Bigmouth

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 incendiary first season and are the carpings of the critics unfounded? PURPLE PATCH: The posthumous Prince compilation ‘Originals’ is streaming on Tidal now and released on June 21. What do we make of these songs that the late Imp of the Perverse gave to other artists? FROM HERE TO MATERNITY: Netflix’s latest lo-fi sci-fi movie I Am Mother gives us a girl raised by a motherly droid (Ma-2D2?). Does it have interesting things to say about nature, nurture and the love between motherboard and child? All this and more.

Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black at Soho Radio. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production. 

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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 dad for it. But is it cosmetic exercise? And FIGHT THE POWER (POINT): Does The Divine Comedy’s satirical workplace album Office Politics meet its KPIs going forward in this space? We’ll shake the tree and loop you in once we’ve bottomed this one out with a 360º perspective, yeah?

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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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 epic pop moment. DWIGHT HERE, DWIGHT NOW: Does Rocketman, the “musical fantasy” of Elton John’s life story, entertain as thoroughly as it settles Sir Elt’s score of grudges? RICH PICKINGS: Is Richard Hawley now making the Morrissey records it’s OK to like? And a whole lot more too. 

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Elsie Bath at Soho Radio, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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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 POCUS – What on earth is going on with cosmic space-jazz funk-hop auteur Flying Lotus’s latest album? Special guests MICHAEL HANN of The Guardian and ANTHONY TEASDALE, the most Balearic man from West Lancashire, join us to sort it all out. 

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Elsie Bath, recorded by Tom Bullen at Air Edel, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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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-wall vampire houseshare movie What We Do In The Shadows match the original? And our two guests Michael Hogan of the Telegraph and NME and Select veteran Lucy O’Brien sell us on the virtues of the albums that only they like. 

Please enjoy your weekly recommended intake of pop culture blather, produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black, recorded by Tom Bullen at Air Edel, London. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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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 instead? HOUSE OF HOROWITZ: How the Beastie Boys’ rap-funk-jazz monster ‘ill Communication’ remade the 90s. TEENAGE LOBOTOMY: The bleak, comic and heartbreaking life of the contemporary American teenager in new independent drama-comedy ‘Eighth Grade’. And, naturally, a whole lot more.

Music business journo and U2 fanatic EAMONN FORDE and Face and Arena mag veteran MARK HOOPER join us for our latest rummage in the bran tub of pop. 

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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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 ASTON stick around as we look at BBC2’s THE LOOMING TOWER – can a doggedly factual 9/11 intelligence drama work and how soon is too soon? – and check out the fourth album by well-heeled New York ethnomusicologists VAMPIRE WEEKEND.

And then it’s spoiler time as geek squad members LINDA MARRIC and MICHAEL MORAN join us to dissect AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Who lives? Who dies? What did it all mean? All will be revealed in a conversation that you definitely should NOT listen to unless you’ve already seen the movie.

What do you mean, you haven’t already seen the movie…?

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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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 personality? Can C4’s continent-spanning marquee drama CHIMERICA spin fake news, the purpose of journalism, geopolitics and Wham!’s visit to China into a coherent image of the way the world is right now? And can electro-pagan Scouse trio STEALING SHEEP negotiate the tricky step up to the big time?

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Elsie Bath. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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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 antipodean antics of KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, the pop Hawkwind we didn’t know we needed. Pop culture journo and Throneshead Michael Moran joins us as special guest. 

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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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 Pattenden and Andrew Harrison to debate the Brexit-blocking beats of the new CHEMICAL BROTHERS album, the surprising pathos of BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY and whether BILLIE EILISH is appropriate for impressionable older listeners. As ever, your leisure is our pleasure. 

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Elsie Bath. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. 

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