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Oh come on Scotland, there has to be better than this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35185647
Their music crosses the generation gap
Indeed. The 1940s to 1960s
Huzzah!
Combined with Jackie Turd, I think I'll have an early night...
Akin to digging up Rod Stewart for the Commonwealth Games last year. So many young, talented & traditional Scottish artists to chose from, yet they keep doing this. Don't they watch Celtic Connections?
Maybe it's just a reflection on an ageing audience?
How many concert tickets did those upcoming artists manage to sell recently? Like it or not the Rollers have a lot of popularity amongst the sort of folk who will be in watching telly on Hogmanay.
In any case, as the linked article explains, other artists will also be on the show.
Anyway, Piemonster. I hope you posted that from some windswept mountain summit!
There's no reason a younger fresher band can't "cross the generation gap"
An ancient back catalogue isn't all that's needed to be accessible.
Its the BBC. What exactly were you expecting? I'm afraid us 6 Music listeners just have to sigh and accept that we're a tiny minority, in comparison to the 900 squillion people who listen to radio 2. And Coldplay and Adele sell more albums in December each year than all the bands you'll ever listen too, put together.
The BBC is merely reflecting that. Its depressing that the nation generally has such uber-safe and frankly bloody awful taste, but it is what it is. let them get on with it.
Poor old Scotland, the country has been looted and exploited ever since Scott and Burns and their Victorian pals invented Scottishness and all the mawkish sentimental tat that goes with it.
Mind you those old rollers will need to take care not to drink a pinta milk just before the show; at their age the body doesn't make much of the lactase needed to digest milk and they might be running for the bogs.
Many far better Scottish bands but I imagine they all have better things to do 🙂
No Andy Stewart?
Scotland. Always taking the safe choice.
And drinking milk? Who are they trying to kid? Not a country with a serious alcohol problem.
No mention of band members child porn convictions and porn movies either.
Stay classy scotland. 🙄
[i]Lead singer McKeown was charged with reckless driving after hitting and killing a 75-year- old widow. Former member Ian Mitchell starred in a pornographic movie and the band's former manager Tam Patton was jailed for committing indecent acts with underage teenagers.Four Roller members regrouped and played at millennium celebrations in Edinburgh. The group had tried to reform and tour once before in 1992 but an unemployed music fan stole their guitars and hid them in a derelict house.
He later said he was trying to "save the world from the Bay City Rollers."
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It's the BBC, so it's not fair to expect much but I can give them some leeway as they are also behind The Adventure Show
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bikepacking-on-telly
The Phil and Ali shit gets pretty samey year in year out but at least they are talented musicians playing traditional music.
Don't they watch Celtic Connections?
Very much this ^
Well Jimmy Shand is no longer available for live gigs.
Mrsmith - the bands former manager was done for underage sex, not a band member*
And as far as I'm aware being in porn film is not illegal
* tho I'm sure plenty of musicians out there may be worried about their conduct in the 70s
Great, Hogmanay, the one time of the year walking corpse Jackie Bird gets to pretend she still uses a Scottish accent
[quote=kimbers ]Mrsmith - the bands former manager was done for underage sex, not a band member*Derek Longmuir (one of the founder members) was given community service for downloading some child porn. Not that he is in the reformed band in any case so hardly relevant. It's just MrSmith doing his usual trolling 😆
I'm with Scotroutes on this one- The Adventure Show have been doing great work for years, with the BBC recently showing episodes on both The Celtman and The 3Pistes Sportive.
Their latest one also carried quite a moving feature on the difficulties experienced by locals in Nepal, affected by the recent major earthquakes. Some of their trails look epic.
It's on the I-Player.
Aye, but the Rollers...? Eughh...
walking corpse Jackie Bird
OyOy - no dissin Jackie!
hitting and killing a 75-year- old widow
As an aside, if you think about it it's a bit weird that they chose to identify the victim in terms of who she was in relation to a man.
It's TV for people who want to spend hogmanay watching TV. It'd be a waste to put anything good on.
Since we're doing rollers criminality, you remember how Les McKeown and Pat McGlynn got off with those cocaine dealing charges? Totally guilty.
Anyway, Piemonster. I hope you posted that from some windswept mountain summit!
Well, it was windswept.
I heartily recommend the Sticky Toffee pudding at the Flour Cafe Newtonmore.
Could be worse, could be mcmanus and subo! Hurl.
The 1970s boy band will perform live on stage at the Old Fruit market...
konabunny - Member
hitting and killing a 75-year- old widowAs an aside, if you think about it it's a bit weird that they chose to identify the victim in terms of who she was in relation to a man
Shut up!
Its the BBC. What exactly were you expecting? I'm afraid us 6 Music listeners just have to sigh and accept that we're a tiny minority, in comparison to the 900 squillion people who listen to radio 2. And Coldplay and Adele sell more albums in December each year than all the bands you'll ever listen too, put together.
T'was ever thus. However, such artists only tour infrequently, and then to a relatively small number of venues, while many more smaller bands tour constantly, playing many more smaller venues, reaching a far wider spread of their fanbase, in a far wider number of countries.
And at far more affordable ticket prices. And whose music is probably more relevant to music fans in general than Coldplay, whose lyrics don't really stand up to close scrutiny.
They could have had Julie Fowlis headlining, an artist whose music is almost exclusively Gaelic, and who did the songs for the Pixar movie [i]Brave[/i], or they could have had Capercaillie, who's music blends traditional with modern dance beats, and are far more in touch with modern Scotland than no-hopers like the Rollers.
I saw Capercaillie in Bristol some years ago, there was a bloke turned up in full Scottish gear, fancy tunic jacket, kilt, lace-up shoes, and he didn't stop dancing down the front for the entire near two hours they played.
That's what proper Scottish music is about, it has sod-all to do with album sales
Binners - that takes me back 🙂
Oh teh ironing!whose music is probably more relevant to music fans in general than Coldplay, whose lyrics don't really stand up to close scrutiny.
They could have had Julie Fowlis headlining, an artist whose music is almost exclusively Gaelic,
Capercaillie are playing in Inverness, so not available.
Julie Fowlis has been on previous Hogmanay shows, so you can't say she's been ignored.
Capercaillie are playing in Inverness, so not available.
Also, aren't they almost as old as the Bay City Rollers?
edit: not quite as old as I thought but is a 30+ year old band the best example of being in touch with "modern scotland"?
BBC Alba is where it's at! Skipinnish, best live trad band doing the rounds in Scotland at the minute playing live in Perthshire.
Rollers much more popular than you think. Did a rollers based show last year. Sold out everywhere to ladies of a certain age.
Shut up!
No!
Julie fowlis is fantastic, and I love a wee bit of Phil and Aly, especially their more melancholy fiddle and squeezebox stuff at the years end. Some shooglenifty and North Sea gas would be ideal.
Unfortunately, yer average central belter would rather see the bloody rollers, so that's what we're getting. Fannies.
Resurrect the Corries!
No subtitles.
Could be worse, could be the Rollers and the Proclaimers
Nobeerinthefridge - Membercentral belters
That's what we need, bit o Mogwai. See in the bells with an extra brutal version of Batcat.
Nobeerinthefridge - MemberFannies.
They'd be good too.
Or hell with it, just televise biffy's set from the gardens.
Fannies were no bad, but biffy are pure guff. 😀
Hebridean is correct about skippinnish. Other than that hogmanay has been a travesty of itself for many years and the rollers do not represent a drop in standards
DP
Why do the bands have to be from Scotland?
Isn't that the whole point of BBC [i]Scotland[/i]? A chance for talented artists from Scotland to get a platform?
Capercaillie??
Oh please.
[quote=athgray ]Why do the bands have to be from Scotland?
It's the Hogmanay show.
Hogmanay only happens in Scotland.
Put your Celtic cringe to one side for a day.
I've recently noticed that the best that the great 'British Broadcasting Corporation' can manage for seeing the New Year in is Brian Adams, who's Canadian!
I've recently noticed that the best that the great 'British Broadcasting Corporation' can manage for seeing the New Year in is Brian Adams, who's Canadian!
Well we got a cockney to open the Commonwealth Games so it's not much different is it? At least the Rollers can make a claim of residence. And just be glad they never dragged out Annie Lennox!
Never listened to Capercaillie despite a mate being Vernals nephew (and knowing his daughter who is also doing her own gigging these days), stuff like that has never been particularly accessible to me.
I love a wee bit of Phil and Aly
Phil Cunningham told me an Accordianist Joke once.
An accordionist is booked to perform in a pub on New Years Eve. He plays the gig and every one has a great time. At the end of the night the pub landlord say "you were brilliant tonight, everyone had such a great time that I'd like to book you for next New Years Eve too" and the accordion player say "No problem. I'll just leave my accordion here then".