This episode features The Stranglers and an Interview with Baz Warne who has been in the band for 25 years. Baz has written a book (No Grass Grows On a Busy Street) about his 25 years in the band and todays episode features our chat with him where he covers everything you would want, as a fan or simply as a listener. Its open, candid and genuinely fascinating about his time in the Band, some stories you may know but there are also things that Baz shares that maybe not as well know. The Stranglers whilst they have been going since 1974 have had a few incarnations and we cover those in the episode. The Stranglers are often pulled into the "punk" genre but in reality, most fans wouldn't see them in that area. The band have achieved 23 UK top 40 singles, 20 UK top 40 albums and the original lineup (from 1974-1990) reached no 2 with one of their most well known songs Golden Brown and the most recent lineup achieved a no 3 album with Dark Matters. We start the episode as always with a short biography of the band which covers mainly their studio output and Baz' interview starts at 34 minutes in to the episode if you want to go straight to that.

I have included the link to the Stranglers site where you can find details of Baz' book and tour announced yesterday.

https://thestranglers.co.uk/baz-announces-convivial-uk-tour-for-2026/

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This episode features an Interview with Charlie Higson who for 6 years appeared in the band The Higsons. he hasnt spoken about that much and we explore his part in the band and what happened afterwards. For those that are new to the Higsons they were formed in 1980 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, The Higsons first recording was on the “Norwich – A Fine City” compilation album and they did 5 Sessions for John Peel. They released records on the 2 tone label and were part of that Norwich scene which included a number of bands which Charlie talks about but we interviewed one of them all the way back in Episode 2, Screen 3 so thats worth a listen after this one ! Charlie talks about moving from Music to TV comdey as part of the fast Show on BBC television, working with Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield amongst many others and also talks about then moving on to writing novels.

Its an all encompassing episode that covers his whole career and the conversation about the Higsons is one that has rarely been heard. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it and the Interview with Charlie starts at around 21.30 mins

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The Wannadies formed in 1988 in the Northern Swedish town of Skellefteå They had two Top 20 hits in the UK singles chart including a Gold Disc for You and Me Song and Might Be Stars and quickly became NME favourites. Despite forming in 1988 it was the re-release of You and Me Song in April 1996 that the band really made an impact in the UK It reached number 18 on the UK Singles Chart and having sold over 500,000 units earned a GOLD DISC. That year the track appeared on the official soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet too. Their story has plenty of twists and turns and Pär tells it all for you.

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The Interview with Pär starts around 26m 20 into the episode. Enjoy !

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