Twirly Curls Stephen Doll

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Dear listener, we hope you enjoy this overdue, jam-packed feast of Domino goodness. It's full to the brim with opinionated yammering about the music we love, including Beck, Take That, and many others.

Featuring songs by us, Marc-O, and Cable, as well as the usual adverts, poetry, and abuse.

Key listening points include…

• Giles is still a weirdo
• Funeral folk music
• Ted Rodgers style lyric analysis
• Chip shop orders

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Drop That Mary Chain

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"Well, son, a funny thing about regret is that it’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t." - Gibby Haynes (b. 1957)

No regrets here as we stumble into the new year with an episode featuring part two of the unfathomable third volume of The Very Best of This Are Johnny Domino, along with much Jesus and the Mary Chain content and a therapeutic song from friend of the show Simon G. Richardson.

Also including…

• Butthole memories
• 1987 vibes
• A heartbreaking "Our Tune"
• New Music recommendations

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Winner's Sash

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It's the most wonderful time of the year and the Domino boys are feeling positively festive after receiving good tidings about their musical efforts! 

Featuring part one of the - inexplicable - third volume of The Very Best of This Are Johnny Domino. As well as tunes by Cato and Frankie Machine.

Also…

• Pixies!
• Mary Chain!
• Christmas!

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Dystopian Dominoes

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The world may feel dark, cold and dystopian, but the Domino boys are back again to spread a little off-kilter joy into your life.

Join them as they…

• Throw off their mental chains
• Swear unnecessarily
• Make unreliable reviews of some things
• Have a bit of a laugh

Includes music by The Deskimoes and Dusty 4 Track as well as some stuff wot we made.

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The Barlow Defence

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Featuring a scary clown, a sexy Six-Music Dad, and critiques of toxic masculinity in lyrics. 

It's definitely the sort of thing you'll like, if you like this sort of thing!

Consider, if you will…

• Reactions to Beefheart!
• Steve's new music choices!
• Lowbrow opinions about superheroes!
• The life of Joel!

Includes music by I Am Wilbraham, Dr Coca-Cola McDonalds, and MJ Hibbett as well as selected juvenilia by us.

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Born To Smile

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Good times and good vibes with brothers Giles and Steve.

Listen in open-mouthed wonder as they…

• Listen to happy songs about terrible things
• Fail to win the monthly PRF Tribute Series (again)
• Experience drummer envy
• Wonder what Californians have for tea?

Featuring music by Boyscout, Hench, and Tricycle Popstar. Plus poetry, reviews, and health updates. What more could you ever want from a wilfully niche music podcast?

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Black Majic Plastik

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Watch out, Giles is definitely 'on one' in today's episode, and poor old Steve does an excellent job of riding this particular train to Domino town!

Listen and find out our thoughts on The Fall and Nick Cave, and how Giles has got over his 'Mr Brightside' aversion.

Featuring tunes by friends of the show Motorcade One and Simon from The Tidmoth Sheds.

As well as the usual mix of obscure gubbins from the JD’s back catalogue, recent noodlings, unpopular opinions about music, brotherly banter, and poems.

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More Snickers and More Delay

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An intriguing title for an episode, I think you’ll agree.

Featuring:

• Old music and "less old" music
• Talking about books and movies and stuff
• Poetry and brotherhood

The This Are Johnny Domino podcast - bringing the realness.

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The Udigowa Contract

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Giles and Steve discover more tracks from the past, but they don't look back in anger. In fact, some might say that they just roll with it and have a supersonic time.

There's an exclusive track from friend of the show Vom Vorton, who has a crush on a drummer. The Electric Sound of Joy ignores Steve's attempt to start a fight, PLUS a brand new Johnny Domino tune!

Featuring:

• Unpopular opinions about music and cinema
• Tidy minute keeping
• Vintage Australian drama
• 4 tracks! Camping! Poetry!

This Are Johnny Domino podcast - because maybe it's gonna be the one that saves you.

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Just A Bunch Of Monkeys

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Why kind of egotistical monsters would make forty-nine episodes of a podcast that is primarily about their own music?

What extreme levels of hubris and arrogance would said poseurs exhibit?

Well, Giles and Steve are here to answer those questions and many more in episode forty-nine of This Are Johnny Domino.

Featuring:

• Glastonbury TV
• Burton on Trent recording studio memories
• Our fan in Italy speaks
• Billy Idol month

Plus much, much more!

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The Herbal Stench Of Juvenile Rebellion

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In this episode, the Domino boys save money on therapy as they address issues from their musical past, present, and future.

Listen in wonder as they…

• Rediscover the "better, younger" band from the 90s Derby scene
• Enjoy a tribute to the Wedding Present
• Examine the evidence of a quiet Friday night in
• Evoke the industrial heritage of their locality

Countless wonders below...

  

My Hair’s Still Curly And My Eyes Are Still Blue

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This week, Steve and Giles are searching out more examples of interpolation and mash-ups from their lo-fi universe. There are sonic contributions from Frankie Machine and Tearzan, as well as two more long-lost tunes from the TAJD tape mountain. Sandwiching it all together are all the digressions and brotherly nonsense you could ever need...

I warn you now, this episode features, amongst other things:

• Expert Quonalysis
• "To all the girls Steve’s loved before" (Pt.1)
• Gig review(s)
• Radio(therapy)head
• Musical Theatre Appreciation Society

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