Horror and hard rock have long gone hand in grimy hand, and this outing of The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour's After Dark strand harkens back to an historical moment where three chords and hairspray attempted to go mainstream. Because when the lead singer of the world's largest metal band stars in a Tuesday night BBC One drama, you know it's not long before he'll be recognised in Waitrose.
Yes, the volume is turned up to eleven as the doors of 1990's The Paradise Club are booted well and truly booted open, as the world's unlikeliest brothers play host to London's least stage-ready band, who perform to unfeasibly small audiences that have never before heard any music. As connoisseurs of loud tunes and questionable television, this is of course PeggyMountPod's perfect cultural fodder...
Has the BBC drama department only got one casting director for everything they make? Has the money that would normally spent on extras for the club scenes gone to PRS royalties for a soundtrack that the show's Sanatogen-necking audience might actually recognise? And how much does this podcast owe Bruce Dickinson for repeatedly howling ♫ 'TATTOO-OO-OOED MILLIONA-A-A-A-AIRE' throughout*?
Press Play on a shoddily-recorded bootleg that you bought for £2 off the market, and find out...
* Absolutely nothing. Blackout's already bought Tattooed Millionaire on at least five different releases, it's more than paid for**.
WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:
Programme: The Paradise Club
Broadcast: Tuesday 06 November 1990, 21:30
Production/Channel: Zenith, BBC One
Writer: Murray Smith, Russell Murray
Music: Dave Lawson
Producer/Director: Selwyn Roberts / Renny Rye
Starring: Leslie Grantham, Don Henderson, John Altman, Bruce Dickinson, Janick Gers, Andy Carr, Dickie Fliszar
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