Block Villa Wars

From former UK dirt track racer, Wayne Drake, who emigrated to New Zealand a few years ago...

Was watching an NZ TV programme, The Block Villa Wars (not my choice!). It's a home makeover show. Four couples get a house to do up and they auction them all at the end. They are judged weekly on each room makeover/challenge etc. The screengrab is of the host awarding points in studio. I spotted a poster I thought I recognized from a few years back and an awesome evening at Oxford.

Keep up the good work. Trying to get New Zealand flat track racing but no success yet. 
Cheers Drakey

Ha! The poster is from our David Aldana Night and Short Track UK Oxford race back in 2011, designed by Adi Gilbert (before he became the artist du jour for So Cal flat track promoters).

But who put it on the set of a Kiwi primetime TV show?

And if you want to try get flat track racing started in NZ, we'll put you in touch with Drakey. G

Voice of the Mysterons

Growing up in Britain in the Sixties and early Seventies it was impossible to avoid the oft-repeated puppet-based TV series of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The most famous is undoubtedly the earlier Thunderbirds, but my favourite was always the more 'realistic' and darker Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons from 1967-68. These opening titles set the tone of threat and menace. Parents must have been driven mad by kids badgering for replacement batteries for their torches after endless re-enactions of the spooky Mysteron light rings: 'Will you pack it in! I'm trying to watch It's a Knockout'. The one to talk to about this stuff is Dave Skooter Farm. MP