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John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”
Episode 523
The “bargain basement Baudelaire” is setting out on a UK tour in April and tells Mark Ellen here about the earliest shows he saw and played, memories…
2 years, 9 months ago
“Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the Velvet Underground
Episode 522
This week’s trawl of the rock and roll outer limits alights, among others, on the following sizzling hot topics …
... a lost Beatles tape and the nig…
2 years, 9 months ago
The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies
Episode 521
“Being on tour with King Crimson,” in the words of their film director, “is like being with the school rugby team and, at the last minute, the games …
2 years, 9 months ago
Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"
Episode 520
Paul Weller’s been writing songs for 50 years now and he’s chosen over 100 of his lyrics for the new and gorgeous, picture-packed publication ‘Paul W…
2 years, 9 months ago
What’s Paul Jones of the Manfreds learnt from 60 years onstage?
Episode 519
The Manfreds start their 60th Anniversary Tour in September with Paul, Mike D’Abo and Tom McGuinnness in the line-up. He talks to us here about the f…
2 years, 9 months ago
Do we still need film and album reviews? Plus Seymour Stein and Keith Reid’s last fandangos
Episode 518
In which we cast a warm but appraising glance in the direction of the week’s news and alight upon the following sizzling topics …
… the best media jo…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why Andrew Lauder is the unsung hero of the record business
Episode 517
Andrew Lauder started the Radar, F-Beat and Demon labels, worked at Liberty, Stiff and United Artists and signed (or licensed) and helped shape the c…
2 years, 9 months ago
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain *wrong*?
Episode 516
Whistling, clicking our heels, swinging round lampposts and lobbing the odd shiny florin to a flaxen-haired child, this week’s free-wheeling navigati…
2 years, 9 months ago
15 minutes with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: it all started on Blackpool Pier (aged two) …
Episode 515
Teenage Fanclub are touring the UK in November. Norman tells us here about some of the first and best shows he’s seen and played and life in the grou…
2 years, 9 months ago
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain wrong?
Episode 514
Whistling, clicking our heels, swinging round lampposts and lobbing the odd shiny florin to a flaxen-haired child, this week’s free-wheeling navigati…
2 years, 10 months ago