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An Insider’s Guide To Goth by Cathi Unsworth (via Cruella De Vil and the Cure)
Episode 563
Crime novelist Cathi Unsworth turned Goth in her teens in rural Norfolk fired by a cocktail of Dennis Wheatley, the Damned on the Peel show and the d…
2 years, 3 months ago
Nick Drake – a whole new perspective by Richard Morton Jack
Episode 562
Richard Morton Jack interviewed over 200 people when assembling what’s unquestionably the best, most colourful, comprehensive, revealing and accurate…
2 years, 3 months ago
Gary Numan, unlikely sex symbols and U2’s £1,000 night in the desert
Episode 561
Spice-filled items tossed into the conversational cooking-pot this week include:-
… our charming encounter with Gary Numan, possibly the world’s most…
2 years, 3 months ago
Does Gary Numan regret throwing the glo-stick that hit David Bowie?
Episode 560
Gary Numan is about to set out on a UK acoustic tour, some of it in churches and one date in a cathedral. He talks here - from the Scottish estate ho…
2 years, 3 months ago
Why a sumptuous new book about the Island label is “like entering the record shop of your dreams”.
Episode 559
Neil Storey is an old pal from our magazine days who worked in the press office at Island. He looked after U2, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, the B-52’s an…
2 years, 3 months ago
Mojo’s 30th birthday plus bands whose t-shirts you’d wear even if you didn’t have any of their records
Episode 558
Both of us were involved in the launch of Mojo 30 years ago in the autumn of 1993 and we dug out our copies of the first issue. As editor Paul Du Noy…
2 years, 3 months ago
The “unknown woman” in McCartney’s photos, the Human League and a new U2 game
Episode 557
This week’s pod was recorded just after we saw ‘Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm’ at London’s National Portrait Gallery, a warm …
2 years, 4 months ago
Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick takes the long view of Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Macca and more
Episode 556
David Remnick got his Pulitzer for his reporting on Russia. These days he edits The New Yorker, in which capacity he has had close encounters with so…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Stones return, rock’n’roll marriages and Freddie’s 50 kimonos
Episode 555
Recorded together in Mark Ellen’s attic! Among the conversational footballs booted round the park this week you’ll find:-
… Freddie’s “exquisite clut…
2 years, 4 months ago
Plaid shirts? Brown ale? A smoke-stained pub rock special with Simon Matthews
Episode 554
Fired by the rock and roll revival of 1970 and a post-Easy Rider taste for American music, a circuit of some 35 London pubs filled with bands playing…
2 years, 4 months ago