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Mary Coughlan, onstage from the age of five - ‘Applause and lemonade!’
Episode 859
Mary Coughlan – aka “Ireland’s Billie Holiday”, adored by Nick Cave, Shane MacGowan and Elvis Costello - is on tour again in 2026. This warm, funny a…
3 months ago
Pet Shop Boys at 40, missing folk star found! & rock stars’ childhood bedrooms
Episode 858
‘January,’ a revered pop lyricist once wrote, ‘sick and tired you've been hanging on me.’ And if that’s the mood down your way, this might help crank…
3 months ago
From Dylan to Chappell Roan, pop’s 60-year obsession with Brigitte Bardot
Episode 857
Cartwheeling into 2026 with the usual cast of rock and roll heroes and pantomime villains. Behind you this week you’ll find …
… Boy George? Rick Wake…
3 months, 1 week ago
Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator and what makes them unique
Episode 856
Peter Hammill has spent nearly six decades building the most devoted following imaginable – Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Mark E Smith among them. ‘Rock A…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Do all panned albums end up loved? And what’s the most significant record sleeve?
Episode 855
Deck the halls with cheese and Bolly! … and a dish of the usual rock and roll distraction which this week throws the following logs on the fire …
… t…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Paul Kelly – ‘national treasure!’ - and the song that took 30 years
Episode 854
Beloved Australian songwriter Paul Kelly has just turned 70 – “it sounds Biblical, threescore years and ten.” He looks back here at the road he took …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Lucinda Williams is fighting on every front
Episode 853
Lucinda Williams was a teenage activist singing We Shall Overcome at protest marches and she’s taken up the cudgels again on her new album World’s Go…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Beastie Boys, Frankie, teds, punks, raves - ‘moral panics’ remembered!
Episode 852
Shock, horror, public outcry and moments of moral turpitude plus with the usual news, rants and old hokum, which this week alights upon …
… why Gene …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Punk Rock recalled by Chris Sullivan - can music STILL be outrageous?
Episode 851
What’s the word ‘punk’ come to mean 50 years later? It’s been adopted by the very people it sought to unsettle. Chris Sullivan – DJ, club runner, lec…
4 months ago
UK Subs’ Charlie Harper (81) has served 50 years in the punk wars. Give this man a medal!
Episode 850
UK Subs formed in 1976 when Charlie Harper was 32. They’ve had over 80 members, some of whom he can’t remember. They never split up and are touring i…
4 months ago