Yup Giles Martin is on it right now – plus the extra outtakes, studio bantz and the unused orchestral overdubs

ainsley I hear you loud and clear, unlike listeners to the podcast. I am still a klutz when it comes to recording podcasts and in this case, more so as I was trying out a new mic I had bought off amazon for […]

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Wait til the dance floor is heaving and the mood is buzzing and then drop ‘River Man’ – works every time

Hot Chocolate – Everyone’s A Winner
Ike and Tina – Nutbush City Limits
Whitney Houston – I Want To Dance With Somebody
Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian
Nick Drake – Horn (Trevor Horn mix)

It’s fast becoming a village of the damned. I think Martin Scorsese should be brought in to direct

Bet there’s a commotion at the pearly gates right about now

Surely, “and lo! The internet was born”?

The sequence with ‘Hush’ was amazing too, a Scorsese-esque meld of music and motion.

Pooter for PM!

Rock will never be quite the force it was, forty or fifty odd years in all its permutations and then it’ll bed down into the broad tapestry of Western culture and stay there and something else will come along. In […]

It’s basically Mark Lewisohn on stage with some props and a screen. He proceeds to take you through the background and the songs with plenty of outtakes, diversions, digressions, amusing anecdotes and yes, that […]

I went to a run through of the Hornsey Road show the other night – Mark played excerpts from the tape. If you’re a Fabaholic, it’s quite something.

The show’s fantastic btw, well worth attending if you get the chance!

Eddie, I am the same. There is a momentary thrill of dreadful anticipation when I hear a ‘breaking news’ alert.

This is fab.

Oddly enough, unlikely sleb chums – Jeremy Deller and Mark Lewisohn

LOL

As a kid one of my first records was Abba’s Arrival. Those names on the back cover were black magic. Ola Brunkert! Lasse Wellander! Michael “B” Tretow.

We didn’t have those names in Sunbury

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