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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Alternative Colchester.
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I'm Steve Green.
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And I'm Tim Young, uh co-host of Alternative Colchester.
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We have a special guest with us today, Steve.
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Very special guest.
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Shall I introduce him?
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I think it's best if you do.
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It's my very good friend, Dr.
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Anthony Roberts.
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Hello.
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Hello, Ann.
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Yeah, hi.
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How are you doing?
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Good thanks.
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Thanks.
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Great to be here, Steve and Tim.
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Well, it's a pleasure having you.
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We're a bit worried about your choices, but um we don't like to interfere.
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So stay tuned.
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They just about qualified, didn't they?
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They did.
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Oh.
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They got through the criteria.
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Was VAR used?
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VAR was used on two occasions.
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I see.
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That's very worth mentioning.
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Supports Watford.
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That's okay.
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That's a kind of a kind of an oxymoron right there, isn't it?
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Vanilla.
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Vanilla team for us, isn't it, really?
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Nobody minds Watford, do they?
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No.
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No.
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I'm sure you Ipswich fans have had some disaster that was Watford's fault.
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Probably.
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Yeah.
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Luton don't like us very much.
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They don't like you at all.
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Watford Luton, one of the big rivalries.
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Ipswich Norwich.
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Colchester.
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Southend.
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Wickham.
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Ipswich.
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Sorry.
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Well, they're the top ones.
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They're the ones that we look for first.
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They are for you.
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I saved you on Saturday night from some Colster fans who wanted to beat you up, didn't they?
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They wanted to beat me up and then they were chatting to me like I was their best mate, weren't they?
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That's Coulster fans for you.
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And the influence I've got over them.
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Ant's chosen the first record, isn't he?
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Er he has.
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So, Anthony, what we'd like you to do as our very special guest is maybe tell us a little bit about yourself, because there might be people listening.
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There might be people listening that don't know Sir Don Sir Anthony.
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Lord Sir Anthony Roberts.
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Well my day job is to uh run the um Cultural Arts Centre, which is mostly a music venue.
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It's based in the little church next to the uh Mercury Theatre up at the uh water tower end of the high street.
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So uh yeah, that's uh that's what I do during the day.
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It's not the it's mostly music, but uh within the music there's jazz, there's fogue, there's uh rock and roll, there's like metal or and uh quite a lot of the um you know when you accidentally tune into Radio 3 after ten o'clock and you think, What the hell?
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No, you do it by accident, Tim.
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It's not like you know, it's not a choice.
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You just like to do it.
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In the days when when you used to be able to Twiddle your knob.
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I beg your pardon.
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Yeah, don't touch that dial.
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Didn't take long, did it?
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No.
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Didn't take long.
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Yeah, they only go downhill from here.
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And you dial into something by mistake, and you think, What the what the hell?
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What what are they doing?
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Well, that's the kind of stuff that you can see on stage at Colchester Art Centre.
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Very, very niche.
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We love the art centre.
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Yeah, I think you're being cruel.
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We've seen some fantastic bands there.
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I've actually played there twice as well.
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Yeah.
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Yeah What bingo?
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Uh yeah, yeah, full house.
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Well, I did play there with special duties, and it wasn't a full house.
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Anyway, let's get on to the first bit of music.
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Like I said at the top of the show, Anthony has got some uh strange uh requests, although I don't think this first one is that strange.
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Do you want to tell us uh a little bit why about why you chose this track, Anthony, and
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then introduce the track itself?
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Yeah, well to um uh this is a B side and it's a Jonathan Richmond B side from uh Roadrunner, and so the Roadrunner single was in our house.
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And um the what what I like about this and why it connects with me and when the idea of punk rock is that uh you know that one of the big things was that anyone can do it.
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It was a DIY art form, wasn't it?
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You know, it's kind of like uh changing the whole kind of music scene from um you know the what the whistlet was playing then to kind of like the prog rock and this progress kind of carry on.
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To a kind of ethos uh of if if if you've got the the the the Terran or the guts or the kind of like will to push over enough phone boxes and collect the two Ps, you you can make a piece of vinyl as well.
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Uh and um so records that you know like the long kind of Frank Zappa's interminable kind of orchestral prog rock will replaced by a kind of like joyous simplicity, and none more so than the if you're talking about joyous simplicity, Jonathan Richmond kind of like uh um captures that entirely, you know.
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You can just you know, garage bands, all the kind of like uh ideas that went with the uh He probably didn't realise at the time either that well you don't realise it when you're creating history, do you?
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But um yeah, he was proto-punk for sure.
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Uh very DIY.
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Started in 1970, the modern lovers, Jonathan Richard and the Modern Lovers, yeah.
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And um but th they were definitely in the right place at the right time when punk happened because they were ready-made for it, really.
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Well I think there was wasn't there good I mean there was quite a few bands that were, you know, up and running before punk came, and they just kind of like tweaked their it kind of like gave them their voice.
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I mean Costello had uh sorts of stranglers.
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Yeah.
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There's lots of them that did that.
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Yeah, the pub circuit in the UK with R and B bands, yeah, they saw uh uh uh an option there to jump ship and um get on the bandwagon.
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I mean, the vibrators were probably the most uh successful of the punk rock bands that were just doing uh regular pub rock type music beforehand, but um should we listen to Jonathan Richmond and the modern lovers?
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Yeah, yeah.
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This one is uh what's it called called aeroplane?
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I'm a little airplane.
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I'm a little aeroplane.
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Well, I'm a little airplane.
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I'm a little airplane, yeah, yeah.
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I'm a little airplane, yeah.
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I'm a little airplane, yeah, yeah.
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Well, you play.
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What do you play?
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What do you want?
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What do you want?
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You know, I'm a little airplane, yeah.
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I'm a little airplane, I go for everyone.
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I'm a little airplane.
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I can put a nine, you may be one in the top.
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I'm a little airplane, yeah.
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I'm a little airplane, yeah, yeah.
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I'm a little airplane, meow.
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I'm a little airplane, yeah, meow way if you weigh.
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I go everywhere.
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I'm a little airplane, meow.
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Jonathan Richmond and the modern lovers, I'm a little airplane meow.
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And the applause at the end didn't sound live, did it?
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No, it didn't, did it?
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No.
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Great, great choice, Ant.
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We we uh thoroughly approve of that.
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I mean it just kind of like sums up a lot of the uh kind of ethos and and attitude and spirit and fun of the what was happening at the time.
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It all felt so uh contemporary.
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It all felt like one week was one thing and then the next week could be everything else.
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And to take a uh a childhood kind of phrase, I'm a little aeroplane now, and and turn that into a song.
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I mean tell that to Frank Zapper.
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It sounds like a wishbone ash.
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It sounds like a punk rock Bob Dylan to me as well.
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Absolutely, absolutely brilliant.
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And uh Did you ever have Jonathan Richmond at the Art Centre?
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I don't think he's gonna.
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Is he still around?
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Yeah.
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He could play.
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As we always say the 80s.
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You play the venue twice, once on the way up.
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He's 75 in May, by the way.
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He's 75.
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Yes, good.
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Get Jonathan Richmond down the Art Centre.
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You heard it here first.
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Um as as we're playing our we always play stiff little fingers on on this podcast.
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And Steve
and I have had a bit of a stiff little fingers um Frenzy.
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Frenzy over the last week or so, aren't we?
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We saw Stiff Little Fingers, Jake Burns, Ali McMordy, uh, Ian McCallan and who's the drummer?
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Carl.
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Other bloke.
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Carl, the other bloke.
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Uh Camden Roundhouse a week or so ago.
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Uh packed about 3,000 people there, we reckon.
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Packed the roundhouse out.
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Supported by the Meffs, who of course are a local band.
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Yeah.
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Lovely.
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Um I enjoyed them more than Steve did.
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Maybe more of that later.
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They were brilliant, played a great set.
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And uh and then this Saturday Just Gone, we saw XSLF, a slightly smaller venue, three wise monkeys in Colchester.
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There was about thirty people there.
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Yeah, it was a disappointing turnout, wasn't it?
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But they were great, weren't they?
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They were brilliant.
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Henry Clooney, original member of Stiff Little Fingers, is in XSLF.
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Is that the only member that's in the uh Yeah, there's two of them in Stiff Little Fingers and one in XSLF.
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And there used to be two in XSLF as well.
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But the um uh drummer Jim Riley is um yeah he he's had to retire through health problems.
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Oh, that's a shame.
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I like it when there's a a massive argument.
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Then the drummer could have formed X X SLF.
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Well what was amazing is the two other members of XSLF were both members of the Defects, who are a band that I was really into in the early eighties.
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Um and I have actually checked because we do go to nineteen eighty one as our um cut-off point for music.
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And Dance by the Defects came out in nineteen eighty one, so that's definitely gonna feature in a forthcoming show.
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But they were really nice guys as well, weren't they?
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They were lovely.
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We had a chat with them afterwards, didn't we?
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And uh had our picture taken.
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Yeah.
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So 1981's allowed.
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1981's allowed, yeah.
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You don't know if you don't know ref reference to VAR for 1981.
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V A R uh well you've gone way past it on one of your um choices, but um we're gonna let you off because you're the guest and what the guest says goes.
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Anyway, the Stiff Little Fingers track we neither Stiff Little Fingers nor XSLF played this, and I f I think the only time I've heard Stiff Little Fingers play this track live is here in 1978, the famous gig Tom Robinson supported by Stiff Little Fingers.
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Um it was the B Side.
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Was this the B-side 2 alternative holster?
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This is the B-side 2 alternative holster, and it's called 78 Revolutions per Minute.
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You said 79's gonna be mine.
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Seventy two weight we're gonna hell Seventy French seven bomb I'll be given by it, black, all that, but it's time to dump it, dump it, I'm gonna die, stop the one, but it's that all the ball stops the one level, drop your mind, don't you buy, but your pie, but your pie, stop the dumb bed, stop the lunch to dump it now, I'm then now I mean now not tomorrow, don't it now?
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Stiff Little Fingers, as always, on Alternative Colchester and 78 RPM Classic Skeeve, eh?
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Yeah, no, I mean that's just what just brilliant, isn't it?
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What can you say about that song?
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It's fantastic.
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All their songs are fantastic.
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This is the problem Steve and I have, Anne.
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We we look at our stiff little fingers track we're gonna choose for each episode, and we say, I'll have that one.
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No, no, I want that one.
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And I'll know that one.
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And it's just so sport for choice.
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Is there a you've talked about XSLF?
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What's the most tenuous band touring with a uh a link?
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You know, like a I think the Ramones came once with the roadie that played the art centre.
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No, you had Marky Ramones Blitzkrieg played at the art centre.
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I was at that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So he was the not original drummer.
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But isn't there a sort of like fifteen different I think I think I tell you what, we're trying to put on the bony M.
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Good luck.
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And I was saying, is the dancer?
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You've got to have the dancer.
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Bobby.
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No, he died, yes.
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Yeah, no, he died.
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I said, well, dig him up.
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You could have and the band could be bony, bony M.
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You could put 'em on.
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You know, it's a bit tenuous, dragging the corpse of a body on stage, but why not?
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The art centres there to do new things.
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It's quite punk rock, isn't it?
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Or it would have been original punk rock, I think that would have been.
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Very bony M.
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Ant and I had a an extremely long uh c uh message thread about he put a bon Jovi tribute band on at the Art Centre recently.
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And were they called Gon Jovi, or was that one we made up?
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Non-Jovi other.
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I thought we came up with Hunter.
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Ron Jovi.
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Plays all the Bon Jovi tracks on Bonjo in a jolly way.
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And then we had Bon Jovi, which could have been Jody Whitka's new band.
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I've seen Bon Jovi.
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Oh god.
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Steve, you're disappointed.
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I saw them.
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Why?
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I saw them in Monroe, Louisiana.
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Why?
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Er because they were supporting a band called Rat, R.
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A.
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Double T, who I really liked.
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Um Bon Jovi, which is this up-and-coming band that was supporting.
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Oh right.
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Are r are Rat still uh going?
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No.
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No, I don't think well they're bound to have got back together with the original keyboard.
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X rat.
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X rat Roland.
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Roland Rat.
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Yes.
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We said this about Queen, though, didn't we, last week?
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The only thing worse than a tribute band is the actual band.
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Yeah, no, they say that about Bob Dylan as well, don't they?
00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.319
They say that he's really, really like shot to pieces now.
00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:48.640
Yes.
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And it's like the classic bee rattling around in a jar, tried to listen to.
00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:56.240
Steve, I thought we had an indent for Stiff Little Fear.
00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:56.960
Haven't you done it yet?
00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:59.680
Well, it was excess LFA, wasn't it?
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So I didn't think it was appropriate to it's only Henry songs that we can do that with.
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Yeah.
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And there's not many.
00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.319
And he described he described wasted life, didn't he?
00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.519
No, I no, he's he wrote a suspect device.
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Yeah.
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So he led us all to believe that.
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And uh here we are nowhere.
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We will find a suitable.
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So there was there was about thirty at this gig.
00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:29.599
No, it was more than that, because he took five hundred at the stiff fingers gig at the roundhouse.
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Yeah, they're on fire.
00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:32.319
The career's on fire.
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But the Henry and the lads were so nice, aren't they?
00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:35.759
Such nice blokes.
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But yeah, he lost uh the the support band, the lead singer had promoted the gig.
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He w there they were called Jack the Lad.
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I see.
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And there was another support band called Under the Kosh because um Blenderhead couldn't make it.
00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:51.039
Blenderhead.
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They couldn't make it.
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That's quite a good name.
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Under the kosh.
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How did you find all this out?
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I read it on the notice board in three weeks.
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And Under the Kosh.
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Was that is that anything to do with Kosh the Driver?
00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:02.640
It might have been.
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Is that the That's the uh yeah, the biggest blow it was also called?
00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.240
Well we missed them, but Jack the Lad were probably.
00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.480
No, we saw Jack the Lad, didn't we?
00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:11.279
We saw both of them.
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Oh we did.
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Under the kosh with a Shatter Sham.
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Shatter Sham 69.
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They did Ballstall Breaker.
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Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.
00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:16.799
Yeah.
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What's your one, Steve?
00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:19.200
What's your first choice today?
00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.960
Uh right, well, there's a bit of a theme running through the show.
00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.559
And we haven't spoken about football, but I think that's because you two are just so cool.
00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:28.720
We're on our international break, yes.
00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:30.480
Ah, international break.
00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.599
So so comedy seems to be the order of the day with you two.
00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:35.839
Um I I might have known.
00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.240
Uh right, there is a theme running through this.
00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:46.000
So when I saw that you had chosen, I'm gonna bit uh spoiler alert,
um, because Tim, you've chosen a Tom Robinson band.
00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:46.720
Absolutely.
00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:47.440
Ah records.
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I've got a Tom Robinson's story for you.
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Well we'll save that for when we play Tom Robinson.
00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:52.319
Okay.
00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:57.680
Grey Cortina by the Tom Robinson band, and the link is Cortina.
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So I've chosen a Cortinas track.
00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:09.759
I've been meaning to play one ever since we started the show, and they keep getting bumped because people keep um making requests, which I've been honouring.
00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:11.759
Um can I request the Cortinas?
00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:15.279
You can request the Cortinas, because that's actually the next song.
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And lucky is if by magic.
00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:28.960
It's it's actually the uh I wanted to play Fascist Dictator, which is my favourite um Cortina song, but it's kind of got 1970s lyrics.
00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:29.599
Okay.
00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:36.079
So I thought I'm gonna give in to the PC Brigade and and not play it.
00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:49.039
But their follow-up single, uh on Step Forward Records, actually, they were from Bristol, the Cortinas, and Step Forward Records was owned by Mark Perry of Alternative TV, and also Miles Copeland, brother of Stuart Copeland.
00:20:49.440 --> 00:21:00.079
Um and the Cortinas had two great singles on Step Forward, they got picked up by CBS Records and made the worst album ever in the history of punk rock.
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It was absolutely dreadful.
00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:03.599
Michael and I request that one then, brother.
00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:06.079
Well, it'd probably be more in keeping.
00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:14.400
But without further ado, let's listen to the Cortinas when they were really good, and this was their second single called Defiant Pose.
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Defiant pose by the Cortinas.
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I could have played um Fascist Dictator after all after listening to some of the lyrics in that.
00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:58.960
But um Thank you for drawing attention to him.
00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:01.599
Yeah, it's all it's all done in good faith.
00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:02.079
Absolutely.
00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:09.519
The other fun fact about the Courtinas is uh Nick Shepherd, the guitarist, uh joined the Clash.
00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:23.519
And yeah, so not only did he was he responsible for the probably the worst album ever uh for the Cortinas album uh on CBS Records, but he then joined the Clash in time for them to do Cut the Crap, and that was a terrible album.
00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:24.640
That was a good album.
00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:27.039
So he's got bad form as our Nick.
00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:28.960
Oh is he still available for work?
00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:30.720
The Art Centre will book.
00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:33.440
I'd like to advise him to play at the Art Centre.
00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:35.039
I'll check it out.
00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:39.599
We haven't spoken much about football, but um Ant, you are we mentioned you're a Watford fan.
00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:42.160
Tell us why you why you support Watford.
00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:43.440
Well, I don't really.
00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:45.519
You do when they win.
00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:46.079
Yeah.
00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:48.960
Uh I'm uh the member of the Fair Weather Support Association.
00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:50.000
Like Elton John.
00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:53.359
So you're not a true Hornet.
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He is, because he's from Watford.
00:24:55.279 --> 00:25:07.119
Well, I'm from Watford and I follow them, but uh I I like to think that I'm the uh least loyal um fan because when they lose I disown them immediately and uh uh support Luton.
00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:14.319
So uh you know I can't even ask you how they got on at the weekend because you had a famous international break.
00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:15.920
Next game's against QPR.
00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:18.079
Yeah, no, I'm supporting the Golden Boys.
00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:20.319
Uh when was the last time you saw them live?
00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:27.440
Oh it would have been about uh nineteen, seven before Punk.
00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:29.119
Fair few years ago, yeah.
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:40.880
So I always say I'm not really a proper football fan because I I uh Ann and I uh do m talk about football a fair bit and um I was gonna read a list, but it will take most of the show.
00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:44.160
It's not well I I'll I'll I'll do the first few.
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This is from twenty eleven to twenty twenty seven twenty twenty where are we now?
00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:58.079
Twenty twenty-six Sean Dyce, Jan Franco Zola, Giuseppe Sanino, Oscar Garcia, your favourite Oscar Garcia did four games.
00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:12.799
Billy McKinley did two games, Slavasa Yokanovich, Kike Sanchez Flores, Flores, Walter Mazzari, Marco Silva, Javi Garcia, Kike Sanchez Flores again.
00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:18.960
That's the first eleven of the twenty-seven managers Watford have had between twenty eleven and twenty.
00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:20.640
I just see twenty seven.
00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:24.720
My favourite is the two games Billy McKinley McKinley McKinley.
00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:36.960
Now Billy McKinley was a manager for eight days, had two games, and his record over those two games was one one, drew one, and he still got the sack.
00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:38.720
But I think rightly so.
00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:41.200
Because that's an average of two points per game.
00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:41.599
Yeah.
00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:42.640
But it's not good enough.
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:43.759
Results-driven business.
00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:45.119
He's a results-driven business.
00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:46.319
He had
to go.
00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:49.759
My should never have got rid of Graham Taylor.
00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:52.720
Well, I think that turniphead had to go.
00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:57.039
My idea is that they should sack the manager every half.
00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:01.279
And then you come in at half time, you've got a new manager, you get new manager bounce.
00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:02.319
New manager bounce.
00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:03.440
Back out there.
00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:04.000
You know.
00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:08.079
I mean, well done for reeling off eleven names, because I can't remember any of them.
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:14.880
Um, my friend David Westhead, we always say, get rid of what's his name and bring back what's his name.
00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:20.079
It's never been the same since the fellow before what's his name was there.
00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:31.039
And actually, yeah, the next one on the list has a Colchester connection, because the next one on the list was a caretaker manager for Watford who became manager of Colchester, Hayden Mullins.
00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:31.759
Oh dear.
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.640
And he was caretaker and manager of Watford twice.
00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:35.599
He was shocking.
00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.880
In the sense they're all caretaker managers of Watford, aren't they?
00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:42.880
And has Ant has applied more than once to uh talking of sacking.
00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:44.640
I think they should appoint you.
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.279
They should.
00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:47.119
Record track record of success.
00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.960
How did that Tottenham guy that they sacked yesterday get the job in the first place?
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:57.119
I looked on his uh Wikipedia to see what his um Egor Chudas.
00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:00.559
The guy's been a disaster everywhere he's been.
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:02.000
But he gets results quickly.
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:03.440
I can see He doesn't though.
00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:05.119
Luke is desperate to get in.
00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:08.160
Luke, have you got some profound wisdom to share with us about any of this?
00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:11.200
No, not for um not for Spurs, to be fair.
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:12.480
I've got a lot of Spurs fans.
00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:17.599
But his his dad it was mutual um mutual agreement that he left, wasn't it?
00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:19.279
Because I think his dad passed away, unfortunately.
00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:20.559
Yeah, that's right.
00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:22.160
But I think there's probably more to it.
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:29.119
But if you look at every other managerial position he's had, it they've only ever lasted a year or less.
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:30.079
Absolutely.
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:32.160
They ought to appoint Billy McKinley.
00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:33.359
Billy McKinley, yeah.
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:34.960
If they want to stay up, is he still alive?
00:28:36.960 -->
00:28:37.119
Yeah.
00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:39.279
He's in the mixknap for four games.
00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:41.279
Harry is in the mix, isn't he?
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:44.160
He he was at um he was at the races, wasn't he?
00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:46.240
And they asked him about it and he said he would take it.
00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:46.640
Yeah.
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:48.880
Bring back Harry's at Cheltenham.
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:50.319
He's probably got a bet on it.
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:53.119
Or as the Stranglers would say, don't bring Harry.
00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:54.799
Do you know what the Stranglers song?
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:56.400
Do you know what Harry stood for?
00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:58.799
Is it something to do with drugs, Steve?
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:01.440
H is a bit of a clue.
00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:02.079
Oh yes.
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.079
Yeah, they do they do a few songs about it.
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:05.119
Don't bring Harry.
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:07.200
Meaning don't bring it.
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:07.519
Yes.
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:08.799
Golden Brown.
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:11.759
Yes, that's um people think that's a lovely song.
00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:18.480
Or perhaps the less kind of like um metaphoric uh heroin by uh Velvet Underground.
00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:20.000
Yes, they were a bit less subtle.
00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:22.319
This this perfect day?
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:23.599
No, not this perfect day.
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:25.440
That was the same but perfect day.
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:26.400
Perfect day.
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:27.519
Lou Reed?
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:28.480
Spending with you.
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:28.960
Yeah, yeah.
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:30.720
Yeah, and that was about spending it in.
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.599
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:32.160
Enough.
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:34.400
Yes, indeed.
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:35.359
Enough already.
00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:36.880
There's too many drug references.
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:37.680
Right.
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:40.160
Let's get back to the Courtinas reference then.
00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:40.720
No, let's not.
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:41.599
No, no, let's not.
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:42.000
Let's not.
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:43.440
Let's talk about Ivor Cutler.
00:29:43.599 --> 00:29:47.680
Yeah, let's talk about Ivor Cutler with this Mark Two.
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:50.079
It's your turn, Anthony.
00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:54.000
And I how you're how you're gonna um explain this one, I don't know.
00:29:54.319 --> 00:30:14.880
So uh well, Peel introduced me to a lot of uh things and I was talking uh about um you know the kind of uh shock when you accidentally dial into Radio 3 after ten o'clock and uh listening to Ivan Carter was like what hang on, but who the hell who the hell what what what are you doing now?
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.640
What what what is that about?
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:21.920
Ivan Carter was famously difficult to uh be with and around as well.
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:39.599
Um and um I remember him being interviewed about this uh he had a a an album Life Life in a Scots sitting room volume two and the interviewer was trying to be you know sort of jolly him along and it wasn't really working.
00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:42.480
But he said, Why why why have you called it volume two?
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.799
There's no there's no volume one.
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:47.039
Why is it why have you called it?
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:54.720
He said, Well, I like to think of it as a slice sliced loaf of bread.
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:05.039
Well you take out a uh a slice and put the crust back to keep it fresh.
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:10.160
Brilliant the interviewer couldn't really have an answer.
00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:11.680
That's very profound, isn't it?
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:12.720
Yeah, it's very profound.
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:18.240
But uh still trying to picture a uh a sliced loaf and taking the slice out and.
00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:21.039
Never mind.
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:21.519
No, I do.
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:22.240
No, I don't know.
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:24.079
Oh, I eat the cross.
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:28.720
No no my loaf of bread that I used for lunch.
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:30.079
I did that.
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:31.599
But it'd be the wrong size.
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:33.839
Well, that doesn't seem to matter.
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:34.720
It keeps it fresh.
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:36.240
I agree with either.
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:37.200
Only a bit of it.
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:38.319
I agree with either.
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:41.920
Well, if you unpick the metaphor too much, I think it does you're right, it does fall apart.
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:43.759
Perhaps the interviewer should have pointed that out to him.
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:44.720
But it doesn't keep it fresh.
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:47.279
Did he explain only the majority of it fresh?
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:53.599
Did he explain why volume two uh had an episode six?
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:55.599
Were th were there five other episodes?
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.680
Uh I think there was eleven episodes.
00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:58.799
Ah.
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:02.400
And you've chosen episode six, which is your favourite.
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:03.039
Indeed.
00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:04.720
Can you tell us why?
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:09.839
Wait till you wait till you hear it, listen.
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:13.359
Yeah, and I think it's the sing-along nature of it.
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:18.559
Uh the toe-tapping um anthemesque uh uh chorus.
00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:20.799
We're gonna be pogoing round the studio to this one.
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:28.640
Is it a good time to say anyone who was thinking about going and making a cup of tea and then coming back, uh that they've got exactly three minutes and ten seconds to do.
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:35.359
Well, he
John John Peel was a big fan.
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:36.079
Huge fan.
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:37.119
Um yeah.
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.039
So should we play it?
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:40.880
Let's play Ivor Cutler, look.
00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:45.839
Life in a Scotch Sitting Room 2, episode six.
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:06.799
Scotland gets its brains from the herring, said Grandpa, and we all nodded our heads with complete incomprehension.
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:18.000
Sometimes, for a treat, we got playing with their heads, glutinous, burny affairs without room for brains, and a look of lust on their narrow soprano jaws.
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:25.200
The time I lifted the lid of the midden on a winter night, and there, a cool blue gleam.
00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:27.519
Herring heads.
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:33.680
Other heads do not gleam in the dark, so perhaps Grandpa was right.
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:47.599
To make sure we ate the most intelligent herring, he fished the estuary, planted a notice, littered it herring this way, below the water line, at the corner where it met the sea.
00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:51.279
The pint for the notice was made of crushed heads.
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:09.599
A few feet brought them within the confining friendliness of his manila net, and a purposeful end.
00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:13.199
There was only one way to cook it.
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:21.679
A deep batter of porridge left from breakfast was patted round, and it was fed onto the hot griddle athwart the coal fire.
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:28.320
In seconds, a thick aroma leaned around and bent against the walls.
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:31.760
We lay down and dribbled on the carpet.
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:34.320
Also, the air was fresher.
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:36.880
Time passed.
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:45.039
In exactly 25 minutes the porridge cracked, and juice steamed through with a glad fizz.
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:55.199
We ate the batter first to take the edge off our appetites so that we could eat the herring with respect, which we did, including the bones.
00:34:56.320 --> 00:35:01.519
After supper, assuming the herring to have worked, we were asked questions.
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:07.840
In Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, we had to know the principal parts of verbs.
00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:19.119
In geography, the five main glove manufacturing towns in the Midlands, and in history, the development of Glasgow's sewage system.
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:23.840
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education.
00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:27.360
One is left with an irreparable debt.
00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:30.960
My head is full of irregular verbs still.
00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:58.239
And I think I've achieved that in the studio this afternoon.
00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:11.360
Well, anyone who missed the beginning of that track uh might be wondering who it was, and it was the excellent Ivor Cutler and one of his better tracks, and that was Life in a Scotch Sitting Room 2, episode
6.
00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:18.880
Now, Ant is into poetry, and I think we can agree Ivor is a po have you done any of Ivor's Is one of your poems ever been in Ivor Cutler?
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:27.360
I've done an Ivor Cutler, but I did book him when I very first came to Colchester Art Centre in 1992 to come and uh perform, but he was unwell.
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:28.480
Told to cancel.
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:31.039
Uh but he was on the front of the brochure for a while.
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:32.960
Ivory.
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:39.440
Last time I think I saw him was at John Peel's Meltdown at the South Bank.
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:54.960
Uh and uh uh you know, he had his little uh um harmum and was doing his stuff, but there was a kid in the audience, I think it was a baby crying, and he was like really angry about it, and he said, Well someone take that child out of the room.
00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:59.360
Uh because he was also the uh president of the noise abatement society.
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:00.079
Oh, excellent.
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:08.719
Well when he wasn't available for that geek at the art centre, could you have not reached out to Iva Biggin and the Red Nose Burglars?
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:10.559
Very similar articles.
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:12.960
Had you suggested at the time, Steve.
00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:14.320
The Winkers who knows.
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:15.440
Yeah.
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:20.239
Now and and got into poetry, I think, d mostly during COVID, didn't you?
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.079
Yeah, I read it oh well, yeah, eight years.
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:31.039
Because um you promised that you would um not shave and also do a poem a day for every day of COVID or lockdown.
00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:32.719
I thought it would last three weeks.
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:35.280
And it lasted five hundred and thirty-two pounds.
00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:36.960
So that was five hundred and thirty two.
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:38.320
Five hundred and thirty-two pounds.
00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:42.239
And I had a beard that could like really almost came down to my knees.
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:52.719
And when I used to visit my ninety-seven-year-old mother at the uh uh care home, they mistook me for her husband on two separate occasions.
00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:54.480
Is your good lady wife?
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:58.559
And when I tell that story, I thought well well, your mother must have been very sprightly.
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:08.559
No she was far from sprightly, she'd had two strokes by then, had to be fed, and uh was um dribbling into a lap, really.
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:12.639
I did see a video of you earlier when I was doing a bit of research on Dr.
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:13.679
Anthony Roberts.
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:21.039
And I saw a video of you offering to uh recite poetry to people that were feeling a little bit down during the COVID.
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:22.400
Oh, that was right at the start, wasn't it?
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:22.719
Yeah.
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:24.400
Yeah, you soon got over that.
00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:26.159
Yeah, there was no beard in that video.
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:27.679
So it must have been right at the beginning of the yeah.
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:34.159
He had a ceremonial shaving off of the beard when we opened the um Art Centre's new toilets.
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:35.280
Yeah, that's wrong.
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:36.719
What did you do with the beard?
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:39.119
I gave it to a puppeteer, actually.
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:43.519
Uh Andy Lawrence, Theatre of Widdishons comes every year and does the puppet show.
00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:45.679
Uh and he said good night of the beard.
00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:52.719
So uh the plaided beard was delivered to him and he promises to make a puppet featuring the uh facial hair of Dr.
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:53.440
Anthony Roberts.
00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:54.320
I haven't seen it yet.
00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:57.920
But sounds like it's uh As popular as I'm still in the works.
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:04.159
Our producer's face, I've never this is the first episode when he has he looks as quite funny some most of the time.
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:05.280
He's visibly wince.
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.960
He is wincing, and what is going on in my studio, he's thinking.
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:12.159
We'll probably find out it's the only chat he's ever liked that he plays.
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:14.559
We've never found his musical taste.
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:16.719
No, we we keep meaning to ask him, don't we?
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:18.000
No, not really.
00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:20.159
Shall we get back on to the subject of Cortinas?
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:21.039
Cortinas.
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:25.840
Now, the great thing about there are many great things about this podcast, Steve, aren't there?
00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:29.440
One of the greatest things I've found is rediscovering the Tom Robinson band.
00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:29.840
Oh.
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.159
I forgot what a great band they were.
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:34.719
And Power in the Darkness is a fantastic album.
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:39.679
You're gonna have to ease up because there's gonna be more Tom Robinson band songs on this podcast than there are Stiff Little Fingers.
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:41.519
That'd be impossible because we play Stiff Little Fingers every week.
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:42.320
Every week, yeah.
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:46.800
Yeah, but it's great to go back and see if I get to tell my Tom Robinson story now.
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:49.679
Tell your Tom Robinson story now before we play this great thing.
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:57.119
So we like to go to my wife and I like to take the Euro star uh annual holidays to where we went on uh honeymoon allele.
00:39:57.679 --> 00:39:59.679
And that's the first stop that you get to on there.
00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:02.960
Anyway, we were so we
were in the uh waiting lounge.
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:06.960
You go up to the platform uh at uh St.
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:13.679
Pancras and um there was a guy next to us designing C Ds, you know, with a guitar and everything.
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:16.320
And I'm not chatty, but my wife is.
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:19.360
Designing C D's with a guitar.
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:23.039
Incredible that we bought a tooth on the back of it.
00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:25.920
You know the guitar thing is with someone else.
00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:29.039
And uh it was kind of vaguely familiar.
00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:33.519
Anyway, my wife said, Are you the are you Tom Robinson?
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:37.199
And he said, Well yeah and she said, Are you the Tom Robinson?
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.559
And he said, Well, I'm not Tommy Robinson.
00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:45.199
Thank goodness Which I was you should have been disappointed then.
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:46.719
Oh what a shame.
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:52.719
It's an interesting uh similarity there, because you couldn't find two different people, could you?
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:57.119
Tom is very liberal and socialist in his outlook.
00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:58.880
Whereas Tommy Robinson isn't.
00:40:59.119 --> 00:40:59.360
No.
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:03.679
So it was two, four, six, eight Euro star.
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:10.159
You don't think Tommy Robinson's a kind of like tribute to uh Tom Robinson, do you?
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:14.639
I don't think so, and I I don't think we'll be inviting him to alternative culture.
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.159
Well he's a Luton fan for a star.
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:17.920
Yeah, well what Tommy Robinson?
00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:20.320
Yeah I didn't know that's makes it one worse.
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:22.480
Hang on.
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:27.840
Uh Nigel Pearson, Hayden Mullins again, Vladimir Ivitch.
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:28.639
Oh, he was useless.
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:29.920
Zisko Munoz.
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:31.199
Terrible, he had to go.
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:34.239
Claudio Ranieri won the premiership.
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:35.519
Disgrace he was.
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:36.239
Get him out.
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:39.199
Roy Hodgson, who's now back in management with Bristol City.
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:41.039
Disgrace.
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:42.079
Is he still around?
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:43.039
Roy Hodgson.
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.920
He's just been appointed as Bristol City's manager at 78.
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:49.920
And talking of 78, I think this record came out in 78.
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.280
So let's hear tenuously.
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:02.079
Oh yeah and 1981.
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:03.679
But did I misunderstand?
00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:05.199
Is there a theme to today's programme?
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:06.559
Well the cortina.
00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:07.440
Oh, I see, right.
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:08.159
Oh yes, I see.
00:42:08.239 -->
00:42:09.599
That's how it fits in with the cortina.
00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:12.400
And this is Grey Cortina by the Tom Robinson band.
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:14.239
Didn't your brother have a brown cortina?
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:16.400
He did, I'll tell you about that after the track.
00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:31.519
Tom Robinson Band and ending the song in typical punk rock fashion with a great ending.
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:33.039
Grey Cortina.
00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:34.480
Fantastic song, Steve.
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:35.119
Yeah, brilliant song.
00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:36.159
Tongue in cheek, I think.
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:38.639
Yeah, nice and short, snappy, catchy.
00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:39.440
Love it.
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:39.679
Brilliant.
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They will never forget it.
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:47.280
What about your brother's brown cortina?
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:49.599
Yes, my brother's brown cortina was a dreadful car.
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:50.079
Really?
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:51.039
It kept breaking down.
00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:53.199
I mean he's not a good driver, my brother.
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:56.639
He had a few pranks and it was a rust bucket.
00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:57.760
But he did give me a few.
00:44:59.280 --> 00:44:59.519
Rust.
00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:03.440
It was brown and rust.
00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:05.119
What on the inside or outside?
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:06.639
Both, yes.
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:07.840
What colour of brown though?
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:08.719
What shade of brown?
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:11.360
Um you know when you're really ill?
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:12.960
Dog mess brown.
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:13.679
Oh, I see.
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:15.199
I'd call it.
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:18.719
I I had to choose my words carefully carefully there.
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:20.559
Yes, it wasn't a great car.
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:24.639
Matthew will no doubt tell me that it was a great car.
00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:26.880
Just by a bad driver.
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:31.280
But Grey Cortina, I thought Grey Cortina was much better than his brown cortina.
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:38.480
So we don't lose track of where this show's going, um and and keeping in with the Cortina theme.
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:39.039
Go for it.
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.679
Um and we're getting daggers from the producer, I think he's got to be out in four hours.
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:52.159
So um uh if we could just uh have a little bit of a speedy s side of the of the show and uh get it all back on track.
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:54.079
Uh another Cortina song.
00:45:54.159 --> 00:46:12.159
Unfortunately, I am gonna have to tell you a little bit about the Salford Jets who sing this next one, Gina, brackets I've got a Cortina, close brackets, because um the Salford Jets actually had um sessions on Radio One with Peter Powell, Kid Jensen, and Mike Reed.
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.039
Are any of those still um uh not
in prison?
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:18.079
Urrh don't know, I'll have to check that.
00:46:18.239 --> 00:46:22.079
But um they did have a minor hit with who you looking at.
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:22.880
Do you remember that?
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:23.360
No.
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:24.960
You have to go and listen to that.
00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:26.880
I think you will know it if you if you hear it.
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:32.480
But let's hear a Cortina song, Gina brackets.
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:35.760
I've got a Cortina, close brackets, bottles all for Jets.
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:40.960
Me and Gina didn't have a car.
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:47.199
So me and Gina couldn't go far.
00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:51.199
Well now it's all turned.
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:52.960
Oh okay.
00:46:55.599 --> 00:48:48.239
Just listen to what I say, but I'm gonna go to the back.
00:49:41.119 --> 00:49:43.280
Manchester's very own Salford Jets.
00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:44.800
Oh, is that where they're from, is it?
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:47.840
Yeah, I think the name's in the the clue's in the title, isn't it?
00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:48.639
Great song.
00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:58.159
They made so many good songs of Sulford Jets and uh yeah, just didn't get anywhere near the recognition they deserved as as uh lots of punk banders can uh say that.
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:06.000
Um Right, it's um Ant's uh next choice, and he's actually chosen something extremely good.
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:06.800
Sensible.
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:07.360
Yeah.
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:07.920
Yeah.
00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:09.280
I take it back.
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:10.159
Hang on.
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:17.119
Rob Edwards, Slavin Billlich, Chris Wilder, Valerian again.
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:18.719
Well he had to go, obviously.
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:21.519
Tom Cleverly Oh Tom Cleverly, terrible.
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:34.000
Paolo Petzolano, an embarrassment, Javi Garcia again, awful, Charlie Daniels, caretaker, caretaker, rubbish, and the current manager, Ed Still.
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:36.159
In embarrassment to everyone.
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:39.360
Did they say to him Keep your head still?
00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:41.119
Because I'd love them to say that.
00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:43.519
Well he's still in the job.
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:46.719
Well well he might not be, it's ten past three.
00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:48.719
Right, the yachts.
00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:50.559
And tell us about this song.
00:50:50.880 --> 00:51:04.079
Well, I told you I wanted to choose one by a band that sort of like disappeared altogether, um, pretty much after punk, because that's one of the great things about uh punk that I liked was that uh the band could sort of like pop up and then um disappear.
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:17.840
You didn't have to kind of like have a career that took you to the west coast of America or took you on to kind of like and there was a band uh I heard Paley talking on the radio once and he was saying that he'd bumped into one of the bands that he did on one of his sessions and said, Oh well, how's the band going?
00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:30.880
Oh no, you know, we didn't not uh we uh well we got on your radio show and then um uh that was kind of like what we wanted to do, so we kind of like uh did something else and that was kind of like a refreshing attitude, isn't it?
00:51:31.119 --> 00:51:34.800
That's like you know, encompass what tomorrow.
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:42.880
Yeah, and it's like uh and and this is a very jolly little uh kind of track, but a kind of like uh stiff records of course.
00:51:43.119 --> 00:51:58.400
Uh and it has all the kind of like it's a bit in the same kind of bracket as the uh as the Jonathan Richmond tracker to uh chose early on as a kind of like uh a kind of joy and a kind of simplicity about it, which was just so refreshing.
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:02.880
So this is suffice to say, by the yachts.
00:52:14.239 --> 00:53:47.119
Yups straight to your heart I'm just a young romantic food I wrote this specially for you Although the rhyme is not like It's quite a scampy little too I'm sure you like the little steel It's shot, sweet too save you survived to say you can say surprise to say So what you think it is so far You know I would you never be a big I never meet the day So we just have to be out there's an instrumental break Suffice to say you love me I can say that I think Suffice to say I love you You know four weeks is much too long Four weeks alone What can I do?
00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:57.760
On the streets bereft of you What's a lonely man supposed to do?
00:54:00.000 --> 00:55:23.360
Oh I've been needing you badly You know I'd be missing you sadly If you leave Say you always think I'll be Why then Won't you let me see the moment you speak to you for you I love me It's like you I'm sure you like the closest too It's my sweetest too It's that I love you Suffice to say me can say that I baby Suffice to say I love you too Suffice to say you love me Can say that I baby Suffice to say I love you Great choice Aunt the yachts and suffice to say love that we were all saying the keyboards reminded us of the Stranglers and Dave Greenfield and lovely track.
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:25.599
You could actually say it reminded you of the doors, though, couldn't you?
00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:30.800
Oh, the doors, well the Stranglers will be accused of um aping the doors, but I think stranglers are much better than that.
00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:31.679
Oh yeah, definitely.
00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:39.519
So while that track was on, Steve talked about the box set that he's got of the art, which he's never listened to at all.
00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:40.239
Never opened.
00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:41.039
Never opened at all.
00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:50.400
No, because my good friend Mark Brennan, who does listen to the show and um he's a massive football fan, and he is the godfather of punk rock releases.
00:55:50.639 -->
00:55:53.920
Um It's not the Mark Brennan that used to play fruits with.
00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:57.920
No, but he did text me yesterday and saying, You do know that Mark Brennan used to play for you.
00:55:59.519 --> 00:55:59.599
Yeah.
00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:16.000
Uh I don't know what this Mark Brennan's uh left foot is like, but he's uh he had a a label for twenty odd years called Captain Oi Records and um Captain Oi Records, yeah, great, great and they've been purchased in recent years by Cherry Red Records.
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:28.000
Yes one of them, probably Cherry Red, because the yachts probably wouldn't fall completely in the Captain Oi camp, um, did a box set and he s sent me a promotional copy of it.
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:29.440
So I do need to open it.
00:56:29.519 --> 00:56:30.079
Sorry, Mark.
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:31.840
I know you're listening, I will open it.
00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:34.320
And I know you keep telling me how good the yachts are as well.
00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:37.280
So I'm and and if Mark Brennan, the X Ipswich player, is listening.
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:38.239
Good on you, Mark.
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:40.639
You had a few good games with the town and a great left foot.
00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:44.400
Perhaps you should keep it unopened though, a bit like Well, Mark's left foot.
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:44.880
Yeah.
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:45.760
The box set.
00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:48.480
Oh, it'll be a bit like more valuable.
00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:52.960
Yeah, more valuable than like uh Ivor Cutler's uh loaf of bread.
00:56:53.119 --> 00:56:54.559
You could keep it fresh.
00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:57.199
Are you sure they were called the yachts?
00:56:57.519 --> 00:56:59.360
Because in Monty Python there is a Mr.
00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:00.639
Luxury Yatched.
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.599
Oh is there?
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:05.199
Why would that cast uh doubt on whether they were called the yacht?
00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:06.559
Oh, could they call the yacht?
00:57:09.199 --> 00:57:09.679
Yes, Mr.
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:10.719
Luxury Yatched.
00:57:11.039 --> 00:57:12.000
Is in Monty Python.
00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:12.400
Right.
00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:13.519
So they weren't called the Yatch.
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:15.840
Well uh they've never been pronounced as the Yatch.
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:17.840
They were definitely the Yachts.
00:57:18.159 --> 00:57:21.360
Well, they've been referred to, but you raise an interesting point.
00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:22.960
I we I think we should put this to them.
00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:24.719
Would Mark Brennan know?
00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:27.280
He would know, but I can already know what his answer would be.
00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:30.400
Hello, I've never opened your box set and are you the yacht?
00:57:32.159 --> 00:57:37.760
If any of the yachts are listening, I am I am going to open that box set when I get home.
00:57:38.079 --> 00:57:39.599
No spoiler, you'll spoil it.
00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:41.840
The promise of what's in it would be ruined.
00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:49.440
The thing is I don't need to open them because what I I like to look at all the packaging and everything, and then I then I just stream things on uh Spotify.
00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:52.000
Now we're key well we've done telephone.
00:57:52.159 --> 00:57:53.840
We've done a lot of Watford stick.
00:57:54.320 --> 00:57:57.599
I'm not talking about Ipswich Town this week because of Farage Gate.
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:01.840
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say anything because I'm so angry about it.
00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:02.719
You just did.
00:58:03.039 --> 00:58:03.760
Oh yeah.
00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:07.280
Uh Luke's refusing to say anything about it because he he might get in trouble.
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:09.440
Well, we're trying to keep politics out of the show.
00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:12.400
Well, and we just weren't trying to keep politics out of our club.
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:13.519
That was the trouble.
00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:17.599
Uh has no other politician visited Portman Road?
00:58:18.320 --> 00:58:30.639
Not not like the that Farage got with shirts with his number and name on the back, and here's the dressing room, here's the press suite, and say what you like and then exploit it to the hilt, they didn't.
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:31.920
You're getting me angry, Steve.
00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:33.519
Well, a lot a lot of football fans.
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:37.199
Spectacular own goal.
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:42.639
A lot of football fans are calling for a twelve-point deduction, and I I'm I'm actually in favour of that.
00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:44.960
Yeah, but you would as a Cole U fan, wouldn't you?
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:47.519
We'd probably still be in a playoff position.
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:51.199
Uh but then they would appeal it and make it an 18-point deduction.
00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:54.000
Yeah, because they've got it in for it switched out at the right.
00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:56.800
We had a bit of fun on Saturday when there was the international break.
00:58:57.119 --> 00:59:02.480
This is the the game against uh Walsall where you messaged me afterwards said season's over.
00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:03.199
Yeah.
00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:09.119
But we had a we had a ten minute interlude because there was a drone flying over the pitch.
00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:11.119
It wasn't the drones, they punk ban the drones.
00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:12.239
Unfortunately not.
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:22.719
It was an actual drone, and rather than all trying to um take cover in case it was Russian, Chinese, Iranian, or all of the above, we were all trying to get a good look at it.
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:24.079
Um except the players.
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:28.239
They were all taken off the field for their own safety while the fans were just left to their own devices.
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:29.519
Their suspect devices.
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:32.400
That
probably is.
00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:36.480
We've had dogs interrupt uh uh football matches at Colster, famously.
00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:37.440
Yeah, chick baits.
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:37.920
Yeah.
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:40.079
Brentford got cog ended his career.
00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:40.559
The dog?
00:59:41.440 --> 00:59:41.760
What happened?
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:47.519
A dog ran on the pitch, attacked Brentford's goalie, Chick Bates, and ended his career.
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:49.280
Well, ended the goalie's career.
00:59:49.360 --> 00:59:49.440
Yeah.
00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:51.280
Why by by biting him?
00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:54.480
He collided with his knee, never played football again.
00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:56.320
The dog or the chick baits.
00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:59.280
What so the injury was so terrible.
00:59:59.840 --> 01:00:00.880
We shouldn't laugh.
01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:04.000
Jerry Harrison was commentating on this for match of the week.
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:04.159
Right.
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:05.519
Because it was a match of the week game.
01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:05.920
Yeah.
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:07.519
Costaby Grimsby was it?
01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:08.800
Remember when they said Brentford.
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:17.119
Remember when they used to read out the results and they'd say um snow stop abandoned uh snow stop play or wind stop play.
01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:19.760
Did they ever think they'd have to say drone stop play?
01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:20.960
Drone stop play, yeah.
01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:21.599
Good point.
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:23.440
Can I just rewind it a bit?
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:30.000
So you thought it was a military potentially a military yeah, and the first place they're going to attack is Colchester.
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:31.840
Seems a reasonable place to start.
01:00:33.199 --> 01:00:40.639
It's a garrison city and there was no premiership or championship games on, and it was the high attendance of Colchester.
01:00:41.679 --> 01:00:47.760
Well, it's the players, the same amount of players on the pitch, and then they would have caused um I think it was probably a South End United drone.
01:00:48.239 --> 01:01:03.119
Well, had that drone had done its job properly, they'd have seen that Colchester should have won the game because it's been proven that Samson David's shot that was allegedly cleared off the line went over the line by about a foot of the clearly over the line.
01:01:03.519 --> 01:01:06.480
They don't have goal line technology in Leagues One and Two, Luke.
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:07.679
I know we have it in the Champo.
01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:09.679
I assume they had it in League One and Two.
01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:14.000
I think the clubs have to fund it, I think.
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:16.079
Oh yeah, well, Cowling wouldn't do that.
01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:16.320
No.
01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:17.599
No, no, no, no.
01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:18.960
It's his club, not our club.
01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:20.800
No, absolutely, as we heard Larry Night.
01:01:27.199 --> 01:01:33.119
Do you think the drone was trying to do that, to try and bring its own sort of like DIY goal line technology into play?
01:01:33.519 --> 01:01:34.000
Possibly.
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:43.840
I remember Joe Garner scored a goal for Ipsy Twitch, and nobody realised it was a goal until the referee looked at his thing on his on his wrist and pointed to the halfway line and we went delirious.
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:46.320
Oh, because he got a buzzer to telemetry across the line.
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:48.239
And no nobody in the stadium thought it was.
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:50.079
I mean that can't cost much to do that, can it?
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:58.320
No, you could just get your drone, get a drone out, you know, and and you could, you know, you could rewrite history like the like Senegal versus.
01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:01.440
You're not legally allowed to fly over over people.
01:02:01.599 --> 01:02:03.599
Crowds of over 2,000, sorry to get on.
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:05.119
Have you just Googled it?
01:02:05.599 --> 01:02:07.119
No, because I've got a drone licence.
01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:08.000
Oh wow.
01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:09.360
That's another thing with that.
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:10.400
It wasn't you, was it?
01:02:10.639 --> 01:02:12.719
No, because I wouldn't fly over a few.
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:17.599
Do you need a licence to fly a drone?
01:02:17.840 --> 01:02:20.159
Uh I mean this could that could take yeah, you do.
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:23.599
It depends on the weight of the drone.
01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:26.480
That's reminding me of another Python sketch with the fish licence.
01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:29.280
Oh not catching me out there.
01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:30.320
Was there a big fight in the game?
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:31.360
Eric Harper B.
01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:32.960
Colchester game, was there?
01:02:33.360 --> 01:02:35.119
There was also a big fight after the drone.
01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:38.159
There was a big fight as well, which Yeah, I saw it made the news, didn't it?
01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:39.280
Why?
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:39.760
Yeah.
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:42.400
People weren't upset about the goal that wasn't given.
01:02:42.639 --> 01:02:44.559
Oh so it wasn't Colchester and Warsaw fans.
01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:46.639
No, it was Colester fans fighting each other.
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:50.400
Shall we move on?
01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:51.760
Let's move on to swindle.
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:52.880
Well we haven't actually spoken.
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:54.000
What was the fight then?
01:02:54.079 --> 01:03:00.960
There was a fight between two one set of of the Colchester United fans thought it wasn't a goal, so they attacked another set of what I've got.
01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:05.519
From what I can gather, it happened it happened in the hospitality area.
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:09.599
Isn't that where you are?
01:03:10.239 -->
01:03:16.960
Yeah, but we watch the game, but there is obviously hospitality people that just go for hospitality and not football, and I think that's where it occurred.
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:18.960
And they wonder why we don't care.
01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:25.119
We haven't spoken about uh bands with the the an X in the title for a little while, have we?
01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:25.599
No.
01:03:26.239 --> 01:03:26.960
We've got one coming now.
01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:27.519
Oh, have we?
01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:31.199
Swindon's Finest, which I mentioned the other week when we weren't even playing them.
01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:31.840
Mr.
01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:32.559
Partridge.
01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:33.519
Yeah, Andy.
01:03:33.920 --> 01:03:34.639
Andy, yeah.
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:37.440
Why didn't he stop why did he stop performing?
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:38.719
The Partridge Family.
01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:40.159
Stage Fright.
01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:42.480
Andy Partridge of XTC stopped performing.
01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:43.840
He was in the Partridge family.
01:03:44.079 --> 01:03:45.280
No, that was David Cassidy.
01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:45.679
Oh.
01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:46.239
Yeah.
01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:47.599
Sounds like Andy Partridge.
01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:48.719
Andy Partridge, yeah.
01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:51.679
I think their musical differences would have not kept them together longer.
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:53.039
Nah, I went to see XTC.
01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:53.840
I saw them a few times.
01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:54.400
Brilliant.
01:03:54.559 --> 01:03:57.199
You've just had Terry Chambers XTC.
01:03:57.599 --> 01:03:59.760
XTC on at the Art Center.
01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:00.239
Yeah.
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:00.880
Brilliant.
01:04:01.519 --> 01:04:07.519
What would happen if there was a guy who'd been in XTC, Generation X, and XSLF?
01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:09.599
Or what could his band be called?
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:10.320
X.
01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:14.239
X SLF Generation X.
01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:15.119
XTC.
01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:16.400
Generation X.
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:17.360
Yes.
01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:18.880
I'd buy a ticket.
01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:20.719
Let's hear.
01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:25.440
I saw though, I have to say I taught XTC here in a 78 at the university.
01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:26.159
Oh, I did too.
01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:26.800
They were brilliant.
01:04:26.880 --> 01:04:27.199
Yeah.
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:30.159
And this is my favourite XTC track.
01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:31.679
This is Pop.
01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:54.559
Stop there.
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:20.960
XTC, this is Pop Wonderful Song, and Swindon's finest, as I say, and I just regaled Stephen Ant with my story of my one visit to the county ground Swindon.
01:07:21.119 --> 01:07:25.280
We Ipswich Town were 2-0 down, ten minutes to go, and we won 3-2.
01:07:26.079 --> 01:07:28.000
I know Dalian Atkinson got one of the goals.
01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:30.159
Zondervan, I forget who scored the other one.
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:31.760
Oh, tell us, it's such a great story.
01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:32.880
It's a great story.
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:33.280
Yeah.
01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:35.760
So you were there and they were 2-0 down.
01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:37.840
And we won 3-2 with 10 minutes to go.
01:07:39.039 --> 01:07:40.880
We don't normally edit bits out of the show.
01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:42.480
No, bring back I have a cut.
01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:46.800
Remind me which major trophies Watford and Colchester have won.
01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:47.119
Yeah.
01:07:47.519 --> 01:07:48.239
Watney Cup.
01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:48.880
Simply won.
01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:49.920
Watney Cup.
01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:51.280
And you beat Leeds.
01:07:52.239 --> 01:07:53.119
That's it, isn't it?
01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:54.960
We won the FA trophy.
01:07:55.920 --> 01:07:57.440
That's for non-league clubs.
01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:58.000
We won the.
01:07:58.639 --> 01:08:00.480
Do you think it's a badge of honour winning trophies?
01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:02.719
FA Cups UA for Cup.
01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:04.480
The premiership as was.
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:07.119
How many managers has Ipswich sacked?
01:08:07.199 --> 01:08:10.079
This is the criteria by which the greatness of a football club should be a good thing.
01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:11.920
We're not a sacking club.
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:12.960
You're going run down.
01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:14.719
Well, that's where you're going wrong, isn't it?
01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:16.000
This is this is it.
01:08:16.399 --> 01:08:19.840
Clearly, we've got we've had more ex-England managers than you, I think.
01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:22.479
We are Bobby Robson and Alf Ramsey.
01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:26.079
Sound like one of these West Ham fans that says they won the they won the World Cup.
01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:30.720
From a Cole Yu fan, tell us about when you were tell us about when you were 2-0 down.
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:32.880
That that that's such a great story.
01:08:33.119 --> 01:08:33.279
Yes.
01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:35.520
2-0 down ten minutes ago, we won 3-2.
01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:36.319
I was overjoyed.
01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:39.199
Ipswich ladies played on their own ground this week.
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:40.159
And we lost.
01:08:40.399 --> 01:08:41.600
We lost to Southampton.
01:08:42.079 --> 01:08:43.520
Didn't play at Colchester United.
01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:44.800
Because you were playing.
01:08:46.159 --> 01:08:47.359
At 10,000 apparently.
01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:47.760
Yeah.
01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:52.000
We we got double the crowd for our women than Cole U got for their men's too.
01:08:52.239 --> 01:08:53.119
Because it free to get in.
01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:54.720
No! How much of it?
01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:55.279
Is it free?
01:08:55.520 --> 01:08:57.119
Look, do you know if the women charge?
01:08:57.520 --> 01:08:58.000
Uh it was.
01:08:58.479 --> 01:08:59.840
When they played at Felix Day, they did.
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:03.359
Yeah, this weekend it was uh was it under eights went free, I think.
01:09:03.600 --> 01:09:05.279
They have to pay, see, adults have to pay.
01:09:05.760 --> 01:09:09.680
The kids went free, but then the adults 10 quid or something like that.
01:09:10.079 --> 01:09:10.800
10 quid.
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:14.079
There was a business uh event there, wasn't there?
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:19.840
All in the morning they had a business breakfast and then people got to see the ladies play as well.
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:23.039
Because some of the people in our box had been there for the breakfast.
01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:24.479
They said the breakfast was excellent.
01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:25.119
Good.
01:09:25.439 --> 01:09:26.079
We do something right.
01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:31.279
Oh, I love getting sick from a car.
01:09:31.680 --> 01:09:34.239
So last Saturday, Tim.
01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:34.800
Yes.
01:09:35.359 --> 01:09:36.319
No trains.
01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:38.079
Oh the Saturday before last.
01:09:38.319 --> 01:09:38.399
Yeah.
01:09:38.720 --> 01:09:40.000
When we talked if Little Fingers.
01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:40.319
Yeah.
01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:41.359
Oh, you loved this, didn't you?
01:09:41.680 --> 01:09:42.720
Bus replacement service.
01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:43.199
Yes.
01:09:43.760 --> 01:09:53.600
Um but it didn't put us off because I drove to Newbury Park only to find out that the rail replacement buses were all using the car park at Newbury Park.
01:09:53.840 --> 01:10:02.479
So I had to go into the park in the side street, walk back to the tube station, to get the tube into uh Camden to see stiff little fingers.
01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:05.039
But as we said, we'd have walked there, wouldn't we?
01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:07.840
Well I'd identified Golders Lane.
01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:09.680
Golders Green, wouldn't it?
01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:16.000
Golders Green as an ideal place to park uh three stops from the venue.
01:10:16.239 --> 01:10:16.560
Yes.
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:30.960
Um But my wife and her sister and her husband and my sister-in-law and brother-in-law uh said they could park at we could park at Woodford Green Fire Station.
01:10:31.439 --> 01:10:32.479
Woodford Green Fire Station.
01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:33.039
Yeah.
01:10:33.359 --> 01:10:40.960
Which was then a half an hour walk to the tube station and then a four-hour tube journey to Camden.
01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:42.800
And uh so we did that way.
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:43.840
I got overruled.
01:10:44.079 --> 01:10:46.479
Yeah, and you never you didn't mention it though, did you?
01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:47.439
I didn't mention it once.
01:10:47.600 --> 01:10:49.439
Not after the gig, he wasn't mentioning it at all.
01:10:49.760 --> 01:10:51.199
That's true, I did not mention it once.
01:10:51.439 --> 01:10:53.039
We could we could be home by now.
01:10:54.319 --> 01:10:56.239
Have you not used the Elizabeth Line yet?
01:10:56.640 --> 01:10:58.239
Do you know the Elizabeth Lion exists?
01:10:58.399 --> 01:10:58.800
Yes, yes.
01:10:59.359 --> 01:11:00.239
We're not that old.
01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:03.520
Three grandads sitting here, aren't they?
01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:05.279
Shenfield, it runs from, don't we?
01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:10.880
Or Brent Brentwiddle Shenfield, you can get the I've parked there before, just got the Elizabeth Line straight.
01:11:11.359 --> 01:11:12.319
Why didn't you tell us if we do that?
01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:14.239
Why didn't we uh does it go to, though?
01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:15.119
All the way through.
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:16.479
It goes all the way through to Heathrow.
01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:17.680
Yeah, but that's no good.
01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:18.399
We were going to Camden.
01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:20.880
No, but it it goes straight through the middle.
01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:23.439
So you can get off and get on another tube, you see.
01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:24.319
We could have done that.
01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:25.119
I'm gonna do that next time.
01:11:26.479 --> 01:11:26.880
Thanks for telling us.
01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:28.479
Mornington Crescent.
01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:29.039
Yes.
01:11:29.279 --> 01:11:29.920
Have I won?
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:30.880
Yes, of course.
01:11:31.199 --> 01:11:32.319
Do you get that reference, Steve?
01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:33.359
Mornington Crescent.
01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:35.439
A lot of punk bands lived in Mornington Crescent.
01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:36.880
Radio 4, he's on about.
01:11:38.239 --> 01:11:38.720
It's a game.
01:11:38.880 --> 01:11:39.760
It's a game, is it?
01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:40.960
Which which one's it on?
01:11:41.520 --> 01:11:41.760
I'm sorry.
01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:46.560
They always mention Mornington Crescent as the final destination.
01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:48.079
So back to the gig.
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:49.840
So thank Christ.
01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:52.159
I said I wasn't gonna do any requests.
01:11:52.319 --> 01:11:52.399
Yes.
01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:59.119
And I already had my tracks ready, so there's something I had to bump the questions by the Suburban Studs.
01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:07.279
Um and this next song is an actual request, and it is for my sister-in-law, Jip.
01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:09.359
And she wants to hear lovely.
01:12:09.920 --> 01:12:13.760
She wants to hear Janie Jones by The Clash.
01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:15.199
Do you like do you like the sound of that?
01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:17.039
It is fantastic.
01:12:17.359 --> 01:12:18.800
Well, an opening track to an album.
01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:19.199
Yeah.
01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:19.920
Brilliant.
01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:25.359
It's the opening track to the best album ever released, in my opinion.
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:30.640
It looks inflammable material down to a close second for me.
01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:31.039
Okay.
01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:34.720
And the name of the drummer who
brings the track in is Tory Crimes.
01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:35.520
Great name.
01:12:35.760 --> 01:12:36.560
Yes, absolutely.
01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:38.079
Replaced by Topper Eden.
01:12:38.399 --> 01:12:40.880
Yeah, but Tory Crimes or Terry Chuck.
01:12:41.119 --> 01:12:45.119
Terry Chuck is now a um Tory MP.
01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:47.520
No, he's uh Tory lord?
01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:49.680
He's uh He's in prison for being a Tory?
01:12:50.079 --> 01:12:50.800
A practitioner.
01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:53.920
Um an osteopath.
01:12:55.680 --> 01:12:57.119
That's what Terry Chimes is.
01:12:57.199 --> 01:12:57.840
He's an osteopath.
01:12:58.239 --> 01:12:58.720
Tory crimes.
01:12:59.439 --> 01:13:03.840
Uh he's very, very um prolific on Facebook.
01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:09.439
So if you want to have a chat about a clash and have your back sorted, look him up.
01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:10.800
Does he do it with drumsticks?
01:13:11.119 --> 01:13:12.319
Janie Jones on your back.
01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:14.239
Yeah, and you have to love that.
01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:16.640
You have to go, oh, I'm in love with the rock and roll world.
01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:18.479
Let's hear it.
01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:20.960
Janie Jones by the Clash.
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:48.399
They gotta have fun with you.
01:15:24.479 --> 01:15:25.199
Good choice, Jip.
01:15:25.439 --> 01:15:26.239
Great choice, Jip.
01:15:26.399 --> 01:15:26.960
Fabulous.
01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:32.000
And that song made reference to a grey cortina.
01:15:32.319 --> 01:15:32.800
A Ford Cortina.
01:15:33.039 --> 01:15:33.600
Ford Cortina.
01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:33.760
Yes.
01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:35.199
They just won't run without fuel.
01:15:35.279 --> 01:15:35.520
Yes.
01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:36.960
A bit like most cars now.
01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:38.479
Like yours.
01:15:38.880 --> 01:15:39.279
Electric.
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:50.800
Mine, yeah, I I saw today that um people who have got diesel it's costing an extra ten pounds to fill their tanks up and I thought you don't have a diesel car.
01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:51.199
Good.
01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:51.600
Yeah.
01:15:52.159 --> 01:15:52.399
Electric.
01:15:52.800 --> 01:15:53.199
Absolutely.
01:15:54.079 --> 01:16:06.079
Right, so moving on swiftly to probably the most well, I thought we'd already played the most bizarre track with Ivor Cutler earlier in the show with Life in the Scotch Sitting Room 2, Episode 6.
01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:08.000
This is Ant's bonus track, isn't it?
01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:09.439
This is Ant's bonus track.
01:16:09.520 --> 01:16:10.319
We've allowed this.
01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:14.720
It falls so far out of the criteria, both in terms of time.
01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:16.560
And genre.
01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:18.000
Genre, everything.
01:16:18.319 --> 01:16:23.840
But it is does it it's the right era in terms of punk rock, isn't it?
01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:25.840
In as much as what we were all doing in the seventies.
01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:27.760
We were all sort of You were watching Dad's army.
01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:28.239
We were.
01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:28.479
We were.
01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:30.239
Come on in, and tell us about it.
01:16:30.479 --> 01:16:34.239
So uh yeah, um Captain Mannering is a great hero of mine.
01:16:34.399 --> 01:16:49.199
Um someone uh I mean, you look at Captain Mannering, he's a pompous, uh bald, bespeckled, um grammar school educated, um up himself little man who uh works in the church.
01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:53.119
Well why why would anything like that who are we describing?
01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:59.119
Who who would that why would I think you know why why would Why would anyone think I would like that?
01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:00.239
I don't know.
01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:01.920
But you love Dad's army, don't you?
01:17:02.399 --> 01:17:07.840
Arthur Lowe is like uh he's just they say people have funny bones, don't they?
01:17:08.319 --> 01:17:11.359
You can just walk round the door funny, like if you're on stage.
01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:14.079
And that chemistry between with between him and John LeMessure.
01:17:14.399 --> 01:17:16.479
It's like a question of all the actors.
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:19.680
Actors and the script writers in perfect harmony.
01:17:20.560 --> 01:17:25.359
After a while the writers begin to write the characteristics of the actors who play them.
01:17:25.600 --> 01:17:35.119
So Mannering gets more pompous, uh, you know, uh Sergeant Wilson and the Mes gets more um refined and irritating.
01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:39.680
Brilliant.
01:17:40.079 --> 01:17:44.239
And uh it's just the most beautifully constructed and wonderful piece of comedy.
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:48.319
In the days when we only had two channels and then three channels.
01:17:48.479 --> 01:17:48.640
Yeah.
01:17:48.960 --> 01:17:50.159
But the theme tune is quite interesting.
01:17:50.399 --> 01:17:54.479
But the theme tune, this is the last track ever recorded by Bud Flanagan.
01:17:54.640 --> 01:18:00.000
Uh and um uh I couldn't come on any programme without asking for you to play this.
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:00.960
Let's hear it.
01:18:01.119 --> 01:18:04.079
Let's hear Bud Flanagan, and who do you think you are kidding, Mr.
01:18:04.159 --> 01:18:04.880
Hitler?
01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:11.359
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr.
01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:12.399
Hitler?
01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:21.279
If you think we're on the We are the boys, stop your letter.
01:18:22.720 --> 01:18:24.319
We are the boys.
01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:32.800
And now a massage from the Swedish Prime Minister.
01:19:39.199 --> 01:19:43.680
You don't only get great punk rock music, you get wonderful comedy on this podcast.
01:19:43.760 --> 01:19:44.720
What more could you ask?
01:19:45.039 --> 01:19:51.199
I didn't know if that was uh whether that was the beginning of Janie Jones again or or or the massage from the Swedish Prime Minister.
01:19:51.600 --> 01:19:53.680
Dad's army
followed by Monty Python.
01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:55.039
What more could you want?
01:19:55.199 --> 01:19:58.560
My I mean I love Dad's Army, but uh and everyone should.
01:19:59.279 --> 01:20:03.680
But my favourite Arthur Lowe um programme was the cable.
01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:05.920
Cable the cable car.
01:20:06.479 --> 01:20:10.960
When he gets stuck in a um a cable car lift, he's on holiday with his wife.
01:20:11.279 --> 01:20:12.000
I'm laughing already.
01:20:12.479 --> 01:20:32.079
And there's the other people that stuck in the cable car are there's some French people, some German people, and he assumes control of the situation, even though there's people in this cable car that are much better suited, but he said because he's British, it's it stands to You've got to watch that.
01:20:32.159 --> 01:20:33.920
It's called the Cable Car with Arthur Lowe.
01:20:34.239 --> 01:20:35.039
Well he's a brilliant actor.
01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:40.399
I mean he was on he did Coronation Street, he was in some Lindsey Anderson films as well.
01:20:40.800 --> 01:20:44.479
And he was in uh a Sherlock Holmes parody as Dr.
01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:48.720
Watson to John Cleese's as Sherlock Holmes brilliant as well.
01:20:49.199 --> 01:20:51.920
He did a series after Dad's Army called Potter.
01:20:52.319 --> 01:20:52.399
Yes.
01:20:52.640 --> 01:20:53.439
I remember Potter.
01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:54.079
Do you remember that?
01:20:54.720 --> 01:20:55.439
I love that.
01:20:55.600 --> 01:20:57.279
I thought that was so funny.
01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:05.039
Well the good thing about that is we would we would remember it because when you'd go out to work the next day and you'd say, Did you see Potter on TV last night?
01:21:05.279 --> 01:21:06.960
Then invariably people would say yes.
01:21:07.119 --> 01:21:12.399
But if you go into work or any environment now and say, Did you watch such and such thing on TV last night?
01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:15.439
The chances are not, because you've got thousands of channels to choose from.
01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:17.680
Whereas we only had three stroke four, didn't we?
01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:18.800
Yeah, absolutely.
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:19.520
Absolutely.
01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:20.560
Shall we move us on?
01:21:20.720 --> 01:21:22.720
Or do you want me to do the list of Watford managers again?
01:21:22.800 --> 01:21:23.520
No, probably not.
01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:27.119
Um you might as well, because we're going to edit the first bit out.
01:21:28.239 --> 01:21:30.239
We're going on to Leighton Buzzards.
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:39.279
Now I think we should play the track and then talk about the how the Leighton Buzzards killer went wrong after they stopped being the Leighton Buzzards.
01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:40.560
Well they'll probably say it went right.
01:21:40.800 --> 01:21:43.039
They they probably will, but it's not all about money and it's not.
01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:46.000
So let's hear this great track.
01:21:46.079 -->
01:21:52.399
This is Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees, again with brackets, by the Leighton Buzzards.
01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:23.520
Six months later, Barney's grown.
01:22:23.680 --> 01:22:27.279
I got a moist suit to call my own.
01:22:27.600 --> 01:22:30.800
Button-down shirt with a window pane check.
01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:37.680
Growing up, I need much more.
01:22:37.920 --> 01:22:41.199
The youth club kids were such a bore.
01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:45.600
Me mate new says there's a place he knows where it's gone.
01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:51.520
Take off.
01:23:06.159 --> 01:23:09.279
Cruise from ballot and gold as green.
01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:12.640
And loads of lights is of never late.
01:23:13.039 --> 01:23:16.239
The stroke of ten, the fight breaks out.
01:23:21.920 --> 01:23:23.279
He's wearing boots.
01:23:23.600 --> 01:23:26.880
Cry the gangsters dressed in dinner suit.
01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:30.239
The black is eyes, his nose gets bent.
01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:09.279
Eddie Homan slows things down.
01:24:09.439 --> 01:24:13.199
You ask a girl to dance, but you get turned down.
01:24:13.760 --> 01:24:16.720
Maybe it's just another dye.
01:24:17.119 --> 01:24:19.600
What'd you want for five minutes?
01:24:21.359 --> 01:24:27.039
I was cold drinking ramen black, and then felt sick on the journey back.
01:24:27.279 --> 01:24:30.880
I thought stubborn right through in the board ride.
01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:34.720
Great punk band.
01:25:35.600 --> 01:25:36.640
Made some great records.
01:25:37.279 --> 01:25:37.920
So what happened?
01:25:38.000 --> 01:25:40.800
Tell us the story about how they uh managed to implode.
01:25:41.520 --> 01:25:42.319
Oh they imploded.
01:25:42.399 --> 01:25:44.960
They they're you unlike most punk bands.
01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:47.119
Your body language tells me that this is a very good thing.
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:49.680
It has hurt me.
01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:50.880
They were after money and success.
01:25:51.199 --> 01:25:52.159
How do you feel about it now?
01:25:52.399 --> 01:25:53.680
I still feel very hurt by it.
01:25:54.319 --> 01:25:55.359
Because Layton Buzzers were great.
01:25:55.439 --> 01:25:56.960
I wanted them to carry on being Leighton Buzzers.
01:25:57.520 --> 01:25:58.079
What happened then?
01:25:58.319 --> 01:26:00.479
They became modern romance.
01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:01.199
Do you remember?
01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:04.319
Sulsa Disco Band called Modern Romance.
01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:08.159
They had hits with um oh, what do they have hits with?
01:26:08.239 --> 01:26:11.119
Um The best years of our lives and big hits they had.
01:26:11.359 --> 01:26:13.760
So the best years of our lives.
01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:16.239
The punk band that sold out.
01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:16.720
Yeah.
01:26:18.079 --> 01:26:19.359
That never happens, does it?
01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:20.319
It's a swindle.
01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:24.399
But you know, the punk bands that sell out usually sell out in a good way.
01:26:24.560 --> 01:26:24.720
Yeah.
01:26:25.119 --> 01:26:29.920
This lot of being had a disco a disco salsa band.
01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:31.119
They sound good.
01:26:31.199 --> 01:26:31.760
Have we got anything?
01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:32.479
They were brilliant.
01:26:32.640 --> 01:26:32.800
Luke.
01:26:34.159 --> 01:26:34.479
Modern romance.
01:26:35.199 --> 01:26:36.079
Do not play them, Luke.
01:26:36.319 --> 01:26:36.800
They sound good.
01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:37.840
There was no need for them.
01:26:39.359 --> 01:26:41.600
That was a massive hit Saturday night beneath the Basti Party.
01:26:42.720 --> 01:26:43.199
For a punk band.
01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:45.760
Top forty, maybe?
01:26:46.159 --> 01:26:47.520
I'd say top twenty at least.
01:26:47.840 --> 01:26:48.640
Oh we'll have to anyway.
01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:51.520
So was the Was it the entire band?
01:26:52.000 --> 01:26:52.319
Two of them.
01:26:52.560 --> 01:26:56.159
The two main ones in the band went and formed a modern romance.
01:26:56.720 --> 01:26:58.880
And one of them was one of them Leighton himself?
01:26:59.199 --> 01:26:59.680
No, no, no.
01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:00.960
That's because they're from Leighton.
01:27:02.640 --> 01:27:05.039
London, Leighton, not Leighton Buzzard, not Leighton Buzzards.
01:27:05.119 --> 01:27:05.600
Near Watford.
01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:06.079
Right.
01:27:06.720 --> 01:27:09.279
I I'm distressed about it, but that is a great song.
01:27:09.760 --> 01:27:11.840
Saturday night, open brackets, and I'm sure to be able to do that.
01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:17.920
Is it the Leighton Buzzards still going, or is it just Modern Romance still going?
01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:18.720
I hope not.
01:27:18.960 --> 01:27:19.920
Can we reform them?
01:27:20.159 --> 01:27:20.399
No.
01:27:20.960 --> 01:27:22.720
We can form reform Leighton Buzzards.
01:27:22.880 --> 01:27:24.000
Ex Modern Romance.
01:27:24.319 --> 01:27:25.279
Ex Leighton Buzzards.
01:27:25.520 --> 01:27:28.159
If one of them's available, we can ask them to sign that.
01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:33.680
But you're amongst thirty people at the Three Wise Monkeys, you may have a or ready-made gig at the Art Centre.
01:27:34.239 --> 01:27:35.279
Ex Modern Romance?
01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:36.079
Mark?
01:27:37.359 --> 01:27:39.359
Before I burst into tears, what's the next one, Steve?
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:51.680
Well, well it's I'm going I'd I'd like to have links to everything we're doing and w you know, that um the Courtinas um have sparked off several songs with the word Cortina in it, or in the title or in the lyrics.
01:27:52.000 --> 01:27:56.000
But going back to the roundhouse, you said you wanted to talk about the Meffs as well.
01:27:56.079 --> 01:27:59.439
I mean they're a culture they're local boys and girls made good, aren't they?
01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:01.279
Yeah, Lily's a collecton girl.
01:28:01.359 --> 01:28:01.520
Yeah.
01:28:01.840 --> 01:28:02.319
Uh like me.
01:28:02.479 -->
01:28:03.520
I'm a collecton boy.
01:28:03.600 --> 01:28:03.680
Yeah.
01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:04.960
But she's a collecton girl.
01:28:05.119 --> 01:28:07.439
She she went to the same primary school that I went to.
01:28:07.760 --> 01:28:09.039
She went to the same St.
01:28:09.199 --> 01:28:11.439
Ben's secondary school that my kids went to.
01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:14.800
So and uh I think you you could really have been the Meffs.
01:28:15.039 --> 01:28:18.640
I could have been the Meffs um if I wasn't thirty years older than her.
01:28:19.039 --> 01:28:20.319
There there are some small barriers.
01:28:20.720 --> 01:28:21.039
Oh no.
01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:22.560
And they're great.
01:28:22.800 --> 01:28:27.439
And um they were a bit heavy for Steve's delicate ears at the roundhouse.
01:28:27.600 --> 01:28:28.000
I loved them.
01:28:28.079 --> 01:28:29.359
Me and Marky String, I loved them.
01:28:29.600 --> 01:28:30.479
Yeah, they're a bit heavy for me.
01:28:30.560 --> 01:28:34.640
I'm really pleased how well they're doing because they're from Colchester and I think that's fantastic.
01:28:34.880 --> 01:28:37.840
I mean I like the Clacton Stroke culture.
01:28:38.239 --> 01:28:40.239
Um not Hip Switch.
01:28:40.800 --> 01:28:41.600
Not Hip Switch.
01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:43.119
Saw Saw them at the Arts Centre.
01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:43.439
Yeah.
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:45.359
And um supporting Bells Cox.
01:28:45.680 --> 01:28:46.560
She's a great front woman.
01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:47.359
Oh brilliant.
01:28:47.920 --> 01:28:59.760
And uh the work you know, to just make that amount of racket um with just guitar and other dramas is incredible because it's kind of a bass guitarist, it's a nightmare, isn't it?
01:28:59.920 --> 01:29:02.640
Because it's actually saying, Look, we don't need any bass guitars.
01:29:02.800 --> 01:29:07.600
So but yeah, and they had the crowd going for a support band, the Stiff Little Fingers crowd.
01:29:07.760 --> 01:29:11.039
I didn't think it would be the right crowd for 'em, but I got that wrong.
01:29:11.279 --> 01:29:15.760
Um they were they they went down a storm and uh yeah, good luck to them.
01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:20.159
But we were at the roundhouse, we were watching the mess and stiff little fingers.
01:29:20.399 --> 01:29:27.359
So that brings us on to our next track, which is the television personalities posing at the roundhouse.
01:29:40.239 --> 01:29:43.840
Come on to the round, they'll say, There come I kid.
01:29:45.119 --> 01:29:50.640
Everyone has died a hair, everyone's dying on its suits.
01:29:51.119 --> 01:32:11.760
I will not still wear I'm always gonna wisdom I'm wasting all the wisdom When it wants to get no it's not much uh it's not much uh yeah When I skip Oh it's there Oh yeah Way Bill is there Oh yeah Oh yeah But I'll probably go to the marquee with you Posing at the Roundhouse by the fantastic television personalities now Dan Treacy was the singer and songwriter of the TV personalities or the television personalities and the when they decided on a name each member of the band came up with a suggestion and those suggestions were Nicholas Parsons, love that, Russell High, Bruce Forsyth, or Huey Green.
01:32:11.920 --> 01:32:18.800
So the band was going to be called one of those, and then they decided just put them all together and call the band television personalities.
01:32:19.199 --> 01:32:21.119
I think Huey Green would have been about another name.
01:32:21.439 --> 01:32:21.920
That's a fun fact.
01:32:23.279 --> 01:32:24.159
None of them Parsons.
01:32:24.479 --> 01:32:25.840
And none of them are controversial.
01:32:26.239 --> 01:32:34.800
None of them went on to be um 70s um I think Huey Green had a bit of a daughter as well.
01:32:35.199 --> 01:32:35.680
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:36.640
Yeah, but it wasn't illegal.
01:32:36.880 --> 01:32:38.000
No, no, that was Jess Yates.
01:32:38.479 --> 01:32:39.439
No, no, it's Paulie Yates.
01:32:39.680 --> 01:32:40.319
Paulie Yates, yeah.
01:32:40.479 --> 01:32:42.319
But Jess Shakes was Paulie Yates' dad, wasn't it?
01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:45.039
Are you sure Huey Green?
01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:46.159
We're gonna have to read that.
01:32:47.760 --> 01:32:48.560
No, no, Jess Yates.
01:32:49.359 --> 01:32:51.359
Yeah, Huey Green's was a yeah.
01:32:51.840 --> 01:32:54.079
I know Jess Shaites comes into it somewhere, but hey.
01:32:54.399 --> 01:32:56.399
Anyway, the television personality was fantastic.
01:32:57.920 --> 01:32:59.039
Oh clapometer.
01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:02.079
So they formed after sexual disease.
01:33:02.560 --> 01:33:05.920
After watching the Sex Pistols, Dan Treacy went, I could do that.
01:33:06.319 --> 01:33:07.680
Huey Green's clapometer.
01:33:08.159 --> 01:33:15.680
So we listened to Huey Green's clapometer, and then he went and listened to his Jonathan Richmond records and he said, We're gonna do this.
01:33:16.560 --> 01:33:23.359
And they've got a real cult following the television personalities, and I'd recommend anyone who hasn't heard them to go and investigate them thoroughly.
01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:26.000
Right, we're getting to the end of the show.
01:33:26.640 --> 01:33:28.479
I didn't think we'd be saying that anytime soon.
01:33:28.720 --> 01:33:31.199
I can see uh Luke Luke's falling asleep.
01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:36.399
He's it's woke him up hearing that, they've got Donald Trump over there in the middle of an important announcement.
01:33:38.479 --> 01:33:47.920
Because uh the next uh next track I I found difficult to listen to at first, but uh Ant's chosen it, so you know whatever Whatford a fan wants, we give them.
01:33:48.239 --> 01:33:54.560
Um and I said, um Ant I said to my wife Nikki, I said, Ant's chosen uh a track by Pearubu.
01:33:55.039 --> 01:33:55.920
I know Pearu Boo.
01:33:56.079 --> 01:33:59.119
She said, I thought Nikki knows a proto-punk band.
01:33:59.520 --> 01:34:01.520
I said, Well, what do you know about
Pearubu?
01:34:01.760 --> 01:34:06.000
Yes, it is it's a character in a play by Albert Jerry.
01:34:06.159 --> 01:34:08.640
I I studied them, I'm doing my Nikki impressions.
01:34:09.279 --> 01:34:14.079
I studied them for for French A-level and uh and drama.
01:34:14.239 --> 01:34:14.399
Yeah.
01:34:14.800 --> 01:34:23.600
Albert Jerry, because Pear Ubu is a character in a play called Ubu Roi, and uh that's where this band got their name from.
01:34:23.920 --> 01:34:26.239
I said they were a proto-punk band, uh, were they?
01:34:26.399 --> 01:34:31.359
She said she didn't know anything about the band, but she knew about the character in uh in the play.
01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:32.479
Have you seen the play?
01:34:32.960 --> 01:34:33.119
No.
01:34:33.439 --> 01:34:35.439
Albert Jerry's Albert!
01:34:37.039 --> 01:34:38.479
I love the way you say it.
01:34:38.720 --> 01:34:39.439
Well, you know.
01:34:39.680 --> 01:34:40.079
I do.
01:34:42.000 --> 01:34:42.880
Albert Tatloff.
01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:45.359
If you can see his little face when he's saying that.
01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:51.920
When you have a secondary school education like I had in Clacton, you learn these things.
01:34:52.239 --> 01:34:52.880
I say.
01:34:53.760 --> 01:34:57.199
Because I I'm not a grammar school boy, but my school was a grammar school.
01:34:57.359 --> 01:34:59.279
The year I went it became comprehensive.
01:34:59.600 --> 01:35:00.640
I think the two are connected.
01:35:00.960 --> 01:35:05.279
Well, the official genre for Pear Uboo's music is art punk.
01:35:05.520 --> 01:35:08.479
So that would go nicely with um Ant.
01:35:09.039 --> 01:35:12.319
And the lead singer, David Thomas, I read about him.
01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:14.880
Was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
01:35:15.119 --> 01:35:24.239
Yes, but for some reason he died in April of last year, April the twenty-third, and he's late arrest in Brighton, UK.
01:35:24.640 --> 01:35:26.000
Well I think he lived in the UK.
01:35:26.159 --> 01:35:29.760
I mean, one of the last gigs they put on was played in Canterbury.
01:35:29.840 --> 01:35:33.359
My mate Dave Sefton put them on at the uh Galbenkian Art Centre.
01:35:33.600 --> 01:35:36.640
And apparently they were absolutely dreadful.
01:35:36.960 --> 01:35:39.680
So why have you chosen Perubu?
01:35:40.640 --> 01:35:41.520
Well to annoy us.
01:35:41.840 --> 01:35:42.399
To annoy us?
01:35:42.560 --> 01:35:42.960
Yeah, hopefully.
01:35:43.359 --> 01:35:44.720
Because it's nearly five minutes, isn't it?
01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:46.479
And the listeners, I hope.
01:35:46.800 --> 01:35:48.560
Well, it's four minutes fifty-seven.
01:35:48.880 --> 01:35:51.359
Well, I've got it down as five minutes, three seconds.
01:35:51.600 --> 01:35:55.039
Well, Luke's got it down as four minutes fifty-seven, so he's cut six seconds off.
01:35:55.439 --> 01:35:57.199
I want those six seconds back in there.
01:35:57.600 --> 01:35:58.399
You're not getting away.
01:35:58.720 --> 01:35:59.760
I've
lost more than six seconds.
01:36:00.800 --> 01:36:01.359
Sorry.
01:36:01.760 --> 01:36:02.800
So why pair of it?
01:36:03.359 --> 01:36:12.159
One of the things about punk is that um uh it made you pushed you into places and ideas and sounds and things that you'd never really kind of like considered.
01:36:12.319 --> 01:36:19.359
Music was reinvented, poetry was reinvented, everything became um, like we were talking about, a kind of DIY aesthetic.
01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:30.720
And um David um Thomas described his singing as the noise that goes on constantly inside your head that you never really vocalize.
01:36:32.640 --> 01:36:36.319
This is making the listeners really wonder I like this song.
01:36:36.479 --> 01:36:37.680
Yeah, yeah, I do like this song.
01:36:37.920 --> 01:36:39.920
And after about the fifth listen, I went to see that.
01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:45.199
Uh it's a crowd.
01:36:45.520 --> 01:36:48.560
After he did all that, David Thomas, he became manager of Watford.
01:36:49.199 --> 01:36:50.880
He had to be sacked from that, huh?
01:36:51.279 --> 01:36:54.960
But um I went to see them at uh the electric ballroom in Canberra.
01:36:55.119 --> 01:36:55.840
Oh, what a venue.
01:36:56.159 --> 01:37:06.560
And uh they were playing their um uh it was at the time of I think it was 78, the The Modern Lovers is their uh the Modern Dance was their classic album, their first album.
01:37:06.800 --> 01:37:12.640
And he had a a cold chisel which which you can hear on on modern dance itself.
01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:18.399
And it's like would bang this coal chisel with a huge hammer and it would fall out of his hand and onto the stage.
01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:39.600
This guy, David Thomas, is huge, he was like proper fatty, he was like a huge guy, um, with a suit with a tight tie looked like Oliver Hardy and was like sing this peculiar stuff that had this uh cultures with a hammer, it made a brilliant noise, falling and he would like walk around kind of dazed, looking for it in a peculiar way.
01:37:39.760 --> 01:37:42.960
And I thought this is genius! This is what we need.
01:37:43.199 --> 01:37:43.600
This is what we're talking about.
01:37:43.760 --> 01:37:47.039
And his final solution, one of their better tracks in the world.
01:37:47.840 --> 01:37:50.159
I think it's a single before their first album.
01:37:50.880 --> 01:37:54.880
And uh I just like the apocalyptic kind of like noise version of it.
01:37:55.119 --> 01:38:02.159
Plus, there's a like a a tiny section where it stops and then starts again with like kind of like a tidal wave of noise.
01:38:02.560 --> 01:38:04.880
I think I think the listeners are desperate to hear it.
01:38:05.199 --> 01:38:17.760
Yeah, well it's got a very apt title, and it is the last track, so we'll play it and then have a little um say goodbye and a thank you, and we might will you will you join us again, please, and um after we've heard it.
01:38:17.840 --> 01:38:18.800
So should we listen to it?
01:38:19.039 --> 01:38:20.640
Final solution by Peiru.
01:43:20.960 --> 01:43:26.640
Yeah, I think uh if I've managed to just uh halve the number of listeners for that entire podcast.
01:43:27.279 --> 01:43:28.640
You've done your job well, yeah.
01:43:28.720 --> 01:43:32.640
Steve was saying there's uh less people listening now than are in the room.
01:43:32.880 --> 01:43:33.359
Fewer people.
01:43:33.520 --> 01:43:33.760
Yeah.
01:43:34.079 --> 01:43:34.560
Fewer people.
01:43:35.359 --> 01:43:36.960
Three three in the room.
01:43:38.399 --> 01:43:39.119
Yeah, very good.
01:43:39.199 --> 01:43:40.079
Thank you, thank you, Ant.
01:43:40.239 --> 01:43:42.399
Oh well we must must I've got to do a plug.
01:43:42.640 --> 01:43:48.479
Yeah, I think Ant and I are in the Mayor's Variety show on April the Sunday, April the 12th at the Mercury Theatre.
01:43:48.720 --> 01:43:49.760
You used to be a mayor, didn't you?
01:43:49.920 --> 01:43:51.840
I was the mayor once, if I'm ever mentioned it.
01:43:52.079 --> 01:43:52.319
No.
01:43:52.560 --> 01:43:52.880
No.
01:43:53.119 --> 01:43:55.520
Um and we will be in the Mayor's Variety at the Mercury Theatre.
01:43:55.600 --> 01:43:57.520
It's being hosted by the great magician Michael J.
01:43:57.680 --> 01:43:58.079
Fitch.
01:43:58.239 --> 01:44:00.079
Ant will be playing Cardinal Fang.
01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:00.960
Cardinal Fang.
01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:02.720
And I will be playing Cardinal Biggles.
01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:03.600
Is Michael J.
01:44:03.760 --> 01:44:06.640
Fitch any relation to our producer Luke Fitch?
01:44:06.960 --> 01:44:07.920
He is shaking his head.
01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:09.600
How can he possibly know that?
01:44:11.680 --> 01:44:13.199
It's gone quiet while we'll talk about it.
01:44:14.479 --> 01:44:17.119
Why do you keep performing magic tricks, Luke?
01:44:17.920 --> 01:44:22.000
Yes, if you're nothing to do with Michael J, what's all these cards doing?
01:44:22.399 --> 01:44:25.279
Yeah, I don't think I have uh any relation to him.
01:44:25.520 --> 01:44:25.680
Okay.
01:44:26.079 --> 01:44:26.479
Might do.
01:44:27.279 --> 01:44:28.479
There are tickets available, Luke.
01:44:29.760 --> 01:44:31.439
If you want to come and see Michael J, you'll be able to do that.
01:44:31.520 --> 01:44:32.000
So when is he?
01:44:33.279 --> 01:44:36.079
Sunday the twelfth of April in the evening, there's only about a hundred tickets left.
01:44:36.399 --> 01:44:40.800
Hold on, every time I see you, there's tickets I've got to buy, and there's only a few left.
01:44:41.119 --> 01:44:41.520
Absolutely.
01:44:41.840 --> 01:44:44.560
I've got so many things coming up, I don't even know what I'm going to.
01:44:45.039 --> 01:44:46.000
The mayor's right, you'll love the Mercury.
01:44:46.399 --> 01:44:46.479
Right.
01:44:46.640 --> 01:44:47.039
Where's it at?
01:44:47.279 --> 01:44:48.720
At the Mercury Theatre, main house.
01:44:48.960 --> 01:44:50.079
Why is it not at the Art Centre?
01:44:50.319 -->
01:44:51.760
Because the Mercury Theatre is bigger.
01:44:52.079 --> 01:44:52.399
Is it?
01:44:52.479 --> 01:44:53.359
Is it better though?
01:44:53.680 --> 01:44:54.239
No way.
01:44:54.720 --> 01:44:55.199
No way.
01:44:56.079 --> 01:44:57.920
Colchester Art Centre is my favourite venue.
01:44:58.319 --> 01:44:58.800
My man.
01:44:59.199 --> 01:45:03.680
And was one of my chosen charities when I was the mayor of Colchester myself.
01:45:04.000 --> 01:45:05.199
So it's the 12th of April.
01:45:05.439 --> 01:45:06.560
It's the Mayor Charity.
01:45:07.680 --> 01:45:08.079
What is it?
01:45:08.399 --> 01:45:09.680
It's the Mayor's Variety Show.
01:45:09.920 --> 01:45:14.000
So there's there's comedy, there is singing, there is magic.
01:45:14.159 --> 01:45:16.560
Team Kinetics who were on Britain's Got Talent.
01:45:16.880 --> 01:45:17.520
Team Kinetics.
01:45:17.760 --> 01:45:22.239
Who are like diversity, do that tumbling sort of stuff and clever somersaults and stuff.
01:45:22.479 --> 01:45:26.479
It's what uh there's a woman called Colette who had a top 40 single.
01:45:26.800 --> 01:45:29.840
Rodney Appleyard assures us she had a top 40 single.
01:45:30.640 --> 01:45:32.560
A woman called Colette who had a top 40 single.
01:45:32.880 --> 01:45:33.039
Yes.
01:45:33.760 --> 01:45:35.119
What's stopping people buying tickets?
01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:40.960
I've performed at the Mercury Theatre to a sold-out audience as well when we did a cultist has got talent.
01:45:42.079 --> 01:45:42.560
In the main house.
01:45:42.800 --> 01:45:43.840
One of your Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:45:44.079 --> 01:45:47.680
We had your um Ipswich Town um what's his name?
01:45:47.840 --> 01:45:49.760
You and Dodds by Wybrow.
01:45:50.000 --> 01:45:50.640
He was on drums.
01:45:51.920 --> 01:45:55.600
Is that the one which Will Quint was the winner of in the end?
01:45:56.000 --> 01:45:56.239
Yes.
01:45:56.560 --> 01:45:57.119
Yeah, it was.
01:45:57.600 --> 01:45:58.239
I was a judge.
01:45:58.399 --> 01:45:58.640
Yeah.
01:45:59.520 --> 01:46:00.479
Well, how come I didn't win?
01:46:00.720 --> 01:46:03.039
Yeah, I'll take it.
01:46:03.119 --> 01:46:05.439
Now I think about it, I voted for you, Stephen.
01:46:06.000 --> 01:46:06.800
You're lying.
01:46:08.479 --> 01:46:09.680
This is the trouble we're getting in, but I'm not sure.
01:46:12.319 --> 01:46:13.199
Okay, Arthur.
01:46:13.439 --> 01:46:23.760
Um so we we we did um uh I Fought the Law, Teenage Kicks, Hound Dog, and all day and all of the night.
01:46:24.000 --> 01:46:24.319
I would vote.
01:46:24.479 --> 01:46:25.439
They were the four tracks we did.
01:46:25.680 --> 01:46:26.079
Well done.
01:46:26.399 --> 01:46:27.039
I thought we were brilliant.
01:46:27.199 --> 01:46:27.279
Yeah.
01:46:27.520 --> 01:46:28.560
We got standard animation.
01:46:28.640 --> 01:46:29.760
So not from me, don't you?
01:46:29.920 --> 01:46:31.039
I'm not sure why we didn't win.
01:46:31.279 --> 01:46:33.840
Uh n I don't know why I've forgotten it entirely as well.
01:46:34.079 --> 01:46:34.960
A Tory Boy one.
01:46:35.359 --> 01:46:35.520
Yes.
01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:35.840
Yeah.
01:46:36.720 --> 01:46:37.199
What did he do?
01:46:38.960 --> 01:46:39.520
Yeah, it was very good.
01:46:39.760 --> 01:46:40.319
It was very good.
01:46:40.880 --> 01:46:41.760
Sean Dyes.
01:46:42.159 --> 01:46:43.439
Jim Franco Zola.
01:46:43.920 --> 01:46:46.239
Anyway, anyway, it's been a pleasure.
01:46:46.560 --> 01:46:47.279
It's been great.
01:46:47.520 --> 01:46:48.560
Thanks for coming on, Anne.
01:46:48.640 --> 01:46:49.520
It's been a real pleasure.
01:46:49.680 --> 01:46:50.640
Uh thank you for your tuning on.
01:46:52.560 --> 01:46:53.840
You know I don't do sincerity.
01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:55.520
No, absolutely.
01:46:55.600 --> 01:46:56.960
I learn everything I know from you.
01:46:57.359 --> 01:46:58.319
They hate me.
01:46:59.520 --> 01:47:00.399
It's been wonderful.
01:47:01.119 --> 01:47:02.479
Are we going to invite him back on?
01:47:02.800 --> 01:47:04.239
Well, I think we'd have to vet his track.
01:47:04.319 --> 01:47:05.039
No, yeah, absolutely.
01:47:05.119 --> 01:47:08.000
His tracks have been different, and that's what this show's all about, being different.
01:47:09.199 --> 01:47:09.760
Luke's loved it.
01:47:09.840 --> 01:47:10.479
Luke's loved this show.
01:47:10.560 --> 01:47:11.359
It's been his favourite so far.
01:47:11.680 --> 01:47:12.000
His favourite.
01:47:12.079 --> 01:47:12.239
Yeah.
01:47:12.720 --> 01:47:13.920
It might have to split it into two.
01:47:14.319 --> 01:47:14.880
Doing another magic.
01:47:16.079 --> 01:47:18.239
Four of diamonds, I think, isn't it?
01:47:18.479 --> 01:47:18.800
No.
01:47:19.039 --> 01:47:20.960
Yeah, we're just over an hour and forty-five.
01:47:23.600 --> 01:47:23.760
Right.
01:47:23.840 --> 01:47:28.479
On that note, yes, we better do the sign-off, which is keep it punk, keep it town.
01:47:28.800 --> 01:47:30.399
Keep it punk, keep it cold, you.
01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:35.119
But most of all, keep it punk, keep it alternative Colchester.