Word In Your Ear

Tim Burgess: how Tim’s Twitter Listening Party raised the sum of human happiness

One of the great Lockdown success stories now has a book attached. This magnificent invention started in March last year and, at one point, Tim was hosting 10 Listening Parties a day. He looks back here at some of the ones he loved the most and how the Four Lions movie got the ball rolling. And talks about the Beach Boys, Iggy Pop, Discharge, Vashti Bunyan’s horse-drawn trip to the Hebrides and (aged 13) seeing Crass in a scout hut in Winsford.   <a href="https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/</a> All past editions … …<a href="https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/pages/all.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/pages/all.html</a> @LlSTENlNG_PARTY The Listening Party book …<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listening-Party-Artists-Reflect-Favourite/dp/0241514894" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listening-Party-Artists-Reflect-Favourite/dp/0241514894</a> Charlatans tour dates …<a href="https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/the-charlatans-tickets/artist/1328349" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/the-charlatans-tickets/artist/1328349</a> Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon and receive every Word Podcast before the rest of the world... alongside a whole lot more!: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a> <a href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4234399" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get bonus content on Patreon</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1. Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience.  Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit <a href="http://www.wiyelondon.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wiyelondon.com</a>. <a href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4234399" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get bonus content on Patreon</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.