My favourite songwriter of all time on the best podcast in the stratosphere. I haven't even downloaded it yet and I'm already giddy with delight.

I hope it's good.

on the podcast. You lot really are good.

The song about standing on one leg reminded me of the nice little tunes we used to hear in 'Play School'.

The joke about the bear in the tree was very good.

Noel Coward's diaries are really worth a read - they're gossipy and brilliant and he drops names effortlessly.

The Casio held up well, as did Neil Hannon - a very nice guest.

I'm a big fan of Neil Hannon. I'm of the opinion that A Lady of a Certain Age has the best lyrics of any song ever.

...I would now like to issue a challenge to any other star who wants to come on the podcast and do the same thing - midway between a chat and a demonstration.

"Standing On The Left Foot" is a great track and would surely win if the Ivors brought the best novelty song category back. Do we really need best original score in a video game?

I had never actually heard Neil Hannon before - I was aware of the Duckworth-Lewis thing and it was on my "to be checked out some time" list.

He's great - first of all in reference to the Casio he can PLAY - interesting chords or at least interesting voicings of standard chords, and he has a good sense of rhythm and feel. And if he can get all that across on the crappy Casio - he's got it! Also I liked his fragile but appealing voice, singing interesting melodies and intelligent lyrics. He knows how to write a song. Lovely stuff.

And the Noel Coward and Randy Newman references are entirely appropriate.

Well done! Hope some one else rises to the challenge.

That was one of the best. Thank you. What a delight it was listening to Neil Hannon: witty, clever, well-informed, articulate, charming and unassuming. Loved it.

Neil Hannon has sort of passed me by over the years, will now open the ears properly. What a splendid, talented, down to earth, game for a giggle chap he is.

Just terrific entertainment. And please feel free to tell your potential advertisers that I now plan to buy an album I had absolutely no intention of buying.

Any chance of getting Elvis Costello next? Beirut?

I wish I'd written At the Indie Disco, I really do. I've written tunes about standing on lego, Bob the Builder's love life and watching Rugby League on Saturdays as a child - not fit to wipe the soles of Neil Hannon's brogues of course - so I cheered when he said that people 'unnecessarily narrow their field of vision when it comes to songwriting'. So very true. Another great podcast. Thank you one and all.

I have to take issue with one thing - and I know it's already been mentioned on another post - but the assertion that Neil is the first to commemorate the "Indie Disco" in song is well off the mark. The Lancashire Hotpots' song of that title is a) older and b) better.

There's more white shoes than Miami Vice
The Kaiser Chiefs are played not once but twice...

Klaxxons, Editors and The Strokes
All the girls are dancing with the blokes
There's classic Nirvana and The Ramones
Some Arctic Monkeys and The Rolling Stones
The DJ plays records until 3
But only bands who've been in NME

Top entertainment...

Other than that, fab to hear Neil on the podcast. I've been a huge fan since the "Promenade" days, thought things went a bit iffy around the "Regeneration"-period, but with Duckworth-Lewis and what I've heard from the new album, he seems to be back on top form. Nice work all round.

Great podcast and Neil was an engaging and charming guest.
I do recall when Chris Evans was in his pomp on Radio One he played "Something For The weekend" twice on the trot just because he liked it and he could.
It was the first time I had ever heard such a thing happen on primetime national radio.

I may have imagined this but the hazy memory does persist.