Ned's Atomic Dustbin (with David Quantick)

Goon Pod

This week writer and journalist David Quantick on Ned's Atomic Dustbin.

As someone who spent time with the band while writing for the NME and a former member of the GSPS, David was the ideal person to tackle NAD.

The band took their name from a Goon Show episode, with band member Jonn Penney suggesting it after flicking through the More Goon Show Scripts book.

The Goon Show itself was from the 9th Series in 1959 and contained vague Cold War themes as well as digs at BBC censorship and notably featured the debut of the Radiophonic Workshop-devised sound effect Bloodnok's Stomach.

The conversation veers from the indie music scene of the early nineties to a joke about a talking dog and John Snagge working with the Sex Pistols.

We also touch on 'terrible band names', Spike Milligan's complicated attitude to racial depictions in comedy, about Peter Sellers possibly inspiring Peter Cook with a thinly-veiled Harold Macmillan impression and consider whether the scripting of this particular episode was Spike 'on autopilot'.

You can listen to the Goon Show episode Ned's Atomic Dustbin here: https://open.spotify.com/track/6pGHhb9SLNeBoy20AMTg9L

More about the band here: http://www.nedsatomicdustbin.com/

David is on Twitter @quantick and follow the podcast @goonshowpod