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The Who, Floyd, Led Zep and the great college circuit that launched 1,000 bands
Episode 908
Cheap tickets, warm beer, draughty halls and refectories, a whole new cobbled-together rock circuit was born in the ‘60s for an audience who watched …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Paul Simon, Bad Bunny, how songwriting changed & the scourge of Blue Dot Fever!
Episode 907
It’s polling day for this week’s news and these are the stories that got our vote …
... Pussycat Dolls, Meghan Trainor and how ‘Blue Dot Fever’ is wr…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Pleasure Gardens, cabaret, nightclubs, rave & 350 years of the Big Night Out
Episode 906
Mass commercial nightlife began in a Japanese Pleasure Garden in 1657 and it’s blossomed ever since – via Victorian Vauxhall, cabaret Paris, jazz-dri…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Andy Earl’s memories of photographing Prince, Madonna and Johnny Cash
Episode 905
Andy Earl helped create the new dawn of colour photography in the ‘80s pop video age and went on to shoot a series of unforgettable portraits, album …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Talk Talk, a deep-dive tale of mystery and imagination
Episode 904
Talk Talk made just five albums, all written and recorded unconventionally and no-one’s entirely sure how they did it. And in the last two decades of…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Clash, the Cramps and Penny Kiley’s teenage punk diaries
Episode 903
Penny Kiley moved to Liverpool in 1976, ran into punk rock and “became the person I’d never been allowed to be”, as vividly remembered in her memoir,…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Van Morrison’s agent writes crime fiction as the music business sleeps
Episode 902
In the 70s Paul Charles wrote lyrics for an Irish prog band. Now he writes mystery novels. Inbetween he’s been agent for Tom Waits, Nick Lowe, Van Mo…
5 months ago
Can the Michael movie reboot Jacko? & how social media changed festivals
Episode 901
This week’s news stories charge out onto the pitch but which are heading for promotion? In the running at the final whistle …
… “a ghoulish, soulless…
5 months ago
Andy Kershaw & Dylan’s jar of jam plus the things people do to get gigs
Episode 900
Be glad for the pod has no ending! Now in our 20th year and, this week, ruminating fondly on the following …
… the “underhand” selling of Geese
… Mor…
5 months, 1 week ago
The story of Wild Thing and whatever happened to World Cup songs?
Episode 899
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on as we voyage to the far side this week to take a picture of …
… the Kanye West & Wireless ding-dong
… …
5 months, 2 weeks ago