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Martin Gordon spoke to Vive le Rock on the 50th anniversary of ‘Kimono My House’. Is that a kimono up your house, dear, or are you just pleased to see me?

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Was there anything worn beneath the kimono? Given that the ‘Kimono My House’ album was 50 years old in May 2024, Jason Barnard spoke to Martin Gordon for the Strange Brew podcast. A recently re-discovered diary throws new light on the recordings. Check here for details of the track-by-track excursion.

After eons dallying with the likes of Sparks, Jet, Radio Stars and others, Martin Gordon’s solo career began with the release of the first part of the Mammal Trilogy (‘The Baboon in the Basement’) in 2003. Since then, he has not looked back, although he will not say why. The sixth and final part of the trilogy (‘Include Me Out’) was released in 2013. Some people say it was released on April Fool’s Day, but that’s what some people would say, isn’t it?

Here’s an album overview and a view of the simultaneously-published lyric book which covers Gordon’s entire career to date. The conclusion of the Mammal Era was followed by an album of Gilbert & Sullivan tunes and diatribes on Brexit, Donald Trump and COVID. In 2018, the first instalment of the Post-Mammal Era emerged blinking into the fishy sunlight in the shape of ‘Thanks For All the Fish‘. ‘OMG‘ followed in 2020, ‘Another Words‘ in 2021. The expanded version of ‘Another Words – the Phonecall‘ was released in 2022, now augmented by the dulcet tones of #45. ‘Greatest Shits‘, a compelling account of the exploits of the world’s favourite numbskulls and despots, was released in 2023. The career-spanning overviews ‘Singular Obscurities’ and ‘Obscure Singularities’ were released in 2024.

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