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New podcast unveils major historical find!
Posted by David Hepworth on 24 July 2008 - 8:59am.
Further proof that Mark Ellen never throws anything away came when Martin Fry dropped in to take part in this week's podcast. Mark produced the "manuscript" of a Fry-authored ghost story that was written for Smash Hits 25 years ago and scribbled on Columbia Hotel stationery. In the course of a packed programme we cover: seething jealousy in the Top Of The Pops green room back in the day, trekking in South America with Tony Hadley, ABC's new album "Traffic" and which rock stars you could reasonably expect to meet at the Cartier Polo.
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Jeez
MF looks like a bleached version of Jeremy Clarkson in that pic!
For a photocall with such an august guest..
....Mr Hepworth could at least have stood up
I remember that story. I
I remember that story. I also like the Seaside Skullduggery one too. Happy days. I think I have two copies of that yearbook - are they worth owt yet?
Tim Rice?
No?
Inca Gold?
"trekking in South America with Tony Hadley"
Sounds like the basis for a Viz comic strip to me!
Rich
surely it's just another
one of those show ideas that Alan Patridge had in the BBC canteen alongside 'inner city sumo', 'Youth hostelling with Chris Eubank' and Monkey Tennis
surely it's just another
one of those show ideas that Alan Patridge had in the BBC canteen alongside 'inner city sumo', 'Youth hostelling with Chris Eubank' and Monkey Tennis
I love the name...
Egg Friday! Start the auditions now!!
Do take the hanger
out from your shirt before coming to work Mr Ellen
Is that a large cannabis plant...
... in the background?
No wonder there's always laughing.
I thought...
...it was Rick Stein (not the plant...)
I look up to him but look down on him
I know my place
Jorge Luis Borges…
…wrote a short story titled Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, in which a group of intellectuals conspire to create a fictional country called Uqbar. This in turn leads to the imagining of world known as Tlön, whose culture and languages are documented in meticulous detail in a set of encyclopaedias. By the end of the story these ideas have taken root and the real world is in the process of becoming Tlön.
It strikes me that the writers of WORD magazine are in a good position to enact a similar coup on reality. Pop acts come and go in the blink of an eye and the rate of attrition is high. Shoehorning a short-lived, but influential boy band called Egg Friday into recent history shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.
Am I wrong in thinking that the band’s debut single would be a mission statement in the mould of (Everybody) Backstreet’s Back, in which the concept of an ‘Egg Friday’ is given vaguely sexual overtones and sung mainly by the two bad boys of the group.
Surely...
....this is a job for Wikipedia.
"Fly, my pretties, fly!"
Not me guv!
Delighted to achieve the lofty heights of being mentioned on the Word 'cast - but I didn't say it! It was the esteemed Mr. Drayton who made the Dick Emery comment. As it happens, some time ago I did make a particularly well crafted post on the effects of listening to Bob Marley whilst queuing to buy a sandwich, but it is sadly lost in the depths of the post archives now.
Is that...
...Martin Frys Nana on the left?
Separated at birth
The Kevin
Keegan haircut never looked better. And Mr Ellen must suffer from terrible backache with a posture like that, coathanger or no coathanger.
Don't want to rub it in but
Hair. All three. In full effect.
Podcast
Can you please load onto DivShare - we're still stuck with the podcast from 2 weeks ago
Huh?
I've just listened to it and it's the new one.
Yes...
... the PodCast on the Podcast link above is an old one.
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/podcast
No...
...on the Divshare embed at the top of this item it's the new one.
Why did you get Andrew Collins to impersonate Martin Fry?
He could have least have attempted a Sheffield accent...
ps Billy Gray, Tim Yeo, Tim Healy?
Good to see
the wonderful Mr Fry in a suit - nice one at that. Some things never change and the world is a better place for that.
Now Mr Hepworth, we need to discuss that button down collar....
That's not Mark Ellen
It's a ventriloquist's dummy surely and Martin Fry's working it.
Like vintage wine
That's all three of you by the way...
Like vintage wine
One other thing: Is Hepworth standing in a ditch?
I wonder...
At the moment of taking such an innocent photograph did they expect to receive such personal (albeit with winks and affection)remarks about their appearance?
Justified
If you put oneself in the public eye...
They know
we love them. Really?
Yours,
Max Mosley
Facist!
Allegedly...awaiting appeal
The implications
of Mr Ellen's belief that it was Harry Worth who said "Hello, honky tonk" are simply enormous.
One of the best podcasts yet,
thank you. Martin Fry is right up there on the pop raconteurs Top 10. More of these please!
(eg Partridge, Tennant, Heaton, Almond, Oakey, Ure...)
There's a recent 2-hour+ Andy Partridge interview at...
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ - just search for Andy Partridge and you'll find the February 2008 interview as part of Rundgren Radio. It's a phone-in, there are obviously a number of questions relating to Todd's production on "Skylarking", and the varying volume levels will drive you mad, but Andy is in good form throughout, and proves he would indeed be an excellent guest choice for the podcast...
I enjoyed Martin Fry's input very much too - more of this kind of thing please!
Yes, a pleasing raconteur
Shall we leave it at that?
Meanwhile at The Cartier Polo..
Three male streakers...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7527930.stm
Celebrity is a much mis-used word
"Charles was joined in the royal box by a number of celebrities, including Bond girl Rosamund Pike and Harry Potter actress Emma Watson."
Three?
So did Messers Hepworth and Ellen tag along with Fry after all?
No chance of hearing "Being Boiled" live, then?
Quite the best train journey home ever tonight, courtesy of the Fry-cast - many thanks, and when Radio Fry starts broadcasting, I'll be tuning in.
Only disappointment was, decoding Mr Fry's diplomatic comments on the politics of multi-band tours and the forthcoming Steel City Tour, I won't get very far shouting for "Empire State Human" or any other Human League hits from before their Trinnie and Susannah (or whatever their names are) glory days. Surely, for old times sake, Phil could don a lop-sided wig for a Heaven 17/Human League reunion encore or two ...?
Human League
I saw them live at a private party and they played Empire State Human. They were absolutely brilliant and everyone was up on the dance floor going for it. (Martin Fry's story about the corporate gig where everyone was holding a drink and a programme made me laugh my tea out!)
Just a thought
Excellent! Guess it might depend though on whether whoever was paying for the private party dictated the set-list ... in which case, what about all those who've paid for tickets for the Steel City Tour at the Manchester Apollo letting the bands know what we want to hear (a novel concept, which, if it caught on, could put paid to the "and here's something from the forthcoming album" ploy ... hmmm)
I know the party-givers...
...and they wouldn't have known Empire State Human, believe me! As for your other point, when REM toured in about 2002 they invited gig-goers to nominate 3 tracks they'd like to hear a their particular night. I emailed in for a relatively rare album track ('I Believe' from Life's Rich Pageant) and they played it. Maybe it was my doing, maybe not, but hell I was v pleased! My tip is that you contact Human League somehow and at least you know they have it programmed on the keyboard already.
These tree guys look so
These tree guys look so familiar to me..but I don't know exactly where from I know them. There are plenty of things I should be doing right now but since I'm working with International Oddities I took a few moments off to review this website.