It's All About Vinyl is a new podcast in which Mark Roland and Push, the guys that founded Electronic Sound magazine, bring their favourite vinyl into a podcast studio and smash it all with hammers.
Oh. Apparently they don't smash the vinyl with hammers. Instead they just talk about it. That's disappointing. Chaps, if you're reading this, can you please return all those hammers I posted to you? Cheers.
These fellas know what they're talking about. The pair did electronic music stuff for Melody Maker before moving on to Muzik magazine, for which Push was founding editor. One of them once edited a fanzine called 'Happy Cheese'. I won't tell you which of the two, but you can see it in his eyes.
So far in their podcast series, they've had delightful waffle-chats about The Damned, Tin Machine ("horrible"), Hawkwind, Harry Styles (!), Kraftwerk, Suzanne Ciani losing her synthesiser, the history of Melody Maker, and why the first 19 editions of Electronic Sound didn't quite work. They've even had snookerist and bleepy music head Steve Davis on.
Electronic Sound has been running for 135 issues. That's a big number. It's about twice as many people that were in The Fall, or about as many weeks Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere has spent in the UK charts since it debuted in 1988, or exactly the same height as the London Eye in metres.
It does mean that there's plenty of material for them to plunder. Anecdotes, interviews, favourite records, memorable gigs, music industry bashes, awful columnists. Wait. No. Not that last one. Ignore that last one.
I rarely get to meet my editors in person, so it's a pleasure to see their digital faces poking out of my internet. You can listen to It's All About Vinyl on that new-fangled Spotify thing or on the YouTubes.
Further Fats: Fat Roland Bangs On... as an Electronic columnist (2012)
Further Fats: This is a journey into Electronic Sound 2.0 (2016)
