These include ITV's Cosmo And Thingy, set in prehistoric times featuring a cast of cavemen and cavewomen, and Football Crazy ( also for ITV ) which was a children's sitcom about the football team Wormwood Rovers.

* Rob Crow, musician, member of Pinback and Thingy and the former math rock / indie rock pioneers Heavy Vegetable

Thingy eventually turns up just after Beryl's surprise birthday guests have arrived having made a nest for herself and her newly born litter of babies inside a large hat Beryl got as a birthday present from Sandra's mother ( Mollie Sugden ).

Additionally, Rob Crow of Pinback, Goblin Cock, Thingy, Heavy Vegetable, guest vocals for Team Sleep, as well as a myriad of other projects has grown to much popularity in the last few years.

He is best known for his involvement with the bands Pinback ( co-led by Zach Smith from Three Mile Pilot ), Heavy Vegetable, Physics, Optiganally Yours and Thingy ; in addition he has also led or leads the bands Advertising, Alpha Males, Altron Tube, Cthugha, Fantasy Mission Force, Goblin Cock, Holy Smokes, The Ladies, Other Men and Remote Action Sequence Project, as well as performing and releasing solo records under his own name and under the name Snotnose.

After being " killed " by the Thingy and denied entrance into Heaven, Longshot realizes he has lost his innocence, the main source of his luck power.

Ejected from Heaven and Mojoverse, Longshot finds himself stranded between Baum and Barrie, Kansas, pursued by the vengeful Thingy.

Groups from San Diego include The Album Leaf, Three Mile Pilot, Pinback, Thingy, The Soft Pack, The Black Heart Procession.

Froberg briefly played in Thingy before moving to New York City to pursue a career as a visual artist and illustrator, later reuniting with Reis in the Hot Snakes from 1999 to 2005.

And we called it ' Thingy.

Cardinal games included " Name That Thingy ", " Name That Critter ", " The Drench Bench ", " The Last Laugh " " Lightning Letters ", " Little Billy " and " The Secret Panel Match Up.

" Thingy is the name given to a pet hamster Beryl is given as a birthday present.

Episodes contained-Breakfast Time, Slither Wriggle and Writhe, Food for Thort, Lurkings, Gourmet's Delight, Creepy Crawly, The Big Thing, Ghoulies, The Dose, The Thingy, Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite, Fester Rancid.

Episodes contained-Breakfast Time, Slither Wriggle and Writhe, Food for Thort, Lurkings, Gourmet's Delight, Creepy Crawly, The Big Thing, Ghoulies, The Dose, The Thingy, Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite, Fester Rancid.

* Guntram's Tabletweaving Thingy, a program to design tablet weaving patterns.

He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music and dance music.

Jeepster Records was founded in 1995 by Mark Jones and Stefano D ’ Andrea, through a mutual interest in the contemporary indie scene.

The band was highly influential on the then-burgeoning punk rock and later New Wave and indie musical styles.

First Ranken then Hunt left the band, the latter going on to become singer / songwriter in an indie band called Bish, whose self-titled debut album was released in 2001.

The compilation was released by Barsuk and featured indie, alternative, and high-profile acts such as Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, and Bright Eyes.

In the premiere season of indie HBO show Girls, bohemian character Jessa Johansson ( Jemima Kirke ) was seen ordering a White Russian in a bar in the middle of the day of her planned abortion.

The dominant musical force of the period was the grunge invasion from the United States, which filled the void left in the indie scene by The Stone Roses ' inactivity.

In 1997 / 98, the 5RC label was formed as a sister label to Kill Rock Stars ; it released generally harsher-sounding and more challenging indie rock than KRS.

In January 2008, it was reported that Marr had taken part in a week-long songwriting session at Moolah Rouge recording studio in Stockport with Wakefield indie group The Cribs.

The glockenspiel was also featured in Jimi Hendrix's classic ballad " Little Wing ", Avenged Sevenfold's song " Nightmare " during the intro, as well as in indie folk music by artists such as Paul Duncan of Warm Ghost.

Motorcade was named one of the best indie releases of 1994 by Pulse !, and after a concert at the Great American Music Hall Bonnie Simmons agreed to manage the band, leading to them signing a deal with Capricorn Records, who re-released the album in 1995.

Chapel Hill was also the founding home of now defunct indie label Mammoth Records, as well as now Durham-based Merge Records.

SST went on to release a number of albums by other hardcore artists, and was described by Azerrad as " easily the most influential and popular underground indie of the Eighties.

Jacob's Mouse was a three-piece indie rock band from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.

However, West's 2007 single " Stronger " used a prominent sample from a song by the French dance-oriented electronic act Daft Punk, whose work in the 1990s and early 2000s was also becoming highly sampled and influential on the musical aesthetic of acts in other genres such as indie rock and indie dance.

The CD Everything Bad & Beautiful was critically lauded as one of her best, released by indie label Breaking Records.

Hanson was initially marketed as such a band, but eventually outgrew this label to become a successful indie band.

* David Westlake, singer / songwriter of indie band The Servants, was born in Hayes

In 1989 Norman began a distribution arrangement for Europe with Spark Music, a small Dutch indie label ," that was owned by GMI Partners, which was headed by Hans Groeneveld, that would last until 1998.

On November 7, 2006 he also produced Lumines II for PSP, the sequel to the popular original ( this time supplementing the original score with a heavy integration of music videos ), and a shooter / puzzle hybrid game called Every Extend Extra ( a heavily-modified ' synesthesia ' update to an existing PC freeware title, Every Extend ," by indie developer " Omega "), which was released on August 7, 2006.

After playing only a few shows, the band was contacted by music industry veteran Charlie Peacock and eventually signed to his indie label Re: think Records under the current moniker, Switchfoot.

Following the runaway success of The Beautiful Letdown, a compilation titled The Early Years: 1997-2000 was released, which featured Switchfoot's first three indie albums released under Re: think records including the original artwork for all the albums.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

The man was leaning against the rock.

An unusual, if not extraordinary, rendering of the classic myth that involves the rescue of Prometheus from the rock by the U.S. Cavalry was given last week in the warehouse of the Albany Leather Conduit Company amid cheers of `` Hubba hubba '' and `` Yalagaloo pip pip ''!!

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??

It was falling over her head when a branch of a bush caught it and it fell in front of her on the rock.

A 24-year-old Atlanta man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of relatives in search of his wife, hitting his uncle with a rock and assaulting two police officers who tried to subdue him, police said.

His rock was to the right of a V-shaped inlet, a big, brown, lumpy rock trailing seaweed whiskers.

His rock was special because no one on the beach could see him here.

She was holding on to his rock with one hand.

Next morning he tied a bunch of sea daisies with string and threw them across the V-shaped inlet to the rock where she was swimming around.

His handwriting was on a rock.

This style was also influenced by Western music such as rock, reggae and the funk.

There he was pegged to the rock floor, covering an area of, where a pair of vultures feasted daily on his liver.

The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of the five mile ( 8 km ) wide impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme (" star-wound ") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock can be found beneath the surface.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.

In punishment for this presumption, Poseidon split the rock with his trident and Ajax was swallowed up by the sea.

Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.

Stripped naked, she was chained to a rock on the coast.

In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.