Danny Baker, the act you’ve known for all these years, is kicking his legs up again in 2025 on a thundering new theatre tour, ‘Aye Aye! Ahoy Hoy!’ “Dead men tell no tales,” he points out, “so we might might as well get ‘em all told now.” This will be another barnstorming one-man circus - as, naturally, is this barrelling conversation with the two of us which collides with the following …
… being shot, Welsh cake, an olive green Humber, goldfish, when videos were the size of a loaf of bread, why half his Maidstone audience got up and left, stolen gear being hustled over Waterloo Bridge, bad things done by Rod Stewart and Britt Ekland, ELP, the Average White Band, Max Miller, Kenneth Williams’ loathing for Michael Aspel, when records become like furniture, getting £4k for a Ziggy Stardust white label, why he doesn’t miss the 14,000 albums he sold, and the record that came out the same day as Sgt Pepper and Bowie’s first album but is better than both.
The podcast includes an extract from Ronnie Barker’s “A Pint Of Old And Filthy” and Terry Thomas reading PG Wodehouse.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - Forgetting being shot
06:50 - The Humber, Welsh cake and air gun pellets
12:08 - The case against recording
15:34 - Rod Stewart, Butch Cassidy & video recorders
24:35 - A life without 14,000 albums
32:40 - Hits that start and end suddenly
34:54 - A tale of Jimmy Tarbuck
41:17 - Why the good old days were better
43:50 - Kenneth Williams hating Michael Aspel
48:23 - Outro
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