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Nick Lowe’s miracle payday, Rock feuds and a giant inflatable Jarvis
Episode 913
Panning for gold in the murky waters of this week’s news, we found the following …
… is Sabrina Carpenter’s aunt the voice of Bart Simpson?
… is punk…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Damned at 50 and the memories (and regrets) of Rat Scabies
Episode 912
The Damned are – yes! - 50 years old with three of the originals still onboard. And just starting a world tour. In this immensely funny and touching …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Shoegaze, slackers, ‘noise chasms’ and the 10-year reinvention of rock
Episode 911
A whole new age of psychedelia kicked off in the mid-‘80s, of dream-weavers and glorious underachievers, a complete rejection of the standard rock ap…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Famous rock locations, His & Hers records and weird things thrown onstage
Episode 910
This week’s news gets a thorough shake-down to see what falls out of its pockets. Which includes …
… cupcakes, mobiles, rubber ducks, a dead swan: we…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Brian Eno’s restless creative adventures with Roxy, Bowie, U2 and Talking Heads
Episode 909
For nearly 60 years, Brian Eno has been a “proud non-musician” who changed the way people thought and sounded while inventing whole new ways of recor…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
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 …
1 month 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…
1 month 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…
1 month 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 …
1 month, 1 week 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…
1 month, 1 week ago