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What bands are becoming unfashionable?
Episode 532
This week’s rock and roll gumbo includes the following spicy and nutritious ingredients …
… “the internet is designed to let middle-aged men think th…
3 years, 4 months ago
Which is the most two-faced world - movies, music or daytime TV?
Episode 531
Fond and appraising enquiry of recent events, this week featuring …
… we now feel we have to approve of artists/musicians/writers before we can say w…
3 years, 4 months ago
Farewell Tina Turner – “all you needed was Nutbush City Limits and a Watneys Party 7”
Episode 530
A special extra podcast recorded just after hearing the news. We can barely remember a time when we weren’t aware of her. This looks back at the Ike …
3 years, 4 months ago
Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis
Episode 529
Put through the boil-wash of enquiry and hung upon the washing line of truth this week you’ll find the following one-size-fits-all garments …
… which…
3 years, 4 months ago
Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?
Episode 528
Further nutritious items on the pod’s tasting menu this week include …
… the story of Tubular Bells and how the Exorcist sent its sales through the r…
3 years, 4 months ago
How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
Episode 527
Where the Gold Bracelets of Sincerity and Wisdom and the Rod of Equity and Mercy meet the piping hot music news agenda in a weekly podcast and alight…
3 years, 5 months ago
Groups that look like a check-out line at B&Q? We have a winner!
Episode 526
Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week you’ll find …
… the most unprepossessing rock band on God’s green earth.
… Ed Shee…
3 years, 5 months ago
“Well I walked up to her and I asked her if she wanted to dance.”
Episode 525
Items run up the flagpole this week include …
… our memories of the exquisite agony of teenage dances, especially Dave’s at the Mecca Ballroom in Wak…
3 years, 5 months ago
Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onstage
Episode 524
Dipping our shrimping nets this week into the ever-bountiful rock and roll rock pool we find …
… Dylan, Madonna, Pharrell Williams, Michael Jackson, …
3 years, 5 months ago
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…
3 years, 5 months ago