Bigmouth

Tim Burgess, Snowpiercer on Netflix, cult movie Adam & Paul

Sat, 30 May 2020 03:00:00 GMT

This week on the lockdown get-down of pop culture: Does Tim Burgess’s new LP I Love The New Sky cement his position as Captain Cheer-up of the COVID calamity? Netflix turn Bong Joon-Ho’s dystopian weird-out Snowpiercer into a series. Is this a good idea? And in Old Film Club we settle down with Adam And Paul, a heartwarming tale of two Dublin pals who share a dream, a deep personal bond, and a crippling addiction to heroin. Popcorn at the ready!

Pop fiend and illustrator of amazing children’s books Nadia Shireen and Michael Hogan of the Guardian and Telegraph join Siân and Andrew to sort it all out.

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White Lines on Netflix, Charli XCX, Idles, Scorsese’s After Hours

Sat, 23 May 2020 03:00:00 GMT

Doyen of US pop journalist David Keeps of Star Hits and Details magazines fame dials from faraway Phoenix, Arizona to join Mark “Arena/The Face” Hooper, Siân and Andrew for this week’s bloody assizes of entertainment. In the dock: Netflix’s uncommonly clever clubbin’n’druggin’-in-Ibiza series White Lines, Mark and David’s choices of great albums for the Great Shut-In, and we revisit Martin Scorsese’s yuppie terror odyssey of 1985, After Hours.

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Special guest BAXTER DURY plus Sparks, Jarvis, Idiocracy and more

Sat, 16 May 2020 03:00:00 GMT

We loved his new album The Night Chancers and now we welcome Baxter Dury plus guest Hannah Verdier of The Guardian to this week’s conference call of pop. On the agenda: The new Sparks album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip! Do they still have it in their *checks notes* SIXTH decade in rock and/or pop? Baxter and Hannah suggest great albums of the Lockdown Era, including Jarvis Cocker’s as-yet unreleased Jarv Is. And what will the panel make of Andrew’s Old Film Club selection, Mike Judge’s fable of a dimwitted future America, Idiocracy?

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Magnetic Fields, Sidney Lumet’s Network, Fiona Apple, Hollywood on Netflix

Sat, 09 May 2020 03:00:00 GMT

Will Quickies, an album of VERY short songs by maudlin mandolin merchants The Magnetic Fields, have your knees a-tremble? What about that Fiona Apple album, eh? Is Ryan ‘Glee’ Murphy’s Netflix extravaganza Hollywood quite the turkey that everyone’s saying? And in the absence of interesting new stuff we institute Old Film Club with a look at Sidney Lumet’s media satire Network. Guests Sophie Harris of MOJO and Will Hodgkinson of The Times are mad as hell and they ain’t gonna take it no more.

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Beastie Boys Story, Pretenders, Vivarium

Sat, 02 May 2020 03:00:00 GMT

Does Beastie Boys Story, MCA and Ad-Rock’s hip hop TED talk, expand our knowledge of their journey from frat pack to woke MCs? The new Pretenders album Hate For Sale – they’ve put the release back but we’re talking about it anyway. And SURREAL ESTATE: will Kafkesque homeowning horror mystery Vivarium put you off househunting forever?

Guests William Shaw and Claire Biddles join Andrew and Siân for another pop culture plenary. Remember you can watch this discussion in all its riveting detail if you sign up to back us on Patreon.

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Devs, Why Don’t You Just Die?, Plone, Mike Judge’s Tales from the Tour Bus

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:00:00 GMT

Who’s Zoomin’ who? Guests Joe ‘Mixmag’ Muggs and Jim ‘Jockey Slut’ Butler join Andrew and Siân for our first-ever LIVE ZOOM recording. On the agenda: Alex Garland’s paranoid tech fantasy Devs, the spectacularly bloody Russian comedy thriller Why Don’t You Just Die?, and foul and funky behaviour in Beavis & Butthead genius Mike Judge’s Tales From The Tour Bus.

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Run, Ed O’Brien, Quibi

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 03:00:00 GMT

Is Sky’s new Phoebe Waller-Bridge “screwball tragedy” Run up there with Fleabag and Killing Eve? How Radiohead-y is the first solo album by their guitarist Ed O’Brien? And would you watch US TV shows with titles like Murder House Flip in 8-minute bursts on your smartphone? New mobile media launch Quibi hopes so. Guests Adam Higginbotham – author of Midnight In Chernobyl – and Miranda Sawyer of the Observer dial into the COBRA meeting of pop’n’roll.

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John Niven on his new novel plus Kidding on Sky, The Platform and the worst albums ever

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 03:00:00 GMT

With all the quality releases cancelled, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Duran Duran’s covers album ‘Thank You’, acclaimed as perhaps the worst album ever made. Plus slash’n’stab satirist John Niven on why his new book The F*ck It List might get him banned from America, and fellow guest Kate “Worldwide FM/Last Bohemians podcast” Hutchinson helps us to dismantle Jim Carrey’s dark comedy Kidding and The Platform, Netflix’s gastro-horror sleeper hit from Spain.

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The Strokes, Pen15, The Murder Of Nipsey Hussle

Sat, 04 Apr 2020 03:00:00 GMT

Combating isolation frustration across the nation… This week, The Strokes are back! Is this a good idea? Bravura and very near-the-knuckle middle school cringe comedy Pen15, in which two 31-year old actors play themselves as 13. And does BBC3’s Mysterious Murder Of Nipsey Hussle do justice to the assassinated hip hop star? Guests Jude “Guardian/New Statesman” Rogers and Ralph “Mixmag/Muzik” Moore help us sort it all out.

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The Mandalorian, Tiger King, Ren Harvieu

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 04:00:00 GMT

Remotely-recorded for your safety and comfort… Disney+ is here just in time for the Lockdown. Will spaghetti Star Wars western The Mandalorian justify your hard-earned Imperial credits? Big cat murder mystery cult saga Tiger King on Netflix: has any true story this insane been seen on TV before? And Salford torch singer Ren Harvieu returns after years of hardship. Will she get a good revieu? Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly and Johnny Davis of Esquire magazine join us to sort it all out.

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Lockdown hoedowns, Baxter Dury, Eel Pie Island doc

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 04:00:00 GMT

Excuse our sound quality… We’re all indoors for the foreseeable future, so you might as well enjoy the good stuff. In our first hygienic, remotely-recorded podcast guests Eamonn Forde (Guardian) and Martin Aston (MOJO) join Andrew and Siân to recommend what to watch, play and read in the self-isolation era. Plus Baxter Dury takes his urban dirty young man persona to “another level” and we assess next Friday’s BBC4 lock-in, the Eel Pie Island rock doc Rock’n’Roll Island. Do we learn anything new…?

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Ready Steady Go! on BBC4, Color Out Of Space, Nigel Godrich’s Ultraísta

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 04:00:00 GMT

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE (even though it’s Saturday). As BBC4 dedicates a evening to The Story of Ready Steady Go! we ask just what it was that made the bob-haired Cathy McGowan modfest the platonic ideal of youth TV? Plus alien gross-out horror in a new movie adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s Color Out Of Space and Radiohead’s sonic masseur Nigel Godrich returns with his micro-supergroup Ultraísta,

Frugging on the podium with Siân and Andrew this week are journo-about-town Michael Moran and Ian Harrison, MOJO Magazine news editor and free-spirited Liam to elder brother Andrew’s stern and humourless Noel.

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Noughts + Crosses on BBC1, Soccer Mommy, U.S. Girls, I Am Not Okay With This

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 04:00:00 GMT

DON’T CALL ME BLANCA: Does BBC1’s adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s race-inversion counterfactual Noughts + Crosses work as drama as well as thought experiment? New albums from “queen of screwing up” Soccer Mommy and Toronto-based megapop torch singer U.S. Girls. And a lonely teen girl discovers her Hulk-like superpower is… incipient lesbianism? That’s I Am Not Okay With This on Netflix.

Legendary presenter of THE WORD, 6Music DJ and “smellologist” Katie Puckrik and Michael Hann of The Guardian and the FT join Andrew and Siân to crack the top of this week’s crème brûlée of pop culture.

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Steve Coogan in Greed and The Trip To Greece, Chic, Cornershop

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 04:00:00 GMT

BLAME IT ON THE COOGAN: Does Alan Partridge’s alter ego acquit himself better as a thinly-veiled pastiche of charmless retail plutocrat Sir Philip Green in Michael Winterbottom’s gaudy comedy Greed? Or as an even-thinner-veiled version of himself in the final series of The Trip with Rob Brydon? (Food notes: this time it’s Greece).

We talk to guest Daryl Easlea – writer for Record Collector, Mojo, Uncut and more – about the new edition of his book Everybody Dance: Chic And The Politics Of Disco. Jockey Slut co-founder John Burgess talks about his old mate Andrew Weatherall and his new turbo-pop venture, the Mighty Hoopla Festival. Plus Cornershop turn Brexit into defiant indie rock, and a whole lot more. It’s all your earholes desire.

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Andrew Weatherall tribute, Pete Paphides memoir, Best Coast, Intelligence on Sky

Sat, 22 Feb 2020 04:00:00 GMT

After the great ANDREW WEATHERALL’s untimely passing, we assemble Weatherall-watchers Anthony Teasdale and Peter Paphides to appreciate the life, legacy and inspirational madness of Lord Sabre, the polymathic Oscar Wilde of acid house. Plus…

UNSUNG HEROES OF CHIP SHOP: Pete’s marvellous, hilarious and moving memoir Broken Greek, on how pop music changed – and saved – the life of a son of Greek immigrants who ran a Birmingham chippy in the 70s and 80s.

YOU ARE WATCHING BIG BROTHER: Will GCHQ Cheltenham’s listening station prove to be fertile ground for a The Thick Of It-style workplace comedy? We interrogate Sky’s Intelligence with David Schwimmer.

L.A. EXISTENTIAL: Does the heavily-therapised new album from Californian doom-wallowers Best Coast deliver what we want from our angsty power-pop?

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Parasite, Gil Scott-Heron, C90 indie rock

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 04:00:00 GMT

HOME ALONE: Is Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-scarfing class-battle nerve-twister Parasite really as good as they say?

POSTHUMOUS POETICS: There’s another version of Gil Scott-Heron’s final album I’m New Here out. Makaya McCraven jazzes it up into We’re New Again. What are the pros and cons of the collab beyond the grave?

MEMOIRS OF SHOEGAZING GENTLEMEN (AND LADIES): What does the vast new compilation C90 tell us about the idyllic, bowlheaded world of pre-Oasis indie pop?

Guardian TV and podcasts writer Hannah Verdier and Kate Hodges – bassist and author of Warriors Witches Women: Mythology’s Fiercest Females – join Andrew and Siân to sort it all RIGHT out.

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188: Writing thrillers with Mat Osman of Suede and William Shaw plus Queen & Slim, La Roux, Tame Impala

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 04:00:00 GMT

It’s crime fiction week! We talk to Mat Osman of Suede about his genuinely excellent debut novel The Ruins, and our old Smash Hits/Select colleague William Shaw about his spectacular new career as an author of superior crime fiction.

Plus, does much-lauded new chase movie Queen And Slim deliver on its promise as the Black Lives Matter Bonnie & Clyde? New albums from day-glo ice queen of the rave La Roux and yacht techno space Jesus Tame Impala. And much more besides.

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187: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Isobel Campbell, England’s lost baroque pop

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 04:00:00 GMT

This week, presenter of radio, podcasts and Thronecast Jamie East and Lydon/Tricky biographer Andrew Perry descend into the BigmouthCave. On the menu…

THE ONCE AND FUTURE CRINGE: Curb Your Enthusiasm is back after three years. Does the comedy of squirm still work in a more censorious age? And how does Larry David stay away from caricaturing himself?

CARRY ON FOLLOW THAT CAMPBELL: Former desert bluesperson and Belle & Sebastianist Isobel Campbell embraces the Laurel Canyon sound on her first solo album in 14 years. Does she wear it well?

THE DOILY EXPRESS: Sad-eyed ladies in Biba frocks, pots of Earl Grey, ginger cats, slathers of orchestra and woodwind, Honeybus, Mike Batt and Erasmus Chorum… Will Bob Stanley’s Tea And Symphony: The English Baroque Sound 1968-1974 rehabilitate this neglected sound?

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186: Uncut Gems, Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Lab, Halsey, Georgia

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 04:00:00 GMT

This week, TV oracles Julia Raeside of The Guardian and Michael Hogan of the Telegraph join Andrew and Siân to read pop culture’s spiritual aura. Submitting to past-life analysis this week…

BLING ME THE HORIZON: Can phoner-in of broad and basic comedy roles Adam Sandler rediscover his hidden talents as an actual thesp for avant garde diamond business thriller Uncut Gems? And is this the tensest moviegoing experience around right now?

ELECTRIC YOUTH: Rave spawn Georgia’s incandescent album Seeking Thrills and US anxiety-pop heroine Halsey’s new one, Manic: what are they telling us about the Young People? And does it matter that Georgia’s dad was in Leftfield?

WHO MADE WOO?: It’s brand extension time as jade-eggs-for-female-nethers entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow expands into a roundly absurd and widely panned Netflix show, Goop Labs. Exploitation of simple-minded narcissists? Performance art project for our times? Hate-watch or something worse? Our panel channel the Other Side (e.g. BBC4).

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185: Pet Shop Boys, Bowie graphic novel, Armando Iannucci’s Avenue 5

Sat, 18 Jan 2020 04:00:00 GMT

Dance music guru Ralph Moore of Mixmag and well-dressed journo-about-town Justin Quirk join Andrew and Siân on the Pools Panel of pop culture. This week:

BABYLON BERLIN: Recorded in the German capital, ‘Hotspot’ completes the Pet Shop Boys’ trilogy with superproducer Stuart Price. Are we in for sad bangers, what’s the laser quotient… and can you still rave in your seventh decade? (Spoiler: yes).

CHEAP HOLIDAYS IN OTHER SPECIES’ MISERY: Armando Iannucci’s latest workplace satire is set on a space cruiseliner. Does Avenue 5 – starring Hugh Laurie and Rebecca Front and showing on Sky One and NOW TV from 22 Jan – have the spark and snark of The Thick Of It and Veep?

THE ILLUSTRATED DAME: Does new graphic novel BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns And Moonage Daydreams capture the essence of dear, departed Davy Jones? And can Andrew and Ralph contain themselves re. the gorgeous Ditko/Kirby artwork of Mike Allred?

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184: 1917 movie, Dracula, January No.1s, Star Wars The Rise Of Skywalker

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:00:20 GMT

ROCK ON, TOMMY: Why there’s more to Sam Mendes’s nerve-shredding trench epic 1917 than total WW1 immersion horror.

TYPE AAARGH! POSITIVE: Was Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s Dracula update too kitsch, or not kitsch enough?

BRING YOUR DAUGHTER TO THE CHART RETURNS SHOP: The lost art of the Stealth January Number One.

REN & SKIMPY: We gather the nerds for final judgment on Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker.

For the first Bigmouth of the Twenties we’re joined by Strictly Kev AKA Ninja Tune artiste DJ Food and Luke Turner, co-founder of The Quietus and author of Out Of The Woods, to assess the pop culture arrivals of the New Year period.

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End of Decade Special feat Bowie, Fleabag, St Vincent, Janelle Monáe and more

Sat, 21 Dec 2019 04:00:00 GMT

Blackstar! Inside No.9! Arrival! St Vincent! Kill List! Robyn! Shame! Bicep! All these and more feature in our end-of-decade bloody assizes. As the Clanging Chimes of Doom bring us to the end not just of 2019 but the TwentyTeens™ themselves, what were our favourites of the decade that’s about to cash in its “chips”?

Guests Jude Rogers of The Word and The Guardian and Eamonn Forde of The Final Days Of EMI fame join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out. As the late great Dame himself once sang, “Time will crawl/To the 21st century loos”. We prefer to say lavatory, David.

We wish all Bigmouth persons a Happy Christmas and a delightful 2020. We’ll be back in the second week of the New Year. Until then… be excellent to one another.

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182: Best of 2019 feat. Booksmart, Chernobyl, Nick Cave, Lana Del Rey and more!

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 06:00:00 GMT

Do we hear a middling mid-2000s rock track or is it time for the best, the best, the Best of 2019?

Joining Andrew and Siân to reveal their favourite films, albums, tracks, and other things are musician, yogi and Mojo writer Sophie Harris, and King of the Music Writer’s bingo board and Craig Finn fan Michael Hann.

Among the top dogs are Booksmart, the screwball teen comedy turning the genre on its head, the HBO series Chernobyl and Succession.

Plus, the panel tries to avoid the waterworks - again - talking about Nick Cave’s heartbreaking album Ghosteen.

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181. Sound systems book, Burial, Psychemagik, 8 Days on Sky

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 06:00:44 GMT

It’s a bass-heavy podcast as we welcome dance music guru and Bigmouth regular Joe Muggs and photographer Brian David Stevens to talk about their book Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture. Pre-order it here and get free badges! Plus…

CEMETARY GREATS: Mysterious dubstep person Burial compiles all his free-range experimental EPs under the name ‘Tunes 2011-2019’. How does this enhance our understanding of the Vangelis of the night bus queue?

APOCALYPSE NEIN: A meteor is about to obliterate Europe and everyone is losing their scheisse in grim German drama Eight Days, now showing on Sky Atlantic. Will this Deutsche spin on Bowie’s ‘Five Years’ tempt you to binge-watch before the end of to the world?

THE COSMIC TRIP PRESENTS: Balearic mind-massagers Psychemagik finally release the debut album that’s been held hostage by major label shenanigans for ten years. Will ‘I Feel How This Night Should Look’ fit the ‘Moon Safari’-shaped hole in your life?

Plus the usual tunes, digressions and Closing Time Chatter. It’s what podcasts where made for.

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180: Coldplay album, Dolly Parton's Heartstrings, Country Music and Brett Anderson's new memoir

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 06:00:44 GMT

Devon is a place on Earth: West Country sons Coldplay release their new album Everyday Life - a concept album of two halves, Sunrise and Sunset. We discuss this disparate mix of stadium-bothering plus acoustic wibblings and why the hell Nietzsche is on the cover.

I Beg Your Parton: Dolly Parton's new Netflix series Heartstrings brings to life eight of her songs and features Julianne Hough, Kathleen Turner and Dolly herself amongst many others. Is it at good as the tunes?

The Big Tome: Suede singer Brett Anderson's first memoir Coal Black Mornings garnered heaps of praise. We chat about his second book, Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn, examining life in Suede: fame, drugs, sex and dry shampoo.

Ken Burns Effect: Country Music on BBC4 is an eight-part history from Doc God Ken Burns. Is this enormo-doc the definitive account - and does it serve as a history of America also?

On the Extra Bit - inspired by Dolly Parton's Heartstrings - we talk about pop stars in TV shows. Duncan from Blue! Boy George! Suzi Quatro! Get it by backing us.

Joining Siân are this week’s special guests: The Times' chief music critic Will Hodgkinson; plus culture writer for the Evening Standard and Sunday Times Simon Mills.

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179: Leonard Cohen, Nasty Cherry, Lou Reed's lyrics, War of the Worlds

Sat, 23 Nov 2019 06:00:00 GMT

Trawling through the muddy flats of pop culture this week…

HELLO, I MUST BE COHEN: Leonard Cohen's posthumous album Thanks for the Dance is released this week. Compiled by his son Adam, did Leonard have more to say after 2016's You Want it Darker?

POP YOUR CHERRY: "You can't sing, you look awful, you'll go a long way..." Can Charli XCX's new girl band Nasty Cherry make it big in the Netflix show I'm With the Band, despite in-band rivalries and zero experience? OF COURSE THEY CAN.

Reed United: The complete Lou Reed lyrics book I'll be Your Mirror numbers 670 pages. Is this the "autobiography" Laurie Anderson talks of in her introduction or does it offer less of a glimpse of the man (not The Man)?

Beats Woking: BBC's War of the Worlds is a new adaption of the HG Wells novel, set in leafy Surrey. A lot of people run around in tweed as aliens arrive. What did the panel think?

Joining Siân are this week’s special guests, Conde Nast Traveller and Times writer James Medd; plus actor and writer Dan Maier.

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178: The Irishman, DJ Shadow, FKA Twigs, winter pop warmers Episode

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 04:00:47 GMT

Revealed in the tea leaves of pop culture this week…

LEST WE FUGGEDABOUDIT: Does Martin Scorsese’s elegiac epic The Irishman put the capstone on mob movies forever? And who’s best in it: Bobby de Niro, little Joey Pesci, Al ‘The Animal’ Pacino or Stephen ‘The Scousefather’ Graham?

ME AND MY SHADOW: Trip hop originator DJ Shadow rails against the digitally-saturated present on ‘Our Pathetic Age’. Modern hip hop masterpiece or old man shouting at iCloud?

THE SPECIAL FKA: The fragile, suspended, subliminal soul-poptronica of FKA Twigs – what’s her album ‘Magdalene’ saying about life as a woman in 2019 and does she need to say it a bit louder?

AUTUMN ALMANACS: We choose our favourite albums for the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and is it time to put the heating on yet?

Joining Siân and Andrew are this week’s special guests, Guardian TV and podcasts writer Hannah Verdier and alternative rock journo Martin Aston, author of The Story Of 4AD.

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177: His Dark Materials, Michael Kiwanunka, Doctor Sleep, Apple TV+

Sat, 09 Nov 2019 04:00:00 GMT

Spelling themselves out on the ouija board of pop culture this week…

DÆMON DAYS: Does the prestige BBC/HBO adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials do justice to one of the greatest and most philosophically challenging books in the young adult pantheon? Or what?

MUSWELL HILL COMMUNICATION: We finally got that Michael Kiwanuka album. Does it deliver on the modern epic soul front?

REDRUM HE WROTE: That sequel to The Shining that nobody ordered is here. Does all plot and no mystery make Doctor Sleep a dull sequel?

THE IMPOSSIBLE STREAM: Apple think they can reinvent TV the way they did music, phones and, erm, not watches. Are the streaming shows on Apple TV+ enough to make you quit Netflix?

Joining Siân and Andrew are this week’s special guests, film writer Linda Marric and Spotify’s top dog of original content, Rob Fitzpatrick.

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Terminator Dark Fate, Kanye’s Jesus album, Eddie Murphy as Dolemite

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:00:00 GMT

Tumbling out of the pop culture piñata this week:

THE BECH-DEATH TEST: Does the all-new all-female Terminator Dark Fate bring the much-rebooted “killer robots from the future” saga back online? Or is the story trapped in a repetitive subroutine?

HOLY JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY: Kanye West has got God, but what will God think about that? And will Mr West’s holy-rolling gospel-powered album Jesus Is King save the souls of our heathen panel?

BLACK COMEDY: Eddie Murphy’s magnificent starring turn as filthy cult comedian Rudy Ray Moore (the Benny Hill of blaxploitation) makes new biopic Dolemite Is My Name one of the most extraordinary things on Netflix right now. And Wesley Snipes isn’t bad either. Does it whitewash the world of pimps and hoes, or are we seeing a real story of American reinvention?

Joining Siân and Andrew are this week’s special guests, comedy writer Sarah Morgan and Balearic-brained DJ and Bigmouth regular Anthony Teasdale.

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175: Watchmen, Dusty Springfield, Giri/Haji, Dukes Of Stratosphear, The Laundromat

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:00:00 GMT

Bubbling out of the pop culture percolator this week…

NO SQUID PRO QUO: Has Damon “Lost” Lindelof done justice to Watchmen – the Citizen Kane of wearing your underpants outside your trousers – with his “remix” of the concept for HBO/Sky? And do we have any idea of what the hell is going on?

KEEP IT DUSTY: What guest Lucy O’Brien discovered as she updated her definitive biography of Dusty Springfield.

STRIFE IN TOKYO: New high-end crime drama Giri/Haji on BBC2 – there’s a dead yakuza in London and detective Kelly Macdonald is having no luck on her dating apps. Will we keep watching?

A PSYCH FOR SORE EYES: The complete works of Dukes Of Stratosphear, the exploding plastic psychedelic cosplay experiment by XTC, are re-released in psurround psound.

CASH RUINS EVERYTHING AROUND ME: Does The Laundromat, Steven Soderbergh’s all-star comic dramatisation of the Panama Papers financial scandal, repay on its investment? And why are its principle subjects suing Netflix?

Special guests Lucy O’Brien and Melody Maker veteran David Stubbs join Siân and Andrew this week, with a special cameo from comics fiend and Remainiacs escapee Dorian Lynskey.

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174: Joker, Suzi Quatro movie, Motörhead, Succession finale spoilerama

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 03:00:00 GMT

Inside the tumble dryer of pop culture this week…

REPENT, HARLEQUIN! Is there more to Joaquin Phoenix’s turn in the hit Joker origin movie than half Taxi Driver and half King of Comedy? The movie has divided critics – will it divide our panel?

FIRE UP THE QUATRO: Does the biopic of original beleathered rock vixen Suzi Quatro convey the supercharged excitement of her doing Can The Can? And do we actually need biopics of every single pop star?

NO MORE KILMISTER NICE GUY: A major reissue programme for rock’s most horrible band Motörhead commences with their two 1979 albums Overkill and Bomber. Special guest Justin Quirk explains their unique and deathless appeal to a blankly confused Andrew.

WHAT A WAYSTAR: In a unique, spoiler-sodden post-credits sequence Andrew and Siân discuss the nerve-shredding finale to Season 2 of Succession. Could we believe what we were seeing and is it officially the Best Thing on Telly Ever (for now)?

Special guests Iestyn George of NME, GQ and Golf Punk fame and men’s mags man about town Justin Quirk are Siân and Andrew’s oppo’s this week.

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173: Nick Cave, Michael Hutchence movie, Elbow, The Politician

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:00:00 GMT

On this week’s pop culture perusal fest…

THE GREAT BARRIER, GRIEF: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ extraordinary new album Ghosteen leaves our panel floored and yet somehow elated. How did he turn unimaginable personal pain into something so beautiful?

THE ROAD OF XS: Many saw Michael Hutchence as just a likeable accumulation of rock star clichés – but was there more to him and to his personal tragedy? And can new biopic Mystify open up the story?

I WAS A TEENAGE TRUMP: Does the camp-meets-social-comment extravaganza The Politician – first fruit of Ryan “Glee/Pose” Murphy’s multimillion dollar Netflix deal – bring us closer to the tormented world of feverishly ambitious rich kids? And do we want it it?

BURY, MY HEART: As Elbow pile into the vicissitudes of Brexit Britain on their eighth album Giants Of All Sizes, we ask where spiritual unifier Guy Garvey fits into our divided nation.

Esquire magazine deputy editor Johnny Davis and Mojo/Times writer Sophie Harris join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out.

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171: OMD SPECIAL: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark on the life electronic

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 03:00:00 GMT

It’s a special Bigmouth this week as we’re joined by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys AKA Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark as they mark their 40th anniversary with their ‘Souvenir’ box set – half greatest hits, half Pharaonic treasure trove of all the things they’ve made (including the really weird stuff).

ARCHITECTURE AND MORALITY AND SIÂN AND ANDREW: Dive in for a fascinating conversation that takes in the ups and downs of an “accidental” pop career, how Kraftwerk changed their lives, how Paul’s mum nearly derailed OMD entirely, the love/hate relationship between Liverpool and Manchester (and why Joy Division were so amazing), the critical reappraisal that means their ‘difficult’ art statement ‘Dazzle Ships’ is now among their best-loved albums… and how Kraftwerk (them again) invented Atomic Kitten.

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170: Mod weekend on Sky, Temples, State Of The Union

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 04:00:00 GMT

We’re joined by Guardian telly and podcasts queen HANNAH VERDIER and Telegraph/Guardian TV writer MICHAEL HOGAN to read the tea leaves of pop culture. On the agenda…

FROM A VESPA TO A SCREAM: What it is with men and mod? Sky Arts’s Mod Weekend opens a window into the world of Weller worshippers and digs into the history of the thin-lapelled cult that won’t die. Is the world ready for Bradley Wiggins on Mod?

OUT OF PSYCH, OUT OF MIND: Cosmic inner-spacemen of Kettering Temples return with their third album Hot Motion. Will the panel turn on, tune in or drop out?

DECREE NASTY: Does Nick Hornby’s bite-sized marital counselling comedy State Of The Union (now on BBC2 and iPlayer) convince us that Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd could really be a couple? Is it funny? And what’s with the outrageous anti-middle-aged-music-journalism propaganda?

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169: Factory Records exhibition, 2 Tone at 40, Ad Astra and the worst Netflix show ever

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 04:30:00 GMT

This week Mojo mag news editor IAN HARRISON and Empire/ScreenWords/Jewish Chronicle film writer LINDA MARRIC join us to feel the bumps on the skull of pop culture. On the agenda…

CRISPY AMBULANCE CHASERS: Early Factory Records relics go on show in London as the Chelsea Space’s Use Hearing Protection exhibition displays the artefacts bestowed with the first 50 FAC numbers. What set Tony Wilson’s empire apart from the post-punk pack?

RUDE AWAKENINGS: It’s 40 years since the dawn of 2 Tone and celebrations are afoot. What were the best of the rankin’, skankin’ Midlands Motown’s output and can Ian still draw a Walt Jabsco on his schoolbook?

ONE GIANT STEP FOR BRAD: Does spaceborne dad-and-lad intriguefest Ad Astra confirm Brad Pitt as the modern James Coburn?

POLLUTING THE STREAMS: Why on earth did Netflix greenlight the putrid Lost-with-millennials miniseries The I-Land and how much more of this crap can we expect as the streaming wars escalate?

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168: Nouvelle Vague saga Shock of the Future, The Loudest Voice, and BBC's The Capture

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 12:00:00 GMT

This week we have special guests Miranda Sawyer - author of Out of Time, she writes for the Observer, appears on Radio 4 and much much more – plus ex-Word magazine writer and Bob Dylan boffin James Medd to discuss the pop culture issues of the day.

PALE AILES: Will Sky's The Loudest Voice plump Succession as the latest Citizen-Kane-for-our-times? Starring Russell Crowe as Fox News founder Roger Ailes and Sienna Miller as his wife, this aims to lift the lid on the controversial figure pre Fake News and #MeToo. But do heavy prosthetics simply... get in the way of a good story?

BOOM-CHAQUE: New French movie Shock of the Future stars Alma Jodorowsky as proto-electronica pioneer Ana, a frustrated jingle-writer intent on making her own way in the music business. Huge racks of 1970s audio equipment! The Roland CR-78! Loads of cigs! What's not to like?

AINT NO MOUNT HIGH ENOUGH: Metronomy Forever is the new album from indie emo dance-crew Metronomy - hence the name. On the heels of the Hot Chip album, are we expecting more sad dad bangers from head honcho Joe Mount? This album has 17 tracks. 17!

CAM SLAM: The Capture is the BBC's new hot crime drama. Yes. Starring Holliday Grainger and Callum Turner, we enter a world where CCTV is King - but is it a reliable witness or is someone manipulating the live streams? And why are there so many posh people in it? Tune in and find out.

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167: Succession S2, UK Rap Game on BBC3, weird cover versions status report

Sat, 31 Aug 2019 03:00:00 GMT

LOGAN’S RUIN: Bravura dynastic betrayalfest Succession is back for a second jaw-dropping season on Sky. Are they satirising Murdoch, Trump or plutocrats in general? What do the Murdochs think of it (Simon knows)? And is this actually the new Greatest Thing Ever On TV?

MCS GOT TALENT: As long-running “X Factor of hip hop” The Rap Game comes to the BBC3, we assemble a roomful of middle-aged white people to see who’s Alexandra Burke of grime and hardcore, and who’s the Steve Brookstein of MCs.

TRAD. ARR. WARS: As guest Michael Hann brings ‘Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 2: A Tribute to Van Halen’ by The Bird And The Bee to our attention, we assess the current vexed state of the cover version. As in, no more heartbroken minor key versions of ANYTHING, OK?

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166: Daisy Age hip hop, Definitely Maybe in the dock, Friendly Fires

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 03:00:00 GMT

TRIBAL GATHERING: The first proper compilation of Daisy Age hip hop is out. What made A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Queen Latifah and friends so great and where can we still see the vibrations of “da Inner Sound, y’all”?

BACK TO THE OLD HOUSE: Can rave-besotted recovering indie band Friendly Fires elbow their way up to the Hot Chip/Simian Mobile Disco premier league of couture house music with, you know, actual songs?

OUR KID’S ELECTRIC: It’s 25 years since Oasis released their debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’. Greatest rock debut of the past half-century or catastrophic blind alley from which British rock has yet to escape? Or a bit of both?

Plus exciting tunes from our panel, Closing Time Chatter and David Bowie in dub…

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165: Jeremy Deller’s rave documentary, Sky’s Euphoria, special guest Piney Gir

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 04:00:00 GMT

ONLY CLUBBERS LEFT ALIVE: Why is everyone talking about Jeremy Deller’s exploration of rave culture, ‘Everybody In The Place’? And what makes it different from your standard “who invented house music” documentary?

TEENAGE TORPOR: How truthful is ‘Euphoria’, Sky/HBO’s bleak new teen travails drama starring Zendaya from ‘Spider-Man’? Is a nightmare world of cyberstalking, indiscriminate hook-ups, revenge porn and poly-drug abuse necessarily going to make for your next box set addition?

THE ALBUM ONLY I LIKE: Yes we’re adding to our collection of unloved albums. All this and more on the best pop culture talk show on the Internet.

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164: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Ride, best movies of 2019 so far

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast for free-range procrastinators – LIVE FROM ST. QUENTIN: Does Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood get away with “doing” the Manson Murders? Can our panel discuss it without ruining the ending? And is it the most divisive movie we’ve yet discussed?

YOUR FEEDBACK IS IMPORTANT TO US: Sultans of shoegaze Ride are back, older and wiser. How is their sonic cathedral restoration project looking? HALF WAY FULL HOUSE: With 2019 just over half-done, film critic Anna Smith of the Girls On Film podcast chooses her five favourite movies of the year so far, and Andrew, Siân and fellow guest Eamonn Forde argue about which one’s the best.

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163: Mick Houghton's tales of pop excess, The Great Hack, Sky One's Manifest, "the album no one likes but me"

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 06:00:00 GMT

This week’s special guests are NADIA SHIREEN – author, illustrator and pop nut – and Legendary publicist MICK HOUGHTON, who's just published his memoir Fried and Justified about working with Teardrop Explodes, KLF, Talking Heads, Echo & the Bunnymen, JAMC, Undertones, Sonic Youth and many more... Who took the Ramones for a curry? Mick did.

Will The Great Hack on Netflix have us deleting our social media accounts in a hurry as it details the Cambridge Analytica scandal? In question: Facebook's access to user data during the 2016 Brexit and Trump campaigns. Whistleblowers speak!

And does Sky One's Manifest deliver as a series about a group of plane passengers who go missing for five years and just... turn up? Something strange is afoot - but no one yet know why.

Plus the return of the old favourite, The Album No One Likes But Me. We have Nadia and Mick's choices. Are they really that awful?

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162: Rave retro art, Blood Orange, Britpop cinema and special guest Rhoda ‘Special AKA’ Dakar

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 05:00:00 GMT

This week’s special guests are RHODA DAKAR – ska stalwart of The Bodysnatchers and Special AKA fame – and film writer MATT GLASBY, author of new book Britpop Cinema: From Trainspotting To This Is England. On the agenda…

A FIELD OF THEIR OWN: Does the Saatchi Gallery’s dance music exhibition Sweet Harmony: Rave Today properly summon up the necessary vibes for another Summer of Love?

TANGERINE DREAM: If electronic r’n’b “artiste” Blood Orange’s latest release ‘Angel’s Pulse’ isn’t an album, what is it?

GRAVE EXPECTATIONS: The grand old man of American indie cinema Jim Jarmusch has made a zombie movie – why? And does The Dead Don’t Die hold up against stiff competition?

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161: Midsommar, albums for summer, Steven Bannon doc The Brink

Sat, 13 Jul 2019 06:00:00 GMT

This week, ANIMIST NITRATE: Is pagan psycho-fest Midsommar a mere update of The Wicker Man or does it bring something new to the horror chopping block?

HEATWAVE RAVES: Our guests David Stubbs and Linda Marric help Siân and Andrew choose a soundtrack for Summer 2019.

IT’LL BE ALT.RIGHT ON THE NIGHT: Can our panel bear to spend 90 minutes in the company of far-right barfbag Steve Bannon in the damning fly-on-the-wall documentary The Brink? Plus the usual recommendations, denunciations and prevarications.

And we’ve put as many tunes from this show as we can find on a Spotify playlist. Enjoy!

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160: WARP Records at 30, Catch-22, Thom Yorke

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 04:00:00 GMT

This week, THE COLOUR PURPLE – We celebrate 30 years of out-there bleep explorers WARP Records with noted clattery music enthusiasts Strictly Kev AKA DJ Food and Luke Turner of The Quietus.

WAR IS HELLER – Have Hulu and George Clooney successfully filmed the unfilmable with their adaptation of the legendary satirical WWII snafu-fest Catch-22?

“COME ON, THOM!” – Will ‘Anima’, Thom Yorke’s third solo album, fill the Radiohead-sized hole in your life and what on earth is that Alternative Carpark-style short film all about? These things and more we bring to you.

BONUS: We’ve put our WARP recommendations plus a few more tracks from this week’s show on a Spotify playlist too. Enjoy!

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159: Glastonbury 2019: Live and Lo-Fi

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:10:26 GMT

Relive the atmosphere of 24 hours ago as Andrew heads into the Fields of Dreams to bring back what Glastonbury 2019 was really like. Ted Kessler of Q, Bigmouth regulars Ian Harrison of Mojo and Nadia Shireen, and indie labels mogul James Endeacott bring us the true flavour of Planet Earth’s Greatest Event.

A word of warning: this is a lo-fi recording and we couldn’t budget for mobile phone interference from passers-by and those festival-goers that we buttonholed. Think of it as the full Glastonbury-in-the-raw experience: rough and ready, loud and bassy.

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158: Hot Chip, horror satire In Fabric, Mark Ronson

Sat, 22 Jun 2019 04:00:00 GMT

We recorded this week’s podcast before the sad death of French house legend Philippe Zdar, who produced HOT CHIP’s fantastic new album ‘A Bath Full Of Ecstasy’. Author and ex-Face magazine editor Richard Benson and Guardian TV and podcasts writer Hannah Verdier join us to talk discuss the Chip’s magnum opus for the older, wiser raver.

Plus! The astonishing horror movie IN FABRIC from Peter ‘Duke Of Burgundy’ Strickland. (Are we ready for the Scarfolk ‘Are You Being Served?’) MARK RONSON completes this week’s “sad bangers” mood with his long-awaited album of small-hours introspection, ‘Late Night Feelings’. And our guests bring in a tune each too.

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157: Killing Eve S2, Prince Originals, I Am Mother on Netflix

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:30:00 GMT

On this week’s Bigmouth, Will Hodgkinson of The Times and writer and film critic Claire Biddles join us on our fab new studios to discuss the releases of the hour.

On this podcast – EVE OF DESTRUCTION: Does Series 2 of Killing Eve match up to that incendiary first season and are the carpings of the critics unfounded? PURPLE PATCH: The posthumous Prince compilation ‘Originals’ is streaming on Tidal now and released on June 21. What do we make of these songs that the late Imp of the Perverse gave to other artists? FROM HERE TO MATERNITY: Netflix’s latest lo-fi sci-fi movie I Am Mother gives us a girl raised by a motherly droid (Ma-2D2?). Does it have interesting things to say about nature, nurture and the love between motherboard and child? All this and more.

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156: Booksmart movie, Liam Gallagher biopic, Divine Comedy

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 04:00:00 GMT

This week, TEENAGE RAMPAGE: Why you NEED to go and see Booksmart, the most original and joyful high school comedy since Ferris Bueller’s Day off. OUR KID’S BATHETIC: The fly-on-Liam-Gallagher’s-wall doc As It Was shows him as less mad for it and more dad for it. But is it cosmetic exercise? And FIGHT THE POWER (POINT): Does The Divine Comedy’s satirical workplace album Office Politics meet its KPIs going forward in this space? We’ll shake the tree and loop you in once we’ve bottomed this one out with a 360º perspective, yeah?

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155: Memoirs of a Britpop Machiavelli, Elton’s Rocketman, Richard Hawley

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 04:00:00 GMT

On the analyst’s couch of pop culture this week: YOU WANNA LIVE LIKE CAMDEN PEOPLE? Britpop’s Machiavellian publicist Phill Savidge joins us to talk about his memoir of the glittering 90s scene, and argue with Andrew about who really invented the last epic pop moment. DWIGHT HERE, DWIGHT NOW: Does Rocketman, the “musical fantasy” of Elton John’s life story, entertain as thoroughly as it settles Sir Elt’s score of grudges? RICH PICKINGS: Is Richard Hawley now making the Morrissey records it’s OK to like? And a whole lot more too.

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154: Amyl & The Sniffers, The Virtues on C4, Flying Lotus

Sat, 25 May 2019 04:00:00 GMT

On the pop culture dissection table this week: TOP OF THE POPPERS – Do Melbourne’s Amyl & The Sniffers have the punk rock prescription we need? SHANE IN YOUR GAME – The great Stephen Graham in Shane Meadows’ riveting new C4 drama The Virtues. LOTUS POCUS – What on earth is going on with cosmic space-jazz funk-hop auteur Flying Lotus’s latest album? Special guests MICHAEL HANN of The Guardian and ANTHONY TEASDALE, the most Balearic man from West Lancashire, join us to sort it all out.

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153: Rave movie BEATS, What We Do In The Shadows, the album only I like (slight return)

Sat, 18 May 2019 05:00:00 GMT

This week, ECKIE THUMP: Why Scottish rave movie BEATS might be the best movie yet to capture the essence of waving your arms in a field while being chased by the “polis”. FANGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER: Can Taika Waititi’s TV adaptation of his bat-on-the-wall vampire houseshare movie What We Do In The Shadows match the original? And our two guests Michael Hogan of the Telegraph and NME and Select veteran Lucy O’Brien sell us on the virtues of the albums that only they like.

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152: BEASTIE BOYS‘ ill Communication is 25, Chernobyl on Sky, coming of age comedy Eighth Grade

Sat, 11 May 2019 04:00:00 GMT

RADIATION FOR THE NATION: Does HBO’s Chernobyl disaster epic work as either science or drama, or would you be better off reading this excellent book instead? HOUSE OF HOROWITZ: How the Beastie Boys’ rap-funk-jazz monster ‘ill Communication’ remade the 90s. TEENAGE LOBOTOMY: The bleak, comic and heartbreaking life of the contemporary American teenager in new independent drama-comedy ‘Eighth Grade’. And, naturally, a whole lot more.

Music business journo and U2 fanatic EAMONN FORDE and Face and Arena mag veteran MARK HOOPER join us for our latest rummage in the bran tub of pop.

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151: AVENGERS: ENDGAME, Soft Cell’s Dave Ball, Vampire Weekend and more

Sat, 04 May 2019 03:45:00 GMT

It’s an epic-length BIGMOUTH this week. First we welcome special guest DAVE BALL to our appropriately subterranean Soho lair to talk about Soft Cell’s one-off (?) reunion and his new memoir of life in pop’s sleaziest duo. Then Dave and guest MARTIN ASTON stick around as we look at BBC2’s THE LOOMING TOWER – can a doggedly factual 9/11 intelligence drama work and how soon is too soon? – and check out the fourth album by well-heeled New York ethnomusicologists VAMPIRE WEEKEND.

And then it’s spoiler time as geek squad members LINDA MARRIC and MICHAEL MORAN join us to dissect AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Who lives? Who dies? What did it all mean? All will be revealed in a conversation that you definitely should NOT listen to unless you’ve already seen the movie.

What do you mean, you haven’t already seen the movie…?

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150: Why LIZZO is large and in charge, Chimerica on C4, Stealing Sheep

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 05:00:00 GMT

On this week’s pop culture death match we’re joined by JUDE ROGERS of The Guardian, New Statesman and The Word RIP and dance music man about town RALPH MOORE of Mixmag fame. On the agenda: Does LIZZO have the body-positive bangers to match her outsize personality? Can C4’s continent-spanning marquee drama CHIMERICA spin fake news, the purpose of journalism, geopolitics and Wham!’s visit to China into a coherent image of the way the world is right now? And can electro-pagan Scouse trio STEALING SHEEP negotiate the tricky step up to the big time?

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149: SLADE streem the noize on Spotify, Game of Thrones S8, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 05:00:00 GMT

We’re back from our recuperative week off with SLADE on Spotify at last – should today’s young people be force-fed stomping Midlands yob-pop from the Middle Ages? Also we read the runes for the final season of GAME OF THRONES and experience the antipodean antics of KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, the pop Hawkwind we didn’t know we needed. Pop culture journo and Throneshead Michael Moran joins us as special guest.

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148: Being Frank Sidebottom movie, Andy Gill of Gang Of Four, Chemical Brothers, Billie Eilish

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 04:47:00 GMT

On this week’s podcast… Special guest Andy Gill of THE GANG OF FOUR on new album ‘Happy Now?’, the return of angular rock for crisis Britain, and his secret past with Adam ‘The Power Of Nightmares’ Curtis. Plus Andy joins David Stubbs, Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison to debate the Brexit-blocking beats of the new CHEMICAL BROTHERS album, the surprising pathos of BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY and whether BILLIE EILISH is appropriate for impressionable older listeners. As ever, your leisure is our pleasure.

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147: BIGMOUTH EXTRA: Scenes from Keith Flint’s memorial

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:35:14 GMT

The death of The Prodigy’s much-loved KEITH FLINT by his own hand left countless people – ravers, rockers, ’90s veterans, lovers of pop and good times in general – shocked, saddened and broken up. Numerous stories emerged afterwards confirming that, far from the twisted firestarter of the videos, Keith was a friendly, warm and above all kind man. It was desperately unfair that evidently he could not feel the happiness that he brought to millions.

Friend of the show and radio producer ROBIN LEEBURN traveled to Braintree for Keith’s memorial service last Friday and spoke to Keith’s fans and friends. Here’s what he saw and heard, as a special mini-edition of BIGMOUTH and a way to remember a lovely man who deserved a much longer, happier life.

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146: Scott Walker, Us movie, Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt on Netflix and more

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 05:34:00 GMT

On this week’s podcast… WE’RE LOVING ENGEL INSTEAD: The irreplaceable Scott Walker. AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: Is Jordan Peele’s latest horror movie ‘Us’ a worthy successor to ‘Get Out’? VERY METAL: Is the Netflix adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s infamous ‘The Dirt’ worth a watch even if you can’t stand their music? And does it whitewash the depravity? NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: New albums from Jenny ‘Rilo Kiley’ Lewis and Andrew ‘you might not know him’ Bird.

Joining us to rummage through the bran tub of pop culture this week are GEORGINA GODWIN, presenter and Books Editor at Monocle24, and Bigmouth regular ANDREW MUELLER, himself a Monocle24 regular. Hey, it’s almost a podclash.

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145: Edwyn Collins, New York voguing drama, the internet’s dark side and more

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 05:00:00 GMT

On our latest pop culture patterfest, Q Magazine editor TED KESSLER and comedy writer DAN MAIER of Harry Hill fame join Siân and Andrew to sift through the week’s most interesting stuff.

The great EDWYN COLLINS confronts age and mortality through the medium of sounding as much like Iggy Pop as possible on new album ‘Badbea’. Is ‘Feud’ and ‘Glee’ producer Ryan Murphy’s dramatisation of the New York drag ball scene POSE worth your eyeball time? Ted gives us a bumper crate of new release recommendations. And we stare into the abyss inhabited by freelance internet moderators on the BBC Storyville documentary ‘THE CLEANERS’.

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144: Terry Hall and David Quantick on Ricky Gervais’s After Life, Dave, Derry Girls and more

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:00:00 GMT

It’s a legend-heavy podcast this week as we welcome TERRY HALL of The Specials to talk about the rebirth of every rude boy and girl’s favourite band – and music press and TV comedy giant DAVID QUANTICK of The Day Today and Veep fame.

On the agenda: Is Ricky Gervais’s new Netflix comedy AFTER LIFE brave, bold, funny… or just obnoxious egotism? And do we prefer DERRY GIRLS, TV’s premier all-girl comedy based on religious sectarianism, the threat of terrorism and Take That? Plus we get on the analyst’s couch with London hip hop debutant DAVE – that’s his name, how hip hop is that? – to unpick his debut album ‘Psychotherapy’. All this and more we bring to you.

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143: Keith Prodigy, Captain Marvel, Fleabag, Sparks and more

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 06:38:00 GMT

This week, the immensely sad death by suicide of KEITH FLINT, The Prodigy’s magnificent monster of the id. We salute a self-made superstar and explore what made him so loved across the spectrum from ravers to rockers and beyond.

Plus: CAPTAIN MARVEL – does Brie Larsen’s super-debut as Earth’s Mightiest Hero live up to its billing? And whose make-up works best, de-aged Samuel L “Nick Fury” Jackson or green-faced Ben “Skrull leader” Mendelsohn? FLEABAG – the worst-behaved woman in London is back for a second series. How will Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s leftfield comedy smash develop now it’s in the spotlight? And SPARKS’s discotronic classic ‘No.1 In Heaven’ is back in a 40th anniversary edition. Just how modern does it sound? Spoiler: very.

Joining us this week to sort it all out are film journalist LINDA MARRIC and debonair man-about-the-Internet MICHAEL MORAN.

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142: Alan Partridge, Sleaford Mods, Get Out and more

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 06:00:00 GMT

This week we scale the north face of Chatmandu with pop journo HANNAH VERDIER and pop-obsessed illustrator NADIA SHIREEN, both veterans of the sainted Smash Hits Academy of Excellence. What does our panel make of the return of ALAN PARTRIDGE, and will it make Andrew dial down his Piers Morganisms on the Bigmouth settee?

Also: Can SLEAFORD MODS come to terms with the Big Time i.e. having a house with more than one bedroom? We delve into new album ‘Eton Alive’. And we missed the groundbreaking “woke horror” movie GET OUT when it first appeared, but it’s now on Netflix so that’s a good excuse to talk about it.

And it’s farewell to episode numbers in the show title because Apple Podcasts have decided they don’t like them. What are you going to do, eh?

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141: Podcast #141: Russian Doll, Shaun Ryder’s lyrics, Oscars and more

Sat, 23 Feb 2019 06:20:00 GMT

This week we’re joined by Quietus co-founder JOHN DORAN and film writer LINDA MARRIC to pan for more pop culture gold among the gravel and bottle tops. RUSSIAN DOLL on Netflix: what’s the metaphysical subtext of TV’s funniest drinking, drugging and dying comedy? SHAUN RYDER’S LYRICS are finally collected in book form – is he the WB Yeats of Madchester as Tony Wilson claimed all those years ago? Who does Linda fancy for an Oscar? And loads of music too.

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140: Podcast #140: Das Boot, Out Of The Woods with Luke Turner, Bowie doc, Ladytron

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 05:09:00 GMT

On this week’s podcast, ALAAARM! We talk over the stunning re-Boot of sub-sea nerve-wrangler DAS BOOT with our guests, Quietus co-founder LUKE TURNER (left) and pop culture journo MARK HOOPER (right). Does the story of a different U-boat match up to the original and where does it fit into Brexit Britain’s TV schedule?

Plus: Luke Turner talks about his remarkable book ‘Out Of The Woods’, where self-doubt, masculinity, sexuality, Suede and Throbbing Gristle come together in the mysterious depths of Epping Forest. What did we make of the latest and possibly last David Bowie documentary, Finding Fame? The new album from severe electronic Scouse-Scots Hungarian electroids Ladytron. And much, much more.

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139: Podcast #139: Velvet Buzzsaw on Netflix, Death of EMI book, Prefab Sprout

Sat, 09 Feb 2019 06:00:00 GMT

On this week’s high-end pop culture hootenanny, we’re joined by music business journo EAMONN FORDE – who fills us in on the cautionary tale that is his new book ‘The Final Days Of EMI: Selling The Pig’ – plus The Times’ rock and pop critic WILL HODGKINSON.

On the agenda: Jake Gyllenhaal in art scene gorefest ‘Velvet Buzzsaw‘, the return of Paddy MacAloon’s orchestral masterpiece ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, new tunes from our guests, and loads more. Listen up or feel like you’re outside the Velvet Rope forever.

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138: Podcast #138: Buzzcocks, Dr Dre & Jimmy Iovine, Mercury Rev on Bobbie Gentry and more

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 06:00:00 GMT

It’s a rather more stylish Bigmouth than usual as GQ magazine editor DYLAN JONES joins us for this week’s pop culture dégustation along with SOPHIE HARRIS of Mojo, Time Out and… yoga?

On the menu this week: Can HBO/BBC4 documentary ‘The Defiant Ones’ make compelling drama from the parallel rise of Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine? Psychedelic backwoodsmen Mercury Rev take on Bobbie Gentry’s country-soul classic ‘The Delta Sweete’ with an army of five-star female vocalists. And weren’t Buzzcocks just FANTASTIC?

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137: Podcast #137: Fyre Festival, junk shop glam, Specials, The Beat and more

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 07:00:00 GMT

“It’s not fraud, it’s just false advertising!” Special guests and major influencers ALEXIS PETRIDIS of The Guardian and LUCY O’BRIEN, author of ‘Madonna: Like An Icon’, join regulars Siân and Andrew on a microlite to misery as we gaze in disbelief at not one but BOTH Fyre Festival documentaries. What were the best bits, what did we learn about “millennials” and is there enough Evian in the world to douse this Bonfire Of The Inanities? Hey, dig our on-brand orange tile…

PLUS It’s la recherche de Fred Perrys perdu with new albums from The Specials – their first in 37 years – and the faction of The Beat that includes Ranking Roger. And we FEEL THE NOIZE on a new 60-track compilation of ultra-obscure glam rock from the actual real-life 1970s, ‘All The Young Droogs’.

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136: Podcast #136: Stan & Ollie, Trevor Horn’s 80s album, Steve Mason and more

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 07:00:00 GMT

Have Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly brought back the real Laurel & Hardy, and how many hankies should you take to ‘Stan & Ollie’? Why is Trevor Horn reinventing the 80s if they weren’t broken in the first place? And former Beta Band man Steve Mason says his fourth album ‘About The Light’ is his first proper record – is he right?

Seasoned journos Ian Harrison of Mojo magazine and Michael Hogan of the Guardian and Telegraph join Siân and Andrew to push the piano of pop culture up the metaphorical staircase of criticism. Will it come clattering down and smash to bits? There’s only one way to find out.

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135: Podcast #135: That Bros movie, HMV, New Order’s Technique and more

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 07:00:00 GMT

What do the letters H.O.M.E. mean to you? We’re joined in Conversation Corner by guests Ralph Moore of dance bible Mixmag and Anthony Teasdale – terrace style guru and Balearic soothsayer – to discuss the movie that made everyone’s Christmas, ‘Bros: After The Screaming Stops’.

Plus: can we mourn HMV if we didn’t spend enough money there? New Order’s fluorescent classic ‘Technique’ is a whole 30 years old. And an unusually ravey selection of tunes from our guests.

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134: Podcast #134: More Best of 2018 inc Sally4Ever, Black Panther, Shame, Succession and more

Sat, 22 Dec 2018 07:00:00 GMT

In our second End of Year special, guests MIRANDA SAWYER and EAMONN FORDE tell us their favourite records, telly, films and other stuff of 2018 – and Andrew gets to make his choices too. Who liked lesbionic romantic disaster SALLY4EVER? What did the panel make of the new DOCTOR WHO? And who was the most appalling monster on TV? Plus music from Christine & The Queens, Shame, Suede, Half Man Half Biscuit and Dave – just Dave. It’s all you need for the long dark winter evenings.

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133: Podcast #133: Best of 2018 inc The 1975, BlacKKKlansman and A Very English Scandal

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 09:18:28 GMT

The 1975! The Lemon Twigs! Anna Calvi! That fantastic Jeremy Thorpe dramatisation from the BBC! And some films, telly and music you might not have heard of too! It’s the first of our ‘Favourites of 2018’ shows.

MICHAEL HANN of The Guardian and FT and ANDREW MUELLER (once Melody Maker, now Monocle and you can’t say that about everyone) join Andrew and Siân to choose the best of the year. Plus: how do you persuade uptight business-y mags like The Economist and The Spectator to run stories on Cold War Steve and Lawrence from Denim/Go-Kart Mozart?

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132: Podcast #132: Bryan Ferry, Guy Pratt's bass tales, 1983 on Netflix

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 07:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast for today’s prancing popinjay: Bassist to the gentry, raconteur and stand-up comic GUY PRATT tells us about life playing with Pink Floyd, Madonna, Robert Palmer and – for about a week – The Smiths. And music journo and author MARTIN ASTON helps us dissect new Netflix ‘Polish noir’ drama 1983 and the surprisingly addictive new jazz album from BRYAN FERRY. (Guy is the soul of tact here – Bryan is his mate of old).

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131: Podcast #131: Vic & Bob's Big Night Out, This Mortal Coil Reissues & The Kominsky Method on Netflix

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 07:00:00 GMT

They wouldn't let it lie.

Spam! Pants! Soil! Is the all-new Vic n Bob's Big Night Out all we've been expecting from a big night in? The Kominsky Method on Netflix stars Mr Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, as ageing acting coach Sandy Kominsky - we ponder this dark, comedic "later life" series.

Plus with new reissues of the three This Mortal Coil albums on 4AD, we listen to Ivo Watts-Russell's ethereal studio collective and debate whether it still packs a punch 27+ years on.

And goodbye Nic Roeg, director of Performance, Man Who Fell to Earth, Walkabout and more.

Music boffins Rob Fitzpatrick and Hannah Verdier join Siân. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a virtual pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.

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130: Podcast #130: The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Suede & The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 07:00:00 GMT

Dim the lights! It's the pop culture podcast for the louche lounge dweller. Does the Coen Brother's anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs cast a new light on the narrative of the Wild West and the lonesome cowboy? And did anyone recognise Tom Waits? We talk about the Suede documentary The Insatiable Ones - chasing the dragon or gettin' off that thar horse? And yes, it's Brett vs Damon week as we muse upon The Good, The Bad and the Queen, Damon Albarn's supergroup with new Brexit Britain album Merrie England.

Ian Gittins from the Guardian, Melody Maker and Telegraph plus Sophie Harris from MOJO, The Guardian and Men’s Health join Siân to chew the cud.

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129: Podcast #129: Kate Bush, Stan Lee, Happy Mondays, Outlaw King on Netflix

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 07:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast for the sophisticated procrastinator: The KATE BUSH reissues are out. How do her leotard years stand up at nearly 40 years’ remove? We mark the ascension of Marvel mastermind Smilin’ STAN LEE to the Astral Plane with guest Dorian Lynskey from the Remainiacs podcast. HAPPY MONDAYS’ infamous second album ‘Bummed’ is 30 years old. And is Netflix’s blood-sodden Robert the Bruce drama OUTLAW KING fit for purpose as the new Braveheart?

Writer and rock’n’roll muso KATE HODGES joins Andrew and Siân to sort it all out.

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128: Podcast #128: Netflix’s Cash/Nixon and Bob Marley, C4’s The First, Carlos Ezquerra

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 07:40:46 GMT

Is Netflix’s new rockumentary series Remastered up to BBC4 music doc standard? We look for things we don’t know in their episodes on JOHNNY CASH’s relationship with Richard Nixon and the attempted murder of BOB MARLEY. The producers of House Of Cards stage a realistic Mars shot in THE FIRST – but is the myth-making too earnest? And Andrew gets all excited about a lost gem of comic books from the late 2000AD artist CARLOS EZQUERRA, a spaghetti western for kids called El Mestizo.

Special guests JUDE ROGERS of The Guardian and New Statesman and JAMES MEDD of The Times – veterans of the late lamented WORD magazine both – join Siân and Andrew for this week’s pop culture autopsy.

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127: Podcast #127: The Prodigy, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Berlin Station

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 07:00:00 GMT

THE PRODIGY: the electronic AC/DC who don’t ever need to change because they got it right 25 years ago, or relics of rave? Is THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA a fitting reboot to the 90s Saturday morning cult witchfest… is it a bit gother-than-thou… and does it still have a talking cat? And does C4’s euro-spy effort BERLIN STATION have das richtige Zeug for modern espionage drama?

Special guests ANTHONY TEASDALE of Umbrella magazine and former editor of The Face RICHARD BENSON join Siân and Andrew to sift this week’s pop culture popcorn.

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126: Podcast #126: Neil Tennant’s lyrics, Bobby Gillespie vs Andrew Neil, Robyn, Julia Davis’s Sally4Ever

Sat, 27 Oct 2018 06:00:00 GMT

This week we get all textual with NEIL TENNANT’S new book ‘100 Lyrics and a Poem’ – is he the pop TS Eliot or the Rave Larkin? – and gaze aghast at Julia Davis’s utterly filthy new comedy ‘SALLY4EVER’ in which a self-freeing and self-actualising lesbian affair turns into a disaster all round. Plus ROBYN’s new record of heartbreak on the dancefloor, Bobby Gillespie takes on The Man by refusing to dance with Michael Portillo on the BBC’s ‘This Week’… and much more.

ANDY MILLER of the brilliant books podcast Backlisted is our extra special guest for the week.

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125: Podcast #125: Cold War Steve, Neneh Cherry, St Vincent, Apostle on Netflix

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 06:17:20 GMT

Twitter photomontage artist Cold War Steve: just another Banksy or the Fly-Tip Warhol of Brexit Britain? Neneh Cherry returns with the proper grown-up pop of ‘Broken Politics’ and St Vincent redoes her last album for solo piano as ‘Masseducation’ – does it work? And can our panel stomach the splattery historical horror of ‘Apostle’, the new Netflix movie from Gareth “The Raid” Evans.

Britain’s best beer writer Pete Brown joins Andrew and Siân for an hour of quality pop culture wittering.

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124: Podcast #124: Doctor Who, John Grant, Primal Scream in Memphis

Sat, 13 Oct 2018 06:00:00 GMT

‘DOCTOR WHO’ returns with its biggest series debut in a decade, but what are the pundits missing about this new incarnation of the sci-fi institution? Will JOHN GRANT’s arch, observational electropop – showcased on new album ‘Love Is Magic’ – hit the spot with our panel? And we load up on collard greens and grits to explore PRIMAL SCREAM’s post-‘Screamadelica’ journey into fatback gumbo chicken-scratch soul as their lost Memphis tapes reappear after 20 years.

Guests HANNAH VERDIER of The Guardian and MICHAEL HANN of the FT, The Spectator and er The Guardian join Andrew and Siân to pick through the chitlins of pop culture.

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123: Podcast #123: Bowie’s 80s, Delia Derbyshire’s radiophonic secrets, Cat Power and more

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 06:00:00 GMT

The massive David Bowie box set project reaches the 1980s. Will the highs – Let’s Dance, Absolute Beginners, Loving The Alien – win out over the lows and is it strictly kosher to reinvent unloved albums to sound better after the artist’s death?

Plus our guests Mark “Hole & Corner Magazine” Hooper and actor and director Caroline Catz talk about the Cat Power album, their emergency go-to movies for a night when there’s nothing on TV, and Caroline’s new film documentary Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes about the High Priestess of Radiophonics. And it’s a sad farewell to producer Jack Claramunt who is leaving us for bigger things…

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122: Podcast #122: Killing Eve, Chic, Maniac and more with guest Paul Morley

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 06:00:00 GMT

On this week’s pop culture palaver-fest, ex-NME and ZTT mouth-on-a-stick PAUL MORLEY joins Siân and Bigmouth regular Michael Moran to ponder the week’s key broadcasts and releases. Is serial killer drama Killing Eve – written by Phoebe “Fleabag” Waller-Bridge – the electrifying experience everyone says it is? How about Netflix psychonautical caper Maniac? Is the new Chic album any good? And which show does Michael think is “like watching a cultural reference mood board”?

All this and more on the show they’re all calling “Late Review except it’s still going and it’s a podcast not a TV show.”

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121: Podcast #121: Christine & The Queens, Madonna, Suede and more

Sat, 22 Sep 2018 06:00:00 GMT

It’s Gender Non-Conformist Week on the smart pop culture podcast as guests Miranda Sawyer and author and pop journo Lucy O’Brien discuss CHRIS (the artist formerly known as Christine & The Queens), the magnificent return of pop polymorphs SUEDE, Lucy’s MADONNA biography ‘Like An Icon’ and loads more. Listen in as Siân cheers them on and Andrew has his appalling retrograde cis-male attitudes shaken to their very core.

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120: Podcast #120: Special guests ORBITAL on their life in rave and new album MONSTERS EXIST

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 06:00:00 GMT

Hands in the air and lasers akimbo: ORBITAL brothers Paul and Philip Hartnoll materialise in the Bigmouth bunker to talk about new album ‘Monsters Exist’ and their 30 years at the forefront of raving.

What’s it like working with Prof Stephen Hawking and Dr Brian Cox? How did the self-confessed “Mitchell Brothers of techno” bury the hatchet and start working together again? What are their favourite current tunes and classic electronic records? And what telly and box sets are they hammering? Andrew and Siân don the torch-glasses of destiny to find out.

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119: Podcast #119: Idris Elba’s Yardie, Jungle, Bodyguard on BBC1

Sat, 08 Sep 2018 06:00:00 GMT

On this week’s show, RUDE BOY CINEMA: does Idris Elba’s Yardie capture the truth about Jamaican gangsters without romanticising it? LAVENDER ON THE MOVE: we try and fail to discuss the Keeley Hawes/Robb Stark from GoT political potboiler BODYGUARD without spoilers. Should close protection officer David Budd stop clenching his jaw and enjoy his job a bit more? And the not-at-all difficult second album from West London slow-groovers JUNGLE.

Our guests this week: MATT ALLEN of Q, Mojo and sports book fame, and JUSTIN QUIRK of Supplement magazine and a whole load of other stuff. Keeping the diary irie, your hosts Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden.

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118: Podcast #118: Soft Cell box set, Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, Succession on Sky

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 06:00:00 GMT

LURING DISCO DOLLIES TO A LIFE OF VICE: This week we delve into Soft Cell’s enormous retrospective box set ‘Keychains And Snowstorms’ in the company of Times and GQ writer SIMON MILLS (who has some VERY interesting revelations about Marc’n’Dave from the good old days) and doyenne of the TV reviews JULIA RAESIDE of The Guardian.

Plus: Is Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman really the most important movie of the year? And why you really ought to be watching the Murdoch dynasty series-a-clef Succession on Sky Atlantic. Saying hello and waving goodbye, your hosts Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden.

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117: Podcast #117: Disenchantment, Blood Orange, The Man From Mo’Wax

Sat, 25 Aug 2018 06:12:21 GMT

ELF’N’SAFETY GONE MAD: Is Matt Groening’s sword-and-slapstick Netflix series Disenchantment up to par with Futurama and The Simpsons? Plus fractured r’n’b on the new album Blood Orange and a truly excellent new biopic of James Lavelle, The Man From Mo’Wax. Spoiler: it’s This Is Spinal Trip Hop and a bit more besides.

Guests ANDREW MALE of Mojo and Sight & Sound and MICHAEL MORAN of The Mirror join Andrew Harrison for this week’s pop culture ponderfest.

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116: Podcast #116: The Meg, Boards Of Canada, REM and more

Sat, 18 Aug 2018 06:00:00 GMT

SHARK LIFE! Who will be the only one of our panel who didn’t like this summer’s prime Statham-vs-Fish chompbuster The Meg? How does Boards Of Canada’s ‘Music Has The Right To Children’ sound 20 years down the line? And what will be our guest JUDE ROGERS’ choice for the album only she in the whole wide world likes? (Clue above). Andrew and Siân are on hand with the chum bucket and the mop.

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115: Podcast #115: Nuts In May, Jake Shears, Ant-Man & The Wasp

Sat, 11 Aug 2018 06:00:00 GMT

GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY: Is Mike Leigh’s great rural comedy Nuts In May (now back on iPlayer) still in a field of its own? Has former Scissor Sister Jake Shears rediscovered his mucky mojo on his solo debut? And does Marvel’s shrinky-dink super-sequel Ant-Man And The Wasp have a sting in its tail – or will it simply show that little things please little minds?

Guests NEIL DENNY of literary podcast and magazine Little Atoms and rock journo ROY WILKINSON of British Sea Power fame join Andrew and Siân to discuss these weighty matters.

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114: Podcast #114: Robin Williams’ deranged life, Underworld vs Iggy Pop, Generation Wealth

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 06:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast for procrastinating polymaths… Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, Sky Atlantic/HBO’s masterful biographical documentary, will astonish and move you. As Iggy Pop hooks up with Underworld, will electronic talking blues become the lingua franca of the over-60s? And does new disgusting rich people documentary Generation Wealth capture the reality of the plutocracy – or are they even worse than we thought?

Special guests Rob Fitzpatrick of Spotify/The Word magazine and Mark Hooper of Hole & Corner magazine join Andrew and Siân to thrash it all out.

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113: Podcast #113: The secret history of electronic music, Roy Carr’s brilliant NME tapes and more

Sat, 28 Jul 2018 06:00:00 GMT

As the studio melts and Siân and Andrew wilt in the heat, Melody Maker veteran DAVID STUBBS joins us to talk about his new book ‘Mars By 1980: The History Of Electronic Music’. Fellow bleeps’n’clonks devotee JOE MUGGS of Mixmag weighs in on the stuff you didn’t know about the avant garde sound that now owns the world. And yes that’s Karlheinz Stockhausen in the pic.

PLUS: We look back at the amazing NME cassettes that changed a generation’s way of listening, and the NME journo Roy Carr who compiled them. And David and Joe make their contributions to our grand compendium of summer listening and reading.

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112: Podcast #112: Who Is America? Picnic At Hanging Rock, Lotic, summer tunes

Sat, 21 Jul 2018 06:00:00 GMT

We’re back from our hols with guests DAVID BENNUN, veteran of Melody Maker and Loaded, and the David Attenborough of football casual culture ANTHONY TEASDALE joining Andrew and Siân for more high-end pop culture natter.

This week: Sacha Baron-Cohen’s Who Is America? brings his old-school gotcha comedy back – but does it work in a post-satire world? Can the miniseries remake of Picnic At Hanging Rock currently running on BBC2 match the deep strangeness of the original? Meet queertronica artiste Lotic, voted “most likely to collaborate with Björk”. And more summer selections from our guests and (at last) Siân.

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111: Podcast #111: Duran Duran, Public Image Ltd, Captain America and more with Katie Puckrik and Ralph Moore

Sat, 07 Jul 2018 06:00:00 GMT

On this week’s show… Did BBC4’s Duran Duran night remind us why we loved (or not) the self-styled Chic Pistols of Birmingham? Will new rockumentary ‘The Public Image Is Rotten’ change your mind about the irascible John Lydon? Can Marvel Comics successfully relaunch Captain America for a divided USA by handing the reins to uncompromising African-American author Ta-Nehisi Coates?

Plus our guests KATIE PUCKRIK of Channel 4’s The Word fame/infamy and Mixmag Editor-at-Large RALPH MOORE give us their perfect choices of summer music.

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110: Podcast #110: ANNE DUDLEY of Art Of Noise in the studio plus Millie Jackson, summer tunes and more

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 06:00:00 GMT

Oh to be in England… This week the legend that is ANNE DUDLEY, string arranger to ABC, Malcolm McLaren, Pet Shop Boys and the pop elite, joins us in the Bigmouth Bunker. Listen up as Anne discusses her Life In Pop™, how she helped create Careless Whisper and Getting Away With It, and her new album ‘Anne Dudley Plays The Art Of Noise’… on piano? Hold tight for an exclusive live rendition of Moments In Love on the hopelessly out-of-tune studio joanna.

PLUS Mojo and Guardian journo SOPHIE HARRIS joins Anne, Siân and Anne to discuss ‘Millie Jackson Exposed’, in which the potty-mouthed diva is lovingly reupholstered by producer Steve Levine. And our guests choose the tunes and books they're taking to the beach. It's your own personal Club Tropicana.

Picture: Anne on right with Sophie, courtesy of Shane O’Neill.

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109: Podcast #109: Lost Vagueness Glastonbury movie, Public Enemy, The The film and more

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:00:00 GMT

On the probing pop culture podcast this week… Did post-crusty cabaret field LOST VAGUENESS really save Glastonbury’s vegan bacon? And why did it fall apart? A new documentary explains. Plus PUBLIC ENEMY’s Nation Of Millions is 30 years old, and a new documentary delves into the complex psyche of Matt Johnson of THE THE. Guests Rebecca Nicholson of The Guardian and Steve Yates help Andrew and Siân sort it all out.

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108: Podcast #108: Johnny Marr, Microdisney, Fantastic Negrito, Get Shorty on Sky and more

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 06:00:00 GMT

On the perspicacious pop culture podcast this week… Is it time to stop worrying and let JOHNNY MARR carry The Smiths’ banner? Who is rock-blues auteur FANTASTIC NEGRITO and why should you care? Is the TV version of GET SHORTY worth your eyeball time – and does Chris O’Dowd cut the mustard as a movie-obsessed mob enforcer? Plus guests Andrew Mueller and Eamonn Forde join Andrew at the fantastic comeback shows by the James Joyces of the midlife crisis, MICRODISNEY. All this and a whole lot more.

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107: Podcast #107: Studio 54 documentary, Kanye West, Lily Allen and more…

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 06:00:00 GMT

This week on the plugged-on pop culture podcast… DISCO VERITÉ: Why you really need to see this brilliant Studio 54 documentary, out on June 15. EGO FREAKO: Will we ever decide we’ve had enough of Kanye West? LIL COMMUNICATION: Has Lily Allen turned her middle-youth meltdown into quality adult pop? Plus guests Hannah Verdier (Guardian) and Michael Hogan (Times) join Siân and Andrew in ’fessing up to the things they wish they liked but just can’t, no matter how hard they try…

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106: Podcast #106: Han Solo, Generation Grime, Paris ’68 in pop and more

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 06:00:00 GMT

WOOKIEE MEETS ROOKIE: Is the Young Han Solo prequel spaceworthy? How good is Sky Arts’ UK hiphopumenatary Generation Grime? (Spoiler: it’s ace). Will Paris In The Spring – Saint Etienne’s compilation of music from France’s political turmoil of 1968 – leave you totally soixante-huitarded? And is Trump-baiting comedian Michelle Wolf’s new Netflix series any cop?

Guests MIRANDA SAWYER of The Observer and LUKE TURNER of The Quietus join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out…

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105: Podcast #105: Madness biopic, Half Man Half Biscuit, zombies on Netflix and more…

Sat, 26 May 2018 06:00:00 GMT

Guests this week on the pop culture podcast for perspicacious popinjays are film writer LINDA MARRIC and Telegraph/Mojo rock’n’roll journo ANDREW PERRY. On the agenda: a highly idiosyncratic biopic of Lee ‘Kix’ Thompson of MADNESS, Martin Freeman flees Aussie zombies in CARGO on Netflix, and the glorious return of the only band which describes modern life as it truly is: HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT.

Plus – added football content! How did Robert Plant react when he spotted Mr Perry’s Torquay United scarf? The joys of swerving the Checkatrade Trophy. Which US indie band thinks Johann Cruyff is the model for making America truly great again? And in non-football related matters, the return of Jim Lee from Slade.

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104: Podcast #104: Arctic Monkeys, Patrick Melrose, Viv Albertine, Spotify.

Sat, 19 May 2018 06:00:00 GMT

Is the new Arctic Monkeys album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino a return to form? Does Patrick Melrose just need a nice cup of tea and a lie down? We've also read Viv Albertine's To Throw Away Unopened and will be ruminating on New Moral Arbitraters Spotify, who've "banned" R Kelly. Special guests Sylvia Patterson and Sophie Black tell it like it is.

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103: Podcast #103: Kraftwerk’s Man-Machine is 40, Beach House, DJ Koze, Jon Hopkins, The Rain

Sat, 12 May 2018 06:00:00 GMT

Where would the future be without ‘The Man-Machine’ by Kraftwerk, which turns 40 this week, eh? What’s the sound of the summer: Beach House’s woozy, heat-hazy ‘7’, DJ Koze’s wayward disco or the Sky At Night sounds of Jon Hopkins? Special guests MICHAEL HANN of The Guardian and freelance heavy metal evangelist JUSTIN QUIRK are on hand to help Siân and Andrew sort it all out…

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102: Podcast #102: Infinity War with spoilers, Janelle Monae, HBO’s Barry, Too Slow To Disco Brasil

Sat, 05 May 2018 06:00:00 GMT

It’s the greatest multi-character crossover in history! In a special extra-length edition packed with scarcely believable action, we assemble guests STRICTLY KEV AKA DJ FOOD of Ninja Tune fame, MARK HOOPER – editor of Hole & Corner magazine – plus a special cameo role from IAN DUNT of our sister podcast Remainiacs. Who are all these characters and what do they want?

On the agenda: what did Infinity War mean and how are the Avengers going to get out of that? (WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS so we’re doing that bit at the end.) Plus we have a poke around inside Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, we rave about Bill Hader’s new hitman-in-a-crisis HBO comedy Barry – now running on Sky – and we zone out with a caipirinha and the new compilation Too Slow To Disco Brasil.

Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden are your master and mistress of ceremonies for the affair.

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101: Podcast #101: Michael Smiley, the glory days of raving, Sting & Shaggy and more

Sat, 28 Apr 2018 07:00:00 GMT

On this week’s show: actor MICHAEL SMILEY joins guest SARAH MORGAN for another gala pop culture digress-o-thon. Which tunes inspired Smiley on his journey from baldy late-night comic via ‘Spaced’ to ‘Luther’ and beyond? How are our guests feeling about acid house on the occasion of its 30th birthday? What on earth is going on with that Shaggy and Sting album? All this and more will be dissected…

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100: Podcast #100! Simon Day, Charley’s War, Juliana Hatfield, Chas & Dave, Andrew Collins and more…

Sat, 21 Apr 2018 07:00:00 GMT

For our gala ONE HUNDREDTH podcast, special guests SIMON DAY of The Fast Show and ANDREW COLLINS (who was on the very first Bigmouth back when it was in black and white) join us for the finest in high-end pop chatter.

This week: Untold pop tales in Sky’s Urban Myths. Legendary WWI story Charley’s War returns in a lavish new edition. Is it still the greatest British comic book of all time? Is Chas & Dave’s first proper album in 30 years any good, and what about Juliana Hatfield’s LP of Olivia Newton-John covers? Andrew Harrison slices the birthday cake and Siân Pattenden fills the lucky bags.

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99: Podcast #99: The City And The City, Confidence Man, the greatest ten seconds in pop

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 07:00:00 GMT

This week, guests PETER ROBINSON of PopJustice and NME fame and DAN MAIER of Harry Hill and TV comedy fame join Andrew and Siân at the Algonquin Round Table of pop music, telly and similar.

On the agenda: Have BBC2 successfully filmed China Miéville’s unfilmable novel The City And The City? Are Australian pop-dance hipsters Confidence Man up to the job of being the new Deee-Lite? Will the reunited En Vogue free our minds and will our asses follow? And what are the greatest ten second bits in all pop? There’s only one way to find out…

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98: Podcast #98: David Hepworth on his elegy for the rock star plus Eels, Idris Elba

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 07:00:00 GMT

This week Andrew’s old boss DAVID HEPWORTH of Word, Q and Live Aid fame comes in to discuss his book ‘Uncommon People: The Rise And Fall Of The Rock Stars’, out now in paperback. Are rock stars really finished, and did Dave fiddle the scores so he didn’t have to write about Liam Gallagher?

Plus fellow guest ANNA FIELDING of Stylist magazine piles in to look at IDRIS ELBA’S new comedy ‘In The Long Run’, dissect the latest LP by fun-with-depression rock hermits EELS, and confess to the album that only she likes. Clue: ratty dreads.

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97: Podcast #97: Cunk on Britain, Suede, record shops book

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 07:00:00 GMT

This week on the discerning pop culture podcast, FACE magazine veterans Richard Benson and Craig McLean join Andrew and Siân to discuss Philomena Cunk’s all-encompassing Reithian history of Britain. Turns out they would have put the Cunk on the cover of The Face… but doing what?

Plus: We spank ourselves senseless with a tambourine for the 25th birthday edition of Suede’s debut, explore the lore of the Great British Record Shop, and find out how Craig broke his arm messing about with Björk. It’s what your Bank Holiday was made for.

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96: Podcast #96: Unsane, Pulp’s This Is Hardcore at 20, Jake Shears book

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 08:00:00 GMT

On this week’s show… Can Steven Soderbergh’s UNSANE drag the stalker movie into the iPhone era? Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters writes a surprisingly moving book. How does Pulp’s Britpop comedown epic ‘This Is Hardcore’ stack up at 20 years old? And our guests reveal the records that they like but nobody else can stand.

KATE HUTCHINSON of The Guardian and Worldwide FM and movie critic LINDA MARRIC join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out.

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95: Podcast #95: Annihilation, David Byrne, MFSB, tracking down Steve Ditko

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:00:00 GMT

On this week’s show, Alex Garland’s ANNIHILATION: psychedelic sci-fi masterpiece, Ghostbusters done seriously, or Google Deep Dream: The Movie? DAVID BYRNE’s new album and the best of soul orchestra MFSB. The worst songs by our guests’ favourite bands. And the surprising story of how our guest Ralph Moore of Mixmag tracked down the infamously reclusive comics legend Steve Ditko…

Justin Quirk of The Guardian and Supplement magazine joins Ralph plus Andrew and Siân for the smartest pop culture natter on your internets. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes

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94: Podcast #94: Big Lebowski at 20, Tracey Thorn, Tribe Called Quest doc

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast for connoisseur time-wasters: Does The Big Lebowski still abide after 20 years? Has Tracey Thorn reinvented herself as the one-woman Pet Shop Girls of middle youth? Why you should investigate that A Tribe Called Quest documentary that’s finally on Netflix. And what's the deal with Superorganism, the Dalston Avalanches? Guests HANNAH VERDIER of The Guardian and Smash Hits and ANDREW MUELLER of Monocle and Melody Maker join Siân and Andrew to thrash it all out.

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93: Podcast #93: Janelle Monáe, Collateral, Go-Kart Mozart and more

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:16:40 GMT

Can the panel discuss Janelle Monáe’s latest bangers without mentioning Pr***e? Was BBC2’s urban conspiracy thriller ‘Collateral’ any good? Can special guest MICHAEL HOGAN of the Telegraph withstand the uncut indieness of Go-Kart Mozart and The Lovely Eggs? And which flop movies should have been hits? Listen up and find out…

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92: Podcast #92: Shape Of Water, Oscar tips, Jonathan Wilson, our worst gigs

Sat, 24 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMT

Underwater love: Is Guillermo del Toro’s amphibiosexual romance The Shape Of Water more than just Oscar bait? And who will win the Oscars anyway? Can Father John Misty’s mate Jonathan Wilson update the sensitive Californian longhair songbook? And what are the worst gigs we ever went to. Special guests TERRI WHITE – editrix of Empire magazine – and Word mag veteran JAMES MEDD join presenters Siân “Stan” Pattenden and Andrew Harrison to sort the prize catches from the tiddlers.

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91: Podcast #91: Black Panther, I Tonya, U.S. Girls, Tin Machine and more

Sat, 17 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMT

Marvel’s Black Panther is the afro-futurist movie that’s bringing new audiences to the superhero genre – and dragging every mum and dad into the multiplex over half term. Which of our guests will unexpectedly love it: maquillage guru SALI HUGHES or Guardian/FT music journo MICHAEL HANN? Will they prefer ice-skating drama I, TONYA instead? What will they make of U.S. GIRLS’ womanpower megapop album? And what are the records that only they like? Spoiler: Sali is standing up for the much-maligned TIN MACHINE. Presenters Siân “Stan” Pattenden and Andrew Harrison look on in horror.

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90: Podcast #90: Roxy Music’s debut, Bowie drama, Joan As Police Woman, The Good Place

Sat, 10 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMT

It’s ROXY/BOWIE night on Bigmouth this week as we’re joined by journo-about-town and one-time Evening Standard “parties editor” SIMON MILLS and Guardian TV writer JULIA RAESIDE to discuss the return of Roxy’s debut and a very odd BBC radio drama on David Bowie’s final days. Also: Joan As Police Woman’s new album, the return of sleeper hit afterlife comedy The Good Place… and cycling with Gary Kemp out of Spandau Ballet.

Plus! The debut of our new co-presenter Siân “Stan” Pattenden! It’s like when they got a new member of Pan’s People. Only BETTER.

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89: Podcast #89: Mark E. Smith tribute plus Franz Ferdinand

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMT

DRINK THE LONG DRAUGHT FOR THE HIP PRIEST: The world thought that Mark E. Smith would outlast cockroaches, Keith Richards and Later With Jools Holland… yet the sad day came to pass in January. Join horrid trendy wretch Andrew, mere pseud ’cast producer Matt and Fall fans Debbie Smith (of Curve, Echobelly and more) and David Stubbs to pore over the singular life, achievements and vocabulary of the artist otherwise known as Roman Totale XVII.

Plus the new Franz Ferdinand album, and another sad farewell to our producer Matt Hall, who leaves us this week for an actual job with proper money. Who ever heard of such a thing?

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88: Podcast #88: REMAINIACS crossover featuring Britannia, Django Django, Alan Moore

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT

Two universes clash in our senses-shattering first Podcast Crossover! Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey of our sister show REMAINIACS – the best Brexit podcast on the internet – enter the Bigmouth Bunker. This week: Sky’s Romans-in-Britain epic Britannia, the return of Django Django and BBC4’s latest music biz documentary.

Plus: Can a roomful of comics nerds agree whether Doomsday Clock, DC’s controversial sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, is a harmless sideshow or an actual war crime? There’s only one way to find out… listen to Bigmouth.

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87: Podcast #87: Three Billboards, The Moonlandingz, Derry Girls and more

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT

Is bleak comic thriller THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI as good as everyone’s saying? And what about the criticism that it doesn’t care about its black characters? Plus – a chance to catch up on The Moonlandingz’ mesmeric disgusto-pop, and two glimpses into the world of the modern teenager with the black humour of The End Of The F**king World and C4’s bravura situation BOMBedy Derry Girls. Guests SIAN PATTENDEN and JUDE ROGERS tell Matt and Andrew what’s what.

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86: Podcast #86: McMafia, Johnny Cash at Folsom and the albums nobody else likes

Sat, 13 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT

What were you doing 50 years ago this week? Johnny Cash was about to play to a room full of murderers and robbers at Folsom Prison. Our guests MIRANDA SAWYER and MATT ALLEN wonder whether this – and not the old guy on Rick Rubin’s porch – is the real Cash. Plus the BBC’s crime epic McMafia, and the albums we love, but nobody else does. All on the pop culture podcast for the smart timewaster.

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85: Podcast #85: Feud: Joan & Bette, Bowie at Hansa, Shame with London Readers Wifes

Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT

It’s a right royal rave-up as Bigmouth welcomes DJ legends Mark Wood and Mark “Jelly” Johnstone AKA the LONDON READERS WIFES (never Wives), hosts of the capital’s best night out, DUCKIE at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. The chaps join Andrew and Matt to discuss BBC2’s bravura “hagsploitation” drama ‘Feud: Joan & Bette’, Sky Arts’ history of Berlin’s Hansa Studios, the debut album by south London noise urchins Shame… and why pop is always better than rock.

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84: Podcast #84: More Best of 2017 inc. Handmaid’s Tale, Death Of Stalin, Sparks!

Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:00:00 GMT

Our end-of-year round-up reaches a festive crescendo with guests ANNA FIELDING of Stylist magazine and EAMONN FORDE of The Guardian and Q on what they liked best this year. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’! Sparks! Kelela! ‘The Death Of Stalin!’ The Oreilles! Plus Matt Hall finally gets to Have His Say about his own favourites of the year.

We’re back with the regular show on Sat 6 Jan – so have a lovely Christmas and an even lovelier New Year.

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83: Podcast #83: The best of 2017 inc St Vincent, LCD Soundsystem, Dunkirk and more

Sat, 16 Dec 2017 08:00:00 GMT

It’s end-of-term! Special guests MARK HOOPER of Hole & Corner magazine and Times/Rolling Stone/Guardian journalist SOPHIE HARRIS bring in the records, films and other stuff that’s wowed them in 2017. Which movies changed the way we think? Which great records did you miss? And how will Andrew squeeze some comics in at the last minute? There’s only one way to find out…

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82: Podcast #82: Music video history, Chris Heath, Disaster Artist

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 08:00:00 GMT

The doyen of pop biography CHRIS HEATH drops into the Bigmouth bunker to talk about his Robbie Williams fly-on-the-wall epic book ‘Reveal’ and the art of reporting what celebs think you’re not noticing. Plus Chris and special guest NADIA SHIREEN talk over The Disaster Artist, a huge new DVD box set covering the entire history of British pop video, and the “swingorilliant” days of “classic” Smash Hits.

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81: Podcast #81: Post-punk comp, She’s Gotta Have It, Miguel and more

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 08:34:53 GMT

This week on Britain’s most polymathic pop podcast, special guests Richard Benson and Kate Hutchinson don the Army & Navy raincoats of destiny for ‘To The Outside Of Everything: A Story of UK Post-Punk 1977-1981’. Plus: Spike Lee remakes ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ for Netflix. Is Miguel the new Prince? And is the David Niven classic ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’ the most stiff-upper-lip movie ever made? Andrew and Matt are on hand to operate the escalator to black and white heaven.

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80: Podcast #80: Björk, Noel Gallagher, Gregory Porter, Laura Mvula

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 08:42:04 GMT

New albums from Björk and Noel Gallagher, Gregory Porter's TV series on singers and Laura Mvula's Radio 2 Gospel show are all discussed by author ANDY MILLER and pork aficionado MICHAEL HANN. They join Matt Hall and special guest presenter Laura Barton in the pod. Oh, and if anyone wants Michael to review trifle for them, he can be contacted via @Big_MouthUK.

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79: Podcast #79: Quietus podclash inc. The Face retro, Arab funk & more

Sat, 18 Nov 2017 08:00:00 GMT

It’s Bigmouth vs. much-loved weirdo music outlet The Quietus in our first Podclash. JOHN DORAN and ANNA WOOD of The Quietus join Andrew and Matt to talk about new magazine memoir ‘The Story Of The Face’, discover vintage Arabic dance music, review BBC4’s documentary on Cambridge spy Guy Burgess – and tell us what “dungeonsynth” and “boiling the goat” mean.

Intrigued? You will be. Visit http://thequietus.com for your Ordnance Survey of music’s outer limits.

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78: Podcast #78: Morrissey, Babylon Berlin, Queen, Saturday Night Fever

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 08:00:00 GMT

Which Morrissey is on show on his new album – perpetual teenager with a way with words or sour Brexit grand-dad? How does Sky’s Weimar-era debauchathon Babylon Berlin – the most expensive German TV show ever made – stack up in the Anglophone world of novelistic TV? And how do near-twins ‘News Of The World’ by Queen and the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ soundtrack sound on their 40th birthdays?

Fêted beer writer and pop fiend PETE BROWN and movie critic LINDA MARRIC are here to help Andrew and Matt detect the subtle aftertastes and hoppy finishes.

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77: Podcast #77: Stranger Things 2, Motörhead, Serge Gainsbourg

Sat, 04 Nov 2017 08:00:00 GMT

Does Stranger Things 2 deliver – or is its Spielberg nostalgia wearing thin? How does Motörhead’s grot-rock debut stack up after 40 years? What were BBC1 playing at with that Sounds Like Friday Night mess? And a long-lost album by dirty old man Serge Gainsbourg. Comedy writer Sarah Morgan and man-about-town Justin Quirk join Andrew and Matt to sort it all out.

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76: Podcast #76: The Death Of Stalin, Ian Dury, Mindhunter

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 07:00:00 GMT

What does ‘The Death Of Stalin’ tell us more about: genocidal totalitarianism or human resources issues in the workplace? Does Ian Dury’s ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ sit well in the modern world? What were the Japanese listening to when everyone else was going counterculture mad? And how ace is ’Mindhunter’? Guests Jude Rogers and Michael Hann are here to help Andrew and Matt with the quality opinionising.

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75: Podcast #75: The Queen Is Dead, George Michael doc, Dynasty

Sat, 21 Oct 2017 07:00:00 GMT

On this week’s show: How does The Smiths’ masterpiece ’The Queen Is Dead’ stand up in the light of Morrissey’s current antics? What was going on with that George Michael documentary? Plus a bizarre Netflix resurrection of ‘Dynasty’ and a new rather good Roisin Conaty comedy on E4. Special guests SALI HUGHES and MICHAEL HOGAN help Andrew and Matt make sense of it all.

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Podcast #74: St. Vincent, The Deuce, Nile Rodgers, XTC

Sat, 14 Oct 2017 07:00:00 GMT

On this week’s show: Is pop polymath St. Vincent our new Kate Bush? Can ‘The Deuce’ do with the porn industry what creator David Simon did with policing in ‘The Wire’? And popumentaries on Nile Rodgers and XTC. Guests Hannah Verdier and Andrew Mueller join Andrew and Matt.

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Podcast #73: Blade Runner 2049, Liam solo debut, 33 1/3 rock books

Sat, 07 Oct 2017 07:00:00 GMT

Can ‘Blade Runner 2049’ live up to the incredible advance press? The return of Liam Gallagher: what’s in Our Kid’s raging id? And the latest 33 1/3 rock criticism books on Björk and The Raincoats. It’s CARRY ON VOIGT-KAMPFFING week at Bigmouth with special guest Laura Snapes and Andrew Male plus geek desk correspondent Michael Moran.

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Podcast #72: Star Trek Discovery, Wolf Alice, Ken Burns’ Vietnam

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 07:00:00 GMT

Is the latest version of Star Trek the one we need right now, or just the one we’re getting? Will Wolf Alice regenerate the indie band template? And will famed documentarian Ken Burns change the way we think about the Vietnam War? All this and more as guests Rebecca Nicholson and David Stubbs join Andrew and Matt for more high-quality pop procrastination.

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Podcast #71: Mother! movie, The Horrors, C4’s Philip K. Dick series

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 06:00:00 GMT

Is Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Mother!’ a deeply-felt work of visionary genius… or a load of ludicrous cobblers and the worst movie of the 21st Century so far? Have The Horrors finally come good? Can Channel 4 and Amazon make sci-fi master Philip K. Dick work on TV? Journos Siân Pattenden and Ali Catterall join Andrew and Matt to thrash it all out.

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Podcast #70: Bowie box set, rock writer memoir and more

Sat, 16 Sep 2017 07:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast for the discerning flâneur, Michael Hann welcomes special guests Laura Barton and Travis Elborough to talk Bowie, rock memoirs and more. Producer Matt Hall twiddles the knobs appreciatively.

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Podcast #69 - Susanne Sundfor, The National, Nick Broomfield's Whitney Houston doc

Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:00:00 GMT

Andrew's on holiday, so Michael Hann, former music editor of The Guardian is in the chair. He's joined by music writer Sophie Heawood and SFA costume inhabiter Robin Turner. We talk new LP's from the Nationaland Susanne Sundfor, Nick Broomfield's Whitney Houston doc, and Sky Arts' music series Rock N Roll.

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Podcast #68: GoT S7 wash up and LCD Soundsystem return

Sat, 02 Sep 2017 09:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast with added snap and crackle, it's a Game Of Thrones S7 wrap-up special with Thronecast's Jamie East together with superfans Dorian Lynskey and Anna Fielding joining Andrew and Matt to pick over the bones of the penultimate season, and try to divine how the story is going to pan out. Plus, we look at the return of LCD Soundsystem.

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Podcast #67: Detroit movie, Ghostpoet, Marvel’s Defenders

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:00:00 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture podcast… Kathryn Bigelow’s nerve-wracking new movie DETROIT, hypnotic post-hip-hop from GHOSTPOET, and is Marvel’s DEFENDERS a hit or a miss for Netflix? Special guest Steve Yates joins Matt and Andrew in the Bigmouth bunker.

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SPARKS ON BIGMOUTH: A bonus mini-cast

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:00:00 GMT

This studio ain’t big enough for the both of them… SPARKS brothers Ron and Russell Mael visit the Bigmouth bunker where they talk to Andrew Harrison and Eamonn Forde about their 45 years as pop’s least predictable duo. How did new album ‘Hippopotamus’ come about? Why are they the only brothers in music who don’t hate each other? Where did Russell’s trademark falsetto come from? How did Ron choose “that” moustache? These questions and more will be answered!

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Podcast #66: Sky Arts on acid house, Elvis and pop’s What Ifs?, The War On Drugs

Sat, 19 Aug 2017 09:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast for thinking layabouts: Would pop have turned out different if Elvis had never met Col. Tom Parker? Can Sky Arts bring a new angle to the genesis of house music? Is The War On Drugs’ new album any good? Special guests film critic Linda Marric and Rob Fitzpatrick of Spotify join Andrew and Matt to argue the “toss”.

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Podcast #65: Summer LP round-up with Beatles, Jane Weaver, Radiohead, Noga Erez

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 09:00:00 GMT

The smart pop culture podcast is on its hols for a couple of weeks, so tide yourself over with some of our most fun music talk from the summer. Our guests look at new talents Jane Weaver and Noga Erez plus reissues of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ and ‘OK Computer’ – and everyone has a fab time. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BigmouthiTunes

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Podcast #64: Arcade Fire, Black Grape, The Fall, Mash Report

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 09:00:00 GMT

This week on the pop culture podcast for thinking time wasters… Are ARCADE FIRE suffering from a profundity overdose? The BLACK GRAPE album that nobody expected. And have THE FALL made their LP again, or something different? Special guests JUDE ROGERS and JUSTIN QUIRK join Andrew and Matt to thrash it all out.

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Podcast #63: Game Of Thrones S7, Goldie, more summer tunes

Sat, 22 Jul 2017 09:00:00 GMT

Winter is here… well, that's the British summer for you. Special guests JAMIE EAST of Thronecast/Virgin Radio and ANNA FIELDING of Emerald Street/Stylist join Matt and Andrew to talk about the penultimate series of television’s most brutal fantasy. Plus the Goldie album we missed, and our guests’ selections for beach listening.

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Podcast #62: Summer tunes special – 99 problems and a beach ain’t one

Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:18:34 GMT

On this week’s sun-baked special, guests JULIA RAESIDE and MICHAEL HANN join Andrew and Matt with ideas of what to play (and read) on your summer hols. Who will choose latin electro, who thinks metal goes well with Ambre Solaire, and will customs see our choices and order an invasive body search? Click to play now or download: http://po.st/RMNCS

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Podcast #61: Spider-Man Homecoming, goths, Morrissey movie, Doctor Who finale

Sat, 08 Jul 2017 09:00:00 GMT

Special guests KATIE PUCKRIK from the telly and novelist-journo-metal-fiend JASON ARNOPP join us for an epic-length pop culture natterfest. This week: Katie’s adventures in smells, Jason’s making a movie with Ron Howard, Peter Capaldi’s exit report as the Doctor, and is it time we stopped worrying and learned to love goth?

Plus geek desk correspondent MICHAEL MORAN assesses ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ with Andrew. Click to listen now or download at http://po.st/Bigmouth

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Podcast #60: Prince’s Purple Rain, GLOW, Public Service Broadcasting

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:00:00 GMT

It’s Wales vs Northern Ireland on the smart pop culture podcast this week, as we welcome special guests SaIi Hughes and Eamonn Forde. We look on in awe as the vaults of unreleased Prince tunes creak open, Sali reconnects with her Welsh roots on Public Service Broadcasting’s magnificent picture of the rise and fall of the mining industry, and we all argue about Netflix’s lady wrestlers show and the pros and cons of Glastonbury.

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Podcast #59: Live at Glastonbury Special

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 18:35:00 GMT

In a possibly unwise podcasting experiment, Andrew talks to friends of Bigmouth old and new in the shadow of the Pyramid Stage. Who was great this year? Who wasn’t? What does “charging the robot” mean and which song titles will the participants get wrong, having been on the Otter Ale since mid-morning? Click to stream now via high-speed optical leyline – or subscribe at http://po.st/BigmouthiTunes

Joining us (on dry grass for a change): Danny Eccleston and Ian Harrison of Mojo magazine, “our woman in LA” Eve Barlow, rock writer and erstwhile British Sea Power manager Roy Wilkinson, and Spotify content mastermind Tom Calderone.

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Podcast #58: Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ revisited, Beth Ditto, ‘Churchill’

Sat, 17 Jun 2017 11:00:00 GMT

What’s in the new version of ‘OK Computer’ and is it still the greatest album of all time, ever in history? Is the new album by leather-lunged LGBT belter Beth Ditto any good, and how about the latest cinematic incarnation of Winston Churchill? We sort it all out with guests John Niven – author of ‘Kill Your Friends’ – and journalist Mark Hooper.

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Podcast #57: Billy Bragg’s skiffle book, space electronica, Glen Campbell’s farewell

Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Billy Bragg’s new book reckons that skiffle was the original punk DIY explosion – is he right? Can you enjoy an album by a desperately ill star who has to be coaxed through the recording? And why did cosmic synth music sell so well in health food shops? Special guests Kate Mossman of The New Statesman and Travis Elborough join Andrew and Matt to sort it all out. Click here to listen.

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Podcast #56: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’, Noga Erez, Cigarettes After Sex and the worst political records

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:00:32 GMT

They’ve made us an Offred we can’t refuse… On the smart pop culture podcast this week, we review C4’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, look at new albums by Israeli sound-mangler Noga Erez and ambient pop newcomers Cigarettes After Sex, and ask why political pop records are so grim. Special guests Kate Hutchinson and Andrew Male join Andrew H and Matt in the Bigmouth Election Command Centre.

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Podcast #55: Twin Peaks returns, Sgt. Pepper deluxe edition, new Saint Etienne

Sat, 27 May 2017 09:00:00 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture talk show: Is Twin Peaks the weirdness we need right now? What’s in the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ tape cupboard for non-Beatlemaniacs? And can Saint Etienne’s ‘Home Counties’ mythologise the last mysterious region of England? Special guests Dorian Lynskey and Anthony Teasdale join Andrew and Matt to argue the toss. Listen now or download at http://po.st/y9wbZs

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Podcast #54: Are rock stars over? Radiophonic Workshop, BBC4 Americana and more

Sat, 20 May 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Is the Age of the Rock Star finished? David Hepworth’s new book reckons so. We argue the toss with this week’s special guests DJ Justin Robertson and actor-comedian Wendy Wason. Plus: the first Radiophonic Workshop album in 32 years, BBC4’s new epic documentary on American roots music, and much much more.

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Podcast #53: Paul Weller, Jane Weaver, C4’s Chicago house history and Alien: Covenant

Sat, 13 May 2017 11:00:00 GMT

On this week’s show Rebecca Nicholson and Stevie Chick join Andrew and Matt to talk about new albums from Paul Weller and Jane Weaver, and check out All 4’s dance music documentary ‘I Was There When House Took Over The World’. Plus Michael Moran stops by to eviscerate Ridley Scott’s latest prequel ‘Alien: Covenant’ in the manner of a hungry xenomorph. Click to listen!

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Podcast #52: The year so far with The xx, Stormzy, Flaming Lips and more

Sat, 06 May 2017 11:00:00 GMT

A special round-up of 2017’s best releases so far: Sleaford Mods, Stormzy, The xx, Run The Jewels and Flaming Lips. Special guests Zoë Howe, Andrew Male, Mark Hooper, Siân Pattenden and Andy Miller weigh in. Click to listen. And don't forget you can hear all the tracks played on this podcast in full at our Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/11102554473/playlist/2Z1nBHE2qqEpX1SGRMcSkS

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Podcast #51: Blondie, Gorillaz, ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’, Kendrick Lamar

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Is Blondie’s new album ‘Pollinator’ a top buzz and is Deborah Harry still queen bee? Can Gorillaz exorcise Damon’s demons? And is Marvel’s soft-rock space opera fit for a second outing? Special guests Travis Elborough and Polly Birkbeck, plus special correspondents Michael Moran and Joe Muggs, join Andrew and Matt in the bunker. For the full versions of all the songs played on this podcast visit our Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/11102554473/playlist/2Z1nBHE2qqEpX1SGRMcSkS

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Podcast #50: ‘Doctor Who’ series 10, Sky’s ‘Guerrilla’, Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and more

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:00:00 GMT

It’s our first birthday! Special guests are best-selling author and ‘Doctor Who’ geek Jenny Colgan (writer of ‘Who’ spin-offs and beach romances) plus our grime and dubstep correspondent Joe Muggs. Is Bill a good fit for the Tardis? Is Idris Elba too tall for TV? Has Joe Goddard of Hot Chip made a dad house classic? All this and more will be revealed… Click to listen!

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Podcast #49: Father John Misty, Jack Whitehall's 'Decline & Fall', Simon Amstell's vegan comedy and more

Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:00:00 GMT

This week on the smart people’s pop culture podcast… Father John Misty – genius, dick, or a bit of both? Will comedian Simon Amstell’s sci-fi vegan mockumentary ‘Carnage’ put Andrew off his sausage sandwich? And why can’t we stop watching toff porn like the BBC’s ‘Decline And Fall’? Common oiks Robin Turner and Justin Quirk weigh in. Click to listen!

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Podcast #48: One flew over David Tennant’s nest, Marvel vs diversity, Future Islands, Jamiroquai

Sat, 08 Apr 2017 09:08:41 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture podcast: David Tennant plays “acid Marxist” psychotherapist RD Laing in ‘Mad To Be Normal’. Marvel Comics’ have a Gerald Ratner moment regarding non-white-male superheroes. Future Islands’ oddball synthpop. And, is it time to stop moaning and learn to love Jamiroquai? Special guests Julia Raeside and Ali Catterall help us sort it all out. Click to listen!

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Podcast #47: Art! Sex! Music! Cosey Fanni Tutti book, Goldfrapp, British Sea Power and more

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 11:00:00 GMT

This week: Our special guests Jude Rogers of The Guardian and Ian Gittins tackle ART SEX MUSIC – the astonishing new autobiography of Throbbing Gristle's Cosey Fanni Tutti – plus new albums from Goldfrapp and British Sea Power and more. Click to listen. And don't forget you can listen to all the tracks played on the show in full by visiting our Spotify playlist

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Podcast #46: ‘Free Fire’ movie, Jesus And Mary Chain, ‘Inside No.9’ and more

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Special guests Michael Hogan (Guardian and Telegraph) and Siân Pattenden join Andrew and Matt to look at Ben Wheatley’s gun-crazy new movie ‘Free Fire’, the first new Jesus And Mary Chain album in 19 years, and BBC2’s dark comedy series ‘Inside No.9’. Click to play!

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Podcast #45: Bee Gees, Marvel’s Iron Fist, Anohni, Spoon and more

Sat, 18 Mar 2017 11:00:00 GMT

We expose our chest hair to salute the glory of The BEE GEES – who made their first British recordings exactly 50 years ago – and step warily into the dojo with MARVEL’S IRON FIST, new on Netflix. Plus guests Peter Paphides and The Guardian's Michael Hann on new music by Spoon and whether Anohni is the opposite of a guilty pleasure. Click to stream now – or go here to download: http://po.st/y9wbZs

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Podcast #44: Laura Marling, BBC4 on the 90s, The Shires

Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Dude, where's my country? Guests Laura Barton (The Guardian, R4) and Andrew Mueller (Monocle, Melody Maker) join Andrew and Matt to dissect Laura Marling’s new album, marvel at the baffling success of The Shires, and look at the last episode of BBC4’s People’s History Of Pop. Click to stream now – or see below for download link.

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Podcast #43: Sleaford Mods, Stormzy, BBC4 Science of Pop and more

Sat, 04 Mar 2017 09:45:01 GMT

Who's got the best handle on Modern Britain Today: the duo that Noel Gallagher compared to Viz Comic's Brown Bottle or grime don Stormzy? Can computers predict hit songs? And what are the most boring conversation topics in all pop? Special guests Andrew Male of Mojo and Mark Hooper of Hole & Corner magazine join Matt and Andrew to sort it all out. Click to listen!

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Podcast #42: 40 Years of 2000AD comic, The Magnetic Fields, SS-GB and more

Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Special guests Strictly Kev AKA DJ Food of Ninja Tune plus sport and music writer Matt Allen join Andrew and Matt in the Bigmouth Command Module. This week: Happy Birthday to 2000AD, The Magnetic Fields’ ‘50 Song Memoir’ and BBC1’s SS-GB. Plus Shriekback, Sir Anthony Beevor’s Desert Island Discs and Alan Moore “singing”. Click to listen!

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Podcast #41: Lego Batman, bad stage patter, ‘Girls’, Wombles and more

Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Is ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ more realistic than Christopher Nolan’s batfilms? What’s the worst onstage banter? Does the new series of ‘Girls’ make any sense if you haven’t seen the rest of it? Guests Ali Catterall of The Guardian and Justin Quirk of AskMen.com join Andrew and Matt to thrash it all out. Click to listen – and don't forget, to listen to the tracks on this podcast in full, visit our Editors’ Recommendations playlist on Spotify… https://open.spotify.com/user/11102554473/playlist/2Z1nBHE2qqEpX1SGRMcSkS

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Podcast #40: 'Roots' remake, David Axelrod RIP, Sampha and more

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Guests Joe Muggs of Mixmag and Anthony Teasdale of Umbrella magazine join Matt and Andrew to discuss a 21st Century take on Kunta Kinte, the late cosmic soul man David Axelrod, and the debut album by Sampha, the Frank Ocean of Cricklewood. Click to play, or see links on the right to subscribe…

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Podcast #39: Trainspotting 2, female Doctor Who, Rag'n'Bone Man and more

Sat, 04 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Is T2 as good as T1? Are we ready for a Time Lady in the TARDIS? Special guests Will Hodgkinson of The Times and Miranda Sawyer of The Observer join Andrew and Matt to discuss these weighty matters and more. Click to listen or see download link on right of page.

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Trainspotting 2 – a spoiler-packed Bigmouth Minicast

Sat, 04 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

So what actually happens to Renton, Spud, Begbie and Sick Boy – and does it work as a movie? Miranda Sawyer of The Observer, Will Hodgkinson of The Times, Matt and Andrew go right round the Edinburgh u-bend on T2. Warning: don't listen unless you've seen the film.

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Podcast #38: Elbow, Bonobo, Trump (oh no), A Series Of Unfortunate Events

Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Elbow + Bonobo = Elbonobo? Their new albums are under discussion with Andrew, Matt and special guest Dorian Lynskey. Also: Netflix's new Lemony Snicket adaptation and how the entertainment world is dealing with the Dawn of Trump. Click to listen or download.

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Podcast #37: La La Land, Run The Jewels and pop-lit mergers

Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:03:06 GMT

Show us another podcast that discusses hardcore hip hop and light-loafered musicals with the same panache. Guests Siân Pattenden and Andy Miller join Andrew and Matt to see whose game is mad tight and whose gavotte is rot. Click to listen.

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Podcast #36: Stevie Nicks book, The xx, Flaming Lips and more

Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:42:05 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture podcast: Zoe Howe on her Stevie Nicks book plus new albums by The xx and Flaming Lips with Matt, Andrew and special guest Eamonn Forde. Click to listen!

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Podcast #35: The OA, George Michael, Carrie Fisher, Rick Parfitt and more

Sat, 07 Jan 2017 11:19:00 GMT

The smart pop culture podcast is back from its Christmas break with special guests David Stubbs and Michael Hann of The Guardian. This week we talk about Netflix's inexplicable chiller The OA, the brilliant new album by Flo Morrissey and Matthew E White, plus the talent we lost in 2016's last few days. Click to listen!

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HOLIDAY SPECIAL: A Bigmouth All-Star Edition

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:05:23 GMT

While we're on our Christmas break, here's a special edition of the smart pop culture podcast. Throughout 2016 we've been asking our guests to name the one thing they'd rescue – humans and animals excepted – if their flat went on fire. Hear answers from guests including Dorian Lynskey, Jude Rogers, Simon Reynolds and more, plus our own Matt and Andrew. Have a good one. We'll be back in January.

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Rogue One – a spoiler-heavy Bigmouth Minicast

Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:22:19 GMT

WARNING – THIS PODCAST CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! Right, now that's out of the way: Jedi wannabees Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall are joined by space scum Ian Harrison and Michael Moran to pick over the bones of the latest Star Wars movie, work out how it fits into the galaxy far, far away, and ask where in the list of ‘Best Star Wars movies’ does it exactly fit.

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Podcast #34 - Spoiler-free Rogue One review, plus more 2016 favourites

Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:18:28 GMT

Michael Moran and Ian Harrison (some relation) join Andrew and Matt in the studio to discuss the latest movie to roll off the Star Wars production line. Where does it fit in the 'best Star Wars movie' chart? Plus Michael and Ian talk about their favourite books, TV and music of the last 12 months.

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Podcast #33 - What we loved in 2016

Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Whiskers on kittens and snowdrops on mittens. Neither of these things crop up in this show, as Dorian Lynskey and Jude Rogers join Andrew and Matt to race through a few of their favourite things of 2016. Bowie's final album, Westworld, The Hateful Eight and The Avalanches all make an appearance. Click to listen.

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Podcast #32 – Brad Pitt in Allied, Nordic noir show Modus, albums by Pete Doherty and The Weeknd

Sat, 03 Dec 2016 10:35:32 GMT

Guests Ted Kessler of Q Magazine and James Medd join Andrew and Matt to pick over Modus ( the latest Scandi Noir to hit BBC 4), make like Pat Benatar with Brad Pitt's WWII romance thriller Allied, and review the latest LPs from Pete(r) Doherty and The Weeknd. Click to listen.

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Podcast #31 - Clarkson’s Grand Tour, Kate Bush, Kanye West meltdown

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 10:00:00 GMT

This week special guests Miranda Sawyer and Hannah Verdier join Andrew and Matt to discuss the return of Clarkson, Hammond and May in Amazon's The Grand Tour, and Kate Bush’s live album. Plus London club Fabric gets one last chance, and Kanye West cancels his tour amid rumours of breakdowns. Warning: contains the phrase “Totally Quatermass!” Click to listen.

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Podcast #30 - A Tribe Called Quest, Arrival movie, David Mancuso

Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:00:00 GMT

This week we talk about A Tribe Called Quest’s incredible final album, alien first contact movie Arrival and godfather of DJ culture David Mancuso with guests Joe Muggs of Mixmag and Mark Hooper of Hole & Corner magazine. Click to listen.

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Arrival – a spoiler-laden Bigmouth Mini-Cast

Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:00:00 GMT

A spoiler-heavy discussion of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi brain twister Arrival, with Andrew, Matt and guests Joe Muggs and Mark Hooper. WARNING: If you haven’t seen the movie – don’t listen!

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Podcast #29 - Bowie art auction, Marr and Springsteen autobiogs, protest songs

Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:00:00 GMT

This week Laura Barton and Laura Snapes join Andrew and Matt in the pod to discuss the Sotheby’s auction of David Bowie’s art, autobiographies by Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Marr, and the plague of articles asking “Where is all the protest music?” Click to listen…

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Podcast #28 - Rock photog Kevin Westenberg, music and the Presidential vote, Solange

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 10:00:00 GMT

On the smart pop culture podcast this week: rock photography war stories from the legendary Kevin Westenberg, the man responsible for the look of 4AD Records and much more. Plus Luke Turner from The Quietus joins Matt and Andrew to talk Solange Knowles’ extraordinary album and ask whether your musical tastes shape your politics, or vice versa? Click to listen.

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Podcast #27 – Bowie play and book, Dr Strange, Pete Burns and more

Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:00:00 GMT

It's a cosmic week on the smart pop culture podcast, as we look at the Bowie ’Lazarus’ play and Marvel’s Doctor Strange plus Pete Burns and Steve Dillon. Special guests are Nicholas Pegg – author of ’The Complete David Bowie’ – and Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian. Click to listen.

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Podcast #26 - Leonard Cohen, Half Man Half Biscuit, Liam Gallagher vs the World, Wu-Tang MPs

Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:00:00 GMT

Guests Andrew Male and Johnny Davis join us to discuss the new album from Leonard Cohen and Half Man Half Biscuit’s rarities compilation. And we enter the 36th (debating) Chamber to figure out which MPs sound like they should be in the Wu-Tang Clan. Click to listen.

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Podcast #25 - Simon Reynolds’ glam rock book Shock And Awe, Westworld reboot, Goat and more

Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:00:00 GMT

Guests James Medd and author Simon Reynolds (Energy Flash, Retromania) join Andrew and Matt to talk Bolan, Bowie and more from Simon's new glam rock epic Shock And Awe. Plus Sky Atlantic’s new robots-go-wrong series Westworld, wild world psychedelia from Scandinavia enigmas Goat, and much more. Click to listen now.

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Podcast #24 - Marvel’s Luke Cage, Bon Iver, Pixies, Rod Temperton tribute

Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:00:00 GMT

Special guests Andrew Perry of the Telegraph and Jody Thompson join Andrew and Matt to chew over Netflix's new hip hop-soaked Marvel adaptation, Luke Cage. They also dissect the new albums from Bon Iver and Pixies, and look back at the life of Cleethorpes' own songwriting legend, Rod Temperton of ‘Thriller’ fame. Click to listen!

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Podcast #23 - Oasis’s ‘Be Here Now’ vindicated? How to write TV comedy. Songs we love by bands we hate.

Sun, 02 Oct 2016 09:00:00 GMT

This week's slice of “premier league culture punditry” (cheers, The Guardian) sees Supplement magazine editor Justin Quirk plus Joel Morris (top comedy writer and co-creator of the grown-up Ladybird books) join Andrew and Matt. They revisit the hubristic heights of Britpop with the 3CD reissue of ‘Be Here Now’, admit to records they love by bands they hate, and talk about some new tunes too. Click to listen.

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Podcast #22 - Nick Cave, Yello, #SaveFabric and secrets of record reviewers

Sun, 25 Sep 2016 09:00:00 GMT

On the smart pop culture podcast this week – Nick Cave, Slaves and Yello’s new albums, the fight to save beleagured superclub Fabric, and the dirty underbelly of reviewing records. Special guests are Jude Rogers of The Guardian and Simon Price of Q and Melody Maker. Click to listen!

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Podcast #21 - Mercury Prize Preview Special

Sun, 11 Sep 2016 09:00:00 GMT

On this week’s smart pop culture podcast, the Mercury Prize: will it be Bowie, Kano, Radiohead, Bat For Lashes…? In a special edition our guests, writers Sîan Pattenden and Eamonn Forde of The Guardian, talk through the list and give our verdict on this year's nominees. Plus we look at Amazon’s summer pilot season shows ‘The Tick’, ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ and ‘I Love Dick’ . Click to listen.

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Ep #20: ‘The Ramones’ turns 40, BBC zombie sitcoms, nationalising pop

Sun, 04 Sep 2016 09:00:00 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture podcast: Gabba gabba oh God, is it really 40 years of The Ramones? Did the BBC remake or ruin ‘Porridge' and ‘Are You Being Served?’ And should we nationalise pop music? Special guests are Andrew Male of Mojo and David Stubbs of The Guardian. Click to listen

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Ep #19: Aliens at 30, Frank Ocean, The Get Down

Sun, 28 Aug 2016 09:00:00 GMT

On this week‘s smart pop culture podcast: Happy 30th Chestburstday to James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’ – plus Frank Ocean’s new album, ‘The Get Down’ on Netflix and our fantasy festival picks. Special guests this week are Luke Turner of The Quietus and Joe Muggs of The Guardian and Mixmag.

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Ep #18 - Obama’s playlists, Gary Numan movie, and De La Soul Aren’t Dead

Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:00:00 GMT

On this week's smart pop culture podcast: Obama's summer mixtape, the return of De La Soul, a surprisingly moving Gary Numan documentary, and more. Special guests are Esquire Magazine's Johnny Davis and Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian.

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Ep #17 - Music review special with Bat For Lashes, The Monkees, Roísín Murphy and more

Sun, 14 Aug 2016 09:00:00 GMT

We're skiving off on our hols – so here’s some of our favourite music discussion from the last few months: Alexis Petridis and Sylvia Patterson on ABC, Michael Hogan and Hannah Verdier on Bat For Lashes, Kate Mossman on The Monkees… and the obligatory much, much more.

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Ep #16 – Stranger Things, Wild Beasts’ sexy new album, narcissism in pop

Sun, 07 Aug 2016 09:00:01 GMT

On the thinking person’s pop culture podcast this week: Netflix’s fantastic ‘Stranger Things’, Wild Beasts’ new album, and has music gone ME-ME-ME mental in our new age of narcissistic pop? Special guests Laura Snapes and Michael Hann join Andrew and Matt to argue the “toss”. Click to listen.

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Ep #15 - Age Of Bowie book, superhero trailer tsunami, British psych rock, Star Trek

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 09:00:00 GMT

On this week’s smart pop culture podcast: Paul Morley’s book ‘The Age Of Bowie’… Luke Cage, Wonder Woman and the Marvel/DC trailer tsunami… Star Trek: Beyond… classic British psych rock, and more. Special guests are Dan ‘Harry Hill’ Maier and Michael ‘The Internet’ Moran. Click to listen.

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Ep #14: Pink Floyd vs Mary Beard, Alan Vega, great bad reggae covers

Sun, 24 Jul 2016 09:00:01 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture podcast, special guests Laura Barton of The Guardian and Robin Turner of Caught By The River join Matt and Andrew. On the agenda: Laura goes up Pompeii with David Gilmour and Mary Beard, the legacy of Alan Vega, the joy of terrible reggae covers, and is it time to stop worrying and learn to love Simple Minds?

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Ep #13: Top Of The Pops from beyond the grave, Melody Maker babylon, The Avalanches

Sun, 17 Jul 2016 09:05:00 GMT

Can it really be ten years since the very last Top Of The Pops? Could it ever come back? We ask this week's special guests Simon Price and David Stubbs – and get their tales from life at their alma mater, the Melody Maker paper. Also, is The Avalanches new album any good? This and more with co-presenters Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Click to listen.

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Ep #12 - Caroline Aherne, Judge Dredd uncensored, Miranda Sawyer’s new book and more

Sun, 10 Jul 2016 09:10:00 GMT

On this week’s smart pop culture podcast: #CarolineAherne remembered, #MirandaSawyer on her new book #OutOfTime about the changing nature of middle age, #EamonnForde on Apple buying streaming minnow Tidal, and we rediscover a classic #JudgeDredd comics series. Click to listen.

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Ep #11 - Game Of Thrones S6 wrap-up, Glasto wash-up, Roisin Murphy tear-up

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:11:24 GMT

Andrew Collins and Sarah Bee join Andrew and Matt in the studio to discuss the sixth season of #GameOfThrones and wonder who'll be left standing when the epic finally draws to a close in two seasons' time. Andrew reports back from #Glastonbury and we review the latest album from Roisin Murphy.

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Bigmouth Ep #10 - Bat For Lashes, great TV you're missing, 'Odelay' at 20

Sun, 26 Jun 2016 09:10:00 GMT

This week top TV journos Hannah Verdier and Michael Hogan join the smart pop culture podcast to tell us – literally – what we're missing. Also, Bat For Lashes' new album 'The Bride', the attack on the #Radiohead playback in Istanbul, and can #Beck's 'Odelay' really be 20 years old? Dear God, apparently so.

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Bigmouth Ep #9 - Grace Jones, Glastonbury squabbles, and pop vs. Brexit

Sun, 19 Jun 2016 09:15:00 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture podcast, Andrew and Matt are joined by music writers Justin Quirk and Sîan Pattenden. Our topics: why are no musicians engaging with the Euro Referendum? Is Grace Jones the best pop star ever? And why do people get angry about who's headlining Glastonbury? All this and much more…

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Bigmouth #8 - Ali and hip hop, C87 indie and Ted Kessler's 'My Old Man' book

Sun, 12 Jun 2016 09:05:01 GMT

Is Muhammad Ali the grandfather of hip hop? How did we get from winsome C86 indie to today’s lairy guitar pop? And are our dads reponsible for our musical taste? Special guests Laura Snapes and Ted Kessler – author of new book ‘My Old Man’ – join Andrew and Matt to talk over these matters and more…

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Bigmouth Ep #7 - The Monkees, Top Gear and Moby’s book

Sun, 05 Jun 2016 09:00:00 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture podcast: Should UKIP and Donald Trump stop pinching beloved songs for their campaigns? Are Moby’s autobiography and the first Monkees album in 20 years any good? The new ‘Top Gear’: decent refurb or candidate for the scrappage scheme? Guests Kate Mossman of the New Statesman and writer David Stubbs join Andrew and Matt to argue on this and much, much more…

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Bigmouth #6 - EoDM, The Return of ABC, Dexys & S'Express, and Sylvia Patterson on Smash Hits

Sun, 29 May 2016 09:00:00 GMT

This week on the smart pop culture podcast: Should Eagles Of Death Metal be kicked off festivals because of their singer’s politics? Comeback albums from Dexys, ABC and S’Express. And legendary Smash Hits writer Sylvia Patterson talks us through ‘I’m Not With The Band’, her hilarious memoir of life at the sharp end of pop journalism. Also joining us is special guest Alexis Petridis, the Guardian’s chief rock and pop critic

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Bigmouth Ep #5 - Retro Special: 90's music, Trainspotting and Punk at the British Library

Sun, 22 May 2016 09:00:00 GMT

Special guests Dev Sherlock of music blog digest The Hype Machine and music writer Arwa Haider join Andrew and Matt for another edition of the smart pop culture podcast. This week: What’s set off this sudden 90s revival, with the returns of Richard Ashcroft, the Manics, the Stone Roses and even Black Grape? Will ‘Trainspotting 2’ match the original? Just how punk is the British Library’s punk exhibition? And, as ever, much much more.

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Bigmouth Ep #4 - Dylan, Lush and Mercury Prize re-boot

Sun, 15 May 2016 09:00:01 GMT

On the show this week Eamonn Forde and James Medd join Andrew & Matt in the studio to discuss the 50th anniversary of #blondeonblonde, review the return of Lush, 'the shoegazing ABBA', and peer into Eamonn's big bag of terrible showbiz auto biographies...

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Bigmouth Ep #3 - Radiohead, Paul McCartney and Bands You Know You Should Like But Don't

Sun, 08 May 2016 13:17:22 GMT

This week we talk #radiohead, #beatles, a new @paulmccartney book and the bands you should like but don't. With @michaelmoran and #pauldunoyer.

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Bigmouth Ep #2 - Captain America Civil War, Prince and Jonathan Pie

Sun, 01 May 2016 11:07:00 GMT

Bigmouth talks #CaptainAmericaCivilWar, #prince #jonathanpie and #GameOfThrones with @JoeMuggs and @Sarahcrbee

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Bigmouth Ep #1 - Game Of Thrones, Record Store Day and Sandy Denny

Sun, 24 Apr 2016 10:44:19 GMT

Andrew Collins & Jude Rogers join Andrew Harrison in the studio to discuss #GameOfThrones, #RSD2016, the enduring appeal of #sandydenny, and career ending LP's

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