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Has any actor played a rock star convincingly?
Episode 454
Framed in the piercing super-trouper of perusal this week …
The highs and lows of Danny Boyle’s new Sex Pistols biopic.
The best in-car music for roa…
3 years, 7 months ago
You spent HOW MUCH on speakers?
Episode 453
This week we've been mainly talking about....
Could The Smile be the first side-project to eclipse the mothership?
Is the kitchen the place we mainly l…
3 years, 7 months ago
Can bands still “sell out”? - plus 50 years of Exile On Main Street and RIP the iPod
Episode 452
Entertainments, thrills and diversions at the end of the rock and roll seaside pier this week include …
Things we want to see in a Bob Dylan museum.
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3 years, 8 months ago
The world’s rarest records and the sartorial splendour of the satin tour jacket
Episode 451
The dazzling super trouper of gentle enquiry is trained this week upon:-
Our recent encounter with John Lydon – his high viz shirt, his smoking habit…
3 years, 8 months ago
Kate Rusby (12) bought Bon Jovi tapes on hire purchase from Casa Disco in Barnsley
Episode 450
Folk deity, songwriter and festival figurehead, Kate Rusby was raised on Planxty and De Dannan but staged a rebellion with Smash Hits and “storytelli…
3 years, 8 months ago
It’s our fantasy seven-decade Queen’s Jubilee line -up!
Episode 449
… which may or may not feature Noel Coward, Slade, the KLF and the Spice Girls.
Other key items in pursuit of entertainment this week include:-
When …
3 years, 8 months ago
You’re either a t-shirt act or a non t-shirt act: discuss
Episode 448
White-hot topics examined this week include:-
The sweeping return of Britpop (Shed Seven, Reverend and the Makers, how did they get so huge?)
Has Nic…
3 years, 8 months ago
Which band played the Old Grey Whistle Test and was then completely forgotten?
Episode 447
Among the key questions being booted round the block this week in hot pursuit of entertainment:-
Why is the billing of the Rolling Stones as just “St…
3 years, 9 months ago
‘Streaming Killed the Skit Track’ plus Toastface Grillah and the Sgt Peppermill
Episode 446
Among the delights this week:-
Pink Floyd’s single for Ukraine (the best peace anthem ever?) and the song Bruce Springsteen played the night Saddam H…
3 years, 9 months ago
We spot Will “Slapper” Smith’s biggest mistake at the Oscars and salute Ben Sidran’s foot
Episode 445
Will Smith did something at the Academy Awards which showed what he cared about most - did you notice it too? Our blow-by-blow account of the moment …
3 years, 9 months ago