Bigmouth

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… Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a birthday 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. * Photo: Liza Minelli, Bianca Jagger and Andy Warhol at Studio 54. Photo © Adam Scull-PHOTOlink.net See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Support BIGMOUTH – buy us a birthday 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.

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 pina colada via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Presented by 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

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 – buy us a birthday pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with 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

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

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… Help keep BIGMOUTH going for another 100 shows – 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 production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  Help keep BIGMOUTH going for another 100 shows – buy us a birthday pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with 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, 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… Help keep BIGMOUTH in rude health – buy us a metaphorical pint via the crowdfunding platform http://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. It’s all in the pop culture podcast for discerning dilettantes, co-presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production. Help keep BIGMOUTH in rude health – buy us a metaphorical pint via 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 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.  Audio 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… 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. Audio 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, 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 Audio production by Jack Claramunt with help from Rachael 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Studio production is 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

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. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Studio production is 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

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. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Studio production is 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

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.   Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Studio production is 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

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? Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes BIGMOUTH was produced by Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall with audio production by Jack Claramunt. It’s a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes And if you like Remainiacs you can follow it here: https://audioboom.com/channel/remainiacs-podcast BIGMOUTH was produced by Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. It’s a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices