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Am I Sad?
The recent Word Podcasts with Doggett and Lowe have left me reaching for the back gatherings of the posse and I've started the Podcasts all over again from Number One.
All have been synced to the ipod and it's well underway, all being listened to in order. On the way home tonight, I've been listening to the Folk Awards and Rob Fitzpatrick stating that Phil Collins should be allowed back in to every day society.
Andrew Harrison is the star of these, never fails to make me laugh.
Matt Hall's chirping from the back of the room is also top notch.
Mark Ellen is like everyone's favourite Barmy Uncle who still thinks it's 1972 and sets fire to the sofa by falling asleep with his pipe in.
Heppo though, you do sound like the boss in these earlier ones, I've got the conch etc etc.
I'm sure I should get out more, but I'm showing no signs of getting bored yet.
I'd never been mad on Rob Fitz but I'm starting to love him too as he's been on great form on his appearances thus far. Jude's Welsh Stella Stella Street is hilarious.
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If you are sad, I am perhaps sadder...
When I was living in Florence a couple of years ago I was having a bit of a rough time as my relationship was falling apart. In the evenings I needed something to cheer me up and would listen to old podcasts. Every single one of them, three times over.
I've said this before. When
I've said this before.
When drive back the 6 hours or so from seeing my son for the weekend, the Podcast is all I listen to for about 5 hours of that.
It's perfect. I mean, it's good at any time, but intelligent bollocks is funny and mood lifting. Next thing I know, I'm an hour from home...
yes
me too in Sad Camp. I fire up an old podcast from time to time. It's the equivalent of a comfort album
Saved
I haven't listened to any of them more than once yet, but I've kept them all on a hard-drive as I fully expect I'll go back through them at some point.
Funnily enough
I started doing the same a few weeks ago. Podicle Jr snapped the screen off my laptop and I've been stuck with my old computer and podcast collection while I wait for it to be repaired. I've re-listened to most of the first hundred.
My observations:
>Matt Hall was fantastic and is much missed, but Fraser seems to have occupied the same conversational niche very effectively.
>The ones with just the Word crew are the best. I do like the interviews, but it's the pointless banter between the regulars that really lights things up.
>The podcasts are a useful reminder of the rapid times we live in. It's fascinating listening to the meteoric rise of Twitter and the decline and fall of Sarah Palin, all in the space of a few weeks.
>A highlight of the early podcasts is Dave constantly trying to codify the laws of rock and pop (great artists only have a three album purple patch, all female bassists are good looking etc), defiant while the others throw up a constant stream of exceptions.
>Danny Baker doesn't appear often enough. When he and Mark are in the same room the bonhomie and optimism they exude really could improve the gaiety of nations.
The Podcast Project
I've done it a couple of times, usually when I've needed the illusion of stability in my life.
As Podicle says, they're a great snapshot of each stage of the last decade, give or take. "So Fraser, explain Twitter to us..."
Agree fully
Interesting at the beginning at the drive to get the Facebook numbers up and what was happening in the music world that week and how it seems a lifetime ago.
I do prefer the ones with the crew although the Nick Lowe and Beatles podcasts were crackers.
Andrew Harrison is still the star though.
I'm listening to the Pete Paphides one
at the moment on the old music papers.
I listen on my MP3 on my walk into work and sometimes get so engrossed that I comment fairly loudly