Their podcast “word in your ear” I listen to regularly (and support)
If you like two charismatic old giffers discussing Rock and pop they’re hard to beat… and a mine of good stories about encounters with the stars as well as an interesting take on modern media … ymmv but I’m a fan and have met one of them - who was as pleasant in person as they are in print.
They had one of the smash hots staff writers on recently (she’s got a book out) and is obvious they all enjoyed writing it as much as we enjoyed reading it
I met David Byrne years ago at a screening of Stop Making Sense… He was dressed head to toe in mustard clothes from his shirt to his shoes. We share the same surname and his dad is from where my dads from in Scotland… “We’re probably related” he said. “Nice to meet you Paul Byrne”.
Sold Yachts didn’t it?
Fkn yachts!
In the middle of Manchester.
In the recession hit 70s and early 80s.
Sounds like the owner had even less business sense than Tony Wilson
Ha ha ha! Yeah! New Order’s US tour in 1985, they earned the princely sum of £8,000 each which they immediately had to turn over to pay for the Hacienda running costs
Hopefully the end of both the Tories and the SNP. I have next to zero hope in the current Labour Party, I just want the useless fuckers out, north and south of the border.
