Jeffrey 2.8: The Devil Makes Three

In the last ever Jeffrey Music podcast, our heroes (John and Gordon, for clarity) head to London's Shepherd's Bush Empire to see dEUS on their Worst Case Scenario v In a Bar tour. Do not despair, the Jeffrey Podcast will relaunch as the Music Explorers Podcast with a tighter format and no website or social media, because that's too much of a faff. If you are already a subscriber, there is no need to do anything, the feed remains the same.

Jethro Tull's Seven Decades tour hit Madrid at the back end of 2024 and Jeffrey Music was there, or at least John was there ... so join us as we talk through the gig and complain about how uncomfortable the venue was. Click here to see the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website with links to all our podcasts and articles and whatnot.

Late 2024, John headed off to London to see one of the UK's finest four-piece art rock bands: Cud, supported by the amusing and eccentric John Mouse. In this episode John and Gordon discuss the gig and various tangential topics, including, but not limited to, the importance of being able to sit down sometimes. Here's the article on the website that has a bit more about the trip, as well as the gig: https://jeffreymusicrocks.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/the-cud-band-in-london/  

The fellas head off to a stormy Madrid and a rain-soaked poorly-located Halifax to see a favourite artist of theirs, the brilliant PJ Harvey! See here for the article on the website with a few photos from the Madrid gig.  

At the end of each Season of the popular Jeffrey Music Podcast, your hosts John and Gordon ask each other a series of pop trivia questions about the artists featured in the previous season: the Jeffrey Music Amusing Pop Quiz (or APQ for short). You will recall that after season one's enthralling episode, Our Gords is one-nil to the good, so it's all to play for! Click here to visit our JeffreyMusic.Rocks website page that includes all the questions.

At the end of each Season of the popular Jeffrey Music Podcast, your hosts John and Gordon ask each other a series of pop trivia questions about the artists featured in the previous season: the Jeffrey Music Amusing Pop Quiz (or APQ for short). Click here to visit our JeffreyMusic.Rocks website page that includes all the questions. The winner of the quiz receives one point in the overall Jeffrey Music's APQ score, or in the case of a draw each will receive a half-point. A system similar to the Ryder Cup in a deliberate attempt to produce an underwhelming and unimpressive overall score for quite a lot of time and effort.  

A reflective discussion on the second series of the podcast (nearly three years in the making!), in which we look at any new activity from podcast alumni (namely Jethro Tull, dEUS and Muse), talk a bit about Komeda (and Marcus Holmberg's band Woodlands) and hand out the Golden Jeffrey for best album, as well as a few other big awards. We also add continue where we left off three years ago by adding to the Jeffrey Podcast Jolly Party Playlist™ and creating a new one for Season Two. If you want to party like Jeffrey, click here for a link to the playlist on Spotify (same Season Two playlist Spotify or here on Deezer. Find out more here on our website: JeffreyMusic.Rocks!  

The music of Queen is possibly the most recognised music of any British band in history - obviously The Beatles are the most well-known, their story still fascinates us, but we reckon if you were to ask a random group of people to hum a few songs by any British band, Queen would emerge as the band having the most universally recognised tunes among the masses. The Queen Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer. The Queen page on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website is here.  

In this episode Gordon's love of Americana rears its head again and we explore the works of country-bluegrass-ragtime sorts The Devil Makes Three, the episode coinciding with Gords seeing them live in Nottingham (so he goes on a bit about that too). The The Devil Makes Three Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer. The The Devil Makes Three page on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website is here.

Suede bounded onto the pop scene in the early 90s with their unique brand of Smiths-Bowie glam pop-rock and we were hooked. From the first chords of the single Animal Nitrate, then their smash hit debut album (then the fastest-selling debut album in UK chart history) we were a couple of insatiable young Suede fans. It didn't last long, they soon lost Bernard Butler, their influential guitarist and main songwriter, but surprisingly that didn't seem to faze them ... they bounced back immediately with a cluster of top ten hits and a masterful pop album (Coming Up) that proved they didn't need the moody Butler to flourish ... but it didn't last long, they began to fall apart as alcohol, drugs, exhaustion and illness saw them stumbling and crashing, and eventually going their separate ways. A decade later they were back, and the post-hiatus mature sober Suede knocked out four albums over the following ten years, culminating in 2022's marvellous Autofiction. The podcast is part nostalgia as we remember those early albums, and part discovery as we explore the newer stuff. Do those early ones still stand up 30 years later? Do the new one cut the mustard and meet the sky-high expectations set by those early masterpieces? You'll need to listen to find out! (or just click here to see the ranking on the website if you can't be bothered). The Suede Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Suede page on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website is here.