Andrew's blog, mainly about trying to buy a head for a mop and caring for juvenile chaffinches, is here
Music
Died. However Andrew also likes: The Fall, Wu Tang Clan, Tom Waits, The Temptations, David Bowie 1967-1980, 1995-present (also, The Pat Metheny Group collaboration This Is Not America in 1985). And Jon likes: Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison (circa 1986) and of course Strawberry Switchblade.
Movies
Andrew's faves are: Apocalypse Now, Winter Light, The Poseidon Adventure, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Broadway Danny Rose. Jon's faves are: Battleship Potemkin, Saw I, II and III and of course, the film reviews of Andrew Collins.
Television
Andrew mostly watches: The Wire, Celebrity Masterchef, Property Ladder and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Jon flicks his switch for: I Love the 1990s (or any other clip shows featuring Andrew Collins, even though Andrew Collins wasn't on that one), Pipkins, World in Action, Top 100 British Celebrity Mingers and The West Wing.
Books
The books that changed Jon's life were: The British Book of Hit Singles, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and er, his own - Status Quo and the Kangaroo (which got to 12 in the Amazon charts for one minute). Plus anything by Andrew Collins*. Meanwhile Andrew was deeply affected by What Went wrong?: Working People And The Ideals Of The Labour Movement by Jeremy Seabrook, Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burns, Beyond Belief by Emlyn Williams and The Food We Eat by Joanna Blythman.
* Andrew's books are Where Did It All Go Right?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and That's Me In The Corner. Jon's new book is Status Quo And The Kangeroo: And Other Rock Apocryphals.
Heroes
Jon's inspiration comes from: Jon Bon Jovi, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Andrew Collins. Whilst Andrew's touchstones are: Brian Haw, Zac Goldsmith, Billy Bragg, Alan Turing, David Simons and Ed Burns (creators of The Wire*) . . . and of course the creator of this show Will Saunders.
* See TV shows
About me: Andrew Collins Biog (written by Robin Ince)
ANDREW COLLINS spent his youth in England's hobnail boot capital, Northampton. He is one of Northampton's most famous authors, but not nearly as famous as Alan Moore who is their best one. Andrew dreams that the rights for his books will be bought by Hollywood and ruined as much as they ruined V for Vendetta and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In the 80s he mischievously wrote for the NME, often recommending bands who were rubbish so saps like me would waste my money buying things by The Milltown Brothers and Flowered Up. He often appears on TV shows remembering things. For some reason they often put him in extreme close up and it is terrifying due to his Dickensian chin. Morrissey left England because of him calling him, "worse than Goebbels" or something like that. And that is Andrew Collins.
Andrew's MySpace is here
Jon Holmes Biog (written by Andrew Collins)
JON HOLMES, who thinks it's really funny if you ask him if he's the porn actor John Holmes, wasn't so much born, as sacked from the womb. This proved to be the story of his life, much of which has taken place in Kent for some reason, although he gets up to London quite a lot and eats at Garfunkel's if he's feeling really cosmopolitan. Of the team, he's the Bon Jovi heavy metal one, and that means he's slippery when wet and that he gives love a bad name. He's also a cowboy; on a steel horse he rides. And he likes Marillion, but their lyrics aren't as easy to work into a biog, unless you are talking about that time when Jon did a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors. Obviously, it's neither big nor clever to measure out your career in sackings, but then Jon is neither big. He has been unfairly dismissed from nearly every radio station in the land, usually for doing what they employed him to do, which was push the envelope. Stu Francis could crush a grape; Jon Holmes can push an envelope. His most famous unfair dismissal was from a well-known commercial radio station where he lured small impressionable children to listen to commercial radio when they should have been doing something more useful with their young lives. He also got them to swear on the air. Jon emerged from that one something of a radio hero, carried aloft through the streets of radio by DJs too timid and cowed to get sacked. He filled the shoes of Iain Lee, but this unfortunate incident didn't stop him being invited to present the 11 O' Clock Show, which went out at 11 O' Clock and failed to get sacked from it. The programme was sacked instead. Jon famously turned down the chance to appear on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, not because he isn't a celebrity, but because he feared he would be sacked from the jungle rather than voted out.
Jon's MySpace is here
Club Noir, the world's biggest burlesque club, is making its London debut for a more intimate night at Bush Hall on 1st November. Hope to see you there! x
Well it's deader then the mouse that used to live in me hat! So, i think it's time for the old Hobster to go into hibernation. I've squirreled away a load of dog-ends and i'll drink enuff Brasso to see me through 'til spring. I'll come by again when the new season starts - if it ever does!! Allrabest Markie B.
This is Jim Hobo, off of his head on windolene and toilet duck in a cardboard box,under a flyover, sitting in my own filth, bleuch, bleuch, bleuch.
And so another fab series of TDTMD comes to a close, as usual loved the episode, loved 'the kids' reposte, Andrew winning in the battle of vinyl, even if he did cheat, and Jon marrying Jen. Thanks for the laughter and the irreverence but i ask you who is going to treat the music we all love with the ridicule it clearly deserves till your back on, who???
this has been MarkieB blah blah blah not! on the radio
I'm sure ther's a tin of Brasso on it's way to you as we type Jim.
Thanks for my new lofty position in your top friends too, i am honoured. I guess flattery, and being an obsessive radio comedy geek, really does work. :-)
Oh and The Music Died for me today when Grease the Musical hit the stage with its 2 wannabe winners, today headling a london show, tomorrow telling people they once headlined a London show while putting your shopping in a bag for you at Tescos.
agree with Jim as usual show was fantastic, being the geek that i am listened again to the show straight after, to catch the bits i miss while laughing and then always a couple more times during the week just because i can, rah! Congrats to you Jim on achieving such high status, but well deserved. Now back to my album covers, i know i need to pull my finger out and get it done. Oh and after listening to the news yesterday i feel another Pete *arrrggh* Doherty rant coming on. *takes deep breath, thnk peaceful thoughts, must hold it in* and the music died for me this week (so far) when i popped down to pirbright to see Amy Winehouse performing on a farm to discover i'd misinterpretted my friends conversation when they said 'the mad cows down there'
the day the music died this week when Madonna and Morrisey began a bitch fight. The quiffed angstmonger claimed he "wouldn't be suprised is she made the boy she adopted into a coat and wore him for 15 minutes, then threw it away"
