Kronenbourg 1664 (lager) 'lesbians' advert 1998
I thought this was going to be our first 1999 induction to the blog, but this ad is actually from 1998, but I'm certain it ran into 1999. The ad these days is only talked about for the suggestive lesbians, with the guy giving that "Oh, that's a relief, I got rejected but that's OK because your lesbians" reaction. I also like the music and the ambience, in the classic setting for any alcohol advert; the bar. Or is it a nightclub?
The music is a French rap song called "A La Claire Fontaine" by MC Solaar. The song seems recent, but it was actually 4 years old by the time, from his 1994 album "Prose Combat". Solaar is one of the few French rappers to have become internationally recognised and to break into the English-speaking world with his music. His early music was topical on the aspect of black migrant hardship in urban France. The gaulish tongue definetely sounds goods as a Rap medium, unlike German rap...if any exist beyond "Rock Me Amadeus"! Solaar has come from strength to strength in the States after his 2001 single ""La Belle et Le Bad Boy" increased his fanbase over there, after an appearance on "Sex and the City's" final episode in 2004.
Kronenbourg 1664 is of course a French premium lager made in Strasbourg, situated near the border with Germany.
Showing posts with label 1998. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1998. Show all posts
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Brookie: Die Harder
Brookside explosion 1.mp4
The soap genre returns in some style tonight, as we see one of the more memorable moments from Merseyside soap "Brookside" on Channel 4. Hollywood couldn't have done it better! This is the gas explosion that occurs on Brookside Parade(an extension to Brookside Close since 1993), thanks to Ron Dixon (Vince Earl) trying to keep the pounds in his pocket and trying to fix the gas leak himself. Was he the daft so-and-so? Well, the background story is, Sinbad (Michael Starke), a Brookie favourite, being a suplier of kitchen equipment and such, sold Ron the gas cooker, for his new flat above his shop.
So this a 2-parter of the event, but not a full episode. Watch out for the shock second explosion after all the hysteria burdgen on, near the end of the second part. Only one dies from the gas explosion and that is Candy the dog, of the new family of the Shadwick's. It's a great episode, it features all of the main characters from the time but no Jimmy Corkhill I see, but the rest of his family is there, like daughter Linda (Claire Sweeney), possibly the most hysterical of the bunch as the fear of her daughter Kylie still inside the complex. There's your old favourites like Jackie Corkhill (Sue Jenkins), Mick of the pizza parlour fame and Max Farnham, who gets caught in the rubble also with anothe regular. In this period, there were 6 fires and explosions over a 5 year period, unbelieveable for a tiny corner of Liverpool. The soap depended more and more on sensationalism rather than realistic hard-hitting issues in it's final years. This was followed by a bomb detonation in the local nightclub "Millenium Club" (or vice versa, but I think it's in the right order).
The soap genre returns in some style tonight, as we see one of the more memorable moments from Merseyside soap "Brookside" on Channel 4. Hollywood couldn't have done it better! This is the gas explosion that occurs on Brookside Parade(an extension to Brookside Close since 1993), thanks to Ron Dixon (Vince Earl) trying to keep the pounds in his pocket and trying to fix the gas leak himself. Was he the daft so-and-so? Well, the background story is, Sinbad (Michael Starke), a Brookie favourite, being a suplier of kitchen equipment and such, sold Ron the gas cooker, for his new flat above his shop.
So this a 2-parter of the event, but not a full episode. Watch out for the shock second explosion after all the hysteria burdgen on, near the end of the second part. Only one dies from the gas explosion and that is Candy the dog, of the new family of the Shadwick's. It's a great episode, it features all of the main characters from the time but no Jimmy Corkhill I see, but the rest of his family is there, like daughter Linda (Claire Sweeney), possibly the most hysterical of the bunch as the fear of her daughter Kylie still inside the complex. There's your old favourites like Jackie Corkhill (Sue Jenkins), Mick of the pizza parlour fame and Max Farnham, who gets caught in the rubble also with anothe regular. In this period, there were 6 fires and explosions over a 5 year period, unbelieveable for a tiny corner of Liverpool. The soap depended more and more on sensationalism rather than realistic hard-hitting issues in it's final years. This was followed by a bomb detonation in the local nightclub "Millenium Club" (or vice versa, but I think it's in the right order).
Saturday, 27 February 2010
A Feast of Lycra and not-so Lycra Men/Women in Snow and Ice 1972-2002
Alright, we end our Winter Olympics special with this rough, but brilliant highlighting music video of recent Winter Olympics bar 2006 and 2010, of course. Some really good footage of the earlier Olympics which are hard to find on Youtube. The Sports genre will take a break, but we'll be back to good ol' football and more.
List of Winter Games shown:
1972 -Sapporo, Japan
1976 - Innsbruck, Austria
1980 - Lake Placid, USA
1984 - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
1988 - Calgary, Canada
1992 - Albertville, France
1994 - Lillehammer, Norway
1998 - Nagano, Japan
2002 - Salt Lake City, USA
It's a very good highlights video with small clips of each Games opening ceremonies, and the features the most awe-inspiring and most excelled athletes of the games, so we see the likes on Torvill and Dean for '84, Alberto Tomba for '88 and so on. Also, period music of the time from each Olympics, If you want to know what the songs are, well, I'm horribly bad at naming these earlier ones. I've heard the 1972 one loads of times, I just can't put a name to it?
1972 -???
1976 -???
1980 -???
1984 - Irene Cara - What a Feeling
1988 -Erasure -Give a Little Respect
1992 - Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
1994 - Whigfield - Saturday Night
1998 - ???
2002 - James Williams - Call of the Champions
Thursday, 11 February 2010
All Very Heartbreaking, But One Gripe..
The end of Tiffany Mitchell - EastEnders - BBC drama
Transmitted on the 31st December 1998, we see popular character Tiffany Mitchell (née Raymond), played by Martine McCutcheon. It's a well fondly remembered moment, but how could Frank Butcher (Mike Reid) in the car, not see ahead, when the street was empty. Sure, Tiffany was lying down on the ground, but quickly got back up, but with the amount of time from that to impact, and looking at the somewhat slow speed Buther's car was going, it looked just that little bit unrealistic, maybe Tiffany was weakened by the earlier blood clot, while most of the scene is superb.
Tiffany Mitchell's turgid relationship and marriage with Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp) was a disaster waiting to happen. It all began murkily, they had a fling, then they got back together again to marry when realised the kid Courtney was his (questionable), Grant has an affair with Lorraine Wicks, they fall out, then get back together. Tiffany later asked for a divorce after making advances to police officer, Beppe Di Marco, and a fight ensues over the custody of her daughter Courtney. Tiffany wants to leave for good with the child, but then accidentally falls down the stairs, but Tiffany and Bebe try to work against the evidence to make it look like it was Grant that pushed her down the stairs. Then we come to this, she leaves Hospital, to tale Courtney away, but is surprised to see Grant who is on bail. Grant's determined to hold onto Courtney.
Martine McCutcheon who played Tiffany Mitchell, is a terribly, terribly lucky actress, that has escaped the grasp of being either stereotyped from her soap character or confined to be forever attached to that Soap, after bombing in other roles. Despite this, her future talents/successes were not seen on the box, but in the theatre and music studio. Before Eastenders, she was a member of an obscure girl pop group named "Milan", usually a wram-up act for "East 17". Having had some acting parts in "The Bill" and being a model, she was invited to be in the Walford soap. After that she almost instantly did very well for herself, getting a No.1 hit in 1999.
Transmitted on the 31st December 1998, we see popular character Tiffany Mitchell (née Raymond), played by Martine McCutcheon. It's a well fondly remembered moment, but how could Frank Butcher (Mike Reid) in the car, not see ahead, when the street was empty. Sure, Tiffany was lying down on the ground, but quickly got back up, but with the amount of time from that to impact, and looking at the somewhat slow speed Buther's car was going, it looked just that little bit unrealistic, maybe Tiffany was weakened by the earlier blood clot, while most of the scene is superb.
Tiffany Mitchell's turgid relationship and marriage with Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp) was a disaster waiting to happen. It all began murkily, they had a fling, then they got back together again to marry when realised the kid Courtney was his (questionable), Grant has an affair with Lorraine Wicks, they fall out, then get back together. Tiffany later asked for a divorce after making advances to police officer, Beppe Di Marco, and a fight ensues over the custody of her daughter Courtney. Tiffany wants to leave for good with the child, but then accidentally falls down the stairs, but Tiffany and Bebe try to work against the evidence to make it look like it was Grant that pushed her down the stairs. Then we come to this, she leaves Hospital, to tale Courtney away, but is surprised to see Grant who is on bail. Grant's determined to hold onto Courtney.
Martine McCutcheon who played Tiffany Mitchell, is a terribly, terribly lucky actress, that has escaped the grasp of being either stereotyped from her soap character or confined to be forever attached to that Soap, after bombing in other roles. Despite this, her future talents/successes were not seen on the box, but in the theatre and music studio. Before Eastenders, she was a member of an obscure girl pop group named "Milan", usually a wram-up act for "East 17". Having had some acting parts in "The Bill" and being a model, she was invited to be in the Walford soap. After that she almost instantly did very well for herself, getting a No.1 hit in 1999.
Saturday, 30 January 2010
Oh, It's Just a Bit of Fun, I'm Sure You Won't Mind a Big "W" Stuck to You're Forehead!
TIM VINE - WHITTLE
"Whittle" was a quirky gameshow from the very early days of Channel 5, appearing on the very first day of transmission for the channel on March 31st, 1997. This is the best, most extensive clip I can find for the show on Youtube, which is not a full episode, but bloopers/highlights from the show, or just funny remarks from the interactive audience of 100 people, participating in the quiz show, having to wear the dreaded "Whittle mask" if they were eliminated from the show by giving an incorrect answer, as in the early rounds, or answering question correctly the least. A tacky looking set and almost "Dunce" like cone hats worn by some of the participants. They would asked multiple-choice questions. The questions weren't you're usual routine, they were based on bad gags and punchlines. The one person left standing would win a startling £500! The presenter of the show was comedian Tim Vine, brother of "Panorama" presenter and political pundit Jeremy Vine. He was very much the face of the Channel 5 in it's first year, and was the first male face to be seen, when Channel 5 went on the air, introducing the channel along with Julia Bradbury, after the bed-wettingly days and days of previews and tasty teasers of the channel, with the likes of Nancy Lamb to look forward to. Great stuff!
Despite the fact Vine seems to be sporting a Jason Donovan-looking mop circa 1989, it was definitely one of the best early shows from the channel. A gameshow that didn't take itself too seriously. The show lasted for 2 series from 1997-1998. These clips are from the second series in 1998.
"Whittle" was a quirky gameshow from the very early days of Channel 5, appearing on the very first day of transmission for the channel on March 31st, 1997. This is the best, most extensive clip I can find for the show on Youtube, which is not a full episode, but bloopers/highlights from the show, or just funny remarks from the interactive audience of 100 people, participating in the quiz show, having to wear the dreaded "Whittle mask" if they were eliminated from the show by giving an incorrect answer, as in the early rounds, or answering question correctly the least. A tacky looking set and almost "Dunce" like cone hats worn by some of the participants. They would asked multiple-choice questions. The questions weren't you're usual routine, they were based on bad gags and punchlines. The one person left standing would win a startling £500! The presenter of the show was comedian Tim Vine, brother of "Panorama" presenter and political pundit Jeremy Vine. He was very much the face of the Channel 5 in it's first year, and was the first male face to be seen, when Channel 5 went on the air, introducing the channel along with Julia Bradbury, after the bed-wettingly days and days of previews and tasty teasers of the channel, with the likes of Nancy Lamb to look forward to. Great stuff!
Despite the fact Vine seems to be sporting a Jason Donovan-looking mop circa 1989, it was definitely one of the best early shows from the channel. A gameshow that didn't take itself too seriously. The show lasted for 2 series from 1997-1998. These clips are from the second series in 1998.
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