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Ettrick's music video - Ultrasound

Briefly touted as the Next Big Thing in the mid-90s, the Newcastle-based Ultrasound made one gloriously-overblown album,Everything Picture, and then messily imploded. Read

Video of the week - August 31

THEY reckon kids say and do the funniest things . . . and here’s the proof. Read

With song titles like Crash, Bang, Wallop and a be-helmeted drummer known as Whacko, Newcastle's Raven were never the subtlest of groupsto be associated with the movement known as NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) in the early 1980s. Read

Ettrick's music video - Sting

"HOW can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?", ponders Sting in this video from 1985, with the Cold War obviously weighing heavy on his Wallsend-born shoulders. Read

Video of the week - August 17

AT first glance the Huston Rockets' basketball team mascot seems like your average cuddly bear that children just love being photographed standing next to. Read

Ettrick's music video - Cheryl Tweedy

THIS week's video sees Cheryl Tweedy take her first steps towards fame as she sails through her first audition on Popstars:The Rivals. Read

Ettrick's music video - The Rolling Stones

SIR Mick Jagger became eligible for his pension recently when he reached his 65th birthday. Read

Video of the week - August 10

WITH the football season underway, and the Premiership set to kick-off next week, this week’s video is a fabulous example the sort of sportsmanship the beautiful game all too often lacks these days. Read

Video of the week - August 03

THIS week's video comes with a warning... it's not light on the shock factor. Read

Ettrick's music video - Junco Partners

THIS week's video comes courtesy of Tyneside's longest running Blues outfit, the Junco Partners, originally formed in 1964. Read

Ettrick's music video - Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

THIS week's video comes from Northumbria's Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, a folk outfit who will be battling it out with the likes of Radiohead and Adele for this year's Mercury music prize. Read

Ettrick's music video - The Animals

IN my humble opinion, Newcastle's Animals circa 1964 were vastly superior to their chart contemporaries, the Beatles and the Stones. Read

Video of the week - July 20

This week’s video definitely has the “ahhhh” factor . . . it features a cat that has adopted a baby rabbit. Read

Video of the week - July 13

FOOTBALL referee Sergei Shmolik, 43, has been suspended for allegedly being drunk while officiating a league game in Belarus... and he’s had us in stitches with his on-pitch antics. Read

Ettrick's music video - Angelic Upstarts

When I was 13, I met the singer and guitarist from Angelic Upstarts outside a record shop in Newcastle. Read

Ettrick's music video - The Slaughterhaus

THIS week's video is a real obscurity, from a band that never actually released any records. Read

Video of the week - July 08

THIS week's video features a family pet that's a true Ali cat . . . a Muhammad Ali cat, that is! Read

Ettrick's music video - Venom

WALLSEND'S finest collection of brutal metal-heads, their classic, early 80s line up of Cronos, Mantas and Abaddon - or Conrad, Jeff and Tony to their Mums - went on to spawn a whole new Genre - Black Metal. Read

Video of the week - June 29

This incredible video of daredevil Dan Osman in action is a real cliffhanger . . . literally. Read

Video of the week - June 21

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