the windows.
Pink saxifrage
So, we’re germinating beans at the moment: butterbeans (which are really Greek gigante beans), runner beans and French beans (haricot). We seriously need to start thinking about tomatoes now.
This all sounds as if I do all the garden work. In reality it is Beloved who does most of it. I just point out where to plant things, and then gather them at harvest time. It’s easy really 😁
Red saxifrage
Our tulips are almost over now. We planted a row of them so that in the spring they would provide some bright, joyful colour in the front garden (it’s only small). Sadly, they all turned out to be white or a sort of insipid yellow with a peachy coloured blush. The mini ones were red/pink but only about 4 inches tall in total, so the flower was almost unnoticed amongst the fallen leaves of the red robin bush (I’m not sure its real name….) I was most disappointed.
Aubretia maybe
Never mind, the grape hyacinths are out in force, as are the bluebells. And the saxifrage looks lovely too. In fact, all kinds of flowers seem to be prolific and flowing, with one even engulfing our little watering can! I think it’s aubretia, but I can’t remember and I think the label is somewhere under all the flowers, and I don’t like to disturb it to check!
The apple trees are just beginning to blossom. The plums are over now. The blackcurrant is still covered in flowers and the bees are doing an admirable job. But although the new twigs by the back wall are happy and strong, they have no flowers yet. Maybe next year.
Apple blossom buds
The raspberries still look like dead twigs. Worrying. The self-seeded raspberry in one of the pots is going strong and putting out blossoms, so at least we won’t completely lose out.
The wild garlic is still out and about, and flowering profusely. I must do something with it. Bob is suggesting wild garlic salt – I think he just likes the idea of having green salt!! Anyway, I shall look into it. Otherwise, if I don’t use it in salads, sandwiches, etc I can make it into a soup and bottle it.
Pink flowing flowers
The purple sprouting broccoli is practically over. Just a few straggly bits that I might be able to use. So we move on to eating the leaves now, at least until the cabbage whites start fluttering around….
Well, that’s my garden at the moment. I’m pleasantly surprised that so much is going on, given the lack of sun until recently. But there’s nothing like a bit of sunshine and warmth to speed things up!
