Bigmouth
Clever 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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Flaming Lips, I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, Tw...
On this week’s bloody assizes of pop culture… Does THE FLAMING LIPS’ new album American Head constitute the headstone of psychedelic culture or a state of the nation rallying cry to let your freak flag fly? Can Maisie ‘Game Of Thrones’ Williams cut it ...
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Guest NITIN SAWHNEY on Tenet, Disclosure, Nubya...
Ultra-prolific gene-splicer of all musics Asian, Anglo and beyond Nitin Sawhney joins Will Hodgkinson of The Times plus Siân and Andrew for this week’s pop culture summit.WELCOME TO THE PALINDROME: Does Christopher Nolan’s mind-pretzeling Tenet make...
67 min
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Lovecraft Country, Lemon Twigs, Erasure, Projec...
The weekend starts early! Just! Under the pop culture microscope this week… - H.P. SOURCE – Sky/HBO’s Lovecraft Country: here’s that “Jim Crow-era American racism meets extra dimensional elder gods” mash-up you were looking for. But is it any...
62 min
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Diane Morgan’s MANDY, Cut Copy, Yes God Yes
This week on pop culture’s premier inquisition… - I’M MANDY, TRY ME: Does Diane Morgan’s new mini-series MANDY hit the highs of Philomena Cunk? - CHILL BY SOUTH: Melbourne electro gadabouts Cut Copy go ambient on new sixth album Freeze, Melt. Will it...
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The Real Thing doc on BBC4, Fontaines DC, Peanu...
This week on the premier pop-probing podcast… - MERSEY, MERSEY ME: The Real Thing, the 4-piece Marvin Gaye of Liverpool 8, finally get their props on a new BBC4 documentary. What do we think? - DUBLIN UP: Fontaines DC are this year’s Great New Guit...
64 min
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Mrs America, Sylvie Simmons, Laurel Canyon on S...
Mojo mag contributing editor SYLVIE SIMMONS dials in from San Francisco to tell us about her new ukulele-powered album Blue On Blue and talk over this week’s pop culture stuff with fellow guest, award-winning podcaster KATE HUTCHINSON: &nb...
66 min
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Jarvis Cocker, 2000AD creator Pat Mills, Warrio...
Attention, earthlets! 2000AD comic creator Pat Mills joins us to talk about the romance of violence and anarchy for teenage delinquents plus his new comic Spacewarp. Plus… - COCKER THE NORTH: Is Jarvis growing old gracefully with his new band Jarv Is…...
72 min
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The Plot Against America, The Streets, Herzog’s...
It couldn’t happen here… right? Philip Roth’s counterfactual of a fascist USA The Plot Against America gets a TV treatment from the team behind The Wire. The Streets return with None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive – will a lachrymose...
64 min
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Keith Haring on BBC2, Nadine Shah, Arca, Nic Ro...
Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson and Jude Rogers of The Guardian and New Statesman join us for this week’s bloody assizes of pop culture. Does the BBC’s Arena documentary Keith Haring: Street Art Boy finally do justice to the wild style graffiti artists of...
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Paul Weller’s masterpiece, Wu Tang Clan documen...
Lockdown has given Paul Weller longer trog-hair than we’ve ever seen… but is 15th album On Sunset his actual prog-mod masterpiece? Wu Tang Clan documentary Of Mics And Men mesmerises our panel of ageing B-Boys and B-Girl. And we probe The Vast Of Night...
66 min
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I May Destroy You, Jehnny Beth, Da 5 Bloods
Is BBC1’s all-encompassing comedy drama of race, class, cities and, yes, sexual assault I May Destroy You as good as everyone’s saying? A pulsating polysexual solo debut arrives from Jehnny Beth of Savages while another frontperson-without-portfolio, e...
67 min
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McMillion$, Run The Jewels, Girlhood
This week in the Inner Sanctum of pop culture: Will McDonalds heist documentary McMillion$ supersize your evenings in? And which of its cast of oddballs and nutcases deserve their own spin-off? Run The Jewels’ fourth album lands in a none-more-timely f...
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Madness’s autobiography, Space Force on Sky, Er...
This week in the Cell Block 9 of pop culture: Madness’s hair-raisingly criminal and violent joint autobiography Before We Was We is out in paperback, which is as good a reason as any to revisit it. Was Steve Carell wise to base an entire big-bucks sitc...
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Tim Burgess, Snowpiercer on Netflix, cult movie...
This week on the lockdown get-down of pop culture: Does Tim Burgess’s new LP I Love The New Sky cement his position as Captain Cheer-up of the COVID calamity? Netflix turn Bong Joon-Ho’s dystopian weird-out Snowpiercer into a series. Is this a good ide...
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White Lines on Netflix, Charli XCX, Idles, Scor...
Doyen of US pop journalist David Keeps of Star Hits and Details magazines fame dials from faraway Phoenix, Arizona to join Mark “Arena/The Face” Hooper, Siân and Andrew for this week’s bloody assizes of entertainment. In the dock: Netflix’s uncommonly ...
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Special guest BAXTER DURY plus Sparks, Jarvis, ...
We loved his new album The Night Chancers and now we welcome Baxter Dury plus guest Hannah Verdier of The Guardian to this week’s conference call of pop. On the agenda: The new Sparks album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip! Do they still have it in their *che...
63 min
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Magnetic Fields, Sidney Lumet’s Network, Fiona ...
Will Quickies, an album of VERY short songs by maudlin mandolin merchants The Magnetic Fields, have your knees a-tremble? What about that Fiona Apple album, eh? Is Ryan ‘Glee’ Murphy’s Netflix extravaganza Hollywood quite the turkey that every...
74 min
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Beastie Boys Story, Pretenders, Vivarium
Does Beastie Boys Story, MCA and Ad-Rock’s hip hop TED talk, expand our knowledge of their journey from frat pack to woke MCs? The new Pretenders album Hate For Sale – they’ve put the release back but we’re talking about it anyway. And SURREAL...
63 min
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Devs, Why Don’t You Just Die?, Plone, Mike Judg...
Who’s Zoomin’ who? Guests Joe ‘Mixmag’ Muggs and Jim ‘Jockey Slut’ Butler join Andrew and Siân for our first-ever LIVE ZOOM recording. On the agenda: Alex Garland’s paranoid tech fantasy Devs, the spectacularly bloody Russian comedy thriller Why Don’t ...
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Run, Ed O’Brien, Quibi
Is Sky’s new Phoebe Waller-Bridge “screwball tragedy” Run up there with Fleabag and Killing Eve? How Radiohead-y is the first solo album by their guitarist Ed O’Brien? And would you watch US TV shows with titles like Murder House Flip in 8-minute burst...
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John Niven on his new novel plus Kidding on Sky...
With all the quality releases cancelled, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Duran Duran’s covers album ‘Thank You’, acclaimed as perhaps the worst album ever made. Plus slash’n’stab satirist John Niven on why his new book The F*ck It List might get h...
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The Strokes, Pen15, The Murder Of Nipsey Hussle
Combating isolation frustration across the nation… This week, The Strokes are back! Is this a good idea? Bravura and very near-the-knuckle middle school cringe comedy Pen15, in which two 31-year old actors play themselves as 13. And does BBC3’...
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The Mandalorian, Tiger King, Ren Harvieu
Remotely-recorded for your safety and comfort… Disney+ is here just in time for the Lockdown. Will spaghetti Star Wars western The Mandalorian justify your hard-earned Imperial credits? Big cat murder mystery cult saga Tiger King on Netflix: h...
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Lockdown hoedowns, Baxter Dury, Eel Pie Island doc
Excuse our sound quality… We’re all indoors for the foreseeable future, so you might as well enjoy the good stuff. In our first hygienic, remotely-recorded podcast guests Eamonn Forde (Guardian) and Martin Aston (MOJO) join Andrew and Siân to ...
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Ready Steady Go! on BBC4, Color Out Of Space, N...
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE (even though it’s Saturday). As BBC4 dedicates a evening to The Story of Ready Steady Go! we ask just what it was that made the bob-haired Cathy McGowan modfest the platonic ideal of youth TV? Plus alien gross-out horror in a ne...
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