The New Cue #418 September 25: Release Valve with Blossom's Tom Ogden, + The Coral's Nick Power on a Captain Beefheart masterpiece

“It was inspired by a giant fiberglass gorilla that was stolen from a garden centre.”

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Welcome to your Wednesday dose of The New Cue, the midweek picker-upper. In today’s edition, Blossoms frontman Tom Ogden answers the big questions about his musical heroes and favourite people called Gary. The Coral’s Nick Power, meanwhile, spins a lovely yarn about why Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica left such an indelible mark on him.

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Release Valve: Blossom’s Tom Ogden

Last Friday, indie-pop quintet Blossoms released their fifth record, Gary, an album as playful and exuberant as you would expect for a record named after a fiberglass gorilla. Frontman Tom Ogden took a pitstop in release week for a quickfire round of questioning…

The first record I loved was… The Stone Roses’ first album. That's obviously influenced by my parents’ record collection, them albums were around the house growing up. I remember really getting into it when I was 14 or 15, listening to it and being like, ‘Every song's great’.

The last record I loved was… Thee Sacred Souls by Thee Sacred Souls. I heard them on Radio 2 and thought it was a band from the 70s.