Harvey Edgington and I used to play football in Carlisle on the ground behind the old technical college, we worked with the British Deaf Association to highlight issues relating to profound and partial deafness, and we lived in the same building full of bedsits on Currock Road just off Beaconsfield Street. Click to continue reading...

Well, Jason and I do, so there. Jason even gets a little too close to him.

(At least I'm tall enough that I could have looked him in the eye. I also wouldn't have worn a peach shirt)

Anyway, I can think of no better way to re-launch the podcast than to celebrate Townshend's 64th birthday with another huge Who fan.

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So I'm getting incredibly psyched for The Gaslight Anthem's show on Friday. I was dangerously cranking them up on Saturday as I was walking around town. But for all the great songs on The '59 Sound, I think my favorite song of theirs is on their first album, Sink Or Swim. It's a tribute to Joe Strummer called I'da Called You Woody, Joe.

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