Dan

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Dean Spanley (2008)
An optician named Peter Jackson. Like the film director.
The Tube Bar. Sounds from the Underground. Saturday 23rd May, 8pm-1am. The International, Leicester. Indie/Mod/Retro Pop/Soul/Post-Punk/Hammond/60s Psych & Garage/Ska and more. Tickets £7 advance via Gigantic & Seetickets, £10 on the door. It’s a Leicester Fiesta!
Tube Bar returns on Saturday 23rd May 2026, 8pm - 1am. Joining Turk and Chris will be guest DJs Alison, Dan, Glyn and Sarah from @hoohaleicester We will also be opening an hour earlier at 8pm to cater for all of those who like to dance and yet still be tucked up in bed before midnight. For those who don’t know about the Tube Bar we first operated between 1995 and 2005 as a secret underground cult nightclub. You wouldn’t have seen much advertising as we didn’t need it - we operated successfully on word of mouth. After a long break we made a successful comeback in 2025. Our music policy blends both obscure and popular underground music from 1946-2026. We play music from these genres; Post-Punk / Proper Indie (not landfill) / C86 / Jamaican Ska and Two Tone / 60s Mod and Mod Revival / 50s R&B / Punk / Retro Pop / Hammond Groovers / 60s Garage and Psychedelia / French Pop / Motown / Kosmische / Crooners / Proto-punk / Rock n Roll / Northern Soul / TV Themes and Easy Listening to mention a few... No two nights are ever the same. We don’t repeat play the same old anthems. Our nights are always original and different from each other. We seamlessly blend music from different eras and genres together, some obscure, some very popular but all dance floor fillers! We also promote and play local bands in our sets like Prolapse, Crazyhead and the Crystal Teardrop. The Tube Bar is credited with the rediscovery of the local anthem the ‘Leicester Fiesta’ which we love to give a spin and always guarantees a full dance floor. At present our events are bi-monthly but they will become more regular next year. The Tube Bar will also start co-promoting some local gigs with Ian Magic Teapot in the near future. There is no place else like the Tube Bar - anywhere. We have the best people - the best venue and the best tunes. We are the biggest and best underground music night in Leicester. If you know - you know. We are the Tube Bar! You are the general public!
La Cabina on Blu-ray!
Ian McShane did an album and his version of Avalon is actually good in a chicken in a basket way.
Luke Haines - The Oliver Twist Manifesto
Scott 4, 1st pressing.
Him off Watchdog after buying some records I designed/co-released.
Have Love Will Travel - French Special DJs John The Revelator plus guest Dan Orton Tonight 9pm - 2am The Piper, St Leonard’s On Sea, Hastings Poster features Annie Philippe
I’m doing a French pop special at The Piper in St Leonards on the night Melanie Pain of Nouvelle Vague plays there. Here’s one of the posters I’ve done for it, featuring Francoise Hardy.
The Coliseum cinema in Porthmadog. Now sadly demolished.
Michale Barrymore’s Doin’ The Crab 7” single. The theme to his Summertime Special show.
'Stranger Things' Music Supervisor Says Finale Lands a Needle Drop Fans Won't Expect (Exclusive) The music supervisor says the finale secured a song almost no one ever gets permission to use.
What I go for Xmas this year.
Steve Coogan in the Day Today’s Bureau de Change skit
The speed change on a Pro-Ject turntable.
Some old fella on Facebook’s comment: “ I class 'English' food as: Marinated hearings, salmon cream flan, kidney and bacon soup, mackerel with lemon stuffing, cod bake, savoury cheese log, blue cheese and pear salad, braised celery, cauliflower surprise, savoury filled pancakes, farmhouse pie, pepper-pot beef, boiled salt beef, hare with prunes, chicken hot pot, summer pudding and hot rice pudding with fruits, to name just a few, to fill a good 'English' person and visitor's belly, with good English foods purchased. !!!”
“NARRATOR: The coalition government of Britain,”
Me dressed as “Centrist Dad” at a meme-themed Halloween party a few years ago. That’s not my hair.
Side D of the 2025 Love Kraft reissue
New posh Blurays of Harry Kümel’s Malpertuis and Daughters Of Darkness.
Godwin’s Law (updated)
Me by the Ed Stone.
The Ed Stone in Nevill Holt, Leicestershire.
Imagine a custard cream but somehow even better? Oreos are rubbish but these are INCREDIBLE.
“there's always an extra detail you notice on a re-viewing. Last time, for me, it was realising what is being shown with the cars always bottoming out and grinding the ramp when exiting the police station. Land is so expensive that they don't have space for a shallower ramp”
A flyer I once quickly put together combining the old Pearl & Dean intro and the Lord Harlech er BBFC card.
Grease 2 is great, actually.
Bee Gees 1st
Toby Dammit is fucking incredible.
Photoshop is rubbish now.
Liza With A Z on DVD
Birmingham’s Mr Egg. By JK Rowling’s criteria, a woman.
Ani Glass - Mirores
Todd Carty’s old Wikipedia pic, “Carty in 2009 at Wendy Richard’s funeral service”. The picture is a detailed drawing of a frog. Genuine screenshot.
The “Bye Bye Life” finale of Bob Fosse’s incredible “All That Jazz”.
James Dean Bradfield and his balaclava on Top Of The Pops.
Luisa Casati in a fountain-like dress.
The O2 Apollo in Manchester looking very nice indeed.
Waiting for Sparks to come on stage.
A disclaimer to remind people to turn off motion smoothing on their televisions before watching the film in the booklet with the Masters Of Cinema Bluray release of VIY (1967). So it doesn’t end up looking like an episode of Corrie.
“Song of Innocence” by David Axelrod
Beef from De Palma’s “Phantom Of The Paradise”. The most beautiful beef.
Painting by Jonathan Edwards of Theatr Ardudwy in Harlech.
One of those pilot teddy bears you used to be able to buy on planes. Goggles and that.