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Here at Domino Towers, we pride ourselves on smoothly and consistently providing you with a highly professional podcast about our niche musical (and other) interests.
Key features you might like about this one include:
- Cheering up through music
- The Splendour Festival
- Mangled keyboard mayhem
- 6 Music Dads in charge
Music this episode is from The Elvis Impersonators, The Tidmouth Sheds, and Johnny Domino. Don't forget to send us some of your musical juvenilia for inclusion in THE ETERNAL HALLS OF THE FOUR TRACK GODS!!! (NB. It doesn’t have to have been recorded on a four track). Get in touch with us through Facebook and Instagram
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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward
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Transcript
00:00:00
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Many years ago, he looked out through a glassless window. All that he could see was Babylon. Beautiful green fields and dreams, and learned to measure the stars.
00:00:16
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But there was a worry in his heart. He said, how could it come to this? I'm really worried about living. How could it come to this?
00:00:28
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Yeah, i really want to know about this. Is it like today?
Podcast Introduction
00:00:58
Speaker
Hello and welcome to another fun-filled episode of the This Our Johnny Domino podcast, wherein myself, Steve, and my brother Giles talk about songs from our musical past, present, and future, and beyond. Have you got any drinks with you today?
00:01:15
Speaker
I've got some water. Have you? Yeah. I've got some Dr Pepper. I look forward to removing all the Windy Pops from the from your track then. What are you wearing? What?
00:01:26
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What are you wearing? I feel a bit unclean doing this. d I'm trying to build ah a visual. Right, okay. i'm I'm trying to build a picture for the listener because, you know, podcasts these days are going all visual.
00:01:40
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Yeah. and And we're not yet. So, you know, people need to know. i have feelings about the visuals. You don't have to tell us the truth for what you're wearing. Tell me what you're wearing. Just say anything. No one can see. I can't see you. All right. Well, um um but I'll tell you the truth. I'm wearing some jorts and a They Might Be Giants t-shirt, which is an illustration of each of the 21 segments which make up the song Fingertips.
00:02:05
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Okay. I'm wearing a toga. Yeah. So I was thinking about the visual thing, right? The visual thing. And I don't really think video would be good for us.
00:02:17
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I don't think it would be either. I've got an idea for what we could do. but I mean, in your job, in your day job, yeah as a podcast editor, do you have to do a lot more video these days?
00:02:28
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No, not really. Video is not for everybody. No. I mean, there are some podcasts where it is video and there are some people who record the video when they're doing what we are doing right now and then use sections of it on social media and as promotional things. But it's all pointing towards the audio.
00:02:49
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Personally, i like listening to a podcast because I can do it whilst I am online. walking around doing stuff around the house case in point two episodes today of the history of rock music in 500 songs yeah so i've been listening to those today while i've been doing stuff for around the house that's same here but like for video people ah my idea was don't know one wants to see me and you talking nope could we not have like puppets or something I was thinking like something like The Muppets, like Statler and Waldorf. Yeah. you know But like ah a kind of slightly younger indie version.
00:03:25
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We could try that. Of Statler and Waldorf. just just Just waggling about instead of actual people. Yeah. And just have that going in on a loop.
00:03:37
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That'd work. That'd give ah people a picture and image, wouldn't it? It would do. It'd be better if it was Bert and Ernie. Yeah.
00:03:44
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theres somebody at the door out there
00:03:59
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a
00:04:02
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see it's not always quite begged i've got no idea what those lyrics were at the start Well, it's from one of my favorite songs. I can't believe you
Exploring 'Is It Like Today?' by World Party
00:04:12
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don't know it. ah but I don't know off the top of my head. i think you'd know the song. It's World Party.
00:04:17
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Is it like to today? I don't know the song. Oh, man. It's a sparkling and wonderful song, and it always makes me feel happy. It's described by Carl Wallinger, the person behind World Party, as a prairie to Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy. That's what I always look for. Indeed, in four verses.
00:04:41
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It's a great song. You should definitely listen to it. And Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy is a big book. That's like a doorstop, man. okay Anyway, Cotter Wallinger, he was in the Waterboys. Did you know that?
00:04:54
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Yes, I did. He left the Waterboys because he had a bit of a rivalry, I think, that developed with Mike Scott. Yeah. Because Mike Scott wouldn't let him write any songs. And then he went off and recorded some stuff. And Bang was the third album in 1993 that that particular song, Is It Like Today, came from. And I would recommend you listen to
Carl Wallinger's Career and Recovery
00:05:15
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it. It's really, really good. Carl Wallinger, interesting guy, sadly died 20, 24, age 66.
00:05:22
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You know, they had a bit of success, but kind of like screwed it up and made some bad decisions. He lost his record label, but retained his musical rights, lost his band to Robbie Williams.
00:05:36
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And he also took his song. Yes, he did. She's the one. Yeah. But, you know, Carl made a bit money from that. And then he suffered a brain aneurysm in 2001. And he had to spend five years recuperating and learning how to play music again, which is kind of amazing. And I've got a connection with him because my mate Pete, he worked with him.
00:05:55
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I know he did. in the mid to early 2000s on archiving and putting stuff together for a DVD. And he said that Carl was a lovely chap and he was definitely a procrastinator and they definitely smoked copious amounts of marijuana.
00:06:12
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Anyway, it really cheers me up, that song. And you should go away and listen to it. And I was thinking about Miserable Man Syndrome again. yeah And i was thinking about what music brings you out of being sad. I don't mean like wallowing in sadness. I mean something that brings you out of being sad. Something that you can put on loud and that is guaranteed to shake you out of it and get out of that negative, depressed
Music That Lifts Sadness
00:06:35
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state.
00:06:35
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What you listen to, Steve? doesn't have to be cool. No, no, no. I'm thinking of things which which kind of pick me up. I mean, obviously, and they might be giants. Any of their songs. Probably the Mesopotamians and Jonathan. We talk about Jonathan Richmond all the time. So anything from i Jonathan.
00:06:54
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And probably something like The Fall, Cab It Up, because that's just a really simple song, but it's exciting. And that would probably give me a bit of a boost.
00:07:05
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I'm just flicking through all my music at the moment. I'm just, yeah i mean, I do like a lot of miserable music. I know, but something, if you really are genuinely pissed off and very, very sad and feeling a bit down and isolated, right, you don't want to listen to something depressing. you need you Sometimes you've got make that decision, I'm going to listen to this and it's going to help me.
00:07:25
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Mine is Jane's Addiction, which is not very cool at all, but the first two Jane's Addiction albums, I just listen to them. They have to be on loud on my headphones, and it just takes me out of myself.
00:07:37
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I'd go for the In A Car EP by the Meat Puppets. Oh, yeah. That is cool. All right, that's cooler. No, and no I'm not saying it anything to be cool, but something like um yeah something like ah Dolphin Field just makes me laugh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:52
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I'm not trying to be cool. I'm not Andy Burnham. Oh, yeah, had Andy Burnham. More
Competitive Element: Who Discovered Bands First?
00:07:56
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of him later. We were talking about having a bit of a competitive element to this podcast as a new format feature, weren't we? The idea of having a competition. The bands that we mentioned, where we kind of compete to see who was into them first.
00:08:11
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Yeah, we did talk about that. i mean, it just gets a bit messy seeing as we lived together for many of our formative years. Yeah, all right. At the end of the episode, maybe we'll sort of go back over the bands we've mentioned and see who wins.
00:08:23
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Okay. Well, I'll probably win. World party meat puppets so far.
00:08:31
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Can I introduce this one with something that I haven't done for a long time? Please do. It's the eternal halls of the four track gods.
00:08:52
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Ironically, this is a song that was recorded on one track. I know, but it's, it's yes, and Mr. Pedant, right? But the spirit, Steve. The spirit of it is definitely. The Eternal Halls of the 4-Track Gods is one of our oldest features on the podcast, where we ask people to send in songs juvenilia.
00:09:13
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I don't even know if that's how you pronounce that word. Juvenilia. Songs that they recorded as very, very young children, young adults, teenagers, things like that. We've shared some of our earliest songs.
00:09:24
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People who listen to the podcast have sent in their own childhood recordings and songwriting attempts. Or early youth. It doesn't have to be like prepumescent.
00:09:35
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But, you know, we've gone there and listeners have done the same. And if any listeners do have any of those recordings, please do send them in because it's always very entertaining to know that we were not alone in recording stupid songs when our parents were out, things like that.
00:09:51
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So this is from a band called the Elvis Impersonators. We have featured them on the podcast a long, long, long, long time ago. And one of their songs features on volume one of the best of this R. Johnny Domino.
Reminiscing About The Elvis Impersonators
00:10:04
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And this is a song that we were just talking beforehand. You have no memory of what this song is or was. No, I don't. I don't. Just worth mentioning the lineup. This is me on guitar, I believe.
00:10:18
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Yes. um You, I think you were playing the keyboard, the Casio CZ 3000. three three thousand It was the 3000, yes. Yeah, I believe there was a drum machine.
00:10:29
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The Alessis HR-16. Thank you, gear fans. And ah there is Sally Ann singing. And this song is called Head in the Jar.
00:10:39
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Let's go.
00:14:24
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Stop. Just stop. Just stop. That's some pumping bass on that. Kind of surprisingly good levels, considering it was just recorded on one microphone.
00:14:35
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I can't remember anything about Sally-Anne, really. You knew her more than I did. Well, she was your mate. She was in your year at college. I mean, she's pretty She was pretty cool. She was really good. She made excellent compilation tape. She introduced us to... mean, she had all the early sub-pop singles clubs.
00:14:53
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She had a better record collection than others. She had an amazing record collection. I hope she still got it. Yeah. But she had like she did this tapes which had like Big Black, early Nirvana, Mud Honey first stuff, Amphetamine Reptile compilations.
00:15:07
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yeah It would certainly so scare the vicar if he was coming around, but it was all good stuff. She introduced us to a lot of stuff. lot of things, yeah, definitely. What like about that song, there's a really good bit at the end. The lyrics are...
00:15:21
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I'm tired of bloody mood swings. No one ever tries to change things and you can't be bothered to talk too busy showing me what you bought. I'm sorry. That's a good lyric. Well, that's Sally Ann's lyrics, man. Yeah.
00:15:31
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It was good. I mean, did Sally Ann ever go on to do any other music? I don't think so, but it's nice that she did stuff with us. Yeah. She peaked pretty early with those lyrics, maybe.
00:15:42
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Yeah.
00:15:46
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As a matter of fact, following this recording, I did reach out to Sally-Anne to ask her if she did any music after her time in the Elvis impersonators, and this was her response.
00:15:57
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No, sir. Thanks, Sally-Anne.
00:16:03
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I liked it, man. They're the pumping bass. And it's nice to just listen to something a bit four-track godsy. Absolutely, yeah. And again, if anybody has any recordings that they made in their youth that they feel like didn't get any listenership whatsoever, then mi casa e zu casa.
00:16:23
Speaker
I don't know what I'm saying. Just send it to us. send it to us and we'll put it on and we'll hopefully say something supportive. Or not. Or not, know, but, you tell us what you were trying to do, what you were trying to aim for. I've got no idea what we were trying to do with that.
00:16:37
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It was an interesting time. Yeah. We've got a great act going. Robert and Rufus. I play the Casio SK-1 and Rufus sings.
00:16:48
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Problem is he only sings when he wants to. But with this Casio, I can record a sample of him whenever he's in the mood. Come on, Rufus. Got it.
00:17:00
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Now whenever I want Rufus to hit it, just hit this button. The Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard because the show must go on. You know, Rufus, the sack could be a single.
00:17:11
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Yes, that's the Casio SK-1. Ironically, didn't have a particularly good piano sound on it. And certainly wasn't a piano sound that you could play more than one note at the same time as the man in the advert was doing. Oh, that's false advertising.
00:17:30
Speaker
So you went to Splendour recently? I
Steve's Splendour Festival Experience
00:17:33
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did. i went to the Splendour Festival at Nottingham's Woolerton Park last weekend. ended up going for both days. And I was planning on doing some recording there, but I bought a little microphone and it turned out to be completely shitty. So...
00:17:49
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I recorded some stuff, but it sounds crap. So I'm just gonna have to tell you what I saw rather than show you what I saw. But yeah, I ended up going for both days because I had an artist's wristband because Fred's band, my my second son, Fred's band were playing on the Bodega stage and I got roped into driving the band.
00:18:11
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And it was really nice. I mean, it was the first day, the Saturday was when they were playing. So consequently, didn't see a of much of the festival because my day was taken up mainly carrying amplifiers and sourcing iced coffee and energy drinks for the band.
00:18:28
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But yeah, I did see Primal Scream, thinking about the way things look. I got a little bit too close to the stage and it did sort of slightly put me off that there was this squinty-eyed grandparent in a pink suit and a floppy hairdo singing.
00:18:46
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But step back a bit, it was Bobby Gillespie and it was quite good. And they played their hits for a very up-for-it festival crowd as the sun was going down next to Batman's Castle and it sounded great. And the stone particularly the s stonesy Primal Scream tracks won me over massively. Yeah.
00:19:03
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Believe it or not, Primal Scream was second on the bill to The Wombats. Of course. The Wombats! exclamational Exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark, as I've written in my notes.
00:19:14
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This is one of those bands again, isn't it? Another 90s band that you have a blind spot of. yeah Yeah, they were well, they were formed in 2003, actually, Oh, shit.
00:19:25
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I am now more familiar with songs like Let's Dance to Joy Division, Moving to New York and Greek Tragedy. Let's Dance to Joy Division to celebrate the irony. Everything is going wrong, but we are so happy.
00:19:38
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I wonder what the ghost of Ian Curtis thinks of that. I'm not sure. Turkey Paul's there. Hello, this is Turkey Paul, and I love listening to the This R Johnny Domino podcast.
00:19:52
Speaker
Benje dynjanen en gazelle podcast laran dan verisir. We had a bit of a disagreement over the wombats. He thought they were a soulless mush of all the indie bands ever delivered as if by an ai whereas I thought that they were the satanic forces sent into the world to destroy and degrade everything that is good and beautiful and sacred about this music and culture that we have invested so much of our lives into.
00:20:21
Speaker
Did you eventually just agree to disagree? Yeah. They were the wombats. And then on Sunday, i was in a bit of a shitty mood. I don't know why. i was just in a bit of a shitty mood, but i decided to go again because I had the wristband.
00:20:36
Speaker
And i did actually enjoy the atmosphere, mainly wandering around on my own. I did meet some people that I knew and i saw a band called V&L. Oh, yeah. They are a grungy, Oasis-y band with an extremely arrogant singer.
00:20:53
Speaker
And they overran their set by four minutes. And he threw down his guitar at the end of it. Golly. But musically, it was very much meat and potatoes, chords, and Runo bass lines.
00:21:06
Speaker
When you started talking about that band, it it it almost made me think you enjoyed them. Well, I didn't hate them, but I didn't love them. But then later on, I found out, I guess I was probably the only person in the audience who didn't know this, that it's Gene Gallagher's band. It's litam Liam's kid. It's our kid's kid. Our kid's kid. He's the singer.
00:21:27
Speaker
If you were Liam Gallagher's kid, yeah why would you be in a band and sing in a way that is very reminiscent of Liam Gallagher? I have no idea. I thought it he was interesting that me and Liam Gallagher have got something in common because my son and Liam Gallagher's son both played on the same stage at the last Splendor Festival. which The last ever Splendor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there you go, me and Liam.
00:21:51
Speaker
And then I went to see Craig David and he was all over my boy. Poor Craig David. Why are you saying poor Craig? Because, you know, the bloody Bo Selector did a number on him. Oh, man. He has absolutely fucked his career. You do not need to feel bad about Craig David. I'm happy.
00:22:09
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Craig David is now performing as Craig David tea s five where he and this is reading from The
00:22:20
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em seeinging and dejaying simultaneously playing curated club tracks and his own hits creating an intimate but massive club atmosphere the people of nottingham They freaking loved him.
00:22:36
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They love him, man. He's played at Splendor a number of times. he went down like an absolute bomb. I can imagine not everybody who listens to this likes Craig Davis' music. But, you know, it was fairly entertaining.
00:22:47
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Yeah. And then I watched the Piggy on Detectives, and I realized that their main influence is the Kaiser Chiefs. Jesus. Which is not a great thing, is it, really? That's like Retzina, isn't it? Like the Greek drink Retzina.
00:23:01
Speaker
Like ouzo is made from remnants of people making wine, and Retzina is made from the remnants of people making ouzo. Okay, right. So basically they're Retzina.
00:23:12
Speaker
Okay, that's very niche. And then I saw Kast, and they sounded great.
The Flaming Lips: A Quasi-Religious Experience
00:23:19
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But their songs are still a bit boring. Yeah. And they were all right.
00:23:33
Speaker
So I was feeling a bit sleepy after cast. And then I got a donut and that woke me up. And then I watched The Flaming Lips. Yes. And they were absolutely er amazing.
00:23:46
Speaker
They put on a show. Right. There were inflatable characters. There were giant balloons. There were lyrics projected behind them flashing up in time. They played true love will find you in the end.
00:23:59
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Daniel Johnson. They did war pigs. The yeah, yeah, yeah. Song was amazing. It was really good. Steve. you know, the sun doesn't go down, does it? It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.
00:24:12
Speaker
And it was like a quasi-religious, maybe it was religious. That's what they are. Maybe it wasn't quasi-religious. Maybe it was religious. It was spiritual, certainly. And I was in bits at the end by the end of the set. It was incredible.
00:24:25
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And Wayne told everybody in the band that he loved them. one by one, and he said that we should all, in the crowd, tell the people that we were with that we loved them.
00:24:36
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But you weren't there, Steve, so I'm going to say it now. I love you. Yes, thank you. It's a documentary.
00:25:08
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it's the this r j o h m n y d o m i n o p podcast
00:25:21
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The thing that got me about, certainly about the Wombats and the ah the Piggy on Detectives, is they're very consistent and extremely professional bands.
Modern Festivals: Spontaneity vs. Professionalism
00:25:33
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And I think there's a thing really with bands these days, particularly ones that are kind of that level, playing in the you know the festival circuit and stuff. They're just so smooth and so consistent in their output and the professional way that they put across their music, they definitely use kind of back-end stuff as well, you know, because the songs are just performed exactly to the record.
00:25:58
Speaker
you know what i mean? They give the audience what they want. But there's a, I feel, you know, so I know they said I said they were Satan's helpers or whatever, but I feel there's there's a loss of spontaneity there.
00:26:10
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When you get rid of the chance that it might be a shit gig, then there's no chance that it's going to be ah like an amazing or sublime gig, is it? yeah I don't know. Am I being overly romantic about this, Steve? I don't know.
00:26:26
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Trying to think of like bands that I've seen. I remember seeing in Palace Brothers at the Narrowboat in Nottingham. And were you there with me? or i was I was. I was there with Jock. I was there.
00:26:39
Speaker
But can you remember that like the first two songs, possibly the first three songs, were absolute shit? They were terrible. they The first song was like a terrible version of Seller's song off the first album. And then I think i think then they did a song that no one had ever heard before, and it was crap.
00:26:57
Speaker
And then they did Ohio Riverboat song, and it just lifted off. Yeah. And then the rest of the gig was incredible. Yeah. but You've got to have that that thing where there's a little bit of jeopardy. When I saw Bob Dylan, I used to know somebody who'd been to see him loads of times. He said, you don't know which one you're going to get.
00:27:17
Speaker
You're either going to see one of the best gigs you've ever seen or one of the worst gigs. And when I saw him, I was lucky because he was great. I mean, obviously it took a while to figure out what he was doing a lot of the time. Yeah.
00:27:29
Speaker
but he was on it when we saw him. But I think having that sort of element of jeopardy, it could be terrible. yeah i like I mean, The Fall, for example, famously yeah did rubbish gigs and then light did an amazing gig.
00:27:44
Speaker
yeah But, you know, i feel like certainly there's definitely a tendency in a lot of music these days where it's like the professionalization of it all, really. And, you know, maybe it's good because it gives people what they want. They get to hear songs performed perfectly, but we lose a little bit. I don't know. The thing is, Wayne Coyne does the same thing every night.
00:28:07
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Oh, yeah, okay. You see, there, there you found the flaw in my argument. Because I was thinking that, but I hoping that you wouldn't mention But that's the thing. And I think there's something to do with the fact that gigs are so fricking expensive. Yeah. Especially if you're going to, you know, you didn't have to pay for Splendor, but you know, a lot of people did and gigs are incredibly expensive. And think a lot of times they can't really leave things to chance. Yeah.
00:28:37
Speaker
So and possibly to keep it a bit safe. I mean, the thing about Wayne Coyne is he could fall off the stage at any moment. I think he he is the loose cannon in that band and the band have to be on it to keep him so on the straight and narrow. yeah But I'm not sure. i don't know what the answer is.
00:28:55
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Right, I think it's time for some more music. I love this song, and it's by the Tidmouth Sheds. It's been sent to me by Simon Gatemouth Richardson.
00:29:06
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And I'd like to dedicate this song to my lovely Tracy.
00:29:16
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MUSIC PLAYS
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I love
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Cause when you laugh, marry way down times by ways.
00:30:07
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The memories are clear and my feelings are fine.
00:30:22
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It'll never change my mind. It'll never change my mind. Because there's nothing that you could do to make me fall out of love with you.
00:30:39
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Out of love with
00:30:51
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You make me free when you stand by me. Forever is a long time, but who's counting? When the memories are clear and the fields are not fine.
00:31:18
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I said, Brian, you ain't never gonna change my mind. It'll never change my mind.
00:31:30
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I guess there's nothing to keep it said. I made me stop feeling this way. I'll always feel this way.
00:31:48
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And I'll say it once again, you will always be mine.
00:32:40
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Always be yours, you'll always be mine Always be yours, you'll always mine Always be yours
00:33:16
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Yeah. The synth strings, definitely.
00:33:30
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the flaming lips about that yeah do say the synth strings definitely Yeah, definitely. ah That was the Tidmouth Sheds. Stop Loving You. Words of Music by Simon Gatemouth Richardson. Guitar vocals, Simon Gatemouth Richardson.
00:33:47
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Electric Lead by Richard Owen. And everything else by Innes Vitti. The Tidmouth Sheds. I'm going to start a campaign. I want them to get some stuff released, man.
00:33:58
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The last couple of songs that we played on the podcast by them have been crackers. I love that song. You are a soppy bugger, aren't you? Come on, it's a beautiful song. It's like straightforward, but the sentiment is absolutely on the nail. I loved it.
00:34:14
Speaker
Cool. Yeah. Hi, I'm Giles and Stephen's mum, and I don't listen to their podcasts. I think they're very silly boys. It's time for some poetry.
00:34:31
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and And I feel like we need to give it some gravitas today. I think our last episode, i kind of rushed my poem, so I'm going to give this one a bit more gravitas. So a bit of a pause, and then adopt my poetry voice.
00:34:49
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Where does it all go, this stuff called time? They're going to look back at us and say, we never had a chance. that we drove ourselves mad with our reflecting machines, aware of the Roman inevitability of it all.
00:35:09
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Five o'clock on Saturday at the health club gym, a faint chittering comes from the narrow window above the mirror wall. You might hear it below the clanking and chatter.
00:35:24
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you might look up and notice a small bird, a sparrow, flying up against the glass, again and again.
00:35:36
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Crazy bird, its reflection is driving it mad, says nobody, not noticing the irony as they take another selfie of their abs.
00:35:50
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The flaming lips have done a number on you, haven't they? I wrote that before I saw the Flaming Lips, Stephen. Well, you must have been primed for the Flaming Lips. No wonder you cried. Yeah, maybe. I don't know.
00:36:03
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00:36:18
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00:36:43
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The visuals on the advert are really something quite beautiful. A rocker launcher. I've got an image of someone and having it on their shoulder. No, no, not even that. a bazooka. It's just a very tall man with massive hair and sunglasses on, obviously flying through space whilst playing the teeny tiny keys on the teeny tiny CZ 101. Sorry, I can't call it CZ 101. CZ 101.
00:37:10
Speaker
We had one of those within the arsenal of the Johnny Domino band. Yes. I think it was Jim's keyboard. Yeah. You know, it was, you know, they were perfectly good keyboards. Perfectly serviceable.
00:37:23
Speaker
But I can't find an advert for the Casio CZ3000, which was my first keyboard. Our main keyboard, really. It was for a lot of the time. was the workhorse of the Johnny Domino band, wasn't it?
00:37:35
Speaker
If you want a vibraphone sound, get the CZ out. I'm currently selling it Are you? i'm trans This it is most multitasking. We're doing an advert. No, no, I'm not. The thing is, it's reminding me how much I hate eBay.
00:37:50
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Because you say, this is how much it is, and this is it. You know, it's too heavy to post. What's the question I'm going to get asked? Would you consider posting it? Yeah. No. I think there's a fault in your plan anyway.
00:38:04
Speaker
Which is? i think we're going to demonstrate that the keyboard is broken. but Ah, well, this was the point of this song. There was a day in, ah believe it was when i turned
00:38:18
Speaker
and it sounded pretty awful Worse than normal. Worse than normal. And and i thought it was dead. But obviously, being a nerd with four-track recording studio in his bedroom, what's my first thought?
00:38:34
Speaker
Oh, my keyboard that I've had since I was 13 or so. Is dying. Is dying. What shall I do? I'll record it. And that was a song on the first Johnny Domino album, Rabbit Themes, called Death of the CZ.
00:38:49
Speaker
But it was born again after this. But this is what it sounded like.
00:38:56
Speaker
Wow, that is a horrible sound. Yep.
00:40:28
Speaker
It sounds like it's on fire.
00:40:46
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gentle
00:40:50
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sounds like it's on fire It is a weird sound, isn't it? i Particularly like the, um there's a very weird sort high pitched, almost like a guitar solo sound.
00:41:00
Speaker
That was me holding one key down. And then it kind of did that whole sort of like shredding thing. So did the keyboard fix itself? It did. it was reborn.
00:41:11
Speaker
what but a So it was doing that and then it started working again. Yeah, I don't know. I don't understand it. I don't know, man. So whoever buys it, they need to know that it's capable of that. Well, you know, I've sent pictures of the fact that one of the keys has broken in half. oh You know, it's an old keyboard, but it works. It does work. I've tried it recently. All the presets are still absolutely fine.
00:41:34
Speaker
But that was a prime example of also putting a microphone on the telly, turning on and recording whatever was on. And that was an ITV adaptation of Mole Flanders starring English actress Alex Kingston.
00:41:48
Speaker
How very completist of you. It was a nice example of some four-track arse-ing-about. Arse-ing-about, wasn't it? You're
00:42:01
Speaker
you going to play as another song, aren't you, Steve? Well, yeah, because we have started looking back at songs that we have featured before and you said, choose something that was from volume one of The Best of This Are Jolly Domino.
00:42:13
Speaker
Now, this is not from the first volume of The Best of This Are Jolly Domino. I have disobeyed you. I've gone back to the first song we played on this podcast. Fuck's sake. Yeah. All right.
00:42:25
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Go on then.
00:42:42
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This is the time to show you just what you're doing.
00:43:16
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like now. You're easy to have to come. When you've been on the shelf too long, then you should get produced. You're the service in my sky. Put your head back and smile.
00:43:55
Speaker
That you, yeah, yeah Made of folder You and your psychic pets Your house when it's colder A dad like a boulder Your chip on your shoulder Hey, hey, hey, hey No, no, no, no This is sign to show you Just which way you want to go Yeah, hey, hey
00:44:42
Speaker
that you are right now. Who is it you have to come? When you've been on the shelf too long, then you should get reduced. Hear the song that's in my sky. Put your head back and smile when
00:45:38
Speaker
And, dear listener, her dad very much was like of older. Was he? He was. That was Johnny Domino band with a song called Who Is It?
00:45:51
Speaker
Recorded, i believe, in 1995 slash 96. In the olden days. Last century. It was a song about going out with schizo girlfriend.
00:46:05
Speaker
Okay. It will remain nameless, but it is very much about a particular person and a particular situation. Yeah. Who is it that you are right now?
00:46:18
Speaker
Who is it that you have become? I'm sure you would an absolute joy to be going out with this one. All right. You don't have to be so balanced all the time. Well, you know. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I probably wasn't. I had my faults, right? But this song is written from my perspective. Yeah. And it was about being in a relationship with somebody who's quite changeable, shall we say. Okay. Yeah.
Reflecting on an Old Johnny Domino Song
00:46:40
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With a dad like a boulder.
00:46:42
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I remember we talked about that song. we We had it on the podcast, first episode, and were quite down on it. And then you you mentioned it a couple of months ago, saying you you'd listened to it again, and you quite liked it. I'm not down. I don't know why I was down. I think maybe I think el fit i was just... ah First episode, Steve. Yeah.
00:46:59
Speaker
By the way, listeners, don't go back. Good God. Don't go back. God, don't go back. Just keep cheap keep going forward. Keep going forward with us. But yeah, I think maybe it was just early days in the podcast.
00:47:11
Speaker
Listening to it, i think it's cool. I like it. I'm proud. I'm proud to play it on the podcast as an example of our early work. Absolutely, yes. Yes, I enjoyed it very much.
00:47:24
Speaker
and It's nice playing on it. Thank you. Is it just you entirely musically on that one? I think it is. I wish I'd not put that keyboard bit on it. Oh, I quite like it. Yeah, everything's bit cheesy.
00:47:35
Speaker
Yeah, well, you know, you know. I remember setting the drum kit, well, what passed for a drum kit, floor, tom and snare, on the landing of our parents' house. Don't know why. thought I'd get it a bit roomy, which is why it sounds a bit...
00:47:49
Speaker
Roommate. Anyway, I liked it very much. And that's not on any volume of the best of this whole Johnny Domino. No, it's not. So all you can do is listen to it here. um we're nearly at the end of the podcast yes but we have as a nation we have a new prime minister we do we have a new prime minister mr andy burnham who is it turns out the six music dads are in charge yep it's our time absolutely bring it on we're running the nation that's a terrible terrible idea Anyway, he's been very forthcoming about his music taste.
00:48:31
Speaker
Richard Osman on The Rest is Entertainment says that he's for real. don't know. I'm not sure what I think about Richard Osman. um I don't know whether I like him. but I keep listening to it though.
00:48:43
Speaker
Anyway, yeah, so Andy Burnham, Music Taste, has been published, ah well, it's top 13 tracks. Top 13 albums on the Baker's Dozen feature on the Quietus website. That's it. I think he these quite a while ago. Yeah. So I don't think there's any...
00:49:01
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any hint that these have been chosen for him by his, um, special, Oh God, what do they call spags? special vis Yeah. Well, tell it let's not go for all 13, but pick it, pick a few, Steve, that stand out from the list. I mean, they're a bit, they're a bit white bread.
00:49:16
Speaker
i mean, they're a bit white as well. A hat full of hollow by the Smiths. Um, Can't fault him, that is a great mean, no. I mean, fucking Stone Rose's first album, which I can't stand. George Best The You are wrong. You are wrong. and Whatever. George Best, The Wedding Present. I'm not leaving The Stone Rose's fucking great album. One of the best drummers ever. Anyway, The Wedding Present.
00:49:38
Speaker
George Best. Take it or leave it. Lars, Lars. Yeah, Lars. Yeah, Lars. They were amazing. a Billy Bragg album, Radiohead album, Doves, Strokes, yeah a Big Thief.
00:49:53
Speaker
because he realize it's a good Which album is it? um Capacity. good album um New Order, blah. The Courtneyers, one of your favourites. Yeah, Courtneyers. And then obviously as a little curveball is Rum Sodomy and the Lash by the Pogues. Yeah, well, yeah, there you go.
00:50:12
Speaker
Lots of words have been said about how this is, you know, isn't it great that we've got a prime minister with good music taste? But I mean, it's all right. It's pretty basic list. is' It is. He's kind of scratched the surface. It's like when you go around FOP and all the albums are five quid.
00:50:29
Speaker
Yeah. And you're walking around with ah with like 20 CDs and balancing them. And then eventually you just go, I don't want any of these. and you put them all back. That's what I was used to doing FOP. So you're telling me they they're like they're like the the building blocks of a solid record collection, but without much of the curveballs. You know, um i was trying to think of what what songs I would like, what or what albums I would like a Prime Minister to like.
00:50:58
Speaker
I'd like a Prime Minister that's one of his favourite albums on his top 13 is The Life of Brian by Flowered Up.
00:51:07
Speaker
It's always flowered up. I'd like a prime minister that likes Hex Induction Hour by The Fall. That would be nice. You see, when I first saw Andy Burnham's list, thought... Who made the Nazis? Well, it would be quite nice if there was like a full album on there, wouldn't it? It would be lovely. And also, maybe a bit of like, don't know,
00:51:30
Speaker
hip-hop maybe a little bit of del at soul nothing too controversial no but uh you know some naz something which is okay yeah that's a good album yeah i think we're a long way from someone picking bizarre right to the far side it's ah at least it's a step up from boris johnson shit maybe be we'll see we'll see he might he might actually be a terrible prime minister we will only know in the future Maybe by the time this episode is published. No. That's not that far in the future, is it? Exactly. it could all turn to shit really, really Really, really quickly. We might have another prime minister by the end of the year. Yay.
00:52:12
Speaker
Anyway, I've got nothing else to say. I've run out of things in my notebook. I've got literally nothing left. going have to finish the episode. Oh, I bought an album the other day. Yeah. And it's a new album by Panda Bear and Sonic Boom. It's called A Question of When.
00:52:28
Speaker
I'm going out on a limb. I think they may have been herbally enhanced when they recorded the album. It is quite the most disorienting album I have ever heard.
00:52:41
Speaker
Do not operate heavy machinery whilst listening to it. I drove whilst listening to it and it was very distracting. Okay. There's a lot of sirens. There's a lot of engine noises. Yeah.
00:52:53
Speaker
What's the name of the album? It's called A Question of When. It's nuts. Right. i I'll take your advice and I will listen to it under controlled circumstances. I would. It is not on any streaming services.
00:53:04
Speaker
Have you bought it then? I've got it on vinyl. Oh, right. Can you take me a copy? ah put on a tape. It won't fit on one side of the C90 though. It's slightly too long.
00:53:16
Speaker
Okay. So i don't know what so I'm going to fill the second side with. Oh no, man. Just take me a copy. Please join us again on the next episode of this, our Johnny Domino. We'll unearth more nuggets and hopefully feature some stuff that's been sent in by our wonderful listeners. Hint, hint.
00:53:39
Speaker
Yeah. And if you would like to do us a favor, two calls to action here Steve just one please just the one keep it to one alright please tell somebody who you meet that has similar taste to you that might like this kind of shizzle that um this is the shizzle that you like you know this podcast and you should give it a listen and leave us a review just the one alright bye bye
00:54:15
Speaker
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