Yeah!

Looking forward to the Live Aid episode. I remember it so clearly. I think it's one of those days like the death of JFK or the moon landing that is a landmark in people's memories. On a hot Saturday 14 year old me would be out playing with my friends but that day we all stayed in watching it on TV

Trickle down economics in action...

YouTube video by 80s New Wave Music Duran Duran: The Album That Started It All

@bangpodcast.bsky.social I just found a source for the 'band to dance to when the bomb drops' quote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPdu... it's in the first minute or so

Bloody hell Jim. Good luck to you - there's a legion of listeners out here cheering you on

🤣 I remember it from an old fanzine (admittedly from over 40 years ago) Maybe they both said it...?

Great episode again. I'm a card carrying Duranie...never thought of Planet Earth as a nuclear song but you may have convinced me...
Also, in 1981 or 82 Simon Le Bon said 'we want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops'.
Worth a tea towel surely!?!

@hjdoom.bsky.social great to see another series of Popular Antiquarian starting - very funny and entertaining first episode

Presumably the same Robert Arthur who wrote the original Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators books...

@bangpodcast.bsky.social Big singles that didn't appear on an album: Is There Something I Should Know? Duran Duran no.1 1983 - of course with the line 'don't say you're easy on me, you're about as easy as a nuclear war'!

Also, capitalism has failed many people (of course) and left some desperate people with no hope beyond magical thinking

The main trend is towards progressive and liberal - this is a reaction to that from those left behind, used by cynical opportunists

Looks amazing

Wake up Dad, it's my birthday! Happy 20th birthday Martha

Does that mean you'll fight them on the Beeches?

@bangpodcast.bsky.social Just caught up with the latest episode - best yet! Breaking Glass is a favourite of mine - there's another more explicit nuclear track on the album - Who Needs It - well worth a listen

Carry On Up the Conclave

Success is secondary to just doing it - that in itself can be hard enough sometimes. Good luck James, hope things brighten up for you

There's a fantasy expansion for G&G - Fayre Winds and Foul Tides (also includes ancient galleys)

Reminds me of Michealangelo's Creation of Adam but with, you know, science instead of magic..

Or Dungeons and Dragons when they mean Role-playing

Ah, I tweeted while listening and you just mentioned Think Again!

Ah man - Billy Bragg! I was there in 2010 in Barking at the Hope Not Hate anti-fascist leaflet event! Met him a few times too - a really genuine bloke.
Too late for the pod (1999 I think) but his song Think Again is a brilliant nuclear war song...

Blade Runner meets van Gogh. This is class

This is an amazingly creepy podcast series. Ghost story, psychogeography, weird fiction...all of that. Spine tingling - check it out if you like that sort of thing

Very much looking forward to this!

I found some old 20mm plastic cowboys by Revell laying around in a draw; must have had them for 30 years. Had great fun painting them and really pleased with how they came out. Contrasts and Speed Paints

Suggestion: At one of the Dahn Sarf events I run Robin of Sherwood in one session and you run TMNT in the other...

I'd play that...

How fucking dare they? I mean the old Palladium system was unplayably complex so a new version of TMNT is really appealing