Happy First Birthday Days Are Numbers!!!
That’s right folks, Days Are Numbers, everyone’s favourite disco/giallo/afro-beat/Czech New Wave and much, much more-lovin’ blogsite, officially turned 1 on July 1st!
Don’t worry if you forgot, it looks like we did, too! But what better way to celebrate than by having an anniversary recap, and looking back at everything we’ve scribbled about on here in the last year.
Also, for the rest of July we’ll be bringing you some fantastic bonus material related to earlier posts, as well as some all new lists and charts and fun things. It’s gonna be mega!
But for now, let’s take a walk down memory lane and relive all the laughter, tears, joy and pain of one whole year of the best in films, music, and high-quality chit-chat. Magic moments, indeed.
July 2008
Aneet got the party started, as only Aneet can, with a Little bit of music…
Alan gazed boldly into the future, by way of the past, to see just how correctly classic Sci-Fi has predicted the future (not very, apparently) in More To Life Than Dys?
Aneet delivered us A Few Ditties and gave us the low-down on music’s other Mark E in the E. special!
Remember BBC2′s cult film strand Moviedrome? Alan does, in his Ode to Moviedrome.
Banish away all that Mama Mia!-induced trauma, as Aneet gets under the skin of the real Abba (Do-Do-Do).
Some more top tunes from Aneet here in her Super Catch Up Special!
And who says Days Are Numbers can’t do serious stuff? Alan returns to Northern Ireland for Troubles so bad.
August 2008
Giallos, what are they all about then? Alan attempts to solve the mystery in Yellow Peril.
Another bumper crop of tunes (and an apology!) from Aneet? It can only be Re-Edits, Re-Releases And Re-Ally Sorry.
Even flipping Courtney Love and Kasabian are banging on about them these days, but our very own Alan was the first to announce an outbreak of Giallo Fever!
You can find Aneet’s very touching tribute to the then recently departed Isaac Hayes in Ticking The Ivories And Other Stuff before she offers us Whatever We (Or You) Want!
Alan takes a look back into the not-too-distant past, and remembers what it felt like to not be able to see Stanley Kubrick’s legendary A Clockwork Orange in (bad pun ahoy!) Banned For Glory (part one).
The month ends with Aneet discovering the best cure for a cold is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in stock or hot/boiling water, and a few disco records, as she orders Soup For One.
September 2008
An Alan free month, but fret not as Aneet goes all intergalactic as she says Hi, Swell Martian!
She later proffesses a hitherto unknown love for Mott the Hoople, but that doesn’t make her a Bastardo!, before bidding us to Start The Dance with the Black Science Orchestra, among others.
October 2008
Alan turns his attention to The Exorcist and the rise of the Video Nasty in Banned For Glory (part two).
We have the time of our lives, as Aneet takes us Dirty Dancing.
And Alan announces “It’s Halloween…” with a rundown of the very best horror films to scare yer pants off.
November 2008
Even more scary films for you in November, as Alan urged you all to pretend It’s STILL Halloween!
Erm, and that was yer lot until January. Sorry about that.
January 2009
The New Year saw the third and final instalment of our series on film censorship in Britain, Banned For Glory (part three), which took a special look at the furore surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Aneet reveals that she particularly likes songs and pieces of music with the word “theme” in the title, and lets us know what her favourite ones are in Few Of My Favourite THEMES Part 1 and 2.
February 2009
This month saw a revamped Days Are Numbers come racing out of the traps with not one… not two… but THREE brand-spanking-new regular features! Alan launched Film of the Day, Aneet initiated it’s musical counterpart Single of the Day, and the two joined forces for the mighty Monday Morricone Madness!!! – a new (sometimes) weekly tribute to the music of Ennio Morricone and the movies in which it features!
February’s Film (s) of the Day: Loves Of A Blonde, Nixon, Hatchet For The Honeymoon, The Naked Kiss.
Single (s) of the Day: Cage & Aviary – Television Train, Zombi – Spirit Warrior, Don Froth – Foam.
Monday Morricone Madness!!!: Exorcist II, A Fistful Of Dynamite.
March 2009
March’s Film (s) of the Day: Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun, High And Low.
Single (s) of the Day: Plunky & Oneness Of Juju – Every Which Way But Loose, Cabin Fever – Cabin Fever Vol. 3 (The Sun), Cole Medina – Medina’s Magic, Karen Young – Deetour, Sound Experience – J.P. Walk, Tony Esposito – Pagaia, Wigald Boning – Ballade Pour Alexa.
Monday Morricone Madness!!!: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, The Thing, Two Mules For Sister Sara, The Battle Of Algiers.
…and a tribute to the late Maurice Jarre.
April 2009
April’s Film (s) of the Day: The Last Tycoon, Tokyo Drifter, The Quiet Earth, Branded To Kill.
Single (s) of the Day: Kamuran Akkor – Ikimiz Bir Fidaniz (Baris K Re-Edit), MFSB – Love Is The Message, Mercury Dance Band – Envy No Good, Cluster – Hollywood, John Carpenter – Moochie’s Death.
Monday Morricone Madness!!!: The Great Silence, Danger: Diabolik.
…and, Alan took a look at what happens when rock and pop stars try their luck in the movies in “Film Star…”, not to mention a bit of ill-advised comedy to celebrate the release of The Damned United, with Damned Damned Damned (United United United).
May 2009
Film (s) of the Day: True Stories.
Single (s) of the Day: Byron – Too Much, The Vampires Of Dartmoore – Dance Of The Vampires, Hot Blood – Disco Dracula, Syreeta – I Love Every Little Thing About You.
May also saw the debut of the official Days Are Numbers podcast. Go here to have a listen to Alan and Aneet discuss everything from sitcoms to the concept of time, with the occassional groovy record thrown in for good measure.
June 2009
Film (s) of the Day: Cobra Verde.
Single (s) of the Day: Propaganda – Frozen Faces, Gaz Nevada – I.C Love Affair (D DeP Edit), Carly Simon – Why, Hot Gossip – Circus of Death, Wee Papa Girl Rappers – Heat It Up (Acid House Remix By Kevin Saunderson), Henry Mancini – Experiment In Terror, Grauzone – Film 2, The Stranglers – Meninblack, Juggy Murray Jones – Inside America Part 2, Cat Stevens – Was Dog A Doughnut, Gina X Performance – Kaddish, Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes (Annihilation Mix), Electric Mind – Can We Go, T.W Funkmasters – Love Money (1981 Remix), Quando Quango – Genius, Northend – Tee’s Happy, Blackway – Follow Me, Luv You Madly Orchestra – Rocket Rock.
Monday Morricone Madness!!!: Companeros.
The month also saw the introduction of a new film-based feature from Alan, Scene of the Day, which took it’s bow with the mighty opening scene from Mean Streets.
…and that just about takes us up to date!
Thanks to everyone who has visited the site over the past year, and here’s to another twelve months of the very best in films and music!
Stayed tuned for more special anniversary features, including Alan and Aneet fighting it out over their favourite film composers, and (can you believe it?) the official Days Are Numbers 100 Greatest Films Of All Time! You can’t miss that, can you?
Thanks again for reading.
Happy Birthday, Days Are Numbers!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!