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Miles Hunt of the Wonder Stuff - ‘I’d rather make people laugh than applaud’
Episode 863
Miles Hunt is on tour in 2026 – solo, with Vent 414 and the Wonder Stuff - and looks back here at his 40 years on stage, which involves …
… stifling …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Kenney Jones remembers the Small Faces’ masterpiece
Episode 862
Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake is being reissued on Kenney Jones’ Nice Records, along with unheard outtakes discovered when the original master was found in …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The fabulous Bob Weir and how the Grateful Dead invented the internet
Episode 861
A tie-dyed-in-the-wool rock & roll space odyssey to infinity and beyond which stops off this week at …
… why the Dead’s music was “like lighting a ma…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Steve Cradock on Ocean Colour Scene, Mod hair & the ghost of Ronnie Lane
Episode 860
Steve Cradock’s touring with Ocean Colour Scene in 2026 and in his own show, Travellers Tunes, with his wife and son Steve – “we’re like the Von Trap…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Mary Coughlan, onstage from the age of five - ‘Applause and lemonade!’
Episode 859
Mary Coughlan – aka “Ireland’s Billie Holiday”, adored by Nick Cave, Shane MacGowan and Elvis Costello - is on tour again in 2026. This warm, funny a…
5 months ago
Pet Shop Boys at 40, missing folk star found! & rock stars’ childhood bedrooms
Episode 858
‘January,’ a revered pop lyricist once wrote, ‘sick and tired you've been hanging on me.’ And if that’s the mood down your way, this might help crank…
5 months ago
From Dylan to Chappell Roan, pop’s 60-year obsession with Brigitte Bardot
Episode 857
Cartwheeling into 2026 with the usual cast of rock and roll heroes and pantomime villains. Behind you this week you’ll find …
… Boy George? Rick Wake…
5 months, 1 week ago
Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator and what makes them unique
Episode 856
Peter Hammill has spent nearly six decades building the most devoted following imaginable – Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Mark E Smith among them. ‘Rock A…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Do all panned albums end up loved? And what’s the most significant record sleeve?
Episode 855
Deck the halls with cheese and Bolly! … and a dish of the usual rock and roll distraction which this week throws the following logs on the fire …
… t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Paul Kelly – ‘national treasure!’ - and the song that took 30 years
Episode 854
Beloved Australian songwriter Paul Kelly has just turned 70 – “it sounds Biblical, threescore years and ten.” He looks back here at the road he took …
5 months, 3 weeks ago