S10E1: The Blitz Club special with Boy George
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, we are back after the summer break and we head to the Design Museum in London. Opening in September is a fascinating exhibition that celebrates the iconic and influential Blitz - "the club that shaped the 80s". It was a hotbed of music, fashion, and culture in the late 70s and early 80s that helped influence the entire decade.
We meet up with Boy George to talk about the club, the scene it shaped and its lasting impact, that is still felt today.
The Design Museum exhibition on the Blitz Club opens on September 20th and runs until the spring of 2026.
Find out more at: www.designmuseum.org
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| 0:54.7 | So hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts from. Hello Gary. Hello, Guy. I just want to just talk about this because people are wondering what is this. Is this some sort of, you know, Bond-esque device or is it a new bum bag by special or something? Yeah, it is a new special. Yeah, Liam had one of these at Wembley the other night. |
| 0:58.6 | It does look like it should have a sort of rocket launcher in it. |
| 1:03.2 | For those who aren't watching, I've had a rotator cuff surgery on my arm. |
| 1:04.1 | So I've got this. |
| 1:10.4 | It does seem appropriate for today because I think it's the sort of thing that people would have worn to Blitz back in the day. |
| 1:12.5 | Yes, I'll let you have that, |
| 1:18.6 | but no. I mean, yeah, so you can't play bass for a bit. I can't play bass, no. I've actually had to cancel an album project I was going to do, which is really frustrating, not yours. No, it's lucky for |
| 1:26.3 | everyone else, though. Well, it is. Yes, I spoke to Zach Starkey the other day, and he said, oh, would you be able to play again? And I went, yes, he went, that's a shame. What have you been up to? Because this is our first day back, isn't it? Yeah, we've had the summer off. Yeah. September. September, yeah. |
| 1:41.6 | Well, I've just been embracing country life as I was, when we left off, if you remember, I was bell ringing. And since then, of course, that's got a, that's off for rest. But it's got worse. I've been paragliding. What? Yeah, I've had paragliding lessons. All sorts of stuff. Yeah, just being a country boy. |
| 1:42.7 | Fantastic. |
| 2:01.7 | So, and we are in... Yeah, I've had paragliding lessons. All sorts of stuff. Yeah, just being a country boy. |
| 2:06.8 | Fantastic. So we are in. We're not doing this on... Hang on, well, let's finish that first. So what have you been doing? |
| 2:10.1 | I've been on holiday and my family. So I went to the Lake District and I climbed Scarfield Pike, highest mountain in England, which I love doing. |
| 2:16.8 | Went down to the Silly Arles, a very favourite spot of mine in Cornwall. |
| 2:20.5 | You and Harold Wilson. Harold Wilson's buried there. I cycled. You go to his grave every year, don't you? That's actually why you do put flowers on it. You lay a Gannick smack on his grave. Yeah, he's sort of, he's buried in this churchyard and you know his grave because |
| 2:34.8 | his pipe is sticking up like a periscope. |
| 2:40.1 | Out of the soil. |
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