Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
05:19 - British Rock National Treasures
12:02 - Ramones at the British Library
15:46 - U2
20:52 - Jim Steinman
27:42 - Winter Olympics
33:39 - Any Other Business
40:41 - Birthday Guest Keith Adsley

Our ‘big air’ manoeuvres on the rock and roll ski jump this week land the following tricks …

… why don’t we re-use old protest songs instead of writing new ones?

… “a temple of music and gothic lust:” would YOU buy Jim Steinman’s unsellable home?

… when Madness played on the Buck House roof

… Ptolomaic Terrascope? Aquarium Drunkard? Real and made-up music magazines

… “too complicated, not catchy, like a high-minded think-piece”: U2’s Days Of Ash EP

… when the Ramones invaded the London library

… Rod, Elton, Adele, Noel, Ed … do they cut it as National Treasures?

… “the best sport still works with the sound off”

… what links Steely Dan to American College Football?

… plus the Bishop of Ramsbury, Robyn’s “dream doner” and birthday guest Keith Adsley with a quiz about American college football walk-out music.

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