Last Updated on January 16, 2026
This week on Beat Motel, Andrew welcomes Daz Hewitt, Ipswich music legend and former bandmate, to talk about band reunions—both glorious and catastrophic. Of course, they immediately derail the topic and spiral into madness.
Expect absolute nonsense, including:
🎸 New Wave of Pretty Heavy Metal – Daz accidentally invents a new genre while describing Poison, and we might be onto something.
🎶 Billy Idol is Davros in Doctor Who – Apparently, Billy Idol’s 90s motorbike accident means he’d make a great Dalek overlord. This is now canon.
🎭 Status Quo: The Musical – Andrew describes Queen’s reformed lineup as “a bad West End show”, leading to the inevitable question: Would you pay to see a Status Quo musical?
🎤 Michael Crawford as the new singer of Queen – If we’re already treating Queen like a West End show, why not go full Phantom of the Opera? Daz’s impression seals the deal.
🔊 Genesis’ Apocalypse in 9/8 – Daz gets proggy, Andrew pretends to care.
🕺 The Bee Gees: Label Puppets or Disco Geniuses?
🎷 The Big & Ed Rome – Ipswich ska legends that Andrew was too stubborn to appreciate at the time.
🔥 The Waxing Captors – A band that broke more mic stands than records, but should still come back.
👑 Queen without Freddie – Paul Rodgers? Adam Lambert? Michael bloody Crawford? We discuss where it all went wrong.
🎸 The Stone Roses – Their reunion single was a lazy retread of old ideas, and Andrew’s not having it.
💊 Happy Mondays’ comeback – Daz paid real money to see them, and he still wants a refund.
🥴 Oasis reunion: Nostalgia or rip-off? – Are people paying £400 to relive a youth spent drinking cheap lager in a field? Probably.
Along the way, Andrew confesses to thinking Billy Idol and Billy Joel were the same person, Daz unveils the rock family tree nobody asked for, and we answer the burning question: Does Elton John have friends?
💥 If you like chaotic music chat, unfiltered opinions, and utterly pointless tangents, this episode is for you.
### Riffs of the week
#### Daz’s Riff
– Apocalypse in 9/8 – Genesis (2:45)
#### Andrew’s Riff
– Dudesmell – Gold Tooth (0:20)
Find them at https://www.instagram.com/dudesmell/
### Daz’s track choices
1. The American Metaphysical Circus by The United States of America (2:00)
2. Ready Steady Go by Generation X (0:58)
3. Cosmic Rockin – Queen (2:38)
4. Kinky Afro – Happy Mondays
### Andrew’s track choices
1. The Big – Trains (0:47)
2. The Waxing Captors -Shrinking Telephone (0:30)
3. The Stone Roses – Beautiful Thing (2:25)
4. Oasis – Acquiesce (1:21)
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Including:
New Wave of Pretty Heavy Metal
Billy Idol is Davros in Doctor Who
Status Quo the musical
Michael Crawford is the new singer in Queen
