Bigmouth

Art-pop provocateur ST VINCENT returns with an album inspired by her dad’s 12 year jail sentence for multimillion dollar financial fraud. Is this the key to Annie Clark’s oeuvre (and is it any good)? Plus MATT ‘TOAST OF LONDON’ BERRY’S frankly marvellous psych-pop freakbeat album The Blue Elephant, Sky attempts a female take on I, Claudius with DOMINA, and a couple of off-the-beaten track movies you might like. Broadcaster Jamie East and novelist, screenwriter and Nik Cohn of scally Kevin Sampson are our guests.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dear God, it’s Bigmouth’s fifth birthday. We know, right? In celebration, we welcome the legend that is Neil Tennant plus “third Pet Shop Boy” David Quantick for a gala appreciation of the lost world of the music press that made us. Worst interviewees, biggest disasters, dinner dates with Freddie Mercury, the twilight of Marilyn’s career, the mags we’d bring back from the dead and more… plus we bring back the Smash Hits Nosey Questions for one week only. Bigmouth: it’s a party in a podcast.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The astonishing stories of the little-known women who shaped the genesis of electronic music are told in new documentary Sisters With Transistors. How would you like your guitar music: unflinchingly realist with Teenage Fanclub or boldly avant garde with Field Music? And is Sky’s much-touted new cop show Mare Of Easttown, starring a heavily de-glammed Kate Winslet as a disconsolate detective, an American Broadchurch or something more still more pungent? Our guests Jude “Guardian” Rogers and Michael “Telegraph” Hogan have opinions!  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Carey Mulligan revenge thriller Promising Young Woman from Killing Eve writer Emerald Fennell: black comedy, proper serious commentary, or just too intense to enjoy? Up and coming young artist Paul McCartney hands over his music to everyone from St Vincent to John Home to Khruangbin, What will we think of McCartney III Imagined? Why time travelling subversion of the romcom Palm Springs is your new favourite movie. And The Selecter’s Too Much Pressure finally gets its pork-pie-hatted props. Eamonn Forde and Michael Moran are our guests.  Plus! Check out our brand new and updated Patreon packages for exciting news… Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is Nomadland, with Frances McDormand as a van-dwelling “houseless not homeless” wanderer in the new America, really as good as all the awards imply? New albums by one-man rave-up Raf Rundell (ex-2 Bears) and cosmic soul man Matthew E White who’s gone all outsider art on us. And deadpan comedy in Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s NZ copumentary Wellington Paranormal. Strictly Kev AKA DJ Food and Michael Hann of the Guardian and the FT are our guests.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

POD: SELFISH. In our most post-post-post punk edition ever, Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne and Tessa Norton join us to discuss Excavate! The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall, their magisterial co-edited hardback symposium on music’s most cryptic combo. Plus the debut album from post-Fall observationistas Dry Cleaning, a remarkable compilation of RADICAL! FUNK! from the Thatcher-bashing 80s… and what sort of truth does new biopic Creation Stories AKA I Am Alan McGee tell? Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Picture © Stefan Müller reproduced under Creative Commons licence via Flickr See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Will disaster princess Lana Del Rey hold on to her title as the F Scott Fitzgerald of the blasé Instagram generation with Chemtrails Over The Country Club? After the phantasmagoria of WandaVision, will the newly Marvelized Disney+ audience take to the bleakly realist political thriller The Falcon And The Winter Soldier? Plus a round-up of intriguing new streaming movies – The Columnist, The Banishing and Silk Road – and why you really really really should watch Sky’s new comedy thriller The Flight Attendant with Kaley Cuoco.  Hannah Verdier of The Guardian and film critic Linda Marric are our guests.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Special guest and all-purpose film-directing dread about town Don Letts joins us to talk about his new book There And Black Again plus untold tales from 40 years spanning Bob Marley, The Clash and B.A.D. up to the present day. And film critic Linda Marric helps us disentangle Sky’s latest New Romantic documentary Blitzed: The 80s Blitz Kids Story, Netflix movie The Best Of Enemies – in which a KKK leader develops an unlikely friendship with a Black civil rights campaigner – and the latest sprawling opus from Sananda Maitreya, the artist formerly known as Terence Trent D’Arby.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The great punk misfit Poly Styrene features in new documentary I Am A Cliché, showing this week on Sky Arts. Will it earn her her proper place at last? Laura Snapes of The Guardian and writer Travis Elborough join us to examine it plus the first album in 16 years by Falkirk seediness connoisseurs Arab Strap and Ridley Scott’s The Terror, AKA I’m A Character Actor, Get Me Off This Ice Floe. Plus nerd squad Mike Moran and Alex Andreou parachute in for spoiler-laden look at the WandaVision series finale. (And yes that’s Leland Philpot’s unofficial trap mix of ‘Agatha All Along’). Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s a con woman coining it in the care homes of America: will Rosamund Pike crime caper I Care A Lot on Amazon Prime Video scare us straight? The ecstatic grown-up grief-pop of The Anchoress. Andrew finally succeeds in turning the panel on to a comic book with The Department Of Truth – an X Files for the QAnon era (read Issue 1 for free here). And was Frank Zappa quite as charmlessly difficult as we thought? We take a look at a new documentary with guests Zöe Howe and William Shaw.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fyre Festival/Lord Of The Flies vibes in Class Action Park, a frankly astonishing documentary about America’s most insanely hazardous amusement park now showing on Sky Documentaries. New albums from the Radiophonic Kate Bush of cosmic Cheshire Jane Weaver and young disco turk SG Lewis. And why Lupin is the biggest deal yet in French telly’s bit to take over the world. Acid house veterans Anthony ‘placid casual’ Teasdale and Jim ‘Jockey Slut’ Butler are our guests.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hot from the podcasting mill for the Patreon people… Is Adam Curtis’s latest think-about-it-yeah epic Can’t Get You Out Of My Head worth the eight hours you’ll need to navigate his “emotional history of the modern world”? New music from electro noise-tamperers Django Django and the litfest Springsteens that are The Hold Steady. And the busy life of a drug-addled nurse/organ thief in dark horror comedy 12 Hour Shift. Katie ‘The Word’ Puckrik and James ‘Condé Nast Traveller’ Medd are our guests.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Does AMC’s ambitious Hip Hop: Songs That Shook America (all eps now on iPlayer) expand our knowledge of the boom-boom-bap? What happens when Stewart Lee makes a documentary about Robert Lloyd of The Nightingales, a man who makes Radiohead seem hungry for celebrity. King Rocker is on Sky Arts right now. And are we taken by young persons’ rapper slowthai’s “mature second album”? John Doran of the Quietus and Kate Hodges of The Hare And Hoofe join Andrew and Siân for judgment hour.   Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bass player to the gentry Guy Pratt of Pink Floyd, Bryan Ferry and My Bass And Other Animals fame and Harry Hill scriptwriter Dan Maier join us to delve into the pop culture bran tub. This week: Dirty deeds in Delhi in the stunning White Tiger on Netflix. The post-rock post-jazz post-everything sounds of Black Country, New Road plus delinquent Aussie motorboogie from the Psychedelic P0rn Crumpets*. Yet that is their name. And we get absoluement fabuleux with the return of Call My Agent on Netflix.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. * Yes we are doing this to get past your various internet decency filters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Everybody should be watching It’s A Sin, Russell T Davies’s riotous, heartbreaking and funny saga of AIDS in young London, and guests John “Kill Your Friends” Niven and Daryl “He’s the Disco Curator” Easlea will tell you why. Plus all the BMX Bandits, Vaselines and Shop Assistants you could wish for in Scottish indie rock-doc Teenage Superstars. Who is Steven Wilson and will his post-prog sounds freak your scene? And Alex Andreou of our sister podcasts The Bunker and Oh God, What Now? joins Andrew for a major geek-off regarding Marvel’s Truman Show-Avengers-David-Lynch mash-up WandaVision.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the actual day that new album Spare Ribs comes out, Jason from Sleaford Mods joins Siân, Andrew and guest Iestyn “NME/GQ/Golf Punk” George for pop’s most penetrating panel. On the agenda: that weird-looking Bowie movie Stardust (is it as terrible as they say?). Domestic bangers from Belfast’s Bicep. A movie about the KLF becoming undertakers – a grave experience? And the time Jason won a competition in Mixmag.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is BBC1’s hippy-murderin’ heart of darkness horror show The Serpent what we need in a cold January? Why should you bone up on the new album from Viagra Boys? How did Disney/Pixar’s ‘Wonderful Life for kids’ Soul illuminate our Christmas? And a preview of the movies you might see in 2021. Deputy Editor of Esquire Magazine Johnny Davis and film critic Linda Marric (NME, HeyUGuys, Jewish Chronicle) join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out.  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An appalling year comes to a glittering crescendo as Alexis Petridis of The Guardian and Pete Paphides – rock’n’roll impresario at vinyl Mecca Needle Mythology and author of Broken Greek – join us to select their (and Siân’s!) “fave raves” of the year. And here’s the playlist…  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

God, is it that time of year again? Repeat offender guests Jude Rogers of The Guardian and Eamonn Forde of The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig fame join Siân and Andrew to choose their favourite albums, tracks, TV things and hidden gems of this terrible, terrible year for everything except pop and telly. More next week… And if you want to enjoy our guests’ music selections they’re all here on a Spotify playlist. Hurrah!  Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Julien Temple’s biopic Crock Of Gold, Shane MacGowan is a wheezing wreck of himself. Is the Pogues frontman a neglected poet, a cautionary tale, an Irish hero or all three and more? Plus The Avalanches take the cut-and-paste sampledelic collage to wildly ambitious new places. And is David Fincher’s Mank – about the self-destructive alcoholic who wrote Citizen Kane – a work of dedication or just Orson Welles cosplay? Hannah Verdier of The Guardian and Sophie Harris of Mojo and Rolling Stone join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out. Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  ENDS See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices