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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
Bret McKenzie on Flight of the Conchords, Hollywood and writing songs for frogs and unicorns
Episode 793
Bret McKenzie now mainly works on movie soundtracks, the Simpsons, Minecraft and the Muppets among them, which brings the pure delight of hearing his…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Del Amitri’s Justin Currie has faced every tough crowd imaginable. Lessons were learn
Episode 792
Justin Currie recorded and toured with Del Amitri and solo for 30 years and his travelogue The Tremolo Diaries perfectly captures the rhythm of life …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Ozzy Osbourne, Jaws, the lost world of mix tapes & the movies’ most chilling moment
Episode 791
Just when you thought it was safe to listen to a weekly rock and roll podcast …
… how Black Sabbath discovered the dark side
… why Elvis went onstage…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The late Nick Drake’s manager on the nine-year project “The Making Of Five Leaves Left”
Episode 790
Cally Colomon looks after the legacy of Nick Drake, who died in 1974 but attracts new teenage admirers all the time. Here he talks to David Hepworth …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Suzi Quatro - how Dad, Elvis and Mickie Most transformed my life
Episode 789
Suzi Quatro’s been onstage from the age of 14 as the bassist in the all-girl showband the Pleasure Seekers and the rock act Cradle. And then moved to…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.
Episode 788
A rain-splashed, dub-filled, cash-scattering foray into this week’s news and events which happily lands upon …
… meeting Maddy Prior – a Prior engage…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The story of David Ackles, who never recovered from putting out “the best album ever made”.
Episode 787
Picked up in the great singer-songwriter sweep of the late 60s and signed to Elektra Records, David Ackles made four albums which went over the heads…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Kevin Rowland, Oasis, Velvet Sundown – and do we want the truth or just a good story?
Episode 786
Our patent fact-from-fiction separator goes into overdrive this week though sometimes, as Robert Wyatt observed, Ruth is stranger than Richard. High …
11 months ago
John Otway – Micro-stardom, 5,000 gigs and how to capture a crowd in 20 seconds
Episode 785
John Otway – self-billed as “Rock And Roll’s Greatest Failure” - has played 5,260 gigs in 53 years, a record possibly only beaten by BB King. There a…
11 months ago