In episode 87, Author Lucy Nichol (writer of The 27 Club, Parklife, & Girls To The Front, plus The Party To End All Parties & When Sally Killed Harry under the name Lucy Roth) to talk about Melody Maker's Gimme 5 tape from March 1994.

The tape's full tracklisting is -
1 – Kristin Hersh - Teeth (Live on SIgnal Radio)
2 - Pavement - Jam Kids
3 - The Jesus Lizard - Boiler Maker
4 - Senser - Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun (BBC Evening Session)
5 - Lemon Interupt (AKA Underworld) - Dirty

You can find Lucy's books at the following links (I've tried to use independent book shops wherever possible)
The Party To End All Parties - Lucy's latest book. A brilliant locked room crime thriller about a horrible hedonistic family (plus an awesome goat called Iggy Pop)
Girls To The Front - an utterly fantastic riot grrl influenced feminist revenge thriller.
The Twenty Seven Club - Lucy's debut novel, about friendship, mental health, and being a music fan in the 90s with a cameo from Senseless Things.
Parklife - the sequel to The Twenty Seven Club, following up with the same characters a year or so later, but this time dealing with addiction amongst the 90s music references.
Find links to Lucy's other books, writing, and social media here - https://linktr.ee/LucyNichol

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/925041-Various-Gimme-5

Host - Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc.

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In episode 86 Comedian, TV & Radio Presenter, & bloke off Tiktok answering questions about the UK Stand Up Comedy scene, Matt Richardson joins us to talk about Kerrang's Best of 2005 cd from November 2005.

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 – Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds
2 - Him - Rip Out The Wings Of A Butterfly
3 - Team Sleep - Our Ride To The Rectory
4 - Fall Out Boy - Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year
5 - Blink 182 - The Rock Show
6 - Green Day - St Jimmy (VH1 Storytellers Version)
7 - Alkaline Trio - Time To Waste
8 - Funeral For A Friend - All The Rage (Original Demo)
9 - Trivium - A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation (Edit)
10 - Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
11 - Rammstein - Benzin
12 - Every Time I Die - Kill The Music
13 - Arch Enemy - My Apocalypse
14 - Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
15 - Coheed And Cambria - Welcome Home (Single Edit)

You can find Matt's website at https://www.mattrichardsoncomedy.co.uk/ where you can find his tour dates, links to his youtube, tiktok, & other social media pages, and details about his podcast "I Am Prime Minister". 

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/2430170-Various-Best-Of-2005

Host - Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc.

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In episode 85 Radio DJ & Podcaster Tara Court joins us to talk about Q Magazine's World Of Noise from May 1995.

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 – Crowded House - Distant Sun
2 - Terorvision - Alice, What's The Matter
3 - The Go-Go's - We Got The Beat
4 - Strangelove - Time For The Rest Of Your Life
5 - Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
6 - Sinead O'Connor - Fire On Babylon
7 - World Party - What Is Love All About
8 - Morrissey - Spring Heeled Jim
9 - Robbie Robertson - Golden Feather
10 - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against The Wind
11 - Spearhead - Of Course You Can
12 - Shara Nelson - Down That Road
13 - The Almighty - Jonestown Mind
14 - Thunder - It Happened In This Town
15 - Mazzy Star - Into Dust
16 - Blur - This Is A Low

Find Tara's podcasts & radio shows (including her horror podcast The Killening, & previous episodes of her radio show The Weekend Immune System) here - https://linktr.ee/Tara_C

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/765998-Various-World-Of-Noise

Host - Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc.

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Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com 

In episode 84 Comedian, Author, Musician & Journalist Marc Burrows joins us to talk about Kerrang's Club Kerrang - The Future Sound Of Music from August 1997.

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 – Symposium - Introduction
2 - 3 Colours Red - My Own Gauge
3 - ManBREAK - Kop Karma
4 - Radish - The You In Me
5 - LK - Chicken Bone
6 - Acrimony - The Bud Song
7 - The Driven - Loaded Mama F
8 - Cable - From Here You Can See Yourself
9 - Tampasm - Hard Core Romantic
10 - Daytona - Conversationalist
11 - Iron Monkey - Fink Dial
12 - The Dawn - Feel Like Living
13 - Groop Dogdrill - Oily Rag
14 - (sic) - Pocket Rocket

You can find Marc's website at https://www.marcburrows.co.uk/ where you can buy the books he's written (Big recommendation for The Story Of The Christmas No. 1: Mistletoe & Vinyl, which was one of Colin's favourite books of last year but he's also written excellent books on Nirvana, The Manic Street Preachers, Marc Bolan & David Bowie in the 60s, & Terry Pratchett) plus his tour dates (He's touring his Britpop stand up show from all over the UK from March through to May 2026. I'll see you in Birmingham!)

Find Marc on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/20thcenturymarc

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3067167-Various-Club-Kerrang-The-Future-Sound-Of-Music

Host - Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc.

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Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com 

In episode 83 Mark Adams from the Shipwrecked & Comatose and Chuckyvision podcasts joins us again to talk about Q Magazine's Assorted! from December 1995

The cd's full tracklisting is -
1 – Cast - Finetime
2 - Paul Weller - Stanley Road
3 - Chemical Brothers - In Dust We Trust
4 - Del Amitri - It Might As Well Be You
5 - PJ Harvey - C'mon Billy
6 - Portishead - Numb
7 - Garbage - My Lover's Box
8 - Suede - Shipbuilding
9 - Leftfield - Inspection
10 - Menswear - 125 West 3rd Street
11 - Goldie - Still Life
12 - Sheryl Crow - Run Baby Run
13 - Tricky - Black Steel
14 - Edwyn Collins - Out Of This World
15 - Boo Radleys - Reaching Out From Here
16 - Oasis - Champagne Supernova

Listen to Mark's Red Dwarf podcast Shipwrecked & Comatose (also featuring Colin, and our other previous guests Matt Latham, Kurt North, & Carl Bryan) at https://pod.link/1514570118

Listen to Mark's Chucky/Childsplay/Killer dolls podcast ChuckyVision at https://pod.link/1579168246

Find Mark on Twitter at https://twitter.com/markadamshc

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/455575-Various-Assorted

Host - Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc.

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Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com 

For our December 2025 episode Sam Stokes who hosts the Den Of Ten, Reel Talk, & One Rules Them All podcasts on the Film Stories Network is back with us again to discuss Mojo's The Best Of 2025 cd from all the way back in December 2025!

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Annie & The Caldwells - I Made It
2 - Emma-Jean Thackray - Maybe Nowhere
3 - Pulp - My Sex
4 - Adrian Sherwood - Dub Inspector
5 - Wet Leg - CPR
6 - Big Thief - Los Angeles
7 - David Byrne - Everybody Laughs
8 - Stereolab - Immortal Hands
9 - Mavis Staples - Human Mind
10 - Paul Weller - One Last Cold Kiss
11 - Van Morrison - Stretching Out
12 - Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles - Not Broken
13 - CMAT - Iceberg
14 - Jeff Tweedy - Lou Reed Was My Babysitter
15 - The Tubs - Freak Mode

Go listen to Sam's other podcasts!
Den Of Ten - a podcast where Sam & a different guest debate their top ten of anything from Alternative 80s songs to regional accents.
Reel Talk - where Sam & various guests discuss new movie releases.
& One Rules Them All - a Lord Of The Rings podcast Sam cohosts with Baz Greenland, although to be honest they aren't nearly critical enough about how annoying Tom Bombadil is in the books.

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/35602597-Various-The-Best-Of-2025

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

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This month Alison B, The Ex-zine editor joins us to talk about Kerrang Magazine's Super Summer Swinging Sounds from July 1999.

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
2 - Pitchshifter - Please Sir (Live in France)
3 - Pissing Razors - Box Life
4 - My Ruin - Sycophant
5 - Symposium - Killing Position (Quick Kill Edit)
6 - The Hellacopters - Alright Already Now
7 - Lit - Miserable
8 - Pennywise - Greed
9 - Feeder - Day In Day Out
10 - Skunk Anansie - King Psychotic Size
11 - The Crocketts - James Dean-esque
12 - Fungus - Monsters From Mars
13 - VAST - Here
14 - Anathema - Make It Right F.F.S.

You can find Alison on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bubblegumzinearchive/

Alison's zines and patches can be found and ordered here - https://ko-fi.com/exzineeditor/shop.

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3557877-Various-Super-Summer-Swinging-Sounds

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue Gemma Williamson is back after 6 years for her 3rd appearance to discuss Smash Hits' 12 Slammin' Bangin' Hits tape from May 1996.

The cassette's tracklisting is

1 - TLC - Creep '96
2 - Michelle Gayle - Freedom (Classic Expo Mix)
3 - SWV - Anything (Old Skool Mix ft U-God, Ol' Dirty Bastard, & Method Man (mislabelled on tape as I'm So Into You)
4 - Benz - Where's The Party?
5 - Ivan Matias - Your Love Has Gone Away
6 - Sleeper - What Do I Do Now?
7 - The Wannadies - You & Me Song
8 - Out Of My Hair - Safeboy
9 - 60 Ft Dolls - Stay
10 - Duffy - Sugar High
11 - Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
12 - Deborah Cox - Who Do U Love

Find details of Crafted Words CIC, The organisation Gemma helps run which is all about creativity & mental health on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/craftedwordscic/ You can find details of their callout for winter zine submissions here - https://craftedwordscic.blogspot.com/2025/09/winter-zine-call-out-hard-times-healing.html

The brilliant Top Of The Pops: A Zombie Whodunnit zine Colin mentioned in the episode (and other excellent zines by next months guest Alison) can be found and ordered here - https://ko-fi.com/exzineeditor/shop

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/7832220-Various-12-Slammin-Bangin-Hits

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Dean Jennings to discuss Metal Hammer's Noise Inc Volume 2 from November 1999.

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Alice In Chains - Man In The Box
2 - Type O Negative - Everything Dies
3 - Moonspell - Butterfly FX
4 - Fear Factory - Descent
5 - Slipknot - Spit It Out
6 - Agnostic Front - Sickness
7 - Will Haven - If She Could Speak
8 - Meathook Seed - Elemental
9 - Cannibal Corpse - Pounded Into Dust
10 - Chaos Engine - 888 (One Bigger Than God)
11 - Konkhra - Godgiven
12 - Violent Ultra - Cyanide Smile
13 - Guano Apes - Wash It Down
14 - Rachel Stamp - Pink Skab
15 - Inger Lorre - She's Not Your Friend
16 - Luca Turilli - Black Dragon

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3084077-Various-Metal-Hammer-Noise-Inc-Volume-2

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts
Technical assistance by Dean Jennings

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For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Lisa Williams & Sarah Daniels to discuss Mojo's Sub Pop 300 cd from July 2008

The cd's tracklisting is

1 - Green River - This Town
2 - Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More
3 - Tad - Wood Goblins
4 - L7 - Shove
5 - Screaming Trees - Change Has Come
6 - Afghan Whigs - R*tarded
7 - Red Red Meat - Braindead
8 - Eric Matthews - Fanfare
9 - Iron & Wine - Southern Anthem
10 - The Shins - New Slang
11 - The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
12 - Kelley Stoltz - The Sun Comes Through
13 - Flight Of The Conchords - Bowie
14 - P*ssed Jeans - Caught Licking Leather
15 - No Age - Eraser

Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q

You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/1400039-Various-Sub-Pop-300

Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-Brown
Recorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts

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