Music Explorers Podcast

In the last ever Jeffrey Music podcast, our heroes (John and Gordon, for clarity) head to London's Shepherd's Bush Empire to see dEUS on their Worst Case Scenario v In a Bar tour.

Do not despair, the Jeffrey Podcast will relaunch as the Music Explorers Podcast with a tighter format and no website or social media, because that's too much of a faff. If you are already a subscriber, there is no need to do anything, the feed remains the same.

Jethro Tull's Seven Decades tour hit Madrid at the back end of 2024 and Jeffrey Music was there, or at least John was there ... so join us as we talk through the gig and complain about how uncomfortable the venue was.

Click here to see the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website with links to all our podcasts and articles and whatnot.

Late 2024, John headed off to London to see one of the UK's finest four-piece art rock bands: Cud, supported by the amusing and eccentric John Mouse.

In this episode John and Gordon discuss the gig and various tangential topics, including, but not limited to, the importance of being able to sit down sometimes.

Here's the article on the website that has a bit more about the trip, as well as the gig: https://jeffreymusicrocks.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/the-cud-band-in-london/

The fellas head off to a stormy Madrid and a rain-soaked poorly-located Halifax to see a favourite artist of theirs, the brilliant PJ Harvey!

See here for the article on the website with a few photos from the Madrid gig.

At the end of each Season of the popular Jeffrey Music Podcast, your hosts John and Gordon ask each other a series of pop trivia questions about the artists featured in the previous season: the Jeffrey Music Amusing Pop Quiz (or APQ for short). You will recall that after season one's enthralling episode, Our Gords is one-nil to the good, so it's all to play for!

Click here to visit our JeffreyMusic.Rocks website page that includes all the questions.

At the end of each Season of the popular Jeffrey Music Podcast, your hosts John and Gordon ask each other a series of pop trivia questions about the artists featured in the previous season: the Jeffrey Music Amusing Pop Quiz (or APQ for short).

Click here to visit our JeffreyMusic.Rocks website page that includes all the questions.

The winner of the quiz receives one point in the overall Jeffrey Music's APQ score, or in the case of a draw each will receive a half-point. A system similar to the Ryder Cup in a deliberate attempt to produce an underwhelming and unimpressive overall score for quite a lot of time and effort.

The last in our boring series of Top 10s, and we complete our look at Season 2 alumni by revisiting the Canadian trio Rush! The (very long) original podcast, 8 months in the making, was both a trip down memory lane and a voyage of discovery, and proved to be an absolute delight for the Jeffrey Music fellas ... so enjoy (sort of) listening to them waffle on about their favourite tracks!

Here's the link to the post on the JeffreyMusic website, and here to the playlists on Spotify and Deezer.

We're nearly through with this ill-advised idea to do Top 10s, but seeing as we've got this far, let's get to the end - this one is about the brilliant Belgian band Balthazar, a real gem we uncovered since doing this podcast, and we're quite pleased with ourselves for having done so! It's one thing to claim to be musical explorers, not stuck in the past with just playing the same old stuff from long ago, it's quite another to actually do it - at Jeffrey Music we damn well walk the talk.

Anyway, enough about how ace we are, here's the link to website version of this, over on JeffreyMusic.Rocks and the playlists on Spotify and Deezer.

Our top ten tracks from soul legend Otis Redding.

Here’s a link to the original Otis Redding episode in which we talk through his career and rank the albums - we think this is one of our best episodes because it's all so new to us.

Here's a link to this episode's page on our website, although there's not much on it that isn't on here, so no point in clicking, it's just to get another link out into the world.

Here are the playlists of our combined top 10s on Spotify and Deezer.

Top music journalists and hangers-on, John and Gordon, talk us through their top ten tracks of American punk poet Patti Smith. You can read more about it here on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website and for those wanting to delve deeper, here's a link to the original Patti Smith episode in which we talk through their career and rank the albums, and here for the Jeffrey Goes to Patti Smith (gig review) podcast and webpage.

Here are the playlists of our combined top 10s on Spotify and Deezer.