Growing Up With Vince & Jeremy

We grew up in the UK from 1970 to 1990. This show is all about the two of us looking back and putting bits of our shared past under the microscope, from the early ‘80s ‘Protect and Survive’ /Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear panic, to the theme music from The Incredible Hulk; from Wimpy Burgers to wimpy Orac from Blake’s 7; from the Falklands War to Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus. We look back with fondness and bafflement and sometimes with abject disbelief at what life was like when we were growing up.

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06 Languishing in Obscurity

November 15, 2025 • Rainbow Alley Productions • Season 1 • Episode 6

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Episode 6: Languishing in Obscurity (November 22nd 2017)

'Non scientes quod ambitiosam (Never knowingly pretentious)'

This episode:
As we discover just how many times Critically Acclaimed UK Playwright™ Vince can easily be irked, Jeremy is turned into a dynamic pose-able action figure with eagle eyes and grip hands (just in time for the Christmas toy market); both men clash swords over the age-old debate of art vs commercialism, but both are in firm accord that romantic advances towards complete strangers should not involve needlessly over-complicated plumbing/messaging arrangements, and that Cockney Rhyming Slang is incomprehensible gibberish.

The artists/bands rated and/or discussed are The Shadows, R.E.M, Radiohead, Mike + The Mechanics, and Tony Orlando and Dawn.

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Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free)

Wonderful Land – The Shadows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1dmBUBu9P4

Imitation of Life – R.E.M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqgdSsfqPs

Silent Running – Mike + The Mechanics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g

Karma Police – Radiohead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU

Ask Me Why – The Beatles

LINKS

Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_in_the_Head