Bigmouth

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.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. 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

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. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. *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

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. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. 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

‘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.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. 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 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… Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. *Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. * See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc

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.”  BIGMOUTH was presented and produced by Siân Pattenden with audio production by Sophie  Black. BIGMOUTH is a Podmasters Production.  Keep Bigmouth going and get the famous EXTRA BIT every week. Support us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform at http://patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. *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

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.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. 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 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.  Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra bit at the end, just for our backers if you buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. V

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.  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. 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

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. Keep BIGMOUTH going – buy us a pint on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. 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

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.  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. 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

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. Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. 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

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.  Help keep BIGMOUTH in rude health! Buy us a pint (virtually speaking) via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Audio production by Jack Claramunt. 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

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.  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. 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

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. Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. *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 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. BIGMOUTH is presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. 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

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.  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. Bigmouth is a Podmasters produc

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.  Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. 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 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. Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. *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