Episode 21 - Deaf School: Clive Langer and Steve Allen
Sodajerker On Songwriting
Sodajerker
4.8 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2012
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Clive Langer and Steve Allen of cult Liverpool band Deaf School join Simon and Brian to talk about the writing of songs like 'What a Way to End it All', 'Taxi', 'Hi Jo Hi', '2nd Honeymoon', 'Knock Knock Knocking', 'Working Girls', 'I Wanna Be Your Boy' and 'Golden Showers'. Clive also talks about his work as a producer and the classic Robert Wyatt song 'Shipbuilding', which he wrote with Elvis Costello.
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| 0:00.0 | The A warm hearty welcome and a rib-crushing bear hug to you all on this the occasion of our 21st episode. |
| 0:24.8 | 21st a day. |
| 0:27.3 | 21st a day. |
| 0:28.3 | We've got the key to... |
| 0:30.3 | Oh forget it. |
| 0:31.3 | Brace yourselves people for this episode is distinctly |
| 0:33.5 | Liverpool, lien and flavor. Yes even more so than usual. As always Simon and |
| 0:38.1 | I, Scouse is born and bred are your hosts and we're coming to you once again |
| 0:41.5 | from our subterranean lair in South Liverpool. |
| 0:44.0 | I feel like a Ninja turtle. |
| 0:46.0 | But this time we also have as our guests the principal songwriters from one of |
| 0:50.1 | Liverpool's most celebrated and influential bands, The Brilliant Death School. |
| 0:54.4 | That's right, joining us today are Enrico Cadillac Jr. and Cliff Hanger, |
| 0:59.2 | also refer to them by their civilian names, Steve Allen and Clive Lange. |
| 1:03.4 | So we'll give you the load down on those two fine gentlemen in just a second. |
| 1:07.1 | But before we do that, just a quick reminder. |
| 1:09.4 | If you want to listen to other episodes of the podcast, we're at soderjerker. |
| 1:13.4 | You can get all of the episodes there for free you can also subscribe in iTunes and |
| 1:18.0 | we're also on Twitter and Facebook just add forward slash soderjerker to any of those of those URLs and you will come upon our |
| 1:24.9 | fine correspondence. |
| 1:26.2 | Beautiful done sir. Thank you. Okay so let's get on with the show. Our |
| 1:31.0 | introduction to the world of deaf school took place about 10 years ago I think |
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