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Scala Radio daytime host, podcaster, author – crime thriller Knife Edge just out! – and old pal Simon Mayo on his 1980 copy of Smash […]

1. MATT BUTTON (12 points) 2. PHIL KINDERMANN (10) 3. DARAGH O’HALLORAN (9) 4. Andrew Boland (8) 5. Andrew Slattery (7) 6. David Cummings (6) […]

In which David joins a Phil Collins motorcade, a $10m private party secures Aerosmith, Tom Petty, 50 Cent and the Eagles, TV (aka the Sopranos) […]

In which we applaud the great rock and roll name changes (eg the late Wayne Fontana), get unsettled by ‘Stan’ culture and over-zealous Taylor Swift […]

In which we applaud the great rock and roll name changes (eg the late Wayne Fontana), get unsettled by ‘Stan’ culture and over-zealous Taylor Swift […]

Music writer Rob Chapman – his fantastic memoir ‘Ad Lib: Repeat To Fade’ just out – flashes back to a world of Guards cigarettes, a […]

Old pal and one-time Rolling Stone managing editor Ed Needham on his letter from Bono, the magic of ABC’s Lexicon Of Love, mysterious discs hidden […]

Word In Your Ear is thrilled to be launching a series of live music author interviews you can join online (and ask questions if you […]

In which we name the best-sounding record on radio, bemoan the irritating new vogue for taking iPhone pictures at gigs, note that global warming is […]

1. MATT BUTTON (12 points) 2=. PHIL KINDERMANN, DARAGH O’HALLORAN (9 apiece) 3. ANDREW BOLAND (8) 4. David Cummings (6) 5=. Andrew Slattery, Ian Stewart […]