80s Archive Podcast EP.90 - Mark Wood (Music Industry Polymath) : "Love Action is my favourite single of the 80s"
*This episode contains excerpts of 3rd party musical content*Welcome Mark Wood - Woking's other walking musical encyclopedia after Mr.Weller.Mark has been a key person in the back catalogue part of the record industry for years doing great work at Virgin, Universal and Demon records. This is a great look back at the decade from the point of view of a boy whose love of music began at a young age (See photo), and led him up the rungs of the record shop retail ladder, to a stint at Smash Hits magazine and eventually instigating superb reissue packages, looking after acts like Soft Cell, Bryan Ferry, Grace Jones and Suede.Mark has assembled two outstanding 5 disc sets, 'Box Of Sin' & "More Sin", which go some way to demonstrate just what the 80s music scene was really like in London's gay club land.Mark's recollections of cultural history are thrilling as are the pictures he paints depicting his journey through the 80s, a genuine Small town Boy.We thought it would be a nice idea to dedicate Mark's episode to the memory of Aunty Janet - DA.
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80s Archive Podcast EP.89 - Nick Whitecross (Kissing The Pink) : "When Bowie wrote Life On Mars, he wrote about his friend - my sister, she is the girl with the mousey hair!"
**This episode features excerpts of 3rd party music content****Strong language disclaimer**Welcome Nick Whitecross, front man of one of Britain's most unique alternative pop bands from the 80s, Kissing The Pink.KTPs musical canvas began with a kind of cinematic brood in 'The last Film', but then transforms itself into MTV high class pop and eventually Weatherall-fuelled dance music. What a fabulous art troupe this band were and still are, with a 5 CD 1982-2024 Anthology out on Cherry Red Records.Nick has done all sorts of work for organisations - including Parliament, but is still writing and releasing music - DA
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80s Archive Podcast EP.88 - Dave Bascombe (Producer, Mixer, Engineer) : "Depeche mode had two incredible songwriters. Not many bands can say that...Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles?"
**This episode contains 3rd party musical content, excerpts of which have been used where ever possible**Welcome studio legend, Dave Bascombe, whose work mixing, engineering and producing some of the greatest British recording artists, has in itself created some incredible talking points and tales. Dave is one of the industry's back room super heroes, who seldom get the applaud from the record buying public. His work with Tears For Fears on Songs From The Big Chair and with Depeche Mode on Music For The Masses, brought his name to our attention. The list of artists he has worked with is stellar, from Peter Gabriel to The Verve to Erasure.it's no surprise that Dave's choice of eighties tracks for this episode were top drawer - DA
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80s Archive Podcast EP.87 - Ian Penman (Two People/ Zerra One) : “I auditioned for Lemmy’s son's band. Singer Julian says his Dad is John Lennon and Peter 'Zepplin' Grant is the manager!"
**This episode features 3rd party musical content, excerpts of which have been used where ever possible**Welcome to Ian Penman. Ian's story is a fascinating one for us because he began his career as a talented jobbing keyboard player auditioning for bands that had contracts, connections and that all seemed to be heading for success. From a band assembled around Lemmy's son, Paul Inder which happened to include Julian Lennon at some point, drummer Lez Warner who went on to play with The Cult and whose manager was Zepplin's Peter Grant!! To An Irish rock outfit called Zerra 1, to a formidable scouse duo called Two People, with whom Ian played keys, which is where we discovered Ian.Ian also produced and nurtured bands such as Raising cain working in proximity of infamous pop manager, Tom Watkins.These days Ian woks for a music law company based in Soho, called New media Law, doing some amazing work in the industry.The music featured in this episode is as follows:
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80s Archive Podcast EP.68 - Dave Clayton (Keys/ Programming, Depeche Mode/ Kraftwerk/ Simply Red/ Bowie/ McCartney) : Kraftwerk sat around drinking Chablis, talking about Depeche Mode and ladies!"
*This episode contains excerpts of 3rd party content*In Episode 68 things peak. New heights of name dropping and contract work!!! We welcome Sheffield legend David Clayton, school friend of Cabaret Voltaire and founder of synth funk (and early poptarts signature tunesmiths) Person To Person. Dave tells us all about his career from the early days of funk outfit Hot Cuisine to going on to playing for everyone, working on a reputation by recommendation for ABC, The The, Paul McCartney, Simply Red, U2 and The Pet Shop Boys to name a few. But it was when he teamed up with Tim Simenon, Kerry Hopwood and Q to form Toy, Dave took up programming duties for Depeche Mode on the Ultra album. Which led to getting a call from *Kling Klang Studios* and an invitation to create some sounds for Kraftwerk for the Expo project!!!!This humble egoless keyboard player from Sheffield has quite a tale to tell.We hope you enjoy it - DA.
David Arscott was born in 1971, grew up in the 70s & 80s, a Singer, Songwriter, DJ and record shop kid.
John Mabey was born in 1987, grew up in the 90s, a playwright, film buff and video shop kid.
Both were born in small Essex towns.
During lockdown, they started a banter filled podcast, playing lost, forgotten and lesser played 80s music, that radio stations continue to ignore.
Formerly known as poptartspodcast on Mixcloud, this passion project developed further with guest musicians & artists from the 80s, inviting them to tell their stories and talk about their journeys through the decade.
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