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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125: Podcast #125: Cold War Steve, Neneh Cherry, St Vincent, Apostle on Netflix
October 20, 2018 06:17 - 59 minutesTwitter 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. Supp...
124: Podcast #124: Doctor Who, John Grant, Primal Scream in Memphis
October 13, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour‘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 Gua...
123: Podcast #123: Bowie’s 80s, Delia Derbyshire’s radiophonic secrets, Cat Power and more
October 06, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourThe 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 Myt...
122: Podcast #122: Killing Eve, Chic, Maniac and more with guest Paul Morley
September 29, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourOn 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 o...
121: Podcast #121: Christine & The Queens, Madonna, Suede and more
September 22, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourIt’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...
120: Podcast #120: Special guests ORBITAL on their life in rave and new album MONSTERS EXIST
September 15, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourHands 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? An...
119: Podcast #119: Idris Elba’s Yardie, Jungle, Bodyguard on BBC1
September 08, 2018 06:00 - 56 minutesOn 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...
118: Podcast #118: Soft Cell box set, Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, Succession on Sky
September 01, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourLURING 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 o...
117: Podcast #117: Disenchantment, Blood Orange, The Man From Mo’Wax
August 25, 2018 06:12 - 50 minutesELF’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 t...
116: Podcast #116: The Meg, Boards Of Canada, REM and more
August 18, 2018 06:00 - 59 minutesSHARK 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...
115: Podcast #115: Nuts In May, Jake Shears, Ant-Man & The Wasp
August 11, 2018 06:00 - 53 minutesGO 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...
114: Podcast #114: Robin Williams’ deranged life, Underworld vs Iggy Pop, Generation Wealth
August 04, 2018 06:00 - 48 minutesThis 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 ma...
113: Podcast #113: The secret history of electronic music, Roy Carr’s brilliant NME tapes and more
July 28, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourAs 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 c...
112: Podcast #112: Who Is America? Picnic At Hanging Rock, Lotic, summer tunes
July 21, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourWe’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 artist...
111: Podcast #111: Duran Duran, Public Image Ltd, Captain America and more with Katie Puckrik and Ralph Moore
July 07, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourOn 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 the...
110: Podcast #110: ANNE DUDLEY of Art Of Noise in the studio plus Millie Jackson, summer tunes and more
June 30, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourOh 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 HARRI...
109: Podcast #109: Lost Vagueness Glastonbury movie, Public Enemy, The The film and more
June 23, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourOn 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. Produce...
108: Podcast #108: Johnny Marr, Microdisney, Fantastic Negrito, Get Shorty on Sky and more
June 16, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourOn 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...
107: Podcast #107: Studio 54 documentary, Kanye West, Lily Allen and more…
June 09, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourThis 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 –...
106: Podcast #106: Han Solo, Generation Grime, Paris ’68 in pop and more
June 02, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourWOOKIEE 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 ...
105: Podcast #105: Madness biopic, Half Man Half Biscuit, zombies on Netflix and more…
May 26, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourGuests 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 ...
104: Podcast #104: Arctic Monkeys, Patrick Melrose, Viv Albertine, Spotify.
May 19, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourIs 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...
103: Podcast #103: Kraftwerk’s Man-Machine is 40, Beach House, DJ Koze, Jon Hopkins, The Rain
May 12, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourWhere 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 Har...
102: Podcast #102: Infinity War with spoilers, Janelle Monae, HBO’s Barry, Too Slow To Disco Brasil
May 05, 2018 06:00 - 1 hourIt’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 d...
101: Podcast #101: Michael Smiley, the glory days of raving, Sting & Shaggy and more
April 28, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourOn 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 Patre...
100: Podcast #100! Simon Day, Charley’s War, Juliana Hatfield, Chas & Dave, Andrew Collins and more…
April 21, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourFor 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 ...
99: Podcast #99: The City And The City, Confidence Man, the greatest ten seconds in pop
April 14, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourThis 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 i...
99: Podcast #99: The City And The City, Confidence Man, the greatest ten seconds in pop
April 14, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThis 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...
98: Podcast #98: David Hepworth on his elegy for the rock star plus Eels, Idris Elba
April 07, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourThis 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 th...
98: Podcast #98: David Hepworth on his elegy for the rock star plus Eels, Idris Elba
April 07, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBThis 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 ...
97: Podcast #97: Cunk on Britain, Suede, record shops book
March 31, 2018 07:00 - 1 hourThis 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...
96: Podcast #96: Unsane, Pulp’s This Is Hardcore at 20, Jake Shears book
March 24, 2018 08:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBOn 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 Podm...
96: Podcast #96: Unsane, Pulp’s This Is Hardcore at 20, Jake Shears book
March 24, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourOn 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 Podmast...
95: Podcast #95: Annihilation, David Byrne, MFSB, tracking down Steve Ditko
March 17, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourOn 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 ...
94: Podcast #94: Big Lebowski at 20, Tracey Thorn, Tribe Called Quest doc
March 10, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourThis 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 o...
93: Podcast #93: Janelle Monáe, Collateral, Go-Kart Mozart and more
March 03, 2018 11:16 - 1 hourCan 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 priv...
92: Podcast #92: Shape Of Water, Oscar tips, Jonathan Wilson, our worst gigs
February 24, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourUnderwater 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 li...
91: Podcast #91: Black Panther, I Tonya, U.S. Girls, Tin Machine and more
February 17, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourMarvel’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-maligne...
90: Podcast #90: Roxy Music’s debut, Bowie drama, Joan As Police Woman, The Good Place
February 10, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourIt’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 ...
89: Podcast #89: Mark E. Smith tribute plus Franz Ferdinand
February 03, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourDRINK 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 ...
88: Podcast #88: REMAINIACS crossover featuring Britannia, Django Django, Alan Moore
January 27, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourTwo 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 crim...
87: Podcast #87: Three Billboards, The Moonlandingz, Derry Girls and more
January 20, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourIs bleak comic thriller THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI as good as everyone’s saying? And what about the criticism that it doesn’t care about its black characters? Plus – a chance to catch up on The Moonlandingz’ mesmeric disgusto-pop, and two glimpses into the world of the modern teenager with the black humour of The End Of The F**king World and C4’s bravura situation BOMBedy Derry Girls. Guests SIAN PATTENDEN and JUDE ROGERS tell Matt and Andrew what’s what. Click here to listen...
86: Podcast #86: McMafia, Johnny Cash at Folsom and the albums nobody else likes
January 13, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourWhat were you doing 50 years ago this week? Johnny Cash was about to play to a room full of murderers and robbers at Folsom Prison. Our guests MIRANDA SAWYER and MATT ALLEN wonder whether this – and not the old guy on Rick Rubin’s porch – is the real Cash. Plus the BBC’s crime epic McMafia, and the albums we love, but nobody else does. All on the pop culture podcast for the smart timewaster. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod...
85: Podcast #85: Feud: Joan & Bette, Bowie at Hansa, Shame with London Readers Wifes
January 06, 2018 08:00 - 1 hourIt’s a right royal rave-up as Bigmouth welcomes DJ legends Mark Wood and Mark “Jelly” Johnstone AKA the LONDON READERS WIFES (never Wives), hosts of the capital’s best night out, DUCKIE at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. The chaps join Andrew and Matt to discuss BBC2’s bravura “hagsploitation” drama ‘Feud: Joan & Bette’, Sky Arts’ history of Berlin’s Hansa Studios, the debut album by south London noise urchins Shame… and why pop is always better than rock. Click here to listen now or subscribe a...
84: Podcast #84: More Best of 2017 inc. Handmaid’s Tale, Death Of Stalin, Sparks!
December 23, 2017 08:00 - 1 hourOur end-of-year round-up reaches a festive crescendo with guests ANNA FIELDING of Stylist magazine and EAMONN FORDE of The Guardian and Q on what they liked best this year. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’! Sparks! Kelela! ‘The Death Of Stalin!’ The Oreilles! Plus Matt Hall finally gets to Have His Say about his own favourites of the year. We’re back with the regular show on Sat 6 Jan – so have a lovely Christmas and an even lovelier New Year. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/Bigmo...
83: Podcast #83: The best of 2017 inc St Vincent, LCD Soundsystem, Dunkirk and more
December 16, 2017 08:00 - 1 hourIt’s end-of-term! Special guests MARK HOOPER of Hole & Corner magazine and Times/Rolling Stone/Guardian journalist SOPHIE HARRIS bring in the records, films and other stuff that’s wowed them in 2017. Which movies changed the way we think? Which great records did you miss? And how will Andrew squeeze some comics in at the last minute? There’s only one way to find out… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
82: Podcast #82: Music video history, Chris Heath, Disaster Artist
December 09, 2017 08:00 - 1 hourThe doyen of pop biography CHRIS HEATH drops into the Bigmouth bunker to talk about his Robbie Williams fly-on-the-wall epic book ‘Reveal’ and the art of reporting what celebs think you’re not noticing. Plus Chris and special guest NADIA SHIREEN talk over The Disaster Artist, a huge new DVD box set covering the entire history of British pop video, and the “swingorilliant” days of “classic” Smash Hits. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BigmouthiTunes See acast.com/privacy...
81: Podcast #81: Post-punk comp, She’s Gotta Have It, Miguel and more
December 02, 2017 08:34 - 1 hourThis week on Britain’s most polymathic pop podcast, special guests Richard Benson and Kate Hutchinson don the Army & Navy raincoats of destiny for ‘To The Outside Of Everything: A Story of UK Post-Punk 1977-1981’. Plus: Spike Lee remakes ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ for Netflix. Is Miguel the new Prince? And is the David Niven classic ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’ the most stiff-upper-lip movie ever made? Andrew and Matt are on hand to operate the escalator to black and white heaven. See acast.com/pr...
80: Podcast #80: Björk, Noel Gallagher, Gregory Porter, Laura Mvula
November 25, 2017 08:42 - 1 hourNew albums from Björk and Noel Gallagher, Gregory Porter's TV series on singers and Laura Mvula's Radio 2 Gospel show are all discussed by author ANDY MILLER and pork aficionado MICHAEL HANN. They join Matt Hall and special guest presenter Laura Barton in the pod. Oh, and if anyone wants Michael to review trifle for them, he can be contacted via @Big_MouthUK. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
79: Podcast #79: Quietus podclash inc. The Face retro, Arab funk & more
November 18, 2017 08:00 - 1 hourIt’s Bigmouth vs. much-loved weirdo music outlet The Quietus in our first Podclash. JOHN DORAN and ANNA WOOD of The Quietus join Andrew and Matt to talk about new magazine memoir ‘The Story Of The Face’, discover vintage Arabic dance music, review BBC4’s documentary on Cambridge spy Guy Burgess – and tell us what “dungeonsynth” and “boiling the goat” mean. Intrigued? You will be. Visit http://thequietus.com for your Ordnance Survey of music’s outer limits. See acast.com/privacy for privacy ...