We grew up in the UK from 1970 to 1990. This show is all about the two of us looking back and putting bits of our shared past under the microscope, from the early ‘80s ‘Protect and Survive’ /Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear panic, to the theme music from The Incredible Hulk; from Wimpy Burgers to wimpy Orac from Blake’s 7; from the Falklands War to Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus. We look back with fondness and bafflement and sometimes with abject disbelief at what life was like when we were gro ...
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12 We Bid You Velcome! (Jeremy remembers Dracula - 1984 / With A Little Help From My Friends, She's Leaving Home by Wet Wet Wet/Billy Bragg 1988 / Counting Draculas - Vince's Homage to the Prince of Darkness ...
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For the 12th and final show of the Season, Vince and Jeremy discuss all things vampiric. Jeremy looks back to 1984 and the attempt by him and his friends to bring Dracula to a new, mid 80's audience. Beset by production issues, creative tension, and interference from the studio, the film sadly lies unfinished, probably languishing in landfill, unde…
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11 American Rabbits (Unreasonably Angry Fictional Police Chiefs / Bright Eyes by Art Garfunklel from 1979 / TV Boffins)
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"I want your gun and your badge!" Inspired by TV cops Starsky and Hutch and big-screen fascist Detective Dirty Harry, Vince grabs coffee and donuts and gets hauled into the Unreasonably Angry Fictional Police Chief's office to be a torn a new asshole (for 22 minutes) about his increasingly maverick but nonetheless incredibly successful approach to …
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10 I'd Rather Brian Jacks Than Flammable Slacks (The Silver Jubilee / Seven Tears by The Goombay Dance Band 1982 / Vince's Formative Movie Experiences
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Summer's here, and so are we! This episode sees us roll back the clock to 1977, the year Elvis ate his last hamburger. Jeremy adorns Union Jack shorts and waves a patriotic flag as he remembers the street parties and other celebrations for Her Maj the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and muses on the transition from anarchic punk to flamboyant disco. Our UK…
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09 How Come You Tell So Many Lies? (Amityville Horror / Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel / Jeremy's First Gigs
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We're Back! We said we would make another show and we have done what we said we would do. Not out of contractual obligation, but - to be clear - it was absolutely the right thing to do. It's Episode 9, and this month finds Vince sailing very close to the wind as he trashes The Amityville Horror franchise. Jeremy gets all misty eyed as he recalls hi…
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In lieu of us releasing an episode in May or June (we hope to be back in July!) here's a short and sweet bonus episode about... frogs and Englishness and animation and things. . Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vinceandjergrowup/Por Rainbow Alley Productions
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08 Countryside Special (Hedgerow Porn / "First Time" by Robin Beck, 1988 / White Dog Poo)
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Spring is in the air! We don wellies, raincoats and natty hats to take a gentle stroll through the verdant splendour of the English countryside. Jeremy wonders why the fields and hedgerows were littered with discarded top shelf porn mags in various states of destruction, and traces the decline of the paper smut industry. Our randomly picked UK Numb…
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07 Accidentally Putting on Glitter (The launch of Channel 4 in 1982 and its first year of broadcasting / Rock Your Baby by George McCrae from 1974 / Glam Rock from 1970 - 1974 and the Chinn and Chapman ...
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Vince enthuses about the launch of the UK's fourth channel back in November 1982, and how exciting Channel 4 was in its infancy, with its remit of providing alternative programming and showcasing contemporary art. Plus scary animations! Our randomly-selected UK Number 1 is 1974's proto-disco Rock Your Baby by George McCrae. Jeremy dons platforms an…
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06 Hey! Gotta No Respect? ... (The Death Of John Lennon 1980, There's No One Quite Like Grandma 1980 and Stock, Aitken, and Waterman 1984 Onwards)
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We have reached the halfway point of Season 1, and Jeremy brings the dreadful events of December 1980 to the show. The death of John Lennon and how it affected him at the age of 10. Vince recalls the heady days of Stock, Aitken, and Waterman when they were omnipresent and every other song in the charts was helmed by them. As always, we discuss a ra…
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05 Put The Needle On The Record ... (A Ghost Story For Christmas 1971-79, Pump Up The Volume by M/A/R/R/S 1987 and Betamax vs VHS 1975-84)
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This time around, Vince discusses his fondness for the 'A Ghost Story For Christmas' strand that made its welcome, annual tv appearance when he was young. Meanwhile, Jeremy remembers the warring formats at the heart of the home recording epoch at the beginning of the 80's. This month we head to the 1980's for the first time as our randomiser select…
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Merry Christmas! As a little bonus, we've recorded a Christmas-themed mini episode, in which Jeremy waxes nostalgically about his childhood family Christmas routine, and Vince deep dives into his mum's favourite Christmas chockies as delivered by the intrepid and mysterious Milk Tray Man. Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vinceandjergrowup/…
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04 Quicker Than The Human Eye ... (Ninjas, Kung Fu and David Soul)
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'Everybody was Kung Fu fighting' (according to Carl Douglas) in 1974. But were they really? Most of the populous were trying to create a diversion so they could get the hell out of there before testing out their rudimentary martial arts skills in a gang warfare scenario. This month Vince takes a look into the burgeoning disciplines that really took…
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03 Songs Our Daddies Taught Us ... (My Parents' Record Collection and Grandstand)
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On this show, we both bring something in to remember our parents by. In Jeremy's case, it's the scattergun musical taste of his parents and his Dad's shifty demeanour when discussing the provenance of his record collection . In Vince's, Saturday afternoons spent marking time, watching Grandstand, (and watching out for his Dad!) until something bett…
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02 Oh No It Isn't! ... (The Big Snow of 1982 & School Pantomime)
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This time we are discussing the Big Snow of '82. Vince's memory plays tricks on him, as he waxes lyrical about the early 80's and an imagined, continuous, Winter Wonderland. Jeremy remembers the smell of greasepaint, the roar of the crowd, the whiff of methane, and ripping his trews, as he reminisces about his days treading the boards in '83. We ra…
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01 Take a Little Good Advice... (The Goodies & Jon Pertwee's cloak)
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Funky Gibbon Jeremy gets on his trandem and hunts down a gigantic kitten with The Goodies. Vince dons Jon Pertwee's cloak to become a vampire Time Lord in an Amicus portmanteau horror film. The number one hit single we randomly selected is In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vinceandjergrowup/…
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