Gas Giants – All of culture explained by two fat old men
A new podcast (like we need another) in which Gav and Tom gas about arts and culture
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The Origins of the Gas Giants
Towards the end of 1983, a group of extraordinary people came together to search for a new music. They rehearsed, wrote an album’s worth of material, recorded a demo and played four gigs. After the last of these the band split. One of the members, Gavin Hill, tried a fresh start and contacted another member, Tom Worster, to play at a rehearsal of a new unit. Tom agreed, on condition that afterwards Gavin help him carry all his amps and equipment up six flights of stairs to the top floor of a Glasgow tenement. The task completed, the two men stood sweaty in the middle of a Glasgow street and shook hands, not know that they would not speak again until thirty-six years later, when a series of seismic shifts and volcanic eruptions have created The Gas Giants, to boldly go wherever incompetence leads them!
And now, the pod
Gav is now in Porto, Portugal, Tom is now in Boston, Mass, USA. Gav plays bassoon for a living. Tom does not.
In Gas Giants, Gav and Tom straddle the knowledge of the universe like two enormous confused gaseous entities who don’t really understand why they’re there at all and pose questions like “what does this mean?” ,“is this important?” ,“how did they do that?” and “ what did all this cost?” on topics in their culture and culture-adjacent areas.
The first edition, a deep dive into Side B of Miles Davis’ milestone album In A Silent Way, will be published shortly.
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Gas Giants introduce themselves
Gavin Hill has been surrounded by music his entire life. As a professional Bassoon Player he studied in Glasgow and Cologne, then worked all across Europe, finally settling in Porto, where he has been the principal Bassoon of the Orchestra there for the last 28 years, but why so serious? He also once played Jesus Christ Superstar every day for eight months, spent an entire miserable thirty nights of his life accompanying Johnny Hallyday and appears on the soundtrack for Delta Force 2 – The Columbian Connection. His first novel is soon to be self-published as the final move in a plot to reveal that literary agents can’t read.
Tom Worster: I grew up in Glasgow, studied at Edinburgh, started a career in telecommunications systems engineering in 1987, worked in the UK, moved to Germany in 1990, got married. In 1995, as the first tech bubble was hyper-inflating, we relocated to the US, settling in Boston in 1997, where an exciting independent music scene flourished. I played guitar and electronics solo under the artist name fsb, recording one CD, and in a band called Blood Money, together with the accomplished composer Ken Ueno and Jon Whitney famous for Brainwashed.com, that performed locally and recorded two music CDs (stream free or buy on bandcamp). I joined WZBC Newton as a community DJ around 2000 and for nearly 10 years hosted a show of modern composition, noise, electronics, improv etc. called variously New Adventures, Nouvelles Aventures, or Nude Avengers. In 2010 I quit industry to work on Spinitron. I resumed making music in 2019 with the plague-delayed goal of forming a band. I volunteer at a local animal shelter and we have two dogs. I have also made no impression on the world as cyclist, amateur photographer, blogger and perhaps next also as podcaster.
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