Top of the Pops
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Nov 10, 2026
Jan BriertonGUEST
My first item is a Choose Life T-shirt, a replica, it's not the real deal of like George Michael, Wham, kind of 1980s.
Jan BriertonGUEST
I'm a big music head, still am, but music was my absolute life when, you know, when 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, like Top of the Pops, I was all over it and I always...
Jan BriertonGUEST
Do you know what I found really interesting? Just thinking back about it, knowing that I was coming here today.
Jan BriertonGUEST
I loved...
KatrionaHOST
Yeah.
KatrionaHOST
And it's funny because I think like in the 80s, like 80s and into the 90s, music like MTV or that VH1 or the magazines, they were our pop culture references, our cultural references or where you would go to for any kind of fashion influence, I suppose.
KatrionaHOST
Like where else would we have got that if not, there was much more limited access to Like, you know, if you try to say to somebody today, imagine there was no social media, there was no infinite possibilities of styles that you could choose from, but that you would see, maybe get your weekly magazine, your Top of the Pops or Smash Hits or that kind of...
KatrionaHOST
And you'll see...
Shaun PonsonbyHOST
They did dance.
Shaun PonsonbyHOST
Do you remember what they danced on? Is it going to be Top of the Pops or something like that? No, they were kind of like the down and dirty version of Pants People, who were the ones on Top of the Pops.
Shaun PonsonbyHOST
They were mainly on the Kenny Everett show.
Su JacksonGUEST
Okay, I wasn't far off.
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Miranda SawyerHOST
Hello and welcome to Talk 90s to Me, where we start the 1990s at art school far from the delights of Camden Town before finding ourselves sellotaped to a barstool in the good mixer, parachuted into the hottest new band of 1995, playing top of the pops before even having a single out, releasing a frankly excellent album before being chucked out of the band for not wanting to play country music and everything being over by 1997.
Miranda SawyerHOST
LAUGHTER Except, of course, it wasn't.
Miranda SawyerHOST
Life goes on and everything can be good, even when you are no longer in the indie take that.
33 MINS LATER
Miranda SawyerHOST
So we go into the next year, but it's still, to be honest, it's still going pretty brilliantly.
Miranda SawyerHOST
You know, you're playing gigs, but also you've got to, you know that there is an awareness that you've got to get an album.
Miranda SawyerHOST
But you go on Top of the Pops in March.
Miranda SawyerHOST
Yeah.
Dave LawrenceHOST
You didn't have the internet to distract you.
Dave LawrenceHOST
So it's easier now to be in your happy little place, whereas then it was like, watch Top of the Pops, half the songs, like nuclear war is the theme of the song.
Dave LawrenceHOST
You don't tend to get Taylor Swift singing about nuclear war, do you? No.
Andy BushHOST
Well, one of her eras, I think, is about that, isn't it? Maybe she should.
Manda RinGUEST
Absolutely crazy, and we're still not pensioners yet, so it's quite exciting.
Ryan PakHOST
Yeah, and I believe you guys were the first band that was unsigned to play the Top of the Pops.
Manda RinGUEST
Well, that's what these...
Manda RinGUEST
Yeah, so growing up in Britain, everybody knows Top of the Pops.
Manda RinGUEST
It was a weekly music show that bands went on, and you watched it from... god from a very very young age and to think that we got an invite to go on it was just crazy we we went in our first ever tour with super furry animals and as we were on that tour which was crazy enough as it was we got a call saying would you like to go on top of the pops the the producer really likes this and would just get you on as an exclusive so we didn't even have a single out as a like as a charting thing at that time so to go on as an exclusive is just a really strange thing and of course it was an instant yeah and yeah that was that was the start of it all going crazy so the guy who got us on was Ed Stringfolo and he was just utterly amazing absolutely amazing
Ryan PakHOST
Yeah, I remember I first heard of you, I saw your music video for This Is Fake DIY.
Ryan PakHOST
And I just remember it being like, so different, such a catchy song.
TomGUEST
And Tom? Yeah, I've also always had a really keen interest in music, literally for as long as I can remember.
TomGUEST
I was watching Top of the Pops.
TomGUEST
I'm from the UK.
TomGUEST
I was watching that on Friday night and I was straight down to R-Prize or HMV to buy the latest singles I loved.
Jon DearGUEST
We can watch it once.
DavidHOST
I know that it, because they've showed the colour recovered clips, and I think, because they've put Top of the Pops on from ex-domestic recordings, so that's what the David Hamilton episodes they've put on are ex-domestic, and they've put them on BBC4, so quality isn't a
Jon DearGUEST
barrier.
Jon DearGUEST
No, it isn't.
Eric DrassPANELIST
Yeah.
Eric DrassPANELIST
So I remember this distinctly because it was played on Top of the Pops, I think, and it was a big hype up to it.
Eric DrassPANELIST
They'd made this very expensive video where Mick Jagger's kidnapped by a narco-terrorist or whatever it is.
Eric DrassPANELIST
And I remember it being kind of an event in the 80s and sitting down to watch it.
Abby BulmerGUEST
Oh, it was such a thing.
Abby BulmerGUEST
I mean, like, I remember watching, I'm sure they were on Top of the Pops for this.
Hamish SteeleHOST
Yes, I decided to show you the music video, but I almost showed you a version where Richard Madeley introduces them with complete
DavidHOST
bafflement.
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yeah
Gregg GregoryHOST
just like oh my gosh what do i do what i do and right before he hit the button they switched into lithium so it's so funny that they and that's not the only time they did that they did a thing with uh Was it Top of the Pops where they refused
JohnHOST
to come on? No talk on guns.
JohnHOST
Free.
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