This podcast is only temporary
Irish songwriter and producer Andy White’s fourth series of This podcast is only temporary tells the story of the writing and recording of his live album 'The night is approaching through some would say it was morning', recorded at Abbey Road with producer John Leckie.
Progressing through the day from morning to night, Andy tells the stories of the songs along the way - as in previous Series 3 in which he looked at his spoken word album 'Good Luck I Hope You Make It', and the first two series which go track by track through solo album ‘This garden is only temporary’ and the 'AT' album co-written with Tim Finn.
This podcast is only temporary
Punks outside the secret police
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Episode 5 of the new series of This podcast is only temporary and Andy has reached the writing and recording of Punks Outside the Secret Police. It is just after the fall of the Wall, and involves adventures in Berlin and Czechoslovakia. The video Andy talks about, shot in Prague, is for Palaceful of Noise.
Palaceful of Noise was the first single from Andy's previous album Out There and the story of the filming of the video, directed by Richie Smyth and produced by Fiona Whelan, is the story of Punks Outside the Secret Police, which appeared on Andy's 1994 album Destination Beautiful.
Originally released on CD and cassette, Glasgow company LNFG have just released the first LP edition of Destination Beautiful. The album is a bright blue and yellow explosion of positivity and these are the vinyl colours from which you can choose.
In this episode Andy plays a previously unreleased mix of Punks Outside the Secret Police from the EP included in the "2 x vinyl" LNFG option and reveals how it differs from the album version. He also mentions some well-known-at-the-time Belfast graffiti – one included in his poem Up Down, starting "We will never ...", and another that said, enigmatically and ultimately inscrutably, "Sam Todd For God". The other video Andy tells you Richie directed was The Fly by U2.
If you've listened to Series 1–4, welcome back. If you are a newcomer to the podcast, do check out previous episodes in which Andy goes track by track through his most recently released albums, telling stories about the songs and playing unreleased studio mixes that you will only find here.
Happy listening, see you next week for further adventures and, as Edge might say, don't stop.
Andy's albums are available on Bandcamp or www.andywhite.com
Podcast artwork: Sebi White