Episode 14 What Goes Around? featuring Wendy Erskine

This week we wax lyrical about lyrics. Do lyrics matter? Can you ignore a bad lyric and still enjoy the tune? Anne and Eamon are not so sure. We also have a plague rave update and learn how the Sheffield hardcore massive don't take kindly to day trippers. This weeks feature is Let's Work! Anne calls up an old friend to talk about Bandcamp. Since the beginning of Lockdown Bandcamp have achieved almost saintly status through their continued support for independent artists so we thought we would ask Aly Gillani, label representative for Bandcamp Europe, exactly who they are, what they do, and why it matters. Not only that but we got three tip-top recommendations from Aly who also runs First Word Records and DJ's on Worldwide FM. Finally our guest is Northern Irish author Wendy Erskine. Wendy is a real music lover and what with her latest book 'Satan is real' being published by none other than Rough Trade she has an affinity with music both in her writing and in her life. Our Spotify playlist is available for those of you keen to know more about every single song we mention.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3KipWIafsAD9hnDNjhDiPG?si=9J7ae075TU6dLSt0jZxdXwFor those of you unwilling to give the Spotify man your money we have also made a YouTube versionhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPPl5xM2fbUoUeda0pyDzmooxM9OSIXBiWe were very pleased that Steve from Sheffield contacted the show about the rebirth of the illegal raves and how the story up north differs slightly from the plague raves down south. He wrote the following:"You'll be pleased to know that Illegal raves are very much still a thing up here, (normally) happening each weekend somewhere in a remote rural location or the occasional warehouse. Free Parties are well attended with good people (always a few knobheads in my experience, this is England after all). The cops sometimes show up but the rules are "Don't let anyone hurt themselves, tidy your rubbish and put your fires out". I've never been to one where we had to pay to get in.Around the summer solstice, there was a rumour of one happening in Sheffield, when the local soundsystem crews found out that it was out-of-towners, they mobilised and blocked off all the usual Free Party Spots, making sure the chancers didn't put on a party that was going to be another shit show (like Manchester).It even made the local rag!"https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/sheffield-music-community-and-police-work-together-prevent-illegal-lockdown-raves-2890778We reference a bit of Heavy Metal devilment in this show so here is a link to Judas Priest fronting up in a US court.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiU9zkhgb0IPlease share our posts on social media it will really help the show grow.CONTACT US: [email protected] @WHATGOESPOD - Twitter @WHATGOESPOD - Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.