The Beatleplaces Podcast With Mark & Col # Episode 19

I Got Blisters On Ma Fingers!

Lights, camera, action.. well actually one microphone, some custard creams and a few beers. Col and Mark have re-appeared once again with more Beatle stuff to entertain you for an hour or so. Beatles With An “A” is our little attempt to give you some interesting facts and whatnot on the world’s greatest band, The Beatles and our hometown of Liverpool. You’re all very welcome. Covering the letter “F” this time, we’re here to enlighten you (and each other) on the Beatles people, Beatles places, Beatles songs and Beatles trivia you’ve come to love and expect from two idle Beatle nitwits like us. It’s a good show if I say so myself- and I just did. Mark dishes out his popular Beatle quiz feature, “What song came before” and the popular spin off quiz, “What song came after.”, equally tough enough and I dare you to get them all right. Col talks about the close friends of the Beatles, Arthur Kelly and Roy Trafford and how little we knew about them both, plus we have a chinwag about Paul’s home at 20 Forthlin Road, whilst Mark tells all about 36 Faulkner Street, the honeymoon love nest of John and Cynthia. In the midst of all this Col chucks into the mix a few Beatles quizzes too and along the way we find out about John’s musical pseudonyms, the origin of Northern Songs, the brilliantness of The Philharmonic Pub (and its pies), where Paul lost his virginity and when the Beatles nearly played in Berlin. The show is that busy, it left poor Col no time to mention his newly acquired air fryer. Perhaps that can be a one-hour special podcast next time. Stay tuned and remember to clean after use. Ding!

Episode #18 – "Let’s all get up and dance to a song.."

Well hello again. Sit down and take it easy for a bit, we’re all informal here. Mark and Col, the most reliable men this side of the River Mersey are fit for duty and back again to present another Beatleplaces Podcast, a nearly no-nonsense approach to enthusiastically talking about the Fabulous Four (which is The Beatles by the way) and where they came from (which is Liverpool, by the way). Along the way and between our wacky witterings, we present another instalment of our ongoing series “Beatles With An A” and this time we’ve landed on the letter “E”. This is our chance to tell you what we looked up about the Beatle songs, Beatle places, Beatle people and Beatles everything else that begins with an “E”. You can see where we going with this. We like to spice up the podcast with trivia and stuff and this time we have no less than 4 quizzes. Mark gives you “What Track Follows”, And “What Track Came Before” and “Name The B Side” which are all harder than you think, or at least, than I do. We reveal who the monkey is in the White Album song. Col tells you about Brian Epstein’s family tree back in Russia and raves about the genius radio presenter and Beatle friend, Kenny Everett and his influence on the band plus we explain what Vicks Inhalers had to do with the Beatles early drug taking. We’ve worked eight days a week to make this a good show so make the most of it and above all, treat yourself. Oh, here’s our bus now. Fares please.

Episode #17 – Beep, beep, beep, beep, YEAH!

Nice of you to drop by and see if we’ve been busy lately. The answer to that is, yes, we have by jove. Mark and Col, those enigmatic but likeable idiots, are back with yet another Beatleplaces Podcast With Mark & Col - aka “Beatles With An A”, delivering yet more delightful dollops of Beatles facts and musings as we run through the alphabet for our beloved Beatle listeners out there in podcastland. This time, we’ve reached the letter “D”, providing all manner of chit-chat about the Beatles and Liverpool as well as a fair helping of ad-libs, bad jokes and whimsical nonsense from him and me. The Beatle songs, the Beatles people, the Beatles places and oh, I could on, and often do. It’s an interesting podcast episode this one. This time we’re chewing a brick about the time John bought an island in Ireland, Paul's maternal family tree and the Danher connection, John’s sad dog story, a short biography of the great Rod Davis ex-Quarryman, the odd origin of I Dig A Pony, our own day off visiting Pete Best’s Beatle Museum in Liverpool, John’s dreams, when John and George went to Dovedale School, some Hamburg Beatleplaces you’ve not heard of, the weird tale of how The Fool On The Hill was written and lots besides. Mark has his world-famous A Day In Beatle History feature, Col does his Terribly Tricky Beatles Trivia quiz once more, this time about The Magical Mystery Tour movie and Mark provides the Crappy Karaoke, reciting Beatles lyrics on purposely badly for you to guess. It’s always a good laugh and I know, cos I was there. So, download us and enjoy your latest Beatleplaces episode and put the world on pause for a wee while. That’s an order.