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Word Podcast 166: fish and chips with Pinetop Perkins, a sachet of whisky for Liz Taylor and more - with guest Christian Ward
Posted by David Hepworth on 25 March 2011 - 3:27pm.
Christian Ward joins us this week to expand on his column about what happened to singers who can enunciate, work out what the deuce Elton John is singing about in "Sacrifice", talk about the links between British pop and comedy as explored in his film, remember Pinetop Perkins and Elizabeth Taylor and answer your questions. Among other things.
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Holy shirt!
I see David has stolen Mark's shirt.
i thought that - but i
think they've just swopped the heads using photoshop.
Looking forward to this a lot
as I've always been a big fan of Giles cartoons. I'm amazed the old Granny is still alive, never mind on The Word podcast.
Enjoyable ...
... but is it now a contractual obligation to mention Neil Tennant in every podcast?
Only if...
The Beatles aren't mentioned.
"You're listening to the Word Podcast ...
... the scent of Aer Lingus" - the new strapline surely?
The Elton John bit didn't
The Elton John bit didn't really work did it? It gave you the chance to name drop Simon Mayo though.
worked for me
Woody old bean, fair made me grin
Agreed...
Aside from the "Aer Lingus" gem, I thought both of Christian Ward's "bits" were probably the least convincing ideas I've heard on the podcasts. Not sure his argument about reverb levels held much water either.
One over-throw in a hundred plus wickets isn't a bad average though, I suppose
I believe our man in Cadiz,
made some very similar points about Elton a year or so ago:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/singing-sucky-way-chapter-2-whatd-...
Alan Partridge
Steve Coogan recently did 12 short Alan Partridge films for Fosters lager on their website. I didn't have high hopes of it, as I thought by the end of last TV series he had exhausted the character. But it is probably the best thing he had done with Partridge since the early radio series. The idea is that Alan is now working as a DJ on Mid-Morning Matters on North Norfolk Digital Radio, and that the films are just part of the webcam stream from the programme. The same gaucheness and self delusion remain. As his press release says:
''I am delighted to announce that after years as a regional broadcaster on North Norfolk Digital my groundbreaking radio segment, Mid Morning Matters, will now be accessible to a potential audience of billions via the World Wide Web (www).
That it has taken Foster’s to help realise my dream of joining the information superhighway is a damning indictment of the established broadcasters whose shabby treatment of me on Sept 10th 2001 was frankly shabby. I made dozens of calls the next day, all of which were ignored."
http://www.fostersfunny.co.uk/alanpartridge/
This picture looks like a spivs' afternoon out...
...and Christian has brought his dear old Mum along too!
Or it could be that he's acting as intermediary for the old couple as they've not talked to each other for years. Bless!
Here's the answer to Tom Waits vs Randy Newman
I suspect Mark
was eating with Pinetop at the Seashell in Lisson Grove. I'm pretty sure it's still there, though it was closed for a while a year or so ago for a refurb.
In the past you could sometimes spot Glen Matlock there buying his fish supper.
as far as english enunciation in pop is concerned
I remember a letter published a few years back in the Saturday Guardian from a VSO English teacher who was looking for songs sung in clear un-accented English to aid his pupils in Africa to learn the language through the medium of popular song. He was having great difficulty finding examples which were unblemished by poor pronunciation or Americanised diction. The following week someone helpfully suggested "An Elegant Chaos" by Julian Cope which when you think about it fits the bill perfectly (the correspondent did acknowledge that hearing children sing the line "People I see, just remind me of moo-ing like a cow on the grass. And that's not to say, that there's anything wrong with being a cow anyway" was an added bonus)