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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? Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. 

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… Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Elsie Bath at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See aca

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.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Elsie Bath at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc

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.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Elsie Bath at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn mor

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? Presented by Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Alex Rees at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  G

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? Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn

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! Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Alex Rees at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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!  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informa

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. Your regular helping of Bigmouth returns on Friday as usual. See you then.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad c

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. Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black at Soho Radio. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast

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? Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Elsie Bath at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Elsie Bath, recorded by Tom Bullen at Air Edel, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  Please enjoy your weekly recommended intake of pop culture blather, produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black, recorded by Tom Bullen at Air Edel, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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…? Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when

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? Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Elsie Bath. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Elsie Bath. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices