Tom and Charlie are joined by their good friend Simon to discuss some of the sounds and songs they remember from the early '90s
We take a look back at the bills for Reading Festivals of 1991, '92, '93 and '94 and explore the bands whose names we recognise, but maybe weren't aware of their oeuvre. Tune in to find out who we selected.
Innuendo, filth, boundary-pushing sleazy, sleazy sex songs... selected and spoken about by two middled-aged English men. An oxymoron? Well, that's for you to judge.
We get the band back together: Jim, Tom, Charlies Stix and Beall (at least one of whom is streaming from the heart of Berlin) to pen another love letter to the city that inspired us all in different ways.
Axe Gods, plectrum plunderers, slashers of the six-stringed beast... we're talking guitarists and guitar parts.
Tom and Charlie welcome Mark Sturdy to the virtual studio to discuss music inspired by and made in the great city of Sheffield.
The first of our love letters to the city of Berlin, a city that inspired many of our favourite artists and was the back-drop to Seeing Scarlet's album Laughter in the Dark
Go West... and you'll find Country Music... and so will we. It's not a genre we're experts in but we're beginning a voyage of discovery. Please join us
Tom, Charlie, Jim and Mick talk chords - sequences, changes... instrumentation and harmonies that create dynamic changes in songs... the difference between a chord and a key change. It's not as technical as it sounds, though we have a few sound issues of our own.
We continue our exploration into how songs change, evolve and morph into different versions of one another. We take examples from Bowie and Grunge and do a deep dive into one of our own songs, Music Will Save You to see how songs change over time
In this episode we consider how songs become different songs, how one song can change over the course of its life and how tempo makes a massive difference to the success of a song
A continuation of the previous episode talking about bands in 'The Scene' - this episode features songs from Mystery Jets, Guillemots, Miss Black America, Battle, Librium and The Cling
For every musician and every band there's a scene: shared gigs, rivalries and borrowings. For us it happened in London in the early 2000s around rock and indie music. In this first episode on 'The Scene', Tom, Charlie and Stix look back on some of those scene setters....
Tom and Charlie dig into songs from talented individuals with great voices and a knack for a tune. They also discover that the term singer songwriter is hard to define - it's more than a single woman or man at a piano or a guitar, or is it?
Tom and Charlie chance upon a series of lists, drawn up in a pub, some time in 2001 (we think). They revisit the lists and the songs chosen almost two decades previously.
Tom, Charlie, Jim and Mick sit down to do their first listen-along and to kick off the new format they've chosen The Strokes' recent release, The New Abnormal.
Julian, Fab, Nikolai, Nick and Albert - they came to slap us around the face in 2001. And they stuck around for years after. In this episode, we talk about our favourite early Strokes tracks
Tom, Charlie and Jim listen to their favourite cover versions and discuss what makes a good cover. Are some songs heaters? How different do you need to make a song if you're covering it?
Tom and Charlie talk about a band that blew up in the early '00s. Behind the pop-up gigs, endless headlines, tales of make-ups and break-ups, drugs and debauchery there were some great songs and a visceral energy that was hard to miss.
Tom and Charlie are joined by Charlie 'Stix' Layton formerly of Transparent Things, Seeing Scarlet, Stereo Dance Party, The Wedding Present, Art Brut, Librium... the list goes on and on. We share our most inspirational drum tracks and talk to Stix about his inimitable drumming style.