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The Day The Music Died's Interests
General
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
Hey, when the show comes back, next year, you really do need to do a feature entitled "The Christmas that music was almost brought back from the dead from christmas past and we really wish it hadn't happened even though someone had to stop the X-Factor winner from getting to number one"Or is that really far to long winded to be even the slightest bit funny in a kind of non-funny way?
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"
Thanks, i'm glad you enjoyed my masterpiece. It's the product of too much spare time and a warped imagination, you know. It might be me, but i'm sure a 'semi' has popped up on the show before (last series) and that was from yer man and his was beside the sea!!
I feel that my time on the front page is drawing closer as all the celebs are piling in on top of me and there's not much room left....arrrgghh!!
Is it Saturday yet?
James 'I am the Brasso King....i can drink anything' Hobo.
There was i out and about minding my own business when i came across the latest issue of Heat magazine/NME when i saw emblazoned across the cover, this....
"In this weeks issue of heat/NME magazine Robin Ince speaks out. 'The real reason behind the split thats set the topical music comedy radio show world ablaze, well mildly warm'
ALSO Jon Holmes on the beach in Lilliput, we've got the bikini shots.
AND Finally the secret pictures of Andrew Collins semi.....only to be seen here!"
Mind you i didn't buy it, i wouldn't to increase the sales of this magazine as its for the KIDS and we all know now about them, damn them.
I can't believe it, the news has just shocked me, i'm overwhelmed with grief, there was i thinking we'd got rid of McFly but no they're still around. Also some sceptics would say the Spice Girls are only making a comeback due to the millions and millions of pounds they can leach off the paying public before clearing off to live in tax havens but i'm not a fool i now they are only coming back due to the demand of their faithful fans. Oh yes it has nothing to do with riches at all.
Loving the new series, especially the interviews with the unsung heroes. Oh and the album covers brilliant, loved Jim Hobo's. Keep up the good work.
Ah, Cillit Bang, there is surely no sweeter drink. The mild burning sensation on ones lips as you take the first chug on a newly opened bottle to the gagging bitter after taste, streaming eyes and partial body numbness - pure genius. I never knew "she" drank the stuff - i'll be round her bins sharpish! You know, there is nothing more femenine than a woman who enjoys and can keep down all manner of household cleaning products. Anyhoo, on with the show. What can i say, the news about McFly is tragic - i'm still in shock. Thanks for the mention on the show, i've passed on your comments on to the others and they are tickled pink, well a more sort of blotchy red, really. None of them can remember posing for the picture as Tarquin - the smiling one -came into some money - he won a Bum Fight against some old gadgie with the shakes and a club foot - so we all got a little merry on some bottles of vintage Jif! Now that really open's the sluices at both ends and no mistake and getting yer brains beaten in with a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick would be luxury compared to the hangover that stuff gives you!!
Classic show as always, i listened to it twice it was that good. I even went a voted for it as best comedy thingmy. Oh, and enjoy my other album covers if i can be bothered to send any more in.
It's Summer in the city, and you'll be looking so pretty if you join us this Saturday night, 4th August, upstairs @Thekla Social in Bristol, 11pm-3am....
...from ABC to ELO, Adam Ant to the Beatles, Boston to Chicago, the Carpenters to Men At Work, 5th Dimension to Level 42, Mungo Jerry to Jerry Lee Lewis, Dolly Parton to the Dolly Mixtures, Prince to Queen and many many more.
Free entry before 10pm but we start at 11pm. £5 after 10pm, £6 after midnight. See you there, alright? Not 'arf pop pickers!
