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what a legend

what happened to the utopia track at the beginning??

A fantastic song I added many years ago - I didn’t know anyone had even heard it

Omg memories of having transit radio listening to TV every friday. The man who got me into Rock along with John Peel

How wonderful! I was looking forward to tracking this down, a little hesitant about how I would find it, utterly delightful is how I found it, thank you so much for the upload.

Good clean comedy I was introduced to him by my grandad over 30 years ago now in my 50 still find him great to listen to

ah good old J. Edgar.... a complex mix of hardcore conservatism and raging transvesticism. interesting bloke

the good old days... back when music were music and chicken tasted like chicken.... thanks for the upload 👍

I first heard Blaster years ago on vinyl but I am pleased to say most of his recordings are available on CD. If you search he can be found on a certain music app!

Spent many an hour listening to Blaster on record with my late father in law almost crying with laughter, as funny now as ever.

Saw this great man twice in Doncaster... Great memories.

What God-awful lives these women and their daughters led. And the better the writer, the more dire their lives sound. And so hard to feel compassion for them😏

I'm now 70yrs old, seen and heard a great many things, TV and Fluff (not arf) have never left my life and still give me pleasure through old cassette recordings and UA-cam stuff like this, many thanks . . . not forgetting Tony Wilson and Peel & Walters either. Great times sadly never to be repeated.

This guy made my life worth living in my early 20's. No money no job - I lived for every Friday night between 10pm-midnight when I'd be glued to the radio recording this program.

I used to listen them on tape while I was pregnant with my eldest child, that's over 43 years ago

Today (5th Feb 2024), would have been Blasters 101st birthday. RIP old friend.

More like funny bone by chic

The locals on the route got the A50 and in some ways was a better solution. It gave them a more universal access that’s far better than a motorway.

Love this film. So “British”

Not heard this particular radio adaption of this story(one of my favourites 😂),thanks for posting ,a festive treat😊

I remember listening to this show one night, and TV played a Yes track, which totally mesmerised me. I missed what the track was called. Only when I purchased Going for the One that I discovered it was Awaken. Still makes me think of that night sometimes! We no longer have shows like this on UK radio. It's all generic crap pop or (c)rap music. Even Planet Rock plays a set playlist of approved tracks, which gets tedious after a few hours listening!

Absolutely love him I have made it my mission in the last couple of years to source the Blaster bates albums and restore them before they are lost to the archives. I did try to get hold of some of the interviews they mentioned such as parkinson and the bbc2 show but i think these have been lost. Your recording is very good and with your permission i would like to restore it. The only one i have been unsuccessful in finding is 1001 gelignites on cassette tape. If anyone could help with this i would be most grateful. The cassettes are the easiest to restore.

I miss those days. I also listened to Fluff on a his Saturday rock show. What was the opening tune on Tommy Vance?

Thomas Vance, your music vendor. Absolute legend, sadly missed.

The oldies had the best bands

The joke about the Queen and the gongs had me pissing myself !!

Thanks for keeping our comedy heroes alive, thier's only so much alternative comedy a brain can stand in this Communist society,

The actual film itself was not filmed in the Pimlico area of London but on a bombsite on Hercules Road SE1, beside the rail line (which features in the movie- people throwing bread to the besieged Burgundians).

Balls to Woke 👍

Wow! This takes me back. TV on the radio was compulsive listening. Vance and Peel were and always will be legends. Thanks for sharing this gem of a broadcast! I dearly wish I'd kept all my recordings of these shows on cassette.

The great John Wyndham !! An almost forgotten pioneer of Sci- fi . A charming , modest " gentleman " who wrote at least 4 classics of the genre. Now his books are only to be found in Charity shops priced at 25 p. Sic transit...etc..

Excellent to hear, thank you for uploading

Never heard of this bloke before, thanks for sharing 👍 His poetry reminded me of Bert Fry on The Archers.

Had all Blaster’s recordings and been seen him loads of times in Stoke on Trent.

Oh that intro tune brings back memories! Just fab!

HOW ON EARTH DID YOU FIND THIS ALBUM? 😮 Blaster and his wife, Maude were friends of our family and I have all his volumes on vinyl signed. I know those albums word for word and they still have me roaring with laughter, yet until i saw this i had no idea it existed.

I worked with Blaster near Crewe he was blowing tree trunks to smaller pieces, i had to roll them over with my JCB. He then said take off down the field or ill blow your machine to bits.. lovely bloke. 😬😁😁😁

Loved Shower of S**t over Shropshire, Knicker Brook etc

I’ve always been a fan of the old blaster man, I’ve just found this recording and ironically I live in Stratford upon Avon, sadly the Hilton sold up to Crown Plaza, everything good here has gone. Bring back the good old days.

Starts off at a low volume but stick with it, the audio quality gets better as it goes on.

Legend

Indeed Mr. Harper, how time flies. Seems like literally yesterday I was listening to this?

I saw Blaster at the Sunderland Empire many many years ago - he was brilliant

Not heard this for almost 50 years. Brilliant!

Got all these on tape. Well, my late uncle copied them from his LPs in the 80s. Met Batesy once and had absolutely no idea it was him at the time. The look on his face when I explained why I was a shop worker with a sense of humour should have been a giveaway 😂

Imagine Blaster Bates, Fred Dibnah and air-traffic controller Dave Gunson (after-dinner speech "What Goes Up... Might Come Down"). Put them in a room together, ply them with a pint or so. And you'd be in for a hilarious evening. One of the fantasy celebrity evenings that never was. One of BB's funniest stories is one that I heard on a tape that a friend lent me many years ago and which I've never managed to find on UA-cam since. It concerned Santa coming down the chimney to bring presents. In one room he encounters a nubile young woman who tempts him with her body, but he resists several times because he has a lot of work to do and anyway he's a good Santa. However eventually she divests her last bit of clothing and stands before him stark naked. "Sod it. I'll *have* to stay now. I'll never get back up the chimney now, not with this massive stiffy." The way BB told it had me in stitches.

As a resident of Sandbach I mis Blaster he lived half a mile away from myself and we would meet up at the local clay shoot from time to time. I last had a conversation with him at the Doctors surgery not long after he was called to sort out a chimney for the big man up stairs.

watched him several times, mostly at miners do's ...he was noticeably more earthy in his material and language in our company. Even this 'sanitized' mixed audience recording brought back some great memories.

Had Blaster Bates ever met the late Fred Dibnah ?

MUCH thanx for this; mate ! 👏🤣