Talkin’ Music with shineswithyou

Summary:

Sara takes (kind of sort of) a break from talking fanfic and bandfic to talk about a different form of storytelling– music, and writing about music! shineswithyou is a familiar face around Oasis and U2 tumblr, but what you might NOT know is that she has recently embarked on a writing journey of her own, with a substack blog about music and its place as the soundtrack of her own life.

Sara and shines talk about her blog, and the difficulty of “writing words about sounds”; how music is a language in and of itself capable of telling its own (and our own) stories.

Of COURSE we loop it back around to fanfiction and RPF (or, ‘real person fanfiction’), and how bandfic is, at its core, a pure form of love for the musical artist. Other talking points include: how awesome Bono is, and how we wish we could have been at Slane Castle in 2001; the perennial dysfunction of the Gallagher brothers; and the dichotomy of the U2 and Oasis fandoms.

Contact and Credits:

• Theme Music: Kyle Laurin "Oasis Supersonic Theme" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
• Clips from "Pop Muzik" by M (℗ 1979 Robin Scott Limited) and "Marquee Moon" by Television (℗ 1977 Elektra/Asylum)
• Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com 
• Instagram: @talkinfanfic
• Email: [e-mail] 

 

Time caps:

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 14:52 - Interview start
• 23:07 - Music memories and growing up
• 30:40 - Tumblr and bandom
• 34:27 - the pf+hb blog!
• 39:32 - Blog entry 1 
• 44:40 - Tom Verlaine and Television
• 46:50 - Excerpt of blog entry 4
• 48:56 - shines’ music writing style and influences, and the difficulties of writing about music
• 57:15 - Art in the time of Covid and intentional listening
• 01:10:56 - More on Television’s style and ‘Marquee Moon’
• 01:22:22 - CBGB’s and ‘the scene’
• 01:28:29 - Music mags!
• 01:32:05 - Speaking of U2…
• 01:36:55 - The dichotomy of the U2 fandom vs Oasis fandom
• 01:43:01 - Rapid Fire Questions!

 

Episode References

• “Pf+Hb” shineswithyou’s substack blog 
• Shineswithyou on Tumblr 
• Music vid for The Stone Roses’ “She Bangs the Drums” (title inspiration for the blog)
• M - Pop Muzik (Official Video) (Youtube) 
• Book - "Heartbeat" by Sharon Creech (Goodreads) - a children’s coming-of-age story told in free verse
• Music writing rec - Words by Liz Barker - Website of professional music writer and blogger Liz Barker
• Music writing rec - "Strawberry Fields Whatever" - Music blog by Liz Barker and Laura Jane Faulds and illustrated by Jen May  
• Music writing rec - Liz Barker's tinyletter and an excerpt from her novel 
• Blog rec - Hanif Kureishi’s substack and a piece he wrote which shines recommends 
• Album - Nirvana MTV Unplugged (Spotify)
• Album - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Spotify)
• Trouser Press - “The biblio of alternative rock”