Gas Giants

Ever needed to make a soufflé, treat snakebite or perform an exorcism? Chances are, you reached for a Youtube 'Splainer video! We discuss what this means culturally, but it's funnier than that, honest.

That's The Way I Feel Now - Gav leads Tom through Hal Willner's 1984 Thelonius Monk tribute. Do you know this album? Have you listened to it as a result of listening to our podcast? Was Tom scared by Big Sid Catlett as a child? Write to us at gasgiants.substack.com and let us know!

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Throughout his career, Miles Davis contributed to five film projects, all of them very different. Taking Lift to the Scaffold, Jack Johnson, Siesta, The Hot Spot and Dingo into consideration, we examine the solutions he found with relation to the place that his music was at at each particular moment.

The recent inclusion of a Channel 4 documentary series from the early 90's in a music festival in Austin, Texas moved Gav & Tom to take a closer look...

The arrival of the first English translation of a Brigitte Reimann novel 60 years after it was written seems as good a moment as any for Tom & Gav to take a closer look.

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Tom & Gav indulge in a smorgasbord of all things Purple by linking Prince's first Film with Mdou Moctar's later vehicle.

Tom's sampler playlist of Mdou Moctar on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQrwNq6USRXjz7P0lDN-uqa7i4MCecaLb

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Part Two of our eagerly awaited conversation with del Amitri sticksman Paul Tyagi. We catch up with him as he talks us through the ups and downs of touring America on no money, the aesthetic conundrum of the mid 1980's and his final assessment of the first album.

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Part 1 of our conversation with Paul Tyagi, drummer with Del Amitri for most of the 1980. This episode brings us from formation of the band to their departure for America in 1986. Join us next episode for Part 2.

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Tom and Gav listen to the astonishing BBC radio drama adaptation of Len Deighton's Bomber.

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These are pretty paranoid times we're in right now...There must be some way to get out of here, said the...wait a minute...weren't we here before?