The Strange Brew - artist stories behind the greatest music ever recorded
by Jason Barnard · 300 episodes
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Rock music from the mid 60s onwards - podcasts, features and much more
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18 min
Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent
Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of The Zombies join Jason Barnard ahead of the Begin Here Festival in St. Albans, which starts on Friday 30 October. It will be Rod’s first time play…
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1 h 06
Doctor and the Medics
Doctor and the Medics had one of the unlikeliest number ones of the 1980s thanks in part to an ambulance their record company sent to Radio 1 and then it spent the next forty years…
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27 min
Homer Flynn – The Residents
The Residents don’t give interviews, so when they have something to say, Homer Flynn says it for them. He is their art director, their spokesperson and part of the Cryptic Corporat…
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36 min
Simon Nicol – Fairport Convention’s Early Years
Fairport Convention made a £5 profit from their first gig, at St Michael’s Church Hall in Golders Green on 27 May 1967. About 30 or 40 people turned up, and the band had printed th…
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54 min
Downes Braide Association
Geoff Downes and Chris Braide talk about Trauma, the new Downes Braide Association album, and how the project has evolved since the first DBA record in 2012. They discuss the diffi…
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20 min
Ian Gillan – Deep Purple
Deep Purple play their last show of this run on 19 December in Mexico City. After two weeks at home for Christmas, Gillan goes straight back into work with the band, before leaving…
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39 min
Jimmy Webb
When Jimmy Webb first saw Joni Mitchell at the Troubadour, he sent roses to her dressing room with a letter asking her to tea. It went unanswered. The following decade, after they…
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24 min
Randy Edelman
Randy Edelman is probably best known to British listeners for the records he made in the 1970s and early 1980s, including Uptown Uptempo Woman and Concrete and Clay. The Carpenters…
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25 min
Youth: From Dub and Killing Joke to The Orb, Paul McCartney & Pink Floyd
From the dub sound systems of 1970s Ladbroke Grove to Killing Joke, The Orb, Paul McCartney’s Fireman project and Pink Floyd’s The Endless River, few musicians have moved through a…
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42 min
Allan Clarke
Allan Clarke started The Hollies with Graham Nash as a teenager, copying other people’s records at Abbey Road. He left the group, came back, then left again, and along the way his…
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49 min
John Leckie on XTC and The Dukes of Stratosphear
John Leckie joins The Strange Brew to talk through the Dukes of Stratosphear story, from his first sight The post John Leckie on XTC and The Dukes of Stratosphear appeared first on…
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29 min
Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery
Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery discuss their joint album The Roaring Waves. They explore creative process behind it, The post Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery appeared first on The S…
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39 min
Mari Wilson
Mari Wilson was the beehived voice behind “Just What I Always Wanted”, the Neasden Queen of Soul who The post Mari Wilson appeared first on The Strange Brew .
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1 h 23
Jeremy Clyde – Chad & Jeremy
Ten years on, Jeremy Clyde is back. Chad Stuart left behind decades of unfinished Chad & Jeremy recordings. The post Jeremy Clyde – Chad & Jeremy appeared first on The Strange Brew…
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37 min
Gerald V Casale – Devo
Devo co-founder Gerald V. Casale joins us for a career spanning conversation, starting with his new protest single The post Gerald V Casale – Devo appeared first on The Strange Bre…
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42 min
Arthur Brown
Arthur Brown joins Jason Barnard, alongside his partner and collaborator Claire Waller, to talk through his new album The post Arthur Brown appeared first on The Strange Brew .
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1 h 01
Robin Scott – M
Robin Scott’s career spans from acoustic songs on the 1960s folk circuit to the sequenced synth-pop of ‘Pop The post Robin Scott – M appeared first on The Strange Brew .
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31 min
Michael Hampton – Parliament/Funkadelic
Over fifty years ago, a teenager from Cleveland got talked into playing “Maggot Brain” at an after party, The post Michael Hampton – Parliament/Funkadelic appeared first on The Str…
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42 min
Jimi Hendrix Didn’t Know He Was a Genius – Eric Barrett
Eric Barrett spent two years, from 1968 to 1970, as Jimi Hendrix’s road manager and one of the The post Jimi Hendrix Didn’t Know He Was a Genius – Eric Barrett appeared first on Th…
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1 h 46
Graham Parker – In Conversation
Graham Parker didn’t get a record deal until he was 24, having worked in a rubber glove factory The post Graham Parker – In Conversation appeared first on The Strange Brew .