John Kettley (Is A Weatherman) video

First showing on national TV in August 1988 of the video for John Kettley (Is A Weatherman) by A Tribe of Toffs. Buy Toffs music at http://www.eastbourne.co.uk/toffs

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• Andrew
• Cousins
• Haggerton
• Michael
• Philip
• Rogers
• Stephen
• Stephenson
• John
• Kettley
• weatherman
• weather
• Toffs
• tribe

[trench124]

I was in an old recording studio in Newcastle a couple of years back and found a couple of box loads of the singles of this piled up in the junk.

[monocle3]

@trench124 Wow, that will be the old Impulse Studios, part of Neat Records in Wallsend. What's it like now? What did you do with the singles? I thought the whole place had closed down.

[trench124]

@monocle3 I picked a couple up but the whole place has been demolished now along with the old borough theatre next door. It was all closed down when I was there and the place had been pretty trashed

[monocle3]

@trench124 Just had a look at the road on Street View. It shows the building still standing almost as I remember it. Good memories recording there back when I was 18. Shame it's gone now, but times change and it was a bit of a dump I guess!

[monocle3]

Yes! Yes it totally is. Good spot. And the guy went on to be in an awful pop duo called Yell who were the big new thing for a brief moment in about 1989.

[allyplumb]

Can anyone upload the b side to this song called JULIE ANDREWS WE LOVE YOU or something?

[monocle3]

@allyplumb The song is available for download on iTunes

[rhinoswellies]

None are characters nowadays yet years ago there was Bernard Davey, John Kettley, michael Fish, Bill Giles and Ian McCaskill. I can't even name one now.

I saw McCaskill on the tram in Sheffield a few years ago and every single person who got on at various stops shouted "Hulllllooooo" Brilliant.

[monocle3]

@RichyO1977 I'm afraid it was copied from an old VHS tape so the quality is pretty rubbish. I did contact the BBC to see if they had the original, but it's long gone.

[SultanChase]

@Billinghaylad1976 I hope that you had the simple courtesy to sing this song to him as loudly as possible.

[SultanChase]

@Jermyn78 Somehow, I doubt that that description will be adopted as Sunderland's official motto.

[SultanChase]

@feckingbillgates I think that you're right! But where's Razzle the dog?

[evilrobottolhurst]

the only one of ALL of these I remember is "Johnny Marr he plays guitar". These boys should have been writers for the Dandy!

I came here because I read that Wincey Willis is now tweeting people. That's 2012!