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The Guardian - UK
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Presented by Alexis Petridis and produced by Scott Cawley

Music Weekly podcast: Matt Berry and the indie professor

In this week's podcast Alexis talks to comedian Matt Berry about his music project. You'll probably know him as Douglas Reynholm in Channel 4's The IT Crowd, or if you've got an even longer memory, he wrote and starred in BBC Three's brilliant Snuff Box. Witchazel was released as a free download in 2009 and featured him playing nearly every instrument on the album, having written, performed and recorded it himself, but it's now going to be officially released in March.

We also hear from Wendy Fonarow, the indie professor who answers the things you've always wanted to know about music - such as "Why are gigs always loud?" and "Why do people call out song titles at concerts when they never get played?"

If you have any more questions for Wendy, check out the ongoing series.

Finally, as always, the team listen and review three tracks - Tim Jonze's choice Iron Deer Dream by Fixers, Alexis picks Jamie Smith of the xx's remix of Gil Scott-Heron's I'll Take Care Of U, and Wendy selects Naked Kids by Grouplove.

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