DEAD WRITERS

If you ever sit around looking into the dregs of your coffee and wonder if we’re missing anything now Top of the Pops is no longer a thing on TV, please allow me to answer that:

Yes.

For in a world in which TOTP is still sitting pretty at 19.00 on a Thursday evening, millions of kids are allowing a (gasp) gatekeeper to make some decisions for them. I know this to be true because it happened to me and if you’re of a certain age, it also happened to you. However, if you’re of a different kind of certain age, the world has abandoned you to make your own choices and while that sounds great in theory, you’re missing out on some aging TV exec deciding to parade Dead Writers in front of your face, in much the same way that very same TV exec chose to blow my tiny teenage mind away by showing me Adam and the Ants (or indeed, insert band of your choice). Proving in every way imaginable that you have no idea what you want/need until somebody shows it to you.