Today we’re speaking to Tom - bassist, football fan, and all round very nice chap. You may know him from the bands Attack! Vipers!, Personal Best, & Grand-Pop. Alex and Lucy have known him for ages and neither of us are quite sure when or how we even met him, but he’s been a devotee of the podcast since the beginning. He has a special accolade which is he emailed us immediately after the first episode to express how much he loved the Modern Life Is Worf pun! Tom, we are so grateful that you joined us for an evening, it was bloody lovely.

Conversation includes but is not limited to:

And of course Attack! Vipers!, Grand-pop, Personal Best, and Seven Arrows In Your Bastard Heart <3 

Thanks to Simon for mastering this episode! And apologies for the audio - it was all a bit tricky.

Today we're talking with Simon: Self diagnosed sci fi fan, mender, aspiring space cowboy of south east London and truly a jack of pretty much all trades (check out his youtube! https://youtube.com/@toomanyprojects). As usual we talk about all sorts of everything and our conversation is entirely random, PLUS there's not only a great pitch but a special bonus section. WHAM.

Some excellent conversational threads especially on pub gigs, collective leadership, the Soviet union, and the best noises in Trek. Further conversation includes but is not limited to:

Also mentioned:

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Today is a deep dive/info-dump special with Lucy talking about their special interest area: soil and compost. How long can you stay awake for? 

Discussions covering but not limited to:

Solar punk, soil punk, and a... secret third thing

Referenced:

Episode 11: Hotter Than The Sun (with Allan) from Joyce, Secondary Education, Bowers and the Worst of Times (https://secondaryeducation.bandcamp.com/).

Join us as we talk to Allan: singer, songwriter, drummer, touring musician, stage manager and production professional, star trek punk, and top vegan.

Our chat covers but is not limited to:

We talk over each other A LOT in this episode so if chaos ain’t your thing… Well, you’ve been warned.

Bands, genres, and people mentioned in this episode:

Join Alex and Lucy as they speak to academic, comedian, writer, science communicator, speed puzzler, SETI champ, digital rights advocate, and entirely approachable and friendly public speaker Dr Hannah Little.

Among other things, this episode covers: Vulcan nannies, the beauty of theramins, tuning the human ear to hear other cultures, the best music for speed puzzling, Martian poetry, the ills of anthropocentrism, science fiction as professional development, the power of storytelling, Dita Von Teese singularities, why we should bring back the bumflap, and the beauty in puzzles of communication.

This episode is a big love letter to friendship. We promise it's not vomit-inducing (OK, we can't promise that, but we did try).

It covers, among other things:

It also does a breathless and poorly-recorded roundup of the Destination: Star Trek convention we went to recently! Where we saw a bunch of awesome Trek fans and cast, including Martin Quinn, Andre Dae Kim, Chase Masterson, and Connor Trinneer. 

Artists, bands, and authors mentioned in this episode:

Join Alex and Lucy as they chat with David (Ageless Oblivion, Employed to Serve, Odoacer) about dinosaurs, the blood supply of feathers, sentient holonovel characters, socially responsible moshing, Picard's Starfleet Hinge profile, the GOAT movie soundtrack, and what makes grey plastic so disgustingly addictive.

Bands mentioned on this episode include Jane's Addiction, NOFX, Throats, Year of no Light, Nile, Ancient Lights, Dinomania, Empress, Man Is The Bastard, Soundgarden, Downfall of Gaia, From Ashes Rise, and many many more! ❤️

Join Lucy and Alex as they explore Star Trek and DIY punk music through the eyes of father, part-time violinist, and professional-tier shower taker, Mo. Journey through conversations including but not limited to: the power of fraudulent crumpets, explaining warp nacelles to toddlers, quantum mysticism, aphantasia, Ashton Kutcher's surprising best work, and potentially the darkest secret of Star Trek we've all missed.

Join Alex and Lucy as they catch up with podcaster, musician, and Trek fan Hugo Powell. Explore the worlds of the very literal shitty patriarchy, why you never catch a Starfleet ship in the galactic centre, the secret to Ferengi gender, the "dad float", and what you can't control about gorillas.

Alex and Lucy talk with Alice Hadland about the things we do for thrash bands, why people don't do Trek stand up, the terrible fate of reindeer robots, what Spock does at a stitch and bitch, and one specific exception to ACAB.