This weeks pod veers off the conversational highway to break out its picnic hamper at the following leafy locations .  the Stackwaddy game: metal band or clawed demon from Dantes Inferno?  when bands stopped being good-looking.  Paul

The super-trouper of gentle enquiry alights this week upon   why bands are at their biggest when theyre over the hill.  Fats Waller v Morrissey song titles: can YOU tell your Waller from your Wallower?  how could Dylan have written Que

Forty years ago Clare Grogan was on the cover of Smash Hits yet again and was the fourth guest at our garden party on June 3. Here she remembers the key events that have happened since which include meeting Bill Forsyth and the success of Gregory’s Girl (

The first record by the Beatles came out on the same day as the first James Bond film. Over sixty years later they still send their differing forms of Britishness out into the world. John Higgs has written a book, “Love And Let Die”, about how closely the

Author, DJ, member of St Etienne and a regular on our podcasts, Bob Stanley was the second guest at our sun-baked garden party in the auditorium of Opera Holland Park on June 3 talking about his new book “Bee Gees: Children Of the World”. He feels – and v

Its a barely believable sixty years since the Rolling Stones put out their first single, Come On, so we asked Lesley-Ann Jones, the author of The Stone Age", along to talk about them and how they have related to the women in their lives, from Brian Jo

This weeks rock and roll gumbo includes the following spicy and nutritious ingredients   the internet is designed to let middle-aged men think theyve had the last word.  will the Royal Blood storm-in-a-teacup do them more good than harm?&

Fond and appraising enquiry of recent events, this week featuring   we now feel we have to approve of artists/musicians/writers before we can say we like what they do. When did all this start?  a new Stackwaddy game Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon

A special extra podcast recorded just after hearing the news. We can barely remember a time when we werent aware of her. This looks back at the Ike & Tina R&B hits of the 60s, the Ikettes dance routines and how he copyrighted her stage name, the

Put through the boil-wash of enquiry and hung upon the washing line of truth this week youll find the following one-size-fits-all garments   which acts are fading from memory and wholl be remembered in 50 years time?  how Paul Simon, Leona