Fifty Years of Fun

Yes, it's been a long while! Remember when fanzines would come out a year late? Well here we are. If you've been wondering what happened, we have NOT retired. We just got held up on a few episodes and then took a break! While we get back on track, we're posting a Patreon-only episode, from a release on Joe Foster's Creation-adjacent Kaleidoscope Sound label. In the future we plan on doing more non-Creation releases here and we're going to test out doing our regular releases out of order to keep things going smoothly. As always, special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

It’s been a VERYYYYYYY long wait, but we swear this one is worth it. Your humbled hosts are back from the dead with our first repeat guest, with an incredibly fun interview, in what we believe to be our most entertaining episode!  Links: Destroys the Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhsnRWQqzY8 Toy Dolls video” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7tPikH0UA Stuff we talk about: A Witness John Robb Membranes The Legend! Jesus & Mary Chain NME Alan McGee My Bloody Valentine Byron Coley Gerard Cosloy Conflict Fanzine Forced Exposure Birthday Party Ramones Patrik Fitzgerald X-Men Maximum Rock n Roll Red Guitars Marimba Jive Depeche Mode New Model Army Black Lace Chameleons The Dickies Agadoo Toy Dolls B-52s Cramps Alive in the Living Room Joe Foster Three Johns Mekons The Smiths Morrissey ** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** It’s a huge one!! Maybe the first CLASSIC single on Creation, and boy are we excited about it. It’s worth the wait! Did you doubt us? I bet you did! Moves, technical problems, floods! Shit happens, as one says. At the end of the episode, you’ll hear how Pete Astor’s flat flooded and we had to put off the interview (but it’s mainly our fault!) And, we apologize but Matt’s mic is fucked up in the first segment. But we did it! 80s glam metal tragedies get coverage! Links: The Loft: All songs available on the recent Ghost Trains & Country Lanes compilation: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-loft-ghost-trains-country-lanes-studio-stage-and-sessions-1984-2015-2cd/ Richard Hell “Time”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNDJOItyqg Push with Seal and Oisin from The Weather Prophets “Traffic”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSN0TTvZSTE Damp Jungle “Picture of a Girl”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_sehoQZots Devon Irons & Doctor Alimantado “Vampire”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7gtK3LyLUE Heidi Berry “Firefly”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-g1gwo_4OI —————————————————— Stuff that comes up: Creation Records Roky Erikson Farmer’s Boys Andrew Weatherall The Jam Eric Clapton Biff Bang Pow! Pacific Heidi Berry Oasis Dave Morgan Funkapolitan The Canaries DC Gore The Attendant Lou Reed 4AD The Out Club John F.C. Turner Vivian Kubrick Tom Verlaine The Fuck Pigs Alan Lomax The Stooges The Damned Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks Hanoi Rocks Lee Perry Devon Irons Doctor Alimantado The Subterraneans Nick Kent Razzle The Sex Pistols The Clash David Westlake The Servants Wild Summer, Wow! The Living Room The Beatles Pop Group Otis Redding Curtis Mayfield Scritti Politti The Loft Weather Prophets Leonard Cohen Go-Betweens The Anal Dwarves Push Featuring Seal Orange Juice Danny Kelly Seal Primal Scream Bobby Gillespie Alan McGee Richard Hell Television Personalities Peter Astor A-Ha Joe Foster Neo Boys 23 Skidoo Rolling Stones “Aftermath” Bob Dylan “Love and Theft”] Stimulin Galliano ——————————————————————— ** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Holy shit we are back once again. We have careers, ok?? It's our double issue! This ep we are trying MULTIPLE new things. We have someone chatting with us in the first half (Simon Down’s number is on the back of this single so we had to talk to him!), and THEN we have TWO band members at the same time which is a new one for us. This really got our podcast editing knuckles a-crackin’! This really is the ultimate ep for any Minks fans out there—we get DEEP and DIRTY into some seriously nerdy shit. You will love it. We are proud of this one and it’s seriously fun if you like the deep details. Links: Jasmine Minks “Where the Traffic Goes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxG9I4hmrtw Jasmine Minks “Mr. Magic”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoHv4meA0Bw Jasmine Minks’ bandcamp: https://thejasmineminks.bandcamp.com/ ——— Stuff that comes up: Alan McGee Pink Label Creation Records The Jasmine Minks Joe Foster Television Personalities That Petrol Emotion June Brides Phil Wilson McCarthy The Undertones Dick Green Patrik Fitzgerald The Legend Everett True Laughing Apple Biff! Bang! Pow! Jesus & Mary Chain Oasis Primal Scream Three Johns The Mekons The Nightingales The Ramones The Loft Zarjaz Tronics / Ziro Baby Rough Trade Link Wray The Third Man Orson Welles Momus El Records Ed Down Jah Wobble Public Image Limited The Byrds We The People The Buzzcocks The Fall The Jam Jaco Pastorius Japan Beach Boys The Doors Felt Bodines House of Love ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Back again!! We took a winter break, but we are back with a special tribute to the recently passed frontman of The Jazz Butcher.  We start off talking about Scott’s history with the ‘Butcher, and then we chat with longtime Butcher supporter, David Barker. ————————————————————————— Links: Link to Scott’s Jazz Butcher mix: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59744631Jazz Butcher website: http://jazzbutcher.com/ Jazz Butcher “Big Saturday”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVgd7oIHuEI Jazz Butcher: “Southern Mark Smith” (single version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3J3cBBn38 The 90s prank call every U.S. band member who toured in the 90s has heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAeqfk5m0Y8 ————————————————————————— Stuff that comes up: Jazz Butcher John Cale Elliot Sharp Pacific Lemon Kittens Danielle Dax The Tonix Woodentops Jacobites NRBQ Mekons Rolo McGinty John Cale English Subtitles Max Eider Pat Fish Cherry Red Glass Records Elliot Sharp In Embrace Bron Area Rip Rig & Panic Antena Everything But the Girl Bauhaus Religious Overdose David J Kevin Ayers Syd Barett Velvet Underground Lou Reed John Rivers Kevin Askins Swell Maps Felt Alan McGee Roadrunner Jonathon Richman Mark E. Smith Brix Smith The Fall KLF Camper Van Beethoven Spacemen 3 Sisters of Mercy Andrew Eldritch Big Time Records Go-Betweens Alex Chilton Redd Kross Dream Syndicate Love & Rockets REM Green On Red Tom Waits Paperhouse Teenage Fanclub The Pastels Rain Parade Oasis ———————————————————————— ** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** We’re back with a bang! One of the absolute best early Creation singles gets a detailed excavation by your hosts. Matt goes to great lengths to not say “great.” Our guest guides us through the early Living Room days and tells us some recording tidbits. Don't slip up! Links: Songs: BBP - “TMBABL”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IebtIg8UZ4 BBP - “TCEM”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFtQFv_Y8I Rain Parade “Look Around”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eMIyM6u0wA Twelve Cubic Feet “Hello Howard”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWih7mjLoA&t=38s Jesse Garon “And if the Sky Should Fall”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N1jW_mqxcg Pop Will Eat Itself “Mesmerised”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCG8MOpO0A Dave’s Tour Diary which links back to his Facebook page: https://indiethroughthelookingglass.com/2020/09/26/creation-records-package-tour-europe-1984/ ————————————————————————— Stuff that comes up: Creation Records Alan McGee Jesus & Mary Chain Joe Foster Tony Fletcher Jasmine Minks Nightingales Go-Betweens Primal Scream Pop Will Eat Itself Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes Biff Bang Pow Twelve Cubic Feet Pastels My Bloody Valentine Joe Foster The Legend! The Rain Parade Paisley Underground —————————————————————————— ** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

Your friendly hosts explore the first of two X-Men singles on Creation, learning all about the garage trash & psychobilly scenes around early-mid ‘80s London. Guest Tim Hosking, bass player for the X-Men also helps us get to the bottom of the Fish Hildas mystery, and he lets us know how you can use a glass pie case to mic up chime bars. We learn a lot on this one! Links: Do the Ghost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hks-DXYK1A Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJPR5rr5kgQ The Fish Hildas “How I Itch to Stitch My Pitch”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCP-gfctt3E X-Men Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thexmenspiral ———————— Stuff that comes up: X-Men Creation Records Alan McGee Joe Foster garage trash psychobilly The Meteors The Cramps Clapham South Escalators Thee Headcoatees Thee Milkshakes The Sting-Rays The Prisoners Quickspace Th’ Faith Healers The Fish Hildas Ug & The Cavemen Flaming Stars Jesus & Mary Chain Big Beat Records Alec Palao ———————— ** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

The first of three fantastic Pastels singles for Creation brings us in contact with a true pillar of pop music, Stephen Pastel. Not only do we get into the details of the release of this single and the band’s history prior to Creation, we dip into the full span of the still-active band’s career. Listen for Stephen’s Alan McGee impersonation; we’re gathering a compilation of those for future release. The band’s early works are only spottily available on streaming services, but the band is currently in the process of reissuing various albums. Most of the band’s post-1990 catalog is available on streaming services through Domino Records. ———————— Links: Songs: “Something Going On”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FWayIxCGcY “Stay With Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r63N1phPO5E “Truck Train Tractor”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8AtJnYwEuI Pastels’ Links: Band page: thepastels.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/pastels_the ——————————— Stuff that comes up: Creation Records The Pastels Television Personalities Buba & The Shop Assistants The Paintings Orange Juice Fire Engines Teenage Fanclub My Bloody Valentine Alan McGee Bobby Gillespie Primal Scream Andrew Innes Loop Glass Records Joe Foster John Rivers The Loft Jesus & Mary Chain The Legend! Jerry Thackray Everett True Rough Trade Geoff Travis Richard Boone New Hormones Buzzcocks QQQ Magazine Strawberry Switchblade Rose McDowall The Roches Formica Tops This is Memorial Device (Book by David Keenan) ————————— ** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun ** Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

You can count on us to take a while but bring the goods! Just a purely incredible single, and frontman Jim even PLAYS THE A-SIDE for us!! We get to the bottom of the fretless bass mystery and we learn a lot more about the Aberdeen, Scotland-based ‘Minks, the first Creation band to come from outside the Communication Blur crowd. Stay tuned for three more Minks singles to come, all fucking CLASSICS. Links to the songs in question are included below, and we highly recommend the “Cut Me Deep: Anthology 1984 1984-2014” compilation on Cherry Red on 2CD and streaming services. ———————— Links: Songs: Jasmine Minks “Think”: https://youtu.be/Do7aRXQPKGc Jasmine Minks “Work for Nothing: https://youtu.be/ADzG6TO4s2Y Jasmine Minks “Nothing Can Stop Me”: https://youtu.be/zttghAZNgWk Minks Links: Minks’ Bandcamp: https://thejasmineminks.bandcamp.com/ Jim’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/behappydadda?lang=en Jasmine Minks Anthology: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/cut-me-deep-the-anthology-1984-2014/ ———————— Stuff that comes up: Byrds Wilf Smarties Alan McGee Orange Juice Television Echo & the Bunnymen Jasmine Minks Jim Shepherd Joe Foster Television Personalities Revolving Paint Dream Buzzcocks Primal Scream Biff Bang Pow Dave Musker Billy Fury Cliff Richard Jesus & Mary Chain ------------------------------------------------ Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.

We’re back!! Farfisa Dave is an incredible guest and such a good sport; we are so excited about this one! Dave was the keyboard/piano player on the TVP’s dark classic LP The Painted Word, as well as hired hand on basically all of the early Creation singles. Dave also did sound in Alan McGee’s early club, The Living Room, and he apparently was doing sound for the first Jesus & Mary Chain show in London. (And yes, the clanky sound you hear during the interview is his teacup hitting the saucer.) Links to the songs in question are included below, and we highly recommend you check out the Biff Bang Pow! compilations available on CD and on streaming services. —————————— LINKS: Songs: BBP! “Fifty Years of Fun” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpjZqKEhNXI BBP! “Then When I Scream”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWIKLZ_iNbI Jackie Edwards “Keep On Running”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdJGyf-iJE4 Spencer Davis Group “Keep On Running”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxHcSZBU38 Teenage Filmstars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJGl-LZF5U —————————— BBP & TVPs streaming links: BBP’s The Singles As and Bs: https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZvKQzPNI2k5ti1JGp4Gfd?si=AhiDXsT3TxmBfLc0kffsHw BBP’s Waterbomb (best of collection): https://open.spotify.com/album/7aseYjnUQdpUYAwxtoLf9c?si=WQ14W6xkTjusYdQXv0aiZA TVPs’ The Painted Word: https://open.spotify.com/album/5tHPUWkWOYLbwDArQB7X8U?si=lQIQIgmGTz601holul3L9w —————————— Infamous Euro tour photos: https://indiethroughthelookingglass.com/2020/09/26/creation-records-package-tour-europe-1984/ —————————— Stuff that comes up: Creation Records Laughing Apple Spencer Davis Group Jackie Edwards Dan Treacy Jowe Head Biff Bang Pow! The Living Room Television Personalities Revolving Paint Dream The Electric Prunes Alan McGee Joe Foster Fire Engines Orange Juice Slumberland Records Jesus and Mary Chain Jasmine Minks The Byrds Teenage Filmstars Ed Ball Andrew Innes Primal Scream The Doors The X-Men The Legend! Everett True Dick Green -------------------------------- Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for our theme music.