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Ten years on, Jeremy Clyde is back. Chad Stuart left behind decades of unfinished Chad & Jeremy recordings. Jeremy and guitarist Jo Meacham have now finished them off, and the results are being crowdfunded as When All Is Said and Done. Jeremy calls it the album they always wanted to make and never got round to finishing.

Before any of that, Jeremy takes us back to 1960 and Central School of Speech and Drama, where he met Chad, and to Tina’s Bar in London, where John Barry heard them and took a chance on Yesterday’s Gone. He talks about the mic technique lesson that gave them their sound, handing the Tina’s Bar residency over to Peter and Gordon, watching Paul Simon play songs in his flat before anyone knew who he was, and Peter Asher introducing him to a young James Taylor. Jeremy also covers the late 60s shift into psychedelic material, his second career as a British TV actor, plus the nine albums of solo work he made with lyricist David Pierce, the Bottom Drawer Sessions.

Further information

When All Is Said and Done – Kickstarter (closes 25 September 2026)

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Devo co-founder Gerald V. Casale joins us for a career spanning conversation, starting with his new protest single “Just Do It” and moving through nearly every chapter of Devo’s story.

Casale explains his view on the current American administration and discusses the limits of music as a force for political change. From there the conversation moves through his collaboration with Czech act Die alten Maschinen, the songs taking shape for his forthcoming solo album Wetiko, and contributions from Steve Bartek and guitarist Steve Stevens.

Casale traces Devo’s story from the Kent State killings in 1970 through the founding principles of de-evolution, the band’s run of producers (Brian Eno, Ken Scott and Robert Margouleff), the writing of “Whip It” via Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, David Bowie’s fascination with the group, and Casale’s video work alongside Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. Casale is direct about where Devo lost its way too, naming Shout and the Fairlight CMI as the point of “Devo suicide,” before explaining how a 2004 Dell commercial brought the group back to life.

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Gerald V Casale’s new single “Just Do It” is out now

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Arthur Brown joins Jason Barnard, alongside his partner and collaborator Claire Waller, to talk through his new album Nature and a life spent chasing fire, water, air and earth through sound and theatre.

Arthur and Claire describe the return to North Yorkshire, eight miles from Arthur’s birthplace in Whitby, after a decade of travelling together. They walk through how Nature took shape: around 100 fires tested to find a usable rhythm, a river thirty yards from the front door recorded for its rush over rock, and small creatures of the earth captured and worked into the mix. The conversation moves through Arthur’s history: his friendship with Alice Cooper, evenings spent jamming with Jimi Hendrix, a chance encounter with David Bowie, and the six years of work behind Arthur’s current live show.

Further information

Nature is released on 4 September

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Robin Scott’s career spans from acoustic songs on the 1960s folk circuit to the sequenced synth-pop of ‘Pop Muzik’ – the 1979 hit single that took him to number one under the moniker M.

On this episode, he traces that journey: studying at Croydon Art College, releasing his 1969 debut album Woman from the Warm Grass, managing pub-rock group Roogalator, co-founding Do It Records, and living and working with Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood.

Robin also reflects on his pioneering records including New York · London · Paris · Munich, The Official Secrets Act and Jive Shikisha. Finally, the conversation brings us to the common thread through all these projects, the restless curiosity that continues to drive his work.

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Over fifty years ago, a teenager from Cleveland got talked into playing “Maggot Brain” at an after party, and soon after he was on stage with Parliament-Funkadelic. Michael Hampton, known as Kidd Funkadelic, joins us to tell that story properly, and to go through everything that’s followed it: five decades inside one of the wildest bands in American music, a run of guitar solos that hip-hop built entire records on, and his new solo project, the King Kong mini album.

We start with King Kong itself: how a nearly hundred year old story about a giant ape ended up as an instrumental record moving between rock, jazz and spoken narration, and how loosely the whole thing came together. From there we go right back to the beginning: the guitarists who shaped him growing up in Cleveland, the after party where he first played for the band, and the call from drummer Tiki Fulwood that got him on a plane to Landover, Maryland, a fortnight later. Michael talks me through what recording with Parliament-Funkadelic was like, how songs like “Adolescent Funk” and “Who Says a Funk Band Can’t Play Rock?” earned him a writing credit, what he thinks George Clinton’s real gift was, and how he feels about hip-hop having sampled his solos for the past forty years.

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King Kong is out now. Get it direct from Michael’s Bandcamp

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