Ep. 2: Mods and Sods with Mark Bedford, Guy Pratt and Buddy Ascott

For this episode, we spin back to 1979, for a lively and laughter-filled conversation with two famous bass players and a drummer: Mark ‘Bedders’ Bedford of Madness, Guy Pratt (then of Speedball) and Brett ‘Buddy’ Ascott (then of The Chords). Together they discuss:

  • the fashion forces that inspired that year’s mod and skinhead revivals;
  • why the former musical movement fizzled out but the latter one gave us the lasting music of 2-Tone Records
  • the influence of punk and the freedom it inspired
  • why the music you listened to in that era defined the clothes that you wore and why gig-going was so dangerous
  • getting into and playing in pub venues under age
  • the role of fanzines in that tribal era
  • Mark Bedford becoming a pop star at 17 and the Madness biographical movie Take It Or Leave It
  • memories of meeting what was then a 15-year old fanzine scribe and why it mattered to get coverage in Jamming!
  • Guy Pratt's memoir 'My Bass And Other Animals' and Tony Fletcher's memoir 'Boy About Town'


Mark Bedford's The Near Jazz Experience can be found at https://thenje.bandcamp.com/

His social is https://twitter.com/I_be_MarkB

Guy Pratt will be touring soon with Saucerful of Secrets https://www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/

Guy Pratt co-hosts the Rockonteurs podcast with Gary Kemp which can be found at https://www.rockonteurs.com/

His official Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/guy.pratt.official

Buddy Ascott is currently on tour with The 1979ers and can be found at  https://www.facebook.com/brett.b.ascott.


The Best of Jamming!: Selections and Stories from the Fanzine That Grew Up 1977-86 is published by Omnibus Press and available now from all good book shops in the UK/EU, and Dec 2 in the rest of the world.

More information and online purchasing options at:

TonyFletcher.net

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