Do Go On - 122 - David Bowie

Episode Date: February 21, 2018

It's the second week in a row that we've discussed a music legend, and this week it's Ziggy Stardust himself! David Bowie had a career that spanned decades and art forms - from music to acting to painting, he did it all.  Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSubmit a topic idea directly to the hat: http://bit.ly/DoGoOnHat Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail]   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Ornke, and as always, I'm joined by Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. Or are we joined by you, David? As I said that, I felt like I was the host, like I'm joined tonight by. Welcome to the Dave Warnerkey Tonight Show featuring Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins, that's your dream. Your Rove and we're people. Peter Hellier and Corinne Grant.

Oh, that'd be great. I'd be okay with that. I'd be fine with that. Yes. Which on am I? You're Peter Hellier. Look at me. I'm Corinne Grant.

Okay. Look at me. I'm Peter Hellier. Yeah. These are, of course, famous... The nicest man in showbiz. Is that true, Dave? It's Dave's Dave's boss as well.

I do work with Pete Hellier, and he is a fantastic guy, both on and off screen. I met him in Perth, very briefly. He's a great guy. He's a great guy. It just seems, yeah, like, a very nice man. I did a gig with him. This is going back quite a while, so. and it was me and two others who were fairly new, but like, you know, fine.

We did a good job and then he was a headliner. But like he could have just left after the show, which is perfectly normal, but we were just sitting having a drink. And he sat down with this and we just had like a really nice long chat. He's delightful. So lovely. All that comedy. Ah, great go.

Anyway, that's okay. Welcome to the Peter Hellier Appreciation show. Well, I've got a lot of nice things to say about him. So let's go. Tell him at work that we've done this. tell him. I'll tell him to listen. Yes.

So the first 90 seconds and then he obviously can turn off. But he won't because he'll stick around and have a drink with this episode. Because he's a good guy. That is absolutely right. Now, here we are for another week. It's always good to be here in the studio. So good to be here. Weather report heating up slightly today.

Yeah. So we get delirious about the hour mark. That's what's happening. Sorry. But we'll snap out of it. But we'll snap out of it. Jess, it is your turn to report on a topic that has been suggested by a listener. You've put it to the Patreon.

our supporters to vote on. I have. And I would also like to point out that I, Jessica Ann Perkins, wrote a question. Fuck you. Not 10 minutes ago. I wrote this at the very beginning of my report. I wrote the question before I wrote the report.

That's good. Does that mean you didn't bother writing a report? What? Because usually you write the report and not the question this week. You've written the question. I assume the report is empty. Yeah, she blags the question this week. She's going to blag the report.

Easy. So what? You're going to nail it with a great question, though. It's going to be a good question, and then we're just going to have some fun. We're just going to catch up. We're going to connect. That's riff. Let's just do some of my plugs.

Okay. People love plugs. They love them. Sorry about all the plugs, everybody. Okay, here's my question. Ready? Everybody's got to make a living. I should I probably should say now.

Should I come clean, Jess? Maybe. I have to sit out from this question. Get this, Dave. We haven't told you this yet. You know how we're recording two. episodes. Am I saying that much?

That's fine, yeah. Because I'm going to Adelaide, obviously we had to record one of these episodes ahead of time, this very episode. So last night I messaged Jess and I said, and you were there because I was in the group chat and I said, Jess, just to double check that we're not doing the same report, mine's about a dead guy. And Jess replied, mine's also about a dead guy. let's take this to a private chat away from Dave.

Oh my God, because it's our biggest fear that we'll both turn up and do it. And you've spent eight hours researching and then the other person sort of stuff. So I go into a private chat with Jess and I go, hey Jess. Anyway, and then I go, my guy died in the last 50 years. And Jess goes, oh, few, mine died two years ago. And I went, no, mine did too. I was trying to be broad to not give it away. Mine also died two years ago.

But a lot of people died two years ago was he an entertainer. She said yes. I said a musician. She said yes. She said first name and I said fuck off. Anyway, so we would we both started a report on the same. Are you kidding? No, we're kidding.

So last week my vote was actually for this person. I had to go to the second most popular voted. Right, which was Johnny Cash. Yes. Dave, this question is for you. which English rocker shares his name with an Australian department store chain

Oh I see what you're doing Harvey Norman Go one better No is that Harvey World Travel That's Harvey World Travel That's Harvey World Travel

Oh sorry Is it Harvey World Harvey World? I believe you are talking about the one and only David Jones A.k.a David Bowie Correct

Yeah The topic that I or the theme that I went for for our listeners was which Dave do you want me to do a report on. And Warnocky didn't win the vote. Warniky did not make it. I was not going to do a report about you, David. I was going to say, did you put it in? You've achieved nothing.

I know, compared to the great man, the boaster. Okay. But the people voted and it was a bit of a landslide to... To Bowie. Yeah. Well, I'm also a big fan of the David Bowie. So, and do you know what? The David Bowie.

Do you know what as well? It's a great true question. It was too about the David Bowie. Dave had that. I know, he had that locked and loaded. Sorry that I knew that. Also, the name of our friend Peter Jones's dad. He's David Jones.

What are the odds? I know. This is becoming a real freaky Friday. It's wacky. I mean, it's not Friday today, but still, that's the freaky thing about it. If you're listening on a Friday though. Fuck. Buy a lottery ticket and burn it because it'll be evil.

It'll be freaky. There is so much about Bowie, like so much that you can't possibly cover it all. So basically my report, I'm just warning you now. It's largely about his early years. And then, because he's done so much. He's done so many careers. Over such a long period of time, it's impossible to fiddle into a timeline. I don't know how he's done it.

I think he's a wizard. Anyway, that's another theory for another day. I'm a whole person. But I'm just saying that now in case people like, you forgot to mention this part. It's like, yeah, I know I did. I forgot to mention a lot of parts. Anyway, so, David Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January in 1947 in Brixton in London.

His mother, his mother, his mother, Margaret, Margaret, Mary Jones, or she went by Peggy worked as a waitress at a cinema. That's pretty cool. And his father, Haywood, Jones, worked as a promotions officer for the children's charity Bernardo's. Haywood is a great first one.

How is Haywood. Haywood's good. Haywood Stenton. Oh, my goodness. So good. In 1953, the whole Bowie, the Jones family moved to Bromley

and a couple years later in 55 he started attending the Burnt Ash Junior School. Oh my God. It's a bit dramatic, isn't it? According, so his voice, his singing voice was considered adequate by the school choir. Stop it. Adequate.

Oh, I suppose, you still got in, I imagine, to the choir. Well, yeah, like he was still singing. He was fine. They always gush the English, don't I? God, they're just full of compliments. That was the concert adequate. But he did demonstrate above average abilities in playing the recorder. Above adequate.

Yeah. No offense if you are a professional recorder player, but it is probably the worst instrument. That's my primary school experience. It is not the worst instrument. What's worse? Name one worse. Triangle.

How's that worse? No. I mean, what can you do with a triangle? Ding. Yeah, but I'd be more annoyed if my kid was a triangle player, less annoyed at the playing triangle than recorder. Yeah, because if they're practicing recorder, if your kids playing triangle,

what have you done wrong with her Warnockie? Okay Matt, but you're not, you're thinking about in terms of like that child's success. We're thinking about in terms of how annoying and practicing is at home. Sorry, I just remember that bagpipes exist. And if you're good at them, it's fantastic. But if my child was trying to be a bagpipe player,

there'd be many years of sucking and I, and blowing, by the way. And I could not handle that. But even if they, I mean, even when it's good, it's a powerful thing in it. Yeah. You wouldn't want a child to pull. that. But you do get the opportunity once or in a while because it's quite a niche instrument.

If you're good at it, you get cool opportunities. Like, I told you that John Farnham played at my work Christmas party. What? I told you that. No. No. Which, when? What?

Like last, like six weeks ago? Yes. I do not. I fucking told you. I also put it all over Instagram, you jerks. John Farnham? No. What is your company?

John Farnham played at the work Christmas party. What? And I lost my shit. How much money they're paying John Farnham. By the way, if you're from overseas, John Farnham is a big nostalgic deal here. He is huge. He was, you know, one of the,

he had the greatest selling Australian album for quite a long time. He is an icon. Whispering Jack. He's an absolute ice con. He's an absolute asshole. He's an icon. He came and played at our Christmas party. I lost my shit.

It was amazing. And when he did the voice, somebody come, a girl came out. He got it a bagpiper. Including, so. Like we got a fucking full backing band, John Farnham, and then somebody came out with the bagpipes, and she played a little bit.

We all lost our fucking minds. Was he wearing a drazer bone? Wait, then she saluted John Farnham and walked off the stage. Did he salute back? It was incredible. Did he salute back? I assume so. It's not.

I touched his hand. You know Darren Hinch was in the film clip? No. Playing an angry husband. Typical. I think he fisted the table. Oh, okay. Slam the table with his fist.

Okay. So how many songs did John play? Oh, quite a few. I was at Paul McCarney, which I mentioned not too long ago. And he played Mull of Kintyar. Fuck. That struck me word there. And he, during that song, a whole school piping band came out.

See, that's cool. Playing recorder? Playing the recorder. And everyone left. So David Bowie played the recorder. And I mean, didn't he, didn't he? He played in one of his big... I'm sure I saw that's in one of his hits.

Anyway, we've derailed very early just because I mentioned the recorder, which we all played in primary school. Oh, we didn't get that complicated. We got hot cross months. Anyway, at the age of nine, his dancing during the music and movement class was strikingly imaginative. Teachers called his interpretations vividly artistic.

Vividly adequate. And his poise, a stifidly. For a child. Kid could move from an early age. Yeah, wow. I'm just doing an impression, and I can only imagine that's what he was doing. Yeah.

We were talking earlier because I saw Father John Misty last night, and Matt and I in particular are big fans of his six dance moves that he has. Yes. I love it, and he rotates through the six. Oh, and they're so good. Across the two hours of it. Oh, worth it. His father brought home a collection of American records.

including Elvis Presley and Little Richard. And when he listened to Little Richard's song Tootie Fruity for the first time, Bow would later say that he had heard God. Wow. At the time he was listening to that song. Wow. Coincidence. And then he sort of associated somehow with Little Richard?

I guess you would if you listen to a song and God talks to you. Yeah, what would God say? Say, turn that off. I'm talking. Trying to chat to you and you're listening. and a bloody Tootie Fridiola Rudy And what is he even on about? Turn that racket down.

Elvis also had an effect on young Bowie Who said watching his cousin dance to hound dog Made him realise the power of music. He took up the ukulele. Sorry, just to confirm his cousin wasn't Elvis Presley. No, dance to the song, Hound Dog. It was like he loved Elvis Presley Watching his cousin dance to hound dog.

I was like, whoa! Should have mentioned that. Not related. Okay. So, yeah, he takes up the ukulele, which is a noble instrument that only the finest and most talented people play. Put it up there with a recorder. It's... It's the recorder of the guitar world.

Fuck. I'll tell you that. It's also, like, adorkeable, so... And whimsical. Oh, no doubt about that. Tip tall through the tulips. That's one of the big hits on the ukulele, isn't it? Tiny Tim?

Is that... Is that... Are those things I said real? Matt's having a stroke again. And he also took up the T-Chest bass, which is a fun instrument. And he began to participate in Skiffle sessions with his friends. So Skiffle's like a jazz, blues, folk,

American Floke influence. But in English, that's like an English thing in particular right? Because that wasn't Skiffle, the first Beatles band was a Skiffle band? Yeah. Skiffle Rock band. It's influenced by a American. American folk as well.

Right, but it's gone through a weird English. I want to say paradigm. Okay. No, I don't want to say that. Usually a combination of like homemade or improvised instruments, which is basically what a T-Chs bass is as well. It's the same as like these Americans would do it with like a, like a, not a wash tub, but like a tub turned over.

Yeah, it's like that. He also started playing the piano and he left Finally a real instrument He left the junior school And he went on to Bromley Technical High School And he studied art, music and design He became interested in modern jazz Through his half-brother Terry

And his mother gave him a saxophone in 1961 So just adding another instrument to his repertoire Are you guys aware of Bowie's two different eyes Yeah It became sort of one of like his most known notable features. I long thought was he was born with, you know, because that is a thing people have a condition where you can have two different colored eyes, but I believe that's not quite right,

is it? Not right. So they're not two different colours. In 1962 at school, his friend George Underwood punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl. They were like 15, 16 at this time. He was apparently, apparently he was hospitalized for a number of months and he had several surgeries.

Wow. Months. Months. But they couldn't fully repair the damage. and he was left with faulty depth perception and a permanently dilated pupil in his left eye. So his right eyes, like, very blue, and obviously the pupil, like, in light, would go quite small,

but his left eye will be permanently dilated, so it kind of looks almost black. Right. Hmm. The two boys actually remained really good friends, despite him, you know, causing all that damage. And Underwood became an artist and designed some of Bowie's future album covers.

Oh, that's really cool. Yeah. And Bowie actually ended up thinking the eye, his eye kind of gave him an air of mystique. He kind of liked that part of his look. Yep. Which is kind of cool. That's a good look. It's a cool look.

Kids don't try it at home. Also it gives you an excuse to wear an eye patch, which he did. And go to hospital for multiple months. That's great. I'm looking for an excuse, huh? In 1962, he formed his first band at the age of 15. They were called the Conrads. And they played local gatherings and weddings.

He left the technical school the following year at the age of 16, and he informed his parents of his intention to become a pop star, which his mom was not keen on. Okay, David. All right. And apparently she, like, arranged a job for him through a family friend kind of thing. She was like, oh, okay, you're going to be a pop star, and then went and got him a job, a proper job.

At the difference between Johnny Cash, who talked about last week and his mom scraping together dollars to get him singing lessons. Because she saw talent. Yeah, true. I don't know, I think there's probably something in every parent who just wants their kid to be okay. Yeah, that's right. It's like, oh, please just earn enough money to be okay.

Just be okay. But then after a couple of years, your parents get over that and learn to support your dream of the arts. And they say, okay, well, she's not going to do anything with that degree, and that's fine. We're fine with it. I mean, it's an art degree, so. No, technically, she's kind of doing it.

Hey? She'll find her feet. Everyone's different. I guess that could happen. When did they come around? Was it when you're on the radio? It's probably when I had to move back home with them recently. That's probably when they've discovered that I'm really doing well.

Is that when they're happy with them? Someone they discovered you were a runaway financial success. Yeah, like God, God we're proud of this one. If only our eldest child with a stable career and a good skill set would follow from his little sisters. The dreamer. Yeah, she's our little dreamer. Oh, she's got a tattoo now. Fantastic. Well, she's talking to the youth, talking to the youth nationally.

When your brother came out and said, I'm going to be a builder. They cried. Absolutely not. Yeah. Over my dead body, you will be a singer. I said, what do you mean you're going to work really hard at an apprenticeship for four years? What do you mean? You're a disgrace to the name Perkins.

What do you mean you're going to just use your hands and very practical skills? and your logical mind. You're going to do the job that Jesus had. What do you mean you're going to build people homes? Michael. Not in this house, which you also built. Wow. Did he actually?

Yeah. So every morning you wake up and you look around. I literally, yeah, I now live again inside the house my brother built. Wait, so it's not your childhood home. When did he build it? Well, as in we bought, oh God, this is derailing. He was really gifted. They bought the house.

They've demolished the back of it and he's rebuilt the back. Wow. It just blows my mind that humans can build houses. It's like something that gods would do. They could also do podcasts. All the magicians. Jesus was a builder. As I said.

He was a god. Okay. We've derailed. Let's get back on topic, if I may. Yeah. Okay. Bigger one. But we got frustrated with the other members of the Conrad's

because they weren't as ambitious as he was. so he didn't have big dreams. So he left the band and joined a new one called The King Bees. Pretty good. Could have been called The Dreamers or something. His debut single was called Liza Jane, was credited to Davy Jones and the King Bees. And it had no commercial success.

And he quit the band less than a month later and joined another band, The Manish Boys. Oh, these are shocking names, David. They're not good names. David Jones and the King Bees. I'm okay with that. You like a da-da-da and the... Yeah, that's classic.

So the Manish Boys were another sort of blues group. And they incorporated a bit of funk, a bit of soul. Sowell. Bowie said, I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger, which is pretty cool. They did a cover of I Pity the Four, which was originally by Bobby Blant. I'm not Mr. T.

And it wasn't very successful either, much like his first song Liza Jane. Unlike Mr. T. And Bowie soon moved on again to join the Lower Third, which was a blues trio strongly influenced by The Who. And they released a song called You've Got a Habit of Leaving, and again, not hugely successful. He hated his stage name of Davy Jones,

because in the mid-60s... Stage name. It got confused with Davy Jones of the Monkeys. Hey, hey. So he renamed himself David Bowie. after the 19th century American pioneer James Bowie. Such a great name. It is cool.

I like Belly. So great. His single The Laughing Nome, which came out in 1967, used sped up and high-pitched vocals. And again, it also failed to chart. I can't believe that that didn't chart. The Laughing Nome. For someone who would go on to be one of the coolest people of all time,

he had a pretty shitty stuff. I'd love to hear that. I don't know if I've heard any of these tracks. No, these are all quite old. And he was very young still at this point, right? Still a teenager. Oh, he was at least early. This has been a couple years through these ones.

Yeah, this is 67, so he's 20. I love a guy. Like, that's drive. I think your career had just about be finished these days of music. If you had that many failures. Like five singles or something. Because I think a lot of those, he signed a deal and they were released through a label or maybe a smallish label, but yeah.

So he's convincing people to back him time and time again. Yeah. So a few weeks later, after he released The Laughing Gnome, he released his debut album, self-titled David Bowie. And it was an amalgam of like pop, psychedelic, and it also didn't do very well. And it was his last release for two years. He sort of had a little hiatus.

It would have been pretty, like imagine you make an album, you're pouring your soul into it, so it would be a bit. So disheartening. Yeah. But I guess it depends. I mean, we're talking about flops compared to where he ended up. I guess, you know, when you're starting out, selling any albums would be somewhat exciting, right? For sure. Which he didn't do.

Absolutely zero sales. Well, remember when we started the podcast and it got like any downloads and we were like, oh my God, people are listening. Amazing. Now we're like, more, more. We are evil. We have become evil. Yeah. It's changed us.

I miss that bit. Did you miss that? I do that every week. I say, how many downloads have we got? More, I want more. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Anyway, also in 1967, he began to study the dramatic arts under the tutelage of a gentleman called Lindsay Kemp,

who was an English dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist and choreographer. Bowie studied a range of things from avant-garde theatre and mime, and he continued to release music and perform with other groups, but he was kind of focused more on his other studies and doing these sorts of things as well. In 68, Kemp choreographed a dance scene for a BBC play called The Pistol Shot,

and he used Bowie, along with a dancer Hermione Farthingale, and the pair began dating and moved into a London flat together. Hermione Fathengale That's amazing That's fantastic Fathengale Hermione is already good Fathengale

She sounds like a mythical She sounds like a character In something exciting And some sort of Thing How I couldn't quite put my finger on over Yes Yes that is it

Basically what I'm saying is That's a cool name Yes I read What do you read? I read things. What's your favorite genre? Things. I say stupid things.

Fathers Gale is. Fathers Gail. So they also, Fardingale and Bowie formed a little group as well with guitarist John Hutchinson. And for a few months, the trio gave a small number of concertos. Not really, concerts, combining folk. They didn't give a concerto. No concertos. I never connected the word concert and concerto together.

What does concerto mean? Concert. Does it really? I always, yeah, because I always associated with classical music, right? And sometimes that's a piece of music's called a concerto, right? But that's what it's saying. It was just made for the performance. For a performance.

That's fascinating. Let's have a look. It's the first thing I've learned in this episode. It's a musical composition usually composed in three movements in which usually one solo instrument, for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute is accompanied by an orchestra or a concert band. Right. That's a concerto.

Okay, so I didn't learn anything then after. I take that back. So, yeah, they were sort of performing as a group. And they broke up in 1969 when she went to Norway to take part in a film, called Song of Norway. Johnny Cash, biggest artist in the world at that time. And this affected him, and several of his songs such as Letter to Hermione and Life on Mars reference her.

Letter to Hermione is a little more specific, less. It's a bit more obvious that he's referring to her. Than Life on Mars. Yeah, Mars could be a bit more vague. Finally, in 1969, he found success with the release of a song. Can you guess what song? Changes. Well, think about it.

So this is 1969. What else happened that year? Around July perhaps. Space Audity? Yeah. There we go. I mean, Matt, you didn't give Dave a chance. His eyes were lighting up like he kind of knew.

Sorry, Dave. That's the thought of the moon thing. But that's fine. I'm not annoyed. Just disappointed. So on the 11th of July, 1969, Space Audity was released five days ahead of the Apollo 11 launch, and it reached the top five in the UK, which was huge.

Like, it's the biggest he'd certainly gotten by that stage. Earlier that year, Bowie had met. at Angela Barnett in the April, and she was an American model, actress, and journalist. And they married within a year. It's interesting that Space Oddity was the first song a lot of people heard, because I reckon some people would must have thought

as almost like a novelty song, right? If that's the only song of his you knew. Right. And it was being released at the time of the launch and everything. So, yeah, so that's interesting. I bet you some people would have written him off early. Yeah, one hit wonder kind of thing. Yeah.

similar to Joe Dolce's shut up at your face What's matter you Why do you look at a success That's no good is it It's a nicer place Released around the time the first Italian man Walked on the Moon Yes

Shut up of your face Yeah like weird Australian Italian-Broken English So he's married now to Angie And she had like an immediate And a very strong influence on Bowie and his career. He'd been frustrated by his manager, Ken Pitt.

So he fired Ken. Space Oddity had really established Bowie as a solo artist, but he wanted a band. He wanted to have people playing with him that he could relate to and he could perform with. So he and his session guitarist, Mark Boland, discussed it, and they put together a band. They originally called themselves The Hype, which is a very cool band name.

That is cool, much cooler than Lower Third. Lower Third. All the Conrides of the K. Um, the hype. Um, and they all created characters and wore elaborate costumes. The hype. I've never heard of the hype. I've heard of Mark Boland.

Yeah, but he's the, he's the front man from, like Depeche Mode or something? Um, no, from, uh, it's something like, uh, what are they called? The, uh, like T-Rex or something like that. Mark Boland. Yeah, it's T-Rex. You are right to, uh, you are right to. big um like a a glam

yeah and so their costumes and stuff were really elaborate and they I reckon it was probably like a glam rock kind of thing yeah um and their but their first performance as a band was a disaster so they went back to presenting bowie as a solo artist and they were his backup band right oh wow they got one gig one gig they just did that slow walk from the front of the stage back to their position of the then the crowd started to come around like okay yeah yeah something things changed here. I can't tell what, but I like it. Well, it was like, skip behind the curtain.

Back on the curtain. Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, please. The hype is real. The hype is not real. There was quite a fiery relationship in the band, and there was tension and fighting between Bowie and the drummer John Cambridge. Eventually Cambridge quit and was replaced by another drummer called Mick Woods-Maney.

Much better name. Wood Mainsy. Fuck. I prefer this Baincy. That sounds like someone making up a name on the spot. Yeah. Hi, I'm Mick Woodmansey. Welcome, Mick.

Lovely to meet you, Mick. Bowie's third album, the man who sold the world, was released in 1970. And this album was heavier and more rock influenced than the acoustic and folk sound of space oddity. And Mercury Record financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour across America. He took full advantage of his androgynous appearance, and the original cover for his album showed Bowie posing in a dress. He's kind of like lying across the lounge in this really elaborate dress.

And he took the dress with him on tour and wore it to press interviews. The press loved it. The public were very mixed. Because keep in mind, this is like 1970. Yeah, America conservative in parts. Yeah. If it's coast to coast, imagine going through some pretty conservative areas. And apparently one guy on the street one day pulled a gun on Bowie and said,

kiss my ass. Seems like a weird thing to say. And Bowie's response? I'm not sure. Put out a bigger gun and said, no, you kiss my ass. Yeah, that's how you get him. You call that a threat to kiss my ass? This is a threat to kiss my ass.

So his music started doing well and his family's growing too. In May of 1971, David and Angie, welcome to their first child. Duncan, I think, I assume it's Zoe. Duncan is Zoe. Haywood Jones. Zoe Bowie. Zoe Bowie, is it? Yeah.

But it kind of looks like it could be Zowie. Zowie Bowie. Duncan, Zoe Haywood Jones. This tour also led Bowie to the inspiration for his character of Ziggy Star Dust. Dressed in a striking costume, his hair dyed reddish brown. Bowie launched his Ziggy Star Dust stage show with the spiders from Mars, which was the backup band, at the Toby Jug Pub on the 10th of Feb in 1972.

Ziggy was a huge success. Bowie spent the next six months during the UK and the show launched him to stardom. The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it's a lengthy title, but it's good, was released in 1972 and it was Bowie's fifth studio album.

Star Man was released a couple months ahead of the rest of the album and both a single in the album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance. It's good tune. It's great. So good.

And the album actually remained in the charts for two years, which is crazy. That's such a long time. Got a bloody years or like that Shania Twain album all over again. I say Lightning doesn't strike twice, but it does. Ones for Shania and then David Bowie. Yeah. And when I think David Bowie, I think Shania Twain.

You know, just equal playing fields. Now, the Ziggy Stardust character was a melding of the personality of Iggy Pop and the music of Lou Reed. They were kind of the two main inspirations for Ziggy Star Dust. And after the success of his album, Bowie got to work with both of these artists who inspired this persona, which is kind of cool. He sang backing vocals on Lou Reed's 1972 Transformer. I'm pretty sure I've heard Iggy say that, um, seeing Lou Reed made him realize that he could be a musician. Yeah, wow.

Like, yeah, sorry, he goes, wow, you don't have to be a great singer to be a singer. I'm sure I've heard him say that in an interview. That's amazing. I always really like hearing about, like, all these incredibly famous people knowing each other from starting together, obviously, like Johnny Cash and Elvis gigs together. Wild. Yeah, when that's insane.

Then you're like, I'm just starting out. I know both of those names, but there was probably 20 other acts who performed with them at the same time as well, but obviously didn't reach the level of fame that we now still remember them. Yep. But it's just so cool. Very cool. Love a scene. Do you think that with comedy?

Do you ever think which one of us is going to make it? I mean, I'm going to. Which one of you guys is also going to make it? Oh. I mean, is neither an option? Yeah, I'd say neither. Wait. Oh, as in you two?

Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've already established. But I'm the star. Yeah, I'm the star, just. I'm the Ziggy. Yeah, yeah. We're just the hype in the shadow.

Yeah, we tried to come out and then you said, get the fuck back. And we said, all right. It was for your own good. Yeah, so he did backing vocals for Lou Reed, and then he co-produced and mixed an album for the Stooges alongside Iggy Pop. He's working with both of these people that inspired his sort of persona, which is really cool.

his own album Aladdin Sane topped the UK chart his first number one album and his love of acting led his total immersion in the characters he created for his music this is a quote from him he says off stage I'm a robot on stage I achieve emotion it's probably why I prefer dressing up as Ziggy to being David

Wow to know how to feel about that He struggled well he kind of struggled to separate himself from Ziggy He said that he felt like Ziggy wouldn't leave him alone for many years. So my whole personality was affected. It became very dangerous. I really did have doubts about my sanity.

It's kind of crazy. After breaking up the spiders from Mars, but he attempted to move on from his Ziggy persona. And he moved to the US in 1974 and he settled down in L.A. The same year, he released his album, Diamond Dogs.

It went to number one in the UK and he set out on his Diamond Dogs tour of the US. It was quite a show. It had a high budget. at stage production and special effects. And a guy called Alan Yentob filmed the tour and produced a documentary called Cracked Actor.

Which is fun to say. I mean, you could have called it Diamond Dog. Or Cractor. Oh, that's better. That's why you're going to make it. Yep. Just move back in with my parents. The doco shows a sickly and pale bowie.

The tour actually coincided with his heavy cocaine use, which later led to his addiction. And he had severe like physical issues, paranoia, emotional problems. He took a little break in Philadelphia. And in 1975, he released Young Americans. There's a very different sound to his previous work. And initially it kind of divided his UK fans.

Bowie himself referred to it as plastic soul. Have you heard that term? Yeah. It's like the Beatles album Rubber Soul is sort of a similar idea. Yeah. Sort of like white soul. basically. Yeah.

A bit fake. White people trying to do soul music. Inauthentic is the perfect word. Yeah. So it's not real. It's not seen by soul fans as real soul music. But he didn't describe it that way until later, did he? Yeah, I think it was later.

Yeah. Like looking at the time he believed in it. It wasn't his intention. Yeah. That he was just sort of, you know, trying to create that type of music. But it was. I really like some of the songs on that album. Yeah.

Young Americans are great trade. And other people did too. Like, it just initially people were just like, nah, different. Young Americans gave Bowie his first US number one. Right. And fame, which was co-written with John Lennon, who also did some backing vocals. And Lennon called Bowie's work, great, but it's just rock and roll with lipstick on, which is, I'm not sure how to feel about that.

Is that a compliment? He said it's great. Yeah, I think you're saying, don't get too excited by it. But it's like, I mean, it is like, he's talking it down to just lipstick, but it was a whole lot of it was like he created whole worlds of fashion and stuff. Totally. Oh, yeah, he was a huge influence, for sure. Did you get to the, that, what was it at, it's one of the museums in Melbourne,

they did, they showed all his fashion and shit. I'm not talking too good. They did. That was, when was it? It was a while ago, was it? It was at Acme, yeah. Was it an Ackney, right? No, I didn't get to it.

It was really good. Yeah, it would have been. I was picturing it at somewhere else. Anyway. Cool. It's good story, but yeah, it was great. It was a cool expedition. Pretty amazing.

Expedition. Oh, an exhibition to see the exhibition. Exhibition. Yeah, I caught a train there. Oh. Yeah, lost a few good men that day. Just a few. I went over the top.

Beau was one of the first white artists who appeared on the US variety show Soul Train and he performed two songs, fame, as well as Golden Years and both were mimed. Fun little fact for you. Golden Years, famously covered by Marilyn Manson. That's the first version of it I heard. Golden Year!

Golden, wah, wah, wah. It's like just... So whose version was that? That's the Bowie version. That's the thing. I was like, I know the song. I didn't sound like either, really. But hey, that's okay.

Oh, that was what you were saying. He's having a little stab at you. Just a little quip. A little quip. A little quip. Oh, ow. You just quipped me. It hurts.

How. Whip. Whip it good. Station to station was released in 1976. It was produced by Bowie with Harry Maslin. And it introduced a new Bowie persona, the thin white, Duke. You know the thin white

Jew? This is the description of the thin white joke. He says sporting well-groomed blonde hair and wearing a simple and impeccably stylish cabaret-style wardrobe consisting of a white shirt, black trousers and a waistcoat. The Duke was a hollow man who sang songs of romance

with an agonized intensity while feeling nothing. Ice masquerading as fire. That's good. The persona had been described as a a mad aristocrat, an amoral zombie and an emotionless Aryan Superman. Oh, my God. I mean, they're all good descriptions. Yeah, why, put them all together and what have you got?

I mean, I'd put that on my posters for a comedy festival show, faux show. Thin white juk. It's good, isn't it? It was also kind of a particularly rough time for him personally. He had overdosed on cocaine several times. He was very unwell. He'd made positive comments about Hitler and fascism and later blamed a lot of it on the thin, white jute character and also the drugs.

It's kind of like it was all taken out of context. I've never heard that. I know. I know. Dave, can you relate to that at all? Is that out of context? Being taken out of context, yes. And also several cocaine overdoses.

Dave. We said we wouldn't talk about that on the pod. Well, it's my overdose and I'll talk about it if I want. You're right. I'm sorry. Sorry to shame you. He moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills to the north of Lake Geneva.

It's a chalet. Sounds lovely. Man. Yeah. Because, you know how they talk about now there's no money in music and still there's multi-millionaires from music. But back then, the people at the top of music would just would have been fucking loaded, I guess. Incredible.

Well, he purchased a fucking chalet in Switzerland. It did depend because there were times in England where they just got taxed hard, right? I did the Beatles. Didn't they get taxed like 90% or something at one point? Gosh, that seems pretty high. That's not. But it was a lot. But anyway, in this new environment in his chalet,

his cocaine use decreased, and he found time for other pursuits outside his musical career. He devoted more time to his painting. He produced a number of post-modernist pieces. He was quite a talented painter too. God damn it. He can do everything. He can literally do fucking everything.

It's so annoying. When I can't do one thing, give me one. One thing. Do you want to paint? We'll give you that. No. We'll give you up to you. Yeah, you want painting or?

No, I can't paint. Totally you can talk into a microphone. Okay, can I do that? Yeah, I mean, you're doing it right now. That's how easy it is. It's happening. Guys, I'm doing it. Look at me.

No hands. I'm literally holding the microphone. Normally it's no hands. Anyway, the album Lowe in 1977 moved to, way from narration in Bowie's songwriting to a more abstract musical form. I like this part in which lyrics were sporadic and optional. I love that for some reason. Put some in if you want.

Yeah. And I like that. It received considerable negative criticism upon its release, but it's later been heralded as genius. Wow, because that's his first one with Brian Eno, isn't it? Yes. Yeah, that's right. And this is what he sort of calls the, there's a trilogy here.

The Berlin. And there's another word used later, don't spoil it, that I think you might enjoy. Shut, don't spoiler. Composer Philip Glass, praised by his gift for creating fairly complex pieces of music, masquerading as simple pieces. Again, great compliment, fairly complex, adequate to the years. Heroes was released in 1977 and incorporated pop and rock to a greater extent. and Bowie was joined by guitarist Robert Fripp, another good name. After completing Loan Heroes, he spent much of 1978 on a world tour,

bringing the music of the first two albums in the Berlin Trilogy, Berlin. King Crimson. Sorry, that's Robert Fripp's band. I couldn't think of it. You went blank for a second and that's what you're thinking of. Yeah, so sorry, this tour sort of brought the music of the first albums to almost a million people during 70 concerts in 12 countries. Wow.

Isn't that crazy? Good average crowd size. Hmm. And he'd kind of broken his drug addiction here as well and he was feeling better. He's performing a lot better. The final album in what Bully called his trip ditch. Yes. Harking back to that first ever episode.

So good. Bloody lover trip ditch. Well those years ago. And the third album was Lodger and it was released in 1979. Lodger that. It was a mixture of new wave and world music and they were quite experimental so for example boys keep swimming

entailed band members swapping instruments move on used the chords from Bowie's early composition all the young dudes played backwards and Red Money took the backing tracks from Sister Midnight a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop so they were kind of like really playing with music and mixing it around a bit. I like them swapping instruments.

instruments. That seems fun. To me, they get like, they sing a chorus and then they throw their instrument to the next person. Just imagining that it's like a little like musical chairs station. I don't see anything wrong with that. Yeah, it's almost like they just stopped respecting their listeners and just like, fuck it, who cares? We just release any old crap. People are buying it. People are buying it. I'm David Bowie, motherfucker. I don't know. I don't play this instrument. Let me have a crack at it. Can we start a band? Dave, you can play bass. I can. I can kind of play the key. and a ukulele. I'll get a recorder.

I mean, it's a bit unfortunate that Dave took the bass, the one thing that I'm adequate at. Can you do anything else, Dave? I can also play guitar. Damn, what about drums? We need a drummer. You can play guitar? Yeah.

Do you not know that? Yeah. He can play it all. Except drums. You're suddenly so much more attractive to me. Thank you. I'm a bad boy. But I'm a real sucker for the drums.

Oh, well, I'll have a go. Thank you. Just like this band is clearly having a go. Yeah, we're just going to have a go. Have a crack. That's what we could call. I can do the drums.

Lady drummers are fun. Like spider bake. White stripes? No, they don't have a lady drummer. Damn it. No, they had a lady bass player. Yeah. Damn.

Anyway. Lodge of reach number four in the UK and number 20 in the US. So it's still doing pretty well. Jumping ahead a little bit to the next year. Slow down, Jess. I can't keep up with this crazy time shift. I am going to be jumping your head soon, but I just also wanted to talk about Scary Monsters and Supercreeps,

which was in 1980. It produced the number one hit Ashes to Ashes. That's a great song. Yeah. And it revisited the character of Major Tom from Space Oddity as well. He paired with Queen in 1981 for a one-off single release under pressure. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Oh, so good.

Yeah, I don't, I don't like it. Don't she? Really? Yeah. What do you know, like it? Their voices are both soaring. It's amazing. I've come around to it later though.

Right. We're listening to it now. I like it. It's funny. Yeah, I don't know. I've just never, I've just never been able to get into it. I don't know anyone else. I know I'm a weirdo on this one.

Fair enough. No, that's okay. This is a safe place. I remember after Bowie died, though. Spoilers. They released, like, the raw recording of just their vocals. And it's really cool.

Yeah, right. Really cool to listen to that. Because you're like, holy shit, those are two very powerful voices. So yeah, that was kind of cool. And it became Bowie's third UK number one single. So it, like, it did really well. He reached his peak of popularity and commercial success in 1983 with Let's Dance.

It's wild how long he was at the top for. Yeah, crazy, isn't it? And the album went play. in both the UK and the US. Its three singles became top 20 hits in both countries. And, yeah, the album was number one. Tonight, which was in 1984, another dance-orientated album. Found Bowie collaborating with Tina Turner.

And once again, Iggy Pop as well. It included a number of cover songs, among them the 1966 Beach Boys hit God Only Knows. That's one of my favorite tunes. You do one of my old time The original though Yeah Not fit to I love that song too

Really Guys That can be the first song we cover It's our song Yeah I think I think the beach player's already nailed it Yeah no Let's cover the song that we all think is one of the best ever

And make it a lot worse Yeah Exactly So I'm glad you guys get it I'm But we shelved his solo career in 1989 And he retreated to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the 70s.

So he's like, no, no, no, I'm going to be part of a big group now. And the band that he sort of was put together was Tin Machine. And although he intended Tim Machine to operate as a democracy, he kind of dominated both in songwriting and in decision making. And they had some commercial success with their debut self-titled album, but Bowie put the second album on hold and sort of did some more touring as a solo artist again. In October of 1990, a decade after he's divorced from Angie, he and Angie divorced. That's not, I can't, I keep thinking, that's not the song McJagger.

He didn't write it about her, did he? Angie. He just didn't hear of a lot of Angie's and he was friends with Jagger. I feel like I've heard that before. It feels very believable if it is true, but also. Quick, just look it up. That's my parents' song, by the way. I feel like it is.

Like, didn't they all? because they were all like sleeping around together and stuff. My dad tells this story sometimes about him and his best mate when his younger were drinking. I got so drunk and then his mate, Steve, they were just laugh so hard because he was so drunk that he was dancing, hugging a pole. You know, but singing, Paul Angie. I love you.

I still love you. Paul Angie. You're right. Angie has written the bill. It's a rumor that it's written about David Bowie's wife, Angela. I felt like I had that. She wrote in her autobiography that she once walked in on Bowie and Mick Jagger in bed together. Yeah, because there's rumors that they had an affair, right?

That is. Yep. So, yes. Believe. Very good. Well done. Bowling, yeah. Anyway, he met, so in 1990, he met supermodel imam.

They were introduced by mutual friend, and he recalled, I was naming the children the night we met. It was absolutely immediate. Oh, wow. I'm like, wait, which children? Oh, their future children. They're renaming his already adult children. Amman, what do you want me to call him?

I'll call him Frank. Do you like that? We know. What do you want? What do you want? Anything for you. He's currently Duncan, but we can change it. That is negotiable.

Dad, I'm 27. Shut up, Frank. You like that? You like Frank? Do you like when I tell them to shut up? Because I can do it again. Shut up, Frank. She loves it.

They married in 1992. Tin Machine resumed their work the same month. But their audience and critics were ultimately left pretty disappointed and showed very little. They were disappointed in the first album and showed very little interest in the second. Did not win them back. They toured again. their live album Tim Machine Live

Oevee, baby Are you serious? I'm serious Oh no I think that's a whole reason I copy and paste that in because I wanted to say that to you So, oh way, baby

It failed commercially And the band kind of drifted apart Unbelievable that it failed I know And Bowie went back to his solo career He and his wife Had a daughter, Alexandria or Lexi

Zara Jones And she was born in August of 2000 They resided primarily in New York and London, as well as owning an apartment in Sydney's Elizabeth Bay. Did not know that. Did not know that. Never heard of Elizabeth Bay. No, I had to ask a Sydney cider where it is.

Is it like an affluent nice? Yeah, it's a really nice area. Right on the, I think, I apologize Sydney people if I'm wrong, but I think it's quite close to like the Palmer on the ocean. Point Palmer. And they had their... You're just saying other places that I still don't know. That's where Malcolm Turnbullet, our Prime Minister, lives.

Yeah, I was told it's in the vague proximity of kind of where the Prime Minister lives. Which is point pipe. Well, then Matt. Thank you. Good job, everybody. So I'm skipping ahead a bit now because, like I said at the very beginning, there is not possibly enough time to talk about everything that Bowie did. And basically, he continued to release an abundance of work across so many different styles of music

and recreating his image and his style many times. Throughout the 90s, for example, he went through a more electronic phase of music. and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January of 1996. A good year. Jumping ahead quite a bit. On the 10th of January, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of the album Black Star, Bowie died from liver cancer in his New York City apartment.

He'd been diagnosed 18 months earlier, but had not made the news of his illness public. No, I was so shocked. Yeah, it was a shock. I know a lot of people were. Yeah. Wow. It just felt like, really?

He just released an album, which is actually an amazing way to go out. Yeah. Yeah, great album. And Johnny Cash did the same, right? It's interesting how some big artists will be able to live just long enough. Yeah, hang on. In Cash's case to record an album or Bowies just to see it released. You hear stories of that across so many different things.

They're not just artists. You'll hear people holding on until their kids' wedding or something, and then they'll die soon after all. Or the new Star Wars release. Exactly. Similar, similar emotional experiences. Similar big life milestones. That you want to be around for. Things that really matter. Yeah.

Like being disappointed by a Star Wars film, moments before death. What a way to go. What a way to go. Following Bowie's deaths, fans gathered at impromptu street shrines at the mural of Bowie in his birthplace of Brixton, South London. Fans laid flowers and they sang his songs. Other memorial sites included Berlin, L.A., and outside his apartment in New York as well. After the news of his death, sales of his albums and singles soared,

as it always does when any kind of musician passes away, their music, like people just have this resurgence to listen back to it. So there's always a real boom, which is fascinating and kind of strange. Yeah, I guess it's maybe some people mourning and other people just going, oh, shit, yeah, should listen to that guy. Yeah. He's dead now. Makes him cooler.

He insisted that he didn't want a funeral at all. And according to... This is after he died? Probably before he died, to be honest. Oh, God. So he didn't want... He didn't want a funeral. No funeral.

Do they have one? No. And according to his death certificate, he was cremated in New Jersey a couple of days after he passed out on the trip. Fun to funky. I want to talk a tiny bit about his legacy as well. And then... a fun fact at the end. Keep in mind as well, I've only talked about the first few decades of his music career.

He was also in films from 1968. People are going to be pissed off if you don't go into The Labyrinth. We watched it in primary school and I hated it. We watched it in primary school and I loved it. Interesting. It was 20 years apart to experiences. 120. Anyway.

Your version of the Labyrinth was written inside the labyrinth. Yeah. So yeah, so I've only touched on part of his music career. I haven't even gone into his acting career or anything else. I'm glad you mentioned his painting there. Yeah, a bit of painting in there too. A bit of dancing. But I just mean like it's amazing that I've talked for an hour about this person

and I've covered one small facet of their life. That's amazing. You didn't talk about his hit cover with the Jagger of Dancing in the Street, which they did for charity. and they made a film clip like in half a day they just shot it just dancing around have you seen it oh i've seen the clip have you seen the video of it where they've taken out the music and it's just them breathing which i think someone's dubbed over them breathing but it's fucking so funny and sort of just like the shoes shuffling and stuff i'll find it and posted it so funny that's so

good um so for uh bowie's 1969 commercial breakthrough the song Space Oddity won him an Ivor Novello special award for originality. That's a cool award. I feel like other one-hit wonders you were talking about Matt probably would get that kind of respect later on if they went on to make other songs. It wasn't just the macarena or the ketchup song. Which is fun, but not worthy of heaps of awards. Not timeless.

Also, if you don't do anything apart from that, people are like, well, that was your mummer number five. Are you telling me that there was never an award given of the thong song? That dong, da thong, dong, dong. Tiesto, is that him? No, that was... What was his name? I'm on it. Sounds with a Sisco.

Cisco, that's what I'm thinking of. Cisco and Tiesta is the DJ. He won six Grammy Awards and four Brit Awards, winning Best British Male Artist twice, the award for outstanding contribution to music in 1996, and the Brits icon award for his lasting impact on British culture, which was given after his death in 2016. It's kind of fun of, for some reason,

expect him to win way more Grammys and Brit Awards. Mm. He declined the Royal Honor of the Commander of the Order of the British in 2000. Doesn't like to sail ships? And he turned down a knighthood in 2003. I'm going to make him Sir David Bowie. He's like, nah. Thanks.

I'm good, thanks. I just think it's so rock and roll. The Telegraph in 2016 estimated Bowie's total worldwide sales at 140 million records. In the United Kingdom, he was awarded nine platinum, 11 gold and eight silver albums, and in the US, five platinum and nine gold. In 20, sorry. That's just, that's a lot of... That's a lot.

In 2016, Rolling Stone proclaimed Bowie, the greatest rock star ever. And I want to just finish on this fun fact. And I know I'm usually the judge of if they're fun or not. but here is my fun fact. Okay, I hope it's fun. In September of 1998, Bowie launched an internet service provider, BowieNet,

developed in conjunction with Robert Goodale and Ron Roy. Subscribers to the Dial-Up service were offered exclusive content, as well as a BowieNet email address and internet access. This service was closed by 2006. Much of your email was like Jess Perkins at Bowenet.com. That's cool. I mean, it could have been just bowie.net.

Could have been. I just didn't get it. At bowienet.net.net.com. And that is my brief overview of an amazing career. Well, the first few decades of a career of David Bowie. That is pretty cool. Thank you. Thank you.

Matt, did you have anything in there that you wanted to add? I'm trying to think now. It's so hard to capture. Because since I abandoned that report, I went so deep into Johnny Cash that I just can't. Can't remember anything about David Bowie? Yeah, I imagine you probably were across a lot of the things. I did find a website.

It's called what did David Bowie do at your age? And you put in your age and it tells you what. Oh, can you do our own? ages? Yes. We won't reveal Matt's age, of course. That'd be offensive. So our age, David. To time. Yeah, to time. He moonwalked long before Michael Jackson on the Diamond Dog Tour and there's a video. He's bloody moonwalking. Oh, man, he invented the fucking moonwalk. What did he do at, well, I'm putting in your age, but I'm not going to reveal what it is. He created the hit under pressure in collaboration with the queen. He had a very good year, my birth year, but obviously you had to

change the 16 to a 19. Yeah, because he, to make that birthday work. Exactly. But, yeah, that's cool. I think people, it's fun. Yeah, that is cool. I don't think my age is really a deep, dark secret. I am 3,000 years old.

Exactly. Today. Oh, wow. Happy birthday. You old bastard? You old bastard. Hey, let's thank some people. Or should we say, I'm sure a lot of people suggested David Bowie.

Oh, yeah, of course. Sorry, I meant to say that at the very start. Who were those cool people? This topic was suggested by Zoe Jones, who maybe is a long distance relative of. Zoe Jones. So she got the surname and her first name rhymes with Bowie. And she spells it Z-O-E-Y, which I love.

And Sally Pritchard as well. Thank you, Zoe and Sally. Yeah, that's interesting. I know. I would have thought it would be more, but I searched through both hats. Maybe I didn't. I don't know.

I try. There's going to be someone. There's definitely. I'm looking now while we... Oh, fuck. Zoe. At Zoe Fn Jones. That's great.

That was it. Just those two. I did check. Back yourself, Jess. Okay. Thank you for those guys. Sally and Zoe for suggesting David Bellwies a topic. Great one.

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we'll go with you all, my idea was what kind of dog. So, diamond dog. Oh, fuck, that's good. All right, hang on. That's your pitch. Dave, you get to choose. Okay, great.

So, okay, if we go with Mats, we give them a type of dog. Okay. Sounds good when you, but can I jump in before your one? Because yours is probably going to be the best. Oh my God, you have an idea too. We say what kind of thin white thing they are.

That bleeds terribly. The thin white dog. I was going to say, we name their backing band. Oh, yeah, very good. The hype. Like the hype or the spiders from Mars or... Yes. The dogs.

The dogs. So what do you want to go with? Backing band, type of dog, thin white something. Look, I'm happy to go. Can I change my vote? What do you want to go with? It's your topic, Jess. I think we should go, backing band's fun.

Don't patronise me. It is also more creative. It is the best one. But the thin white something is very funny. You are a thin white worm. Gross. Yeah, nearly everything would be no good. Thin white dick.

A thin white stool. Oh, yuck. Oh. All right. Let's do it then. Who wants to kick it off? I'd love to thank. from California in Monterey Park, Jacob Giron or Giron.

Jacob and the gyrators. Oh yeah, perfect. Perfect. Jacob Giron and the Giron. Giron, son, Giron. That's great, Dave. Do Giron. Do Giron, run.

The do Giron. Jacob Jiro. Jacob. What do you reckon? G.I.R.O.N. Geroon. Yeah, it could be Giron Giron

Jacob Giron Andy Jarritos But he's from California So if we were looking at like a French place Maybe But I think they probably would have just Giron Americanised it and called it Giron

Jacob Giron Love it Jacob Gauron and the Giorators So good I'd also love to thank A lot close home from Melbourne In the suburb of Carnegie Mr Darren Lachner

Darren Darren Lutner and the Lutztime boys. Do you say Ludge time? I tried to say lunchtime. I have struggled a lot today. Darren Lustner and the Lushton Boys is pretty fun. Do you like it?

Don't patronise me. No, I enjoy it. They all dress up as sandwiches. They're cross cut off. Could I thank some people now? If you must. I would like to thank from Brighton East here in Melbourne. Very affluent suburb.

Very nice. No, Brighton East. Oh, really? So is there a difference between Brighton and Brighton East? Yeah, I grew up near, you know, you go from Brighton on the beach, which is the most expensive, then Brighton East, and then a part of that crosses over the highway. So you could be, you could even be on the wrong side of the highway where I grew up in Brighton East, but I grew up in Marabin, which touches Brighton East. Wow. So it's a real, it's a quick drop off. It's a real shit hole. No, it's a great spot.

That's where I used to play golf all the time at Brighton East at the Brighton Golf Club, of course. It's a great spot. I'm only fucking around Michael Irwin. I just, when I found out your name was Irwin. He hasn't said it yet. I'm thanking Michael Irwin if you didn't get that, Michael. Now, what happened when you found out his name was Michael Irwin?

I got furious. I just went back to that time where Jess cracked it. Cracked it about all the Irwins, especially Michael. If I remember it, right? Is that the one you really got furious? I got mad about him. Mad about Michael.

Oh, Michael Irwin and the Mad Hatters. Oh, that's cool. Mad Hatters. I don't wear hats. You didn't enjoy that. Go, you try. No, I'm shit at it, okay?

You hate me. I get it. Michael Irwin and the Snappy Crocodiles. Yes, but it has to be said like that. Snappy crocodiles. Crocodiles. And then people would read the post and be like, Snappy Crocodiles. No. Crockadiels. It's snappy crocodiles. They dress as crocodiles in

tuxedos. I love it. I love it. Who else you got, Dave? I would like to thank from our capital territory, the Australian Capital Territory, a person who is, I believe frequently, I recognize their profile picture here frequently in contact on Twitter, which we always enjoy. Laura Cotterill. Laura Cotarill Do you want to go again? Sorry. What happened? I had it spell

Lorna and then I'm like Must be Lauren. It's changed it to Lauren and then I went We'll check that Well it's Laura. Luckily I'm reading for me. Like it would have been changing

multiple times before your eyes. But I could see it changing It was funny. Oh right. Gotcha. Sorry. I would like to thank from our Australian Capital Territory

A frequent tweeter which we always appreciate Laura Cotarill. Oh. Laura Cotterill and the cordial, Laura Cotterol and the cold and flu medications. I believe Laura is a student of some type. I remember seeing on our profile before.

Possibly a writing student. Am I right, Laura? Possibly not. So the cough medication. Laura Cotterill and the studious kiddly winks. I love it. I love it too. I love it.

It's almost as good as lower third. That good. That good. Lower third is such a, that is one of the worst things I've ever heard of. Or the best. And they're always on that fine line. Anyway, thank you so much, Laura. We appreciate your support.

I would like to thank a couple of people as well if that's cool with you guys. That would be so good. Another one who's a frequent tweet or an emailer as well from Roeville. Now, I'm definitely going to get the surname wrong here, but I'm going to give it my very best shot. I would like to thank Jackie Bonifan. Bonifan, that's what I always read it as. She's also, she's given us a topic. One of our episodes was based on Jackie's suggestion.

Maybe, was it the Christmas time mysteries maybe even? Maybe. Jackie and I've had a couple of email chats. What about Jackie Bonifan and the benevolent bonoffy pies? Yeah. Benevolent Bonofy pies. Do you like that? Jackie Bonifonfin and the benevolent bonoffee pies.

Love it. Rolls off the time. Bonoffy Bun, so it's all alliteration. Oh, Benoffy Bun. Tizum wrote a song about Roeville. It was called 14 years in Roeville. And the chorus went, I sentence you to 14 years in Roeville.

That's about right? That's funny. Get worse for murder these days. You get worse for murder. Probably a good thing. You get worse than 14 years in Rovville. I said less for murder. I feel like I heard more.

You get worse. No, you get worse. For murder. And that scale is correct. That's fine. And I would also like to thank, can we have a lot of, like, a real run of Australians there and like three Victorians in there, which is very cool. But across the seas, I would like to thank from Glasgow, Glasgow, Josh Carson. Josh Carson and the talk show hosts.

Okay. Johnny Carson. Joshy Carson. Joshy Carson and the talk show host. I love it. That's great. That's cool. There you go.

Well, thank you, Josh. And Jackie, Laura, Michael, Darren and Jacob, thank you. Let us know when you hit number one on any chart in the world, even if it's Belgium or something. I'd still be impressed slightly. Really? Kind of. Number one in Belgium.

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