tried last night and again just now may be just me.

- sounds like a goodun tho.

Try it.

It's ok on Itunes now - thanks

...could probably talk about music all day and be so eudite and interesting you wouldn't get tired of listening to him.

I'm heading up to London on Saturday. It will be my first time in the capital since December. It'll be the East end in the morning, but maybe in the afternoon I'll wander over to Archer Street on the off-chance that someone wants me to join their jazz combo.

The book covers my two great loves - music and London so I expect I'll be down at Waterstones this weekend.

I've just finished reading a biography of Marie Lloyd and she's an interesting character. One of my first trips to the theatre (Greenwich), in 1970, was to see the play about Marie Lloyd's life "Sing a Rude Song". Despite the title I think the trip was organised by my local church. On the night I went the star (Barbara Windsor) was ill and her place was taken by a combination of the show's author Ned Sherrin reading the dialogue while another member of the cast did the singing. Poptastic fact was that Maurice Gibb played Lloyd's third husband. The play was not a huge success when it moved to the West End and, as far as I know, has not been revived since.

extremely entertaining and enlightening.

One of the most informative podcasts ever.

is highly recommended. I'm 3/4 the way in, and it's written beautifully, with Paul's renowned descriptive style.

Will not download through Itunes , tried several times last two days- I see other people have had the same problem

I realise i may have missed most traffic to this post now,but ,as an on-line adjunct to Paul Du Noyer's excellent musings:- Rock Shrines is an excellent compilation of just the sort of stuff Word Magazine thrives on. Put together by a Mr Jonh Ingham ( pro music writer,very active through the seventies...lately,has contributed to "Word"),and linked to the Music loving based social network "MOG" It really is a thing of beauty,including Google St views,and all. I checked it for a Station Hotel Richmond entry,and yes it's there. Word podders should check out "Rock Shrines"

Listened to the podcast on Friday evening and ordered the book immediately. I always enjoy the podcasts but on this one I was hanging onto every word. My fascination stems in my part from my late Grandmother who caught the back end of music hall in her teens, and remembered seeing the likes of Harry Lauder and a very young Arthur Askey among others. I'll be equally keen to read up on the other decades covered (especially the 50s and 60s) and I hope Saint Etienne get at least a passing mention.

Thanks guys.