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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166: Daisy Age hip hop, Definitely Maybe in the...
TRIBAL 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...
58 min
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165: Jeremy Deller’s rave documentary, Sky’s Eu...
ONLY 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 ‘Eup...
63 min
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164: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Ride, best ...
This 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 mos...
61 min
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163: Mick Houghton's tales of pop excess, The G...
This 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 Bu...
77 min
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162: Rave retro art, Blood Orange, Britpop cine...
This 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...
65 min
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161: Midsommar, albums for summer, Steven Banno...
This 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 ...
68 min
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160: WARP Records at 30, Catch-22, Thom Yorke
This 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 succes...
69 min
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159: Glastonbury 2019: Live and Lo-Fi
Relive 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 brin...
28 min
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158: Hot Chip, horror satire In Fabric, Mark Ro...
We 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 Hanna...
62 min
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157: Killing Eve S2, Prince Originals, I Am Mot...
On 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 in...
60 min
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156: Booksmart movie, Liam Gallagher biopic, Di...
This 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 d...
62 min
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155: Memoirs of a Britpop Machiavelli, Elton’s ...
On 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 ...
53 min
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154: Amyl & The Sniffers, The Virtues on C4, Fl...
On 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...
59 min
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153: Rave movie BEATS, What We Do In The Shadow...
This 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-wa...
64 min
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152: BEASTIE BOYS‘ ill Communication is 25, Che...
RADIATION 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](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0593076834?pf_rd_p=330fbd82-d4fe-42e5-9c16-d4b886747c64&pf_rd...
54 min
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151: AVENGERS: ENDGAME, Soft Cell’s Dave Ball, ...
It’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 AST...
75 min
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150: Why LIZZO is large and in charge, Chimeric...
On 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 ...
54 min
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149: SLADE streem the noize on Spotify, Game of...
We’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...
51 min
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148: Being Frank Sidebottom movie, Andy Gill of...
On 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 Pattend...
61 min
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147: BIGMOUTH EXTRA: Scenes from Keith Flint’s ...
The 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, fa...
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146: Scott Walker, Us movie, Mötley Crüe’s The ...
On 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...
58 min
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145: Edwyn Collins, New York voguing drama, the...
On 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 ...
58 min
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144: Terry Hall and David Quantick on Ricky Ger...
It’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 a...
60 min
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143: Keith Prodigy, Captain Marvel, Fleabag, Sp...
This 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 MA...
60 min
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142: Alan Partridge, Sleaford Mods, Get Out and...
This 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 w...
54 min