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Charles and Grahamspeak to Sheffield's Jamie Taylor whose first book is Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, from The Human League to Pulp.
Published by Manchester University Press as part of their British Pop Archive series, Jamie talks about the gestation of the book and his future ambitions.
Graham adds - post the chat with Jamie - how he bumped into Slow Horses star, Freddie Fox at the launch of the new Yorkshire Chamber Orchestra as well as a report on seeing Tangerine Dream live in Manchester. He will also talk through two good thigs about Bradford y City of Culture.
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Graham looks at the re-issued Pink Floyd live in Pompeii film: When rock was classical music.
Graham reports on meeting assistant manager of Notts County at final Harrogate Town Home match of season.
Charles reflects on his experience seeing Gary Oldman in Krapp’s Last Tape at York Theatre Royal - does Gary get it taped?
The Murder Capital live in Leeds and a new age of punk and post punk.
Graham reads an extract from the final chapter of his ‘magnum opus' on - Harrogate’s only real claim to fame as a home for premier league bands - Magna Carta.
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Charles and Graham are delighted to invite Harrogate based poet and author, Rob Cowen back onto the show to talk about his highly acclaimed new book, The North Road.
About Rob Cowen
Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer and author, hailed as one of the UK’s most original voices on nature, place and people. His first book, Skimming Stones, won the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors. His second book, Common Ground (PRH; 2015) was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation’s favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll. His follow-up, The Heeding (E&T; 2021), was the best-selling debut book of poetry in 2021. Rob has contributed to the New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent and written radio programmes for the BBC. He lives in North Yorkshire.Keep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:
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The old is the new: Graham on experiencing modern US jazz star Kamasi Washington at Project House in Leeds.
Good news for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture as art deco venue is to reopen in August with new Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra launch.
Record Store Day boost for Bradford and the lingering influence of Leeds indie scene of 25 years ago.
Charles reports on seeing both Al Murray (The Pub Landlord ) and John Simpson, journalist and broadcaster. The political connection is interesting in the light of the rise of Reform.Keep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:
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Graham and Charles take a look at the struggle facing small venues in the UK, the continuing rise in ticket prices and the beauty of My Bloody Valentine.
Graham examines why The Beatles road manager and the hidden aspects of the story are unlikely to come out in Sam Mendes forthcoming films on the band.
Graham explores the work of the underrated Val Kilmer after his recent death and why he is the best thing in Michael Mann's film Heat playing opposite Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
Charles discusses the aural and visual splendour of a Public Service Broadcasting gig at York Barbican.
Music Venue Crisis; My Bloody Valentine; Sam Mendes’ Beatles Films; Val Kilmer RIP; Public Service BroadcastingKeep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:
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Interview special: Toby Manning
Toby Manning is a London-based music journalist, author, and academic with a career spanning popular culture, music, and political history. He’s best known for his work examining the intersections of music and ideology, often through a Marxist lens, as well as his deep dives into specific artists and cultural moments.
Manning’s most prominent book is Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music (2024), a 500-plus-page exploration of how popular music from the 1950s to the present has reflected and resisted political and social upheavals.
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Graham explains happened when he met celist, Julian Lloyd Webber in London at the launch of Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
Graham also explores the sonic world of London's Fat Dog - an indie band from South East London. They’re known for their chaotic, high-energy live shows and a genre-defying sound that mixes dance, punk, techno, klezmer, and industrial elements—think something like a feral lovechild of Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, and a rave in a Brixton basement.
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Graham and Charles report that York is about to have Britain's biggest independent book store with Topping Books https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/
Is it going to be an opportunity or threat?
Charles asks what do two Robert De Niro for the price of one add up to in The Alto Knights?Plus Edwin Collins announcing autumn final tour after releasing National Shall Speak Unto National last Friday.
Graham previews the next Vinyl Sessions event in Harrogate which will focus on The Beatles in film and the continuing significance of the albums A Hard Day's Night and Help!.Keep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:
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Graham explores why Steven Soderberg's new spy/com film, Black Bag starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender isn't as good as his best and most under-rated film, The Limey from 1999 which starred Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda.
Charles and Graham chew over the headliners for this year's Glastonbury Festival.
Graham takes a look at Grant McPhee's exceptional new book on Scottish indie bands, Postcards From Scotland.
Graham relates how an enquiry from Fibbers owner Tim Hornsby led to uncovering Charm Magazine's spat in print with the early Kaiser Chiefs.
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Graham rejects on this year’s Academy Awards: Is Anora really the Best Picture of this or any other year?
The Beta Band are reforming and are coming to Leeds.
Richard Hawley is to play Museum Gardens in York this summer. Hurrah! It's the twentieth anniversary of the releases of his classic album Coles Corner.
Charles reports on sci-fi/comedy Mickey 17, the new film by Bong Joon Ho whose last film was the Academy Award winning Parasite.Keep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:
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CHarles and Graham interview Yorkshire-based Scottish musician, Gary Stewart.
Gary Stewart is a Scottish singer/songwriter who has carved out a strong fan-base in his adopted home of Yorkshire with songs about paranoia, love & resilience. When not playing his own music, the left-hander plays drums for fellow Bandcampers Hope & Social, bass for Leeds-based Fleetwood Mac tribute Weetwood Mac and performs regularly up & down the U.K, performing Paul Simon’s classic 1986 album Graceland with his seven-piece band.
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Graham explores the mystery of rock n roll and Jim Jarmusch's 1989 film Mystery Train and talks about his meeting with Marxist rock writer Toby Manning at a Harrogate International Festivals event last week.
Charles shares his recent experience at the National Museum of Science and Media in Bradford, UK Capital of Culture 2025.
Charles and Graham revisit the films that won big at the BAFTAs.
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Charles and Grham interview 10cc's Graham Gouldman ahead of his latest tour with his band, Heart Full of Songs.
The band line-up comprises Graham, 10cc live band members Iain Hornal and Keith Hayman, and Dave Cobby.
In 2014 Graham was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame – an arm of America’s National Academy of Music. Fellow inductees include Noel Coward, Burt Bacharach, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Elton John and Sting.
Graham's songwriting credits over the last 60 years include The Yardbirds, The Hollies, Herman's Hermits and 10cc. In 2024 Graham released a new solo album called I Have Notes which includes collaborations with Brian May, Ringo Starr, Hank Marvin and Albert Lee.
Charles and Graham round off the episode with a quick discussion about the recent BAFTA Awards and the latest news about the planned National Poetry Centre.
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Graham reports on BBC 6 Music's State of Independent Venues Week which for once makes Leeds and York look great.
Graham and Chales share further thoughts on Bradford City of Culture's programme.
Charles reports on David Hockney’s exhibition at Saltaire in Bradford.
Succession actor Brian Cox is about to return to the stage for Edinburgh International Festival in a year of good news for the city's arts.
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In a packed podcast episode:
Graham asks if Netflix is really beating the BBC at the numbers of viewers game in the UK?
Graham and Charles have been listening to Mogwai's new album The Bad Fire and wonder why the band never quite hits the peaks.
Is new film The Brutalist just too brutally long?
Graham reports on the sold out Vinyl Sessions showdown with music author Rob Chapman talking about Syd Barrett and Nick Drake,
Plus a discussion about what music is good accompany sex and is Procul Harum's debut album in early 1968 the first prog album?
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Graham and Charles honour titan of US cinema David Lynch whose recent death at the age of 78 brings to an end the career of one of cinema and television’s true greats.
Graham asks if the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is a complete success.Keep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:
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January and February are often the best months for new films but how good are critics’ favourites Nosferatu and A Real Pain?
Graham looks at the recent launch of Bradford as this year's City of Culture and the way the City of Culture idea has evolved since it was first launched in 2013 by the Tory government from an idea in 2009 by the then Labour government's Culture Secretary Andy Burnham.
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Graham and Charles interview Grant McPhee, a Scottish film director, cinematographer and writer.
Books:
Two oral histories of Scottish indie music history - Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984), published by White Rabbit Books in 2022, and Postcards From Scotland: Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995 published by Omnibus Books in 2024.
The latter was 2024's Book of the Year on Two Big Egos in a Small Car.
Films:
Grant has made two successful music documentaries on Scottish indie music history - Big Gold Dream (2015 - focusing on Scottish indie record labels Fast Product and Postcard Records), Teenage Superstars (2017 - focusing on the Glasgow independent music scene between 1982 and 1992).
He won the prestigious audience choice award in 2015 for his film Big Gold Dream at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
He was Second Assistant Camera on the Hollywood movie World War Z and Digital Imaging Technician on Under The Skin,among many other film jobs.
Last year saw Grant serving as 2nd Unit Director on two episodes of hit TV series Outlander.
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Graham discusses how two dystopian British films in 2006 (V for Vendetta and Children of Men) predicted the politics of now.
Charles takes a look at the new Robbie Williams biopic Better Man.
Graham enjoys a brilliant compilation by crime author, Ian Rankin called Behind the Counter and then previews his forthcoming Vinyl Sessions Q&A event in Harrogate on Syd Barrett and Nick Drake with author Rob Chapman as special guest.
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Charles and Graham revisit their best live music gigs of the year for 2024 with a competitive countdown of their Top 5.
Charles celebrates the extraordinary production of Bluebeard by Wise Children as his theatre event of the year, which he saw when it played at York Theatre Royal.
Graham reports on seeing comedian Maisie Adams at a small hometown gig at Roosters Taproom in Harrogate in front of her former head teacher.Keep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:
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Graham shares his recent experience on BBC 6 Music plugging his many years in the Harrogate music scene on the Craig Charles show.
Graham wonders how two new very different films manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (Blitz and Conclave).
Finally, Graham reveals two new books coming up in 2025 - including his own, hopefully - with a brief extract of him reading from his yet to be titled book about Harrogate’s lost band from the late 60’s and early 70’s, Magna Carta and in particular its leader, Chris Simpson.Keep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:
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