David Hepworth's blog

It's hard to get people to pay for music magazines nowadays but there's still an appetite for the things music magazines are abou...

I was listening to a programme about The Great Gatsby when the American author Susan Cheever said something that stopped me in my tracks...

American place names work in songs in a way British place names don't, which is often attributed to the geographical charisma and new-...

We were hanging around last Monday as the bands got ready for our Word In Your Ear show with David Ford and My Darling Clementine. The sound...

On July 8th, just a couple of days before the first Ashes test, we're presenting a very special Word In Your Ear show in the Thomas Lord...

Mark Ellen won't mind me saying he can be absent-minded. In the early days of The Word he forgot he'd arranged to do a phone intervi...

Numbskull Sunderland player has picture taken covered in £50 notes at a casino. Martinet Italian manager vows to sell him and anybody else w...

Twitter positions itself as an accompaniment to watching TV. There's a term for it - double-screening. You're watching one. The othe...

When I wrote about something I heard on Planet Rock , somebody who didn't wish to be named took me to task for slating the station havin...

Nige Tassell, who used to write for The Word, has published a book called Mr Gig , which details his quest to discover what live music means...

We went to see Othello at the National Theatre . With modern dress productions I always feel that for everything you gain (this is set i...

It's always a delight to hear someone mangling a really rotten idea for a listener competition on the radio. I was listening to Plane...

Chris Topham flies jumbos for Virgin Atlantic for a living,  runs the vinyl label Plane Groovy for a hobby and is spinning the records at...

I was talking to David Ford about our upcoming Word In Your Ear show on May 20th . He'd recently compiled a list of dos and don...

There's only one way that the Rolling Stones are going to restore their lustre now that we know the market for tickets to see them on th...

I was in a caff near Oxford Circus this lunchtime. Not a restaurant but more than a greasy spoon. A caff.  A woman came in, evidently unde...

Mark Ellen reckons the album by My Darling Clementine, who are performing at our next Word In Your Ear gig on May 20th with David Ford , is ...

From time to time magazines or papers get in touch and ask me to expand on something I've written about on this blog in a column for the...

Listening to the radio these days I'm increasingly aware I'm hearing conversations between people who aren't in the same physica...

The men who signed them were Eric Easton, an agent, and Andrew Oldham, a PR man. On the same day Oldham, who was only 19, took pianist Ian...