Comedian Aoife O’Connor joins us to talk about 2001’s cult classic consumerism satire/teen drama/fake rock biopic Josie and the Pussycats. We talked about the fashion, the Parker Posey, the Alan Cumming, the absolute bangers that make up the Pussycats’s music, a very serious Josie-inspired crime Aoife committed, and lots more. Aoife has been obsessed with this film since they were ten years old so it was a joy to step inside their Josie-brain.

Aoife is @aoifebella. You should go see them do comedy somewhere, they’re very good.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was recorded by Cassie, produced and edited by Fearghal and Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Singer of sad bops Eve Belle joins us to talk about her intense teenage feelings about My Chemical Romance, being a Donegal emo, misogyny in music, Gerard Way as a gender role model, and her own approach to the aesthetic side of being a musician. Also, Alan makes a startling confession.

Eve is @EveBelleSongs. Her brilliant album In Between Moments is out NOW.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Author Josh Winning joins us to talk about Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s most challenging creation, The Dark Crystal. Josh’s novel The Shadow Glass has been described as a love letter to Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal so we had a lot to talk about such as The Dark Crystal ‘s let-the-audience-figure-it-out approach to worldbuilding, the depth of that worldbuilding once you get a handle on it, the moments of humour in an otherwise pretty serious film, Jim Henson’s reading habits, the groundbreaking puppeteering, as well as some general thoughts on the Muppets and why The Henson Company seems to have avoided anything on the scale of The Dark Crystal in recent decades. It was a fascinating conversation.

Note: Thanks to some Zoom weirdness, we had to use a single-track backup of this episode which means that Alan’s plan to remove some interruptions from his dog in post couldn’t happen. So apologies for any sub-par audio and dog noises.

Josh is @JoshWinning. His novel The Shadow Glass is out now from Titan Books.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Louise Gaffney of Irish new-wave ambient band Dirty Dreamer joined us to talk about what many people regard as the greatest album of the noughties, Radiohead’s Kid A. We talk about how Kid A sounded in 2000, how it sounds, how it influenced Dirty Dreamer, and we talked about making music that sounds like it’s happening in a specific location.

You can find Dirty Dreamer @dirty_dreamer_. Their debut album The Everyday in Bloom is out now. They play the Workman’s Cellar on June 2nd.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

It’s a live show! Bláithín De Burca returned to Juvenalia to talk to Alan and guest co-host Andrea Cleary at the Foolhardy Festival in Waterford!. We had a good long chat about The Strokes, partly about the music and partly about their faces. We talked about the clothes, the mythmaking production choices on Is This It and their first videos, the music they destroyed and the bands that were created in their wake. We had a great time. Thanks to everybody who came to see us, we love all 25,000 of you.

(Note: because this is a live show, the sound can be a little echoey here and there but you don’t even notice it after a minute or two, promise.)

Bláithín is @BeingBla on Twitter and Instagram. She’s very funny and you should catch her standup if you can!

Andrea is @AndreaCeary_. You can hear her on the Nialler9 podcast and subscribe to her newsletter at andreacleary.substack.com

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing but he’s doing a bit of standup again too now.

Juvenalia is @Juvenalia_Pod on twitter and @JuvenaliaPod on Instagram. We have a Patreon! It's patreon.com/juvenalia. Patrons get bonus episodes and other little bits and pieces too.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

Thanks to Sean Marshall for the live sound on the day.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast

Carly Monardo of Rude Tales of Magic and Birdgirl returns to talk about a show that had a huge influence on her, 2004's Green Wing. We picked sides in the love triangle at the heart of the show, talked about improv, the scary amount of now-famous people in the show, the physical commitment of the actors, and about the balance of meanness and earnestness in comedy. It was fun!

Carly is @whirringblender. You can find Rude Tales of Magic and Oh These, Those Stars Of Space in the podcast places and season 2 of Birdgirl will be available SOON.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Journalist and author Phil Ellis joins us as we return to the topic of very first episode: Luc Besson’s 1997 day-glo sci-fi epic The Fifth Element. It’s been six years this month since we last talked about it and we’re all different people so we thought why not. We talk about Ruby Rhod, the power of love, very long prologues, and the clothes, the clothes, the clothes.

Phil is @Philip_Ellis. He’s a contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine and has exciting news coming soon!

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Author and journalist Edel Coffey joins us to talk about the Joel Schumacher's comedy-horror VHS classic, The Lost Boys and there was a lot to talk about! Things like Alan and Sarah’s preconceptions of the film, the power of Two Coreys, the face of Jason Patric, the confidence of Kiefer Sutherland, the jokes, the gore, the music, the saxophone, and much more.

Edel is @edelcoffey. Her novel Breaking Point is out now and was number one in the Irish charts of time of recording!

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Author, Podcaster, and our fifth Beatle, Caroline O’Donoghue returns to talk about Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 masterpiece Spirited Away. We talk about Yubaba as magical girlboss, unsettling giant babies, how we feel about Spirited Away merch, games we think have a hint of Spirited Away about them, and just generally ooh and aah over how good this film is. It’s so good.

Caroline is @Czaroline. Her latest YA book The Gifts That Bind Us Is out Feb 3rd. Her other (excellent) books are also in all the shops.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Hello! We had a scheduling mix up. It happens, no big deal but it means we don’t have a new episode this week. We thought you might like our most recent Patreon bonus episode though. It’s from our bonus series Started/Finished where we talk about what we’ve started and finished recently. In this episode we talked about Yellowjackets (no spoilers), Get Back, Wytchwood (no spoilers), and Succession (spoliers, big spoilers). This is an edited version of the episode that went out to our Patreon supporters because there’s some stuff that’s still just for them!

We’ll be back in two weeks with a guest and nostalgia but we hope you like this too.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

If you liked this then you can find ten more episodes of Started/Finished as well as other bonus episodes on our Patreon! $5 a month gets you the bonus episodes and a Juvenalia badge and sticker and $1 a month gets you the badge and sticker. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.