The Afterword Podcast

The lonely souls DFB and RubyBlue meet to discuss mental health again and specifically if - like the late great Bob Hoskins claimed - it's good to talk Whether it's you, your friends, loved ones etc it's hard to know what's best to do. We perhaps don't have any answers but perhaps our own experiences can help others empathise and give a couple of pointers. But - like many things - this podcast is...

Twang hands the chair over to Retropath 2 to interview Fairport Convention founder Simon Nicol.  In a wide ranging interview Retro manages to avoid all the usual tiresome questions ("what was Sandy like?", 'I bet Richard is a right laugh on a pub crawl" etc) and covers Simon's 50 year career and many other bands as well as exploring the realities of being a musician long after you should have foun...

Twang, Tiggerlion, Mike_H and El Hombre Malo convene in the pod to discuss the work of jazz colossus John Coltrane.  From sheets of sound, Coltrane changes, spiritual dimensions to heroin and being scared to go beyond certain points in the man's canon, much ground is covered.  And Tig has to admit there is an album even he doesn't think he can't improve by a spot of re-sequencing.

Where were we? DFB, Steven C, Nigel T and the non alliterative DoctorJ continue wih The Beatles chat - which is what they do even if the tapes aren't running to discuss the new publishing wheeze of releasing albums with pamphlets attached that they humorously call a magazine. We talk about the tacky, wacky or canny nature of Apple's treatment of The Beatles whether via vinyl or CD, the proposed 50...

Yes its the bloody Beatles again - well, we - that being the regular podders DFB, StevenC & DrJ PLUS fresh face NigelT making a stunning debut - look at the solo career AFTER his All Things Must Pass album and enquire if unlike Lennon post Imagine - is there anything to see? Somehow we take in the 80's TV show 'In At The Deep End', the Dark Hoarse tour, the much remaindered Living In The Material...

So 2016 ended not with a bang but a tech fuck up - and one last death. So here is the start of a podcast riddled with so much dub reggae sound effects that it had to be remounted in 2017. Its supposed to be our 2nd regular Beatles podcast but there's an AWFUL lot of Pink Floyd in it The Flowers In The Dirt-y Robbing Bugger Super Deluxe Edition: just what is going on and we'll just get the 2 CD edi...

NB: This podcast has been delayed due to serious sound issues and this 20 minute section may be the only salvageable bit and Twang has done a fine job to bring this greatly entertaining demolition to you. So Dogfacedboy asked for people to listen to albums that they haven't listened to before for purely childish or petty reasons. This episode details Mr Ganglesprocket grappling with Bruce Springst...

Mr Dogfacedboy meets up with one of his favourite people in the world - singer songwriter Kathryn Williams in London. They shoot the shit about the myriad projects she has simmering away as well as reflecting on the Child Refugee benefit last Friday at Union Chapel which is reviewed elsewhere on the site. Matters discussed include - (Not) smoking a fag with Charlotte Church - - her new album with...

Twang, Bartleby, Attackdog and El Hombre Malo polish their plectrums, clip on their capos and gather in the pod to discuss guitars.  No, wait, come back!  Inevitably there is some nerdery (it's four guitarists talking to each other after all) but much humour, wry reflections on ability or otherwise, gig injuries, rubbish instruments endured and favourite players appreciated.  As it's Christmas our...

At last Twang, Morrison, JazzJet, Pencilsqueezer, Mike_H and Tiggerlion don berets, dark round sun glasses and co-respondent shoes and discuss the wonderful world of jazz.  Chins are stroked, names dropped and Skype does its best to remove Tigger from the proceedings all together.  A splendid time is had by all and Sting gets a shoeing along the way. Doo be doo be doo.

Twang, Johnny Concheroo, Blue Boy, Junior Wells and Fortune 8 abandon the pod to meet at the crossroads at midnight to discuss the blues…they make a deal with the Devil that they will be done in an hour but Old Nick, as well as having the best tunes, curses the producer with a discussion as fine as a vintage shot of Jack over ice on a hot summer night, meaning Twang abandons the edit and delivers...

Slumped round a table at the restaurant at the end of the universe waiting for Disaster Area's set or The Great Prophet Zarquon - whichever is first,  Mr DFB, Ganglesprocket, Kid Dynamite and NewPathsToHelicolin discuss post apocalyptic fiction. Periods in history appear to throw up interest in bleak futurescapes and we are living through a particularly bounteous one at the moment. Wyndham, The Wa...

This is the first in a regular Beatles only podcast - yeah, let's see how soon that plan falls by the wayside - marking the most Beatle-y of months with the documentary 'Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years' , the remastered 'Live at The Hollywood Bowl' and NOT the announcement of the expected release of Paul McCartney's 'Flowers In The Dirt' super deluxe box set. We're all sick of experts so Beat...

This podcast features DFB, Gavin Hogg and Lyn discussing 'Once More With Feeling' and 'Skeleton Tree' - the film and album by and featuring Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Not much else to say really. Share and enjoy!

Twang, Leedsboy, Hannah, Retropath2 and Askwith hunker down in the pod and reflect on the summer past, the joys of offspring on holidays, sounds enjoyed, buying some old, folk clubs and, inevitably, vinyl vs. CD and the Mighty Tull (briefly, non believers).  The team end on a glum note though, at the though of going back to work.

Ahead of his "triumphant appearance"* in the Dolly Parton slot at Glastonbury Festival this weekend, Jeff Lynne and ELO disciple, DoctorJ, aided by Iain Mc tries to convince DFB & Steven C that he is the messiah and not a naughty Fabs tune ruining boy We get alternate reviews of ELO's recent delayed dat at the 3Arena in Dublin (The Point, for all you old heads) Discover if the line up who played o...

The team that bought you the last podcast bring you this one. DFB's shaky theory that Bob Dylan has retired from writing his own material to recording rum old Sinatra covers LPs is given a right kicking. But we do settle on the last great American songwriter standing. You clue is....it's Paul Simon. No. It is. Stop suggesting your pet obscure faves, it is. So we celebrate Paul in his many differen...

My-o-my that DFB, Welsh Benny, DoctorJ, StevenC and Iains_o don't half talk a lot. So much so that the edi of the main next podcast has been delayed so here's the other stuff they chatted about Live updates from Bruce Springsteen at Croke Park Dublin from Mrs DoctorJ The Monkees album opinions from those who have and haven't heard it The Stone Roses give short shrift as usual And the regular menti...

Best selling author Stephen Clarke pops into the pod to tell The Afterword about his new book "Merde in Europe", interviewing 90s pop stars in the streets of Paris, and trying to get Prince lyrics into the French/English dictionary. Given the amount of merde regularly talked here, this seemed a good topic for this week's episode.

DFB ventures down to The Convent hotel/venue in Stroud to witness the closing concert of Kathryn Williams International Writing Retreat with an embarrassment of richness in songwriting talent. The day after the boozy post gig party and a hearty breakfast he sits down with Kathryn Williams and Astrid Williamson to discuss what goes on at these events and just how you conjure up a song from nowhere....

Long threatened but now complete, the Afterword returns from its self enforced spring break with a podcast dedicated to The Fall. Your host DFB chats with Gavin "Whole" Hogg and Dr "Tim" Volume comparing the length of their Fall collections and many other matters   - The Russian roulette of The Fall in concert but isn't that better than the dull alternative? - What were Mark E Smith's observations...

We crawl out of the oxygen tent, tens of millions of peoploids trying tomake sense of the future that David Bowie was always outlining to us. DrJ, Steven C, SimonGMusic, John Connolly and DFB use this podcast as a cathartic exercise in remembering a musical hero and trying to figure out why, nearly a week on at time of recording, we still are shellshocked and scrabbling around in the dust. - the l...

DogFaceBoy, Twang, the Cheshire Cat, Steerpike and El Hombre Malo struggle with technical gremlins and seasonal torpor to discuss the year past and the one to come.  The Cat lives up to his fictional namesake by disappearing regularly and El Hombre wanders in the Skype wilderness before finding the way in.  Nonetheless some highlights are identified, and in AW tradition an argument breaks out over...

DFB, through a mixture of blackmail and downright pleading, gets the director of the recent finale to Series 9 of 'Doctor Who' to sit down during her hectic schedule to answer some questions from The Massive and the Interweb. - is the instant damning or praise from social media a good\bad thing? - what are fan conventions like and are they no longer a cliché? - is going with the accepted or easies...

 In the GLKLondon Studios DFB and Spencer link hands with Drakeygirl and Dr Volume to discuss whether we have reached "peak vinyl" in the album boom times. - is it just for those Hoxton hipsters? - two men remember the lyrics to 'Brown Sauce's hit only too clearly - are da kidz down wiv what we are jiving, daddio? - does it sound better / different / worse ? - which naughties act gave away condoms...