Andrew Harrison
speaker
907 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard today
Andrew Harrison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was absolutely correct.
But there were an awful lot of quite bad grunge bands as well.
Well, yeah.
I mean, as you know, big rock, not my thing.
So we were really sick.
We were sick of the plaid fad.
We were not down with the plaid fad in the words of Collapsed Lung, the fantastic rap band who remembers them.
And we wanted something more colourful.
I think at one point we were calling them crimpolinism.
Yeah, because if you bought charity shop clothes because you were skint and you were on the dole, which people were, you know, this is still a hangover in the 80s.
If your aesthetic went back to Scott Walker, you know, as I just mentioned, you know, if it went back to John Barry and the soundtracks of the 60s, if it went back to that look, to that feel, if it went back to the specials and madness, if it went back to old ska and reggae, this was a really rich cultural thing.
And also it wasn't just music, it was fantasy.
film and it was telly it was get carter it was space 1999 it was edgar and corey it was sorry mightly it was mike lee yeah i mean obviously meantime and you're nuts in may absolutely colossal the best it was reeves and mortimer as well yeah and we i don't listeners may remember that reeves and mortimer characters mulligan and o'hare the folk singers
My rose has left me.
She's gone to Kenya with a bloke from Allied Carpets.
We had a pull-out section in the middle of... They were posters, but we pretended they were art photos to make it feel a bit more... It was called Images, referred to in the office as Images, because it made it sound classier.
But it's basically, Emma, they seem to smash its poster.
Instead of just putting the Wonderstuff and Jesus Jones and Hole and the Breeders, we would spice it up by putting in people like Brian Clough.
Or we'd put in William Shatner when you could see his toupee very clearly.
And the center spread poster, the double page foldout, which was the prime location where you were supposed to put the biggest band of the time.
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