Don't Stop The Rocco
- 1 Aug 07, 01:22 PM
On Friday evenings, I΅―m mostly watching on Channel 4. It΅―s a weirdly amusing series that follows the progress of Rocco and Dawn as they move from London to Barcelona in search of a new life. Rocco Barker is a musician who looks like a composite of Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Johnny Thunders. He΅―s a classic stumblebum and wastrel. He drinks plenty, he falls over, he messes up the most basic plans. Dawn tries to bring order to the scheme, but the Canadian girl is also essentially daft.
Rocco wants to live in Barcelona because they still tolerate chain smokers there. He has limited funds but some charm, and the sight of this fella trying to sort out the gas cylinder with a ciggy hanging from his lip prompts the cameraman to intervene on the grounds of terrifying danger. And so the action staggers on each week, so funny it might be scripted, so silly it can΅―t possibly be.
I have an additional fondness for Rocco as he΅―s the first person I ever interviewed. Back in 1985 I was a cub journalist for Record Mirror and he was the guitarist in , a band that briefly found glory in a venue called The Batcave. I met them at their record company offices in Hammersmith and I was rather nervous. But Rocco and his singer pal Nick Marsh treated me well and regaled me with many tall stories.
Costa Chaos is like Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen without the appalling drugs. It΅―s could be a new fangled version of Vanity Fair, with all the hilarity, the blagging, the tantrums and misunderstandings that make for excellent social drama. Long may it rock.
Stu Bailie presents The Late show on Radio Ulster, every Friday from 10pm until midnight. See his playlist here.
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Caught this show for the first time last week when Victoria(my daughter)was up at home. She has been watching it ,so we watched it to-gether. Love these programmes! It always amazes me the were thses peple get their money! And what do they actually DO! Nice work if you can get it! i also call these programmes trash T.V. and some-times you just need something like this to chill out with!
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