Brierly Hill 90210

In the last episode, I made the correlation between the lack of good music and an increased number of Australian actors in the charts in the late 80s. Don't get me wrong... I have nothing against Australians and there's some excellent music in this 1989 episode. But there's a musical shift afoot; for one example, think of the lack of electronic music in the '70s episodes (apart from Kraftwerk) to now where it's pervasively in the hands of the mainstream. Personally, there'd been some change by the time 1989 came around. I'd moved to a different part of Cheltenham; another shared house but a different local pub. A slight aside to a disturbing trend; The Bass House is one of many personal historical landmarks destroyed by fire! If you listened to earlier episodes, as the '80s draw to a close, there's been increasing violence whether that be Irish terrorism, football hooliganism or race riots. Thankfully the later is something we don't see these days. That would be your “irony” there. But as we sit on the prec