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Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span drove Rev Gary Davis round Britain in a Triumph Herald
Episode 808
Maddy Prior – folk royalty, an absolute hero of ours – is touring with Steeleye Span again this autumn 66 years after they started, a life someone sh…
1 year ago
Why reviews lost their sting - and what matters more, the song or the record?
Episode 807
Our pencil-chewing, critical assessment of this week’s news gets mainly * and *** reviews, among them …
…. Sting v Summers & Copeland over Every Brea…
1 year, 1 month ago
Debsey Wykes of Dolly Mixture wants you to read her teenage diary
Episode 806
Debsey Wykes was in Dolly Mixture, one of the very few all-girl groups in post-punk London, a time when bands with charisma won the battle for attent…
1 year, 1 month ago
Singers’ vast egos explained and what’s the real definition of ‘a fan’?
Episode 805
A tub-thumping, snare-cracking, cymbal-simmering, two-way backbeat to this week’s rock and roll news, the on-beats including …
… “Trauma-bonding?” Wh…
1 year, 1 month ago
Neil Hannon - the Divine Comedy, the Father Ted saga & nights at the Indie Disco
Episode 804
How can you not love the Divine Comedy whose inspirations include Tom Lehrer and “Landfill Indie”? And Neil Hannon wrote music for Wonka, Father Ted …
1 year, 1 month ago
Tanita Tikaram - from ‘girl with guitar in bedroom’ to Hammersmith Odeon in six months
Episode 803
Tanita Tikaram’s second gig had an audience of three – one paying customer and two concert promoters. When one of them wanted to talk to her afterwar…
1 year, 1 month ago
Bob Mould remembers Hüsker Dü, Sugar & that guy with the hipster moustache
Episode 802
Bob Mould, whose records with Hüsker Dü had such impact on Nirvana and Pixies, is back on tour again, both solo and with a band. “I’ve built this tin…
1 year, 1 month ago
Comedy records, TV gold & have Oasis and Coldplay hoovered up all the cash?
Episode 801
Damping down the wildfires of rock and roll news this week we focus on the following …
… Oasis, Taylor Swift and Coldplay and the new age of Winner T…
1 year, 1 month ago
Brian Protheroe on the eternal life of his 1974 hit “Pinball”
Episode 800
Paul Weller has just covered it on his new album. Morrissey played it to Noel Gallagher who took the idea and ran with it. What explains the enduring…
1 year, 1 month ago
Terry Reid, the man who really invented Led Zeppelin, & guitar fetishism
Episode 799
Other, weaker podcasts may take the summer off. Not this one.
…the story of Jerry Garcia’s alligator strat, Paul McCartney’s violin bass and the instr…
1 year, 1 month ago