BONUS SOUNDS: The Tuts
James Acaster's Perfect Sounds
BBC
4.8 • 798 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Hayes-based three-piece The Tuts take James on a tour of their hometown including their rehearsal room, a local radio station and the venue for one of their early gigs.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | James Acaster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown. |
| 0:13.1 | I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could, |
| 0:17.3 | and as a result, I now own over 600 albums that came out in 2016 and I'm convinced |
| 0:23.2 | it's the greatest year for music of all time over on the main podcast I always have a guest on |
| 0:28.5 | every week I send them an album from 2016 and we sit down to talk about that album and this week |
| 0:33.6 | my guest was Susie Ruffle and we talked about the Tuts album, Update Your Brain. |
| 0:38.3 | If you haven't listened to that episode, that'll give you an introduction to the album. |
| 0:41.8 | You'll hear what it's about. |
| 0:42.8 | You'll hear some clips of the music. |
| 0:44.5 | And then this bonus episode, a special bonus episode, will make a lot more sense. |
| 0:49.8 | This is one of the first bonus episodes we recorded. |
| 0:52.5 | It was way back in 2019. |
| 0:55.1 | Myself and the perfect sounds crew headed over to Hayes where the Tuts are from |
| 0:59.2 | and were given a guided tour of Hayes by the Tucks themselves. |
| 1:03.3 | By Beverly, Harriet and Nadia. |
| 1:06.3 | And it was a privilege. |
| 1:07.7 | Was I nervous? |
| 1:08.8 | Yes, because I was meeting some of my heroes. |
| 1:12.0 | A band that I really love. So you really probably hear me throughout this podcast. You know, I'm a little bit self-conscious |
| 1:17.8 | for the whole thing. That's just the way it is. Are they self-conscious? Absolutely not. Have a |
| 1:23.0 | listen. They are the best hosts, the best guides you could ever hope for. |
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