When Good Neighbours Become Good Friends

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This week the brothers Woodward find a more upbeat and 'danceable' selection of tunes from their mountain of old four-track recordings. The question is, will the good vibes evaporate when Steve calls Giles' keyboard part 'moronic'?  

Also including:

• Johnny Miller's bass technique
• More predictions of the future
• Excessive drum talk
• Four-track maximalism
• Blessington Carriage field recording
• An open invitation to Jonathan Richman

Also - EXCITING NEWS! Our first newly recorded track in almost 20 years is featured on the Artists Against Success compilation 'All Goals Achieved' which is released on 31st July!

You can download it via Bandcamp and it's on streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple etc) too. Featuring 25 songs, most of which are exclusive to the compilation, with every band that AAS has ever worked with represented. Including The Cuban Boys, White Town, The Fighting Cocks, Rodney Cromwell and several versions of MJ Hibbett as well as us.

Music extract used for illustrative/review purposes: Gun Street Girl, Rain Dogs, Tom Waits (1985) - visit Tom Waits 

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Bonus - Tom Cox: "The Music Industry is Absurd"

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In this bonus episode, our friend Tom Cox tells his side of the story of (possibly) our closest possible brush with indie-music-level fame.

Interestingly, Tom's is a completely different tale, featuring Steve Lamacq and the scourge of all bespectacled musical brothers everywhere.

If you missed our version of this story, listen here.

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A Lickle Bag ‘a Grass

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It’s "obscure to the point of totally ignored" music time again folks! In this episode, Stephen and Giles sway tentatively between writing a song people liked, to trying to make devastatingly moving art, to just having a laugh with our mates.

Which approach to making music will stand up to the test of time?

A full episode transcript is available at Musixmatch.  

Also including:

• Achieving true happiness with/without a bass
• The Delgados look for us
• A musical cul de sac
• Jimmy Jewel vs Einstein

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