Sunday night, 8pm-10:30pm,
Here and on Youtube

Come with me into my time machine as we travel all-lll-lll-lll the way back through the mists of time, way back to 2014 (and 2015) – a very different era. Obama was president and Trivia Murder Party hadn’t been invented yet.

This is the setting for the 23rd Bother’s Bar Game Night – basically we’re playing old Jackbox games, all to set-up tonight’s Arbitrary Final that’s been co-devised by Duran Duran’s very own Simon Le Bon. Our panellists will be battling it out for glory and a spot in the Jackbox 8 Champion of Champions in October (TBC).

The games might be older, but Team Audience will still be there to take part and judge, and a representative will be required for a game of Bomb Corp. AND tonight’s Final.

The Live stream will appear here, but we advise watching it on the Youtube page for lower latency and so you can join the chat.

This Sunday! 8pm! It’s the latest edition of Bother’s Bar’s Game Night, but this is a special RETRO Game Night where we’ll be playing games from the early Jackboxes. Lie Swatter! Bomb Corp! Drawful 1! Just SOME of the games on offer. As ever, watch and play along as part of Team Audience, however I still have spaces on the panel if you’d like to guarantee a piece of the action. Make sure you’ve got a Discord, a microphone and get in touch ASAP.

It’s all building up to the BIG Arbitrary Final, co-designed by the BIG haired Simon Le Bon! I am so excited about this “collab”, as far as I’m aware it’s his first foray into gameshow design and I have to say, after I tweaked it a bit, it might be a bit of a winner. He is hungry for success. Like the wolf in fact.

We’ll be broadcasting LIVE on Sunday night from 8pm UK until about 10:30pm – may in fact be slightly earlier as the older games are a bit quicker. Hope to see you then!

Very sad to hear about the death of comedian Sean Lock to cancer, one of the funniest people Channel 4 gave time to. There will definitely be a big hole in the 8 Out of 10 Cats troupe.

Forget One And Six Zeroes, here’s cult classic The Moneymaze with George Clooney’s dad.

I’m struggling to see how this remains compelling after a few questions have been answered incorrectly. Still, though.

Also One and Six Zeros would be a great title for a strategic reality gameshow.

My family were quite early adopters of satellite television back in the day, and there were two things that I found especially exciting. First, getting up at 5am before school to watch start-ups from weird channels. Secondly: watch foreign gameshows. There’s no way I’d do the first these days but the second is still extremely compelling.

Anyway, basically I *loved* Sat 1, its clean look and unified presentation, and I *loved* Glücksrad and Geh Aufs Ganze in the afternoons. And one of the reasons for that was an extremely synthy signature sound of Klaus-Peter Sattler.

So I was thrilled to discover on Discord the other day that his ‘Die Musik vor Sat 1’ album has made it on to Youtube.

I think you’d struggle to call it cool in the same way Ed Welch’s slightly rockier synths of the time probably could (and I’d, probably not kill but maybe maim, for a Best of Ed Welch album, particularly as an ex-TVS child), but I kind of love it all the same.