Kevin Rowland, Oasis, Velvet Sundown – and do we want the truth or just a good story?
Our patent fact-from-fiction separator goes into overdrive this week though sometimes, as Robert Wyatt observed, Ruth is stranger than Richard. High in the mix …
… FOMO (Fear Of Missing Oasis), Gen Z’s love of queuing and has there ever been a greater outpouring of joy at a band reunion?
…what’s the greatest musical city?
… Kevin Rowland – cheat, burglar, arsonist, menswear salesman – and his capacity for self-sabotage.
… the harder to get tickets, the more people feel compelled to go.
… Kylie Minogue is a year older than Jacob Rees-Mogg!
… the best album to come out of New Orleans.
… memoirs you can read as either comedy or tragedy.
… Ed Sheeran turns Ipswich pink.
… the Salt Path saga and the pursuit of profit over truth.
… Mirrors In The Smoke, Dust On The Wind, Echoes Through the Pines: spot the AI-generated song title!
… the Beatles’ Tree in Chiswick: let’s keep local landmarks a secret!
… John Otway’s 5,300 gigs: the hardest working man in showbiz.
… and birthday guest Patrick Butler and cities with the greatest legacy – Liverpool, Birmingham, Nashville, New York, Chicago, New Orleans?
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Word In Your Ear
Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.
Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience.
Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com.
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