Fifty Years of Fun

Latest Episodes:

KS-102 - STING-RAYS "Behind the Beyond" with Matt & Scott Jun 28, 2023

Yes, it's been a long while! Remember when fanzines would come out a year late? Well here we are.

If you've been wondering what happened, we have NOT retired. We just got held up on a few episodes and then took a break! While we get back on track, we're posting a Patreon-only episode, from a release on Joe Foster's Creation-adjacent Kaleidoscope Sound label.

In the future we plan on doing more non-Creation releases here and we're going to test out doing our regular releases out of order to keep things going smoothly.

As always, special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE010 - THE LEGEND “The Legend Destroys the Blues” b/w “Arrogant Bastards” w/ The Legend/Jerry Thackray/Everett True (The Legend!, journalist, author, professor) Nov 16, 2022

It’s been a VERYYYYYYY long wait, but we swear this one is worth it. Your humbled hosts are back from the dead with our first repeat guest, with an incredibly fun interview, in what we believe to be our most entertaining episode!

Links:

Destroys the Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhsnRWQqzY8

Toy Dolls video” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7tPikH0UA

Stuff we talk about:

A Witness

John Robb

Membranes

The Legend!

Jesus & Mary Chain

NME

Alan McGee

My Bloody Valentine

Byron Coley

Gerard Cosloy

Conflict Fanzine

Forced Exposure

Birthday Party

Ramones

Patrik Fitzgerald

X-Men

Maximum Rock n Roll

Red Guitars

Marimba Jive

Depeche Mode

New Model Army

Black Lace

Chameleons

The Dickies

Agadoo

Toy Dolls

B-52s

Cramps

Alive in the Living Room

Joe Foster

Three Johns

Mekons

The Smiths

Morrissey

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE009 - THE LOFT “Why Does the Rain” w/ Peter Astor (The Loft, The Weather Prophets, The Attendant, Ellis Island Sound, Wisdom of Harry, Louis Chavez, Damp Jungle; author) May 19, 2022

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

It’s a huge one!! Maybe the first CLASSIC single on Creation, and boy are we excited about it. It’s worth the wait! Did you doubt us? I bet you did! Moves, technical problems, floods! Shit happens, as one says. At the end of the episode, you’ll hear how Pete Astor’s flat flooded and we had to put off the interview (but it’s mainly our fault!) And, we apologize but Matt’s mic is fucked up in the first segment. But we did it! 80s glam metal tragedies get coverage!

Links:

The Loft: All songs available on the recent Ghost Trains & Country Lanes compilation: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-loft-ghost-trains-country-lanes-studio-stage-and-sessions-1984-2015-2cd/

Richard Hell “Time”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNDJOItyqg

Push with Seal and Oisin from The Weather Prophets “Traffic”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSN0TTvZSTE

Damp Jungle “Picture of a Girl”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_sehoQZots

Devon Irons & Doctor Alimantado “Vampire”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7gtK3LyLUE

Heidi Berry “Firefly”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-g1gwo_4OI

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Stuff that comes up:

Creation Records

Roky Erikson

Farmer’s Boys

Andrew Weatherall

The Jam

Eric Clapton

Biff Bang Pow!

Pacific

Heidi Berry

Oasis

Dave Morgan

Funkapolitan

The Canaries

DC Gore

The Attendant

Lou Reed

4AD

The Out Club

John F.C. Turner

Vivian Kubrick

Tom Verlaine

The Fuck Pigs

Alan Lomax

The Stooges

The Damned

Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks

Hanoi Rocks

Lee Perry

Devon Irons

Doctor Alimantado

The Subterraneans

Nick Kent

Razzle

The Sex Pistols

The Clash

David Westlake

The Servants

Wild Summer, Wow!

The Living Room

The Beatles

Pop Group

Otis Redding

Curtis Mayfield

Scritti Politti

The Loft

Weather Prophets

Leonard Cohen

Go-Betweens

The Anal Dwarves

Push Featuring Seal

Orange Juice

Danny Kelly

Seal

Primal Scream

Bobby Gillespie

Alan McGee

Richard Hell

Television Personalities

Peter Astor

A-Ha

Joe Foster

Neo Boys

23 Skidoo

Rolling Stones “Aftermath”

Bob Dylan “Love and Theft”]

Stimulin

Galliano

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** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE008 - JASMINE MINKS - “Where the Traffic Goes” w/ (Part 1) Simon Down (Pink Label, The Legend!, early Creation label involvement) and (Part 2) Tom Reid & Martin Keena (The Jasmine Minks) Mar 11, 2022

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Holy shit we are back once again. We have careers, ok?? It's our double issue! This ep we are trying MULTIPLE new things. We have someone chatting with us in the first half (Simon Down’s number is on the back of this single so we had to talk to him!), and THEN we have TWO band members at the same time which is a new one for us. This really got our podcast editing knuckles a-crackin’! This really is the ultimate ep for any Minks fans out there—we get DEEP and DIRTY into some seriously nerdy shit. You will love it. We are proud of this one and it’s seriously fun if you like the deep details.

Links:

Jasmine Minks “Where the Traffic Goes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxG9I4hmrtw

Jasmine Minks “Mr. Magic”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoHv4meA0Bw

Jasmine Minks’ bandcamp: https://thejasmineminks.bandcamp.com/

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Stuff that comes up:

Alan McGee

Pink Label

Creation Records

The Jasmine Minks

Joe Foster

Television Personalities

That Petrol Emotion

June Brides

Phil Wilson

McCarthy

The Undertones

Dick Green

Patrik Fitzgerald

The Legend

Everett True

Laughing Apple

Biff! Bang! Pow!

Jesus & Mary Chain

Oasis

Primal Scream

Three Johns

The Mekons

The Nightingales

The Ramones

The Loft

Zarjaz

Tronics / Ziro Baby

Rough Trade

Link Wray

The Third Man

Orson Welles

Momus

El Records

Ed Down

Jah Wobble

Public Image Limited

The Byrds

We The People

The Buzzcocks

The Fall

The Jam

Jaco Pastorius

Japan

Beach Boys

The Doors

Felt

Bodines

House of Love

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** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

JAZ001 - Pat Fish & The Jazz Butcher Special w/guest David Barker (Glass Records) Jan 28, 2022

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Back again!! We took a winter break, but we are back with a special tribute to the recently passed frontman of The Jazz Butcher.

We start off talking about Scott’s history with the ‘Butcher, and then we chat with longtime Butcher supporter, David Barker.

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Links:

Link to Scott’s Jazz Butcher mix: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59744631Jazz Butcher website: http://jazzbutcher.com/

Jazz Butcher “Big Saturday”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVgd7oIHuEI

Jazz Butcher: “Southern Mark Smith” (single version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3J3cBBn38

The 90s prank call every U.S. band member who toured in the 90s has heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAeqfk5m0Y8

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Stuff that comes up:

Jazz Butcher

John Cale

Elliot Sharp

Pacific

Lemon Kittens

Danielle Dax

The Tonix

Woodentops

Jacobites

NRBQ

Mekons

Rolo McGinty

John Cale

English Subtitles

Max Eider

Pat Fish

Cherry Red

Glass Records

Elliot Sharp

In Embrace

Bron Area

Rip Rig & Panic

Antena

Everything But the Girl

Bauhaus

Religious Overdose

David J

Kevin Ayers

Syd Barett

Velvet Underground

Lou Reed

John Rivers

Kevin Askins

Swell Maps

Felt

Alan McGee

Roadrunner

Jonathon Richman

Mark E. Smith

Brix Smith

The Fall

KLF

Camper Van Beethoven

Spacemen 3

Sisters of Mercy

Andrew Eldritch

Big Time Records

Go-Betweens

Alex Chilton

Redd Kross

Dream Syndicate

Love & Rockets

REM

Green On Red

Tom Waits

Paperhouse

Teenage Fanclub

The Pastels

Rain Parade

Oasis

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** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE 007 - BIFF BANG POW! “There Must Be a Better Life” w/ Dave Evans (Biff Bang Pow!, Twelve Cubic Feet, Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, producer, early live sound man for The Jesus & Mary Chain) Dec 02, 2021

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We’re back with a bang! One of the absolute best early Creation singles gets a detailed excavation by your hosts. Matt goes to great lengths to not say “great.” Our guest guides us through the early Living Room days and tells us some recording tidbits. Don't slip up!

Links:

Songs:

BBP - “TMBABL”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IebtIg8UZ4

BBP - “TCEM”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFtQFv_Y8I

Rain Parade “Look Around”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eMIyM6u0wA

Twelve Cubic Feet “Hello Howard”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWih7mjLoA&t=38s

Jesse Garon “And if the Sky Should Fall”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N1jW_mqxcg

Pop Will Eat Itself “Mesmerised”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCG8MOpO0A

Dave’s Tour Diary which links back to his Facebook page:

https://indiethroughthelookingglass.com/2020/09/26/creation-records-package-tour-europe-1984/

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Stuff that comes up:

Creation Records

Alan McGee

Jesus & Mary Chain

Joe Foster

Tony Fletcher

Jasmine Minks

Nightingales

Go-Betweens

Primal Scream

Pop Will Eat Itself

Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes

Biff Bang Pow

Twelve Cubic Feet

Pastels

My Bloody Valentine

Joe Foster

The Legend!

The Rain Parade

Paisley Underground

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** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE006 - THE X-MEN "Do the Ghost" w/ Tim Hosking (The X-Men, The Fish Hildas, Ug & the Cavemen) Oct 21, 2021

Your friendly hosts explore the first of two X-Men singles on Creation, learning all about the garage trash & psychobilly scenes around early-mid ‘80s London. Guest Tim Hosking, bass player for the X-Men also helps us get to the bottom of the Fish Hildas mystery, and he lets us know how you can use a glass pie case to mic up chime bars. We learn a lot on this one!

Links:

Do the Ghost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hks-DXYK1A

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJPR5rr5kgQ

The Fish Hildas “How I Itch to Stitch My Pitch”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP-gfctt3E

X-Men Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thexmenspiral

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Stuff that comes up:

X-Men

Creation Records

Alan McGee

Joe Foster

garage trash

psychobilly

The Meteors

The Cramps

Clapham South Escalators

Thee Headcoatees

Thee Milkshakes

The Sting-Rays

The Prisoners

Quickspace

Th’ Faith Healers

The Fish Hildas

Ug & The Cavemen

Flaming Stars

Jesus & Mary Chain

Big Beat Records

Alec Palao

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** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE005 - THE PASTELS “Something Going On” w/ Stephen McRobbie (The Pastels, Buba & The Shop Assistants, The Paintings, Geographic record label) Sep 16, 2021

The first of three fantastic Pastels singles for Creation brings us in contact with a true pillar of pop music, Stephen Pastel. Not only do we get into the details of the release of this single and the band’s history prior to Creation, we dip into the full span of the still-active band’s career. Listen for Stephen’s Alan McGee impersonation; we’re gathering a compilation of those for future release.

The band’s early works are only spottily available on streaming services, but the band is currently in the process of reissuing various albums. Most of the band’s post-1990 catalog is available on streaming services through Domino Records.

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Links:

Songs:

“Something Going On”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FWayIxCGcY

“Stay With Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r63N1phPO5E

“Truck Train Tractor”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8AtJnYwEuI

Pastels’ Links:

Band page: thepastels.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pastels_the

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Stuff that comes up:

Creation Records

The Pastels

Television Personalities

Buba & The Shop Assistants

The Paintings

Orange Juice

Fire Engines

Teenage Fanclub

My Bloody Valentine

Alan McGee

Bobby Gillespie

Primal Scream

Andrew Innes

Loop

Glass Records

Joe Foster

John Rivers

The Loft

Jesus & Mary Chain

The Legend!

Jerry Thackray

Everett True

Rough Trade

Geoff Travis

Richard Boone

New Hormones

Buzzcocks

QQQ Magazine

Strawberry Switchblade

Rose McDowall

The Roches

Formica Tops

This is Memorial Device (Book by David Keenan)

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** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE004 - THE JASMINE MINKS “Think!” w/ Jim Shepherd (The Jasmine Minks) Aug 06, 2021

You can count on us to take a while but bring the goods! Just a purely incredible single, and frontman Jim even PLAYS THE A-SIDE for us!! We get to the bottom of the fretless bass mystery and we learn a lot more about the Aberdeen, Scotland-based ‘Minks, the first Creation band to come from outside the Communication Blur crowd. Stay tuned for three more Minks singles to come, all fucking CLASSICS.

Links to the songs in question are included below, and we highly recommend the “Cut Me Deep: Anthology 1984 1984-2014” compilation on Cherry Red on 2CD and streaming services.

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Links:

Songs:

Jasmine Minks “Think”: https://youtu.be/Do7aRXQPKGc

Jasmine Minks “Work for Nothing: https://youtu.be/ADzG6TO4s2Y

Jasmine Minks “Nothing Can Stop Me”: https://youtu.be/zttghAZNgWk

Minks Links:

Minks’ Bandcamp: https://thejasmineminks.bandcamp.com/

Jim’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/behappydadda?lang=en

Jasmine Minks Anthology: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/cut-me-deep-the-anthology-1984-2014/

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Stuff that comes up:

Byrds

Wilf Smarties

Alan McGee

Orange Juice

Television

Echo & the Bunnymen

Jasmine Minks

Jim Shepherd

Joe Foster

Television Personalities

Revolving Paint Dream

Buzzcocks

Primal Scream

Biff Bang Pow

Dave Musker

Billy Fury

Cliff Richard

Jesus & Mary Chain

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Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE003 - BIFF BANG POW! “Fifty Years of Fun” w/ Dave Musker (Television Personalities, Revolving Paint Dream, Jasmine Minks, X-Men) Jul 01, 2021

We’re back!! Farfisa Dave is an incredible guest and such a good sport; we are so excited about this one! Dave was the keyboard/piano player on the TVP’s dark classic LP The Painted Word, as well as hired hand on basically all of the early Creation singles. Dave also did sound in Alan McGee’s early club, The Living Room, and he apparently was doing sound for the first Jesus & Mary Chain show in London. (And yes, the clanky sound you hear during the interview is his teacup hitting the saucer.)

Links to the songs in question are included below, and we highly recommend you check out the Biff Bang Pow! compilations available on CD and on streaming services.

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LINKS:

Songs:

BBP! “Fifty Years of Fun” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpjZqKEhNXI

BBP! “Then When I Scream”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWIKLZ_iNbI

Jackie Edwards “Keep On Running”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdJGyf-iJE4

Spencer Davis Group “Keep On Running”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxHcSZBU38

Teenage Filmstars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJGl-LZF5U

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BBP & TVPs streaming links:

BBP’s The Singles As and Bs: https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZvKQzPNI2k5ti1JGp4Gfd?si=AhiDXsT3TxmBfLc0kffsHw

BBP’s Waterbomb (best of collection): https://open.spotify.com/album/7aseYjnUQdpUYAwxtoLf9c?si=WQ14W6xkTjusYdQXv0aiZA

TVPs’ The Painted Word: https://open.spotify.com/album/5tHPUWkWOYLbwDArQB7X8U?si=lQIQIgmGTz601holul3L9w

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Infamous Euro tour photos:

https://indiethroughthelookingglass.com/2020/09/26/creation-records-package-tour-europe-1984/

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Stuff that comes up:

Creation Records

Laughing Apple

Spencer Davis Group

Jackie Edwards

Dan Treacy

Jowe Head

Biff Bang Pow!

The Living Room

Television Personalities

Revolving Paint Dream

The Electric Prunes

Alan McGee

Joe Foster

Fire Engines

Orange Juice

Slumberland Records

Jesus and Mary Chain

Jasmine Minks

The Byrds

Teenage Filmstars

Ed Ball

Andrew Innes

Primal Scream

The Doors

The X-Men

The Legend!

Everett True

Dick Green

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Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

CRE002 - Revolving Paint Dream - “Flowers In The Sky” w/ Ken Popple (Biff! Bang! Pow!, Revolving Paint Dream, Laughing Apple) Jun 03, 2021

It may have taken a minute or two (it’ll get more regular, promise!), but this is the best episode yet. Your hosts’ chat gets extra trippy, and fungi may have been ingested to celebrate a record of such psychedelic magnitude. Come on in!

Ken Popple, drummer on the single in question (as well as on almost all of the Biff!Bang!Pow! records), turns out to be the perfect guest. We hope he comes back. Enjoy!

Links are included below, and we highly recommend you check out the Revolving Paint Dream compilation available on CD (Rev-Ola) and on streaming services.

Links of note:

Revolving Paint Dream “Flowers In the Sky”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDXOLilMA3s

RPD “In the Afternoon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYt-v6-RG6I

Lord Fayrebank (Ken’s new project): https://lordfayrebank.bandcamp.com/track/out-on-the-lake

Feature on our guest voiceover specialist Rose Melberg: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/rose-melberg-feature

Stuff that comes up on the episode:

Revolving Paint Dream
Andrew Innes
Alan McGee
Bobby Gillespie
Primal Scream
Laughing Apple
Television Personalities
Meat Whiplash
Jasmine Minks
Biff! Bang! Pow!
Lord Fayrebank
Teenage Fanclub
The Bananas
Rough Trade
Creation Records
JC Brouchard
The Legend!
Genesis
Yes
Fotheringay
Fairport Convention
Sleaford Mods
Lensmen

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music and to Rose Melberg for spectacular voiceover reading.

CRE001 - THE LEGEND! - “73 in 83” w/ Jerry Thackray a.k.a. Everett True (THE LEGEND!, journalist) Apr 30, 2021

Here it is!!!

Matt & Scott finally get to the first proper release on Creation. (Quality takes time, right??!)

Your hosts debate the merit of the (much-maligned-in-its-time) record that started it all, and then they talk to the man himself, JERRY THACKRAY a.k.a. THE LEGEND! a.k.a. EVERETT TRUE.

Best known for his writing in the NME and Melody Maker, as well as for his and books on NIRVANA, WHITE STRIPES, and THE RAMONES, Mr. Thackray is a fascinating and Zelig-like character. And we LOVE his later (post-Creation) EPs (links below), so you’ll hear a few clips of those as well. It’s a sprawling and wild ride, but trust us, it’s worth sticking around for the whole thing. There’s music, there’s sadness, there’s drama, there’s brushes with fame. It’s got everything, even a live song.

Links of note:

The Legend! “73 in 83” (CRE001): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DPe-2HuApE

The Legend: “Talk Open”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNc8tbK89E0&t=43s

Everette True’s first interview with Young Marble Giants: http://www.collapseboard.com/the-first-interview-i-ever-did/

Everett True’s Song-A-Day on Youtube (almost up to 300!!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQwfu13Cg4of5pFAbXiWD2w

Stuff that comes up:

CREATION RECORDS

The Legend

Television Personalities

Revolving Paint Dream

The Laughing Apple

Marine Girls

The McTells

Go-Betweens

Daniel Johnston

Bruce Pavitt

Jad Fair / Half Japanese

Bobby Gillespie

The Smiths

The Pastels

Oasis

John Peel

Cherry Red

Stephen Pastel

Cannanes

Huggy Bear

David Nichols

Young Marble Giants

Biff! Bang! Pow!

Soup Dragons

Jasmine Minks

John Robb / Membranes

Twelve Cubic Feet (great band)

Alan McGee

Geoff Travis

The Ramones

Rough Trade

The Go Team, Beat Happening, Calvin Johnson, Tobi Vail, Bikini Kill

Kill Rock Stars

Sub Pop

Graham Fellows

Nirvana

…And the Native Hipsters

Talulah Gosh & Amelia Fletcher

Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music

CREATION ARTIFACT 002 - Television Personalities flexi/Communication Blur fanzine #2 w/Bjorn Copeland (musician, artist, BLACK DICE/FLACCID MOJO) Mar 26, 2021

OUR SECOND (pre-season) EPISODE!!

Scott & Matt get practice overcoming a few technical issues and talk to an old friend. This episode is a little more free-wheeling and loose! We talk about the TVP's flexi and the second (and final!) issue of Alan McGee & Jerry Thackray (THE LEGEND!)'s pre-Creation fanzine, Communication Blur.

We then have a visit from old friend and member of BLACK DICE, Bjorn Copeland. We chat about zines, music, fashion, and beer. It's a fun one!

Links of note:

TVPs' "Biff Bang Bow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AthbITD1c

TVPs' live "Picture of Dorian Gray": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CeXDJD07Xc

(Both of these tracks are available on the TVPs' "Some Kind of Happening" reissue, Fire records, 2019)

and since we both love it so much:

Eyeless in Gaza "New Risen": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-arERZino

Things that come up in the episode:

Television Personalities/TVPs

Biff! Bang! Pow!

The Creation

John's Children

Les Fleur De Lys

Cherry Red

Alan McGee

Jerry Thackray

Zarjaz

Tronics

Joe Foster

Kaleidoscope Sounds

Eyeless in Gaza

Microdisney

Mike Alway

Black Dice

Eric Copeland

Satisfact

Henry's Dress

Seen Studio

Primal Scream

The Pastels

Special thanks to the Reds, Pinks & Purples for the theme music and Johnny Flores for technical assistance.

CREATION ARTIFACT 001 - Pastels/Laughing Apple flexi w/guest Tony Fletcher (author, musician, podcaster) Mar 02, 2021

OUR FIRST EPISODE!!!!

Scott & Matt kick off the first episode of the Creation Records audio fanzine with a discussion of the first of two flexi singles that came with Alan McGee & Jerry Thackray (THE LEGEND)’s pre-Creation fanzines, Communication Blur.

In addition to some digging into the flexi & the zine, the boys interview TONY FLETCHER, esteemed author (bios on R.E.M., Keith Moon, Wilson Pickett), who in his fanzine Jamming, wrote a piece on the state of music in 1982 that ended up being a key piece of Creation origin story.

Links of note:

“The Story that Spawned Creation”: https://www.ijamming.net/Jammingmagazine/Jamming!MagazineCreation.html

Tony Fletcher’s web site (with link to Jamming archive): https://tonyfletcher.net/

Tony’s podcast: https://shows.acast.com/onestepbeyond

Things that come up on this episode:

The Legend

Bobby Gillespie

Primal Scream

The Laughing Apple

The Pastels

Strawberry Switchblade

Revolving Paint Dream