I’m Not 'In' Anymore

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They say that time is a great healer, but sometimes discovering evidence of past attitudes and opinions in recordings made 30 years ago can be painful!

Listen as Giles and Steve 'figure it out' and come up with further revisionist histories of their lo-fi recording career. This week the brothers rediscover songs ranging from acoustic 'punk' to straight-up indie pop - but which song will make it onto the purely theoretical 'best of' compilation tape?   

Also including:

• Spondon and Wollaton comparison
• Recording in a farm kitchen 
• Identity crisis sparked by arsey song
• Sarah Records debauchery     

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.

Watch the video for 'Song for a Future Generation' by The B-52s. 

Listen to 'You Should All Be Murdered' by Another Sunny Day.

Listen to 'Emma's House' by The Field Mice.

Bring A Friend

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 It’s the 30-year anniversary of our adoption of the name Johnny Domino, so to mark the occasion Steve heads to Ilkeston to record his part of this episode in the very room where it all started all those years ago.

Just to completely dispel any possible sense of jeopardy over the song choice for the "Best of" mix tape, the first track today sets out our Lo-Fi agenda right from the get-go. The second painfully destroys any possible conception that this podcast is ‘self-congratulatory’. The third track gets on the mix tape.

Also including:

• A miniature man playing a tiny guitar at high speed
• The sound of Steve developing a stomach ulcer whilst listening to a song
• The most ridiculous chorus ever
• Us blasting off into the Galaxie (500) 

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.

Listen to "No Nico, No Cale", a Spotify playlist of late-period Velvet Underground songs curated by us

Watch Randy Newman’s video for “I Love LA”

You Call It Art...

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Did we actually record this episode? Or was it perhaps made by an AI? You'll have to give it a listen and see what you think.

If you do, you'll find us in our usual mode, listening to our old tunes and rambling on about Lo-Fi influences, 70s Kung Fu, and Rave culture. 

The tracks are varied, but will any of them have what it takes to make it onto the 'Best of Johnny Domino' mixtape?    

Also including:

• Twats Garden in revival-denied shocker
• Sonic Youth - questionable slacker role models? 
• Drunken fighting and hip-hop folk.
• Woody Guthrie's trip to the 24-hour garage.

Also - EXCITING NEWS! Our first newly recorded track in almost 20 years is featured on the Artists Against Success compilation 'All Goals Achieved' which was released on 31st July 2023!

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, several versions of MJ Hibbett, as well as us.

Watch Sonic Youth on The South Bank Show (1989)

Watch the final showdown from the movie Drunken Master 

Watch some very disorientating footage of Orbit in Morley from 1992 

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 

Watch a clip from the Woody Allen film, Sleeper

 

Read Sunny Prestatyn by Philip Larkin

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.

Visit Tom Cox

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

Visit Tom Cox

Watch the Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail

Running Out Of Paint

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More half-recalled memories of 4-track home recordings, as Giles and Steve listen to songs that they wrote many years ago to see what they think about them.

Do I need to say that this episode might include some spoilers? If you haven't seen a particular film that is over 30 years old? 

This episode features Sunday-morning philosophy and references to Peter Skellern, Richard Stilgoe and Jake Thackray. Come on, kids! Join us!

A full episode transcript is available at Musixmatch.  

Also including:

• The middle ground between turgid and peppy - turgish?
• A 60-second song
• Preemptive dismissal 
• Pro sounds! And plaid shirts
• The cycle of the artistic process
• Working within limitations
• The life of the mind
• An audio shower
• Learn the guitar - play in a day the Steve Domino way

Transcription for this episode can be found on Musixmatch

Watch a scene from Barton Fink

50 Quid A Week To Go Without Girls

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Giles and Steve are once again taking time out from their busy adult lives to talk about three songs that very few people have ever heard.

The prize? A coveted place on an imaginary compilation tape.

The point? We'll get back to you on that one.

A full episode transcript is available at Musixmatch.  

Including:

• Unconscious stealing
• Derby underground legends and a bakery
• A problem with monkeys?
• The end of the podcast
• Accidental songwriting and farting around
• Lo-fi philosophy
• Government schemes
• Walking the dog
• The early 90s indie record-o-sphere

Transcription for this episode can be found on Musixmatch