You’re Too Straight To Play The Spoons

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Bill Hicks once said "It's just a ride", and in this episode we take you on a spin 'round our teenage dreams, hurtling down the Cobain slopes into the hairpin bend of 90s bohemia.

Put more plainly, brothers Giles and Steve have more fun unearthing trash and treasure from their C90 mountain and it's all quite enjoyable.

A full episode transcript is available at Musixmatch.  

   

This one includes:

• Erotic matriarch has toasted posterior 
• 'Daddy, what did you do in the Grunge wars?' pt.1 
• Johnny Domino + drum and bass x performance art = ?   
• Word from the big J.C.

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Johnny Domino rocking the Mex Bar, Leeds, April 27, 1997

Watch 1991: The Year Punk Broke

Watch a video of Nirvana's show at Rock City, Nottingham

Get into Mik Artistik's Ego Trip and even go and see them on tour!

Watch the end of Taxi Driver (which CLEARLY TAKES PLACE IN TRAVIS BICKLE'S HEAD! - Steve)

With A Couple Of Guitars And A 4-Track Studio

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Maybe this one should be called "This Aren't Johnny Domino", as Giles and Steve head into the unexplored territory of earlier bands and alternative recording projects from their 'tape mountain'.  

Come along for the ride as the two brothers uncover more missed opportunities and blind alleys in the cause of showing you How Not To Succeed At Music.* 

(* While at the same time finding 'success' in a different sense and in other unexpected ways)

Also including:

• £25 a day recording studio
• Shoegaze shenanigans
• The best things about Ilkeston in the 1990s
• Remember Duckworth Square?
• Recording the TRUTH…   

Listen to the first new Johnny Domino song in almost 20 years. The Artists Against Success compilation "All Goals Achieved" is available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Music extract used for illustrative/review purposes: The No No Song, Goodnight Vienna, Ringo Starr (1974) - listen on Spotify 

Listen to The Millers on Bandcamp

Experience the 90s slacker ideal of Beck

Enjoy the Bon Jovi video Giles talks about (and imagine our version)