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The Clash, the Cramps and Penny Kiley’s teenage punk diaries
Episode 903
Penny Kiley moved to Liverpool in 1976, ran into punk rock and “became the person I’d never been allowed to be”, as vividly remembered in her memoir,…
1 month, 1 week ago
Van Morrison’s agent writes crime fiction as the music business sleeps
Episode 902
In the 70s Paul Charles wrote lyrics for an Irish prog band. Now he writes mystery novels. Inbetween he’s been agent for Tom Waits, Nick Lowe, Van Mo…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Can the Michael movie reboot Jacko? & how social media changed festivals
Episode 901
This week’s news stories charge out onto the pitch but which are heading for promotion? In the running at the final whistle …
… “a ghoulish, soulless…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Andy Kershaw & Dylan’s jar of jam plus the things people do to get gigs
Episode 900
Be glad for the pod has no ending! Now in our 20th year and, this week, ruminating fondly on the following …
… the “underhand” selling of Geese
… Mor…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The story of Wild Thing and whatever happened to World Cup songs?
Episode 899
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on as we voyage to the far side this week to take a picture of …
… the Kanye West & Wireless ding-dong
… …
2 months ago
No Sex Pistols in Manchester? ‘No Smiths, Nirvana, indie rock.’ Discuss!
Episode 898
Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley read a review of the Sex Pistols in February 1976, borrowed a car, drove to London, asked the NME where they’d find th…
2 months ago
The Keith Moon story is a movie in waiting, both a comedy and a tragedy
Episode 897
The life of Keith Moon can be seen as Animal from the Muppets or as a dark, psychological odyssey. And the two co-exist in Tony Fletcher’s magnificen…
2 months ago
The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’
Episode 896
Dominic Mohan saw Britpop on the inside from the showbiz desk of the Sun in the days when it sold 4.5m copies, a series of heated memories recorded i…
2 months ago
Who hasn’t had ‘work done’, how to spot AI and the stupidest thing we ever did
Episode 895
A seasonal egg-hunt in the rock and roll backyard finds the following conversational confectionary …
.. Wild Bill Hickok? Valentino? Bob Dylan’s biza…
2 months, 1 week ago
How Tony Visconti keeps the Bowie flag flying
Episode 894
Tony Visconti left Brooklyn for London in 1967, began working with the Move and Marc Bolan and formed a life-long friendship with the teenage David B…
2 months, 1 week ago