Elvis on TOTP2 Wednesday Sept 24

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:36 pm

Elvis will be doing 2 new numbers on the show this wednesday

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/lineup/show2artist6.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/lineup/show2artist10.shtml

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:53 am

Good news, however beware that my tv schedule has totp2 down for Tuesday & Thursday this week. It is normally Wed, but has been switched this week.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:56 pm

Just watched Elvis on TOTP 2 . It`s the first time I`ve heard any of North `live` and , gosh , but the songs done were great. Close as the performances were to the studio originals that I`ve got to know and love over the past few months the slight verbal differences gave them an extra something or other. Since a Dublin date just does not seem possible it looks like I`m going to have to break the bank and go to one of the U.K. gigs.

`Still` was done with Nieve and the Brodsky`s . Red was the colour scheme all over the TOTP logoed set. `When It Sings` had a blue backdrop , surrounding a huge screen showing a close up of Elvis singing. One sequence had a rather sinster Elvis-stubbly-face surrounded by the Elvis-stubbly-face-on-screen . As the comments on the Town Hall shows have said , Elvis` hand movements and facial expressions really tell the stories of the songs.

All this was better on a second viewing on tape. I`d forgotten how annoying the constant popping up of graphics during the songs to tell news or `wacky details ` about the performers is. Similarly the bizarre range of the featured artistes was distracting - `Still ` went into archive footage of Soundgarden doing Black Hole Sun. And as for Jan Hammer with Crockett`s Theme .....!

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:48 pm

Forgot to set the video and on call at work. Couldn't watch it coz the receptionist at work just had to watch Emmerdale.

Just now I couldn't watch QI because everyone had to watch Sex and the City.

Sometime I wish I wasn't so highbrow.

DrJ

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:33 pm

Oh man alive! Can't believe I missed it... I was watching Dundee v Perugia.

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:52 pm

I said Still was mimed before, it wasn't, stupid me. When It Sings was suuUuuperb. Looking forward to Manchester.

Love QI, DrJ.

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:19 pm

The first QI was hilarious, second one was pretty ok, I really wanted to see it tonight coz of Bill Bailey. And Mr.Fry.

Fry: Why does Edward Woodward have four Ds in his name?

Laurie: Because it's his name?

Fry: The Ds function like a kind of structural support mechanism which prevent his name from collapsing into the amorphous nightmare of "Ewar Woowar".

Now that's funny.

DrJ

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:21 pm

DrJ wrote:The first QI was hilarious, second one was pretty ok, I really wanted to see it tonight coz of Bill Bailey. And Mr.Fry.

Fry: Why does Edward Woodward have four Ds in his name?

Laurie: Because it's his name?

Fry: The Ds function like a kind of structural support mechanism which prevent his name from collapsing into the amorphous nightmare of "Ewar Woowar".

Now that's funny.

DrJ

Indeed.

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:38 pm

what's a totp?

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:39 pm

OH Top of the pops! That's what the Beatles were on right? Why do they lyp sinc?

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:41 pm

Yes! It's number one, it's top of the pops!

I've just come in at Number 25
I'm oh so happy, so glad to be alive
And everybody says it's going to get to the top
Life is so easy when your record's hot.

Go tell my mamma and my sister too
To press my trousers and polish my shoes
I might even end up a rock-and-roll god
It might turn into a steady job.

And my agent said to me: "Son, I always told you so."
Now my record's number 11 on the BBC
But number seven on the N.M.E.
Not the Melody Maker want to interview me
And ask my view on politics and theories on religion.

Now my record's up to number 3
And a woman recognized me and started to scream
This all seems like a crazy dream
I've been invited to a dinner with a prominent queen
And now I've got friends that I never knew I had before.

It's strange how people want you when you record's high
'Cos when it drops down they just pass you by
Now my agent just called me and said it me:
"Son your record's just got to Number One."

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:54 pm

Blue, how come you're not the moderator of the photo gallery? You're my moderator Blue!

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:04 pm

Cause it doesn't want me replacing pics of taz with pics of Telly Savalas.

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:11 pm

Man you're sharp as a knife blue! No wonder you're the moderator.

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 6:18 am

TOTP2 - The red backdrop for Still was autumn leaves, which created a similar ambience to the Still video on the DVD. EC also had his left hand in his trouser pocket for the whole of Still and so was limited to waving just one hand around (not sure what he was doing with his other hand

).

Another fan of Q.I. here but found John Sessions slightly annoying in the first episode.