u/TheFridayVinylClub

Hi everyone

We are a growing independent podcast called The Friday Vinyl Club focused on Music memories and Meaningful albums

This episode I sat down with my good friend Simon for a conversation that travels from a family radio shop in Greenford to Live Aid to Nick Cave and back to 1971 glam rock perfection.

T. Rex. “Electric Warrior”. The album that started everything for Simon.

Amongst other things we talk about:

Growing up with Mum’s radio and The Beatles before the family Radio Rentals shop in Greenford became a gateway to a whole world of music

Discovering Marc Bolan on Top of the Pops and running to buy Electric Warrior in 1971 - the moment glam rock changed everything

Nick Cave’s extraordinary cover of Cosmic Dancer from the Angel Headed Hipster tribute album

A wander into Electric Warrior, Tony Visconti’s lush production, the swagger of Jeepster, the blues of Lean Woman Blues and the bold artistic vision of Monolith and Rip-Off

You can listen wherever you find your podcasts or via the link below - it’s also fully timestamped so you can listen to all or part of the chat as you wish

Would love your feedback and thoughts!

Thanks

https://www.thefridayvinylclub.com

Hi Everyone

We are a small independent family podcast called The Friday Vinyl Club. Each episode is centred around peoples personal music memories and a meaningful album.

Our latest episode is out and wanted to share it here because I hope this community will get something out of it.

Our guest this week on The Friday Vinyl Club Podcast is Iain Fenwick, frontman and guitarist of Wounded Lovers, a band making sharp, cinematic guitar-driven music rooted entirely in the London experience.

He grew up near Heathrow in the 1970s, came of age in the tribal subculture landscape of that era , punks, skinheads, soul boys and found his way to songwriting through Dylan, Bowie and art school.

And through all of it, London Calling.

This isn’t a critical album review, it’s a warm conversation that showed Iain didn't discover this record from the outside. He was in that world.

London's venues, Hammersmith Palais, Brixton Academy, the Marquee on Wardour Street. Portobello Road on a Saturday. The energy of a city that felt like it was simultaneously falling apart and generating the most extraordinary music of the century.

During the chat we touch on:

The colossus “London Calling” and why the track has endured

Why the band deliberately blew apart every punk pigeonhole with this album and why that decision was genuinely brave in 1979

Penny Smith's photography and what it means that the iconic cover captured a real moment of human imperfection rather than a posed shot

**“**Wrong 'Em Boyo”, “Lost in the Supermarket”, “Guns of Brixton” , tracks that may not get enough conversation

**“**Train in Vain” as a closer and the strange story of how it ended up on the album at all

What the raw energy of The Clash taught Iain about not letting technical perfection get in the way of real emotion

He also talks about sleeping outside Wembley Stadium for the Rolling Stones, the psychological high and low of performing live, and the songwriting process behind Wounded Lovers' “West End Intoxica”, which is genuinely worth your time if you love guitar-driven music with something to say.

Full timestamps are in the shownotes if you want to jump primarily to The Clash chat but hopefully you will enjoy from the start

Links below and thanks!

Website: https://www.thefridayvinylclub.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Y4nsH68TFKJMo5CPYYudr?si=8cVuOLNMR6KEuXU0AYDl2g&utm_source=copy-link

Apple The Friday Vinyl Club: Music Memories and Album Stories

Youtube https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=B9RDqpcRUBk&si=e6kRT-HOTLlLs5nS

Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/4bae92b5-c1fd-40cb-ad3f-ad85c0ebb50f/the-friday-vinyl-club-podcast-–-albums-vinyl-records-personal-music-memories-and-stories

We have a number of signed albums in our collection, but this is perhaps my favourite - signed by Neil Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester - still can’t believe it’s just turned 40!

Anyone else love this band / have signed copies?