It’s the seventh episode of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. and we are smashing through the fourth wall as this week’s Fierce Panda podcast guest is…Simon Williams from Fierce Panda as he prepares to curate the Tonic Music parlour at Shiiine On festival later this week. Jed Morgans from Hideous Mink asks the questions while Simon sits in the hot spot of the sofa to gurgle softly about the highs of ELO and the Farmer’s Boys while merrily misremembering key facts about his own back furry back catalogue. Good times, people. Good times.

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Episode Six of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. has snuck in through the back door, glowering at the scatter cushions and casting a giant dark shadow over the hearth rug. Because this week’s fierce panda podcast finds Opus Kink singer Angus Rogers in full seething effect as he rattles through the tracks of his tears. With his band of skronking jazz post-punkas preparing to decimate the Electric Ballroom on November 7th the mighty frontman talks poetry, passion and passionately poetic farewells. Top lad.

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Episode Five of the florid Fierce Panda podcast Birth. School. ROCK! Death. crashes in through the conservatory door in the company of Jo Bevan from the mighty Desperate Journalist. Armed with a bionically glowering pre-post-punk catalogue, including current Fierce Panda album ‘No Hero’, the quartet hit the road this week, giving us a fine time for a compelling chat about high art, real indie and touring with total heroes with the DJ singer.

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The fourth forthright episode of the Birth. School. ROCK! Death. Panda Podcast brings forth learned musical student J. Willgoose, Esq. As driving force in Public Service Broadcasting he joins us on the release campaign for ‘Night Flight’, the remix companion to their ‘The Last Flight’ album, to talk instrumental glories, literal literary research and orchestral manoeuvres in the park.

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It’s episode three of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. and our guest is one Glenn Smyth (pronounced ‘Smith’), frontman in Brummie psych rock combo Solar Eyes. With their second album, ‘Live Freaky! Die Freaky!’, out right now and a UK tour occurring any minute in the future, the singer chats about hearing his music on Match of the Day, writing a concept record about escaping the clutches of the Manson Family and his great hometown love for ELO. Boy, he’s got the Birmingham Blues…  

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The second episode of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. brings Tim Wheeler and his five fruity song choices to the SO sofa. As Ash head to the stars, and indeed to the stores, with their excellent ‘Ad Astra’ album, the Northern Irish power punk popper spills the beans on breaking America in all the wrong ways and playing onstage with Coldplay at Wembley as well as ruminating over 30something years of ever-youthful melodic mayhem.

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Episode #1 of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. sees Louis Eliot, debonair driving force behind RIALTO, talk about life in a ‘90s band too louche for Britpop and lost on the musical margins for much of this century. Until that is the release of current Fierce Panda album ‘Neon & Ghost Signs’, a poignant return to Noirpop form which warranted a headline Scala show and a slew of springtime Supergrass supports. Louis’ own Birth. School. ROCK! Death journey lands just as Rialto tour with Louise Wener’s Sleeper. Lou, Lou electric Lou, in every sense…

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