Hard to believe that someone born with the surname Ogus changed it to such a nonentity as Blair.
9 October 2015
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
Because Lionel Ogus sounds like some sort of disease perhaps, much like a certain Eastern European tennis player…
9 October 2015
THIS LEADEN PAUL
Appeared on the “Great British Dog Walks” feature on This Morning. Probably could have taken his mothers maiden name of Greenbaum, except that might have made him sound too much like a rabbi.
9 October 2015
my partner the ghost
Whilst pondering how crap the telly was these days the mention of Lionel Blair (assoc. with Jon Pertwee, Una Stubbs, That blonde American/Canadian bint – Aimee McDonald?) is a sharp reminder that the overwhelming majority of telly has always been shite.
9 October 2015
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
Most telly has always been Reginald Dwight, as has most music, and most cinema… Though BBC4’s Indie Classics at the BBC has just treated me to HMHB performing The Trumpton Riots on TOGWT, NB57 sporting not just hair, but hair not entirely dissimilar to Brian May, with a hint of a rat tail for good measure. Also notable appearances from The Fall, and The Cocteau Twins (non-identical). Some of the early cuts away from TOTP clips to avoid showing Mr. Albino are rather jarring though…
9 October 2015
Graeme
I’m so pleased that I Sky+ed Indie Classics so I can watch Nigel, Neil and the boys committing Trumpton Riots to video infinity. How did I miss this originally…sorry, Lionel Blair…He also gave us Matthew Kelly, Eartha Kitt, Una Stubbs and of course….Lionel Blaaaiiiirrrrr!!!
11 October 2015
Bobby SVARC
Blair sat opposite to Una Stubbs in that totally rank gameshow ‘Give us a clue’, give us a break, more like.
11 October 2015
Eugene C
Cockney Rhyming slang for flared trousers, Also the source of much cheap innuendo in the radio show ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a clue’
12 October 2015
Bananayogi
The ‘Indie Classics at the BBC’ programme is available on BBC iPlayer if anyone wants to catch it (until early November)
Some time in the early eighties, I travelled down from London to Weymouth on the boat train and spent most of the journey sitting opposite a very camp ship’s purser and his friend. As we pulled in to Weymouth docks we passed the Pavilion Theatre where Lionel Blair was appearing in a play called Give Us a Crew. The purser commented to his friend, “Lionel Blair in Give Us a Crew? I reckon he’s had most of ours already!”
8 June 2016
dickhead in quicksand
In classical music circles, Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd is widely known as The Stern of the Crew.
9 June 2016
TRANSIT FULL OF KEITH
Perpetrated this outrage, which can probably be found in a charity shop near you.
bobby svarc
Haven’t a clue.
9 October 2015
peter mcornithologist
Hard to believe that someone born with the surname Ogus changed it to such a nonentity as Blair.
9 October 2015
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
Because Lionel Ogus sounds like some sort of disease perhaps, much like a certain Eastern European tennis player…
9 October 2015
THIS LEADEN PAUL
Appeared on the “Great British Dog Walks” feature on This Morning. Probably could have taken his mothers maiden name of Greenbaum, except that might have made him sound too much like a rabbi.
9 October 2015
my partner the ghost
Whilst pondering how crap the telly was these days the mention of Lionel Blair (assoc. with Jon Pertwee, Una Stubbs, That blonde American/Canadian bint – Aimee McDonald?) is a sharp reminder that the overwhelming majority of telly has always been shite.
9 October 2015
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
Most telly has always been Reginald Dwight, as has most music, and most cinema… Though BBC4’s Indie Classics at the BBC has just treated me to HMHB performing The Trumpton Riots on TOGWT, NB57 sporting not just hair, but hair not entirely dissimilar to Brian May, with a hint of a rat tail for good measure.
Also notable appearances from The Fall, and The Cocteau Twins (non-identical). Some of the early cuts away from TOTP clips to avoid showing Mr. Albino are rather jarring though…
9 October 2015
Graeme
I’m so pleased that I Sky+ed Indie Classics so I can watch Nigel, Neil and the boys committing Trumpton Riots to video infinity. How did I miss this originally…sorry, Lionel Blair…He also gave us Matthew Kelly, Eartha Kitt, Una Stubbs and of course….Lionel Blaaaiiiirrrrr!!!
11 October 2015
Bobby SVARC
Blair sat opposite to Una Stubbs in that totally rank gameshow ‘Give us a clue’, give us a break, more like.
11 October 2015
Eugene C
Cockney Rhyming slang for flared trousers, Also the source of much cheap innuendo in the radio show ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a clue’
12 October 2015
Bananayogi
The ‘Indie Classics at the BBC’ programme is available on BBC iPlayer if anyone wants to catch it (until early November)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06g5jfp/indie-classics-at-the-bbc
Some good stuff on there.
13 October 2015
liquid len
100% heterosexual. Really.
13 October 2015
Gurning tunnock
Some time in the early eighties, I travelled down from London to Weymouth on the boat train and spent most of the journey sitting opposite a very camp ship’s purser and his friend. As we pulled in to Weymouth docks we passed the Pavilion Theatre where Lionel Blair was appearing in a play called Give Us a Crew. The purser commented to his friend, “Lionel Blair in Give Us a Crew? I reckon he’s had most of ours already!”
8 June 2016
dickhead in quicksand
In classical music circles, Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd is widely known as The Stern of the Crew.
9 June 2016
TRANSIT FULL OF KEITH
Perpetrated this outrage, which can probably be found in a charity shop near you.
https://twitter.com/BadAlbumCovers/status/939238920277159937
9 December 2017
Alanis Maisonnette
Also namechecked in Carter USM’s “Lenny and Terence”. I don’t expect to see the titular characters in a HMHB song any time soon.
11 October 2019