glampunk
Crab On The Rampage
gloompunk; glitter goth: disciple of Rikki Nadir: demonik in disguise, etc.
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Post by glampunk on Mar 20, 2008 23:19:46 GMT
Great moments from GLAM: Everything Pans People Ever Did! It just doesn't get any better than this - except it does! You knew this was coming, didn't yers? Down Down. They were great at songs with "Down" in the title. Will we ever again see the like of Babs' dog-handling techniques for Gilbert O'Sullivan's risible Get Down? Their bump and grind routine for the 'Quo's rocker is almost certainly to blame for it rocketing to the top of the charts the following week. When I copped Ruth adjusting her stocking, I realised that there was more in this getting a girlfriend lark then I'd previously imagined, and I was only about five! Walk on the Wild Side from 1972. A very sombre performance with the girls dressed in black, swaying around some white pillars and looking extremely distraught. The pillars were decorated with posters of Lou Reed, who, I presumed, must have just died. Truly weird. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe). With a title like that, it was a nailed on certainty that our heroines would devise a risque routine to help this one up the charts. As with Down Down, Walk on the Wild Side and most of the rest, I've only ever seen this clip the once, but it was a fancy dress party on acid with everybody wearing something completely different and clashy to the others. I think it was Sue in a black basque. It was jawdropping, I know that! Jungle Rock: the girls exposed to the wilds of the tropics in stunning Safari wear. Phew! Monster Mash: Public humiliation held no fears for our heroines as anybody who's witnessed the notorious If A Fool Like You (bunny ears, clown noses) shoot will attest. Even so, decking out our Ruth in a moth-eaten gorilla suit was nothing short of scandalous. But didn't Cherry make a saucy devil? Loads of photo's and everything at the Unofficial Pans People Site 
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Post by dem bones on Nov 28, 2008 10:59:11 GMT
Does anybody know where I can find information and images (definitely images) of Boris Monster Mash Pickett's glamorous dance troupe, the Cryptkickers? Or, to be more precise, the charming, high-kicking cheerleaders who performed that function in a black and white video shown to promote the record when it was a hit the second or third time around (late seventies? Early eighties?)? - From Vault MK 1 and other boards, Sept. 2005 You know all that trouble Sandy Allen found herself in when she was hunting down that 'lost' Karloff-Lugosi film Tower Of Fear in Ancient Images? Well, it hasn't exactly been a picnic trying to locate the mysterious Monster Mash footage either. Those few who replied invariably suggested the insane Pan's People pantomime they always show on TOTP2 & Co., but that wasn't it. Do I asked the (now sadly late) Mr. Pickett himself about it via an email, but even he couldn't put me out of my misery: "Unfortunately, I have no knowledge or memory of any video accompanying the release of Monster Mash in England, which doesn't necessarily mean that one doesn't exist. Try EBay. Good luck. Feel free to quote my message on your board." Even when some guy on the BHF forum said he remembered it too, it got me so that I begun to wonder if we were both the victims of some steamy shared hallucination. But guess what I just found on YouTube and - oh my gosh - it was Pans People all along, just a different performance to the one everyone remembers! The video quality, it has to be said, ain't all that clever but here are the girls who stole a nation's hearts in action! Pans People - The Monster Mash.
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Post by carolinec on Nov 28, 2008 11:48:43 GMT
Ha! A classic! I love that song. Pan's People (I just mistakenly typed 'Pant's People' first) don't do anything for me of course, but I love the song. Can't get it out of my head now ...  Well done on tracking that down, Dem! |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 28, 2008 14:18:06 GMT
Well done on tracking that down, Dem! I know! I know! feel like my work in this world is over now! It's just a shame Boris couldn't have hung on for another year to see it!  Interesting proof that Ian Anderson definitely fancied them #2. Jethro Tull did a promo video for the Too Old To Rock & Roll album directed by Mike 'Supersonic' Mansfield - and the celestial being known to man as Cherry Gillespie was in it dancing to Salamander. Note how the rubbish quality when the camera is on her mysteriously improves the second it switches back to the band! Talk about having your priorities all wrong.  |
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Post by carolinec on Nov 28, 2008 15:00:07 GMT
Interesting proof that Ian Anderson definitely fancied them #2. Jethro Tull did a promo video for the Too Old To Rock & Roll album directed by Mike 'Supersonic' Mansfield - and the celestial being known to man as Cherry Gillespie was in it dancing to Salamander. Note how the rubbish quality when the camera is on her mysteriously improves the second it switches back to the band! Talk about having your priorities all wrong. Nice one! Ian Anderson I mean, not that Pan's Person. How can you tell which Pan's Person is which anyway? They all look the same to me! (but probably all hairy male rock stars look the same to you too) |
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Post by dem bones on May 29, 2011 9:09:39 GMT
Desperately sad news for all glam fans. Legendary Pans People MK I. dancer/ choreographer Flick Colby died on May 26th after losing her brave battle with cancer. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on May 29, 2011 10:39:35 GMT
Very sad.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 3, 2011 19:34:03 GMT
in the wake of Flick's death, Pans People com has picked up a fair head of steam these past weeks. Quite disconcerting to discover a regular poster under the name 'the vault' (not guilty) - less of a surprise to find a link to our old board when the admin raised the subject of "the raunchiest Pans People Routine ever." some of us make it our business to specialise in that kind of thing. in case you're wondering what all this has to do with horror, the answer is PLENTY. let 'Dave' educate you. .... it does look a lot like a scene from a Hammer House of Horrors movie, where particularly gorgeous looking birds with long hair all over the place who are 'up for it' beckon unsuspecting males just so they can bite em on the neck and turn 'em into fellow vampires for the rest of eternity. Dee Dee in particular looked like she would have had no reflection in a mirror.
Actually if Pans People had have been Vampires there may well be a few knowing takers there! Those Classic Ruth Looks: An Appreciationand he's only talking about their routine for extreme passion killer I'd Like To Make It With You by Bread! it takes genius to introduce anything the slightest bit outre´into that dirge, let alone invent The Vampire Lovers. Also - and this is dead spooky - i've watched the rare Monster Mash promo clip so many times, but what with the girls giving such a robust performance, never paid much attention to this creepy, straggly-haired apparition until now. it's seldom i utter an unkind word against a fellow threshold person but man, am i glad i don't look anything like that poor bastard. |
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Post by dem bones on Jul 27, 2017 12:01:06 GMT
R.I.P Ruth Pearson Utterly devastated. |
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