Mid Life Punk Podcast

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The 48 have become 4. Only one more game to cover after these!

Argentina, Spain, France and England battle out to be 90 minutes (plus half time show) away from the WORLD CUP FINAL!

Our bands are Cadena Perpetua, Main Line 10, Lion's Law and not Leatherface this time I'm afraid....

As well as the soccer, we also review a BBC drama and announce our excitedness about what our pals at Punk Rock Elite have up teir sleeves next month!

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We're down to the last 8. Not many of the original 12 punk pundits remain. It's hotting up, but is it coming home?

Our remaining guests are Josh (Character Actors), Willie Shango (The Papashangos), TJ Whittaker (77 Spears), Richard F White, Dave Rolfe (Guineapigs), Benny Rabble and Dave Shackleford.

The music this time is provided by Lion's Law (France), The Promdates (Norway), CRACKUPS (Belgium), Leatherface (England), Cadena Perpetua (Argentina), Taqbir (Morrocco), Main Line 10 (Spain) and Uberyou (Switzerland).

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The second part of the Round of 16 (aka The Culling) is covered in this episode!

With our team managers Steve Potter & The Prisoner of Peterborough & Simon Bailey (off Das Kapitans), Benny Rabble (People's Poet), Josh Booth (Character Actors) Big Willie Shango (The Papashangos), Dave Shackleford and TJ Whittaker (77 Spears) have been putting a shift in

The bands are: Taqbir, Perritos Genericos, Leatherface, Codigo Rojo, Gnar Jar, Uberyou, NOBRO and Cadena Perpetua.

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We're whittling 'em down like nobody's business now.

The first half of the Round of 16 is covered in this episode and features our intrepid correspondents TJ (77 Spears), Ross (Shackleford) Willie Shango (for the Papashangos), Richard White (the aldi cider aisle), Steve Potter and the Halfbood Prince (Das Kapitans) and Dave Rolfe of Guineapigs.

The bands providing the feast of global punk are: Nau (Brazil), Main Line 10 (Spain), The Promdates (Norway), CRACKUPS (Belgium), Joyce Manor (USA), Area 69 (Paraguay) Lion's Law (France) and The Youths (Portugal).

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Pour one out for some of the great (and not so great) bands/songs we learned to love in the group stages. Sadly, we lost 2 of our 12 participants in the Round of 32, so join us in commiserating them.

Things are hotting up now gang, so buckle up and get ready.

To play us out this time, it had to be the Bosnian Crash Mats: The Dubioza Kolektiv

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Tom and Danny Barrett provide an update on which bands were sadly eliminated from the MLPP World Cup.

No huge losses, but sad all the same. Music to commemorate the fallen is from Tunisia's KHASSARAT.

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Welcome to the North West of England, where we keep a band called Lynskey. We've let Bea come on the pod to share their new, updated and extended line up as well as the vast majority of their latest EP "This is for you".

We chat about hate crime near misses, putting a tour together featuring musician thespians and plate spinning.

Tom declares VV day, Barrett gives a gig report on his South Park tribute gig and we get a submission from a wordsmith listener.

The bands providing tunes this week are: The Queers, Scatterbrain, Blink 182, The Hormones and Western Addiction.

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The final group up for dissection is group L.

The musical sleuth assigned to unearthing bands from each place is Dave off Shackleford. The countries he's got to work with are:

England, Ghana, Panama and Croatia.

The bands he's chosen are Leatherface, Mizerija, Factor VIII and Osekre & The Lucky Bastrds

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Group K. Probably the most geographically disparate group of them all.

The person who has been extracting nugs from this particular diamond mine is Steve Potter, off Das Kapitans.

The countries in that group are: Portugal, Uzbekistan, Columbia and DR Congo.

You'll be very glad to here that the Nazis make a return, as well as Northern Irish soap stars and property experts from North East England.

The bands chosen to represent their countries are: The Youths, Trimmigrant, Codigo Rojo and SaU.

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9 down, 3 to go!

Group J of the MLPP World Cup is managed by top spoken word artiste, Benny Rabble!

All of his countries except one begin with A. They are: Argentina, Algeria, Austria and Jordan.

The lucky bands that he's selected are: Red Lights Flash, Jabal Al Mareikh, Demokhratia and Cadena Perpetua.