The Rock Star Autobiography Podcast
Jul 19, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min · 11 segments
I've always had a love of tuned percussion.
At the end of every Susie and the Banshees recording session, just before final mixing, I would run off to raid the dusty depths of a percussion warehouse in London's Whopping Wall, or spend an afternoon in Chinatown's catering stores, finger tapping aluminum cooking pots and salad bowls, listening for notes and resonances with which to create percussive melodies.
I don't know.
Is it Wapping Wall, do you think, Martha, or Wapping Wall? There are a couple of words always in the English spelling.
Yes.
Once in a while.
I
read it as Wapping.
I guess it would be Wapping.
I don't know why it said Wapping.
It's spelled W-A-P-P-I-N-G, Wapping.
That makes more sense.
But we would have an H there.
Yes.
So that's why I'm...
I went for it.
I said what I said.
That's it.
I said whopping wall, but whatever.
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I've always had a love of tuned percussion.
At the end of every Susie and the Banshees recording session, just before final mixing, I would run off to raid the dusty depths of a percussion warehouse in London's Whopping Wall, or spend an afternoon in Chinatown's catering stores, finger tapping aluminum cooking pots and salad bowls, listening for notes and resonances with which to create percussive melodies.
I don't know.
Is it Wapping Wall, do you think, Martha, or Wapping Wall? There are a couple of words always in the English spelling.
Yes.
Once in a while.
I
read it as Wapping.
I guess it would be Wapping.
I don't know why it said Wapping.
It's spelled W-A-P-P-I-N-G, Wapping.
That makes more sense.
But we would have an H there.
Yes.
So that's why I'm...
I went for it.
I said what I said.
That's it.
I said whopping wall, but whatever.