Podrophenia - Forgotten Britpop with guest Gary Bynorth

 

This month on Podrophenia: Forgotten Britpop - bands, acts, pioneers and events that get compressed out of the nineties timeline. From Rod Stewart’s French Crop (and dyed red), Kylie and the Manics - to proto-B/pop bands. Gary Bynorth - joins Piley, Mondo and Lord Hastings - live to spin new tunes. And there's a quiz! Brit Pop or Brit Bod DL Here

Podrophenia 15th Anniversary

Celebrating Fifteen years of Podrophenia (XV in old money)- our very first session guest from 2011 Darren Jones joins us to perform live, and choose a few influencer cuts from his crates. Ian Pile and m'self ping in some newbie tunes and play trio of a musical tributes along with Mark Lancaster 

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 This show is dedicated to the memory of Kate Johnston and Duncan Leslie

Podrophenia - Lucky Dipping with guest Levent Basharan

 Up for DL at SFOB @shipfullofbombs the early May Podrophenia - with Levent Basharan in for chats and picking fave tracks. We've got newbie tunes from Billy Reeves and Holly Hannigan The history of the Rocky Theme and a Pod Quiz - USA or US EH? Crazy American/international laws. Dig in below

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Podrophenia double feature: New Music and a Mystery Quiz

It's a double dollop of Podrophenia for your listening ears.




The October edition - with guest Ted Groves playing tunes from his fantasticus debut album World of My Own. There's more newbie music with Billy Reeves latest single Golden Days, The Island from Vix20 and Ali Heath Alarm Goes Off.. between our musical lucky dips, there's a Pod Quiz - Paint shade or Eno instrumental... Load up and listen hereabouts

And the September edish - with a mystery quiz. Can you crack either theme by the tune clues...??

Podrophenia : Towns & Cities

 

Podrophenia takes a trip round cities and towns. There's a City or Town quiz, sandwich chat - are they best eaten gamey, and playlist of places that spans from Hanoi Rocks to a Lou Reed/Booker T team up, with new tunes from Vix20 and Campbell Findlay and The Tranquil.

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New York City Cops - The Strokes

Billy Bentley - Kilburn & The High Roads

The London Boys - David Bowie

By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Dorothy Ashby

Eggs On A Plate - Iggy Pop

Just For You - The Tranquil

KC Bound - Lowell Fulson

Cheer Up London - Slaves

Sin City - Secrets

Suburban Berlin - Japan

This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both of Us - Sparks & Faith No More

Gone - This Factory

Havana Affair (Live) - The Ramones

Invisible Girl - VIX20

Fadoodle - The Liquorice Quartet

Malibu Beach Nightmare - Hanoi Rocks

Nostalgia Machine - Soft Cell

The Bronx - Lou Reed & Booker T

Podrophenia - A Trip To The Country

Saddle up tonight as we take a Podrophonic chug-a-bug for a trip around the highways, byways and backroads of country music. From Glam Country to Funky Country and outlaw acoustics. From bluegrass banjo to flat-pickin' and fiddling. Tune in for the hayride and hee-haw!

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PLAYLIST

Rocky Top – Lynn Anderson

Have Mercy – Loretta Lynn

Country Boy – Heads Hands and Feet

Louisiana Swing – Bud Hobbs

Ain’t No Easy Way – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Turn To Hate – Orville Peck

The Rope and The Colt -Scott Walker

The Way It Goes – Gillian Welch

Through The Morning, Through The Night – Dillard & Clark

Sin City – The Flying Burrito Brothers

Big Jet Plane – Primal Scream

Black Mountain Boy – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Diggy Diggy Lo – Doug Kershaw

Going Up The Country – Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

John Deere Tractor – Larry Sparks

Lung – Townes Van Zandt

Teenage Drug Queen – Phillious Williams

Choopee River Bottom Band – Larr Jon Wilson

Sermon – Bobbie Gentry

Poor Boy A Long Way From Home – The Black Keys

Double dab of Podrophenia - Sickness and Health

Behold as a Podrophonic double drop lands in your 2022 lap

Sickness:  illness is the theme of the January playlist, wherein we prescribe new tunes alongside old faves and buried treasures. Dig in and dose up here .  Or wherever you get your podcasts 

Health: Piley, Lord Hastings and m'self bring you a robust bundle and of heart-pounding sounds from 2021. Listenable here (or wherever you get your etc.....)

Podrophenia - Lucky Dipping

For our latest Podrophenia: Ian Pile Steven Hastings & m'self dip into our collective grab bag of goodies for new tunes & old faves - and ask what albums should Elvis tribs make rather than Elvis covers ? Would The VU work done Chas and Dave style? Bowie & Iggy as Starsky & Hutch? Radio that plays artists from your current location?

With a playlist featuring #nealfrancismusic #donnybenét #jarviscocker #theauters #buskrbeats #theking #parquetcourts #wetleg

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Celebrating twelve years of Podrophenia with a double whammiversary and Billy Reeves of THOTHG

It's a double dollop of doings as we celebrate 12 years *gulp* of Podrophenia...

Part one is a pop quiz with tunes fitted around a mystery theme - who'll be first to crack the clues and unravel the reveal! 

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Part two - Buckle up and behold as Billy Reeves day-trips to Rossi's in Southend for a seaside meet with Piley and Mondo, wherein he tries an out-size custard tart - and relays inspirational tales of how his latest project The Helicopter of the Holy Ghost came to be. An incredible story of an amazing album of beautiful songs.. as featured in The Guardian here...

Along the way we learn about the early days of The Darkness, how Billy hooked up with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, why did the Primals move to Brighton - which band made him a coma tape - how many times is he in the Guinness Book of Hit Singles - and why the parakeets on TheHOTHG album cover? Musically we spin in a playlist of Brother Reeves' greatest hits, highlights and THOTHG tracks 

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Podrophenia - Live, Unlocked & Lucky Dips

 

Behold just a few tunes from the recent *LIVE* Podrophenia - in which we bring you a double whammy of themes (any guesses from the pic?). Along with new tunes from LOUDwomen Eight Rounds Rapid The Helicopter of The Holy Ghost Buskr 

 

Sonically, we take you from a streaking themed instrumental album, to Middle Eastern funk a reggae refit of a Carpenters classic to the vocal (and original) version of Leone's spaghetti western theme..

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Podrophenia's religious experience

 

Glory be: the religion edition of Podrophenia is up for download with M G Boulter on his Clifftown album and podcast. Local tales of fractured jazzers, Southend werewolves - and two quizzes -plus new music from Vix20 Bob Collum and a playlist of heavenly sounds

 

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Podrophenia's religious experience 

Word in Your Attic. David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and M'self have a collective natter going from Abbey Road to Zodiac Mindwarp

One of the earliest entries on this blog involved Batman 222 wherein the Caped Crusader investigates a 'Paul is Dead' type mystery - September 2007 to carbon date the actual post.. A few weeks later it appeared in Word mag' ish 56, after a very generous offer from Mark Ellen to write 250 words on it...

Fast forward 13 years and a fantasticus chat was had with David and Mark for a birthday treat. 
In forty five mins, we cover: rock stars in unlikely places - comics. football programmes, Rod Temperton's dodgy toplines. The sky-high value of collectable comics. 

My Radio 1 calendar/diary, with odd singles bought during this period, and tales including - Radio Luxembourg Roadshow comes to Southend - with  m'self and pals getting  drunk on crate of Crocodillo I won doing the pop quiz.  Naked neighbors displaying. Dressing up as KISS at the School Arts Festival... and of course records bought 

 You can grab full timeline of diaries here 

And risk Rod Temperton doing Rock With You below 


 

To Westcliff-on-Sea where our celebrating patron offers highly entertaining memories of the "white stiletto crowd" at the Lacey Lady in Ilford, the Fickle Pickle Folk Club in Southend, a 'Paul Is Dead' Batman comic, Toni Basil's effect on a Bowie sleeve, Petula Clark, Sex Pistols ads, a Goofy Greats compilation and the Ladykillers at the Pink Toothbrush ("Altamont meets the Muppet Show") - and we play Southend Stackwaddy and guess the psychedelic album that starts with a foghorn.

Podrophenia Live and Unlocked

Podrophenia back in action tonight, with the power trio of Piley, Lord Steven Hastings and m'self - we gather together from our collective cloudbases for a socially distanced run through of tunes, chat, news stories and triv'. 

ho are the IAI Association? Why was Danny Kirwin sacked from Fleetwood Mac, do The Monkees retain their Monkee Magic five decades on? Alongside these conundrums we'll be spinning in newbies from Sparks and buried treasure from Jimmy Winston and Brian Auger ...

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Podrophenia - Rock 'n' Roll Babylon with Habour's Bazaar

Brace yourselves as the Podrophenia/Harbour Bazaar team up takes a road-trip through the trippy periphery and fractured fringes of Rock 'n' Roll: Ian Pile Ian Pope Steven Hastings and m'self relay tales of shocky horrors ( murder, mystery deaths, drug casualties) from Jerry Lee, Skip Spence and Peter Green, the Beach Boys, The Beatles and Joy Division and rogues gallery of others...

Bringing light to our shade, we're joined by special guests Kev Daintree Ray Morgan , Jo Overfield and Rob Glazebrook with a bulging diary of events and festivals...

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Podrophenia We heart rock 'n' roll:

We heart rock 'n' roll: buckle up Pod-bods as Matthew Boulter, Mark Lancaster and m'self head out on the highway for a road trip through all territories of R.O.C.K..

From Nu-Metal to Neil Young, from Mogwai to Masters of Reality and from Sabbath with Rick Wakeman to Whitesnake tipping their mighty mullets to Motown. We also bring you Metallic classics rendered to digitized 8 bit and your birthstone/zodiac band names…

Mercury Monkey 
Bloodstone Horse 
Azurite Rabbit 
The Ruby Snake 
Ruby Rooster 
Irön Rät,

Plus thanks to Matt Boulter's excavation expertize we find hidden treasures stashed within a Whitesnake sleeve..

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Podrophenia Every Record Tells a Story volume 2

The January Podrophenia is up for download with Piley, Popeapedia and Steve Carr of the always excellent Every Record Tells a Story  website - and m'self wherein we cover R 'n' R tales, truths, myths and fibs with a playlist ranging from Harry Nilsson to Son House, The Kinks to Cass Elliott - and lesser known originals made famous by The Carpenters, Elvis, Madonna and Manfred Mann

And we've a bonus guest spot from Kelly Ann Buckley gathering together news of the Wild Almanac Collective

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Podrophenia - the letter X

X marks the spot Pod Pals as we run out a playlist of x related bands/songs and X film related chat with a live session from Millsy of power-pop rockers Vix 20

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Podrophenia Numbers

May's Podrophenia is a numbers game, were we run out acts, tracks, and tunes with a numeric motif.. ranging from one to millions..

There's two pop quizzes. Can you guess the value of putting on bands for a 1969 university gig?
 And which songs are now more famous than the films they're taken from.. All here and all free...

Podrophenia Numbers

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Podrophenia - America

America is the theme of our latest Podrophenia as guest's Gary Bynorth and Paul Hill of Doojip are in for a live session and world debut spin of their new single 'Would I Lie To You' (and it's B side).. We've got Halloween puns, a pop quiz - an exclusive reveal on a lost sixties Southend garage tune AND - play of the new BaVard single..... Dig in and download.....

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Radio Podrophenia - No Theme, No Scene

No Theme No Scene: Piley, Popeapedia and Mondo go freestyle for the March Podrophenia, pinging in random tracks. Expect singles from Action Man (yes he of the eagle eyes and gripping hands), a disco refit of Tubular Bells, streaker-glam, TV Themes, a mod-stomping Elvis cover, Bob Seger then and now and a pop quiz! Load up your lugholes here....

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