Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024

We’ve applied our celebrated sheep/goats separation technique to the rock and roll pasture and shepherded the following into this week’s pod …

… Beyoncé and why it’s hard to connect with songs written by committee.

… are we too old for biopics?

… Marvel films, the Arctic Monkeys and other things you either love or avoid.  

… reviewing Human Touch and Lucky Town in a high-security studio (and how you can only tell if an album’s any good if you’ve lived with it for two months).

… why Tony Blackburn is the greatest British DJ.

… “Bing was no more Bing than Sinatra was Sinatra”.

… hoary old tales that were the engine of the rock press - the Clash shooting pigeons, Kevin Rowland stealing his own master-tapes, Cliff v Elvis, Beatles v Stones, Hendrix v Clapton, Bowie v Bolan, Clash v the Pistols, Spandau v Duran, Oasis v Blur.

… are Oasis songs mostly about being Oasis?

… “fame is no longer enacted in the public space”.

… indie cliches – escaping the drudgery of the Man and mundanity of Small Town life.

… “the harder I practice, the luckier I get”.

… Scots punk act get movie soundtrack windfall!

… Alex is arranging a woke stag do - “you go to places where ladies put clothes ON”.

… plus birthday guest Andrew Newbury wonders if Country is more than “the three Ds - driving, dogs and divorce”.

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