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King Of Caravans
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Leisure, relaxation, mindfulness. All are part of the This Are Johnny Domino lifestyle brand and available for you to experience as you listen to this episode.
In it, brothers Steve and Giles share musical musings on a rainy Sunday morning.
As well as dusting off some of their own early bedroom recordings and other crazy nonsense there's a new song from Simon G Richardson.
Including:
- Lyrical challenge!
- Bin Bongos!
- Batman!
- Leisure Vehicles!
- Dance music!
Giles’ Lyrics:
I was at Wollaton Park
On a Saturday
I was surrounded by meatheads of all kinds.
Very few people
Were dancing to the
90s house music at 4.30.
The sort of people that I tolerated
But didn’t get on with
Were abound.
I still felt the same way
About them at five decades as at two.
So I had to do something to relax
I went to the toilet
And as I circulated back
Via a small marquee
Full of despicable people.
I was ambushed by
Two short middle-aged women
Who I vaguely recognised
But could not place.
So I had to do something to relax
They recognised me
And were pleased to see me
After a finitude of seconds
I recognised them as neighbours.
We talked of children
And life on our street
And they guessed my job
After one or two guesses.
It was a friendly exchange
With a tinge of sexual tension
I bid them goodbye
And danced away.
But then I met them later
And it went less well.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:00
Speaker
He is not appreciated. He is not appreciated. Drink the long draught down for the hip priest. I said drink the long draught down for the hip priest. White collar hits motorway services is the hip priest. From the eyes he can see they know it's the hip priest.
00:00:28
Speaker
Hang on, hang on, hang on. Remember a few weeks ago, I did the dub remix of the theme tune. Yeah. And I talked about I might do some more. Yeah. Well, I done one.
00:01:56
Speaker
I want you to promise me something. Yeah. Promise me that you'll you'll never listen to anyone if they say you're just wasting your time here. Because... Thank you. that was That was like literally, that was probably the best thing that you could ever do with your time.
00:02:15
Speaker
Thank you very much. I enjoyed doing it, and I want to say thank you to Rob for talking me through how to kind of chop it up in a way so I could synchronise it with beats and stuff. Thank you, Rob. It's beautiful. Yeah, but I hate to ah scare people, but there's plenty more where that came from. oh yeah Yeah, you've you've you've brought a bang up to date, haven't you? To like 1998 now.
00:02:44
Speaker
The jungle massive. I thought it was earlier. if if If I had time, I was going to record a ah ah very distorted shout out all over the top. Well, we've we've got time. We've always got time. Yeah, I think it'll be a work in progress. up Yeah, yeah what it
Discussing 'The Hip Priest' Lyrics
00:03:01
Speaker
will go on. ah Thank you very much for joining us for another episode of This Our Johnny Domino podcast, in which myself, Steve and my brother Giles talk about songs that we have recorded.
00:03:15
Speaker
mostly we talk about our own songs that we've recorded over 30 years ago but increasingly we are talking about other people's music which is great as well if people send us some stuff we will critique it and we'll celebrate their genius we will here we are it's episode blay blah de blah 35 35 of this of this are Johnny Domino hoorah There have been inquiries, Steve. Enquiries about something I mentioned at the start of last episode. Some people are not satisfied with me talking about when I went to the Woolerton Park to the Hacienda event where I saw Altranata in a massive hat. you Remember? Yes, I do remember.
00:03:59
Speaker
In particular, they wanted to know more about the conversation I had ah with some women who I met who live on my street. I was very interested to hear more about that, but it was not forthcoming.
00:04:12
Speaker
Yeah. They said, why am I now avoiding them? And, you know, obviously why, why didn't I need to go into it? And they want to know more. They want to know more. So I've, uh, I've written it down and, uh, it's a set of lyrics, you know, i've I've worked on this. So I've got to write some music for it. but Well, talk about that afterwards. Okay. But yeah, here we go.
00:04:42
Speaker
I was at Woolerton Park on a Saturday afternoon. I was surrounded by meatheads of all kinds. Very few people were dancing to the 90s house music at 4.30. The sort of people that I tolerated but didn't really get on with were abound. And I still felt the same way about them at five decades as two. So I had to do something to relax.
00:05:12
Speaker
That's the chorus, so I had to do something to relax. I went to the toilet and as I circulated back via a small marquee that was full of despicable people dancing, I was ambushed by two shortish middle-aged women who I vaguely recognized but could not quite place. So I had to do something to relax. They recognized me and were noticeably pleased to see me.
00:05:41
Speaker
After a finitude of seconds, I recognised them as neighbours. So I had to do something to relax. Back in vocals kind of thing. Okay. We talked to children and life on our street and they guessed my job after a number of guesses. It was a friendly exchange with a tinge of sexual tension. I bid them goodbye and danced away.
00:06:10
Speaker
But then I met them again later and it went less well. That's it. That's the end. It's interesting. Good set of lyrics, right? Not bad. Yeah. um um I am intrigued by it going less well. Well, there you go. I mean, that's as far as that song goes. Okay. is it if If people want to know more, I'm afraid there's a deal. Okay.
00:06:38
Speaker
Yeah. I need to hear those lyrics in the form of a song. Nice. I appreciate what you are doing. And I need to hear it in the correct form of a song. Okay. So there you go. If you want to know what happened, if you want to know the course of events, and you know, I'm not going to build it up.
00:07:02
Speaker
This is actually what I happen to be honest. um I'm laughing at my own joke. This is really bad. But there you go. If you want to hear it, you need to record those lyrics as some kind of a song and then maybe I'll tell you a bit more. Is there a possibility that people could make up their own ending?
00:07:20
Speaker
Hey, I'm not going to block anyone's creativity here, you know? what Well, we are all about the ah the creativity, aren't we? Yeah, there you go. So I'll put those lyrics out there. And, you know, if you want to do something with it. I like it. There you go. It's an engagement opportunity.
00:07:47
Speaker
All you of Earth are idiots. You just hold on Buster. Okay. Shall we get on with the order of business that we do on this podcast? I think we probably should. Yeah.
Johnny Domino's Early Recording Process
00:07:59
Speaker
The basic premise of the podcast is that we listened to, we listened to a couple of songs that we recorded back in the day with a view to putting it on a compilation called ah the best of this are Johnny Domino.
00:08:14
Speaker
And that's what we're going to do. So the first song we're talking about today was not the first song recorded out of Johnny Domino, but on the first batch of songs that were put forth into a very small circle of people. This was the first track and it's a song called What Made You Want This?
00:08:36
Speaker
So what year is this from? We are talking 1993, the summer of 1993. I can't even remember what the world was like in 1993. I don't know, but we we were younger. We were a lot younger. I know, but what were we doing? 31 years ago. Well, I did have a phone.
00:08:57
Speaker
and Well, I can tell you exactly what we were. Yes, we had no phones, but I can tell you exactly what we were doing. This was the summer where my friend Jock was recording a single by his band Peru on a four track that he borrowed because I knew how to work a four track. I said I would record it for him. And I also said I'd look after the four track for him. So we recorded the first batch of Johnny Domino songs in like a four week period when we were working on the Peru single.
00:09:26
Speaker
And we were all, well, myself, you, and I think your girlfriend of the time, Abigail, we were all working at the American Adventure, weren't we we? We were, yeah. Working at the American Adventure theme park. So that's one of the big things we were doing. We were both working at the American Adventure theme park and complaining about working at the American Adventure theme park and recording songs.
00:09:47
Speaker
Yeah. And at least we had a bit of spare cash in our pockets. Yes, because it probably paid really, really well. You sounded very negative about it. Anyway, we did some recording and it was a bedroom recording. And ah I've listened to this song recently, actually, in preparation for this podcast, yeah because i do actually we do actually prepare for this podcast.
00:10:14
Speaker
There's two versions of this and I don't know whether I'm going to disagree with you here, but the version one yeah is quite lo-fi and it's got someone really knocking the hell out of some bongos on there. The This R Johnny Domino podcast. It's got bongos. And I don't know who we got to do those bongos, but they like they're They sound like a professional. And then the version two, it sounds a little bit like Hootie and the Blowfish, but I really like it. You like the Hootie version? I like the Hootie and the Blowfish version. I do, I do. I think I think i want to hear the Hootie version. And the Bongo's version.
00:11:06
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Okay. So which ones do you want? Hootie or Bongo? I want to hear them both. Okay. Well, let's go for Bongo first. And I would maybe know all but i will tell you one thing about yeah the Bongo track. It's not a Bongo. It is a metallic bin that I used to have in my bedroom. Yeah.
00:11:27
Speaker
And I think it's me playing it with my fingers. i So i'm not I'm not sort of like giving it the full hand thing and probably doing it with my fingers and miking it up in a way so that it sounds like I'm really good at playing the bongos. Personally, I think the bongos should be louder on this. Well, alas, it is not possible to remix. Imagine this track but with like way louder bongos, like kind of avant-garde level bongos.
00:13:56
Speaker
I made a war after I fell in a thick step before it
00:14:09
Speaker
Yeah. Bongos. Yeah. It's kind of a bit of a hippy campfire version. It is quite a campfire. Do you know what I mean about the bongos though? That's a pretty good bongo performance. It's a bin performance. It's a bin performance. And as I say, I was probably just tapping. But it's got the rhythm though, Steve. It's got the rhythm. It's the magic of the studio workshop. Would you say that you've got a good sense of rhythm?
00:14:39
Speaker
Um, well, sorry, that's really confusing because you stopped in the middle of saying, um, would you say you've got a good sense of rhythm? Yeah. I know. Ladies and gentlemen, we're having a few technical problems today. just say that's all right It must have been alright because I did the acoustic guitar track and then was able to play along with it. And you're playing the plastic maracas, I think, in the background. But yeah, that was Jock's guitar. I didn't have an acoustic guitar at that point. Yeah, yeah. That's Jock's guitar and his tuning pipes. I'm blowing on Jock's tuning pipes during the ah final verse. So have a little fun with that image. ah Yeah, I quite like it. So let's join hear a bit of Hootie.
00:15:21
Speaker
I prefer the hooty version. Oh, okay, here we go. What do you
00:16:57
Speaker
ah I think that's just way too pro sounds. Hootie, hootie. I don't think it's hootie. Maybe Spin Doctors. is it It is a bit Spin Doctors. I was thinking it's a bit, do you remember Extreme and More Than Words? I can imagine them playing that song with their lovely, their lovely smooth long hair, yeah looking at each other and sort of like emoting. And I also think it's a little bit ocean colour scene.
00:17:23
Speaker
I think that's why I like it. It's a bit Billy Ocean colour scene. Maybe I'm headed for that sort of nostalgia. I don't know, but I like it. I think it's all right. And I find that easier to listen to than the bongo one. ah The bongo one, I'm just admiring the bono play bongo Bongo Ben playing. But on that one, I don't know. Maybe I just need some dad rock in my life. And that's that's what's working.
Exploration of Johnny Domino's Song Themes
00:17:47
Speaker
ah In terms of lyrics, there's some classic Johnny Domino lyrics there, I feel. I think when I'm talking about loaded your first gun, I think it's a metaphorical gun, I imagine. The line, you made a million, I made a worn out carpet, is a classic Johnny Domino sentiment, I believe. And the United, buy a t-shirt,
00:18:16
Speaker
Bit is kind of like, hey, look at me, I'm commenting on the self-perpetuating system of the entertainment business right there. What do you reckon? Do you like that one? Did you enjoy that? I did enjoy it. As I said, I prefer the Bongo Fury version. I don't know why we recorded it and it's all a little bit smooth, the second one.
00:18:40
Speaker
I don't know but sometimes is that not good? And the little fiddly little gi guitar bit at the end just winds me up as well. There's some nice guitar playing, the jingly jangly. Oh I don't know who it is, I don't know who that person was that played that guitar part.
00:18:57
Speaker
You know what I mean? You know, sometimes you listen to songs and you think, I don't know who the person was who wrote those words. yeah I've got no idea who the person was who played that little. be being be and and Yes. Anyway, the bongo one, I'm doing a bit of an American twang on the voice as well. I didn't think it was that bad. I thought it was, you've sang with more effective vocals.
00:19:19
Speaker
what i have done in the past you have done yes i think so yeah so i didn't hate it we are we gonna have to agree to disagree on that we'll come back to it shall we i think we'll maybe come back to that but i think it's a potential uh best of song definitely i think it's all right you know just gotta argue the toss about which version is better i think we are gonna have to have an arm wrestling competition and okay We sound quite chilled out today, I think. It's a bit of a miserable day outside. It's dreadful. The weather's awful. It's chucking it down. It's like grim, isn't it? Grim. I'm just looking out the window and just seeing water just pouring down. Yeah. I've purposefully not opened my curtains. So I'm i'm just not evenly engaging with it yet. I'm trying to keep the vibes up, trying to keep the vibes up.
00:20:09
Speaker
Well, I'm up. I'm up. Yeah, me too. But I'm just like, I'm feeling quite relaxed. Maybe people could listen to this podcast and it could be like kind of a more relaxing thing rather than kind of like to maybe some of our podcasts like that sort of like hype people up. This one's more of a relaxing one. I think it's a mindfulness episode.
00:20:31
Speaker
We could do some breathing exercises and centering and and there they go do a self love incantation. Next song we're going to listen to. Where are we going next? Where are we going next where we're going next we we going next? We're going to go to a song that's been sent in by our friend Simon G. Richardson. Lovely Simon. G stands for gate mouth.
00:20:56
Speaker
And he's been stuck in bed for a couple of weeks with a back injury. And and he's been having time to catch up with things and think about stuff. And dragged himself into the kitchen with his guitar to record a song, which he describes in his email to me as a nostalgic whinge. about the end of a relationship being like the last days of summer when you're a kid and how childlike innocence is lost along the way and they says but you
00:22:42
Speaker
You said you'd choose your mother
00:23:38
Speaker
Said you'd choose your level
00:24:09
Speaker
Mm. That's really nice. There you go. Thank you, Simon. Thank you for sending it. That was a song that Simon's working up for his band, Tidmouth Cheds, up there in Glasgow. And I really liked it, actually. I really liked that rough recording. Yeah, me too. Is it like a childhood theme song? Is it a submission for our current engagement opportunity? It is. It's kind of on a tangent to it, definitely.
00:24:35
Speaker
Yeah, I got that. It has got a slight childhood theme and it's ah it's that sort of sense of sadness really I get from it. And ah stuff kind of drifts away from you in life, you know?
00:24:50
Speaker
But I think I like the chords and I think ultimately, you know, with the music and everything, you sort of find a ah note of hopefulness in that in that tune. Yeah. Do you think? Yeah, I do. I mean, he's got a slight tinge of, I mean, maybe this is just in my head, but a slight hint of the end of the summer holidays.
00:25:09
Speaker
Yes. Little snatches of the lyrics. It's like the end of the summer holidays and you've got to get back into it. Yeah. Yeah. And that's quite appropriate for this time of year actually, Steve. Absolutely. It's not, you know, that the the you're moving on. Yeah. But it's like, it's not all down. It's not all doom and gloom. You know what I mean? you You're good to go. That's the title of the song. You're good to go. Yeah. you know and you You just got to get on with it. Yeah. That was wicked.
00:25:36
Speaker
And I really like that. I like that. You know, you just got to get on with it. That's the sentiment that we need at this time of year. I agree. Thank you very much for sending that in, Simon. Much appreciated. If anybody else is but wondering what the
Engagement Invitation to Listeners
00:25:49
Speaker
hell we're talking about, our current engagement, well, apart from the write in music for the lyrics that my brother wrote earlier. i doing yeah yeah Yeah, do it. and The other engagement opportunity is for songs inspired or referencing childhood. And I think Simon's is is part of that. So thank you very much. But if you have a song, which is from your childhood, or about your childhood, or in some way, I mean, look, we can make anything work. Just send us some stuff. That'd be great. And we'll fit it in somehow.
00:26:19
Speaker
Can we listen to That's Some Feeling by ah Jonathan Richmond off the amazing I. Johnson album? Yeah, but the thing is, that is a ah reference that we make pretty much. Do I mention that album too many times? There are other Jonathan Richmond albums. and There are other versions of that song. okay I like the one from Oh God, if I see. I can't even remember what it's called.
00:26:44
Speaker
Jonathan Sings, I think it's called, where he's topless on the front cover. It's a drawing of him topless and and the modern lovers are some pro session musicians. Or certainly the the backing vocalists are pro session musicians. okay And that version is particularly good. That sounds good. I just wanted to say one more thing. Yeah, yeah. Check out Simon's band, Tidmouth Shad's. There's some stuff on the link on the show notes. Yeah.
00:27:15
Speaker
a little tangent here, just to say ah with regards to the previously mentioned engagement opportunity, we are in the process of recording our own submission. However, here's a little thing for you. Remember a couple of episodes ago, we were talking about superheroes.
00:27:32
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And we said, who did we say was the best superhero? We said it was Batman. Yeah. Yeah. And Batman is obviously a TV program, has got an amazing theme tune written by Neil Hefty. Okay. Arranged by Nelson Riddle, featuring on the drums, Hal Blaine from The Wrecking Crew. It's a great, it's a great theme tune. it is And it kind of got me thinking about it a little bit. And it also made me think about about slint slint slint louisville kentucky wonderkins of the post-rock scene don't worry i'm going somewhere with this go on go on okay so obviously for people who don't know slint recorded two albums and one ep in their short lifespan tweez then an unnamed ep and then spiderland
00:28:28
Speaker
which is an absolute top 10 album for me. I just think it's an incredible album. And you know how much I love a 33 and a third book. You do. I do love a 33 and a third book. You do. And the recording of Spider-Line was obviously quite dramatic. They split up as a band before the album came out.
00:28:48
Speaker
And they obviously weren't intending to split up at the time. And there's loads of stories about why they split up, we talking about kind of psychotic events and nervous breakdowns. And in the 33 and a third book, there's a different version. And in that version, it talks about the fact that you've got to remember that Slint were incredibly young. And as a band, despite the seriousness of their music, they were pretty immature.
00:29:11
Speaker
If you see in the film breadcrumb trail use you know that they rehearsed in the basement of one of their houses and There's a story in 33 and a third book about one of their rehearsals where? Brian McMahon the vocalist was sitting there while Todd Breshear Britt Walford and Dave Pejo were just playing the Batman theme tune and yeah okay And they kept faffing around with it and leaping to different intervals and just having a real laugh and to thinking they're hilarious. And it went on so long that Brian McMahon went upstairs. He thought, I've had enough of this. He went upstairs and he listened to the entirety of On the Beach by New Young, Side One, Side Two, which is about a 50 minute long album. When he came back downstairs, they were still doing it.
00:29:57
Speaker
And it was at that point, according to 33 and a third book, it was at that point they decided to leave the band. Which I just think is such a brilliant story. And it got me thinking, are we taking such an amazing piece of work as the Batman theme tune? yeah How could you do it in a way that would make somebody want to leave a band? Don stepped outside. Oh, all right.
00:31:27
Speaker
I'd never let anybody tell you that you wasted your time doing this stuff. Never. never yeah i mean Yeah, we talk about laughing our own jokes. I quite enjoyed that. It was not objectionable in any way. I would i wouldn't leave the band. You'd want to join that band. I'd join that band, please. Yeah, I think you would. Thanks. I enjoyed that. Thank you very much. I wasn't sure about the Johnny Domino podcast, but I gave it a chance and now I think I love it.
00:31:55
Speaker
Right, so the next song we are talking about is a song from the third proper Johnny Domino album. Time to relax. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, yeah, it's... um Get into a relaxed vibe. A relaxed vibe, yes. This is a song, it's an instrumental song called King of Caravans.
00:32:18
Speaker
and it's quite mellow, it's quite chilled out. mela shall we put yeah Shall we just go straight into it? Yeah, well, a King of Caravans. If I could be a king of anything, I think I would like to be a king of caravans. King of caravans. Have a think about that while this is playing. What would you like to be king of if you could be king of anything?
00:35:47
Speaker
Namaste. You know what's good about podcasts? Yeah. Is that you could kind of you could be very niche, right? Yeah. And we're quite guilty of that on this podcast. Yeah. Now, we're going to talk about something that is very specific and it's specific to a place and it's specific to a time. But I still think people might quite enjoy it if they have no freaking clue what we're talking about. Well, let's just see. But basically, when we were growing up in the East Midlands of England, the UK, in the 1980s, I think, there was an advert that was on central TV. It was not a national advert.
00:36:33
Speaker
Don't think so. No, for it no it definitely wasn't. okay okay People from outside the area have literally no idea what we're talking about. And the advert was for Don Amott, who was a caravan seller. Motor homes and caravans. yeah Don Amott was a self-proclaimed king of caravans and he had a very memorable jingle.
00:37:01
Speaker
Wrong one. Imagine if it was. Sorry, wrong clip.
00:37:11
Speaker
value first for choice that's don amot for you in news tourists motorhomes and steady caravans with the best selection of sights just off the a thirty eight between derby and and What you have to realise is that that little musical motif really stuck in your head. I mean that was like probably about 20, yeah over 20 years after first hearing that advert we made the reference in the Johnny Domino rehearsal yeah and we titled the song King of Caravans. Weirdly he was talking about between Burton and Darby off the A38. In my mind it was in Spondon
00:37:56
Speaker
No. So, of the A52? No, it definitely wasn't. It's definitely of the A38. Wow. well the as In Hilton. In Hilton. Between Derby and Burton. Wow.
00:38:08
Speaker
I think he's still going though, isn't he? Well, ah apparently he is. I don't know. i'm not I'm not early in the market for a caravan, but I do like his adverts very much. There's quite a few on YouTube. There's a particular one that I like where it's quite a high concept advert. okay It's a man called Spike, who the narrator of the advert is talking to.
00:38:32
Speaker
And Spike appears to be trying to escape from prison. And the confusing message of the advert is that Don Amot is selling caravans to people who are on the run from the police.
Influence of Don Amot's Jingle on Johnny Domino
00:38:45
Speaker
Dear Spike, heard about Don Amot's big cover-up? There's 40,000 square feet of undercover displays, curing motorized and holiday caravans, awnings, accessories, trailer, tents, camping equipment.
00:38:56
Speaker
Everything for the great outdoors. See you at Caracamp 82. He's got that really cockney criminal accent. You see? He's a geezer. He's a geezer. He's got his ah file out of a cake and he's going to go down Don Amos and get a caravan. Well, as we were waffling on about this this man, Don Amos is now called Don Amos Leisure Kingdom. Okay. and Motor homes, campervans, caravans. and Weirdly,
00:39:26
Speaker
The image that I'm looking at on the website is a lady in kind of a ah yoga pose with her index finger and her thumb making an O with the three fingers splayed outside. She's got her eyes closed and she's surrounded kind of like by waves of chilled outness.
00:39:45
Speaker
There you go. And there are four thought bubbles above their head. And one of them says motor homes. The other one is camper vans, caravans. And the last one is show me everything. Nice.
00:39:59
Speaker
There you go. And do you know what though, our more mindful musical excursion into the King of Caravans might work quite well as an up-to-date version of ah Don Amott's theme. So maybe we should send it to him. Why not? Why not? Because you know, it's kt who's called King of Caravans. What would you like to be King of anyway? What would I like to be King of? I don't know whether it's wishful thinking or carrot flour. I'm not sure.
00:40:25
Speaker
Yeah. The Road, I think. The Road, maybe? Yeah, The Road. There's loads of King songs, isn't there? You see, it's another one that I should have prepared for. I like the idea of being the King of Caravans, or the King of the Road, because then you're not tied down to one specific location. King of the Road is obviously our father's favourite karaoke song, isn't it?
00:40:51
Speaker
it is king of america king of spain king of the world king of you ah king of the beat sorry i've just put king of sex is a killed as a song i'm not sure about that king of dust by the handsome family that's a good one yeah i've got a few king songs there you go yeah okay there's so much to think about Absolutely. Speaking of being on the road and the king of the road, I was on the road to Manchester last week. Yes. Because I'd see the oldest son settling to university accommodation. Wow. And he seems all right. Yeah. Seems good. I think he's having the life of indeed Riley and
00:41:34
Speaker
On the way back from from driving there to Manchester, I came back through Stoke-on-Trent and got some wistful feelings on the drive back. I'm sure you did. and Just a wink of an eye. He was a babe in my arms.
00:41:52
Speaker
You know, a babe in my arms. And asked to us I thought back to that gig that we played two days after he was born. and Was it two days after after he was born? I don't know. It might have been the day after he was born. I think it might have it might been the flipping day.
00:42:12
Speaker
and and bear with me a second i've got i've got the dates anyway we played a gig at the well-known gig venue and corridor to a pub toilet called the vic in in derby to about 15 people but he actually recorded it didn't he steve and i believe i mentioned my boy um we are
00:42:40
Speaker
keep bearing see next it's very pleasant and
00:43:23
Speaker
That was, it was the 10th of December. So yeah, it it was it was the day after he was born. The day after your first born child was birthed. You think, tell you what, I'm going to go and do it. I mean, what why did we even arrange a gig around that time?
00:43:43
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When he came early Okay, so as and it in my defense it was discussed It wasn't just I am gonna do the gig kind of thing and his mother was actually still in hospital So I wasn't you know leaving them at home Right doesn't make it any better Giles. yeah You know your partner was in hospital. She was in hospital, but she wasn't ill. Oh my god. Okay, all right, I ah Look, i'm ah I'm a much better person than I was, a bit like that. Yeah. yeah Well, it will grow. Yeah. And it was a gig that we played with ah three other bands, the Atoms, Halfwit, and our aforementioned good friends, the people of Lorde Pony. And yes, the album is recorded. It was actually recorded by the Jeff Bot 3000, which is why the drums are so pokey on it, because I think he had the Minidisc recorded next to himself.
00:44:40
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But you know what? It comes out alright, it's quite punchy. But if you're looking at that line up, there are four bands in total. OK, so, you know, there are at least 16 going on 20 people in that room and you can kind of count the hands clapping um during our set. So it was a pokey little pokey little gig that we did. And I've mentioned before, a couple of weeks after that, we did a gig in a packed out pub in Derby called the Blessings and Carriage, Beloved of Students, two days before Christmas. And it was absolutely jam packed. Yeah, the baby was home at that point. Yeah, but why didn't we record that gig? That's my point. and I mean, you know, whether you're allowed to do a gig with a three month, three week old child. But why didn't we record that one? Because we've made it sound so much more popular than. I don't know. Maybe I maybe i should have been at home painting a nursery. I don't know. Yeah. we Well, there is that.
00:45:37
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With that, thank you very much for listening to the podcast. If you are enjoying the This Is What Johnny is... Oh, I'm so glad this is back on. You know how, I sort of said, you've got quite a good sense of rhythm. Oh yeah. What's your favourite song to dance to?
00:45:58
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Come on. What's your favourite song to dance to? You see, I'm not um'm not so much of a dancer. I nod my head. Well, in your head, Dad. In your head. OK. Well, one of the funkiest songs ever, ah it makes me nod my head in a ridiculous way, is The Root by D'Angelo.
00:46:16
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Oh that's a good one. Because it's got it's got what I believe the children would say, a sick beat. I remember again going back to a 33 and a third, I'm pretty sure Questlove, he drums on this song, he's kind of, he's both before and after the beat.
00:46:34
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And Questlove was like, people are going to think I'm not very good at drumming because I'm all over the place. it's As I say, it's a sick beat. nice But speaking of sick beats, I also like Shake It Off oh that by Tay Tay. What's your favourite? Well, my favourite current song, I suppose it's not current, it's kind of quite old now, is Man Don't Care by JME. There you go. That's the benefit of living with some young fillers in the house. But I don't know that was but ah sort of started thinking about what would be my favourite song to dance to, which doesn't have any drums? Because drums are kind of important, right? But I think my favourite song to dance to, which actually doesn't have any drums in it, is Boogie Chillin' by John Lee Hooker.
00:47:22
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oh And yeah no better account of rebellious youth has there ever been. His mum doesn't want to allow him to stay out all night long, but he doesn't care. He goes to town and he goes down Hastings Street and he hears people talking about this club called the Henry Swing Club and he decides to drop in. And when he gets there,
00:47:47
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He says, yes, people. They're having a ah great time. They're having a ball. And then when he's lying in bed later, he hears his dad tell his mum that that boy needs to boogie woogie and it's in him and he's he's got to come out. And he feels good because his dad recognises that within him.
00:48:07
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I love that. I love that. But all the time, he's just hitting that guitar. Yeah. And it just makes me want to dance. Fair enough. If the rhythm is in you. You've got to let it out, man. You've got to let that boy boogie woogie. It's in him. Yeah. And it's got to come out. Fabulous. Thank you very much for listening to the Johnny Domino podcast. If you're enjoying it, please like, subscribe wherever you are listening right now and tell your friends.
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