Road Trip, Part One: Are We There Yet?

This is a two-parter. Jamie has been talking about seeing the Manic Street Preachers and Suede for months, and this time he’s finally gone and dragged Richard with him. They’ve recorded the whole journey down. Part one is the drive: two men in a car with microphones and nowhere to escape.

Richard’s hill to die on: physical tickets need to come back. No apps, no QR codes, no phone dying at the turnstile. Just a proper bit of card you can hold, lose, find in a coat pocket three years later and keep forever. Jamie has views.

Richard also shows off his birthday present: a new camera, which is a deliberately old-fashioned point-and-shoot. A man who runs a recording studio full of modern kit, choosing a camera that looks like it came free with a Kodak film. Jamie has views on that too.

They also get into the blue wave in America, and then, as promised, they talk a lot of bollocks.

Part two: the Manics and Suede, live.