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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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This week on the smart pop culture podcast: David Tennant plays “acid Marxist” psychotherapist RD Laing in ‘Mad To Be Normal’. Marvel Comics’ have a Gerald Ratner moment regarding non-white-male superheroes. Future Islands’ oddball synthpop. And, is it time to stop moaning and learn to love Jamiroquai? Special guests Julia Raeside and Ali Catterall help us sort it all out. Click to listen!
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This week: Our special guests Jude Rogers of The Guardian and Ian Gittins tackle ART SEX MUSIC – the astonishing new autobiography of Throbbing Gristle's Cosey Fanni Tutti – plus new albums from Goldfrapp and British Sea Power and more. Click to listen. And don't forget you can listen to all the tracks played on the show in full by visiting our Spotify playlist
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Special guests Michael Hogan (Guardian and Telegraph) and Siân Pattenden join Andrew and Matt to look at Ben Wheatley’s gun-crazy new movie ‘Free Fire’, the first new Jesus And Mary Chain album in 19 years, and BBC2’s dark comedy series ‘Inside No.9’. Click to play!
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We expose our chest hair to salute the glory of The BEE GEES – who made their first British recordings exactly 50 years ago – and step warily into the dojo with MARVEL’S IRON FIST, new on Netflix. Plus guests Peter Paphides and The Guardian's Michael Hann on new music by Spoon and whether Anohni is the opposite of a guilty pleasure. Click to stream now – or go here to download: http://po.st/y9wbZs
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Dude, where's my country? Guests Laura Barton (The Guardian, R4) and Andrew Mueller (Monocle, Melody Maker) join Andrew and Matt to dissect Laura Marling’s new album, marvel at the baffling success of The Shires, and look at the last episode of BBC4’s People’s History Of Pop. Click to stream now – or see below for download link.
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Who's got the best handle on Modern Britain Today: the duo that Noel Gallagher compared to Viz Comic's Brown Bottle or grime don Stormzy? Can computers predict hit songs? And what are the most boring conversation topics in all pop? Special guests Andrew Male of Mojo and Mark Hooper of Hole & Corner magazine join Matt and Andrew to sort it all out. Click to listen!
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Special guests Strictly Kev AKA DJ Food of Ninja Tune plus sport and music writer Matt Allen join Andrew and Matt in the Bigmouth Command Module. This week: Happy Birthday to 2000AD, The Magnetic Fields’ ‘50 Song Memoir’ and BBC1’s SS-GB. Plus Shriekback, Sir Anthony Beevor’s Desert Island Discs and Alan Moore “singing”. Click to listen!
And remember you can hear tracks on this podcast in full on our Editors’ Recommendations Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/11102554473/playlist/2Z1nBHE2qqEpX1SGRMcSkS
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Is ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ more realistic than Christopher Nolan’s batfilms? What’s the worst onstage banter? Does the new series of ‘Girls’ make any sense if you haven’t seen the rest of it? Guests Ali Catterall of The Guardian and Justin Quirk of AskMen.com join Andrew and Matt to thrash it all out. Click to listen – and don't forget, to listen to the tracks on this podcast in full, visit our Editors’ Recommendations playlist on Spotify… https://open.spotify.com/user/11102554473/playlist/2Z1nBHE2qqEpX1SGRMcSkS
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Guests Joe Muggs of Mixmag and Anthony Teasdale of Umbrella magazine join Matt and Andrew to discuss a 21st Century take on Kunta Kinte, the late cosmic soul man David Axelrod, and the debut album by Sampha, the Frank Ocean of Cricklewood. Click to play, or see links on the right to subscribe…
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So what actually happens to Renton, Spud, Begbie and Sick Boy – and does it work as a movie? Miranda Sawyer of The Observer, Will Hodgkinson of The Times, Matt and Andrew go right round the Edinburgh u-bend on T2. Warning: don't listen unless you've seen the film.
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