Talking About The Who

05/11/2025

Fresh from his work on the new Who Are You Super Deluxe Edition, Matt Kent will be joining us for an exclusive Zoom interview on Friday 28th November at 8pm GMT. If you’d like to watch the interview live on Zoom, and also have the chance to ask Matt a question, then you need to sign up for our Talking About The Who Membership – only £3 or $3 a month – by clicking on the Patreon link below. But don’t worry if you can’t be there as it’s happening, because the interview will be available for Members to watch at their leisure afterwards.

In the meantime, if you haven’t already done so, you can watch the Who Are You SDE unboxing/discussion video we did with Matt Kent last week via the below YouTube link

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https://youtu.be/kijQOYVleh0?si=y23MIMUIgYG4-tkh

31/10/2025

When you’re at a beer festival in your friend’s pub, and they have ‘Goldhawk’ by Lakedown Brewery (which happens to be really nice 🤘)

Cheers!

31/10/2025

I was honoured to be invited to an exclusive listening party for Steven Wilson’s new Dolby Atmos mix of the Who Are You album last night in London. It’s the first time I’ve ever been to an event like this, and to hear the album in that way was something special.

We were then treated to a Q&A with Matt Kent, Richard Evans, Steven Wilson and Jon Astley, hosted by Matt Everitt from BBC 6 Music. Lots of funny and interesting stories were shared about the making of the album, the subsequent tour with Kenney Jones and John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick, and the process behind the new Super Deluxe Edition.

It was great to meet (for the first time) Matt Kent, Richard Evans, Judy Astley, Dave Lewis, and Pat Kent and his mate Steve, and also see Andy Neill, Gary and Melissa Hurley, and David Stark again.

All in all, it was a fantastic evening, and I hope you all enjoy the new versions of Who Are You being released today.

Happy weekend all!

Paul

29/10/2025

We couldn’t just celebrate My Generation’s 60th birthday today…

We also have to celebrate the forthcoming release of the Who Are You Super Deluxe Edition, and we’ve done this with a new YouTube video featuring the set being unboxed and discussed with Matt Kent, who not only wrote the liner notes but also helped compile the tracklisting

Enjoy!



https://youtu.be/kijQOYVleh0?si=MnoolYIqVWmDPPkW

29/10/2025

“How do you write your epitaph at 19 years old?”

We’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the UK release of The Who’s third single, ‘My Generation’, on this day in 1965 in our latest 60th Anniversary Special episode, available exclusively to our Talking About The Who Members, alongside a video extract of the episode on YouTube

Paul Bearman and Bets Crockett look at the impact of writing the words, “I hope I die before I get old”; The Who’s new status as the most exciting live act in the UK at this time; Pete Townshend moving to Belgravia at Kit Lambert’s insistence and becoming inspired to write the song; how the song permeated through The Who's later material; the lead-up to the infamous Aarhus show and Roger Daltrey’s firing from the band; Pete’s drunken encounter with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the S*x Pistols in 1977; John Entwistle’s iconic bass solo; and how The Who dealt with ‘My Generation’ being an albatross around their necks

To become a TATW Member for just £3 or $3 a month and hear the full episode — as well as all our other bonus content — click on the Patreon link below

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26/10/2025

Our next 60th Anniversary Special episode — available exclusively to our Talking About The Who Members — is dropping this coming Wednesday

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25/10/2025

A new blog post from Matt Kent is up now on his website, dealing with not only The Who, but also mental health and how opening up about it can really help

https://www.mattkent.photography/post/so-long-looking-backwards-you-can-t-see-where-it-really-began

22/10/2025

**NEW EPISODE OUT NOW**

In our Season Two finale, Colin Dawson — lead vocalist with The Detours, the band that would eventually evolve into The Who — talks about receiving an OBE for services to British tourism; being on first-name terms with Princess Diana; getting started in music and playing guitar in his first skiffle band; first meeting Roger Daltrey in a café in Acton; the formation of The Detours; being inspired by Cliff Richard and taking pride in his appearance on stage; his memories of playing with The Detours and why he eventually left the band; hearing ‘I Can’t Explain’ for the first time; covering a Who song in a different band decades later, and the Who songs and albums he likes the most; his son playing bass for Joy Crookes at Glastonbury earlier this year; and reuniting with Roger, John and Pete at the Royal Albert Hall in 1989.

Available on all good podcast apps and via the Acast link below

You can also watch an extract of the episode on our YouTube channel, and TATW Members can listen to a bonus episode featuring more of our conversation with Colin. It costs just £3 or $3 a month to become a Member, and as well as having access to both ad-free and bonus episodes, you’ll also receive invites to watch our Who-discussion show, ‘The Members Room’, and exclusive interviews live on Zoom. To sign up for our Membership, click on the Patreon link below

Enjoy!

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21/10/2025

Hello, Paul here.

Just dropping in to let you all know that tomorrow sees the release of the final episode of Season Two, featuring Colin Dawson of The Detours as our special guest. As always, it will be available on all good podcast apps, as well as a short video extract of the interview being available on YouTube. And if you’re a TATW Member, you’ll have the ad-free version of the episode, plus a bonus episode featuring more of my conversation with Colin (click the link below to sign up).

In the meantime, I thought I’d share this photo that my mum recently discovered and sent me. This is me, five years old, holding my copy of ‘The Who – Rarities Volume 1’, which I still own, and which remains one of my favourite Who compilations (along with Volume 2!).

Maybe I need to recreate this picture as the 45-year-old that I am now?

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19/10/2025

Matt Kent has uploaded a new blog post to his website regarding the upcoming Who Are You Super Deluxe Edition and his role in it.

Enioy!

As many of you will know the Special Deluxe Edition, all singing and all dancing box set edition of The Who's eighth studio album hits the shelves in 2weeks time.

17/10/2025

A big thank you to Matt Weston and Dan Epstein for being special guests on our latest episode of ‘The Members Room’, which is now available for TATW Members to watch at patreon.com/talkingaboutthewho

Here’s a short extract of the episode, in which Dan talks us through some of his prized Who singles

If you’d like to become a TATW Member and have the chance to watch episodes of ‘The Members Room’ being recorded live on Zoom – or to simply have a whole host of extra Who-related content to consume at your leisure – then it’s just £3 or $3 a month to sign up. Click on the link below to find out more

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14/10/2025

Calling all TATW Members! The next episode of ‘The Members Room’ is live on Zoom tomorrow at 1am BST / 8pm EDT / 5pm PDT. Check your emails shortly beforehand for the Zoom link (and check your spam/junk folder if it’s not in your inbox)

If you’re not a Member, you can sign up for just £3 or $3 a month via the link below

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