S1E25: Tim Burgess

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week on the show, Guy and Gary talk to a lockdown hero. Tim Burgess has been doing his bit to keep the music alive during the last 12 months with his joyous Twitter Listening Parties. We discuss those, securing Paul McCartney to take part, recording during a global pandemic and get the lowdown on fronting The Charlatans.

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0:00.0	Hi Gary, hey Guy, how are you? I'm good. So we've got a bona fide national treasure this week.
0:06.0	We have, we have. He's become a real superhero of the lockdown period, hasn't he?
0:11.0	And maybe when he first started doing his Tim's Twitter listening party on
0:15.9	Twitter, just over a year ago, we thought, well, this is, how's he going to make it last 12 weeks
0:21.3	or whatever Boris was telling us we had.
0:23.6	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
0:25.6	And now we're now 17 years later.
0:28.0	But he's had 600 and something Tim's Twitter listening party events and the world is all listening and tweeting.
0:37.0	Yeah, we are indeed. So let's get him on.
0:39.5	Welcome to the Rock on Tose.
0:41.5	Okay guys, I'm ready.
0:44.0	That's a big tune for sure.
0:46.0	I actually wrote that originally for Tina Turner.
0:48.0	Of course I had gone and found Joni Mitchell down in Florida and brought her back.
0:52.0	What people forget about Bowie is that he was such a kind man.
0:56.2	Remember me?
0:57.4	I'm in a band now.
0:58.8	It's called Roxy Music.
1:00.1	You know this thing about the 10,000 hours of experience?
1:03.0	Oh yeah, you get good at something.
1:05.0	When we recorded Arnold Lane, we've done about 50 hours.
1:08.0	The Rock On Tours Podcast with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt.
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