Simon Price - The Thin White Duke (Part 2)
The Moon Under Water
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4.8 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
*This is part 2 of Simon Price’s episode. Though you are free to listen in whichever order you so desire we really do recommend listening to part 1 first or things might be slightly confusing*
'Libraries gave us power' is one of the most iconic lines sang by the Manic Street Preachers, but did you know that the line originally went 'The Moon Under Water gave us pints'? Well, we know it to be true because that's what this week's guest told us (and he's bound to know); it's music journalist and author Simon Price!
Simon is an expert on pretty much everything to do with music, and his biography on the Manics entitled Everything was at one point the fastest selling rock book of all time. However, the best thing about Simon is his love for pubs. He's a seasoned veteran of the UK pub scene, and there's no doubt that his very own 'Pub of the Mind' will be one for the ages.
Want to hear an extended version of this episode, gain access to our bonus podcast ‘Behind The Cellar Door’ and support the upkeep of the pub? If so, head to moonunderpod.com and sign up to our Patreon!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | Oh |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Welcome back everyone to the moon underwater, recently refurbished and featuring Simon Price music journalist, Manick Street Preachers expert. |
| 0:35.7 | And Simon, have you, for those of you who don't know |
| 0:38.7 | because obviously this is an audio murmuration |
| 0:42.3 | Simon has very distinctive hair, he has two spikes of hair |
| 0:45.6 | going up above each ear and usually they've seen them black or red |
| 0:50.1 | but have you refurbished them as blue? Are they blue at the moment? |
| 0:53.6 | It's kind of a violet,, yeah, at the moment. |
| 0:57.1 | They remind me of when I used to have a mohican and I would dye, |
| 0:59.9 | it was sort of bleached and I would dye it with temporary dye. |
| 1:03.0 | But the best bit was like two washes in when the temporary purple dye |
| 1:06.8 | would turn into almost like a sort of sunset of blue and green and purple. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah, it's quite nice. That sort of accidental fade. Yeah, that is happening right now. |
| 1:15.5 | I think what happened was during lockdown, it was really hard to get hold of any hair dye. |
| 1:19.2 | So I just jumped on eBay when I saw a big box of purple directions. |
| 1:24.8 | And now I've got it. I'm too much of a skinflint to throw it away I've just got to keep |
| 1:28.3 | using it so I'm I kind of like Doctor Who's Tardis where you know it was never meant to be a phone |
| 1:33.2 | box forever it just I think there are budgetary reasons why they ended up just sticking with that |
| 1:38.1 | that's great it's meant to change all the time I have got very fond memories of just there's a few |
| 1:42.9 | gigs I went to where you look out across the crowd |
| 1:46.0 | and you see your devil horns and you think, yes, |
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