Jul 21, 2026 · 47 min · 13 segments
Momus – the Scottish trickster-poet whose biography is titled Famous For 15 People and has spent 40 years doing it entirely his way. In the Season 3 premiere, Sean and Rene revisit the artist who…
Rene RouleauHostSo let's talk about the person before we talk about the character that he's become.
He was an intellectual professor's son whose father studied language acquisition.
He is very much the product of a public school education in the UK that his father was traveling and he went to a boarding school.
literature yes listeners it's very intellectual but he dropped out he dropped out briefly to form his first band called the happy family this was in 1981 with ex-members of joseph k one of scotland's key post-punk bands did you ever do you remember them no you i So, no, but they were mixed up with that whole Orange Juice Aztec camera scene in Scotland at the time.
those.
That was a good scene,
So let's talk about the person before we talk about the character that he's become.
He was an intellectual professor's son whose father studied language acquisition.
He is very much the product of a public school education in the UK that his father was traveling and he went to a boarding school.
literature yes listeners it's very intellectual but he dropped out he dropped out briefly to form his first band called the happy family this was in 1981 with ex-members of joseph k one of scotland's key post-punk bands did you ever do you remember them no you i So, no, but they were mixed up with that whole Orange Juice Aztec camera scene in Scotland at the time.
those.
That was a good scene,
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