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, comedian and writer Mitch Benn, who’s joining the nearest queue at the nearest festival in the hope of seeing evidence of Hippies, Rock Around The Clock by Telex, Dark Angel, Fuzzy Felt, the Scratch’n’Sniff book phenomenon and Star Wars And Other Galactic Funk by Meco. Along the way we’ll be debating whether Arnold Schwarzenegger needed to be more Neil Morrissey, meeting David Bowie’s short-haired long-haired mate, keeping an eye out for Kamelion’s cameo in God’s Wonderful Railway and revealing the profound influence that the Grandstand teleprinter had on the entire synthpop movement.
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144 – Mitch Benn – Sam Raimiesque CD-Vision – Looks Unfamiliar
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About Mitch
Mitch Benn is a comedian, musician, journalist, author, actor and pretty much everything else along those lines you can think of. You can find Mitch’s website here and his Patreon here, and follow him on Bluesky at @mitchbenn.bsky.social.
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Further Listening
Mitch has appeared on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Nobody’s House, Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 by The Police, Cyborg and Muton, Orion, Two Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones and Get Stuffed here, 54321, Logan’s Run The Series, Matchbox Zoomy Balloonies, Action Man’s Atomic Man and Bullet Man, King Swamp, and fifties nostalgia in the seventies here, Monday Morning 5.19 by Rialto, The Laughing Prisoner, Oh Baby by Rhianna, Pocketeers, O.T.T. and the original pre-Geoffrey incarnation of Rainbow here, Star Turn Challenge, evil Grange Hill teacher Mr. Hicks, Striker, Lines by The Planets, Night Raven and the rise of international celebrities acting in pop videos here, Stars by Hear’n’Aid, Into Infinity, The Humanoid, A Man Called Sloane, BusyBodies and The Kids Are Alright by The Pleasers here, No Memory by Scarlet Fantastic, The Flipside Of Dominick Hide, The Deceivers, Eureka!, Lady Sovereign and Jentina’s feud and Mego Pocket Heroes here and Channel 4’s pre-launch trailers, Imagination by Belouis Some, Space Sentinels, Simon Dutton as The Saint, How To Be A Complete Bastard by Adrian Edmondson and Maskatron here as well as Clangers on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here.
Mitch has also appeared on Tim’s Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Captain America: Civil War here.
Further Reading
There’s more about other Other Galactic Funk in The Greatest Hits Of Outer Space! here.
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