Sparks

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The constantly changing pop-rock duo Sparks tell Colin Murray about being persuaded that This Town Ain’t Big Enough For the Both Of Us could be a hit, influencing the likes of New Order and Erasure, seeing Adam Driver interpret the character they wrote, and seeing their lives on screen in the new Edgar Wright film. Plus how with 25 albums they are still not complacent. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday, 10.30pm to 1am – or available whenever you want via the BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.5	I'm Sasha Johansson, I'm an Assistant Commissioner for the BBC and I work on making podcasts.
0:11.1	My real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest
0:16.9	stars who can really bring those stories to life.
0:20.1	I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final
0:26.0	edit.
0:27.0	There's nothing like it.
0:28.0	What makes BBC podcast special is that we're working for you, so whatever we commission
0:32.6	has to reflect the things that you care about and love, wherever you are in the UK.
0:37.0	So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover.
0:40.6	Have a listen on BBC Sounds.
0:42.1	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:50.1	Welcome to a very special Midnight, meets thank you so much for downloading this one.
0:55.3	It's with one of the most inspiring, mystifying, prolific, creative, baffling, eccentric, wonderful
1:00.4	bands in the planet.
1:01.6	I say a band, it's more an artistic force, a balance of musical and visual.
1:07.5	So often ahead of their time, never commercially successful for long enough to be considered
1:11.6	mainstream.
1:13.0	Yet decades and decades later, in their seven days, they continue to thrill and innovate
1:18.2	and push the envelope and pack venues.
1:21.0	Parks have just released a film, The Sparks Brothers, which you could say in it.
1:25.1	We probably learn more over two and a bit ours about them personally than we ever had before,
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