Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Ahead of their 50th anniversary tour, Squeeze members Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook chat to Colin Murray about their intense tour schedule, how they’ve improved their craft with time, their unlikely influences, the re-defining of ‘hit’ tracks, and what they think of Brit Pop. The pair also get into their most surreal moments and biggest mistakes of the last 50 years, and their favourite acts to support on tour, including Bon Jovi, REM and U2, plus performing with Dave Grohl and Elton John.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.
0:04.7	Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests.
0:08.8	Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook.
0:11.2	Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.
0:15.0	It's in the hands of the creator.
0:16.7	It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.
0:20.7	If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes,
0:24.6	you're doing the wrong thing.
0:26.0	Julie, at your service, listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:39.8	Hello and welcome to Midnight Meats and our long form interview.
0:44.8	A podcast which has been part of Wheatnight on BBC Radio 5 Live for years.
0:50.4	Hence so many long form interviews in this podcast feed.
0:54.0	But alas, this is the last one because I'm moving off weeknights and five life
0:58.0	and on to a very special Sunday morning show and also popping up on Friday afternoons.
1:04.3	So this will be the last midnight meets in this podcast feed and what a way to go out.
1:09.2	Oh my goodness, it's squeeze, you know, then imagine this, imagine celebrating your 50 years together, 5-0, well that's how long
1:16.9	the band have sort of been together, sabbaticals included, and they just announced the big
1:21.9	UK-wide 50th anniversary anniversary tour so it was an
1:24.9	absolute pleasure to sit down not just with Chris Difford but also with Glenn
1:29.4	Tilbrick the two founding members if you like of Squeeze. It's a really full proper chat really enjoyable
1:36.3	so hope you like this midnight meets. See if I can swim back it to the shore. Noons in the house.
1:43.0	Everyone is out on the electron and can pass it down.
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