Old Yellow Bricks

 What’s new Podcast – Mr Ballen:  Are you a fan of the strange, dark and mysterious? That’s the questions Mr Ballen (John Allen) asks at the start of every episode which are released weekly on Mondays and Thursdays. Hell yeah! Is my answer. Since I was a kid I’ve always been interested in the unexplained, the strange and I know it’s grizzly but unsolved murders and serial killers. To this day the Jack the Ripper murders fascinate me, I think mainly because we will never know for sure who committed those hideous crimes all those years ago. FYI if you’re ever in London the JTR tours are well worth a go.  Originating as a YouTube channel Mr Ballen delves into some high profile cases and many that you probably won’t of heard of before. Some of these episodes aren’t for the faint hearted and at times it’s truly shocking to learn what us as humans are capable of doing to each other usually for money or jealousy. Recently there was a first hand account of the story of a 9/11 sur...

 How lucky are we? No new music for six years and not only does Frusciante re-join the band we get two, yes TWO new albums in the space of six months plus a world wide tour! There were lots of hints dropped during the promo of Unlimited Love that the band had enough songs for two records, maybe even more and that the material they'd left out was some of the better stuff. Check out Rick Rubins podcast Broken Record for interviews with all four band members in the lead up to the release of UL as there's some great stories and honest open conversations with someone they're clearly at peace with.. Return of the Dream Canteen will be their twelth studio album and in late August Tippa My Tounge was released as the first single followed by Eddie. The track was written after Eddie Van Halen's death in 2020 and as these guys do they express their feelings through their music and instruments. It's said that Flea introduced this emotional bassline the day after his death in re...