EP.267 - RICHARD AYOADE & FRANK BLACK (LIVE)
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
Adam Buxton
4.8 • 21.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
DR BUCKLES' FRANK BLACK SELECTION (SPOTIFY)
Adam talks with British writer, director, actor and comedian Richard Ayoade about Wes Anderson, the pain of returning an album, and their shared love of Pixies, before being joined on stage by Pixies frontman Frank Black, who sings a song from his classic solo album Teenager Of The Year and (in a conversation recorded before a Pixies show the previous evening) Frank tells Adam how he really feels about comedians making music and the trauma of his audition for David Fincher's film Zodiac.
Conversations recorded face-to-face in London on 18 & 19 March 2024
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell and Becca Bryers for additional editing, and the team from Crosstown Promotions, especially Richard Walsh, Annalisa Lembo, Ben Saunders, Phil Turner
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RELATED LINKS
FRANK BLACK AND RICHARD AYOADE - HEY (REHEARSAL) - 2024 (YOUTUBE)
FRANK BLACK AND RICHARD AYOADE - WHERE IS MY MIND (REHEARSAL) - 2024 (YOUTUBE)
FRANK BLACK & THE CATHOLICS - DOG GONE Directed by Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish - 1998 (YOUTUBE)
FRANK BLACK - TEENAGER OF THE YEAR 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - 2025 (4AD)
THE UNFINISHED HARAULD HUGHES (AUDIOBOOK) - 2025 (AUDIBLE)
Read by Richard Ayoade, Chris Morris, David Mitchell, Lydia Fox, Noel Fielding, Sally Hawkins, Stephen Merchant
PLEASE STOP USING AI TO MAKE WES ANDERSON PARODIES by Stuart Heritage - 2023 (GUARDIAN)
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| 0:00.0 | I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin. |
| 0:05.0 | Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening. |
| 0:10.0 | I took my microphone and found some human folk. |
| 0:14.0 | Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke. |
| 0:18.0 | My name is Adam Buxton |
| 0:21.9 | I'm a man |
| 0:23.6 | I want you to enjoy this |
| 0:26.9 | That's the plan |
| 0:27.8 | Hey |
| 0:31.5 | How are you doing podcasts? |
| 0:34.7 | It's Adam Buxton here |
| 0:35.9 | Just me today |
| 0:37.2 | Rosie is at home dozing in her dog basket. |
| 0:41.6 | In my wife's office. Her favorite place to be, other than by my side, of course. She's already |
| 0:48.6 | been for a walk today with my son Nat. And it's a cold day, so it seemed a bit mean to get her back out again. |
| 0:58.8 | Despite the coldness, it's a beautiful Norfolk afternoon on, as I speak, the last day of November, 2025. |
| 1:11.5 | The authentic sounds of the countryside. |
| 1:18.7 | Sky, incredibly clear and blue, |
| 1:21.6 | it's not a single cloud up there. |
| 1:23.7 | It's lovely and still and quiet. |
| 1:25.7 | It's a Sunday. |
| 1:28.7 | Only the sound of birds. |
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