TOTP is back….but just for Christmas
Silly old BBC. They really don’t “get” how to do music on television. Apart from Jools-bloody-Holland and that abominable Switch yoof-ting of theirs, their schedules are alwatys a bit barren. Okay, so there’s a documentary every now and again, but it’s all a bit tokenistic.
Which is why we’re heaving a big sigh of relief here at Music Towers now the Beeb has announced there will be a Top Of The Pops Xmas Special. The corporation had previously decided against giving the once-mighty pop show its traditional Christmas Special, a tradition that continued last year even though the weekly format of the show ended in 2006.
Simon Cowell, the power behind the X-Factor throne, had offered to buy he dormant brand off the BBC, which helped generate pressure from everyone from MPs to bands to the public for the show to get its Xmas Special banck. So that’s one good thing we can thank the high-waisted trouser’d one for.
TOTP will also get a New Year’s Eve show for the first time ever. DOUBLE-WHOOP.
Shows this week- KEVIN MONTGOMERY
- VILE IMBECILES
- PEAR SHAPED IN FITZROVIA
- DARREN HAYMAN
- PREGO
- 40 WATT CLUB PRESENTS: BETA RAYS + VENETIA & THE VOLTAGE + SANCHO PANZO
- ACOUSTIX FT ROKHSAN
- ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING ~ JOE WOODHAM ~ NICK HARRIS ~ MATTHEW WHITE
- REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
- REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
- THE OXJAM SESSIONS
- GRACE NOTES
- GRACE NOTES
- COMEDY FORUM
- THE CLIENTELE
- HATCHAM SOCIAL
- 40 WATT CLUB PRESENTS: THE LONDON AGREEMENT
- BENET MCLEAN - NEW ALBUM LAUNCH
- DESOLATION
- SMOKING HEARTS
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