Episodes
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Tom and Charlie are joined by their good friend Simon to discuss some of the sounds and songs they remember from the early '90s
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We take a look back at the bills for Reading Festivals of 1991, '92, '93 and '94 and explore the bands whose names we recognise, but maybe weren't aware of their oeuvre. Tune in to find out who we selected.
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Innuendo, filth, boundary-pushing sleazy, sleazy sex songs... selected and spoken about by two middled-aged English men. An oxymoron? Well, that's for you to judge.
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Tom & Charlie discuss the beautiful moment when an album announces itself.
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This week Tom and Charlie are joined by a real, live American: Sean Fox. They discuss the album-oriented rock genre that became a staple of the 1970s and enjoyed a resurgence in the '90s
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Blistering first singles from new artists and others launching new incarnations
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We get the band back together: Jim, Tom, Charlies Stix and Beall (at least one of whom is streaming from the heart of Berlin) to pen another love letter to the city that inspired us all in different ways.
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Axe Gods, plectrum plunderers, slashers of the six-stringed beast... we're talking guitarists and guitar parts.
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Tom and Charlie welcome Mark Sturdy to the virtual studio to discuss music inspired by and made in the great city of Sheffield.
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The first of our love letters to the city of Berlin, a city that inspired many of our favourite artists and was the back-drop to Seeing Scarlet's album Laughter in the Dark
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Go West... and you'll find Country Music... and so will we. It's not a genre we're experts in but we're beginning a voyage of discovery. Please join us
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Songs don't always give up their best bits at the start, sometimes they build up over time. Others have propulsive, driving energies that move them forward. Sometimes they do both. Tom, Charlie and Jim pick their favourite builders and drivers
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Tom, Charlie, Jim and Mick talk chords - sequences, changes... instrumentation and harmonies that create dynamic changes in songs... the difference between a chord and a key change. It's not as technical as it sounds, though we have a few sound issues of our own.
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We continue our exploration into how songs change, evolve and morph into different versions of one another. We take examples from Bowie and Grunge and do a deep dive into one of our own songs, Music Will Save You to see how songs change over time
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In this episode we consider how songs become different songs, how one song can change over the course of its life and how tempo makes a massive difference to the success of a song
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Of course, we wish we'd written every great song we ever play, but there are songs that are perfect for the kind of band you are and the kind of music you play. There are songs that would suit your playing style or vocal range. And then there are songs you'd just love to play, over and over again.
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We're in the mood for love! Tom and Charlie gloss quickly over another mammoth subject, giving a sprinkle of their own opinion laced with memories and a couple of personal tracks.
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A continuation of the previous episode talking about bands in 'The Scene' - this episode features songs from Mystery Jets, Guillemots, Miss Black America, Battle, Librium and The Cling
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For every musician and every band there's a scene: shared gigs, rivalries and borrowings. For us it happened in London in the early 2000s around rock and indie music. In this first episode on 'The Scene', Tom, Charlie and Stix look back on some of those scene setters....
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Tom and Charlie dig into songs from talented individuals with great voices and a knack for a tune. They also discover that the term singer songwriter is hard to define - it's more than a single woman or man at a piano or a guitar, or is it?
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