S1 Ep124: Podcast #124: Doctor Who, John Grant, Primal Scream in Memphis
‘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...
1hr 3m Oct 13, 2018
1hr 3m
S1 Ep123: Podcast #123: Bowie’s 80s, Delia Derbyshire’s radiophonic secrets, Cat Power and more
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 ...
59m Oct 06, 2018
59m
S1 Ep122: Podcast #122: Killing Eve, Chic, Maniac and more with guest Paul Morley
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 wh...
1hr 13m Sep 29, 2018
1hr 13m
S1 Ep121: Podcast #121: Christine & The Queens, Madonna, Suede and more
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 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madonna-Like-Icon-Lucy-OBrien/dp/0552176028) ’ and loads more. Listen in as Siân cheer...
1hr 1m Sep 22, 2018
1hr 1m
S1 Ep120: Podcast #120: Special guests ORBITAL on their life in rave and new album MONSTERS EXIST
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 (https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/orbital-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...
1hr 3m Sep 15, 2018
1hr 3m
S1 Ep119: Podcast #119: Idris Elba’s Yardie, Jungle, Bodyguard on BBC1
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...
55m Sep 08, 2018
55m
S1 Ep118: Podcast #118: Soft Cell box set, Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, Succession on Sky
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 movi...
1hr Sep 01, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep117: Podcast #117: Disenchantment, Blood Orange, The Man From Mo’Wax
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 (https://twitter.com/Andr6wMale) of Mojo and Sight & Sound...
49m Aug 25, 2018
49m
S1 Ep116: Podcast #116: The Meg, Boards Of Canada, REM and more
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. Supp...
58m Aug 18, 2018
58m
S1 Ep115: Podcast #115: Nuts In May, Jake Shears, Ant-Man & The Wasp
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 podc...
52m Aug 11, 2018
52m
S1 Ep114: Podcast #114: Robin Williams’ deranged life, Underworld vs Iggy Pop, Generation Wealth
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 plutoc...
47m Aug 04, 2018
47m
S1 Ep113: Podcast #113: The secret history of electronic music, Roy Carr’s brilliant NME tapes and more
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 a...
1hr 5m Jul 28, 2018
1hr 5m
S1 Ep112: Podcast #112: Who Is America? Picnic At Hanging Rock, Lotic, summer tunes
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 Hangin...
1hr 7m Jul 21, 2018
1hr 7m
S1 Ep111: Podcast #111: Duran Duran, Public Image Ltd, Captain America and more with Katie Puckrik and Ralph Moore
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...
1hr 4m Jul 07, 2018
1hr 4m
S1 Ep110: Podcast #110: ANNE DUDLEY of Art Of Noise in the studio plus Millie Jackson, summer tunes and more
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 Mome...
1hr 4m Jun 30, 2018
1hr 4m
S1 Ep109: Podcast #109: Lost Vagueness Glastonbury movie, Public Enemy, The The film and more
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 Si...
1hr 2m Jun 23, 2018
1hr 2m
S1 Ep108: Podcast #108: Johnny Marr, Microdisney, Fantastic Negrito, Get Shorty on Sky and more
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 ...
1hr Jun 16, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep107: Podcast #107: Studio 54 documentary, Kanye West, Lily Allen and more…
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 u...
1hr Jun 09, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep106: Podcast #106: Han Solo, Generation Grime, Paris ’68 in pop and more
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 Obse...
1hr Jun 02, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep105: Podcast #105: Madness biopic, Half Man Half Biscuit, zombies on Netflix and more…
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. ...
59m May 26, 2018
59m
S1 Ep104: Podcast #104: Arctic Monkeys, Patrick Melrose, Viv Albertine, Spotify.
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. Support BIGMOUTH – you can buy us a virtual...
59m May 19, 2018
59m
S1 Ep103: Podcast #103: Kraftwerk’s Man-Machine is 40, Beach House, DJ Koze, Jon Hopkins, The Rain
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… Support BIGMOUTH –...
1hr 2m May 12, 2018
1hr 2m
S1 Ep102: Podcast #102: Infinity War with spoilers, Janelle Monae, HBO’s Barry, Too Slow To Disco Brasil
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 (https://twitter.com/djfood) of Ninja Tune fame, MARK HOOPER – editor of Hole & Corner (https://www.holeandcorner.com/) magazine – plus a special cameo role from IAN DUNT of our sister podcast Remainiacs (https://audioboom....
1hr 7m May 05, 2018
1hr 7m
S1 Ep101: Podcast #101: Michael Smiley, the glory days of raving, Sting & Shaggy and more
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...
1hr Apr 28, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep100: Podcast #100! Simon Day, Charley’s War, Juliana Hatfield, Chas & Dave, Andrew Collins and more…
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 C...
1hr Apr 21, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep99: Podcast #99: The City And The City, Confidence Man, the greatest ten seconds in pop
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 reun...
1hr Apr 14, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep98: Podcast #98: David Hepworth on his elegy for the rock star plus Eels, Idris Elba
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 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784162078) . 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 pil...
1hr Apr 07, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep97: Podcast #97: Cunk on Britain, Suede, record shops book
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 lor...
59m Mar 31, 2018
59m
S1 Ep96: Podcast #96: Unsane, Pulp’s This Is Hardcore at 20, Jake Shears book
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 MAR...
59m Mar 24, 2018
59m
S1 Ep95: Podcast #95: Annihilation, David Byrne, MFSB, tracking down Steve Ditko
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 o...
1hr Mar 17, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep94: Podcast #94: Big Lebowski at 20, Tracey Thorn, Tribe Called Quest doc
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 a...
59m Mar 10, 2018
59m
S1 Ep93: Podcast #93: Janelle Monáe, Collateral, Go-Kart Mozart and more
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… Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Stud...
1hr 8m Mar 03, 2018
1hr 8m
S1 Ep92: Podcast #92: Shape Of Water, Oscar tips, Jonathan Wilson, our worst gigs
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 Siâ...
1hr 2m Feb 24, 2018
1hr 2m
S1 Ep91: Podcast #91: Black Panther, I Tonya, U.S. Girls, Tin Machine and more
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 al...
59m Feb 17, 2018
59m
S1 Ep90: Podcast #90: Roxy Music’s debut, Bowie drama, Joan As Police Woman, The Good Place
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 K...
1hr Feb 10, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep89: Podcast #89: Mark E. Smith tribute plus Franz Ferdinand
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 t...
1hr Feb 03, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep88: Podcast #88: REMAINIACS crossover featuring Britannia, Django Django, Alan Moore
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 contro...
59m Jan 27, 2018
59m
S1 Ep87: Podcast #87: Three Billboards, The Moonlandingz, Derry Girls and more
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 G...
1hr Jan 20, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep86: Podcast #86: McMafia, Johnny Cash at Folsom and the albums nobody else likes
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.
1hr Jan 13, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep85: Podcast #85: Feud: Joan & Bette, Bowie at Hansa, Shame with London Readers Wifes
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 no...
1hr Jan 06, 2018
1hr
S1 Ep84: Podcast #84: More Best of 2017 inc. Handmaid’s Tale, Death Of Stalin, Sparks!
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 ...
59m Dec 23, 2017
59m
S1 Ep83: Podcast #83: The best of 2017 inc St Vincent, LCD Soundsystem, Dunkirk and more
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…
59m Dec 16, 2017
59m
S1 Ep82: Podcast #82: Music video history, Chris Heath, Disaster Artist
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” Smas...
1hr Dec 09, 2017
1hr
S1 Ep81: Podcast #81: Post-punk comp, She’s Gotta Have It, Miguel and more
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 ma...
59m Dec 02, 2017
59m
S1 Ep80: Podcast #80: Björk, Noel Gallagher, Gregory Porter, Laura Mvula
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.
59m Nov 25, 2017
59m
S1 Ep79: Podcast #79: Quietus podclash inc. The Face retro, Arab funk & more
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://...
59m Nov 18, 2017
59m
S1 Ep78: Podcast #78: Morrissey, Babylon Berlin, Queen, Saturday Night Fever
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 ...
57m Nov 11, 2017
57m
S1 Ep77: Podcast #77: Stranger Things 2, Motörhead, Serge Gainsbourg
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.
1hr Nov 04, 2017
1hr
S1 Ep76: Podcast #76: The Death Of Stalin, Ian Dury, Mindhunter
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 opi...
59m Oct 28, 2017
59m
S1 Ep75: Podcast #75: The Queen Is Dead, George Michael doc, Dynasty
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.
1hr Oct 21, 2017
1hr