Yes, it's been a long while! Remember when fanzines would come out a year late? Well here we are. If you've been wondering what happened, we have NOT retired. We just got held up on a few episodes and then took a break! While we get back on tr

CRE010 - THE LEGEND “The Legend Destroys the Blues” b/w “Arrogant Bastards” w/ The Legend/Jerry Thackray/Everett True (The Legend!, journalist, author, professor)

Nov 16th, 2022 46m 27s

It’s been a VERYYYYYYY long wait, but we swear this one is worth it. Your humbled hosts are back from the dead with our first repeat guest, with an incredibly fun interview, in what we believe to be our most entertaining episode! Links:Destr

CRE009 - THE LOFT “Why Does the Rain” w/ Peter Astor (The Loft, The Weather Prophets, The Attendant, Ellis Island Sound, Wisdom of Harry, Louis Chavez, Damp Jungle; author)

May 19th, 2022 1h 18m

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **It’s a huge one!! Maybe the first CLASSIC single on Creation, and boy are we excited about it. It’s worth the wait! Did you doubt us? I bet you did! Moves, technical problems,

CRE008 - JASMINE MINKS - “Where the Traffic Goes” w/ (Part 1) Simon Down (Pink Label, The Legend!, early Creation label involvement) and (Part 2) Tom Reid & Martin Keena (The Jasmine Minks)

Mar 11th, 2022 1h 34m

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **Holy shit we are back once again. We have careers, ok?? It's our double issue! This ep we are trying MULTIPLE new things. We have someone chatting with us in the first half (S

JAZ001 - Pat Fish & The Jazz Butcher Special w/guest David Barker (Glass Records)

Jan 28th, 2022 1h 12m

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **Back again!! We took a winter break, but we are back with a special tribute to the recently passed frontman of The Jazz Butcher. We start off talking about Scott’s history wi

CRE 007 - BIFF BANG POW! “There Must Be a Better Life” w/ Dave Evans (Biff Bang Pow!, Twelve Cubic Feet, Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, producer, early live sound man for The Jesus & Mary Chain)

Dec 2nd, 2021 57m 28s

** Fifty Years of Fun’s Patreon page: patreon.com/fiftyyearsoffun **We’re back with a bang! One of the absolute best early Creation singles gets a detailed excavation by your hosts. Matt goes to great lengths to not say “great.” Our guest gui

CRE006 - THE X-MEN "Do the Ghost" w/ Tim Hosking (The X-Men, The Fish Hildas, Ug & the Cavemen)

Oct 21st, 2021 51m 33s

Your friendly hosts explore the first of two X-Men singles on Creation, learning all about the garage trash & psychobilly scenes around early-mid ‘80s London. Guest Tim Hosking, bass player for the X-Men also helps us get to the bottom of the F

CRE005 - THE PASTELS “Something Going On” w/ Stephen McRobbie (The Pastels, Buba & The Shop Assistants, The Paintings, Geographic record label)

Sep 16th, 2021 1h 3m

The first of three fantastic Pastels singles for Creation brings us in contact with a true pillar of pop music, Stephen Pastel. Not only do we get into the details of the release of this single and the band’s history prior to Creation, we dip i

CRE004 - THE JASMINE MINKS “Think!” w/ Jim Shepherd (The Jasmine Minks)

Aug 6th, 2021 59m 21s

You can count on us to take a while but bring the goods! Just a purely incredible single, and frontman Jim even PLAYS THE A-SIDE for us!! We get to the bottom of the fretless bass mystery and we learn a lot more about the Aberdeen, Scotland-bas

CRE003 - BIFF BANG POW! “Fifty Years of Fun” w/ Dave Musker (Television Personalities, Revolving Paint Dream, Jasmine Minks, X-Men)

Jul 1st, 2021 53m 47s

We’re back!! Farfisa Dave is an incredible guest and such a good sport; we are so excited about this one! Dave was the keyboard/piano player on the TVP’s dark classic LP The Painted Word, as well as hired hand on basically all of the early Crea

CRE002 - Revolving Paint Dream - “Flowers In The Sky” w/ Ken Popple (Biff! Bang! Pow!, Revolving Paint Dream, Laughing Apple)

Jun 3rd, 2021 1h 12m

It may have taken a minute or two (it’ll get more regular, promise!), but this is the best episode yet. Your hosts’ chat gets extra trippy, and fungi may have been ingested to celebrate a record of such psychedelic magnitude. Come on in!Ken Po

CRE001 - THE LEGEND! - “73 in 83” w/ Jerry Thackray a.k.a. Everett True (THE LEGEND!, journalist)

Apr 30th, 2021 1h 23m

Here it is!!!Matt & Scott finally get to the first proper release on Creation. (Quality takes time, right??!) Your hosts debate the merit of the (much-maligned-in-its-time) record that started it all, and then they talk to the man himself, JE

CREATION ARTIFACT 002 - Television Personalities flexi/Communication Blur fanzine #2 w/Bjorn Copeland (musician, artist, BLACK DICE/FLACCID MOJO)

Mar 26th, 2021 55m 29s

OUR SECOND (pre-season) EPISODE!!Scott & Matt get practice overcoming a few technical issues and talk to an old friend. This episode is a little more free-wheeling and loose! We talk about the TVP's flexi and the second (and final!) issue of

CREATION ARTIFACT 001 - Pastels/Laughing Apple flexi w/guest Tony Fletcher (author, musician, podcaster)

Mar 2nd, 2021 1h 27m

OUR FIRST EPISODE!!!!Scott & Matt kick off the first episode of the Creation Records audio fanzine with a discussion of the first of two flexi singles that came with Alan McGee & Jerry Thackray (THE LEGEND)’s pre-Creation fanzines, Communicati