the little lad with the back pack at the front? Looks a bit like Angus Young.

The interior shot puts me in mind of "Music and Movement" ..."now you're all going to be trees... start small like a seed"...

I'm NOT jealous in the slightest... but still look forward to listening when I get home.

is David Hepworth?

Well that was fun. Like an old overcoat, or riding a bike.

re; the crossing photo. Frazer was using a fish eye lens, which is why the people furthest from the centre appear smaller in the photo. Or something.

And is there another picture of him going back to get his shoes?

Andrew Harrison playing the part of Pete Best? Sneaking in at the back.

Mark should have taken his guitar and re-recorded the theme music.

to say hello. The last time I saw him was drenched in sweat (his sweat on him, not his sweat on me) at The Specials' show at Brixton Academy last month.

I am also writing to express my utter DISGUST that no Norn Iron representatives were invited to mark the CentenaryCast. Myself and Barry would have halved our usual fees to be there and thereby prompt long threads either asking what we had said or 'poking fun' at our "unique" accents.

Yours in eternal disgust,

S. Forward

p.s. well done on making it to 100.

here's to the next century.

Gongrats too........

Which got even better when David Hepworth came into the same room about halfway through.

Is David Hepworth mimicking Bruce 'Brucie' Forsyth's pose at the start of The Generation Game in the photo above? And if not, what precisely is he doing?!

Thanks for the podcasts... never before in the field of human endeavour have erudition and bollocks coexisted quite so happily.

to hear the non-existent band thread discussed on the cast.

In Abbey Road studios.

My life may now be complete.

'The Mode' I like that. It could still happen. No Sleep til Retford.

Magnificent stuff! Loved the Abbey Road photo, made all the better by knowing that Martin Fry is just out of shot in his gold lame driving coat.

Congratulations on reaching 100 podcasts. One of the highlights of my week. Long may you continue.

Stunned to hear myself as the first listener message on the podcast and very weird to hear what you actually sound like to others although I was trying not to sound too Aberdonian.

I'll have to get a t-shirt printed up with "I've Been On The Word Podcast".

Here's to the next 100. Well done.

Another brilliant podacast! As have been the previous 100 odd.

(Pedants note: the counting only started when the podcasts went weekly, didn't they? the first 10 or so were monthly, and weren't numbered - so we actually reached the 100 mark a while back. Ah well.)

Great to hear a retelling of Ellen's masterwork, the Hynde Anecdote. It's like discovering a bootleg live version of one of your favourite songs - familiar, yet different.

Keep it up!

...clearly went to some kind of finishing school. Look at that deportment! Posture like that only comes from years of walking round balancing books on your heads.

except to say congratulations on reaching your century. It's been thoroughly enjoyable to be a listener - here's to another 100!

I know it's free and all, but is there going to be a "Best Of" podcast available...?

but missed the fun by a matter of minutes I'd guess! Boo! Still, congrats and keep it up, etc!

Bribery works!

no suggestions or carping from these quarters just more of the same but different please.

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Excellent pod and, indeed, cast.

Thanks for including my fatuous remarks :-)

...to sound like a former record company press officer with Alzheimer's, who has recently taken a powerful tranquillizer.

All the conversation, music and ambient noise in the Abbey Road studios is digitally recorded by microphones which are scattered unobtrusively around the property. At midnight a computer incorporates the day’s recordings into a giant ball of sonic plasticine, whose turbulent kernel is the orchestral cacophony that concludes The Beatles’ - A Day In The Life.

Every year this ball of sound is broadcast from the roof of BBC television centre to an orbiting satellite, which in turn beams the signal into space.

While you lot were swanning around Abbey Road you could have missed Lou Reed or Liam Gallagher nipping in for a friendly chat and cuppa tea.

Often it's the throwaway remarks that do it for me.
The one glove lost property remark from the very amusing Matt Hall had me laughing out loud (note full spelling).
And Michael Jackson sitting by the stage doing a crossword while others perform his hits from Mark Ellen....

And it's free you know.
Wonderful.

or was Mark Ellen really faded out for a few seconds, partway through his re-enactment of the Chrissie Hynde HORA? Of course, he may have simply been leaning back expansively in his chair, lulling the listeners into turning up the volume as they strained to hear, prior to his lunging back towards the microphone bellowing at full volume, as is his eardrum-shattering wont.

Anyway, congratulations on making your first ton of pure pleasure. Looking forward to far more in the months to come.

Prolapse are no more. They split quite a few years ago. Spookily, Autocade by Prolapse was the first song to play on my player after the podcast finished.

Congratulations and thanks for all the chat.

Might I suggest for the 200th Podcast you do it over the Tannoy at Paddington station, sure to get better sound especially if you make Mark Ellen stay down on the platform. I loved it though.
David Holley is the only person I know who will openly admit to supporting Grimsby Town.
Nice shot of the team in studio 2, I had the honour of watching Kate Bush record from that very aspect.

Nice picture - who's the guy at the back? I thought Don Estelle was dead.

Podcasts are great but forgot how good Matt Hall was. Can we not get him back as special surprise guest every few months?