seahorses

On this episode of Irregular Information: Weird Things That Animals Do.
Today's episode will be featuring deep dives on two honorary Irregular Information goofballs, the elusive platypus and the somehow thriving seahorse. 

What lives in the Thames? From the things we can see like seals and crabs to the invisible elements like oxygen and nitrate. Find out why the Thames has that signature brown colour and why it is actually a good thing! This episode is all about the recently published State of the Thames Report 2021 by the Zoological Society of London and we are greeted with the lovely and knowledgeable Alison Debney, ZSL's Senior Conservation Programme Manager to tell us all about it. Hosted by our new podcast producer Chloe Russell.

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When you're trans and pregnant, some of the vocabulary of pregnancy, birth and parenting might not fit you. In fact, some of it might not even work for people of ANY gender. Trans parents Freddy McConnell and CJ talk about gender-additive language, inclusive for women and other genders, and about how in English law, the word 'mother' becomes semantically very complicated indeed.

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In this episode, Alex is heading underwater to talk about some of the most unique animals on the planet. Thankfully, he got to learn from Dr. David Harasti, the Senior Research Scientist at the Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, to help answer some questions about these amazing creatures. So, grab your scuba gear, because we’re diving into the sea to talk about seahorses.

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Topics of Discussion: British Bat Boy, American Wizards, Victor's Secret, craigslist activities, seahorse teeth.   

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Alright - welcome to My 90s music podcast - the podcast where I talk to the people who lived, loved and were in the eye of the storm of the best decade ever - the glorious 90s.

Today I speak to a real special guest - Mark Bedford who is a founding member and bass player of Madness 

Coming into the 90s was a really interesting time for Madness as they approached the decade differently which had great results. They found a new passion, new energy and new fanbase by pioneering the all day festival which was called Madstock in FInsbury Park.  This was one of the first of its kind and we have them to thank them for any day or weekend festival we go to for laying out that blueprint. Madstock 92 saw Madness headline but had huge supporting acts such as Flowered Up, Gallon Drunk, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Morrissey.

Madness also released a host of live albums and compilations which further embraced them into the bosoms for Indie Kids, 80s kids and all music fans across the world. 

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Wow - imagine one of the founder members and bass player of Madness taking the time to chat to us. What an honour. A real gent. Thanks to Mark Bedford for sharing his 90s experience. And a huge shout out to Katy M for connecting us also. Massive thanks. 

Do follow @madnessnews on twitter to see what they are up and do yourself a favor - grab a drink tonight and get some Madness on - maybe the Madstock Live album - you will feel 100% better for doing that.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode. I hope that it filled you with as much joy, nostalgia and happiness that it did for me. 

Please do share this podcast with your 90s obsessed friend and follow me on @my90smusicpodcast on facebook and twitter and @my90smusicpod on instagram

Lastly please do go to Mixcloud to hear my 90s based radio show, just search for supersonic 90s radio show. 

Until next time, Keep it 90s. Over and out

Alright - welcome to My 90s music podcast - the podcast where I talk to the people who lived, loved and were in the eye of the storm of the best decade ever - the glorious 90s.

Today I speak to a composer and Saxophonist Steve Hamilton who is a recording and touring member of NGHFB and has also recorded with Radiohead and toured with Blur. He also has played with Amy Winehouse, The Auteurs, Beyonce, Bono, The Beloved, Madness, The Pet Shop Boys, The Wildhearts, Snowboy, Roger Daltrey, Stereo Lab and Stevie Wonder.  

He famously missed out on playing with Frank Sinatra but tells us all about that. Sorry Steve. 

Superb to chat to Steve Hamilton on today’s episode. He is a genuinely talented individual and very humble about what he has achieved in his life. Excited to hear what he does next especially with Noel and the HFB which should be very soon by all accounts. Thanks to Katy M for connecting us - really appreciate it! You are a superstar. 

Do go to Steve’s website which is stevehamiltonmusic.com to find out more about him and his work. 

Thanks so much for listening to this episode. I hope that it filled you with as much joy, nostalgia and happiness that it did for me. 

Please do share this podcast with your 90s obsessed friend and follow me on @my90smusicpodcast on facebook and twitter and @my90smusicpod on instagram

Lastly please do go to Mixcloud to hear my 90s based radio show, just search for supersonic 90s radio show. 

Until next time, Keep it 90s. Over and out

Alright - welcome to My 90s music podcast - the podcast where I talk to the people who lived, loved and were in the eye of the storm of the best decade ever - the glorious 90s.

Today I have the pleasure of being IN A ZOOM with Nigel Clark from Dodgy and who is an incredible singer, songwriter and solo artist in his own right (sorry I nicked title from something Nigel is doing as a virtual Q and A). 

I had a great time chatting to Nigel and we cover his 90s experience all the way to talking about punk, the 60s bands of Laurel canyon and playing guitar soon with Toyah who lives across the road from him. 

But, we kick off getting settled into the interview talking about the times we are living now and why the 1980s and 90s were a simply, possibly better time for so many reasons.

That was really great chatting to Nigel Clark and I really enjoyed that really honest chat about what it was like to be in the good ship Dodgy and also Nigel’s world outside of that. Some brilliant memories there and I can't wait to hear Nigel’s new songs with the possibility of old Dodgy demos and Bluetones demos seeing the light of day. Also if you are in Norwich on Sept 4th for the Common People gigs where Nigel, Chris Helme and Mark Morriss get together to blow us all away - do check that out.

Nigel has new album coming out in Oct called Make Believe Love which he is very excited about and I am sure you are too.

Follow Nigel on Twitter @dodgy_nigel and on Instagram @Nigel_Songs and Nigel Clark on Facebook. 

Thanks so much for listening to this episode. I hope that it filled you with as much joy, nostalgia and happiness that it did for me. 

Please do share this podcast with your 90s obsessed friend and follow me on @my90smusicpodcast on facebook and instagram and @my90smusicpod on twitter

Lastly please do go to Mixcloud to hear my 90s based radio show, just search for supersonic 90s radio show. 

Until next time, Keep it 90s. Over and out.

Today is a COOL AS F**K episode as Clint Boon - yes that’s right the 5 star General of The Boon Army, DJ, Podcaster and Inspiral Carpets keyboard hero is in the house. 

I was so chuffed when Clint agreed to chat to me and it was like talking to an old friend although we had never met before. It’s a bumper episode where we cover Clint’s 90s, how the Inspirals started, and having a certain Gallagher brother as their guitar tech and of course what Clint is up to now. 

What a buzz TO TALK TO the legend that is Clint Boon about his 90s experience and much much more. We could’ve talked for hours. 

Do follow Clint on @therealboon on twitter, listen to Disco Rescue on Beatstream every Friday and get your cow cards and official Boon army merch on boonarmy.com 

Thanks so much for listening to this episode. I hope that it filled you with as much joy, nostalgia and happiness that it did for me. 

Please do share this podcast with your 90s obsessed friend and follow me on @my90smusicpodcast on facebook and instagram and @my90smusicpod on twitter

Lastly please do go to Mixcloud to hear my 90s based radio show, just search for supersonic 90s radio show. 

Until next time, Keep it 90s. Over and out.

Alright - welcome to My 90s music podcast - the podcast where I talk to the people who lived, loved and were in the eye of the storm of the best decade ever - the glorious 90s.

Today I speak Chris Helme who is a vital singer / songwriter who went from learning guitar and singing in the early 90s to working and playing in pubs and busking on the streets of York to fronting the band after The Stone Roses called it a day - The Seahorses. 

It was a whirlwind journey and career. Chris continues to write, tour, play and collaborate with the best musicians around and I am so excited to hear Chris’s latest work including a lockdown album and also future collaborations with members of Bluetones, Dodgy, Cast and more. 

THERE WE GO. What a blast TO TALK TO Chris Helme about his 90s experience.

Do follow Chris on @chrishelmerwords on twitter to see what he’s up to and also you can buy handwritten song lyrics of Chris’s songs which are super cool - I have one myself. Do support Chris if you can. I am so excited to see what Chris does next, especially regarding the collaborations Chris was telling us about towards the end of the episode.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode. I hope that it filled you with as much joy, nostalgia and happiness that it did for me. 

Please do share this podcast with your 90s obsessed friend and follow me on @my90smusicpodcast on facebook and twitter and @my90smusicpod on instagram

Lastly please do go to Mixcloud to hear my 90s based radio show, just search for supersonic 90s radio show. 

Until next time, Keep it 90s. Over and out

Alright - welcome to the first episode of My 90s music podcast - the podcast where I talk to the people who lived, loved and were in the eye of the storm of the best decade ever - the glorious 90s.

Today I speak to the godlike genius and Scottish hero Alan McGee. Alan of course started Creation records after coming down to London from Glasgow in the 80s. Alan is a real hero of mine and of many of you and he brought us the bands that defined the 90s and music/popular culture in general including Oasis, Primal Scream, Ride, Jesus and Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, My Bloody Valentine, House of Love and laterally records from St Etienne, Bernard Butler and Hurricane #1 - the list goes on and on.

Kick out the jams - it’s Alan F@@@in Mcgee

THERE WE GO. SUCH A PLEASURE TO TALK TO ALAN McGee about his 90s experience.

Do follow alan on @alanmcgee93 on instagram and facebook to see what he’s up to. It’s always something cool and also keep an eye out for Creation Stories which is the life and times of Alan Mcgee and all the craziness that ensued during the Creation Records years which should be getting released very soon. 

Thanks so much for listening to this episode. I hope that it filled you with as much joy, nostalgia and happiness that it did for me. 

Please do share this podcast with your 90s obsessed friend and follow me on @my90smusicpodcast on facebook and twitter and @my90smusicpod on instagram

Lastly please do go to Mixcloud to hear my 90s based radio show, just search for supersonic 90s radio show. 

Until next time, Keep it 90s. Over and out 

Welcome to My 90s Music Podcast with me Mark McC. I will be bringing you regular chats with the very best musicians and scene-sters from the 90s. This podcast will be chocked full with your heroes and the people you loved and still love from The 90s.

People who’s music or voices were never too far away from your ears and those who adorned your school books and you had plastered all over your bedroom walls. I will chat to the 90s superstars who lived it, loved it and who were truly in the eye of the storm.

Guests will include those who were the soundtrack to your youth or formative years as you discovered the very best bands, best music tracks, best music scenes and best gigs as you partied your way through the best decade of your life.

Our parents and our grandparents had the 60s, we luckily had the 90s. What a time to be alive and what a time to look back on the trials, tribulations and triumphs of a decade that will never sound, smell or feel like that ever again.

The first 5 episodes of My 90s Music Podcast will be with:

Alan McGee of Creation Records and signing Oasis fame.

Steve Hamilton who is a famous sax player and composer who recorded and or toured with bands like Blur, Radiohead and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

Mark Bedford who is Madness Bass Player and Founder member.

Chris Helme - Seahorses front man and singer songwriter in his own right

And Scottish National Treasure Duglas T. Stewart who is BMX bandits frontman and long time friend and collaborator with members of Teenage Fanclub, Superstar, Soup Dragons and many more of the Belshill Music Glitterati.  

For those of you who don’t know me, here is a little bit about me…

I’m Mark McC, your host and I am stuck somewhere between 1989 and the early 2000s. I was always obsessed with the music of the 1990s since hearing She Bangs the Drums and Step On in a mate’s sister’s bedroom record player (she was out) when I was 14. I worked at Our Price Records in Irvine and Kilmarnock in the west coast of Scotland during school and University which gave me a proper schooling in music and opened my eyes to every genre and decade (but the alternative and mainstream 90s music was where I felt most at home). I was 16 when Britpop kicked off in 1992 with Blur and Suede and 18 when Liam and Noel launched the song that changed everything Supersonic.

At the end of the 90s I moved from Ayrshire to The big Smoke, to London, to start working with some of the big music magazines like (NME, LOADED, MELODY MAKER, MUZIK and UNCUT) in the late 90s and never looked back (apart from my music tastes).

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