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Word In Your Attic 65 (audio version) – Broadcaster and author Simon Mayo: rare sighting of ceramic Monty Python promotional foot

August 16, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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

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QUIZ LEADERBOARD 14.8.20

August 16, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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) […]

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Word Classic Podcast 010 – ah, the endless joy of rock stars’ kids’ names (Thor, Lux, Jermajesty) …

August 16, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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) […]

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Word Podcast 339 – David’s day at Donna Summer’s house

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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 […]

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Word Podcast 339 (audio-visual version) – David’s day at Donna Summer’s house

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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 […]

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Word In Your Attic 64 (audio version) – Rob Chapman: and which rock legend sent him this postcard?

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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

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Word In Your Attic 63 (audio version) – Ed Needham: yes it’s Morrissey by Vic Reeves (not for sale)

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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 […]

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A Word In Your Ear crowdcast event – Joe Banks on Hawkwind: to infinity … and beyond!

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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 […]

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Word Classic Podcast 009 – the chilling tale of Chrissie Hynde and the paté de foie gras

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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 […]

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FRIDAY NIGHT QUIZ LEADERBOARD – 7TH AUGUST 2020

August 13, 2020 WIYELondon 0

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 […]

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Martin Simpson’s 60 years on the folk circuit ‘making people cry for a living’
byMark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Martin Simpson got backstage when he was 15 and met Jimmy Reed and Big Joe Williams and it changed his life forever. He’s been on the folk circuit ever since, still at the top of his game and with the wealth of knowledge and experience reflected in this extremely entertaining podcast. His ‘Some Kind Of Jubilee’ album celebrates 50 years since his first record and he’s on tour in September. And talks to us here about …

 

… his operatic Dad born in the 19th Century

 

… the message carved with a knife on the door of the Bodmin Trad Music Club

 

 … hearing Paul Robeson aged four and thinking “I want to make people cry for a living”

 

… ‘60s folk circuit snobbery and its disdain for “foreign songs”

 

… signing Big Joe Williams’ walking stick in a space between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez

 

… memories of Alex Campbell, Matin Carthy, Dave & Jo Ann Kelly and “that swarthy bunch of lunatics from Hull, the Watersons”

 

… the Nun & Ice Cream Cone, the Frog & Afterbirth: imaginary pub venues cooked up with June Tabor

 

… being managed by Tony Secunda, “an extremely unpleasant human being”

 

… “the only damage you can do to a folk song is to not sing it”

 

… supporting Steeleye Span and the night cash rained from the heavens

 

… Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right, These Days by Jackson Browne, Mississippi John Hurt and other songs that never let you down onstage

 

 … second-lining at a New Orleans jazz funeral: “the slow drag and the racing return”

 

… and how folk songs travel abroad and evolve.  

 

Order copies of ‘Some Kind Of Jubilee’ here: https://martinsimpsonmusic.com/pre-order-the-new-album/

 

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