Get over it
In order to recover from the devastation of recording a podcast and losing it this afternoon (see: below), I have come to the delightful town of Brighton for the evening, on my own, to appear on a recording of Radio 4's Music Group, presented by Dr Phil Hammond. It is at the Pavillion Theatre and I'm really looking forward to it. If you read this and it's still before 7.30 on Friday evening, and you're in Brighton, you could come along. It's being held here as part of the Brighton Festival. The other guests are Polly Toynbee and Zoe Ball, and we've all chosen a piece of music to play and talk about. Mine is One Hundred Years by The Cure, one of my favourite songs of all time. The very idea of this gothic, nihilistic dirge about sex and death being played on Radio 4 excites me no end. It is a gorgeous early evening by the sea - not very Cure at all. I took these pictures of myself at a beachside bar to prove I was here, although you can't really see the beach behind me due to the glinting, hazy sun. I don't normally blog out and about around the country but - gasp! - I have given in and signed up for brain cancer ie. wireless broadband. If I wasn't surrounded by thrillseekers and holidaymakers I could record a podcast right here and post it up. I'm not going to. I'm going to relax with this weak beer and put my laptop away. (The Brighton edition of The Music Group will go out on Wednesday on Radio 4 at 1.30pm. It is a very entertaining and ear-opening programme if the guests are good, as they were when Mark Ellen, Sue Perkins and Alexei Sayle were on two weeks ago, but not so when Nick Clegg was on last week pretending he liked Johnny Cash.)
posted by Andrew Collins @ 5:34 PM
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I'm in Brighton next week for The Great Escape festival, hoping the weather stays like this for it.
Have a good evening Andrew, sounds like fun. Maybe one day your lost podcast will turn up like The Basement Tapes (By which I mean Dylan's not any Austrian ones)
It doesn't matter if we all die...
Who do you think Nick Clegg really likes? Dido? James Blunt?
Actually, chatting to Phil Hammond, the presenter of the programme, tonight, he told me that Clegg said that being a dad, he rarely listens to music currently, it's all CBBC. Maybe he doesn't really like anything?
I usually like Music Group, but that one featuring Nick Clegg was VILE. I expected him to come across as a disingenuous tit, but he had no right to involve Johnny Cash in his unpleasantness.
It'll be great to hear The Cure on Radio 4! There were loads of complaints on this week's Feedback about a show I didn't hear, which somehow accidentally said that all French goths are satanist grave desecrators. I think you should bring it up again to make all the Radio 4 production people feel uncomfortable.
Have fun!
xx
I love the Cure and Johnny Cash. Well I do have at least seven Cash albums (CDs) ... don't actually have any Cure stuff (anymore) but your blog has just reminded me that I really should get some or download some. As a teenager they were one of my faves.
A daytime R4 prog at 1.30 pm is not something I would ever be likely to listen to (I have a job -- a normal, boring daytime office job) although perhaps there is a "listen again" facility?
Even though I have not heard the programme am amused by your comments about Nick Clegg "pretending" to like Johnny Cash. Is this yet another foot in mouth episode of him trying to be "cool" including revealing exactly how many people he has slept with, which then comes across as not cool, but just gross?!
P.S. Glad the podcast was saved and that I finally got a few mins on Sunday afternoon to listen to it. (Some of us RKH fans are really regretting recent Guestbook comments -- woops! -- although also kinda hoping that we are not the worst culprits that Herrin was referring to.)
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