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When you say 'leave my brain', do you mean something like an extracorporeal excursion? With your Id and Superego floating in their own ethereal Planes of Being, whilst your body lies prone, being fiddled with by the Pixies of Eternal Naughtiness?
Do you leave it on a shelf in the kitchen? Or perhaps in a jar of pickling vinegar (or Carling, as it's also known) in the conservatory, with the lead piping, out of Red Rum, claret with indigo sleeves?

I have a vague recollection of the Span doing All Around My Hat on Top Of The Pops and the lovely Maddy deliberately miming the wrong words.

The (doubtless apocryphal) story was that they had done a deal with Lindisfarne, who were also billed to appear with 'Meet Me on the Corner', that she'd fluff the lyrics if they got Simon Cowe to 'play' the double-bass using a stuffed fish as a bow. Oh, and I think Jacka had his mouth-organ pointing the wrong way for most of the performance..........
Another band (memeory fails) appeared around that time wearing T-shirts inscribed 'MIMING'.

It'd be nice to think it did happen.

Another favourite TOTP moment was The Associates' first appearance, where the late Billy Mackenzie kept forgetting to mime because he was watching himself on all the studio monitors.

I did that too, on my necessarily brief appearance.
But then I wasn't miming at the time.

No, I won't tell you what I WAS doing.

Nope.

Not on yer life.

Come on, we're intrigued.

Were you Diddy David Hamilton's stunt double?

All I will say is, that I was wearing the famous claret/black/yellow tank-top at the time. And Channel-Seams, Purple, Trousering For The Use Of.
And Fringe-and-Buckle Stoppers, Birds For The Pulling Of.
The evidence is there on VT, if I haven't managed to destroy the only remaining copy, currently (at least until 22:30:45 tonight, when my Fiendish Plan Mark VIIB goes into operation) held at the Library of Congress Very Very Extremely Secure Bit Department.

And this clip of you in sartorial splendour---does it feature you dancing like a geography teacher after half a pint of cider?

Sorry, close but no cigar.

A HISTORY teacher.

[Hangs head in terminal shame and embarrassment].
At least I never wore tartan flares.

steelye span 1974?magoo wrote:

> You all know how Holden bangs on about marshal arts in a very
> hetero and butch way. Well I am not saying he does this to
> disguise his latent homosexuality or anything.
>
> But I am saying that its lies about him doing martial arts. He
> actually does MORRIS DANCING! Oh yes. He trundles down to his
> local village green (not a gay village btw) on his fancy
> tricycle which his mummy bought him from the catalogue. Dressed
> in his nice clean white morris dancing suit, with bells and
> ribbons attached. Then him and all his mates do bloody morriss
> dancing on the village green. And he looks a proper cunt as all
> the passing lager louts mock his finery and his stick thing
> with bells on it (JJ will know the correct name). Then he goes
> home and listens to his favourite record "All Around My Hat" by
> some folk group that S56 will recall the name of - it was a hit
> in the 70s.
>
>
> Thanks for listening. That will be all. Goodnight.