Did anybody here see "Girls Aloud in a Haunted House"

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.. last night, ITV2?

2 hours!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Please tell me this was a Scooby Doo-style adventure.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i watched the first ten minutes but it was pretty poor.

why would a ghost respond to anything Yvette Fielding has to say?

― sede vacante (blueski), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't see it (I was watching Barry Manilow - has he had hip replacements? He doesn't seem able to walk properly - and some tumbling Korean acrobats on the Royal Variety Performance.

I did see a clip of it on Jonathan Woss the other night though. It looked quite fun - I don't think they twigged that the poltergeist tricks were a set-up, did they? I think they really believed the house was haunted.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yvette Fielding "Now, we're going to switch off the OH FUCKINELL GRAVEL!! GET ME OUT OFHERE!!!"

Hmm, now that's the sort of expert guide you need if you're a young impressionable girl or four in a haunted house!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

What the hell is the appeal of these shows - nothing ever happens, aside from some farcically hysterical screaming when someone thinks they hear a noise, and a strange fascination with filming bits of dust that occasionally drift into camera range.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"if you lost a child please knock"

*no noise at all is heard*

"one...two...you lost two children"

*everyone looks anxious*

― sede vacante (blueski), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish i had digi tv again, these progs are fucking hilarious. makes me actually feel intelligent.

― Ste (fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

There was some actual fake knocking and table moving (wooh scary) in this one though, I guess they had to make sure they got a reaction. (xpost)

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

and that wheelchair was way too new to have been abandoned in that house! (So I'm told)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

sounds like they were going for a 'silent hill' theme

― Ste (fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I flicked straight past it and plumped for Jimmy's Farm. There were lots of shagging pigs.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently they've done a photoshoot for the NME wearing punk gear, only four years after Burchill and I called them the greatest group since the Sex Pistols.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

...

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

They were supposed to be "dressed as the sex pistols" but it only was 'correct' w/ Ginger's Jumper.

If they'd been the New York Dolls, that would have been fair play.

(as if I really cared)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I was watching Barry Manilow - has he had hip replacements? He doesn't seem able to walk properly

Yes, he did.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, I tuned into about five minutes of it on the basis that the title was like something Alan Partridge would come up with, ala "Youth Hosteling with Chris Eubank". It was actually quite boring.

― Joe Gooden (chap), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I loved this. But about 40% of the fun came from the fact we were forcing ledge to watch it.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

better: http://www.newstatesman.com/200612180034

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Indeed, their grip on the intricacies of party politics is shaky at best. As Coyle says: "You know that basically Labour is the working class and the Conservatives are the really, kind of, upper class, and then everything else is . . . I have no idea."

And this is wrong/shaky... how?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Nicola Roberts understands: I know there are programmes on late at night, aren't there, when they have like debates and stuff.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That's just cuet.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Lol at Cheryl "wife of Cashley" Cole claiming that "Footballers' wives are just as bad as benefit scroungers - it's just a higher class of sponger".

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Worra loada fookin shite. She sounds fookin mental!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

You'd never get this level of anarchy from the Spiceys!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Sounds like they vote the same way though.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

apart from the spice girls saying "we vote tory" and girls aloud saying "we vote labour", that is

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

source of latter plz.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the article i just linked to?

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ref: 1. "So, the big question must be: will Girls Aloud back the new-look Trendy Tories? The answer, David Cameron will be disheartened to learn, is no. "Absolutely not," says Cole."

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

No, only Cheryl says she does. And even then just because her mother does.

x-post

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

did all of the Spice Girls pledge alleigance to Tories in unison?

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe Geri said something about Thatch being the "original spice girl" and at least one of the others (MelC?) being very p.o. about it.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

both of the mels I believe were not too keen to be associated w/geri's thatcher fandom.

the idea of a tv prog being made - "girls aloud in a haunted house" = wtf. parody = dead.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

actually, it would be a perfect title for c-man's directorial debut!

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Brief history of convoluted Spice Girls politics:

Geri - Thatch Original Spice Girl in Spectator interview (stupidest thing ever done by any pop group; lost them the NME/crossover vote overnight) + said We The Spice Girls Are Tories.

Subsequently appeared in Labour Party Political Broadcast despite not being registered to vote.

Mel B and Mel C - subsequently disassociated themselves from G's comment, Mel C especially after getting shitloads of abuse for it back home in the 'Pool, we've always voted Labour.

V Beckham - spoke up for Tories in interviews but subsequently believed to have gone New Labour under husband's influence.

Emma Strictly Come Dancing - pro-Tory in '90s interviews; doesn't talk about politics these days.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

As for GA: well, one Scot looks just like another, don't they? I daresay if I turned up backstage at one of their gigs they'd think I was John Reid, ex-of the Jesus and Mary Chain.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 December 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"there's that bloke wot said all that poncey nonsense about us on the internet"

"SECURITY!"

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 14 December 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

"Ah Petridish, I need to see a plumber about a poodle, could you hold my ID for a moment please? Ta!"

"B-b-but..."

"THERE'S THAT BLOKE WOT SAID ALL THAT PONCEY NONSENSE ABOUT US ON THE INTERNET! SECURITY!!!!"

"No, it is I Alexis!"

"ILX! That's where that poncey bloke posts innit?"

"This way, sir..."

Next month's GQ Magazine:
Broken Bones Are The New Grime, says I Alexis.
*photo of Petridish resembling English Bob after going one round with Gene Hackman's sheriff*

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 December 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

sophie heawood is the worst journalist in the world. she really is.

i almost saw this at about 1am on saturday, but unfortunately i had the discipline to... not.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

the article is ridiculous in so many ways. but it doesn't help that the author lacks basic english skills: "Thus it was that I was summoned to conduct "Girls Aloud: the politics interview". thus it was?

the 'girls aloud: off the record' was more incisive, basically by not being fuckwitted about it. nicola came across as basically a socialist (see ilx passim).

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

why is Heawood so bad? i'm not getting it.

Lex is banned from answering this question.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 21 December 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

because she's not good. tbh i think the whole thing is misconceived and based on a horrible idea of politics based on fuck knows what where you just say things like 'taxes c/d'. and girls aloud have to answer somehow or they seem offish. they can't question the question, why is exactly what anyone else -- including, i dunno, the new statesman's backer -- would do. you'd learn more about their politics (an irrelevant topic anyway) from talking about their music, but heawood's vocab here stretches to 'catchy'.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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