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The genius of Sly Dunbar & Catherine O’Hara plus Springsteen’s anthem and old New York
Episode 868
A bone-shaking ride on the weekly news cycle, stopping off here to pump up the tyres ….
… Springsteen’s Streets Of Minneapolis: it’s not what he said…
8 months ago
Adele Bertei, New York’s art-rock explosion and Eno’s shopping list
Episode 867
Adele Bertei got a Greyhound to New York in 1977 intent on joining a band. James Chance thought she “looked like a pimp” and hired her as the organis…
8 months ago
Steve Lillywhite produced the Stones, U2, Siouxsie, XTC - ‘the last leg of the relay’
Episode 866
Steve Lillywhite first got a foot in the studio door aged 17 making demos for Ultravox and became a producer with credits on over 500 records. He doe…
8 months ago
Who’d be a nepo baby? plus the mystery album that outsold the Beatles
Episode 865
Scanning the baggage carousel of news to see what sets off the alarm, which this week involves …
… Springsteen: why is America’s most American Amer…
8 months ago
Simon Nicol of Fairport Convention, back in the van with a bag of toffees
Episode 864
Fairport tour again in 2026 and are playing their annual Cropredy Convention in August, its 50th year. The rolling Kent landscape behind him, co-foun…
8 months, 1 week ago
Miles Hunt of the Wonder Stuff - ‘I’d rather make people laugh than applaud’
Episode 863
Miles Hunt is on tour in 2026 – solo, with Vent 414 and the Wonder Stuff - and looks back here at his 40 years on stage, which involves …
… stifling …
8 months, 1 week ago
Kenney Jones remembers the Small Faces’ masterpiece
Episode 862
Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake is being reissued on Kenney Jones’ Nice Records, along with unheard outtakes discovered when the original master was found in …
8 months, 1 week ago
The fabulous Bob Weir and how the Grateful Dead invented the internet
Episode 861
A tie-dyed-in-the-wool rock & roll space odyssey to infinity and beyond which stops off this week at …
… why the Dead’s music was “like lighting a ma…
8 months, 1 week ago
Steve Cradock on Ocean Colour Scene, Mod hair & the ghost of Ronnie Lane
Episode 860
Steve Cradock’s touring with Ocean Colour Scene in 2026 and in his own show, Travellers Tunes, with his wife and son Steve – “we’re like the Von Trap…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
8 months, 2 weeks ago