Word In Your Ear
Word In Your Ear
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold
Is AI wrecking rock history? – plus festivals in heatwaves and Kate Bush dancing
46 minutes Posted Aug 3, 2026 at 3:17 pm.
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Testing the temperature of this week’s news to see what trips the fire-alarm, which includes …

 

… does having a Number One still matter?

 

… Pauline Black’s sliding doors moment

 

… rock stars you can’t imagine dancing

 

… heatwaves, fire, rain, dust and thunderstorms: how extreme weather’s changing the festival circuit

 

… when Jarvis Cocker was a fishmonger and Bryan Ferry taught pottery

 

… is AI erasing our love of rock history?

 

… Wuthering Heights Day: the lone fabulous amateur appeal of Kate Bush v the polished mass choreography of the 21st Century

 

… all bands vividly remember first hearing themselves on the radio … and then rang their mothers

 

… digital native or digital immigrant?

 

… and when Mark met the Hells Angels in a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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