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Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cake
Episode 647
Clare Grogan, a regular on our podcasts and rarely off the cover when we were at Smash Hits, is on tour again with Altered Images and playing festiva…
1 year, 11 months ago
The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are
Episode 646
Graeme is an old friend of the podcast. We’ve talked to him in the past about his books on Phil Lynott and John Martyn. ‘Under The Ivy: the Life And …
2 years ago
For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve
Episode 645
Among the logs tossed on the conversational bonfire this week to combat mid-June’s British winter you’ll find …
… ‘I Managed Van Morrison’ and other f…
2 years ago
Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock
Episode 644
Stewart Lee – beloved writer, columnist and stand-up - was on the podcast in 2022 talking about the first records he bought, immensely funny and fasc…
2 years ago
How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?
Episode 643
You’ll always find us in the kitchen at parties, near the hoppy summer ale and sausage rolls and, and this week discussing …
… he hasn't changed his …
2 years ago
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
Episode 642
“I thought Dave Davies of the Kinks was a girl. When I discovered he was a boy, that’s when I got interested.” Jon’s an old friend of the podcast and…
2 years ago
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
Episode 641
Giles was 12 when he watched Abba win Eurovision in 1974 and was instantly besotted – and thus required to spend the next 20 years wrestling with The…
2 years ago
the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
Episode 640
Peter Meaden was a key figure in the Mod movement. He changed the world view of Andrew Loog Oldham, which shaped the early Stones, and he managed the…
2 years ago
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 …
2 years 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 …
2 years ago