Gavin Clark reminds us we’re all just Spinning Round the Sun - a podcast by Richard and Tobin: Self confessed music addicts
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Please help us continue broadcasting £ Donation Amount: It's all I can afford, but you've got all my loveI've got a slightly deeper pocket, keep going guysYep, sure as hell got a spring in my step today - You're awesomeI am the King over all I survey - big me up on the showDang it, I'm so rich I won't even miss this amount - Good Luck!Hang on, I want to give an amount that suits me betterDonate Now Select Payment Method PayPal Personal Info First Name * Last Name Company Name Email Address * Make this an anonymous donation. Comment Donation Total: £10.00 Would you please help us improve the show by voting for your favourite track from this episode?Nobody's Dirty BusinessTo My Dearest WifeLet It RockNo More TearsSilence KidSpinning Round the SunNative SonVote now! Gavin Clark reminds us of our own futility with his statement "We're all just spinning round the sun". However, we've more besides. Firstly, Tobin has the bookend for the show with The Devil Makes Three. Secondly, we have a well-worn original 1959 vinyl spin live in the studio from Chuck Berry. It's a brilliant song. Finally, we try to silence Tobin's statement: the US doesn't really do Indie very well Shutting this down completely will happen in a few weeks time when I unleash a MONSTER on Tobin. Stay tuned to find out what is my all time favourite US Indie record. I am going to bookend the show with 4, yes 4, tracks from the LP. All played on vinyl live in the studio. Can't wait! Let us know what your favourite song of all time is here and we'll do our best to play it. Track Listing Nobody's Dirty Business The Devil Makes ThreeTo My Dearest Wife LuceroLet It Rock Chuck Berry (Original 1959 vinyl played in the studio)No More Tears Barbra Streisand and Donna SummerSilence Kid PavementSpinning Round the Sun Gavin ClarkNative Son The Devil Makes Three So what did we learn today? My wife has come out better after 60 years than my Chuck Berry vinyl 45rpm 7"Pavement have gone a long way to silence Tobin's argument (no pun intended)The Devil Makes Three absolutely rockWe miss Gavin Clark Gavin Clark - an obituary We have left the final words about this wonderful man to John Niven. John wrote this obituary for the Daily Record in 2015. We think it's perfectly fitting for Gavin. This is an obituary for a man many of you will never have heard of - I just wish you had A singer who sold just a handful of records in his lifetime and who was never much on the radio or TV died last week. Aged just 46. Please bear with me while I write an obituary for a man many of you will never have heard of. How we met Gavin Clark was a member of Sunhouse. A band I worked with back in the late 90s in my previous life as a record company A&R man. His voice was a beautiful thing, fragile and careworn – an angel drunk on whisky. His lyrics were full of despair and hope and love and fear and death. The album I worked with him on way back when was called Crazy on the Weekend. We released it in 1998. It was in the wake of things such as Be Here Now by Oasis and Urban Hymns by The Verve. It was the apogee of Britpop, just as the bubble was bursting. Right away it got a five-star review in Uncut. It, where it was exalted as one of the records of the decade. Gavin’s songwriting was compared to Elvis Costello and Gram Parsons. I remember dancing around my office, feeling like we’d shot the moon.
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