Episode 797: Jah Wobble - 40 hilarious unedited minutes interrupted by a pest control officer - Word In Your Ear

Jah Wobble - touring in October - is outstanding company and rattles on here like a steam train, sparking off at tangents in a brilliant, barely steerable monologue with a crackling cast of characters. It’s not often a podcast gets a visitor mid-recording who says, “I’ve put more poison in - but the good news is, there’s nothing in your traps!” Here you will find …

… an afternoon with Anthony Hopkins

… the time Ginger Baker got the wrong dessert - “a bowl of rhubarb went flying”

… East End violence: the Whitechapel firm v the Mile End mob

… why bands are like short-order cooks

… his first gig with Public Image – teargas, barricaded in the dressing-room and the head of security getting kicked in the throat

… and his second gig – “someone threw a frozen pig’s head and it lay there looking balefully up at me”

… Wilko Johnson (“a caged tiger”) and Lee Brilleaux tying his shoelaces to the mic lead

… Bob Marley at the Lyceum and how Aston Barrett changed the game

… tour managers whose metal briefcases have a cosh and a pepper spray

… onstage exorcisms with the Invaders Of The Heart

… John Lydon meeting Arthur Brown, the Heavy Metal Kids, Woody Woodmansey and the man with six fingers in Get Carter

… and his community music project ‘Tuned In’ at Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library.