Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024

We’ve applied our celebrated sheep/goats separation technique to the rock and roll pasture and shepherded the following into this week’s pod ...

... Beyoncé and why it’s hard to connect with songs written by committee.

... are we too old for biopics?

... Marvel films, the Arctic Monkeys and other things you either love or avoid.

... reviewing Human Touch and Lucky Town in a high-security studio (and how you can only tell if an album’s any good if you’ve lived with it for two months).

... why Tony Blackburn is the greatest British DJ.

... “Bing was no more Bing than Sinatra was Sinatra”.

... hoary old tales that were the engine of the rock press - the Clash shooting pigeons, Kevin Rowland stealing his own master-tapes, Cliff v Elvis, Beatles v Stones, Hendrix v Clapton, Bowie v Bolan, Clash v the Pistols, Spandau v Duran, Oasis v Blur.

... are Oasis songs mostly about being Oasis?

... “fame is no longer enacted in the public space”.

... indie cliches – escaping the drudgery of the Man and mundanity of Small Town life.

... “the harder I practice, the luckier I get”.

... Scots punk act get movie soundtrack windfall!

... Alex is arranging a woke stag do - “you go to places where ladies put clothes ON”.

... plus birthday guest Andrew Newbury wonders if Country is more than “the three Ds - driving, dogs and divorce”.

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