Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
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Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
This is one of the things that annoy me about Newsnight Scotland, the fact that it excludes the final third of Newsnight.
Fortunately I Sky+'d Newsnight England (channel 989 on Sky, viewers) and got a report on the revival of Gil Scott Heron, dubbed the original rapper, back from alcoholism and cocaine addiction. The ole guy don't look too good but some of the stuff coming from his album in Feb sounded intruiging.
Immo, a view perchance?
http://www.myspace.com/revolutionwillnotbetelevised
Fortunately I Sky+'d Newsnight England (channel 989 on Sky, viewers) and got a report on the revival of Gil Scott Heron, dubbed the original rapper, back from alcoholism and cocaine addiction. The ole guy don't look too good but some of the stuff coming from his album in Feb sounded intruiging.
Immo, a view perchance?
http://www.myspace.com/revolutionwillnotbetelevised
supermo- Number of posts : 3941
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
The revolution will no be televised
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back
after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back
after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
supermo- Number of posts : 3941
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
supermo wrote:This is one of the things that annoy me about Newsnight Scotland, the fact that it excludes the final third of Newsnight
Weirdly (And Toots will back me up on this) one of my 'set your watch by it' rants used to centre around this very phenomenon.
While the rest of the civilised, viewing public got to enjoy the last third of the best current affairs programme on telly outside of C4 news, we got to hear the lead story read out again in a Kelvinside accent, followed by some pish about bridies or herring-fishing quotas.
Scotland is the biggest parochial shit-hole of a country this side of Albania.
It's full of vested interests, mason-infested bowling/golf clubs, drooling bigots, crap food, worse weather and homogeneous "toon-sent-uhhrrrs" which would be greatly improved by a tactical nuclear strike.
If it wasn't for the sparsely-populated rural areas, Irn Bru and all-but-one of the posters on here - I'd gladly see the whole sorry fuckin mess slip slowly into the North Sea.
Gil is the bollocks tho.
(Nice avatar BTW )
Immo- Number of posts : 5228
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
"followed by some pish about bridies or herring-fishing quotas."
i hope im not the "one"
i hope im not the "one"
its fukkin sevvy- Number of posts : 424
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
y'know Immo, I knew there must be something we agreed on.
Newsnight Scotland makes me want to vomit, mainly because of its lazy cheap obsession with Holyrood.
the third film on Newsnight is a standing classic of current affairs TV. Desecrated to suit a bunch of whinging suits on the BBC Broadcasting Council of Scotland- invented (I kid you not) over two tinnies one night when they were told they weren't getting their own 6 O'Clocl News.
I don't really agree about the sparsely populated rural areas of course, they're full of sheep shaggers ffs.
Newsnight Scotland makes me want to vomit, mainly because of its lazy cheap obsession with Holyrood.
the third film on Newsnight is a standing classic of current affairs TV. Desecrated to suit a bunch of whinging suits on the BBC Broadcasting Council of Scotland- invented (I kid you not) over two tinnies one night when they were told they weren't getting their own 6 O'Clocl News.
I don't really agree about the sparsely populated rural areas of course, they're full of sheep shaggers ffs.
Last edited by supermo on Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:38 am; edited 1 time in total
supermo- Number of posts : 3941
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
its fukkin sevvy wrote:
i hope im not the "one"
It's probably himself he's referring to Sev....
supermo- Number of posts : 3941
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
Ahhh c'mon now Sev
You know who it is....
You know who it is....
Immo- Number of posts : 5228
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
Scotland isn't that bad, Immo. I realise that your horizon tends to be limited by Falkirk and the Sherbrooke Hotel though.
There is great food, just not in either of those places I suspect
There is great food, just not in either of those places I suspect
supermo- Number of posts : 3941
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
Falkirk would limit any cunt's horizons...
Apparently it's summat to do with the toxic chemical smog drifting over from Grangemooth
(Like Falkirk but less cosmopolitan )
Immo- Number of posts : 5228
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Re: Gil Scott Heron on BBC2 England last night
My car dealer's in Grangemouth. Near the main road outta town. I never actually go there obviously. I come out in a rash if I'm too far from the city with the windows down
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