Before They Knew Better with DIY Magazine

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Welcome back to the second season of Before They Knew Better, and we're kicking off round two with World Famous Irish Pop Star (her words, which we fully endorse)... CMAT! As anyone aware of CMAT will know, she's about the best value conversation in the modern music game, and this chat was no different. We cover her teenage stint creating Paul McCartney cartoons online; the genuinely heartwarming tale of how Bombay Bicycle Club changed her musical career trajectory, her second career choice (World Famous Fashion Designer), and about a million other truly entertaining tangents. We love CMAT and we hope you love the return of this podcast. Enjoy!

Music: Matt Sessions

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On the first episode of 2024 and the final instalment of Before They Knew Better's first season, Yard Act's James Smith joins us for a trip down memory lane featuring peak era Beckham, cartoon worship and an unfortunate incident that got him banned from GCSE art class. They might be asking 'Where's My Utopia?' on forthcoming Album Two, but maybe the answer all along was in a front room in '00s Warrington with a load of Power Pods. Enjoy!

DIY magazine is UK-based music platform celebrating alternative music & DIY culture, bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.

You can follow us online, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) and Youtube and you can get your copy of our monthly magazine from our online shop: shop.diymag.com

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On the last Before They Knew Better of the year, Justin Young gives us window into his musical youth. Spoiler alert: it's not what you might expect from The Vaccines! From his formative pop-punk phase through the many and various listening stages that shaped him, it's a window back to a sweatband-wearing, Power Violence-playing kid from The New Forest who grew up into one of indie rock's most charming frontmen. Enjoy!

DIY magazine is UK-based music platform celebrating alternative music & DIY culture, bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.

You can follow us online, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) and Youtube and you can get your copy of our monthly magazine from our online shop: shop.diymag.com

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This week on Before They Knew Better, technicolour alt-pop star Remi Wolf joins us for a ride through easily the most eventful childhood we've had on the series so far. What were you doing with your life when you were 13? Watching The Simpsons, avoiding your homework? Well Remi was hurtling down a mountain, competing in the Junior Olympics before switching tack to become a world-famous musician. Makes you think, doesn't it. Enjoy!

DIY magazine is UK-based music platform celebrating alternative music & DIY culture, bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.

You can follow us online, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) and Youtube and you can get your copy of our monthly magazine from our online shop: shop.diymag.com

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Tick tick... boom! On this week's episode of the podcast, we're joined by bona fide rock'n'roll royalty in the sharp-suited shape of The Hives' frontman Howlin' Pelle Almqvist! 

Fresh from a massive year releasing their first album in a decade, 'The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons', and supporting a little band called Arctic Monkeys around the stadiums of Europe, Pelle digs back into his early days as a young punk in Sweden, from evading the police throwing guerrilla gigs to learning AC/DC on a Flying V. Also shout out to the nurse called Troll who patched him up in hospital recently... Enjoy!

DIY magazine is UK-based music platform celebrating alternative music & DIY culture, bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.

You can follow us online, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) and Youtube and you can get your copy of our monthly magazine from our online shop: shop.diymag.com

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In this week's episode, the podcast king himself James Acaster joins us to chat all things youth and young manhood. Wondering why he's dressed up as Carmen Miranda in the pic? All will be revealed, alongside some top drawer tales of terrible mixtape-making and his first forays onto the stage. Enjoy!

DIY magazine is UK-based music platform celebrating alternative music & DIY culture, bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.

You can follow us online, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) and Youtube and you can get your copy of our monthly magazine from our online shop: shop.diymag.com

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On the latest episode of Before They Knew Better, we're joined by almost certainly the coolest ukulele-toter in alternative pop, mxmtoon! From her first ever school performances as part of the innovatively-titled Lunchtime Rock Band A (playing in front of Actual Billie Joe Armstrong!!!) to starring on a poster with Bill Nye The Science Guy and trying to learn Oasis on a cello, we've got celeb anecdotes and dorky home confessions coming out the wazoo on this one. Enjoy!

DIY magazine is UK-based music platform celebrating alternative music & DIY culture, bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.

You can follow us online, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) and Youtube and you can get your copy of our monthly magazine from our online shop: shop.diymag.com

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In this week’s episode of Before They Knew Better, the one and only Killer Mike joins us fresh from receiving a whopping three GRAMMY nominations to reminisce on his childhood in Atlanta, before become a bona fide rap legend. From his first teenage community activism groups, to his lifelong love of muscle cars, via some choice cartoon recommendations, it’s truly a conversation of many colours. Enjoy!

DIY magazine is UK-based music platform celebrating alternative music & DIY culture, bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.

You can follow us online, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) and Youtube and you can get your copy of our monthly magazine from our online shop: shop.diymag.com

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On the latest episode of Before They Knew Better, we speak to multi-hyphenate musician/ podcaster/ all round good egg Felix White (86TVs, The Maccabees, Tailenders) about his music obsessive youth, from fanboying over Liam Gallagher on a Eurostar to his Chili Peppers one-song mixtape. There’s also some very wholesome stories about growing up and going to school with Jessie Ware, cos two music ledges are better than one. Enjoy!

DIY magazine is UK-based music platform celebrating alternative music & DIY culture, bringing you music news, reviews, features, interviews and more.

You can follow us online, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) and Youtube and you can get your copy of our monthly magazine from our online shop: shop.diymag.com

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