Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast

Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast

50 years on, the world is still in love with The Beatles. Join Nothing Is Real hosts Jason Carty & Steven Cockcroft as they continue the never-ending conversation about the greatest band the world has ever known. Each episode puts a tiny piece of the Beatles story under the microscope to try and make sense of it all. Coming at you live, on tape, from Dublin. Weekly. 414227 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nothing-is-real-a-beatles-podcast. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/nothing-is-real-a-beatles-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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March 8, 2024 44 mins

Nothing Is Real Live 2023 - The Q&A Sessions


At each of the Nothing Is Real live shows in 2023 we had a Q&A session. As a taster for the whole event, here are the sessions for Belfast on October 23rd (Before Now & Then) and Dublin on November 9th (After Now & Then).


Live in Person from Belfast & Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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Review of 2023


You boy! What day is it? Ending the year in the NIR log cabin looking back at 2023 - our fifth annual review. Did anything to do with the Beatles happen this year? That’s right, the third anniversary of McCartney III. Oh, and a little tune called Now & Then. Includes a special Christmas guest! 


Live on tape from Lapland, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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December 19, 2023 67 mins

The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame


1988 was an unusual time: The biggest Beatle was George, rock stars were dealing with the unthinkable (their forties),

people were paying attention to Mike Love, and the rebellion of rock & roll had been replaced by a gentlemen’s club.  


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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December 12, 2023 59 mins

Live at the Roundhouse - Part Two


In December 1968, Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed a TV special where the kings of British rock gathered to play their new material. 

Unfortunately, it was with the Rolling Stones. Whither The Roundhouse? What happened next and what could have happened?


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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December 5, 2023 42 mins

Live at the Roundhouse - Part One


After filming the Hey Jude promo, and in the midst of recording the White Album, somehow The Beatles decide to eye up a return to the stage in the heart of London. So where should that be, and how will they pull it off?


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real.


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November 28, 2023 87 mins

In 1991, when so many acts from the 60s were lucratively touring, George Harrison decided to dip his toes in the water.

Why? Money. Where? Japan. Who? Clapton. What…could possibly go wrong?


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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November 21, 2023 73 mins

The plan for a quick live-in-the-studio album gradually morphs into something more 80s, more produced. Hello to Hugh Padgham. Warning: Contains Spies Like Us. 


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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November 15, 2023 58 mins

Or….

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After the huge success* of Give My Regards to Broad Street, Paul McCartney wants to get back to basics. Kicking back in a small band with Eric (not that one) this is a broth that attracts many cooks…


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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November 7, 2023 41 mins

November 63 - Part Two


As the Beatles move through the month, beyond the Royal Variety Performance they continue to pack houses up and down the UK.

What recordings are waiting in the wings? I Want To Hold Your Hand and With The Beatles. Not too shabby. 


Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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November 1, 2023 57 mins

Between October 31st and December 1st 1963, the Beatles pushed the envelope from being the biggest pop group in the country to something even… bigger. In a year when they just kept getting more extraordinary, by the end of November 63, the world was theirs for the taking. 


Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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October 24, 2023 66 mins

Harrison/Starkey


George and Ringo always had a special bond. 

As the sixties became the seventies, was there an opportunity for the

Beatles to give the world a second magnificent song-writing partnership?


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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October 20, 2023 65 mins

Bonus Episode!


Talking Mal Evans with Ken Womack


Kenneth Womack is a writer, historian, and critic, who has written some of the best books about The Beatles and their inner circle. 

To this list, he is about to add Living The Beatles Legend, The Untold Story of Mal Evans, the first of two books about big Mal,

which comes out in November 2023.  


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October 17, 2023 84 mins

Mal Evans


Mal Evans had a front-row seat to the entire Beatles experience, and the Beatles were happy to have him there.

Whether it was as an extra in A Hard Day’s Night or co-writing a song on the Ringo album, he remains an indelible part of their landscape. Contains anvils. 


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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October 10, 2023 74 mins

Bigger Than Jesus - Part Two


Four months passed between John Lennon free-associating about Christianity to a trusted journalist,

and touching down in the US for a North American tour. The “Bigger Than Jesus” controversy hung over the tour,

but was it really that big of a deal? 


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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October 3, 2023 48 mins

Bigger Than Jesus - Part One


John Lennon never actually said that the Beatles were “bigger than Jesus”, but that wasn’t the point.

When you’re free-associating to a trusted journalist, what’s to stop your words being lost in translation as they cross the Atlantic? 


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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September 26, 2023 27 mins

Welcome to Season Eight


Full steam ahead for the eighth(!) season of Nothing is Real. We need to tell you about live shows, the new season,

the world’s most difficult Beatles quiz, and ask the burning question of “Where’s that new Beatles single?”


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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September 8, 2023 57 mins

S07 Bonus: STINYC Live Jam Jason Mix


The Fillmore tapes have been remixed and repurposed, so in telling the tale, let’s do some remixing and repurposing…


Live on tape from Dublin, Belfast, The Fillmore, and The Lyceum, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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Stuart Sutcliffe - Part Two


As a group, the Beatles were changed by Hamburg. 

Individually each Beatle got something different from their time

in the city and it would shape the rest of their lives …and for Stuart it was Astrid and art. 



Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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Stuart Sutcliffe - Part One


Stuart Sutcliffe was the star pupil at the Liverpool College of Art, and also John Lennon’s flatmate.

By becoming a Beatle, he demonstrated that the band was a state of mind.

To be a Beatle was to be something…other. Then they got the call up for Hamburg.


Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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Stop & Smell The Roses


When work began on Ringo’s eighth album in May 1980, the outlook was good. John, Paul and George came on board to contribute, trying to rekindle the magic of 1973’s Ringo album. By the time the album came out at the end of 1981, it was a different world. 


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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