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Spanner and Spoon interview the amazing songwriter David Mindel and release episode one of Where Do All The Cow's Go. Spanner attacks a Dinasour with a Cattle prod and gets into hot water with the local police.

David Mindel

In 1972, David Mindel joined the Noel Gay Organisation as a record plugger and junior A&R person. The company also published Mindel's songs, and the first to be recorded was "Let Him Go Home" by Canadian artist Nanette Workman and then by Palk Salad in 1971. In 1972 David Ballantyne and Solitude recorded "Roof Above Our Head" on the Regal Zonophone label with another Mindel composition "Sad Song of a Sad Man" as the B-side. Later that year Ballantyne formed a studio band called Esprit de Corps with future BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read, which recorded the Mindel song "If (Would it Turn Out Wrong?)" for Dick James's Jam label.

In 1974, Mindel teamed up with Noel Gay staff writer Gary Benson. Their first song, "Someday" of Long Live Love album, was sung by Olivia Newton-John in heats for the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. The song was a hit in Hong Kong for Frances Yip and in Canada for Isabelle Aubret under the French title "Je Crois".

In 1975, Mindel and Benson had another entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, "Don't Throw It All Away" for Come on Over album performed by The Shadows, the single, released on the State Records label (State Records STAT10), reached No. 20 in the Record chart. The Nashville trio Dave and Sugar had a 1977 number 3 hit with it in the US, while the soul singer Stacy Lattisaw hit number nine on the US R&B charts with her version in 1992 and Barrington Levy scored a huge hit with a reggae version. It was also covered by artists as diverse as Gino Cunico, Ed Robinson, Fire and Rain, Carl Graves, The Delfonics, China Black, Lori Balmer, Helge Nielsens Orkester, Spectrum, Quench Aid, Barry Manilow and Jamie Sparks.

To date, there are around 200 recordings of Mindel's songs.

In 1975, Mindel left Noel Gay to set up the publishing company Cherry Music and continued to write with Gary Benson and others. As a producer he worked with David Seys and Dean Ford, Spoof, Little Big Man, Jackie Challenor, Reflections, Love Together and others. He wrote the "Shades" commercial for Crown Paints, recorded with the UK Symphony Orchestra, which had had a four-week run in the UK Singles Chart. It was later recorded by the South African National Symphony and String Fever. Mindel also wrote and recorded an album for Norwegian artist, Reidar.

In 2015, Still in Love With You was written by Adrian Bax White and David Mindel and was selected by the BBC from nearly five hundred songs entered to be the UK entry into the 60th Eurovision song contest. The song was performed with 27 other songs in Vienna on 23 May and came 24th.

Jingles and commercials

In 1974, Mindel joined forces with David Seys to launch the advertising jingle company Mingles Music, writing and recording more than 4,000 television and radio commercials. Campaigns included the McDonald's generic theme for Ireland and Portugal, Action Man toys, Maxwell House coffee, McVities, Bisto, Bank of Scotland, Ballantine's whiskey, Chambourcy, Cadbury's, Budweiser, Brooke Bond, Betty Crocker, Dr. Pepper, Kellogg's, Lancome, KFC, Mars, Rothmans, Ryanair, Thomas Cook, Polyhilites, KP Nuts and many others.

Television, film and theatre

Mindel has composed themes for many UK television programmes including "Jim'll Fix It", which Time out magazine ranked the 11th greatest theme song in the history of British television.He also wrote the current themes for "The National Lottery" and "EuroMillions".Other UK television credits include "Food and Drink", "Open House", "Harty", "Challenge Anneka", "Boom", "The Hot Shoe Show", "Passport", "Get Your Act Together", "House Hunters", "The District Nurse", "Rory Bremner, Who Else?", "Coogan's Run" and others.[citation needed] He scored two award-winning documentaries, "All The King's Horses", a film about Budweiser's Clydesdale horses, and "Concertos", about whisky making in Scotland (from which the soundtrack was released). He also scored the feature films "Real Life" starring Cristina Raines and Rupert Everett, and "Bob's Weekend". He composed the musical Soul Searchers.

"Issues" project with The Band of Sisters

In 2012, Mindel had the idea of cowriting with women songwriters a collection of songs that deal with issues of special significance to woman, such as domestic abuse, depression, and bullying. The 2013 CD "Issues" by The Band of Sisters comprises sixteen songs, by women, about women, for women. Performers include Tessa Niles, Lynda Hayes, Mim Grey, Miriam Stockley, Stevie Lange, Alissa Moreno, Leigh Matty, PP Arnold, Mandy Bell, Jacqi Michaels, Tor Richards, Angela Kaset, Kim Alvord, Monica Ward, and Alison Joy Williams. Versions of the project have been performed live in London and in

We interview the Founder of airdnb_ltd. Spanner & Spoon Show interview Quentin Clarke Hill.

Tom's Son Quentin Clarke-Hill chats to General Spanner and Professor Spoon about his MC'ing and traveling plus Drumming etc, etc.

We then air the final part of "The Queen's Dilemma" Spanner And Spoon solve the mystery and our lovely Queen is happy. The team travel to Devon World where tiny little Canaries run the World and have Derbyshire accents. The Spanner &Spoon Show, where anything can and will happen

The Spanner & Spoon team interview the very entertaining Oliver Mason and release their crazy show (Episode 4 The Queen's Dilemma)

Oliver began drama classes at the age of six with The Guildhall School of Speech & Drama and got accepted to join The National Youth Theatre aged thirteen.

Oliver gained a B.A. (Honours) degree at The University of South Florida & Middlesex University in Drama & Theatre Studies before training as an actor at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Film/TV work include: From Bard To Verse (BabyCow/BBC), The Mysti Show Series 1 and 2 (BBC Series Regular), Jam, EastEnders (BBC), Bin Weevils (Nickelodeon), Sinbad: The Persian Prince (SyFy), Untitled A Film (Truk Films), CTRL (Breaking Fourth), BroBots (Samsung Films) Lilybuds (Discovery), Red Dwarf (BabyCow/Dave), Time Rewind (Creation Box Films), Halo (Amblin/Showtime), Teething Problems (Camel Productions), Simmer (Make It Productions) & Popeye (ITN).

West End credits include Bombitty of Errors & Twelfth Night. Oliver has also toured and performed in many regional theatres.

Voiceovers include: The Disney Channel, Santander, McDonald's, The Samaritans, BBC Worldwide, Virgin Media, eBay, Currys, Morissons, Nissan, Seat, T-Mobile, BT & Kellogs.

Oliver is very experienced in Radio Drama including: Dr Who, Torchwood, Bernice Summerfield and Cicero series. Oliver voices many computer games, including: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy, Soul Sacrifice & The Inazuma series. Oliver has provided his voice for audio guides in many famous landmarks, including; Buckingham Palace, The Royal Mews, The Louvre Museum and Hever Castle.

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The Spanner & Spoon Show interview Justine Riddoch (Totally Tina) and release episode 3 of their crazy show (The Queen's Dilemma)

Justine has been singing professionally for over 30 years now and has worked extensively in theatres and on national TV, she is also a much sought after session vocalist for some of the biggest record labels in the UK.

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In her early career she could be seen treading the familiar cabaret scene as a dynamic vocalist and could boast knowing over 5000 songs, becoming a human juke box at venues.

In 2002 that her career would change direction. After winning ITV’s “Stars in their Eyes” as Anastacia, her tribute show “Justine is Anastacia” was in great demand and she spent the next 6 years performing as her around the world. When Anastacia stopped releasing albums and her popularity waned, it was time to change direction again.

TINA TURNER TRIBUTE​

Having been told on many occasions she really sounded like Tina Turner, Justine set herself the challenge to become the closest copy she could be. But this was going to take some transformation! After hours of scrutinising video footage, watching mannerisms and movements, hand making the all important wig, deciding which costumes to copy, listening to patter and hundreds of versions of the same songs from different decades, Totally TINA was created.

Highlights from The Spanner & Spoon Show so far!

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BD Lenz

Paul Robinson

Andy Edwards

Julie-Ann Dean

Eric Meyers

Tanya Rich

Taylor Clarke Hill

The Spanner & Spoon Show interview BD Lenz Guitarist and composer, created music for Breaking Bad. We also release part 2 of The Queens Dilemma. Our lovely "real" Queen was very much alive when we wrote this Series, we really miss her :-( our story is obviously fictional, but we think she would have had a good laugh.

Mix together the styles of Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, and Stevie Ray Vaughn and you have the recipe for contempo-jazz guitarist B.D. Lenz. The New Jersey native has played guitar since his early teens, is a graduate of Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, and has studied with such masters as Mike Stern, Vic Juris, and Charlie Banacos along the way.

Lenz has released 13 highly-acclaimed recordings as a leader featuring greats such as Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Will Lee, Joel Rosenblatt, & Mark Egan and his music has been featured in hundreds of TV shows globally including "Breaking Bad" (AMC), "Catfish" (MTV), and "Young Sheldon" (CBS) to name a few.

B.D. is endorsed by Godin guitars and has played thousands of gigs internationally in bands ranging from pit orchestras to rock bands, big bands to jazz combos, and even an Elvis impersonator! He is also a busy sideman having shared the stage and/or recorded with Bec Laughton, Christine Martucci, David Kirton,tU pHAce, Lelica, Doug Hawk, Greg Federico, Jeff Callahan, John Virag, MAOR, Blue Number Nine, Kathy Phillips, and Ron Velosky among many others.

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The Spanner & Spoon Show interview Andy Edwards Musician and YouTuber. We also release part 1 of The Queens Dilemma. Our lovely "real" Queen was very much alive when we wrote this Series, we really miss her :-( our story is obviously fictional, but we think she would have had a good laugh.

Andy Edwards Bio

My name is Andy Edwards and I am a musician.

I play drums, guitar, bass and a little keyboards. I am also a producer and educator.

More recently I have become known as a YouTuber, and on my YOUTUBE where I discuss music, especially Prog, Jazz, Fusion and Classic Rock, as well the philosophy of aesthetics and a bit of comedy here and there.

As a musician I have toured the world with Robert Plant, Played Prog with IQ and I was a founder member of Frost.

I am currently playing drums for Tim Bowness, Law of Three and Nataraja. I make my own music too.

I am an educator and I have run various music courses in a variety of colleges and I have taught drums privately for over thirty years.

https://www.youtube.com/@AndyEdwardsDrummer

The Spanner & Spoon Show interview Paul Robinson. Where anything can and will happen!

Paul Robinson is an international media executive with extensive radio, television and digital experience, having successfully held senior exec positions at the BBC, The Walt Disney Company, and NBC Universal, with many years of strategic and operational expertise.

Paul founded KidsCo in 2005 as a joint venture with NBCUniversal and, as CEO, built it into a global children’s linear and VOD network in 98 countries and in 18 languages worldwide before a 51% controlling sale to NBCUniversal in early 2012.

Paul was Managing Director/Senior Vice President of Walt Disney Television International where he created new global channel brands Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior) and Toon Disney and was responsible for global Disney kid’s strategy for TV content production and broadcast. During his 7 years at Disney he was based in London and then Burbank, Los Angeles and was a lead part of the team that launched Disney Channels in 17 worldwide markets.

Paul was Managing Editor of BBC Radio 1 responsible for all programming and music and Head of Strategy for Radios 1, 2, 3 4 and 5Live pioneering the BBC’s future digital services and strategic development of the analogue networks. He has also been CEO of national commercial station Talk Radio, and Program Director of the Chiltern Radio Network.

He has a BSc Hons and MBA from Cambridge, Manchester and Bradford Universities and has won multiple awards include BAFTAs and Sony's and is a regular contributor to conferences, podcasts and TV and radio. He is Chair of the Board of East London Radio.

Paul is Director of Consultancy Services at Creative Media Partners, a full-service agency advising on technology, distribution, content aggregation, channels and digital services and marketing and branding, with worldwide clients including Tata Elxsi, Aser Media, Imira Entertainment, Toonz Media Group BBC, Your Family Entertainment, and MoMedia.

Paul's fabulous podcast is called Private Lives and can be found using this link.

https://open.spotify.com/show/5LSZum4CQDN2wqMBIDMOK5

We then have the final episode of "The Incredible Time Travel Adventure" where the clothed Dinosaurs try to outwit the team.

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Special guest Julie-Ann Dean on The Spanner & Spoon Show followed by episode 4 of "The Incredible Time Travel Adventure".

(I recorded my first voice over job for the BBC nearly 30 years ago and am now a Hollywood award-winning, full time, busy voice actor and loving it. You can hear me on animations, video games, audio drama’s, TV commercials, even greetings cards! Some recent work includes Paw Patrol (Animation), Diablo Immortal (video Game) and Hoover (TV Commercial).)

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Crazy comedy where anything can and will happen.

In episode 4 Aunty Buitcuit has a poo bucket stuck on her head and Jazz Cat chokes on his breakfast.

Our Special guest next time is the fabulous Paul Robinson plus we also release the final episode of "The Incredible Time Travel Adventure".

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The fabulous Julie-Ann Dean. I recorded my first voice over job for the BBC nearly 30 years ago and am now a Hollywood award-winning, full time, busy voice actor and loving it. You can hear me on animations, video games, audio drama’s, TV commercials, even greetings cards! Some recent work includes Paw Patrol (Animation), Diablo Immortal (video Game) and Hoover (TV Commercial).

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Julie will be joining Spanner & Spoon next Tuesday 9th July as our special guest. We will also release episode 4 of The Incredible Time Travel Adventure where anything can and will happen. The team deal with the poo bomb explosion and Jazz Cat, Tiddles, el President ends up in hospital with the rest of the team.

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