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Strokes producer Gordon Raphael on the serendipitous creation of 'Is This It'
Episode 489
Gordon Raphael was the sonic architect of arguably the two most important and influential albums of the noughties - The Strokes' 'Is This It' and its…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jet Black, exotic Americans and Oscar Hammerstein’s joke
Episode 488
In which we boldly tackle the burning issues des nos jours in our restless forage for entertainment. Nutritious items on the tasting menu this week i…
3 years, 4 months ago
Word Down Your Way: Danny Baker with a taste of his thunderous one-man stand-up circus, back on the road in 2023
Episode 487
Danny’s done two hysterically funny, cartwheeling canters round the UK in the last few years and sets out again in February for 49 nights with ‘At La…
3 years, 4 months ago
Stories Christine McVie told us - including “Freddie King fixed my puncture”
Episode 486
In which the piercing searchlight of conversational scrutiny points in the direction of …
… Christine McVie’s early adventures, our burning love for …
3 years, 4 months ago
Phil Jump tells the story of the legendary Badlands - and the day he took Steve Van Zandt to Brian Jones’s grave
Episode 485
Phil and his brother Steven started a market stall in Cheltenham in the mid-‘80s and made enough money selling rare records to open the world-famous …
3 years, 4 months ago
A farewell to Wilko – “Dr Feelgood didn’t play the music, the music played them.”
Episode 484
… in which we remember watching and talking to the magnificent Wilko Johnson and look back at extraordinary moments in his life – the hippie trail to…
3 years, 4 months ago
Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking glass”
Episode 483
Ken’s a world authority and he’s been on the pod twice before, talking about his books about George Martin and the last days of John Lennon. He’s jus…
3 years, 4 months ago
If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?
Episode 482
Further free-wheeling conversational detours include …
… “like the consequences of mating Patti Smith with a Hoover vacuum cleaner”: barbed reviews i…
3 years, 4 months ago
Dylan’s love letters and the one album that never lets you down
Episode 481
Things run up the flagpole this week in pursuit of entertainment …
… Irish/American punk rock group or 19th Century criminal gang?
… the eternal depe…
3 years, 5 months ago
Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other matters of high import
Episode 480
On the radar this week in an enquiring, celebratory or goat-getting capacity …
… has the World Cup balloon already been unmendably punctured?
… and i…
3 years, 5 months ago