The Afterword Podcast

Twang, Johnny Concheroo, Blue Boy, Junior Wells and Fortune 8 abandon the pod to meet at the crossroads at midnight to discuss the blues…they make a deal with the Devil that they will be done in an hour but Old Nick, as well as having the best tunes, curses the producer with a discussion as fine as a vintage shot of Jack over ice on a hot summer night, meaning Twang abandons the edit and delivers the full skinny. A topic so broad was never going to be adequately addressed in one session…even now the team are dusting their brooms in preparation for part 2...

Slumped round a table at the restaurant at the end of the universe waiting for Disaster Area's set or The Great Prophet Zarquon - whichever is first, Mr DFB, Ganglesprocket, Kid Dynamite and NewPathsToHelicolin discuss post apocalyptic fiction. Periods in history appear to throw up interest in bleak futurescapes and we are living through a particularly bounteous one at the moment. Wyndham, The Walking Dead, The Enemy, War Of the Worlds, Matinee, Threads, Survivors, Triffids, various novel recommendations and I Am Legend in all its guises are combed over as well as why we seem to like to wish the human race wiped out so regularly. How would we survive in a post apocalyptic world? Well you'll just have to listen to find out. We pose as many questions as we answer including "will this wind be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the earth?" * *Answer: No

This is the first in a regular Beatles only podcast - yeah, let's see how soon that plan falls by the wayside - marking the most Beatle-y of months with the documentary 'Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years' , the remastered 'Live at The Hollywood Bowl' and NOT the announcement of the expected release of Paul McCartney's 'Flowers In The Dirt' super deluxe box set. We're all sick of experts so Beatle ubernerds DFB, DoctorJ & StevenC do what they do the rest of the time anyway. - the film : who is it for, what is it for and should be give it what for? - the album : better, longer but still unessential - Flowers In The Dirt - Macca's best of the 80's and rebirth of his career? The act that you've known for all these years - we hope we passed the audition.

This podcast features DFB, Gavin Hogg and Lyn discussing 'Once More With Feeling' and 'Skeleton Tree' - the film and album by and featuring Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Not much else to say really. Share and enjoy!

Twang, Leedsboy, Hannah, Retropath2 and Askwith hunker down in the pod and reflect on the summer past, the joys of offspring on holidays, sounds enjoyed, buying some old, folk clubs and, inevitably, vinyl vs. CD and the Mighty Tull (briefly, non believers). The team end on a glum note though, at the though of going back to work.

Ahead of his "triumphant appearance"* in the Dolly Parton slot at Glastonbury Festival this weekend, Jeff Lynne and ELO disciple, DoctorJ, aided by Iain Mc tries to convince DFB & Steven C that he is the messiah and not a naughty Fabs tune ruining boy We get alternate reviews of ELO's recent delayed dat at the 3Arena in Dublin (The Point, for all you old heads) Discover if the line up who played on the band's 1971 live album from Long Beach, CA are still all above ground Why is he back and is it just the case that rock snobbery got him so wrong. Won't DFB just let DoctorJ speak without slipping jokes under his enthusiastic theories cos it's really annoying. Is it just rock / pop music for people who know fuck all about rock / pop music? Don't bring me down, let's rockaria! * so spake Nostradamus \ DrJ

The team that bought you the last podcast bring you this one. DFB's shaky theory that Bob Dylan has retired from writing his own material to recording rum old Sinatra covers LPs is given a right kicking. But we do settle on the last great American songwriter standing. You clue is....it's Paul Simon. No. It is. Stop suggesting your pet obscure faves, it is. So we celebrate Paul in his many different guises, list those compilation albums in full and consider the 'also rans' like Tom Waits, John Grant and some bloke from Spoon. It's not scientific it's just blokes talking

My-o-my that DFB, Welsh Benny, DoctorJ, StevenC and Iains_o don't half talk a lot. So much so that the edi of the main next podcast has been delayed so here's the other stuff they chatted about Live updates from Bruce Springsteen at Croke Park Dublin from Mrs DoctorJ The Monkees album opinions from those who have and haven't heard it The Stone Roses give short shrift as usual And the regular mention of Jeff Lynne All very inconsequential but it passes 30 mins or so

Best selling author Stephen Clarke pops into the pod to tell The Afterword about his new book "Merde in Europe", interviewing 90s pop stars in the streets of Paris, and trying to get Prince lyrics into the French/English dictionary. Given the amount of merde regularly talked here, this seemed a good topic for this week's episode.

DFB ventures down to The Convent hotel/venue in Stroud to witness the closing concert of Kathryn Williams International Writing Retreat with an embarrassment of richness in songwriting talent. The day after the boozy post gig party and a hearty breakfast he sits down with Kathryn Williams and Astrid Williamson to discuss what goes on at these events and just how you conjure up a song from nowhere. How collaborations do or don't work and other such mystical stuff fo' yo' ass The podcast features clips of songs from the end of week concert hich you can see and hear for FREE at https://theconvent.netgig.co.uk/event/international-songwriters-retreat/ PLUS a Velvet Underground song covered by Kathryn & her band in 2002 from the DFB vault