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Looks Unfamiliar: Garry Abbott – You’d Have To Go On A Nerds Quest

Lovelife by Lush (4AD, 1996) - listen to Garry Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time is musician Garry Abbott, who’s sending out a Bicarbonate Of Soda-fuelled message in a bottle in the hope of reaching anyone else who remembers Lovelife by Lush, Nerds, Challenger – The Adventure Machine, Matchbox Connectables, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Baking Soda-Powered Submarine and The Vibes And Livelee Mixtape. Along the way we’ll be trying to decode a waterlogged baking soda-infused secret message with ‘SECRET’ written on it, finding out what happened when ‘Les’ left The Beatles, debating the politeness of actually turning up to a party you have been cordially invited to, exploring the commercial potential of Talking Sherbet and finally revealing why the key to global unity lies somewhere between Housing Data Analytics and Happy Hardcore.

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136 – Garry Abbott – You'd Have To Go On A Nerds Quest – Looks Unfamiliar

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Kellogg's Corn Flakes Action Models - listen to Garry Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.
Challenger: The Adventure Machine - listen to Garry Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Matchbox Connectables - listen to Garry Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.
Nerds - listen to Garry Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.
Vibes And Livelee - listen to Garry Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.
Lovelife by Lush (4AD, 1996) - listen to Garry Abbott and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Garry

Garry Abbott is a musician; you can find Garry’s website here and follow him on Bluesky at @garryabbott.bsky.social. Garry presents The Big Beatles Sort-Out, a podcast ranking all of The Beatles’ songs and other associated recordings; you can find out more about The Big Beatles Sort Out here and listen to Tim joining Paul and Garry for a chat about the Beatles cartoon here and George Martin’s album By George! here.

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If you enjoyed this, then you’ll enjoy Tim’s book Higher Than The Sun, the story of four albums released late in 1991 and how, long before Britpop, Creation Records took on the world and nearly won. Higher Than The Sun is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Please do not get Vibes and/or Livelee to read out the Serving Suggestion.

Further Listening

You can find Garry on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Button Moon here.

Garry has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about X-Men here, Spider-Man 3 here, Fantastic Four here and Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer here.

Further Reading

Surprisingly Lush didn’t make the cut for some reason – I’d probably have gone for Monochrome – but you can read all about a CD I made for someone who didn’t have a CD player in Wish I Could Sing It To You here.

Looks Unfamiliar - a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington chats to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

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