{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-66565","podcast_index_feed_id":66565,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5fe229a1f896715ee8319608","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/1620937674526-4e6eb29c967e869bd9d5a9d205d55599.jpeg","author":"Word In Your Ear","episode_count":986,"summary":"Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like \"Rock On\", \"Whistle Test\" and VH-1. Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T06:19:52.971578+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565"},"episode":{"title":"David Gray’s priceless memories of lessons learned the hard way","slug":"david-gray-s-priceless-memories-of-lessons-learned-the-hard-way","published_at":"2026-06-23T13:11:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/david-gray-s-priceless-memories-of-lessons-learned-the-hard-way","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a3a860926f9b8cade546dee/media.mp3","summary":"David Gray went through the roof with his White Ladder album in 2000 and he’s toured and recorded ever since, ending this summer’s loop at Latitude. He talks to us here about the rigours of seeing bands when you lived in rural Wales and the hilarious, hard-won lessons of the first gigs he played himself and every possible shade of crowd reaction. It’s an absolute whirlwind from start to finish and features ...   ... playing weddings, clubs, festivals and a Welsh village regatta   … the role of music in the construction of your character   … the turning point: “I arrived onstage to more applause than I’d ever had when leaving”   … the time gave Morrissey his string of beads   … the emotional architecture of live performance and how Elvis programmed his shows   … vivid memories of seeing the Cult (“bloody nose”), the Mission (“headbutted”) and the Stranglers (“we left terrified”)   … running from stage to stage at Glastonbury in ‘86 and the insular genius of the Cure   … his Liverpool punk band in their perishing “Joycean” flat   … the unbeatable sound of a crowd singing one of your songs     … Nick Drake’s frail sensibility and the value of growing a hard skin.   David Gray tickets here: davidgray.com David Gray’s new album Nightjar, a companion to his 2005 No.1 record Life in Slow Motion, is out now via Bella Figura. Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"David Gray went through the roof with his White Ladder album in 2000 and he’s toured and recorded ever since, ending this summer’s loop at Latitude. He ta…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2227,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-66565/episodes/david-gray-s-priceless-memories-of-lessons-learned-the-hard-way/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-66565/david-gray-s-priceless-memories-of-lessons-learned-the-hard-way.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}