The 2nd part of our North East excursion sees us travel to The Cluny to chat with Paul Smith from Maximo Park. 

The first part of our trip to the North East. We head to Sunderland to visit Pop Recs and catch up with Frankie and Dave from Frankie and the Heartstrings.

We caught up with Tom Fleming on his first UK tour as 'One True Pairing'

Faith from PINS joins us in the basement of the Manchester venue YES. We talk PINS new record, motherhood, Iggy, The Mercury Prize and where you can get the best 'sympathy chip'.

This week we are joined by one of my favourite  singer/songwriters/guitarist Katie Harkin. We talk Leeds Festival experiences, Katie's new album and what exactly is a 'Chuckie Lodge'

A mini episode for you this week. We chew the Mercury Prize fat and answer your stupid questions.

We welcome Jon from Everything Everything to talk about the new EE album, Manchester Music, Twitter and who is Jeremy's stand in for their Latitude show.

Here's a little extra slice of the Mike Vennart Podcast.

This week we have a Mike Vennart from Manchester progstars 'Oceansize' on the show. We talk Biffy Clyro, Glastonbury, Pledge Music and more....

WE ARE BACK (again). In our new home, at the back of my garden and the chip chat continues... We talk about Rob's trip to Japan, Slow Club, The National, being trolled by a Morrisey tribute act, Killdren, another stupid question and the poutine at Brewski