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🗓️ 13 April 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Rockonteurs returns, and this week Guy and Gary are chatting to Dave Wakeling from The Beat.
Chatting about a life on the road, his influences, those politically orientated lyrics of the 1980s, being covered by Pete Townshend, supporting Bowie and an amazing tale about how he tried to get back his resignation letter from the band. He also talks about the latest releases from The Beat that are available for Record Store Day 2024, that includes some special edition vinyl. Find out more here: https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/17366
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions.
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0:00.0 | Hello Guy. How's your week? |
0:03.2 | It's actually really, really good. |
0:05.2 | We've been away. |
0:06.2 | You've been on holiday. I've been over in France and doing bits and bobs. |
0:11.8 | I went to see Paul Weller play at Sheppard Bush. Yes. |
0:17.0 | And go on. He was great. He was fantastic. You know what what you come away with is his voice is so good I mean you know a lot of people |
0:26.1 | get to his age and their voice tends to get worse you know I mean they can't reach those |
0:29.8 | notes but he's got more maturity. Yeah, very careful about saying that with the sort of people we talk to. |
0:35.0 | But it's true. |
0:37.0 | But also the songs, I mean just great songs, you know, I mean lots of them. |
0:42.0 | And that audience as well, you know I mean lots of them and and that audience as well you know have all grown up with him and I was thinking about you know how you know we were all all these old guys that you see out there that I see out there you know I was probably |
0:54.3 | standing with those old guys when they were teenagers like me because I remember seeing |
0:58.9 | the jam a few times but the one that sticks in my mind for some reason was when they play well I know why because it's when they played with the clash at the rainbow did you go to that? No I didn't know I went to see one of their secret gigs when they played as John's Children at the Marquis, which was amazing. |
1:18.7 | Was it John's Children Mark Boland's first group? |
1:22.0 | No, no, because obviously his dad was John, |
1:24.4 | wouldn't it? |
1:24.7 | Of course, was it good? |
1:27.1 | No, that was a great gig, Clash one |
1:31.0 | because it was the one with Clash, Buzzcocks, The Jam, Subway Sec, and it was 97 and it was at the Rainbow |
1:39.6 | and it was the one where there was meant to be a riot, it was part of a white riot tour. I think the Clash had been playing were meant to play with the Sex Pistols |
1:47.4 | But the Sex Pistols tour got banned so they then did their own tour called the White Riot Tour |
1:51.7 | But all like what I do what stuck in my mind is all the chairs got ripped up and thrown onto the stage during the clash. |
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