Bigmouth
286 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsClever talk about pop culture.
Bigmouth is pop culture talk for discerning grown-ups. Music, TV, movies, books or something else entirely – we’ll enthuse, argue, squabble and pick over the bones of what’s happening in the world of the stuff we love.
Presented by WORD magazine veterans Andrew Harrison (ex-editor of Q, Select and Mixmag) and Siân “Stan” Pattenden, a graduate of the Smash Hits and Select Mag Schools of Excellence.
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173: Nick Cave, Michael Hutchence movie, Elbow, The Politician
October 12, 2019 02:00 - 1 hourOn this week’s pop culture perusal fest… THE GREAT BARRIER, GRIEF: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ extraordinary new album Ghosteen leaves our panel floored and yet somehow elated. How did he turn unimaginable personal pain into something so beautiful? THE ROAD OF XS: Many saw Michael Hutchence as just a likeable accumulation of rock star clichés – but was there more to him and to his personal tragedy? And can new biopic Mystify open up the story? I WAS A TEENAGE TRUMP: Does the camp-meets-social...
171: OMD SPECIAL: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark on the life electronic
October 05, 2019 03:00 - 1 hourIt’s a special Bigmouth this week as we’re joined by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys AKA Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark as they mark their 40th anniversary with their ‘Souvenir’ box set – half greatest hits, half Pharaonic treasure trove of all the things they’ve made (including the really weird stuff). ARCHITECTURE AND MORALITY AND SIÂN AND ANDREW: Dive in for a fascinating conversation that takes in the ups and downs of an “accidental” pop career, how Kraftwerk changed their lives, how...
170: Mod weekend on Sky, Temples, State Of The Union
September 28, 2019 04:00 - 56 minutesWe’re joined by Guardian telly and podcasts queen HANNAH VERDIER and Telegraph/Guardian TV writer MICHAEL HOGAN to read the tea leaves of pop culture. On the agenda… FROM A VESPA TO A SCREAM: What it is with men and mod? Sky Arts’s Mod Weekend opens a window into the world of Weller worshippers and digs into the history of the thin-lapelled cult that won’t die. Is the world ready for Bradley Wiggins on Mod? OUT OF PSYCH, OUT OF MIND: Cosmic inner-spacemen of Kettering Temples return with the...
169: Factory Records exhibition, 2 Tone at 40, Ad Astra and the worst Netflix show ever
September 21, 2019 04:30 - 1 hourThis week Mojo mag news editor IAN HARRISON and Empire/ScreenWords/Jewish Chronicle film writer LINDA MARRIC join us to feel the bumps on the skull of pop culture. On the agenda… CRISPY AMBULANCE CHASERS: Early Factory Records relics go on show in London as the Chelsea Space’s Use Hearing Protection exhibition displays the artefacts bestowed with the first 50 FAC numbers. What set Tony Wilson’s empire apart from the post-punk pack? RUDE AWAKENINGS: It’s 40 years since the dawn of 2 Tone and...
168: Nouvelle Vague saga Shock of the Future, The Loudest Voice, and BBC's The Capture
September 14, 2019 12:00 - 1 hourThis week we have special guests Miranda Sawyer - author of Out of Time, she writes for the Observer, appears on Radio 4 and much much more – plus ex-Word magazine writer and Bob Dylan boffin James Medd to discuss the pop culture issues of the day. PALE AILES: Will Sky's The Loudest Voice plump Succession as the latest Citizen-Kane-for-our-times? Starring Russell Crowe as Fox News founder Roger Ailes and Sienna Miller as his wife, this aims to lift the lid on the controversial figure pre Fake...
168: Nouvelle Vague saga Shock of the Future, The Loudest Voice, and BBC's The Capture
September 14, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBThis week we have special guests Miranda Sawyer - author of Out of Time, she writes for the Observer, appears on Radio 4 and much much more – plus ex-Word magazine writer and Bob Dylan boffin James Medd to discuss the pop culture issues of the day. PALE AILES: Will Sky's The Loudest Voice plump Succession as the latest Citizen-Kane-for-our-times? Starring Russell Crowe as Fox News founder Roger Ailes and Sienna Miller as his wife, this aims to lift the lid on the controversial figure pre Fa...
167: Succession S2, UK Rap Game on BBC3, weird cover versions status report
August 31, 2019 03:00 - 1 hourLOGAN’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. ...
166: Daisy Age hip hop, Definitely Maybe in the dock, Friendly Fires
August 24, 2019 03:00 - 1 hourTRIBAL 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 alb...
165: Jeremy Deller’s rave documentary, Sky’s Euphoria, special guest Piney Gir
August 17, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourONLY 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 ALBU...
164: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Ride, best movies of 2019 so far
August 10, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourThis 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 criti...
163: Mick Houghton's tales of pop excess, The Great Hack, Sky One's Manifest, "the album no one likes but me"
August 03, 2019 06:00 - 1 hourThis 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...
162: Rave retro art, Blood Orange, Britpop cinema and special guest Rhoda ‘Special AKA’ Dakar
July 20, 2019 05:00 - 1 hourThis 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, wh...
161: Midsommar, albums for summer, Steven Bannon doc The Brink
July 13, 2019 06:00 - 1 hourThis 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 preva...
160: WARP Records at 30, Catch-22, Thom Yorke
July 06, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourThis 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...
159: Glastonbury 2019: Live and Lo-Fi
July 01, 2019 22:10 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBRelive 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 Gla...
159: Glastonbury 2019: Live and Lo-Fi
July 01, 2019 22:10 - 30 minutesRelive 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 Glast...
158: Hot Chip, horror satire In Fabric, Mark Ronson
June 22, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourWe 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 compl...
157: Killing Eve S2, Prince Originals, I Am Mother on Netflix
June 15, 2019 04:30 - 1 hourOn 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 ga...
156: Booksmart movie, Liam Gallagher biopic, Divine Comedy
June 08, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourThis 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 ...
155: Memoirs of a Britpop Machiavelli, Elton’s Rocketman, Richard Hawley
June 01, 2019 04:00 - 55 minutesOn 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 ...
154: Amyl & The Sniffers, The Virtues on C4, Flying Lotus
May 25, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourOn 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. Produce...
153: Rave movie BEATS, What We Do In The Shadows, the album only I like (slight return)
May 18, 2019 05:00 - 1 hourThis 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 week...
152: BEASTIE BOYS‘ ill Communication is 25, Chernobyl on Sky, coming of age comedy Eighth Grade
May 11, 2019 04:00 - 56 minutesRADIATION 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...
151: AVENGERS: ENDGAME, Soft Cell’s Dave Ball, Vampire Weekend and more
May 04, 2019 03:45 - 1 hourIt’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 spo...
150: Why LIZZO is large and in charge, Chimerica on C4, Stealing Sheep
April 27, 2019 05:00 - 56 minutesOn 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 STEALIN...
149: SLADE streem the noize on Spotify, Game of Thrones S8, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
April 20, 2019 05:00 - 53 minutesWe’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 produc...
148: Being Frank Sidebottom movie, Andy Gill of Gang Of Four, Chemical Brothers, Billie Eilish
April 06, 2019 04:47 - 1 hourOn 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 le...
147: BIGMOUTH EXTRA: Scenes from Keith Flint’s memorial
April 02, 2019 20:35 - 13 minutesThe death of The Prodigy’s much-loved KEITH FLINT by his own hand left countless people – ravers, rockers, ’90s veterans, lovers of pop and good times in general – shocked, saddened and broken up. Numerous stories emerged afterwards confirming that, far from the twisted firestarter of the videos, Keith was a friendly, warm and above all kind man. It was desperately unfair that evidently he could not feel the happiness that he brought to millions. Friend of the show and radio producer ROBIN L...
146: Scott Walker, Us movie, Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt on Netflix and more
March 30, 2019 05:34 - 59 minutesOn this week’s podcast… WE’RE LOVING ENGEL INSTEAD: The irreplaceable Scott Walker. AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: Is Jordan Peele’s latest horror movie ‘Us’ a worthy successor to ‘Get Out’? VERY METAL: Is the Netflix adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s infamous ‘The Dirt’ worth a watch even if you can’t stand their music? And does it whitewash the depravity? NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: New albums from Jenny ‘Rilo Kiley’ Lewis and Andrew ‘you might not know him’ Bird. Joining us to rummage through the bran tub of ...
145: Edwyn Collins, New York voguing drama, the internet’s dark side and more
March 23, 2019 05:00 - 59 minutesOn our latest pop culture patterfest, Q Magazine editor TED KESSLER and comedy writer DAN MAIER of Harry Hill fame join Siân and Andrew to sift through the week’s most interesting stuff. The great EDWYN COLLINS confronts age and mortality through the medium of sounding as much like Iggy Pop as possible on new album ‘Badbea’. Is ‘Feud’ and ‘Glee’ producer Ryan Murphy’s dramatisation of the New York drag ball scene POSE worth your eyeball time? Ted gives us a bumper crate of new release recomme...
144: Terry Hall and David Quantick on Ricky Gervais’s After Life, Dave, Derry Girls and more
March 16, 2019 05:00 - 1 hourIt’s a legend-heavy podcast this week as we welcome TERRY HALL of The Specials to talk about the rebirth of every rude boy and girl’s favourite band – and music press and TV comedy giant DAVID QUANTICK of The Day Today and Veep fame. On the agenda: Is Ricky Gervais’s new Netflix comedy AFTER LIFE brave, bold, funny… or just obnoxious egotism? And do we prefer DERRY GIRLS, TV’s premier all-girl comedy based on religious sectarianism, the threat of terrorism and Take That? Plus we get on the a...
143: Keith Prodigy, Captain Marvel, Fleabag, Sparks and more
March 09, 2019 06:38 - 1 hourThis week, the immensely sad death by suicide of KEITH FLINT, The Prodigy’s magnificent monster of the id. We salute a self-made superstar and explore what made him so loved across the spectrum from ravers to rockers and beyond. Plus: CAPTAIN MARVEL – does Brie Larsen’s super-debut as Earth’s Mightiest Hero live up to its billing? And whose make-up works best, de-aged Samuel L “Nick Fury” Jackson or green-faced Ben “Skrull leader” Mendelsohn? FLEABAG – the worst-behaved woman in London is bac...
142: Alan Partridge, Sleaford Mods, Get Out and more
March 02, 2019 06:00 - 56 minutesThis week we scale the north face of Chatmandu with pop journo HANNAH VERDIER and pop-obsessed illustrator NADIA SHIREEN, both veterans of the sainted Smash Hits Academy of Excellence. What does our panel make of the return of ALAN PARTRIDGE, and will it make Andrew dial down his Piers Morganisms on the Bigmouth settee? Also: Can SLEAFORD MODS come to terms with the Big Time i.e. having a house with more than one bedroom? We delve into new album ‘Eton Alive’. And we missed the groundbreaking ...
141: Podcast #141: Russian Doll, Shaun Ryder’s lyrics, Oscars and more
February 23, 2019 06:20 - 1 hourThis week we’re joined by Quietus co-founder JOHN DORAN and film writer LINDA MARRIC to pan for more pop culture gold among the gravel and bottle tops. RUSSIAN DOLL on Netflix: what’s the metaphysical subtext of TV’s funniest drinking, drugging and dying comedy? SHAUN RYDER’S LYRICS are finally collected in book form – is he the WB Yeats of Madchester as Tony Wilson claimed all those years ago? Who does Linda fancy for an Oscar? And loads of music too. Produced and presented by Andrew Harri...
140: Podcast #140: Das Boot, Out Of The Woods with Luke Turner, Bowie doc, Ladytron
February 16, 2019 05:09 - 57 minutesOn this week’s podcast, ALAAARM! We talk over the stunning re-Boot of sub-sea nerve-wrangler DAS BOOT with our guests, Quietus co-founder LUKE TURNER (left) and pop culture journo MARK HOOPER (right). Does the story of a different U-boat match up to the original and where does it fit into Brexit Britain’s TV schedule? Plus: Luke Turner talks about his remarkable book ‘Out Of The Woods’, where self-doubt, masculinity, sexuality, Suede and Throbbing Gristle come together in the mysterious depth...
139: Podcast #139: Velvet Buzzsaw on Netflix, Death of EMI book, Prefab Sprout
February 09, 2019 06:00 - 1 hourOn this week’s high-end pop culture hootenanny, we’re joined by music business journo EAMONN FORDE – who fills us in on the cautionary tale that is his new book ‘The Final Days Of EMI: Selling The Pig’ – plus The Times’ rock and pop critic WILL HODGKINSON. On the agenda: Jake Gyllenhaal in art scene gorefest ‘Velvet Buzzsaw‘, the return of Paddy MacAloon’s orchestral masterpiece ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, new tunes from our guests, and loads more. Listen up or feel like you’re outside the Velve...
138: Podcast #138: Buzzcocks, Dr Dre & Jimmy Iovine, Mercury Rev on Bobbie Gentry and more
February 02, 2019 06:00 - 1 hourIt’s a rather more stylish Bigmouth than usual as GQ magazine editor DYLAN JONES joins us for this week’s pop culture dégustation along with SOPHIE HARRIS of Mojo, Time Out and… yoga? On the menu this week: Can HBO/BBC4 documentary ‘The Defiant Ones’ make compelling drama from the parallel rise of Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine? Psychedelic backwoodsmen Mercury Rev take on Bobbie Gentry’s country-soul classic ‘The Delta Sweete’ with an army of five-star female vocalists. And weren’t Buzzcocks just F...
137: Podcast #137: Fyre Festival, junk shop glam, Specials, The Beat and more
January 26, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour“It’s not fraud, it’s just false advertising!” Special guests and major influencers ALEXIS PETRIDIS of The Guardian and LUCY O’BRIEN, author of ‘Madonna: Like An Icon’, join regulars Siân and Andrew on a microlite to misery as we gaze in disbelief at not one but BOTH Fyre Festival documentaries. What were the best bits, what did we learn about “millennials” and is there enough Evian in the world to douse this Bonfire Of The Inanities? Hey, dig our on-brand orange tile… PLUS It’s la recherche...
136: Podcast #136: Stan & Ollie, Trevor Horn’s 80s album, Steve Mason and more
January 19, 2019 07:00 - 53 minutesHave Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly brought back the real Laurel & Hardy, and how many hankies should you take to ‘Stan & Ollie’? Why is Trevor Horn reinventing the 80s if they weren’t broken in the first place? And former Beta Band man Steve Mason says his fourth album ‘About The Light’ is his first proper record – is he right? Seasoned journos Ian Harrison of Mojo magazine and Michael Hogan of the Guardian and Telegraph join Siân and Andrew to push the piano of pop culture up the metaphor...
135: Podcast #135: That Bros movie, HMV, New Order’s Technique and more
January 12, 2019 07:00 - 59 minutesWhat do the letters H.O.M.E. mean to you? We’re joined in Conversation Corner by guests Ralph Moore of dance bible Mixmag and Anthony Teasdale – terrace style guru and Balearic soothsayer – to discuss the movie that made everyone’s Christmas, ‘Bros: After The Screaming Stops’. Plus: can we mourn HMV if we didn’t spend enough money there? New Order’s fluorescent classic ‘Technique’ is a whole 30 years old. And an unusually ravey selection of tunes from our guests. Produced and presented by An...
134: Podcast #134: More Best of 2018 inc Sally4Ever, Black Panther, Shame, Succession and more
December 22, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourIn our second End of Year special, guests MIRANDA SAWYER and EAMONN FORDE tell us their favourite records, telly, films and other stuff of 2018 – and Andrew gets to make his choices too. Who liked lesbionic romantic disaster SALLY4EVER? What did the panel make of the new DOCTOR WHO? And who was the most appalling monster on TV? Plus music from Christine & The Queens, Shame, Suede, Half Man Half Biscuit and Dave – just Dave. It’s all you need for the long dark winter evenings. Produced and pr...
133: Podcast #133: Best of 2018 inc The 1975, BlacKKKlansman and A Very English Scandal
December 15, 2018 09:18 - 1 hourThe 1975! The Lemon Twigs! Anna Calvi! That fantastic Jeremy Thorpe dramatisation from the BBC! And some films, telly and music you might not have heard of too! It’s the first of our ‘Favourites of 2018’ shows. MICHAEL HANN of The Guardian and FT and ANDREW MUELLER (once Melody Maker, now Monocle and you can’t say that about everyone) join Andrew and Siân to choose the best of the year. Plus: how do you persuade uptight business-y mags like The Economist and The Spectator to run stories on Co...
132: Podcast #132: Bryan Ferry, Guy Pratt's bass tales, 1983 on Netflix
December 08, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourThis week on the pop culture podcast for today’s prancing popinjay: Bassist to the gentry, raconteur and stand-up comic GUY PRATT tells us about life playing with Pink Floyd, Madonna, Robert Palmer and – for about a week – The Smiths. And music journo and author MARTIN ASTON helps us dissect new Netflix ‘Polish noir’ drama 1983 and the surprisingly addictive new jazz album from BRYAN FERRY. (Guy is the soul of tact here – Bryan is his mate of old). Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from...
131: Podcast #131: Vic & Bob's Big Night Out, This Mortal Coil Reissues & The Kominsky Method on Netflix
December 01, 2018 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThey wouldn't let it lie. Spam! Pants! Soil! Is the all-new Vic n Bob's Big Night Out all we've been expecting from a big night in? The Kominsky Method on Netflix stars Mr Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, as ageing acting coach Sandy Kominsky - we ponder this dark, comedic "later life" series. Plus with new reissues of the three This Mortal Coil albums on 4AD, we listen to Ivo Watts-Russell's ethereal studio collective and debate whether it still packs a punch 27+ years on. And go...
131: Podcast #131: Vic & Bob's Big Night Out, This Mortal Coil Reissues & The Kominsky Method on Netflix
December 01, 2018 07:00 - 55 minutesThey wouldn't let it lie. Spam! Pants! Soil! Is the all-new Vic n Bob's Big Night Out all we've been expecting from a big night in? The Kominsky Method on Netflix stars Mr Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, as ageing acting coach Sandy Kominsky - we ponder this dark, comedic "later life" series. Plus with new reissues of the three This Mortal Coil albums on 4AD, we listen to Ivo Watts-Russell's ethereal studio collective and debate whether it still packs a punch 27+ years on. And goodby...
130: Podcast #130: The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Suede & The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix
November 24, 2018 07:00 - 59 minutesDim the lights! It's the pop culture podcast for the louche lounge dweller. Does the Coen Brother's anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs cast a new light on the narrative of the Wild West and the lonesome cowboy? And did anyone recognise Tom Waits? We talk about the Suede documentary The Insatiable Ones - chasing the dragon or gettin' off that thar horse? And yes, it's Brett vs Damon week as we muse upon The Good, The Bad and the Queen, Damon Albarn's supergroup with new Brexit Britain albu...
129: Podcast #129: Kate Bush, Stan Lee, Happy Mondays, Outlaw King on Netflix
November 17, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourThis week on the pop culture podcast for the sophisticated procrastinator: The KATE BUSH reissues are out. How do her leotard years stand up at nearly 40 years’ remove? We mark the ascension of Marvel mastermind Smilin’ STAN LEE to the Astral Plane with guest Dorian Lynskey from the Remainiacs podcast. HAPPY MONDAYS’ infamous second album ‘Bummed’ is 30 years old. And is Netflix’s blood-sodden Robert the Bruce drama OUTLAW KING fit for purpose as the new Braveheart? Writer and rock’n’roll mus...
128: Podcast #128: Netflix’s Cash/Nixon and Bob Marley, C4’s The First, Carlos Ezquerra
November 10, 2018 07:40 - 56 minutesIs Netflix’s new rockumentary series Remastered up to BBC4 music doc standard? We look for things we don’t know in their episodes on JOHNNY CASH’s relationship with Richard Nixon and the attempted murder of BOB MARLEY. The producers of House Of Cards stage a realistic Mars shot in THE FIRST – but is the myth-making too earnest? And Andrew gets all excited about a lost gem of comic books from the late 2000AD artist CARLOS EZQUERRA, a spaghetti western for kids called El Mestizo. Special guests...
127: Podcast #127: The Prodigy, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Berlin Station
November 03, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourTHE 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...
126: Podcast #126: Neil Tennant’s lyrics, Bobby Gillespie vs Andrew Neil, Robyn, Julia Davis’s Sally4Ever
October 27, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourThis 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 ...