⭐️4.94 ~ Über/‘Geoff was clean and tidy’ ~ AirBnB review/‘One of the UK’s best radio hosts’ ~ The Guardian/‘Your payment for £1.60 was declined’ ~ Barclays
All I'm saying is that if *I* was trying to pull off the biggest jailbreak in history, I'd establish myself as the world's most beloved keycutter, and then get appointed Prisons Minister.
Piers Morgan didn't storm off TV-AM because he's a snowflake. During his time in the US, he clocked that news-as-entertainment = ratings, and imported it. Storming-off is part of his toolkit for going viral. Tweeting about it is like booing a wrestler - you're part of the show.
Kermit - Paul McCartney
Gonzo - John Lennon
Rowlf - George Harrison
Fozzie - Ringo Starr
Matthew McFadyen - Brian Epstein
Miss Piggy - Aunt Mimi
Dr Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker - George Martin & Beaker
Scooter - Neil Aspinall
Sweetums - Mal Evans
Electric Mayhem - Rolling Stones
My wife has taken our five year-old son to a birthday party, so I’ve stolen one of his coloured-bath bombs and I’m going to have a big blue soak to prove to myself that I’m still alive and capable of feeling a sense of childlike wonder
Heard a lovely Paul McCartney story from someone involved in the London 2012 Opening Ceremony.
Paul turns up on the day, and sees that the ceremony features farm animals (sheep, cows, goats, ducks etc in the 'Green and Pleasant Land' section). He has a question to ask. Cut to:
1986: I'm watching Top of the Pops with my family. Julian Cope is performing 'World Shut Your Mouth'. My mum is appalled that he's singing the words 'shut your mouth' and makes us turn it off.
2022:
This is Stephen - one of my best friends. He died ten years ago today. It feels a bit weird putting this on here, but I'm laid up in bed, rendered mute by an infection, thinking about him, so I wanted to put it somewhere.
Later that evening, as the na-na-nas of 'Hey Jude' are being sung around the world, *all* the livestock from the ceremony are loaded into a transporter bound for Paul's estate in East Sussex, to spend the rest of their lives safe from slaughter
NEWS! I was thinking how everything is made at least a bit better by The Beatles, so I called up my friends at
@unionjackradio
, and they agreed. Long story short, I'm going to be playing a bunch of Beatles records on the radio for two hours every Sunday morning for 12 weeks.
I've never had much baggage about becoming a father in my 40s, but last night my six year-old son said to me: "Can we play a game where you pretend to be a young dad?"
Convalescing by watching 'Get Back' again, and struck by the bit at the end of day 4 when they play 'Rock and Roll Music'. Peter Jackson intercuts it with footage of them play it on their '66 tour, which looks like an ancient artefact. IT'S TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO!
I can't imagine anyone's made it to the end of this ridiculously long thread, but that was my friend, the late, great Stephen Joel: Best of men. Never a right nuisance, always good-as-gold.
I am so proud to have assembled such a dynamic ministerial team in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Together, we will work tirelessly to make Britain energy independent and lower bills for families.
Our 5 year-old son has become obsessed with“wild” music, which has led to ‘Smells Like Teenage Spirit’ on repeat in our house.
HIM: Dad, draw me Kurt Cobain!
ME: *spends 45 painstaking mins copying a picture*
HIM: That’s not how you draw Kurt Cobain, you should have copied mine
Last night, some kids dragged a discarded Xmas tree and leaned it against our front door, so when I went to leave the house this morning, the tree fell inside and onto me. Whoever did this is now our 7 year-old’s hero.
This is rotten news. Consistently the funniest show on radio. Hope it triggers a six-way bidding war between R2, R4, R5L, Virgin, Xfm and North Norfolk Digital
Due to what I can only imagine was some kind of administrative error, I went to this tonight.
It was stunning, and full of magic. The Disney Plus series is going to be incredible, we all need to book several days off for repeated watching.
#TheBeatlesGetBack
I know you shouldn't wish your life away, but if it wasn't for the fact the new series of 'Succession' starts on Monday, I'd gladly be cryogenically frozen until 25th November so I wouldn't have to wait for this.
Experience
#TheBeatlesGetBack
, a three-part original docuseries from director Peter Jackson streaming November 25 on
@DisneyPlus
. Watch the new trailer now.
Pleased to announce my next project: A ten-part investigative journalism podcast to solve the mystery of how this cassette - which I have never owned - ended up in the gutter outside my bedroom window
It’s
@annabelport
’s birthday! I won’t gush as it will only embarrass her, but if you feel like making a Twitterfuss of someone today, there’s no one finer.
5 yrs today since
@annabelport
& I ended the old radio show. I had a bunch of things I wanted to do - not least of which was spend time with my baby son. He's 6 on Saturday, so I should probably re-enter the labour market, but here's a fun rummage through the photo album
I can't think of anyone else who - 25 songs into a set - could feature back-to-back guest spots from Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen, and still be left with so many options to ramp *up* the energy.
John sends Paul a note about the Decca auditions turning up as bootleg! (Beatle nerds: This is Xmas 1971. Their relationship was three-dimensional, wasn't it?)
#Beatlejuice
@unionjackradio
1. Me on the Mrs Merton pilot, 1993
2. Mrs Merton pilot invitation
3. Craig teaches me to gurn, 1994
4. Craig, me, Caroline and Pete, 1997
✨NEW EPISODE✨
Craig Cash talks about Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy (BBC2, Christmas Day)
🎧
The man is a giant.
I’m in awe of his body of work, and he made a bigger impression on me as a guest - on and off the air - than anyone I’ve ever interviewed*
#ConanOBrien
* who wasn’t in The Beatles
Tomorrow will be a rough one for anyone who knew him. His love of music, and specifically musicians, was like that of a besotted teenager. He'd have been overwhelmed that his friends in the music industry have created this. Please share, and share your memories
#RememberingPete
It’s nearly 12 months since we lost our good friend
@petemitchelldj
who died suddenly on 12th March aged 61. We’d like to mark this moment by sharing memories of Pete & so we’d love it if those who knew him posted a tribute/memory/photo on the 12th March using
#RememberingPete
My just-turned-five-year-old son grabbed my phone, took this photo, and despite the fact that I’m imploring him to give it back from the comfort of my favourite reading chair, I somehow look like a pro-skateboarder mid-stunt
Karaoke evening on holiday in France. My wife asked me to check if her showstopper, Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ is well known here.
I checked and replied ‘It has a French Wikipedia page, it MUST be!’
She’s up next, and I’ve just discovered it wasn’t a single here
Thrilled to finally receive a copy of my friend and co-host
@Ed_Miliband
's book! Obviously I went straight to the index to count my mentions...
⬆️ More than: Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair, The Great Manure Crisis
↔️ Same as: Greta Thunberg
⬇️ Less than: The Mongolian Constitution
👍
Ten years today. (Since I caught herpes from my mother-in-law on my wedding day, when she insisted on giving me a congratulatory kiss, despite me recoiling from her weeping cold sore.)
Texted my wife to say I’ll been home ten minutes later than discussed, because my bus is stuck in traffic. She’s responding as if I’d said I’ll be missing our son’s birthday party because I’m in a pub
And we're done! Thank you so much for listening (if you listened). I'll be here every Sunday till end of May, I'd love to hear from you if you have queries/mysteries/requests. And I want to talk to Beatle people with podcasts/social media accounts etc
#Beatlejuice
@unionjackradio
Sad to see the lights go out at Union Jack Radio. Conceived in the spirit of the 2012 opening ceremony, but launched in the aftermath of Brexit, which maybe didn't help. One of those radio stations which acted as a magnet for good people, and gave them the freedom make stuff
My wife had the idea that *maybe* a few people would enjoy a middle-aged mum & dad having a nice chat about their favourite TV show.
Now we might just leapfrog the official HBO
#Succession
podcast in the chart!
Help a late-in-life dream come true:
I was looking forward to an intimate evening in with this beauty, but the call came, and instead, I’m understudying for Colin Murray on
@bbc5live
from 10.30pm. Tune in for highly offensive content. (Seriously, we’re doing a thing on the history of songs banned by the BBC)
My wife claims I've indoctrinated our son with The Beatles. I counter that plenty of kids latch onto their music.
She might be right: He's just announced he wants to go to school dressed as Ringo for World Book Day, based on the 2004 coffee-table book, Postcards From The Boys
Similarly: What if in giving Nigel Farage money to say something dickish on video, it turned out he didn't care about looking like a dick, and just liked people giving him money?
Happy 15th birthday to my alma mater, Absolute Radio. I worked in that building for a LONG time, and the transition from Virgin to Absolute was the most exciting period, thanks to the visionary
@clivedickens
,
@shirtysharath
and a brilliant team who wanted to do things differently
Our 5 year-old son has become obsessed with the idea of going to a restaurant called Crazy Pizza, after seeing a video of singing waiters, and pizza chefs spinning dough above their heads. I emailed them to check the best time to ensure maximum craziness, AND THERE ISN’T ONE!
Just getting our finale episode ready for you, we spent a bit of time with this guy yesterday evening, and figured you’d like us to include it…
#Succession
When things are back to normal, we'd love to have you over, cook you a meal, you can have a few drinks - you guys are such an attractive couple! Should we move this party into the hot tub? Until then, listen to our Beatles podcast.
NEW EPISODE TODAY!
I'm visiting the countryside with my son. We were just in a village shop, and a cyclist rode past, glanced in, turned around, parked up and came inside to ask for a photo with me.
He thought I was Bill Bryson.
(me = 51 BB = 72)
The Beatles could have chosen any director in the world to tell their story, and they went with this straight-talking Geordie, mostly known for a cult British TV music show. They had a knack for finding the right people.
Geoff Wonfor RIP.
Saw this at the premiere - it’s mind blowing. They used machine learning to separate out voices and instruments that weren’t recorded as multitracks. Looking forward to reading how they developed the tech…
@GeoffLloyd
Hello Geoff, hope you're feeling better. We thought you'd like to see how Peter Jackson and his team used AI to clean up the footage for 'Get Back'.
Midnight on a Friday seems like a high-impact time to launch the new
#Succession
podcast from me and
@sarabarron
On your podcast app now. More deets tomorrow.
In no particular order, everyone I've had the pleasure of talking to over the past 12 weeks about their love of The Beatles
#Beatlejuice
@unionjackradio
For most of the first five years of my son's life, his favourite colour has been blue, which is reflected in his wardrobe. He's now refusing to wear anything blue, because "it's not one of the colours of the Italian flag".
Any advice? I don't think Supernanny ever covered this.
There seems to be an outpouring of love for this big, daft, Grover-off-Sesame-Street-looking idiot, so I guess he’s either DEAD or they’ve announced him as the next Dr Who.
Whatever it is, jumping on this to prove I’ve known
@mrchrisaddison
for social capital/likes/retweets
Is this disturbing? We watched 'Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory' as a family at the weekend, and *every* time Charlie Bucket had a costume change, my wife said "You should dress more like THAT!"
The grooves people leave on your life:
I once interviewed the actor Jason Isaacs. Beforehand, he was talking about loo roll: “If I got shit on my forearm, I wouldn’t use dry tissue to wipe it off!”
No way he remembers me, but I think of him literally every time I wipe my arse.
I've had the itch to do some playing-music/talking-nonsense radio again for a while, and my friends at
@unionjackradio
are kindly letting me scratch it.
All next week, I'm hosting the breakfast show on SIX of their stations, at the civilised time of 7-9am