The Corona Diaries

It’s all about personal growth this week as Ant and yours truly open ourselves up to the process of re-evaluation.
It all started a few weeks ago when we happened to mention, quite casually as it transpired, that neither of us were moved by the music of Rush.
As it turned out a goodly number of the purple community were a little vexed by this admission. So we decided that maybe we should take some time to revisit Rush, and asked for some listening recommendations which the said Purps duly provided.
And this episode is our response to that process….would we be won over to the musical charms of the Alex, Geddy & Neil?
Love’n’anticipation
h
P.S the albums that Ant and I put forward for evaluation are as follows;
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Trueloves Gutter - Richard Hawley
Hats - The Blue Nile

So…outside through the open sliding door is the calm azure Caribbean and above, a wide open blue sky, as the tap tap on my cabin door - exactly on time - summons me to welcome in a genius, a legend and someone fast-becoming a “goofball-brother”. It takes one to know one (a goofball I mean…).
Now I could bang on for hours about what he has achieved, his extraordinary playing, or the records he sprinkled his peculiar gold dust all over. But you either know already, or you’re about to get a glimpse (you can always Google his discography, I did and it blew my mind).
So I invite you to just kick back and enjoy this magic hour. And with that, all that is left is to say is…ladies and gentlemen I give you Adrian Belew!
Love’n’cruising
h
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Before we start I need to draw your attention to something. If you have been listening for a while you know that TCD has never shied away from the odd expletive or two. However today's chapter is a little more littered than usual, and I wanted to give you ample warning, and beg forgiveness from Christine.
There are a couple of reasons for this, but the most obvious is that drink had been (and was continuing to be) taken, both by me and also by our guest. But before you judge you need to know it had been well-earned, following the near-perfect execution of a daring and audacious mission to smuggle contraband from the mainland.
Where we were less successful, was in getting an enormous amount of solid intel from our guest. Now, if you have ever spent any time with Frenchie (AKA Rich from Marillion) then maybe you will understand why. But as with everything to do with Frenchie it doesn't matter, because he is not only the lifesaver of all lifesavers, and a man to whom I owe a great deal, he is above all a joy to be around.
Love'n'hendricks
h

Now, even by our standards this is a little confusing.
Last week we sat down to record a patron-only Q&A, and we weren't 100% successful. We did manage to record, and we did end-up with a piece of purple content, but we didn't get around to actually answering any of your questions.
This week we should have been recording a non-patron episode, and one that did include a guest contributor. We did manage to record, but at some point along the way we managed to misplace the guest, so we had to come up with a different plan.
Which means (deep breath) we sat down and recorded a patron-only style Q&A episode but one that is also available to non-patrons, we actually answered some of your questions but we weren't able to ask any of our own questions, because the guest who was invited somehow became uninvited.
Oh, and Ant forgot to include the intro...
Other than that it all went swimmingly x
She Used To Be Mine - Sara Bareilles and Rufus Wainwright
Bob Mortimer & Fuji 9
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I seemed to recall that we said at some point that we would try and get a few more guests on TCD (...sorry Lucy), it could have been as a result of passing the 250 mark or it might even have been a sort of NY resolution.
Now clearly anything that either of us states as an intention (or even a hard-and-fast truth) should be taken under advisement, but in this case it is playing out as described. Saying that I didn't think all of them would be so close to home, because today marks the debut of the third (in podcast terms) and the first (chronologically speaking) of my offspring, with the appearance of Sofi.
I have really enjoyed these episodes, not least because of how proud I am of all of them, but also because of the little nuggets of insight that have been uncovered as we have chatted.
Love'n'loud trousers
h
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