what reasons do you need

hello there

well, yes, there's a school of thought that says i should have commenced this post with howdy pop pickers, look you see. but, i have not. mostly this is all me buying yet further tin (or other such metal) things what are actually posters. this follows on from last month, for those with an interest. 

no, up to now i haven't put any of them up. this is a task i shall get to. eventually, if you are asking when. but, for now, one (1) of the ones i picked up has immense relevance to the day today, being the day what this was set out on the internet. and that may not be the day you read it. 

on this day (13 July) in 1985 it was, of course, Live Aid. quite the event. and the poster on metal you can see above, presented in the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode, is a reasonably famous picture taken from the grand finale of the London (innit) gig, held at Wembley. well, the old version of that stadium, before the knocked it down and built a new one. 

lots and lots of reasons present themselves to be retrospectively critical of Live Aid, be it the London gig or the one over in America (Philadelphia, i think). dubious concerns about where the money went, poor Adam Ant getting f***ed over in a near career ending way by Geldof, generally average to poor sets from artists (except Queen, who gave what may consider to be the finest performance by anyone, ever, and i would not disagree), Phil Collins showing off the excess of 80s by taking concorde so as to play both gigs (and not being very good for Led Zeppelin) and, according to some, more or less the same amount of value money raised being matched by the amount of coke used backstage. 

yet, for me, the good shall always be at the forefront of my memories. and not just the devastating, brilliant performance by Queen. that set is one i remember fondly, with moi and my family all sat in the front room (or lounge) watching, mesmerised. it was a day when music was the single most important thing in the world, music could serve to change the world. as in, and you have to remember this was at a time when the cold war could have gotten quite hot, even the USSR contributed to the day. wow. 

for whatever reason we don't get big event concerts like that no more. the last one i can recall is Live 8. no, not sure why not. when Bowie left us there was a tribute gig, but no tv and held in a small venue in Brixton. rather different from the Freddie show. maybe we don't have them because of the fuss various environmentalists would make, or just that we are truly bereft of the wealth of interesting musical talent which could be called upon for Live Aid. 

above, for the sake of completeness, are the other other poster tin things what i have picked up. the Jimi Hendrix one is because why would't you have a Hendrix one. as for the James Bond, well, it features all of the proper films featuring the character, as well as the 3 (three) sh!t ones Pierce Brosnan did. even i have to concede that his first was actually pretty good, despite him. 

let me go and give some consideration to putting these all up. i have quite a few now, yes, they are quite nice to just sit and look at, but it would be all the more better to have them on a wall, or across a couple of walls, to admire with ease.

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!