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Adam talks with British writer and comedian Holly Walsh about stand up, boarding schools, farts (and other things you don't want to hear in a podcast), Hilary Clinton and the problem with mopping. The conversation was recorded remotely on June 30th, 2020.At the end of the podcast there's also a short chat with comedian Richard Herring about how we can support live comedy in COVID times.Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and to Matt Lamont for additional editing.RELATED LINKSSAVE LIVE COMEDY (PETITION ETC.)JUST GIVING PAGE FOR COMEDIANSBRAZILLIAN POP GEMS OF THE 60s & 70s (SPOTIFY PLAYLIST, 2020)ADAM BUXTON'S RAMBLE BOOK (AUDIO BOOK AT AUDIBLE, 2020)PRE-ORDER SIGNED HARDBACK COPIES OF RAMBLE BOOK AT WATERSTONES (2020)THE OTHER ONE (BBC I-PLAYER, 2020)THE R&B FEELING (DOCUMENTARY ON VIMEO, 2015)The R&B Feeling is a documentary directed by Marcus Werner Hed with Nathaniel Mellors about artist Bob Parks - his outrageous performances, fall from grace, complex relationships, fight for recognition and the tragedy that goes on to remake his career.AMERICAN TEEN (Directed by NANETTE BURSTEIN) (YOUTUBE TRAILER, 2009)WHERE TO FIND HILLARY CLINTON DOCUMENTARY (RADIO TIMES WEBSITE, 2020) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO SESSION 20 THE BREXPODDevised, debated, campaigned and voted on by Andy Cooke, Dan Fox & Nathaniel MellorsHaving relocated our production facilities to a heavily fortified and luxury redoubt deep in the Scottish highlands, Junior Aspirin Records presents The Brexpod: a balanced, neutral and wholly unbiased reflection on the misery and hopelessness inflicted on the United Kingdom by the cowardly, venal, xenophobic, meretricious, mendacious, over-privileged turdworms who, on 23rd June 2016, paddled the country up Bullxit creek and left us in a Euromess without so much as a bratwurst or baguette to gnaw on. From the country that brought you sterling classics such as The Restoration, Luddism, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, the invention of the machine gun, and the colonial subjugation of countries across the globe, the Brexpod is a three-hour epic told in broken English, and featuring Cotswold-stone-cold hits including 'Turd on the Run' by The Rolling Stones (feat. Boris Johnson) and 'Aftermath' by Tricky (feat. Nigel Farage vs. Jean-Claude Juncker). So when the clocks strike half-past France, and the stormy weather hits the pound, forget the summer beach holiday in Greece and thank The Village Green Preservation Society that you will have to learn to love Llandudno again. Kick back with the last remaining bottle of Chianti in England, finish off the tapas, complete your Irish passport application and let the Brexpod remind you and me, the perma-peasantry, that this is how it feels to be lonely.PODCAST HEREEurope Endless – Kraftwerk (feat. David Cameron)Edward Elgar – Nimrod (from ‘Enigma Variations’)Edward Elgar – The Pomp & Circumstance Marches, Op. 31 (March No.1)Anon – God Save the QueenWilliam Blake/Hubert Parry – JerusalemCoward – SwansFailure – SwansPanic – Coil Lay of the Land – The FallAftermath – Tricky (feat. Nigel Farage & Jean-Claude Juncker)Turd on the Run – The Rolling Stones (feat. Boris Johnson)That's When I Reach For My Revolver – Mission of Burma (feat. Michael Gove)European Son – The Velvet Underground (feat. Michael Gove)Euromess – J.J. BurnellMob Rule – Robert WyattThe Village Green Preservation Society – The KinksGetting Nowhere in a Hurry – Roy Budd Somebody Else's World – Sun Ra & His Solar Myth Arkestra (feat. Michael Gove)It Couldn't Happen Here – Pet Shop BoysStill Ill – The SmithsArthur – The Tiger LilliesYour English – The RebelNeighborhood Threat – Iggy PopNot One of Us – Peter Gabriel (feat. Donald Trump, Daniel Hannen & Boris Johnson)Running Scared – Roy OrbisonBroken English – Marianne FaithfulInglan is a Bitch – Linton Kwesi JohnsonIf You're Not White You're Black – Lord KitchenerNorwegian Wood – CornershopRacist Friend – The SpecialsLanguage & Mentality – African Head ChargeHard Times – Pablo GadUK – Burial (feat. Nigel Farage)Alone Again Or – LoveIsolation – Joy DivisionThis is How It Feels – Inspiral CarpetsRegret – New Order (feat. Mandy Suthi)Go Now – Bessie BanksYour Autumn of Tomorrow – The CrowThe Carnival is Over – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds0:54 – Global Communication Half-Past France – John CaleI’m In Love with a German Film Star – The PassionsEuropa & The Pirate Twins – Thomas DolbyCome On Back to Me – The FoundationsWhere Do We Go From Here? – DeathBig A Little A – CrassFrench Disko – StereolabStormy Weather – Elizabeth Welch (from Derek Jarman's ‘The Tempest’)We Shall Overcome – Charlie Haden (feat. PJ Harvey reading John Donne)Europe Endless (reprise) – Kraftwerk
Presentations by: Nathaniel Mellors (artist, Amsterdam & Los Angeles); Aleksandra Mir (artist, in transit); Roee Rosen (artist & writer, Jerusalem); Olav Westphalen (artist, Stockholm) at Frieze London 2010
Junior Aspirin Records' 'Nice Feeling' Xmas Podcast 2013 SESSION 18 by Mellors & Cookepresented by Nathaniel Mellors, selected over the last year and a bit by Nathaniel & Andy Cooke PODCAST HERETracklisting:1. Jingle Bell Rock - The Fall2. All I Want for Xmas Is My 2 Front Teeth - Spike Jones & his City Slickers3. Christmas Time is Coming (A Street Carol) - Stormy Weather4. Holy Man - Dennis Wilson5. Ghostface Xmas - Ghostface Killah6. The Beatles Xmas Song (1968) - The Beatles7. Stilla Natt - Ulla Katajayouri8. Take Me Home Jesus - Link Wray9. Spread a Little Love on Xmas Day - Destiny's Child10. Hark The Herald Angels Sing - The Fall11. Hamburger Xmas - The Throbbing Yoko, Plastic John & Gristle Band 12. JA Xmas Advertorial 2014 - Elven Jones
JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO SESSION 16: PARDON MY FRENCHA French-Pop-Special-Guest-Podcast by our friends at Stop Making Sense - Yann Chateigné, Tiphanie Blanc & Vincent Normand http://stopmakings.blogspot.com Introduction penned by Mr. Dan Fox & performed by Mr. Nathaniel Mellors PODCAST HEREIt was late. Wind howled through the dark outside the windows of the Novotel Krakow Centrum. The four men had been locked for nine days in the hotel's Pope John Paul II Honeymoon Suite, surviving on a diet of lager and garage-bought sandwiches, delivered to them every hour by a silent seven-foot-tall thug known only as Tadeusz. The absurdist theatre sessions the men had been subjected to by their captors had become steadily less frequent. The men had proved resilient, but – exhausted by nonsensical language games, atonal tuba music and dizzying non-linear narratives - hope was beginning to ebb. Mellors was tending a head wound Cooke had sustained during one of the more brutal theatre sessions, when a surrealist mime act had unexpectedly exploded in his face. Chateigné Tytelman was by the window, gazing despondently at the blizzard enveloping the city beyond the walls of their gilded cage. Normand, slumped across an antique chaise-longue, stared at the pile of empty Zywiec cans in the centre of the room, each one a stinging reminder of how long they'd been prisoners of their mysterious kidnappers. Unsure whether they would ever see their homes again, conversation naturally turned to pop music. Chateigné Tytelman and Normand wistfully exchanged names of leading French rock musicians. Guy Skornik. Popera Cosmic. Magma. "Remember Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier's Teen Tonic?" asked Chateigné Tytelman. "Of course." responded Normand. "And what I'd give to hear LSD! by Jean-Christophe Averty again…" Mellors tried to join the conversation. "I like Serge Gainsbourg a lot." The two Frenchmen fell silent. Realising that this was no time for musical one-upmanship, they humoured him, but Mellors could tell he was in over his head. "Look chaps, if we ever happen to get out of this place, would you do me a favour?" "Of course. Anything, my friend." replied Normand. Mellors continued. "You see, the thing is … well … I feel somewhat struck by what I can only describe as … an abject, almost Bataillan, feeling of non-knowledge about all this French pop you're discussing. It's embarrassing, I know. I was only ever taught The Beatles at school, although I picked up a bit of Francoise Hardy along the way. Cooke here had a better education and knows a little Jean-Michel Jarre, but really, we need your help. We feel like such fools being able only to name MC Solaar as the one French rapper we know. But I have an idea. Back home, Me, Cooke, and another pal of ours by the name of Fox – god knows where he is, though last I heard he was on some top secret mission in the US – run this little record label thing. Nothing flashy you understand, but we like to call it Junior Aspirin Records. If – no, when, dammit, when – you get back to Paris and Geneva, would you mind awfully putting together an expository podcast for JAR? Something the boys can use to better acquaint themselves with the riches of your pop music tradition? It would mean the world to us, it really would. And maybe, just maybe, it could help herald a new era. One in which children, in schools up and down the country, need never again have to listen to the Rolling Stones or The Kinks, but rather, grow to be men and women of the world, pioneers of a new musical entente cordiale… It's a silly dream, I know, but … well, to blazes with being sensible. Let's try and change the world. One 70s prog rock classic at a time." "We know someone." said Chateigné Tytelman. "She goes by the name of Blanc. Her knowledge of the field is unsurpassed. We will enlist Blanc's help. Together with my expertise, and Normand's technical skills, we can do this for you Mellors. For you. For Cooke. For everyone." Chateigné Tytelman and Normand stood. Cooke wiped a tear from his eyes. The Frenchmen nodded in silent assent, and the four prisoners shook hands. Now, all that was between them and Serge Bulot's Ballade pour Suzanne was that jailor thug Tadeusz. As they heard the brute's heavy feet approach the door of their room, the men knew what they needed to do… "LA TRACKLISTE"Accident Du Travail, Ouverture alla franceseAnna Karina / Katerine, Parlez-vous anglais ?Erik Satie, Je te veuxSerge Bulot, Ballade pour SuzanneRichard Vimal, Introduction / Âme soeurLaurence Vanay, Morning quiet songBrigitte Fontaine & Belkacem Areski, CherAlbert Marcoeur, Deux lions au soleil (excerpt)Raphael Gimenez et Jean-Jacques Hertz, Texte pour BalthazarEtron Fou Leloublan, Lavés A La MachineVladimir Cosma, InformatiqueJean Dubuffet, Gai SavoirMaurice Lemaitre, Lettre rockIsidore Isou, Rituel somptueux pour la sélection des espècesPopera Cosmic, La chanson du lièvre de MarsJean Constantin, Les pantoufles à papaHenri Salvador, J'aime tes g'nouxWilliam Sheller (feat. Annie Girardot), JerkJoe Dassin, C'est La Vie LilySerge Gainsbourg, Flash-forwardJean-Claude Vannier, Cette race bizarreHugues O., Ellipse / À toiClaude Morgan, Le SlagBarney Wilen, ZombizarBertrand Burgalat, Ma rencontreMichel Houellebecq, Derniers tempsFrancois Bréant, Chase Along The North FreewayFrançois De Roubaix, Avron EvrardPhillippe Besbombes, FlipperRoland Bocquet, EpsiloveCatharsis, ChristopheFondation, Le Bal de grâceAlain Goraguer, Déshominisation (I)Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier, Teen TonicJean-Christophe Averty, LSD !Alain Kan, Heureusement en France, on ne se drogue pasMusique Noise, Pzkr!Magma, Retrovision (Je Suis Revenu De L'univers)Guy Skornik, Pourquoi ça va ?
JUNIOR ASPIRIN XMAS PODCAST NUMBER ONE 2011with Yo-Ho Ho's Andy Cooke & Nathaniel MellorsRecorded live OUTSIDE TIME, nowhere.PODCAST HERE Tracklisting:Christmas with the Devil - Spinal TapNo Xmas for John Quays - The FallIt's Christmas once again - Frankie LymonIf we make it through december - Merle HaggardSanta goes straight to the ghetto - Snoop DoggStuff the turkey - Alien Sex FiendSilent Night - Phil SpectorChristmas in Jail - The YoungstersHappy Christmas (i don't want to fight) - The RamonesChristmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al JankovicThe 8 days of Christmas - Destiny's ChildThe Christmas Orphan - John ShuttleworthXmas Everyday - The RebelLou Reed's Christmas messageChristmas in February - Lou ReedBack Door Santa - Clarence CarterStuart Christmas Stuart - Miles DavisSilent Night - John Fahey
JUNIOR ASPIRIN PODCAST 10: "POLITICAL INCORRECT CORRECT"Devised and presented by Nathaniel Mellors "from the bottom of a well in Newport, Oregon..."This session features an exclusive from the forthcoming The Rebel LP 'The Incredible Hulk'as well as a rum selection of music addressing a range of contentious subject matter.Or not - "I suppose it depends on your politics really..."PODCAST HERETracklisting:Cher - A Woman's StoryCrass - Bata MotelDead Kennedys - Kill The PoorRandy Newman - Short PeopleKool Keith - Sex StyleCountry Teasers - Black ChangeCaptain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Dachau BluesThe Cure - Killing An ArabEde Robbins - DeadButthole Surfers - John E. SmokeThe Rebel - On My Own (pre-release)Throbbing Gristle - Persuasion
Mike Bradshaw interviews Ashley Marlowe and Nathaniel Mellors on the excellent TOTALLY RADIO station. Tracklisting:1. Bob Parks - Spiritual (Junior Aspirin)2. The Rebel - Mouthwatering Claustrophobic Changes (Junior Aspirin) EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW!!3. God in Hackney - God in Hackney (Junior Aspirin) EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW!!4. Skill 7 Stamina 12 - The Horror (Junior Aspirin)5. Same Things - Toothache (Junior Aspirin) EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW!!6. Socrates That Practices Music - The Young People (Junior Aspirin)7. Advanced Sportswear - untitled & unreleased EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW!!Special thanks to Mike. Interview 23/2/09. Download MP3 of Podcast HERE. All material Copyright Control the artists.
JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO 06: 'EXPLAINING ANIMALS' selected by Andy Cooke, Nathaniel Mellors and Dan Fox, and presented by members of the animal kingdom.CLICK HERE TO LISTEN AND / OR FREE DOWNLOADTRACKLISTING:Brian Eno - Little FishesACDC - Giving the Dog a Bone Alfred Deller – The Three RavensDaniel Johnston – King KongMysterius Horse – Mysterius HorseRobert Wyatt – Pigs (In There)Brute Force – Tapeworm of LoveIvor Cutler – FliesBert Jansch – Bird SongMiles Davis - The Big Green SerpentMaher Shalal Hash Baz – No SheepRecording of Tower Whales from 'Songs of the Humpback Whale' (1970)Captain Beefheart - Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My KneeRobert Wyatt- Muddy Mouse (a)Robert Wyatt - Heaps of SheepsDuran Duran - Hungry like the WolfDavid Allan Coe - Monkey David WineAmi YoshidaAdam and the Ants - Ants InvasionMississippi Boweavil Blues-The Masked MarvelWire - Ex Lion TamerTalk Talk - Chameleon DayIggy Pop - African ManDinosaur Jr - Little Fury ThingsBob Parks - Psycho ChickenLightning Bolt – 30,000 MonkeysLast Exit - Pig FreedomMelvins – Magic Pig DetectiveRed Krayola - WoofFred Frith – Year of the MonkeyBongwater – The Power of PussyPram – Track of the CatBlack Dice - Rattlesnake ShakeDeerhoof – The Magnificent Bird Will RiseNick Drake - Black Eyed dogPixies – CaribouThe Stooges - I Wanna Be Your DogSyd Barrett – WolfpackBlack Uhuru – Crocodile StyleCharlottefield – SnakesCoil - The Tenderness of WolvesGoblin – The SwanPiL – No BirdsElectrelane - BirdsMichael Hurley - Animal Song
Junior Aspirin Radio Session 03'Explaining Religion 2', with Andy Cooke & Nathaniel MellorsCLICK HERE TO LISTEN AND / OR FREE DOWNLOADTRACKLISTING1. Foetus - (The Only Good Christian Is A) Dead Christian2. Earth - Divine & Bright3. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Jesus Is On Main Line4. Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel 5. Country Teasers - Thank You God For Making Me An Angel 6. Adam and the Antz - The Day I Met God 7. Ike Yard - Half a God8. God in Hackney - Several Credible Like an Opera9. Waylon Jennings - Ain't No God in Mexico10. Pere Ubu - Horns are a Dilemma11. PIL - Hymie' Him12. Iron & Wine - Jesus The Mexican Boy13. Slayer - The Darkness of Christ14. Coil - Godhead=Deathhead15. Talk Talk - Ascension Day
JUNIOR ASPIRIN RADIO EPISODE 1: ' EXPLAINING RELIGION' JAR*1 - 'Explaining Religion' tracklisting:1. Bob Dylan - Father of Night2. Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf3. Leadbelly - Gallows Pole4. The Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth5. The Fall - Squid Lord6. Slayer - Jesus Saves7. The Tiger Lillies - Banging In The Nails8. Joy Division - Day Of The Lords9. The Cure - Cold10. Willie Nelson - Layin' My Burdens Down11. The Residents - The Making Of A Soul12. Spacemen 3 - Ode To Street Hassle13. Black Sabbath - Black SabbathSelected / presented by Andy Cooke, Dan Fox & Nathaniel Mellors.