Ah, thanks for posting. Nice little interview.

Actually there was that Ray D'Arcy interview as well on RTE.

That reminds me that in my absent years when I couldn't find the forum never mind my login details  I stumbled across an interview about Good Pop Bad Pop on RTE as well with Brendan O Connor. Don't know if that was ever posted here. 3 years ago. It's still on the RTE website I think

Nice interview with Mark on Soho Radio with old Pulp contemporary Martin Green plugging the paperback. Nothing too revelatory so far, still listening:

https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/the-steve-martin-show-ft-mark-webber-and-swing-out-sister-07072025/?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLbWeJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp5jKJlaW5o8Jbt9fpXMhOWHMklD9wzkJRxCNLxv1BdGuusr04BtVFODVXAQH_aem_bvIOMpAsP1U_pwcSf4bJkw

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Actually there was that Ray D'Arcy interview as well on RTE.

That reminds me that in my absent years when I couldn't find the forum never mind my login details  I stumbled across an interview about Good Pop Bad Pop on RTE as well with Brendan O Connor. Don't know if that was ever posted here. 3 years ago. It's still on the RTE website I think

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 Thanks for the heads-up on the Brendan O'Connor interview. He can be a bit of a gob****e. Or certainly could be in the past. Working for the national state broadcaster has clearly put manners on him! This is a really good chat.

Here it is for anyone who wants to listen:

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22103173/

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 Thanks Jean / Eamonn, enjoyed that one. Might have been posted here before, cos I remember hearing the dirty jokes and glasses bits, but worth a re-listen anyway. Nice rapport and humour between them. Jarvis needn't be narked at his Mam for not noticing he was very short sighted until he was 5, nobody noticed I was until I was 11. It was a revelation: trees have LEAVES, they aren't just low green clouds; grass is made of little bits of grass, it's not just living carpet!

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Jarvis was interviewed on Nick Grimshaw on Friday 4th July. Starts 2h 10m in.

Nick Grimshaw - Oasis Forever: Skin, Goldie and Jarvis ****er - BBC Sounds

Interviewed as part of '1994 day'. Nothing much said, but hey-ho. Speaks a little about Glasto 2025 (and Glasto 1994), which interested me - as far as Jarvis knows the Red Arrows wasn't planned to co-incide with Pulp, but I'm going to continue to believe it was planned, and it was perfectly timed. If they were going to fly over, it had to be a daytime act, and Pulp doing Common People - what could beat that?

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They were over-running at that point, though! 'A Sunset' was planned to occur afterwards, so they were several minutes behind where they were meant to be...

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 How did you get to 11 though, inspirit?

[...] but other than that he's good at throwing out broad questions and letting the guest get on with it.

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I guess that with sight / hearing etc. nobody knows what's normal in other people (which I suppose is also true of how we feel emotionally and physiologically), so I didn't know my vision was deficient, I must just have seemed to be very clumsy and incompetent at sports. I was the weird kid off in his own world (why live in the world, when you can live in your head?), so probably teachers didn't notice me. My guess is this: in the last 2 years of primary (late 80s), we were formally tested for the first time - in the build up to the introduction of SATs it was a new thing. I went from anonymous to being a problem, low test scores = behavioural problems. Problems have to be fixed, and it turned out my problem was that I couldn't see, so hadn't engaged with any stuff that was on the blackboard. Anyways, I'm glad to be short sighted: with specs we can see as well as everyone else, but 'the focussed community' don't get to see the melting impressionistic world of colour, or the glorious diffuse iridescence of electric lights at night. Ugly motorways in focus, transmogrified into a cascade of of sparkling red and white orbs. Oops, long reply, I guess concision is one of the skills I failed to learn at school.

The broad questions and ability to listen to the guest seem a bit rare, don't they? Agree with comments about Chris Evans, but he's only one of many who just won't shut the fluff up. I don't know Brendan, but he seemed to have that rare ability. I listened to a podcast interview (of Patrick Wolf) tuther day, and the interviewer seemed nice and seemed intelligent, but he was stuck to his research and plan, and seemed obsessed with the chronology of things, and kept killing the flow of the conversation by pulling it back to his plan instead of letting it develop naturally.