Ear Corn with Mark & Bruce
By Mark Crozer
Ear Corn with Mark and Bruce is hosted by musician Mark Crozer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bray Wyatt) and writer-film-maker Bruce Windwood (12 In A Box.)
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Ear Corn with Mark & BruceSep 13, 2019
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Introducing our new podcast
The Final Countdown
Bruce-World Problems
Seagulls, Wood Pigeons, Hotties and Crofters are all topics under discussion in this week's sizzling new episode of Ear Corn with Mark and Bruce!
The Very Early Very Late Show
Idle banter to help you unwind during these dark days.
Have We Not Got No News For You?
A multi-faceted discourse centred around current affairs and other shit. Includes an exclusive preview of a brand new acoustic 'lockdown' charity-fundraiser version of Mark's WWE smash hit song "Live In Fear" (or Broken Out In Love as it was originally titled.) Stay tuned for more details about that.
The Thing About That Thing
More Stuff and Nonsense and everything in between.
Name That Tune
This week's episode features the usual balderdash as well as some fascinating ornithological chat and a terrific tune from Brooklyn PS 170's 5th Grade Band.
Four Horsemen and a Toilet Roll
It's the end of the world! Come and join the fun.
Pardon Our Pants
Featuring some truly staggering impressions and the usual mix of nonsense and waffle.
Ear Corn Newsreel
A little bit of silliness
Beware The Wolves of Worry!
Another hour of pointless banter from the Axis of Idle.
The Wrong Band
In which Bruce sticks it to the man and gets over-excited about jewelry. Also includes Oscar and TV chat.
Today's episode is sponsored by Twisted-Root.co.uk
How Many Is Enough?
How many likes must a man (or woman) acquire before he (or she) gets to be a man (or woman?)
Rock Bottom!
Mark and Bruce discuss plans for their new celebrity buttcrack panel show 'Rock Bottom!'
Trashing Harry Styles
More idle chat than you can shake a stick insect at including an in-depth critique of some of that there 'pop music' made by young people. Also includes an exclusive play of Mark's song 'Wayward Soul' featuring the fabulous Ryan Egan on vocals.
Ear Corn 2020. The Beginning of a New Chapter That's Quite Similar To The Previous One But Hopefully A Little Bit Better
In which Mark and Bruce bang on about war films, dissect Ed Sheeran and share their hopes and dreams for 2020.
Inbetweenmas: Don't Mention The War
Waffle and chuckles to fill that hole between Xmas and New Year.
2019 End of the Ear Best Bits
A compilation of some of the Ear Corn highlights of the year. Happy Holidays folks!
A Sweary Ear-y Christmas!
It's the Ear Corn Christmas Special with larks-a-plenty and--as it says on the label--plenty of festive swearing to get you in the Holiday Spirit.
Featuring Festive Hits from a parallel universe by The Crozer Brothers.
Poor But Free
In today's episode (which due to editing time constraints contains an ENORMOUS amount of swearing) the fellas complain about work and politics.
Featured music as requested by Mr Windwood: Mr Crozer's original demo of Never Slows Down.
The Gaps In Between
Middle-aged ranting from The Axis of Idle. Featured music: Elegy by Bruce Windwood.
The Self-Doubters Guide to Wayfinding
The usual mix of jokey self-deprecation and ultra-serious introspection. Topics covered: Self-doubt, Education, Work (or lack of it,) Sleep (or lack of it,) Memory, Music, Script Writing, Financial Assistance for Artists and more and we have music from Australian songstress Lisa Fitzgibbon with her song 'The Maze.'
Today's episode has been thoroughly cleansed of rude words and has been certified Family Friendly.
Redaction Speaks Louder Than Words
Today's heavily-redacted episode (our lawyers made us do it) features the usual irreverent dissection of a life in the day of a down-at-heel artist and we have music from Welcome To Peepworld with their wonderful song 'Weight of the World.'
".Entertaininger than a kick in the gusset!" Umberto Trousers, The Blackbird Leys Chronicle
"Too much swearing!" Stephen Coe, Guardian Of The Shire
The Art of Skiving
"...the boozier, ruder, cool-er bastard brother of BBC Radio 4's 'Only Artists.' Tony Spotiswode, Toxteth International Tribune.
This weeks episode ends with a never-before-heard remix of Broken Out In Love created by Oxford musician Phill Honey who was the guitar player with Mark Crozer and The Rels at Wrestlemania 30.
10 Week Anniversary Collector's Edition!
Bruce and Mark talk cobblers and attempt to poke each other with the Sharpened Stick of Motivation.
Halloween Special!
Amongst the usual very swear-y ranting and raving you've come to love, Mark and Bruce swap spooky tales of paranormal activity in and around Oxford.
Speculative Briefs
63 Minutes of Mostly Ranting.
Special musical guest: The spirit of Art Garfunkel.
Waiting For Palindrome Bin (Not His Real Name)
Bruce and Mark discuss (aka whinge at length) the pros and cons of modern technology; the status of a variety of creative projects; peculiar dreams and Bruce swears his ruddy head off as always.
The Teas(e) of Possibilities
Offensive accents... LOTS of swearing... rambling about Christmas... what we've been up to in the last week... and generally poking the embers of hope that glow in the fire of despondency. Also... MArk's cover of John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy.'
Inspiration: Writing Lyrics
Bruce and Mark talk about writing song lyrics, teaching, work, finding inspiration and swear A LOT!
Creative Idling
Bruce and Mark chat about being creative idlers and for some reason plug a number of products and services to which they have no official affiliation.
Axe To Grind
In today's episode Mark and Bruce get worked up into a veritable rage about having to promote themselves on social media.
Also: Axe throwing, script rejection, new music from Mark, and Bruce needs thirty winks.
Inspector Wield, phone call for you...
In this this week's edition of EAR CORN!
Judge On a Winch!
Attack of the Nine Foot Pigeons!
I'm Alec Baldwin!
I Was Kevin Costner's Body!
In Bed with Richard E Grant!
John Noakes, Marty Pellow, George Michael, Dalziel & Pascoe AND MUCH MORE!
Special musical feature: International Jetsetters.
All music in today's episode is (c) Mark Crozer and Bruce Windwood.
Is This It?
Today's episode is an in-depth chat about 'making it' in the entertainment industry. At what point does an artist consider themselves to have 'made it?' Does such a moment even exist?