Recent readers may worry that the two of us are a little leather obsessed. We don’t wear leather all the time. Sometimes we try and be much more exotic. Happy Christmas!
Not just leather coats
March 12, 2009
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Whigfield tells it like it is
March 12, 2009
Do you remember Whigfield? I do. Also known as Sannie Charlotte Carlson, Whigfield had a huge hit in the 90′s with Saturday Night. What a great opening line; Dee Dee Na Na Na!
Now of course she came and performed the song on Live and Kicking! She was Number One in the charts, and also she would have had no choice. In the 90′s pop singers were treated like performing monkeys by their sinister svengali masters, the record pluggers. But sometimes they found their own way of rebelling. Whigfield rebelled on two fronts. Firstly, she refused to do the Saturday Night dance. This involved (and I quote from Wikipedia here) “the unusual feature of looping a pattern of five bar-long steps over an ordinary four-bar cycle of music.” I mean, I thought it was that, but, you know, it’s best to get these things right. And she wouldn’t do it. I think she was asked to do the dance on the show. She said, “I don’t do it.”
Later, we stood chatting to Whigfield, and this is where her second act of rebellion took place. Off camera, there was me, Trev, Emma Forbes and Whigfield. Emma asked Whigfield what it felt like to be Number One. And Whigfield said; “It feels like shit.”
Dee Dee Na Na Na!
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Trev and Simon Podcast No.2 is here
March 7, 2009
We did our second podcast on Thursday, officially called Trev and Simon Podcast No.2. Why’s it taken so long to arrive here I hear you ask (except I don’t)? Well, I forgot what I was doing and had to have a conference call with Andrea our producer, and then we started talking about capybaru’s. You see! It’s not just Trev I can talk rubbish with. So, yes, another hour (actually just under) of two men talking nonsense… last time I compared it to a trip to the pub to listen to two old drunkards. This is more like a stop off on the way to listen to two cider swigging hobos on a park bench… friendly ones though, the type who feed the birds tuppence a bag.
You can listen to/ download it here… Trev and Simon Podcast No.2
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That was a serious bit wasn’t it? We pinched that from some people who do a proper podcast.
Here’s what some of our listeners thought of Podcast No.1:
- I am very happy that you are doing a podcast… Siobhan
- I want cake… Elaine
- I make good cakes… Hannah
- Great podcast guys… Tom
- Great podcast… Maisie
- I loved the podcast!!!!… Zoe
- I loved it most… Mr Kipling
- VERY VERY funny… James
- Enjoyed it very much… rambling… epic… nondescript… butts… shirts… much better… BingoTom
- Better than mine… Ricky Gervais
Ok, I made that last one up and BingoTom’s I edited a bit, but you get the drift. Oh, and I made the Mr Kipling one up.
Here’s another list, lovingly prepared by producer Andrea, who, in an official capacity, has no choice but to listen to the podcast more than once. This time round we talk about…
- Podcast number two
- Growing old disgracefully
- Andrea looking like Nana Mouskouri
- Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
- Trevor wearing tweed now, Simon wearing tweed at university
- Underpants
- Mistresses (the TV show)
- The Chap and Vic Reeves
- Simon’s leather Nazi coat and other fascist fashion trends
- Simon’s visit to Woodlands, incl. peak flow and a touchy-feely nurse
- Renaming strokes
- Trev brings coconut cake which looks like a polar bear, Simon refuses to eat it
- Pig-tailed macaques (and their role in the coconut trade)
- Trevor’s family bike ride
- The Brits
- Old people wearing young people’s fashion
- Andrea’s new band The Hummingbirds
- Questions and comments from our listeners
- Genesis, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins
- Glutinous rice
- What are the origins of Trev and Simon’s nicknames, ‘Minty’ and ‘Sticky’?
- Celebrity ham
- Tampons
- An update on the Trev And Simon website, blog and Facebook page
That’s 24 things!
As usual (usual? It’s only the second one) it’s all there in its unedited glory. We don’t plan much and we don’t know what we’re going to say but we enjoy ourselves and we hope you enjoy listening to it. Oh, and as usual, this podcast is unsuitable for children… and adults.
Oh, and big apologies to that most excellent Chap, Michael “Atters” Attree for calling him Michael “Atters” Atterby! What was I thinking?
Oh, and for those of you keen to find it on iTunes, it should hopefully find its way there within a couple of days. We’ll keep you posted with a post when they post it.
Oh… that’s it.
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Hello from Trev and Simon
February 11, 2009
Here we are as two hairy men. Welcome to our blog. Today we did a podcast. Our first. We’ll let you know when it is up and running.
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