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I Have No Opinion (About The Byrds)
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Despite the title of this episode, it seems that the Domino boys DO have an opinion about The Byrds, and some other things too!
As well as a lovely song about a man from Derby chasing a horse, other themes include:
- Let's (wedding) Dance
- Harry’s Styles / Chalfont St Giles
- Motionless Germans and Sonic Youths
- Paranormal 4-track activity
Music is provided by Motorcade One, st.qulty, Lazer Guided, and Johnny Domino!
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Transcript
Songs and Mistaken Identities
00:00:00
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Let's dance, put on your red shoes and dance the blues. Let's dance to the song they're playing on the radio. Let's sway while colour lights up your face.
00:00:12
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Let's sway through the crowd to an empty place. If you say run, I'll run with you. If you say hide, we'll hide. Because my love for you would break my heart in two if you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower.
00:00:53
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Hello. Guten Tag.
Podcast Introduction: Musical Journeys
00:00:56
Speaker
Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the This Our Johnny Domino podcast, a light-hearted musical podcast wherein myself, Steve, and my brother Giles talk about songs from our musical past, present, and future.
00:01:13
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Hey Steve. Hey bro bro. How you doing man? I'm good. How are you? I'm alright. Excellent. And life is okay. I think this podcast might be a bit low key though. I think we're going to let the music do the talking today.
00:01:28
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Possibly, possibly, you
Comparing Versions of 'Let's Dance'
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know. A little bit, a little bit. We've got loads to play though, haven't we? we have, we have. Yeah, yeah. Shall we go straight into it or do you want to talk about something else?
00:01:39
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what what What were the lyrics that I was doing there, Steve? Ah, well, the lyrics that you were singing, and they were ah Let's Dance by the David Bowie Band. No, they weren't. They weren't. Oh, were they Let's Dance by the M. Ward band? It was M. Ward, yeah. It was M. Ward's version. Oh, yeah. I'm a big fan of the David Bowie version. It's good.
00:01:58
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Obviously, the original. It's groovy, obviously. Nile Rodgers. Yeah. I think M. Ward gives it a more romantic and tinkling kind of interpretation. He does. And it's got some sad harmonica on it and some scratchy acoustic guitars and he wrings the emotion out of it. So if you haven't heard that, it's on the album Transfiguration of Vincent. Yes. 2003. M. Ward.
00:02:25
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it's ah It's a classic. It's it's one of my favourite albums. You know, that album was the soundtrack to the most important summer of my life. Really? It was the soundtrack. did not know that. It was. It was the sound of me meeting the now Mrs.
Wedding Memories and Music's Emotional Impact
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Domino.
00:02:40
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Oh, wow. Yeah. That's crazy. That was absolutely the soundtrack to it. and Yeah. I think it was an album that I bought for several people as well. I think you bought it for me. I loved it so much. bought it for like random people I'd met on the internet as well, which is like, yeah you need to hear this. when i mentioned I thought I was going to mention it in this podcast. I did not realise it had such a fundamental place in your um yeah musical archive or whatever.
00:03:06
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yeah It's reappeared in my life at many key points. Yeah. And last week, I did get married. Yes. We got married.
00:03:17
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Me and Tracy got married. And we used it as our first dance, didn't we? Yes, you did. Yeah. But my brother did a nice kind of mashup where it went into the David Bowie version.
00:03:28
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He's very talented, your brother, isn't he? so did You did a good job, man. i remember when the Bowie version was number one. Do you? Yeah, Bowie scared the crap out of me. you did bit He really did. He was really he's a really weird man. Well, he was a weird man.
00:03:44
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But, you know, we're weird men now. I must have been like 10 at the time. It was 83, I think, wasn't it? You were a sensitive child, man. Yeah, but just like when he started screaming at me and talking about trembling like a flower. You know, it's odd. It's an odd sound. It is an odd sound. You're child. It's a very weird sound. Yeah.
00:04:03
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ah Your wedding was a lovely day. Yeah, i enjoyed it. Went like a blur the whole day. You spend all this time like planning something and, you know, you think all these things are going to happen and stuff and speeches or whatever. yeah And then it all goes by like in in an absolute...
00:04:20
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Lightning flash. yeah And then it was all over. But yeah, it was it was good. It all went well. I was very happy with it. And the married life is going okay at the moment. Early days, but you know, it's going quite well.
00:04:31
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Fingers crossed. Fingers cross crossed. But so far, everyone turned up. Everyone said the right things. Oh man. And you had a bit of a dance. I did. That was good to see, you man That was good to see. Well, your mate did some good DJing. Yeah, yeah. You know, that's the first time I've seen you dancing for about 20 years, man. It was freaking brilliant. It made my day. Yeah, well, you know.
00:04:56
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You know, and that's a lot to say it was my wedding day, but it really did. When your daughter says, come and dance, she's not going to that many times. Yeah. what mean? She's a teenager, so I'm going to say yeah. You've got to do it, haven't you, man?
00:05:09
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Anyway...
Creating Original Music for PRF Tribute
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Onwards! Yes. This is the This Our Johnny Domino podcast and we did a song for the PRF Monthly Tribute which last month, May 2026, was all about songs by The Birds.
00:05:27
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And we decided, as we kind of sometimes do, not to do a bird's cover. Well, we did have a we had a conversation, didn't we? About the fact that neither of us really think anything either way about the birds. No, Steve. you see youre what you're doing here, you're rewriting history.
00:05:45
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You... told me that you didn't have an opinion either way about the birds. What was it mean? And it was you. i actually quite like some of the birds. and I've got an opinion about them.
00:06:00
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I really like the um yeah the the country stuff. You know, Sweetheart of the Rodeo is one of my favorite songs to sing along to in the shower. I actually love it. Okay. Yeah.
00:06:10
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but you expressed the ah idea that you had no opinion either way about the birds. So I thought that would be a good thing to write a song about. And last episode, we were talking quite a lot about the band Half Man Half Biscuit and we were opining the fact that It would be great if that was the choice for the band for the PRF Monthly Tribute Series.
00:06:32
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And that would never happen. No one's going to choose Half Man Half Biscuit. So we just thought, sod it. Let's just do a Half Man Half Biscuit song for Birds Month, really.
00:06:44
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So yeah, we wrote a song, didn't we, Steve? It's kind of about ah vinyl night, which is something I've been threatening to talk about on the podcast for a while because I've been going to vinyl night and it's it's been quite fun actually.
00:06:56
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Got some of my observations about that situation as well. I'm sure some of our listeners might go to a vinyl night at their local pub possibly. If they don't, get into it. it's kind of fun. We'll start one up.
00:07:23
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Hey ho, let's go to vinyl night, it's the best night of the week Where we can play our records, nurse a pint and we never have to speak Vinyl night's no night for fighting, get your ale and scratchings in Vinyl night's alright, let's set this sucker alight Daydream Nation caused a big sensation.
00:07:57
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Craftwork part-time got laid off. Mouths hang open. Aging hearts are broken. The most astounding thing you've ever heard.
00:08:08
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But it's the most astounding thing you've heard. You are most astounded. It's the word. It's the most astounding thing you've heard.
00:08:19
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But I have no opinion about the birds. like that bit of Morrissey.
00:08:38
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No King Crimson, Metallica and I'm done. Steely, Pam and Fawzi Pete. Give me reggae singles, gouty toes and shingles.
00:08:50
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Box set, rock set, ganji crew and Joan Jett. It's the most astounding thing you've heard. The most incredible thing you've heard.
00:09:00
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That I have no opinion. That I have no opinion about the birds. have no opinion about the birds.
00:09:11
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That I have no opinion about the birds. I have no opinion.
00:09:30
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But I feel a whole lot better when you're gone There you go So I was writing that from your point of view, Steve.
00:09:42
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Ah, but I've never been to a vinyl knife. It's like, you know, it was a construction, man. It's interesting you're talking about Sweetheart of the Road, yeah because that's one of the reasons why I don't really like the bird.
00:09:53
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What? In particular, the song The Christian Life. that's good song. But Roger McGuinn's vocal. is dreadful. man. Yeah, he puts on this sort of like real shit kicker. Well, geez, sir, I'm a Christian boy.
00:10:08
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And then on the on the CD, you get to hear Grant Parsons' vocal. Now, Grant Parsons was a very spoiled rich boy, in but he definitely had the alcohol dependency, which we tend to associate with country media.
00:10:20
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And at least when he sings it, you kind of get the feeling that he believes Yeah, this is sincerity there, yeah? Yeah, I think McGuin's vocal, that's the sort of thing that just winds me up. it's kind of goofy.
00:10:34
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But I don't know, it you know, maybe they were in a they were trying to make a bit of a comedy record, just like we just tried to, I guess, maybe. yeah But yeah, I mean, the Birds.
00:10:46
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Yeah, quite like some of the stuff. They kick-started the folk rock revolution. The first hit was Mr. Tambourine Man. Great, great. A little tune there by somebody else.
00:10:58
Speaker
There's a lot better songs by somebody else. They went through some changes. In 1967, David Shagga Crosby was dismissed, wasn't he? Shagga Crosby. Just after, he'd done a song called Triad.
00:11:13
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Yeah. Well, he said they tricked him out because he was an... asshole that's the word he used yeah but I think people kind of got fed up with him kind of telling them to just he was kind of sort of saying just do my songs yeah basically but yeah Triad's a particular favourite no one did that there was lots lots of discussion on the group chat about somebody doing Triad as a song but Steve I mean What do you think about that as a song? It's pretty awful.
00:11:44
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I mean, it is basically, it's it's a conversation where David Crosby is saying, oh, I'm in love with both of you lovely ladies. why don't we Why don't we just try something new? Why don't we go as three? Yeah.
00:11:57
Speaker
why do we go on as three A menage a trois. A menage a trois. I believe it's called. Yeah, and the second verse is when he goes, oh, your mother is standing. Oh, yeah. kind of oh yeah I've got the lyrics. You do with it. I don't want to mess them up.
00:12:12
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Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulder, face like ice, a little bit colder. So, you know, she's not very, you know. is's not Anyway,
The Birds: A Rock Band's Tumultuous History
00:12:22
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um you want to know how it will be, me and her,
00:12:27
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Or you and me. You both stand there, your long hair flowing, your eyes still alive. Your mind's still growing. Horrible. It's kind of a bit regressive.
00:12:37
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But yeah, he got chucked out. And then they went on to do some other stuff, which i don't really like. Well, no, then they went on to do the country stuff, which I do like. Yeah. And then after that, it all went to a bit shit.
00:12:48
Speaker
Graham Parson left after one album, didn't he? It was a complicated man. Yeah. A bit a hanger on for the Stones. But, you know, he did some great stuff. Yeah. Do you need me to analyse the lyrics on on our song, No Opinion About the Birds? No, I think it's fairly clear. I like the the vision of final night is really good because you get a pint and you don't have to speak. I think that says a lot about you. That's 100%. Yeah, accurate.
00:13:15
Speaker
It is indeed. And I like the idea of daydream nation causing a sensation. Yeah. Was that just a handy rhyme? It rhymed. The This Art Johnny Domino podcast.
00:13:28
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It's got bongos.
00:13:32
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So yeah, Birds Month on the PRF monthly tribute series was quite productive, really. um
PRF Tribute Highlights and Covers
00:13:38
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there was There were a number of good tracks. Frankie Machine turned out to be the winner. And up until the other day, that was the other song that we might feature on the podcast. It is good. I'd urge you to go and listen to it.
00:13:51
Speaker
Link in the podcast notes. But we've decided to play a different track, another late entry by Motorcade One, which is an astounding piece of work, using the word astounding again. It's like my current word. But it is an astounding piece of work.
00:14:07
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It absolutely And it's a cover of the song Chestnut Mare, which is a Roger McGuinn, Jack Levy composition. And they co-wrote this in 1969 for a planned country rock musical.
00:14:21
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Believe it not. Called Gene Gene Tripp. Gene Tripp. An adaptation of Ibsen's play, Pierre Gint. And it was never staged.
00:14:33
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But Motorcade 1 do a very good version of it, which we're going to play now.
00:14:46
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Prismare I've ever seen you have to take my word. I'm gonna catch that horse if I can.
00:14:57
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And when I do, I'll give
00:15:09
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While I was up on Stony Ridge, after this chestnut mare, I'd been chasing her for weeks. Oh, I'd catch a glimpse of her every once in a while, taking a meal or bathing.
00:15:21
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A fine lady. This one day i happened to be real close to her. I saw her standing over there. So I snuck up on her nice and easy, got my rope out and I flung it in the air.
00:16:11
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I got her and I'm pulling on her and she's pulling back like this mule going up a ladder. And I take a choice and I jump right up on her. Damned if I don't land right on top of her.
00:16:24
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She takes off, running up the ridge, higher than I've ever been before.
00:16:31
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And she's running along just fine till she stops, and something spooked her. It's a sidewinder, all coiled and ready to strike. She doesn't know what to do for a second, but then she jumps off the edge.
00:16:45
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Me holding on. Up
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My eyes were filled with
00:17:27
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I'll give her my brand
00:17:33
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And we'll be friends for life She'll be just like a wife I'm gonna catch that or survive
00:17:48
Speaker
And we're falling down this crevice, about a mile down I'd say. I look down and I see this red thing below us coming up real fast and it's our reflection in this little pool of water, about six foot wide and one foot deep.
00:18:03
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And we're crawling down right through it. We hit and we splashed it dry. That's when I lost my hold and she got away. I'm gonna try and get her back someday.
00:18:27
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And when I do, I'll give her my brand
00:18:34
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I will be friends for life She'll be just like a wife I will be friends for life She'll just be like a wife
00:19:15
Speaker
I think the word that you used to describe it was demented. It's surreal. It's surreal. I mean, the lyrics are nuts. the The lyrics are mad, obviously, because the lyrics are from this musical about a cowboy yeah taming a wild horse. Yeah.
00:19:30
Speaker
With a terrible subtext of... Well, this definitely... yeah It comes across more in i with Ian's vocals than it does on the original, to be fair. It sounds more seedy in that Derby accent.
00:19:45
Speaker
yeah And it's just really odd. You have to focus on the lyrics, don't you, when it's when he's in doing it in a Derby voice. actually I can't think of anything other than him like like riding around on Mark Eaton Park, you know.
00:20:01
Speaker
oh God. The thing about I'm going to give her my brand. That's it's a horrible image. yeah she'll yeah She'll be just like a wife.
00:20:11
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This was after David Shagger Crosby had left. sure Did he leave these lyrics lying around? No, no. He's not just pick up and go, no. It's nothing to do with him. So, yeah. Well done, Ian. Very good. I thought that one should have won. But there you go.
00:20:26
Speaker
What do we know? What do we know? You know, we've got terrible taste if you're if you're aiming to win friends and influence people. Too right. We like to be by ourselves.
00:20:37
Speaker
Can't you rack off and leave us alone? The PRF Monthly Tribute Series continues. Hmm. for a bit longer. It is going to come to an end soon, so I'm sure we'll feature some more songs as it goes on.
00:20:50
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Shall have an advert? This is me, thinking as usual about Dave. Dave is super. Dave can do anything. Oh, he's great! He really is. When POW!
00:21:01
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Up pops my fairy godmother with a I'll give you three wishes routine. Wish number one is easy.
00:21:09
Speaker
Next, I wish we were both at the seaside.
00:21:14
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Come on, Dave, let's swim, I say. It's just not my scene, man, says Dave. What he really meant was he couldn't swim.
00:21:25
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still got one wish left, remember? Meet Mike. He swims like a fish.
00:21:36
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Yes? I wish. I wish I didn't keep losing me birds. Then learn to swim, young man. Learn to swim. If you can't swim, ask about lessons at your local swimming baths.
00:21:48
Speaker
Do learn to swim. It could save your life. And you won't lose your birds. Lose your birds. I can't remember anything about the visuals from that, but the audio ah did ring a few bells.
00:22:00
Speaker
Yeah, visually it's, you know weird cartoons. Oh, right, okay, cool. I wonder if Harry Styles can swim. I don't know. I imagine he can, can't he?
00:22:11
Speaker
Yeah, Frankie has been a busy boy. As well as recording the winning song for the PRF tribute for May 2026, he created something very special for my daughter, who amongst her crazy music taste,
00:22:27
Speaker
Yeah, she likes a bit of everything and she likes Harry Styles. Listen very closely to the lyrics here. yeah
00:22:51
Speaker
Shirt button open, but he hurtin' meanwhile Docca said, boy, you been sittin' too long Now he wasn't like a duck, tryna still look strong Got a tube in his hand, says Preparation H, but the cap won't twist He don't got no strength Mom downstairs, yellin' Harold was sad He like, I would do it myself, but I ain't touchin' my own asshole Harry Styles, Harry Styles, he got piles
00:23:15
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Harry Styles, Harry Styles, he got piles Harry Styles, Harry Styles, he got piles Harry Styles ain't too a
00:23:34
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And it became a hit record She said, eat more fiber He said, what? Then he started crying while she ointment in his butt
00:23:52
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an iceco cushion no photos from the rear He's wincin' hard when he oughta be vibin'
00:24:21
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clenching his fists
00:24:41
Speaker
It's infantile, but I think I really like it. Yeah. I don't know how he made that, but um good job. I think our legal department would like us to say that there is no truth in the rumours that Harry Styles actually has piles.
00:24:55
Speaker
Chalfonts. I've not heard the phrase Chalfonts for a while. Yes, Chalfonts St Giles. Yes. Very good. Very good. He's got the farmers. that's i don't think that's in there, but I remember that was from one of favourite Spike Milligan sketches.
00:25:14
Speaker
Yes, she knows what his problem is. It's the farmers.
00:25:20
Speaker
Yes, what he needs is preparation. Ouch! Send your farmers packing with... Preparation Ouch. All right.
Johnny Domino: Band History
00:25:31
Speaker
you know what that is? That's my name, isn't know it is. It is your name, Giles. Yeah, Giles. Piles. Giles has got piles.
00:25:39
Speaker
and that is I'm a bit scarred by that from school. So i think we need to move on. Let's move on. Johnny Domino is the band that we probably spent the most of our life in, isn't it, really?
00:25:53
Speaker
It is, and that's and that's the name of the podcast. It is. This R. Johnny Domino. Johnny Domino. And over the years, we had many people who played with us, and of the people played with us was our friend John.
00:26:05
Speaker
He played drums on a lot of our early stuff, and then we just recorded bits and bobs with various lineups of various bands, and he has started recording some new material himself. He bought himself a digital four-track recorder,
00:26:20
Speaker
And he started to release it on Bandcamp under the name St. Qualty. St. Qualty. It's not spelled like that, though. No. But we have got the pronunciation straight from John's mouth. Yeah, but get the link from the show notes, as I keep saying. Yeah.
00:26:37
Speaker
And have a listen to some of his tracks. And it's good. I mean, it's good. This is exactly what this podcast is about. It's trying to kind of encourage people to like, you know, Keep doing stuff, man. Yeah. Keep doing stuff. Be creative.
00:26:50
Speaker
Get it of your system and just do it. And John's done some interesting stuff here. This track that we're going to play is the first one, he says in his message to me, that his partner actually approved of and quite liked.
00:27:07
Speaker
So, you know, he is quite proud of that. Excellent. That's why we're going to play it. This song is called Scale.
00:29:40
Speaker
Pleasingly kind of nausea-making. I quite liked it. I don't think he's nausea-making. I like it. Yeah, I know. I mean, like it kind of kind of made me feel a bit disorientated. I ah or quite enjoyed it. I think nausea is the wrong word.
00:29:53
Speaker
All right. But you know what I mean. I do know what you mean. Yeah. yeah it It does some interesting stuff. ah There's one of the first EP, his name I can't remember. It's got a really weird broken beat, and I really like that one. I think he's tracked through on the first of his his recent EPs.
00:30:08
Speaker
But yes, as you say, encouraging creativity in all of its geysers. Yeah. Against the you know the dying of the light and all that kind of stuff. the
Experiencing Kraftwerk Live
00:30:17
Speaker
Jesus Christ. You always take it there, man.
00:30:20
Speaker
So yeah, John says one of his main influences is craft work. He loves a bit of clink-clang. A bit of clink-clang. And I went to see Craftwork the other night.
00:30:31
Speaker
Yes. At Sheffield City Hall. If you were there, you may have noticed a couple of people in red shirts and and black ties, and that was me and DJ Dave.
00:30:42
Speaker
It was a really good night, actually. We had a really, i mean, it was really great, a good fun evening out, but Kraftwerk were bloody brilliant, actually. And, you know, Dave said to me, I asked him why he liked Kraftwerk, and he said they were one of the most influential bands ever. And I didn't really think about that before, but they kind of are, aren't they? Yeah, definitely.
00:31:02
Speaker
Yeah, they've like they've kind of like sparked a lot of stuff. And their live performances, if you don't know, they're kind of a bit like a mixture between a gig and performance art, really. The sound was amazing. It was really loud.
00:31:16
Speaker
The visuals were cool. They go for a real retro-futuristic... kind of vibe ah we've talked about it before this kind of nostalgia for a future you know we're living in a time where an idea for a future is elusive and craft work were from a time really where there was still this kind of idea of like ah a future that we could be heading towards that was kind of exciting yeah the visuals and their sound really hark back to that yeah
00:31:47
Speaker
The track Space Lab it was accompanied by some very clunky animated sort of spaceship footage, like something from Blake 7 or something like that. And then this spaceship kind of lands in front of Sheffield City Hall. So they do like a shout out to the venue.
00:32:03
Speaker
You know, it was it was very entertaining and incredibly entertaining, really, when you think about the fact that you just sat there watching four men standing still at desks.
00:32:15
Speaker
Which is really what they do. Probably, they might be doing Football Manager or something. No, they're definitely, i don't know i mean, obviously, us I think they're performing. Doing their taxes. Yeah.
00:32:26
Speaker
earth Making tax digital. yeah Maybe. Yeah. The frustrating thing about it really was it was like a seated venue and it was quite odd at times.
00:32:38
Speaker
Everyone was sat completely still watching this band play and the music was, you know, it made me want to move. It was like, I was like really itching. I was like swaying.
00:32:50
Speaker
the maximum amount I could in my chair without pissing the people off around me, really. And I looked up and on the balcony, but there was a single woman standing at the back of the balcony and dancing.
00:33:03
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And i was quite jealous, actually, because I was like in the stalls and I couldn't, I don't know, I felt like I was in a position where I couldn't really stand up and dance. And I kind of wished I could have done that gig, really.
00:33:14
Speaker
The funky robots. Really funky, yeah. And, you know, Trans Europe Express, was thunderous absolutely thunderous and other favourite tracks I really liked were Neon Lights which is a song that I've never really got into but I loved it they didn't play Pocket Calculator which is one of my favourites I loved that one I think that's the funkiest Kraftwerk song But yeah, it was brilliant. It was brilliant. The thing about Kraftwerk is that diet the funk is between the notes. Yeah. Because the notes are very rigid, but the funk is in the gaps between.
00:33:49
Speaker
And you were talking about they had to create a future. Well, obviously, Germany, post-World War II, they did have to create future, and they wanted to create a music which it was not Western.
00:33:59
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but had no relationship to German folk music and German musics of the past. So they did have to find a new way. And that's what's really interesting about that sort of music because it's it's a new language. And obviously when hip hop and techno picked up the tools, they took it somewhere else as well.
00:34:19
Speaker
So yeah that's your through line right there. You know, they were an important band and at the moment there's there's only one surviving original member in the lineup, Ralph Hutter, who is 79.
00:34:35
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But he was there at the end and he was, you know, he was he was cool. The guy was cool, right? For a 79-year-old guy, he looked cool. You could tell he was he was directing the whole thing. It was brilliant.
00:34:49
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He got his taxes done really nice. On the 90s Derby scene, I just want to be seen. On the 90s Derby scene, where have you been?
00:35:03
Speaker
On the 90s Derby scene, I just want to be seen. What musical cuisine, Stephen Jiles are you going serve today?
00:35:14
Speaker
Oh, here we are again. And as Will's beautiful voice fades away with his theme to the Derby music scene of the nineteen ninety s we're going to be featuring Will with his previous band, Laser Guided.
00:35:30
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really? We did a few gigs with the band that are known on the Bandcamp page on Artists Against Success as the Indie Shadows. They were mainly instrumental, I remember. They were. ah But this one's got vocals on from Ollie, he of the Eyeliner.
00:35:46
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He was the kind of the front man, wasn't he? Yeah, bass player, singer. He was the mover and shaker on the scene as well.
1990s Derby Music Scene
00:35:53
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He was the one who'd go up and talk to people yeah and spread the good word and stuff. so But for a few years in that period in the 90s, they were rocking Derby, laser-guided. They were rocking the Derby scene.
00:36:07
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And as happens with many bands, it all kind of fell apart when I think some of them went to university. But we have... The evidence. We have the wonderful music to keep us warm against the oncoming winter. Sorry, I'm just, I'm just, maybe this is just my mood tonight. But yes, there is a ah compilation of pretty much everything they recorded available on the Artists Against Success Bandcamp called Flying Disks for Dogs.
00:36:36
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And this is the first track from it called Cold Inside. And i I listened to a little bit of this earlier today. I remember them doing some gigs that we did with
00:37:09
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Tell anything.
00:38:17
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Why else it takes what's wrong so sweet? Splinteres of your shattered heart But now you turn to me and say
00:41:22
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There you What do you reckon to that? Laser guided. They were a bunch of sonic youths sounding a bit sonic youth. ah But, you know, nothing wrong with that. It did take me back to a bit of Daydream Nation, that one did at the end. Yes, very enjoyable.
00:41:36
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Yeah, it was good, wasn't it Yeah. Yeah, and there's stuff on Bandcamp, so if anyone wants to go and listen some more... Link is it in the show notes. Link is in the show notes. And that's it for the Derby scene today. going have to go on to another town at some point, aren't we?
00:41:56
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but I'm sure there's plenty. The Lincoln scene, something, don't know. Right, poem! Let's have a poem. Well, I've got two, actually, if we've got time. I did say last episode that i was writing a sequence of poems about days of the week, and we're on to Tuesday.
Poetic Reflections on Days of the Week
00:42:15
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Hey! My poem about Tuesday is quite short, because I hate Tuesdays. They are the worst.
00:42:22
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Tuesday is not welcome here, so it wanders the empty streets all afternoon, while everyone is occupied, and it breaks forgotten things, leaving behind a trail of small frustrations.
00:42:39
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There you go I could not agree more. That's Tuesday. And I'm going to go straight into Wednesday. Wednesday. Again, I'm not that keen on Wednesdays, to be honest. But I had a really good Wednesday because I listened to a podcast. And this is about a poem about me listening to a podcast.
00:42:55
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I quite often listen to things that deal with philosophy or mindfulness or mental health and things like that. There's loads of stuff out there. And it helps me put me in a sort of ah ah better frame of mind sometimes.
00:43:09
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I think all podcasts can do that. This one's called Wednesdays.
00:43:16
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While listening to a podcast, I was woken to awareness that the world revolves regardless of your wishes or of fairness, and that life is now an here-ness.
00:43:30
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So now I wonder wistfully why this Wednesday was weirdly better than I ever thought it could or should or might be.
00:43:41
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Is Wednesday wired for flight? No. It's mid and week. No offence, G. And it usually stinks, see. But last night, a podcast saved my Wednesday.
00:43:56
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Can i ask what the podcast was? No. That's fine then. Because I can't remember. Ah.
00:44:13
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jingo jingo jingoo chingo jing go I want to play another song by Johnny Domino. It's one that we spoke about previously on the podcast. and I can't even remember when it was. it was very, very early. it may have been long long episode two or episode three, but there is a reason to play it.
00:44:33
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And that reason being that's your wedding day. e It was the same day as our paternal grandmother's birthday. Yeah, i mentioned that in the speech, didn't Yes, you did. It it was it was a beautiful, beautiful moment.
00:44:46
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And this was a bit of lo-fi, nobbing about that we did, ah think, 1996. Yeah. I was obviously alone in the house and i did a bit of guitar playing and you put some faffing about on it.
00:45:04
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Yeah, it's weird. Quite often in podcasts, we start it off and it doesn't have any cohesive through line. But I'm feeling Sonic Youth is coming through on this one.
00:45:15
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Daydream Nation caused a great sensation. and And this is definitely you getting into your sonic groove, shall we say.
00:45:27
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invention of the guitar.
00:45:31
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Might take a while to get started.
00:45:35
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As John Peel would say, it's time to be quiet this one.
00:47:39
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do it i'm talking to you
00:48:57
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I'd just like to say sending love and thanks to our very indulgent parents and their deaf neighbours. Yeah. And the beautiful halcyon days of having amplifiers and a four-track recorder set up in your bedroom.
00:49:16
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Yeah. Golden days. golden does That track featured the unique vocals of our our grandmother. Yeah. It was quite nice to hear her again. She's long gone.
00:49:27
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yeah And as I mentioned in my speech, she was a uniquely irritating person, ah but also very, very loving yeah and completely scatty, but also incredibly focused on stuff and traits that I feel, you know, some of the Woodward clan possibly have inherited. I think that's fair.
00:49:48
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Yeah, that's absolutely fair. It's a time capsule of Generation X Attitude.
00:50:10
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It's the this R-J-O-H-M-M-Y-D-O-M-I-M-O-P-O-D-C-A-N.
00:50:22
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Hey, I just wanted to talk about another thing before we wind up. Yes, go
Revisiting 2000s Indie Bands
00:50:26
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for it. In the last couple of podcasts, I've been talking about how I'm trying to educate myself and fill a bit of a gap in my musical knowledge of noughties indie bands. Because I kind of missed out on tranche of guitar music that I had no interest in At the time, I guess it was a point in my life where I was um having children, young children.
00:50:51
Speaker
and In the noughties, in the noughties, right? Yeah, the noughties, right? And stuff was going on. And I just really wasn't listening to that much and last episode i i told you how i'd i'd been digging up the band the court courtineers or the courtinas yeah as they're more widely known yeah and this week i've been checking out another band the piggy on detectives the piy The Piggy On Detectives are a band ah known for raw, conversational, and often blunt lyrics, it says here.
00:51:33
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And they have a lad-orientated brand of heartbreak, shouty choruses, spoken word banter, and tales of jealousy.
00:51:45
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Oi, oi. Oi, oi. And um the key track is a song called I Found Out, which I've listened to a few times, so that you don't have to.
00:51:56
Speaker
Okay. And, oh, let me just get it on. Hold on, just pause the podcast a minute. I'm just going to get it on my phone because this is what you like me to do, isn't it? Yeah. Okay.
00:52:08
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So it starts off sounding very much like the Sex Pistols.
00:52:18
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And then it becomes a rewriting of teenage kicks yeah by what sounds like some very unsopcathetic teenage chimpanzees, possibly.
00:52:33
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And it's got the most irritating, highly chantable
00:52:40
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backing vocals that consist of the words going out with... Going out with. Yes, you're going out with.
00:52:53
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What are you going out with? Going out with. Yes, you're going out with. There you go. god So that's the pigeon detectives.
00:53:04
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You never have to listen to them. Ever again. So it the pigeon detectives then. Oh, yeah. Piggy on detectives. Thank you. That was absolute horseshit. that was that was That was like fresh from a chestnut mare right into my ear.
00:53:23
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And I did not did not really appreciate that. Okay, well, next next month there'll be another, I'm sure. oh Just bear with me a second. problem with You've got a bit of Norman Collier on me. I need to fly it into um the track, where it's coming from.
00:53:41
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Just, hang on, just bear with me a second. just going try and do something. What are you going to Just bear with me a second. Okay.
00:53:50
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Hello? Cool. What are you doing? I'm talking to you. She is. I'm a back in now. You're back in now. Did anything weird happen then?
00:54:03
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Yeah, there was like a voice, man. I didn't hear anything. What?
00:54:11
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That's a bit spooky. I didn't hear anything like that. I think Florence, Lily and Sis is on the line. Can ghosts do that?
00:54:22
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Who knows? That's a bit freaky. Oh, we haven't had anyone tell us what this drum break is.
00:54:37
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And we did feature that on a Johnny Domino song and we asked in the podcast last week. So going to keep asking until somebody tells us what it is. But nobody, nobody. Not a single sausage has come back Seriously? Very disappointing.
00:54:49
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I think we've got some quite passive listeners here. We need help. Certainly we need help. We do need help. and So yes, if you've got any opinion where that drum break came from.
00:54:59
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And I've got another question for you. Are you the sort of person who has a favourite film? And if so, what is it?
Favorite Films Discussion
00:55:04
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Oh, I am not the sort of person who has a favourite film. um But if I had to say one, I would probably say the film that I went to see on my 13th birthday, which was Back to the Future. Because I think it is a perfect film. Solid answer.
00:55:27
Speaker
Thank you. Okay, we'll be back again with another episode of the This Our Johnny Domino podcast soon. But if you'd like to do us a solid favour, please do share your liking of this podcast with at least one other other person, because that would be really nice and it's a good way of promoting it, because we don't really promote ourselves in any other way. So if you can do that, bit word of mouth would be amazing.
00:55:54
Speaker
If you want to get in touch about the drum break or anything else or send us some music, please do. And we hope that you have a good month and we'll see you in a few weeks.
00:56:08
Speaker
Thank very much. Please do like and subscribe to our podcast and recommend it to someone who you think might like listening to all this kind of weird shit. Send us some of your old music and enter the eternal halls of the four-track gods.
00:56:23
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But I feel a whole lot better when you're gone