DAVID BOWIE FINAL ACT: Reviewed!

Welcome back to the shownotes, shownotes fans! Are you ready to hear us discussing yet another biographical documentary? Another musical biographical documentary, no less! Of course you are! Mister Christopher is wearing his big boy pants this week and telling Mister Jeffrey exactly who is pitching the thirty second game and Jeffrey is in awe of these levels of confidence and self belief and he believes in his friend so he’s like “yeah ok man”. I know it’s missing that crucial CCCAH ingredient we love so much, an essential part of any CCCAH stew is … the boys trying to think back to the last episode and recall what they were reviewing and who pitched a thirty second game! But hey … don’t worry, I don’t think we’ve ditched that forever.

But hey, let’s enjoy this week for what it is! We’re still happy new year-ing (Christopher grimacing every time I say or type those words at this point hahaha) up a storm for our last January episode of 2026.

So, rambling introductions aside (we like those around here, can’t you tell) this episode is all about a new David Bowie documentary. I think we agree on how to pronounce Boiwe, so that’s good. But what isn’t good is how scant our knowledge is of the Starman’s discography. But then again, does this allow for a bit more enjoyment and novelty for us when watching this documentary, as opposed to when we watched It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley last week with such geeky knowledge of Jeff Buckley informing our view of every talking head’s anecdote and musical choice of the director. We shall see. In this episode. Will we come out of it bigger Bowie fans? More Bowie-curious? Will one of us decide to do a reverse-chronological Bowie-deep-dive while the other feels ready to at least give a few more songs, if not an album at some point (shout out Black Star, always) a try? We shall see. Will we ever review albums on this podcast again? Oh boy, on that one … we really *will* see soon. Hopefully. Six seasons and a patreon, six seasons and patreon. We can’t give everything away.

You can watch David Bowie Final Act here. Channel 4 baby. We love you so much: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/bowie-the-final-act

Lets read Lazarus by as it covers the same ground as the film and is apparently very good: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Lazarus-The-Second-Coming-of-David-Bowie/Alexander-Larman/9781917923446

Let’s watch the Jeremy Paxman interview in full, as I did right before we recorded! As Goldie said, it might be one of his best ever interviews. And yes, Bowie did so many interviews over the years that might be just as high praise as calling one of his albums his best ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg

You can read an interview with the director of the film Jonathan Stiasny on the Independent here: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/david-bowie-final-act-documentary-blackstar-b2893850.html

You can watch the performance of Life On Mars at Glastonbury 2000 that the film highlights here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJB24LVx6fw

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The bit where Christopher was like “wait do we keep calling it Starman … I think the song is actually called Life On Mars”. Lol good catch.

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kevin-Can-Himself-Season/dp/B09FC86K6W

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IT'S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY: Reviewed!

Hey podcast fans! And Jeff Buckley fans. We insist you all be both. You can’t be one without the other. Do you understand? Can you compute that?? What is your major malfunction numbnuts?? Ok, good, you agree?? Good. Well then. You did it and you’re here … you’re here in the world of Jeff Buckley fandom. We love that for you and we love that for us and WE LOVE THAT! WELCOME!

Okay. Sorry about all that. I didn’t mean to get so angry like Jeff Buckley singing Eternal Life, I meant to be loving and tender like Jeff Buckley singing Everybody Here Wants You. Come back to us and let us make it up to you like Jeff Buckley signing Lover You Should've Come Over And now we can pay tribute to the goat Jeff Buckley like Jeff Buckley paid tribute to the goat Leonard Cohen singing Hallelujah.

It's a CCCAH rite of passage. Hearing the boys talk about Buckley. Finally. We love him so, you know. And we have done for decades. But hey, that doesn't necessarily mean we'll love the film ... so stay tuned. Stick around. Anyone could win this one. But mainly me, I think I'd like to win this one.

The official website for the film It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley. Love the comma there, always love a well placed comma in a title: https://www.magpictures.com/jeffbuckley/

Watch the documentary in High Wycombe like Christopher advised hehe: https://www.odeon.co.uk/films/it---s-never-over--jeff-buckley/HO00008314/?cinema=915

Or watch it in Soho with an Amy Berg Q&A like I advised hehe: https://www.curzon.com/films/it-s-never-over-jeff-buckley/HO00006758/

The Director’s Club Substack reviews the film here: https://directorsclub.substack.com/p/neverover

The absolutely awesome music journalist and interviewer Kyle Meredith talked to the director Amy Beg about the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgcdoOA_TeA

Check out the work of Merri Cyr (whose book “A Wished For Song” we reference and the photographer whose archive provides the bulk of extra material for this film): https://www.merricyr.com/

Give Merri’s beautiful Tumblr a scroll … and see all the sick limited edition merch we have missed out on from years gone by: https://www.tumblr.com/merricyr

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The bit when my microphone cut out and then we both looked at each other realising the whole hour recording was potentially about to go to waste … and we were just like … ok whatever, let’s wrap this bad boy up hahahaha so listen out to a very air-sucked-out-of-the-room vibe for the last couple of the minutes of the pod … and questionable audio on my end lol.

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/bowie-the-final-act

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RORY SCOVEL LIVE WITHOUT FEAR: Reviewed!

You did it, you’re here, you’re live without fear. Or you live without fear. Both. Let’s say you do both. Just like us. Here on this show. The triple C. The A to the H. Where we appraise for an hour. Where the culture flows freely and well because we are artists and the content is consumed and disseminated because we live in a capitalist society.

We continue to discuss art every week, whether it makes us lol (comedy) or weep (tragedy) or anything in between (probably a magazine). And as much as we continue to discuss things … we never really get to any definitive conclusions, with our most favourite finds anyway, now do we? As Alyson Stanfield said “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you”. Wow Alyson. You must have listened to us blathering on about stuff we like. Thank you for listening.

Anyway this week we (the boys) are discussing another stand up comedy. It’s called Rory Scovel Live Without Fear. It’s about a man called Rory … living without fear or something. This one is a hybrid of a thing. A half special half documentary, and it lives for free on YouTube. Which all the other platforms should sit up and take a bit of notice of … hear that, stupid platforms that cost a lot … FREE!

We love stand up comedy. And funny things. And laughing. Will Rory join our hall of fame of comedians we will one day see live? Our definitive answer is, of course, as always … perhaps!

Watch Rory Scovel Live Without Fear here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvXhCayQXkc

Watch Rory Scovel with my favourite opening twenty seconds of any late night stand up segment ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxnPZ_na6A&t

Watch Rory Scovel talk to Mike Birbiglia about telling the truth on stage and doing abstract painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHjfXRnNa4

Watch Rory Scovel talk to Mike Birbiglia again but this time about his creative process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei6i8mVagmc

Watch part 1 of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedian documentary from 2002. A kind soul uploaded it to YouTube in parts so you can watch the whole thing if you know how to be cool and use YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmeytp9I4rI

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: All the lols and lmaos ofc.

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https://www.curzon.com/films/it-s-never-over-jeff-buckley/HO00006758/

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