![]() ![]() I’m really enjoying this pod as I work through the back catalogue. I just like getting it from people who learned lessons in the van and applied it to life beyond music or music adjacent. Maybe the same information is available from some boring 55 year old business only person. ![]() ![]() The fact that he ties into the leadership conversations a number of people who were, for me in influential bands, really solidifies what he’s telling me. I’m always looking for leadership guidance as being a chef in a kitchen you get little help and mostly negative habits. Bill Dermott finds himself haunted by a determined voice in his mind plotting a heinous murder. And it’s great, it’s a perfect blend for me. With Ron Randell, Catherine McLeod, William Allyn, Alexander Lockwood. The Journey: Healing the Wounds of Mother Loss One Step at a Time is a residential retreat focusing on mother loss & its effect on your life, how her absence shapes your identity, influences your style of mothering and relationships, how your grief surfaces throughout your lifetime, and how you experience living beyond your mother’s final. Then it’s 17 years later, a bunch of bands later, and somehow you find out he’s got a podcast. You just chat about hardcore and somehow in the couple of days he’s around you, you end up remembering a number of things he tells you through his rational thinking and his super chill speaking and diction. One Step Beyond? More like a giant leap into a brave new world.You meet a guy like aram when he’s touring through around 2005. No matter what your cup of tea, Madness were playing mother and more than happy to pour it out with lashings of cream and sugar. Amidst this kaleidoscope everyone has their personal faves, be it the trio of Buster tributes of "One Step Beyond," "The Prince" and "Madness," the poppier Sixties Brit flavored hat trick of "In the Middle of the Night," "Bed and Breakfast" and "Mummy's Boy," the heavy on the atmospheres of "My Girl," "Nightboat to Cairo" and "Razorblade Alley" or the wacky batch of "Tarzan's Nuts," "Swan Lake" and "Chipmunks." There's nary a pause for breath, the wilding never stops, even when they slow the tempos and darken the moods. And, just as evident, English music hall, Augustus Pablo's Far Eastern sound, Brit Beat pop, the slinkier side of swing and the funnier side of classical ballet, military marches and Dad's Army, funfairs and keyboard riffs on an Oktoberfest tour of the German beerhalls, all this and more were poured straight into the mix and decanted into the Madness brew. It still sounds like nothing else on the planet, even though it's influences were waved pennant like from the band's hands - Buster, of course, and the sheer freneticism of early Jamaican ska and punk's raging fire. During the weekend of October 9 and 10, Witte de With is organizing a lecture and film program as an introduction to the project One Step Beyond - The Mine. ![]() Who could be so po-faced as to not join in? The set has lost none of its freshness, appeal or ability to surprise over the years. Actually the trousers were yet to come, but One Step Beyond dragged listeners kicking and screaming into a wacky world of their own creation, where Prince Buster slams into swan-clad ballerinas and boats on the Nile, where "Chipmunks are Go!" and the sun never set on the "Land of Hope and Glory." The Nutty Boys was an apt alternate moniker for the band, as they rocket madly through this set, all wicked grins and giggles, smug with their own cleverness and winking slyly at their own goofy musical jokes. Bill Dermott finds himself haunted by a determined voice in his. As an extension of the tradition of radio horror dramas, this program sought out and re-created real stories of the supernatural for each episode. A musical roller coaster, a tear through a musical house of mirrors, along the way Madness grab streamers of ska and rocksteady and stuff them gleefully into their baggy trousers. One Step Beyond S2E35: Contact (1960) - (Drama, Fantasy, Mystery,TV Series). It's the sheer exuberance of it all that first smacks listeners straight across the head, that and the pure mayhem that careens wildly from the opening shout to the closing note. ![]()
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