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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…
9 months, 3 weeks 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…
9 months, 3 weeks 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…
9 months, 4 weeks 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…
9 months, 4 weeks 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…
10 months ago
Peter Ames Carlin on the record that made Bruce Springsteen
Episode 798
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Friend of the pod and chronicler of the careers of Springsteen, Paul Simon and REM, Peter Ames Carlin has heard all…
10 months, 1 week ago
Jah Wobble - 40 hilarious unedited minutes interrupted by a pest control officer
Episode 797
Jah Wobble - touring in October - is outstanding company and rattles on here like a steam train, sparking off at tangents in a brilliant, barely stee…
10 months, 1 week ago
Elvis, the Colonel & how unseen letters changed Peter Guralnick’s view of their partnership
Episode 796
There’s a widely accepted view of the relationship between Elvis and his manager Tom Parker, the one sustained by the recent Baz Luhrmann movie, but …
10 months, 1 week ago
Are the Nineties the new Classic Rock? And whatever happened to comedy records?
Episode 795
Lowering the magnet of curiosity into the scrapyard of news and seeing what’s attracted, which includes …
… does anyone still write satirical songs?
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10 months, 1 week ago
The Wedding Present turns 40, memories of John Peel & ‘the only time I ever pogo-ed’
Episode 794
The Wedding Present formed 40 years ago – why does that seem astonishing? - and have a new box set and tour to celebrate. David Gedge digs out his ol…
10 months, 1 week ago