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It is sort of reassuring though. I hated Chas & Dave, and even more when they were referred to as Chas 'n' Dave. I would never buy Salt 'n' Vinegar crisps for the same reason.
This sang to the TOTP audience. What are they meant to do?
Well before The Tube, LWJH, etc. apart from TOTP all we had was kids shows like Crackerjack where occasionally a band desperate to get noticed would turn up and have to play to an audience of schoolkids. Even with the more "adult" orientated Tiswas you could tell that a lot of the bands hated being there.
A couple of really weird appearances spring to mind. In their early days Dr Feelgood appeared on "The Geordie Scene" a Tyne Tees production, and when you watch it it's clear Wilko and the gang are playing to a completely different audience to the one in the studio, which seems to consist mostly of 15 year old schoolgirls.
Even stranger was the live set the Screaming Blue Messiahs did on "Number 73" - if you could find a band that were less suited to a daytime kids TV show, the Messiahs were it.
As you say, you just wonder what the producers were thinking.
https://youtu.be/Bb3jnLqYZcY
Presenter Neil Buchanan was the guitarist in rock band Marseille so playing a bit naive.
Surely no one can deny that Ain't No Pleasing You by Chas 'n' Dave isn't a total banger of a song.
I remember watching No. 73 but I don't remember that clip. Gary Moore, Bob Daisley, Neil Carter and Eric Singer playing live on a kids' Saturday morning show. So weird.
"Kinky Boots" by the "Avengers" duo of Honor Blackman and Patrick MacNee is probably the worst thing ever committed to vinyl. For some inexplicable reason it made the top ten when reissued in 1990. Simon Mayo was the DJ responsible for promoting it, may he rot in hell.
The only good thing about the "song" is it only lasts about a minute and a half.
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