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Title: Anybody remember.....
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 23:18:49
....the TV show on outsider art...done by Jarvis Cocker back in 99.

  He must have got a reasonable C4 budget to hunt out eccentric sites in Europe and the States where people had just done strange things with their houses etc.

 I thought he was a natural, but seemingly never got anything else subsequently.

 I always found the best thing about a trip to Headington apart from the 3 points (McMahon reign excepted) was the shark in the roof...

  http://www.park-road.u-net.com/shark.jpg


Title: Anybody remember.....
Post by: sonicyouth on Thursday, March 24, 2005, 01:42:05
Doesn't one of the BBC Radio Oxford presenters live there? I know it's opposite the theory test centre as well, I recall seeing it out of the window which was a bit distracting.


Title: Anybody remember.....
Post by: OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR on Thursday, March 24, 2005, 09:31:12
Heh heh! I'd fogotten that, quality!


Title: Anybody remember.....
Post by: Simon Pieman on Friday, March 25, 2005, 03:03:32
i've seen that! i didnt even know what it was til my mate asked. bloke who lived there was a little (undestandably) weary, but told us why it was there.....freak