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Do we still need film and album reviews? Plus Seymour Stein and Keith Reid’s last fandangos
Episode 518
In which we cast a warm but appraising glance in the direction of the week’s news and alight upon the following sizzling topics …
… the best media jo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Why Andrew Lauder is the unsung hero of the record business
Episode 517
Andrew Lauder started the Radar, F-Beat and Demon labels, worked at Liberty, Stiff and United Artists and signed (or licensed) and helped shape the c…
3 years, 2 months ago
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain *wrong*?
Episode 516
Whistling, clicking our heels, swinging round lampposts and lobbing the odd shiny florin to a flaxen-haired child, this week’s free-wheeling navigati…
3 years, 2 months ago
15 minutes with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: it all started on Blackpool Pier (aged two) …
Episode 515
Teenage Fanclub are touring the UK in November. Norman tells us here about some of the first and best shows he’s seen and played and life in the grou…
3 years, 3 months ago
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain wrong?
Episode 514
Whistling, clicking our heels, swinging round lampposts and lobbing the odd shiny florin to a flaxen-haired child, this week’s free-wheeling navigati…
3 years, 3 months ago
Genuinely rotten albums by brilliant artists plus the band that started cancel culture
Episode 513
Sauntering in carefree, conversational mode down the rock and roll bridleway this week, pausing briefly to lean against a tree and tootle upon a mout…
3 years, 3 months ago
For the love of Wayne Shorter & David Lindley - and are U2 really U2 without Larry Mullen?
Episode 512
Things in the crosshairs this week include …
… why it took 34 years to get De La Soul on a streaming service.
… Radio 2’s ham-fisted handling of the …
3 years, 3 months ago
Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story?
Episode 511
Karen Carpenter died 40 years ago at the age of 32, a life mapped out in a new biography by Lucy O’Brien called Lead Sister. It’s a chilling, caution…
3 years, 3 months ago
Was the pop boom of 1996-2006 a comedy or a tragedy?
Episode 510
The teenage Michael Cragg was obsessed with the “glorious shiny ludicrous pop” of the period that began with the Spice Girls, included Hear’Say, Five…
3 years, 3 months ago
What the Beatles said about the Stones plus the most expensive live music in London
Episode 509
This week’s crackling logs on the conversational fire include …
… the attractively unchanging sound of Joe Henry’s 15 albums (the man PRs still sell …
3 years, 3 months ago