The Podrophenic Advent Calendar from Piley, self and Popeapedia and is eady for unwrapping
Loaded with a selection box of pop quizzes, bad present tales, panto antics, the story of one of the rarest annuals ever (Willy the Kid 3), plus Christmas hits in 8 bits - and a fantasticus live set from Kate West..
Grab it, bag it and DL it here....
For the latest Podrophenia, a Yacht Rock spesh, we pipe aboard Steven Hastings to adjudicate 'Sink or Swim' for the tunes, which, collect together Classic Yacht, Punk Yacht, Nu Yacht.
There's a run of boat puns and musical picks from Pope-a-pedia. And an impossible pop quiz - All here for your listening ears....
In the later sixties. Doug Kaye worked at his brother's Brook Street restaurant Mr Love - where Jimi Hendrix rented a small apartment above the shop, Doug was also the resident DJ at Mr Love and is featured in the recreation of Jimi's flat, and in the book Hendrix at Home.
Most of the albums played in this Podrophenia have been touched by the hand of Hendrix as Doug regularly lent albums to Jimi. So buckle up for crackling, popping top quality tracks from Doug's vinyl collection with tales of his time at Mr Love including meets with Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, Keith Moon, Dave Mason, Dusty, Richie Havens, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and a ton of others...
You can download here , stream below - or grab via iTunes
Scuse the brevity of the blog-post pals, but it's one handed typing all the way at the mo..
How about this. After a nippy tweet from me to the Lamacq Show last week - they were looking for guests for the Good Day/ Bad Day feature - I was booked in for a spot yesterday's show.
Which way did I choose? Tune in below at 50 minutes in for the reveal...as well as first singles, gigs and album info.
Do you know I can feel a Pop-Master revisit calling
The Quinn Martin style epilogue - Pal Lamacq gave me a 'callback' as they say - an unprompted shout and dedication on tonight's show.too at 2hr 34 mins...
Monkees, Mother Earth, Moroder and possibly even Manfred Mann
After a bank holiday break, Piley and I are installed back in the Chance Radio bunker for the 13th instalment of the Podrophonic Alphabet - the Letter M. There'll be a couple of pop quizzes, Piley's Newsround - and Fi Jacobs from The Railway Hotel joins us for a Railway Round-up. Dig in here from 9.
Spot the sample? Which Essex band borrowed this horn riff for their own use? And is it my grizzled old ears or do the Manfred's sound frighteningly like The Charlatans here..
Live from 9 - tonight's Radio Podrophenia is pitched around the themes of ' Love and Hate'. Expect a few smoochy(ish) doings from The Sonic Executive Sessions, The Sonics, a Supremes instrumental rarity , a tune titled after this Carry On film - and a mystery artist. Along with handful of angry songs sung to you by Gil Scott Heron and Southend premier punk legends The Machines.
One track almost popped into my Tuesday night hamper was this full and fruity number from another mystery artist - but who is it geting himself into a cross-eyed tizzy.
Refits, reworks and retreads are the themes for tonight's Radio Podrophenia - an all suggestions special of cover versions built around a playlist handpicked by the Podrophenia Panel from.... Simon, Drakey, Marmite, Dave Wright and Dog Faced Boy.
Mystery Track Alert: I'll be pitching in possibly the most spectacularly unexpected chunk of funk from a mystery artist midway through the evening. On a similar riff - tuck in to a reamped versh of a Northern Soul classic from Cliff
Should you fancy lending an ear to last week's radio run-out, grab the take away edition below
It's a tune pitched on to tonight's playlist - along with The Sid Presley Experience, The Len Price 3 and Betty Wright (or possibly Lowell Fulson instead) as we roll-out twelve tracks fitted around 'Names' for tonight's Radio Podrophenia - live from 9 on Chance Radio. Where we'll be joined by Gary Fowles all the way from Memphis,Norway - Sweden..
If you've had trouble tuning in or can't do Tuesday's, all back issues are grabbable via iTunes
You can catch the Len Price 3 live at the Half Moon Putney October 14th. Full details are viewable at Retroman's site
And the mystery drummer was....him on the second left. Russ Abbot
Piley and I go back to school this evening, not in the literal sense, but by assembling a register of 12 tunes to be called tonight: XTC, Ben Folds Five, The Casanovas and a legendary blues-grinder gets on the good 'n' funky foot - but who is it ? Find out from 9 on Chance Radio.
Subjects on the timetable for chat and natter are likely to include..film's/TV we've never seen. School based songs/bands...Prefect Day, Dexy's Cross Country Runners - you get the idea...
But for today's test, which Schools and College progs were these the themes for?
Nearly but not quite as there's too much noodle-doodle do for tonight's doings
For this evening's Radio Podrophenia - Piley and I are chipping in with tunes fitted around the theme of Night and Day..
Plenty of options and variations to pick from vintage bits from The Kinks, Lee Moses and Hugo Strasser with new tunes from Brit-pop revivalists Viva Brother and heavy level funkage from Kings Go Forth. It all kicks off from nine tonight.
If you've missed any back issues most of the Radio Podrophenia editions are now on iTunes, with a gallery of the goings on viewable at Piley's place.
A couple of nearly but not quites for tonight are....
Quickie pop quiz. What (or who) is the connection between these two tunes?
I say lopsided as I can't give you the answer - but hope you can burst my bubble of baffllement. Lee Perry's Cow Thief Skank tune I'm fine for - it's those four snatched seconds of soul stomping, nipping in at the intro, that's got my noggin boggled.
My guess is, given Lee Perry's relaxed attitude to studio techniques and technicalities - that this track was on the tape before pressing the record button.
I've Googled it, Shazzed it - not a sniff. Any hints, tips knowing nods would be massively appreciated..so it's over to you pop-boffins
Hello bloggers and browers. Simes here, you may remember my resonant rumbles and mahogany tones from features like...
The BBFC intro's on clunky old VHS tapes., The Golden Hour, Our Tune*reaches for a large onion and a box of mansize Kleenex* Look loves, can't hang around I've got a show going over on Smoove and a couple of voice overs to crack off during the ad' breaks - but while I'm here how about a quicky game of The Golden Hour...
This timeless poppet of a tune could come from almost any era - sixties or seventies, nineties or naughties. Of course it can only be one of them... But - which, was the year
Well done to Simon and Office Pest for knowing but not naming - and close but no button-down to John Medd. Right, I'm off for a blow out at Blow Up tonight, where I'm sure there'll be plenty of vintage Shermans shaking a retro-leg to Baltic Fleet, Silvery, The Bongolian and Big Boss Man..
If you are rocking at the Relentless Garage tonight, I'll be probably bar-bothering in an overly-patterned check shirt. However if you're not hoofing Highbury Corner way, why not drop in at Davy's or Drew's for a Friday night scoop and a tune..
But, before bolting I'll wrap up with someone who's hugely overdue for logging in the blog..
Organized and arranged by Webbie from the Football and Music blog, The John Peel memorial day Keeping It Peel blazes it's way across the blogs today. Piley and I are chipping into the days doings with Podrophenia 11: Sound-a-likes is the theme so, expect an ear-opening, eye-popping playlist of lifted riffs, recycled styles, stolen vocal tones and even own brand versions of bigger bands.
With a playlist featuring some of Peel's favourites and Peely peeves, you can grab and stream below - or take away via iTunes..
It's a Pop Quiz - we didn't have the space to fit this comp into the Poddy, so have a punt here pop pickers. Seven snippets of sound-a-like licks and riffs. I'll give 1 point for spotting the original riff and 1 point for the rip off . A total of 14 points to be bagged then: but how many can you manage? Be warned, it's a bit nippy, so you may need to replay a few times
Once you've lent an ear here - why not zip about the blogs and see what other Peely treats are on offer. The list of participating sites can be found here...
The Fenchurch Flyer leaves Southend at noon. It travels west at 60 kilometers per hour with a following wind. One passenger has 3 apples in one pocket and 2 oranges in the other
Q - what should he be listening to on his iPo'?
A - Podrophenia number 9! (DL link is at the bottom of the page)
A pod-quiz where Piley, myself and assorted text guests have a pop at cracking the conundrum of two mystery mini-motifs (one from Piley, one from me) over a playlist of ten tunes. Why not tuck in below and see if you can out-noodle the collective think tank that is Team Mondo:Tronik YouthMarmiteJohn Medd
It's a Pop Quiz - I can guarantee - guarantee, you won't unmask the secret Santa performing the opener from today's sackful of goodies. Although, in all fairness he's mainly famous in the States. Full marks to Coops for putting this slice of fleet-footed festive funkery on my 'sleighdar'. Santa's Got A Brand New Bagis a cracker that shimmies and shakes likes James Brown on ice..
So what else is on the Christmas list today? The Godfather Christmas of Soul shaking a festive leg with Shrek and Boogaloo Santa busting full bearded moves.
Who is she and what is her connection to My Life Story? Find out in Podrophenia...
The latest podcast from Piley and I comes fitted around the theme of sizes and sees us squeeze in ten tunes tailored for all types: Fatboy Slim, Little Barrie, One Inch Rock and Big Ten Inch.
There's all the usual natterings and banter touching on ~ celebs spotted in unlikely locations, a Wood Watch update, Cynthia Plaster Caster novelty merchandise, Little Big Man and Piley's parallel world of light entertainers..
Phew what a slog lumbering back to business-as-usual after two weeks slumbering around in a laid back state of lazy days, lay-ins and beach-bumming. Southwold is an absolute gem, Walberswick is wonderful but windy and Aldeburgh is King's Road on sea (apparently it's become something of summer playground for the Rock, Cowes and Salcombe set)
But to put some gloss on the gloom, after a five year mission of trawling record shops, antique markets and online auction houses, to seek out the early seventies obscurity that is Head Hands and Feet - Warming Up The Band I finally managed to get my ol' mitts on a copy recently.
I've been trying to track down 'Warming', since discovering it through the excellent Old Grey Whistle Test DVDs. Thanks to a tip off from Ben Soundhog, I pipped a copy on ebay. And what a snip too, £4.99 instead of the Collectors Guidebook value - £25 (although I could've grabbed the demo disc version, with a deliciously diff' Island label for an extra 50p half an hour later).
So what better way to celebrate my first vinyl rip, than by uplumping this tricky-to-track nugget in the blog...
It's A Pop Quiz - HHF's bass player is better known as one half of a seventies/eighties light entertainment duo - but who is he? You'll hear him at the tail end of the verses on the 'woah mama' section.. You can lend an ear to Don Everley's refit of Warming Up The Band here...
For a full list of 'Letraset Super Action Transfers' click here
While sprouting from tot-to-teen during the seventies, I was a terror for TV Detectives - both the US variety covered (here), and the Brit-Cop shows that employed an almost off-the-peg parade of villainy..
Rough stuff street toughs Hi-Tech International Terrorism Corrupt Senior Civil Servants Crooked Aristocrats in country houses and/or golf clubs (usually Stoke Park - a Goldfinger location)
I've still got my pick 'n 'mix library of original crimebusting Annuals stored in the loft, collecting together - The Persuaders,The Protectors,The Professionals, The Sweeney (surely The Sweeney were a bit too rough and ready for an Annual readers catchment audience) and The New Avengers..
Laurie Johnson's New Avengers (a flared and swishy refit of his sixties original), is surely the template tune for almost every Acid Jazz track, and gets worked over here by Southend's very own Snowboy...
Another Laurie Johnson anthem, and perhaps the greatest car-crashing-glass-smashing action theme ever.. - shouldn't Lewis Collins really have been the follow-on-Bond from Roger Moore?
Finally, can you decode this mystery title tune - and work out which show it's from??
The inner spread of The New Avengers Transfer set seems to be based on Heatherden Hall, part of the Pinewood Film Studios - which appears in The New Avengers, The Professionals, The Persuaders, UFO and Space 1999