Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.
Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience.
Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com.
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Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.
Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience.
Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com.
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This week’s news put through the wringer and hung out to dry. On the line you’ll find …
… Taylor Swift and Ophelia and other things pop videos turned into tourist attractions
… the appeal of D’Angelo’s Voodoo: “he made albums with no disdain for the listener”
…. David Hepworth and “the single most exciting thing that ever happened to me in my entire life”
… bands whose story means more than their music
… Nick Drake, Hendrix, Portishead, Nirvana: why three albums is the perfect back catalogue
… when Morrissey was just “Steve from Stretford” and Bowie “some bloke in Beckenham”
… Elvis Costello, the Nashville Rooms and how Mark escaped being “killed to bits”
… is there a better sign of obsession than being able to name all a band’s members?
… Your challenge: listen to the Dead’s Dark Star for the first time. Discuss!
… esoteric tracks played by mobile coffee vans
… “Gor Blimey, hello Mrs Jones. How’s old Bert’s lumbago?”
… plus JJ Cale, Canned Heat, Cameron Crowe and Fred Neil’s The Dolphins.
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