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Podcast school’s out for summer…

We’ve had a lot of fun (and more fun than we thought we’d have) recording our podcast – the hornily titled I’d Love To Turn You On – in the recent pandemically charged months and… 

I’d Love To Turn You On #20

With tracks from Teenage Sequence, Battles, Lifetones, Palm and more, all interspersed with silly conversation and efforts to articulate what we love about music.

I’d Love To Turn You On #19

With tracks from Northside, Jean Philippe-Goude, Jimpster, The Herbaliser Feat. Wildflower and more, all interspersed with silly conversation and efforts to articulate what we love about music.

I’d Love To Turn You On #18

With tracks from Funkadelic, Clark, Thelonious Monk, Digital Underground, Self Esteem and more, all interspersed with silly conversation and efforts to articulate what we love about music.

A story that no one knows they are in…

Like all bookish, film, tv and box-set-loving, literary, narrative bores and writer-types, I am very interested in Joseph Campbell’s mythic structure the hero’s journey, or monomyth, as it sometimes goes (a word borrowed from James… 

I’d Love To Turn You On #17

With tracks from A Certain Ratio, The Blow Monkeys, Floating Points, Tortoise and more, all interspersed with silly conversation and efforts to articulate what we love about music.

I’d Love To Turn You On #16

With tracks from Sons of Kemet, Noga Erez, Basil Kirchin, Courting and more, all interspersed with silly conversation and efforts to articulate what we love about music.

I’d Love To Turn You On #15

With tracks from Leon Vynehall, Osibisa, The Breeders, Life Without Buildings and more, all interspersed with silly conversation and efforts to articulate what we love about music.

I’d Love To Turn You On #14

With tracks from Donna Summer, Outkast, Newen Afrobeat, LCD Soundsystem and more, all interspersed with silly conversation and efforts to articulate what we love about music.

Sully, The Housemartins, et moi

In early summer 2005, following the unexpected minor success of a first full-length play, I was invited to a place called Peaberries that specialised in selling big messy sandwiches that you ended up wearing, to…