Podrophenia - Lucky Dip / Vinyl Special

In what's possibly our most eclectic selection we do lucky dips into the Podrophonic crates.. plucking and playing all vinyl finds Tom Robinson to Tom Jones, the Fall Guy to Nola Funk, disco reggae to The Damned and Superhero rappers to Substitutes

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Radio Podrophenia - Music for Mentalists

The March Madness edish of Podrophenia is up for download, and it's possibly our most eccentric session yet.. Mae West goes Rock ‘n’ Roll. Petula Clark goes disco, Reginald Bosanquet goes funky, Hawkwind get schlagerd and there's a space-pop nugget wherein aliens land looking for new life in Northampton!See the info-tainment clip on the single below...



Special guest Grant Philpott brings in some of his spoken word mash-ups (including Jimmy Smith meets Mark E Smith and Pam Ayres with Roy Ayres) and talks about his television work on The Word, the Big Breakfast and his ten years on TV Burp…





There's Essex Films, Kitchen bands and Shart songs - and an 8 bit quiz based around rock classics getting digitised All here, all yours and all free

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The Southend Jazz Five

Dave Jazzy Dawson not pictured

This month's Podrophenia is a jazz-off with all shades and shapes of the form's modal tones gathered together - and includes something for everyone from beatniks to boppers, or even newbie jazzers who don't know their Acid from their elbow.

We've also got - replace the word 'love' with 'jazz' in song titles. And as a centrepiece - four live tunes from the American Songbook delivered by Dave Woodcock and Hannah Marsh ..

All contained hereabouts - dig in jazzers

Radio Podrophenia - Jazz

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The Podrophonic Alphabet. N is for...

Worra pair of Nankers

Back after a summer break, Piley and I roll out the 14th instalment of the Podrophonic Alphabet: N: for new tunes, new bands, New York, Piley's Newsround as well hoots 'n' toots for the third Podrophenia Live Night on September the 8th at Southend's Railway Hotel.  You'll find tracks from all three bands (Thee Faction, Eight Rounds Rapid and The Long Run) on the bill popped into this edition, as well what is a Nanker Phelge - see above.

We've also got a mystery theme tune, some natter about a night out with Hugh Cornwell and and a drop in appearance from Blow Up Records boss Paul Tunkin - so dig in and tell a pal!

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Radio Times/TV Times..

 

Following on from the Radio Podrophenia roadshow with a storming performance from TV Smith (full report here - we bring you, the lost TV themed Pouchcast. That's....

TV as in television, not Smith 

Pouchcast as in Paul from Pouch of Douglas, off the subs bench and in for me when I was off sick.

 And lost - as this show aired live in April, but so far has never been uploaded for download

If you're wondering where any new Podrophenias are Chance Radio is undergoing maintenance, so normal service should be resumed shortly

Radio Podrophenia - Television

And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth...

Pop Culture Quiz:  

Which pop star once worked for Marvel UK?

Who was the light entertainment star that, before becoming a comedian - began his career as a comics illustrator

Why do so many super villains favour purple and green duds?

Which actual American legends were Iron Man/Tony Stark and Green Lanter/Hal Jordan modelled on?

Why is it, that only the handful of married superheroes are those with the ability to extend body parts to extraordinary lengths - or vibrate at super speed?

Find the answers to these and other comicana conundrums in the Podrophenia - Superheroes:Treasury Edition. Although I forgot to chip in my Stan Lee story - when Smilin' Stan said 'Hi guys'  to Mrs M, the Mini Ms and myself........

Radio Podrophenia - Superheroes



As Mark Millar wrote in Turf 'The word is Ferd' - comics, capes, cowls and superdoings generally - have become such big business and multi industry money-spinners, that the suits are now faking nerd. Ferds...

Although for Piley and I, as well as our guests Paul Range Dye and Simon Monk we wear our 'Sing If You're Glad to be Geek' badges with pride.In fact we may very well be pinning them on lapels and suchlike as we gather together tonight, along with some of the Podrophenia panel (Marmite, Phil Hubbs, Dan) for a viewing of Simon's Secret Identities exhibition hosted at Pouch of Douglas,

If you're local-ish, why not whizz your way over to take in the full glory of Simon's spectacular artworks from 7 tonight..

Simon Monk documentary....
Simon Monk Secret Identity from Christopher Harrup on Vimeo.

Job Centered

Big jobs, little jobs - first jobs and worst jobs are on the menu for tonight's Radio Podrophenia, as Piley and I act as your career advisers and roll out occupational options such as Taxmen, Painters, Engineers and Sailors onto our Tuesday night playlist.

If you're about swing by Chance Radio from 9, we'd love to hear from you. If you missed last week's Boys and Girls edition fill your goody bag below

Radio Podrophenia - Boys and Girls



One that's parked up on the subs bench 

Bow Wow Wow - W.O.R.K (12")



And expect to hear this salty leg shaker from Len Price 3 - who will be tearing it up at Southend's Railway Hotel this coming Saturday - with us, dabbing about with discs between the bands..

Tune In for Charity Shop Classics

Suggested by David Wright - the theme for this evening's Tuesday night shindig is Charity Shop Classics.  Theme tunes, Studio 2 Stereo albums, Herb Alpert and Hallmark TOTP make-overs are all appearing on the Radio Podrophenia playlist...live from 9. It won't be a complete cheese board, we're also donating Big Beat, Beatles covers and Shirley Bassey belting out the funk.

Along with some natter and banter on best/worst buys, and an eye-spy guide to charity shop stock - books: James Bond, Jaws, Blue Peter annuals. Records: MFP, The World of comps...gadgets: sketch-a-graph'.

If you're an Apple or Android user,  you can now lend a digital ear to Chance Radio via the TuneIn app. And  if you missed it or fancy a re-run of last week's charabanc around the musical song map you can climb aboard below

This is my opener for tonight, following a Bassey related rarity from Piley

Shirley Bassey - Spinning Wheel



  Radio Podrophenia - Avenues and Alleyways

Avenues and Alleyways

Thanks to a sharp-eyed spot from London Lee last week - tonight's Radio Podrophenia is built around a metropolis of popular song - inspired and playlisted from a selection of tunes and tracks populating the  Song Map from Manchester based design collective - Dorothy

As well as roads and streets - expect to hear some uptown uptempo anthems celebrating farms, woods and parks - from Ella Fitzgerald, Solomon Burke, XTC and Lowell Fulsom. Right here at Chance Radio from 9 tonight...

If you missed last week's edition of the Podrophonic Alphabet - H. Feel free to take one and pass it on right here.. or on iTunes if you prefer
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If only I could find this kinda shirt for tonight


 

World of Sport for all..

 

Sport of all/any sort is the theme we'll be kicking around on Radio Podrophenia tonight. Joining us in the commentary box straight from the sportsdesk is our resident expert @marmite boy 

We're playing 4 a-side (tunes that is) from Piley, Marmite and myself - pitching in a couple pop quizzes with chatabouts that may include..sport in unlikely places, have you won a medal in any event and how does Hadleigh in Essex, one of the UK's flattest counties - become the arena for the Olympic mountain biking event

Kick off is at 9 tonight - join us for a ringside seat at Chance Radio

You can lend an ear to last weeks fixture here (or on iTunes), fitted around the theme of Food

Radio Podrophenia - Food



In a last minute switcheroo - we've had to play a substitute with Jack Gestures is now filling in for Marmite...





   

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman

I'm a little bit country. I'm a little bit rock 'n roll

Take your partners for a rootin' tootin' tear-up as we go 'Kinda Country' on tonight's live action Radio Podrophenia - where everything from Abba covers to Zydeco stompers get pitched in the pot.

The Elvis back catalogue has been on and off the subs bench all week, as I've been doing some king-size juggling between outtakes and obscurities from the undubbed masters album One Hundred Years From Now and the blue-aired booty Cut Me and I Bleed, which in essence, is Effing and Jeffing with Elvis.
Similarly I still can't decide which way to swing on the offbeat. Either Marlene Webber's Stand By Your Man or the banjo 'n' blue beat bounce of Beverly Hillbilly Ska

And Fi Jacobs from The Railway Hotel drops in for a round up of what's on at Southend's most rock 'n' roll local during October. So buckle up from 9 for a ride around Podrophenia country

Marlene Webber - Stand By Your Man



 Granville Williams Orchestra - Beverly Hillbilly Ska



Natter-wise I'd like to try and nail look-a-likes for this 'orrible lot.  I'm claiming Mr Top Left as David Beckham - but what about the other salty ol' sea dogs..?

This masterclass in nifty-fingered frettery from Albert Lee will be appearing at some point tonight..



If you're not iTuned up - you can load up last week's Radio Podrophenia via this MP3 DL

And don't forget you can grab - Dolly does disco and northern soul here

Pop Quiz: Music for Schools and Colleges

Piley and I go back to school this evening, not in the literal sense, but by assembling a register of 12 tunes to be called tonight: XTC, Ben Folds Five, The Casanovas and a legendary blues-grinder gets on the good 'n' funky foot - but who is it ? Find out from 9 on Chance Radio.

Subjects on the timetable for chat and natter are likely to include..film's/TV we've never seen. School based songs/bands...Prefect Day, Dexy's Cross Country Runners - you get the idea...

But for today's test, which  Schools and College progs were these the themes for?

 

Nearly but not quite as there's too much noodle-doodle do for tonight's doings

 

B is for....

Bardot, Beastie Boys, Barbara Streisand doing Bowie and a bagful of other B-based tunes and musicians..all getting bumped into the musical tombola that is Radio Podrophenia. Here to badger and bother your ears from 9 tonight on S6... Natter and banter is likely touch on the idea of TV and film titles fused with musicians , along the lines of... Six Million Dollar Manfred Man Incredible Shoestring Band The Family Catweazle It Ain't Half Hot Mumford and Sons And casting for a live action Peanuts. Charlie Brown and Snoopy  are sorted, any others let us know..

And to top and tail it with another BB

John Barry - They Shot, He Scored

The Reaper's certainly set briskly about his grim business this year, carrying out a ruthless recruitment campaign - John Barry being the latest to get his call up papers

I never got round to reading  a John Barry biog although I've been meaning to for years. From the scraps I've gathered through other books - he seems to have led something of  a James Bond-ish lifestyle during the swinging sixties: King's road address, film star girlfriend and international swishing with the champagne and sports cars set

And what a body of work  from Bond to Born Free, Harry Palmer to The Persuaders. I'm no music theorist but -  his innovative instrumentation (using everything from cimbaloms to synthesizers), the scope of his widescreen arrangements and minor modal motifs - could pluck your heartstrings like a harp.

A personal fave is perhaps a lower known TV theme but distillation of the Barry technique and almost a companion piece to The Persuaders, a melancholy toybox style arrangement - opening the Orson Welles Great Mysteries TV show*....

For something that  John Barry himself described as near  biographical I would recommend The Beyondness of Things - you can try a track over at Davy's place

John Barry - Orson Welles Great Mysteries



Of all the 007 themes - this, to me, is the Bondest of them all...



*Previously posted here - but I think we can swing a re-up today

Me and my SHADO

Did you ever have a Dinky Interceptor ?

Now, I'm not typically given to Fortean type mysteries and mumbles - but wouldn't it be just smashing if,  ex-NORAD bod Stanley Fulham's predictions of ....

A. There will be a major UFO display over Moscow between the end of the first part
of January 2011 and the second week of January 2011.

B. Followed by a major display over London approximately seven-days later.

Actually came to hill of moonbeans - with some silvery outer spacers a'hovering Dr Who style over London town...(Perhaps similar to the flying Dorito seen looming over Red Square). Unless of course, it's the style of green-skinned, contact wearing omni-bothering space bandits that gave Ed Straker and his SHADO chums such an almighty run around...

To his credit Stanley is the same chap who predicted 'UFOs' over New York on October 13th.. last year...

Barry Gray - UFO theme (Alt Version)



Two versions of the UFO theme in this clip...



Why not nip over to  London Lee's  for a few more ET tunes...and as a bonus lend your lugs to Tom Middelton's walloping War of the Worlds remix

Jeff Wayne - Eve of the War (Tom Middleton Mix/Mondo Edit)

Gotta love those Anderson designs - almost equal to any of the Star Wars techno gear and gadgetry 

Wilde Boy - Tony Curtis RIP

It may sound strange, but Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde in The Persuaders was one of my earliest heroes and influences. It was the snappy chat and fancy togs that did it. I begged mum to get me a pair of kiddie driving gloves: velcro straps and knuckle cut-outs, some pretend leather trousers (beige the same colour seen here) and a yellow and blue suede suit as part of my Danny Wilde dressing-up gear.

The magic's still there. We spotted a Persuaders Ferrari Dino in the local Broadway a couple of weeks ago - I'm no petrol-head, but what a moment, the ol' ticker went up a gear instantly.

Anyway enough of my ol' guff and nonsense - let's raise glass for Bernard Schwartz. Another legend lost...

Killer Wattz - The Persuaders

Check the gloves....

There's a fine and dandy Persuaders blog here - if you fancy a peep

Postcards from Walmington

After chowing down a minimum of two Dad's Army episodes per night, how could we not detour off to Walmington on Sea Thetford on the way home from our north Norfolk jaunt. So what's to spot...


Nether Row (renamed Percy Street in the show): pops up frequently in Walmington street shots, including the corking but rarely repeated missing-knickers episode Man Hunt.

Three raw recruits raring to sign up for the Walmington Home Guard

Thetford Guildhall (Walmington Town Hall): the Time on My Hands episode (or The German Pilot Trapped on the Clock Tower One to give it it's full title) is centred almost entirely on the 19th century clocktower..

You'll also find Mill Lane, perhaps Thetford's most viewed road seen during the closing moments of The Deadly Attachment (or The 'Don't tell him, Pike!'One to give it it's full title), The Bell Inn - lodgings for the cast during location work, also used for the opening shots of the debut episode. All these, the Dad's Army Museum and plenty more Walmington backdrops are all doable and viewable within a one hour wander..

We would have factored in a trip to the Bressingham Steam Museum if we'd known of the gold contained therein. But that's another trip for another time...

Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler? - Bud Flanagan

It's the rare version pop-pickers - see if you can spot the extra lyrics ?



Wild Billy Childish and The Blackhands - Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?





PS - thanks to John Medd for the title inspiration

Fresh Legs

Hurrah! Things seem to be moving to a better, brighter and more manageable position, so I'm in the mood for getting back on the good foot(y) and giving two formations of Young Scene (The Big Match theme) a run-out. Keith Mansfield's original versh and a sprightly, sporty refit from The Graham Walker Sound

Think of this fixture as a pre-season friendly for Friday's post

Keith Mansfield - Young Scene



The Graham Walker Sound - Young Scene



Anarchy comes to Maine Road:the programme pictured atop this page features one of the earliest outings for Jamie Reid's Anarchy graphics - you can catch a clip of the match below

Dear Diary - April

It's the return of 'Urcha' - Son of Urcha perhaps? Bit of a dry month entrywise, apart from new jeans, a karate poster (still in my mum's loft: the poster, not the jeans), one lost pound and slow down in the disco business.

Strangely, several of the tunes from this chart were bought but not captured in the calendar (Pop Muzik and Lucky Number were nearly, but not quite bagged too). So what Pick of the Pops should we go for..

Silly Thing - well, we had the Pistols last month
I'm an Upstart - too rowdy
Cool For Cats - strong possibility of getting blog-whacked
(I had a DMCA takedown last week)

Meaning it can only be a reworked theme tune that is an urgent anthem for teenage tear-ups..

The Dickies - Banana Splits




If you noticed Chic's I want your love in the chart above, there's a reggae refit right here if you fancy grabbing.

PS the ghost of Malcom McLaren haunts this chart.

Silly Thing - sleeve design by college chum Jamie Reid
Pop Muzik - written and performed by college chum Robin Scott
Siouxsie And The Banshees - managed by McLaren's assistant Nils Stevenson, whose brother Ray Stevenson was the Pistols first official photographer

Goodies Friday

You may have spotted the 'man eaten by lion' doodle in the last post, a scribble entirely influenced by two of my compulsive pre-teen reads: The Goodies File and The Goodies Book of Criminal Records (along with the regulation Python books)

Almost the missing link between The Monkees and Monty Python, I've never become bored of The Goodies at their best. And even now, my two tots drip fed on a digital diet of untold rolling, scrolling satellite channels and rapid-fire, multi-format entertainment, regularly ask for an episode of The Goodies..

So what a result then to bag a copy of their New LP for just one Earth pound in a local vinyl shop (Genie, Leigh Broadway). Untypically for TV comedy albums it's not all sketches, skits and sound effects. No, no,no - some slinky 'Superstition' style riffing can be found amongst the comedy songs - putting the fun into funky.

The Goodies Theme



The Goodies - Custard Pie



The Goodies - The Cricklewood Shakedown







PS does anyone know what The Goodies Spangles style font's called ? I'm gagging to get a copy..