SILENCE! #173
January 26th, 2016

I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN SO THE RAIN WON’T GET IN
It’s a new life, it’s a new day, it’s a new SILENCE!…and now no-one’s feeling good. Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die coming on like a Seventh sense to bring you a juicy slab of comics punditry. More CLASSIC BANTS than a carful of Clarksons smashing into a real ale festival.
<ITEM> It all starts with champagne. How like life, ha ha ha!!! Sponsorship, star-spotting, headcannons and all the shiznay you could shake a shizztick at. What lies within the Dunce Tank? Oh and the Galacticats. Of course.
<ITEM> Just the tiniest smidgin of technical bamboozlment, no deliveries and then we’re off at a steady canter towards…
<ITEM> The Reviewniverse shimmers, flexes and allows entry to it’s 4 colour wonders. Under the megascope: Ted McKeever’s Pencilhead, Phonogram, Patsy Walker Hellcat, Mark Millar’s Huck, Injection, Blackball Comics, Blast Furnace, American Monster, Batman and a crank load more.
<ITEM> It’s the Beast’s Birthday!
And that, in a very real sense, is all folks.
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SILENCE! #172
January 20th, 2016

YOU ARE A VAPOUR TRAIL, IN A DEEP BLUE SKY
In this innovative episode we find a hitherto undiscovered technical issue which means The Beast Must Die literally phones it this week. Nevertheless we manage to squeeze out a firm nugget of podcast gold. This is the equivalent of when a band releases it’s early demos, home recordings and the sounds of them farting om the bath and all the fans have to pretend that it’s really their favourite record, even though they miss the sheen and polish of the studio more than they could ever say and they force themselves to listen repeatedly through gritted teeth out of some ill-judged sense of loyalty and integrity even though the cold universe neither knows nor cares.
It’s like that. Are you ready to be heartbroken? Yes? OK then come join
<ITEM>Admin, admin getcha admin. Plus the technical problems rear their head.
<ITEM> Top new section ‘SILENCE! whilst we see if my cats sound like Chewbacca!’
<ITEM> What would YOUR Lynx fragrance be and why and how but mostly why?
<ITEM> Mark E. Smith’s forthcoming swing album
<ITEM> Reviewniverse hott and sexxxxy action. Multi-formats! Variable sound quality! The boys soldiering on like…soldiers recording a comics podcast? Talking All New All Different Avengers, Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, X-Force, Epic Illustrated, Star Lord, Lobo: Convention Special, Animal Man, All New All Different X-Men, Snow Blind and so, so much more whilst somehow so much less.
<ITEM> Sorry!
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SILENCE! #171
January 13th, 2016

(Bowie image courtesy of the wonderful Danny Noble. Go see her stuff here.)
Bit too sad to write a blurb, so I’ll let Danny’s pic do the heavy lifting…
But hark! There’s still a wondrous pod for you to embiggen your mind, body and soul with. When all else fails there will always be SILENCE!
<ITEM> Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die get down to it, whistling through the admin like the 7:39 from Chingford to Liverpool Street.
<ITEM> As is right and proper there’s some proper Sadmin, with news that David Bowie has left the cosmos. The boys try and provide a eulogy and inevitably come up short.
<ITEM> Alan Sane and Pigs Heads? Who could we be talking about?
<ITEM> The Reviewniverse is entered into with a rather less touching Bowie tribute, but there’s scant recompense in the form of a discussion of Rob Liefield’s Deadpool, New Mutants and male pattern balding superheroes. Plus! Vision, Unfollow, Wildcats, Travis Charest, Dr Strange, Thrill Power Overload, Early 2000AD, Grendel Tales, Paul Grist, A1, Carry On Avenging, Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks, Papergirls, A-Force and a hot mess more.
<ITEM> YOu ArE N ItEM!!
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At the centre of it all
January 11th, 2016
A great black hole has entered the world.
When the tears have subsided there will perhaps be more to say on this, but for now just want to put something up to mark the day and share this, which was rattling around my head a lot lately and last week especially. Check the bouncy little 303 squelch thing from about 00.55. He was ferociously good while dying.
Photo by Mick Rock, 1973. Jacket by God, infinity.
SILENCE! #170
January 3rd, 2016

WE ARE THE HOLLOW MEN, WE ARE THE STUFFED MEN
Should old appliances be forgot and never brought round to mine,
I’ll remind you that you need to return my strimmer before springtime.
Happy new year, Dear Listener! As the pine needles drop liberally from the Christmas tree, so your loving hosts drop facts, opinions and bullshit onto your carpet/brain.
I hope we’ve all made New Year’s Resolutions? I know we have – our resolution is to bring you the VERY BEST AND MOST GREATEST PODCAST ON THE INTERNET! Well that didn’t take us long to achieve! Cos here we are with a brand new healthy living version of SILENCE!!
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