Ian Bevitt

What a fantastic cup tie. Leeds United qualify for their first FA Cup Semi Final for 39 years… 👏

Friday night tune…54-46 That’s my number by Toots and the Maytals - a skinhead classic!

Jerry Lee Lewis - Chantilly Lace/Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On The Killer, looking even more crazed with a beard, a rock ‘n’ roll animal to his bones. Total confidence, a complete mastery of his instrument, and he never changed. Old Grey Whistle Test. 1972.

Mad Men is experiencing a long overdue rebirth now that it’s on HBO Max, as early streaming numbers have shown that this show is a massive hit for HBO. I’m always here to support Mad Men because it helped usher in a golden age of television that I’ll always remember fondly.

Alexander Mackendrick on 'The Ladyki!!ers' (1955): "The fable of 'The Ladyki!!ers' (1955) is a comic and ironic joke about the condition of post-war England. After the war, the country was going through a kind of quiet, typically British but nevertheless historically fundamental revolution. Though few people were prepared to face up to it, the great days of the Empire were gone for ever. British society was shattered with the same kind of conflicts appearing in many other countries: an impoverished and disillusioned upper class, a brutalised working class, juvenile delinquency among the Mods and Rockers, an influx of foreign and potentially criminal elements, and a collapse of intellectual leadership. All of these threatened the stability of the national character." ('On Filmmaking: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director', Alexander Mackendrick, edited by Paul Cronin, 2004)