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Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
Episode 639
This week the conversational Super-Trouper of Enquiry lights up the following …
... why care when "rock critics get it wrong"?
... the dreadful death …
1 year, 10 months ago
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
Episode 638
Tuning into this week's rock and roll soundwave to filter signal from noise, we cranked up the volume on the following ...
... 'Zuma Nester Rock' and …
1 year, 10 months ago
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
Episode 637
They Might Be Giants – old school fiends John Flansburgh and John Linnell – have been making elliptical, funny and adventurous records for over 40 ye…
1 year, 10 months ago
Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
Episode 636
Guy Chambers was a teenager in Liverpool and at John Lennon’s old school - "same headmaster, Mister Pobjoy". He remembers the Beatles, Queen, Abba an…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
Episode 635
We’ve known Alan Edwards since the days when we’d ring him for a quote from Blondie or the Stranglers in the late ‘70s and he’s still one of the key …
1 year, 10 months ago
Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
Episode 634
This week’s items slapped on the rock and roll barbecue and lightly grilled include …
… why Eurovision will never avoid political controversy.
… when…
1 year, 10 months ago
Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.
Episode 633
We’ve followed Paul Carrack for 50 years, a big hit single – How Long – when he was with Ace, 19 albums, countless sessions (the Smiths, Eagles and P…
1 year, 11 months ago
Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
Episode 632
Nige Tassell used to go to school in full donkey-jacket-and-woolly-hat ensemble to express his boundless devotion to Dexys Midnight Runners. Forty ye…
1 year, 11 months ago
Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
Episode 631
Missing being on tour and exasperated by internal disputes, Nick Mason set out to tour small-scale venues with his band Saucerful Of Secrets in 2018.…
1 year, 11 months ago
Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
Episode 630
We were at the Curzon Mayfair on May 7 for the premier of the rebooted Let It Be in all its burnished finery and came away with a ton of things to un…
1 year, 11 months ago