Music Sounds Better With Two

Hey guys! Well here we are with the 4th instalment of the blink story. The first of 2 instalments on life post blink. We're taking you back to 2006 where a freshly divorced blink-182 both find themselves in new relationships, +44 and Angels and Airwaves respectively. We dive into the debut, and to this day only, album by +44 "When Your Heart Stops Beating." We explore the dark, lyrical content of No, it isn't including an annotated spoken word performance from J and I as we slowly lose "our brains". We then compare and contrast it to the AvA debut "We Don't Need To Whisper". So come along and enjoy some blink chat as well as life updates, drinking alcohol and sex dream analysis apparently. This isn't just goodbye. This is we can't stand you. (Jokes jokes. We love you all). J & N xoxo

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Hey guys! We've got some X-tra Factor for you. We're back with Cristina for some extra content. Our reality pop music chat got so deep and off piste that we created an X-Factor chaser. In this episode we voice our opinions freely on how these music shows affected all of our lives and changed the music industry forever. It gave the public a power they had never had before that we unfortunately, more often than not, abused. We catapulted these ordinary people into the spotlight without the appropriate support and we abandoned them when we were all done. This has then caused a hangover into the new Gen Z generation on the platforms of tik tok influencers. We discuss cancel culture, what we thought of as "normal", mental health, the death of the paparazzi and the birth of us becoming the press. These are all our opinions and we appreciate all your input too so please join the conversation with respectful love or hate please. J & N xoxo

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Hey guys! We're back for Season 4 and this week we are The Cheeky Girls (cheeky cheeky). We're here with a wonderful guest and friend of the pod, Cristina D'Annunzio, our own personal Honey-G, to discuss our wealth of fond memories and knowledge surrounding music reality TV shows. She can also rap and do a cracking impression of the announcer dude off X-Factor. Listen to the ep to hear those. We take a trip down memory lane through the fun and (in hindsight) mucky world of reality music shows from Pop Idol, Pop Stars: the Rivals, X-Factor and The Voice. We laugh a lot and discuss the implications of the auditions phase, "jigsaw bands", sibling/incest duos and acts you probably long forgot about. Grab a drink and join us - you're all through to Judges Houses. J & N xoxo

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Hey friends! We've finally crawled to the end of season 3 and we are beyond grateful to anyone still journeying with us. This week we travel to Edinburgh to watch Midlake perform at the Liquid Rooms. Join us as we navigate the hustle and bustle of our nation's capital complete with automatic lawnmowers, alarms, sirens and birdsong. We discuss not only the wonderful performance of Midlake but also what it means to experience live music and how it can't be separated from the city you experience it in. Glasgow and Edinburgh are only an hour away from each other but the gig etiquette could not be more different. So are you team Glasgow gig or team Edinburgh gig? Join the discussion y'all and see you all soon in season 4. J & N xoxo

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This week Take That relight our fires (and possibly scar us for life) as we watch their 2006 documentary For The Record. This one is a special request for long time supporter, friend and fan Sareem Griage. We hope we did it justice. Join us and the mad bunch of young Manc lads as they travel the icky, sticky cake and jelly filled food waste hellscape of the pop machine in their early 90s heyday, through to the departure of Robbie and the eventual breakdown of the band when all we wanted was their lipstick marks still on their coffee cups. We discuss important issues amongst the madness including addiction, the muckiness of the music industry, boys struggling to talk about mental health and male...er...bonding activities? Never forget. Well we can't forget anything that happened in the 90's and 00's and we can't let you lot do that either so join us for one (could it be) magic trip back to Take That's 90's fever dream. J & N xoxo

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Hey guys! This week we bring you a vintage magazine reading a.k.a our new obsession. This season we're bringing you #133 of MOJO from April 2003. In the edition we read a full britpop reflection article. There are soundbites from britpop legends looking back on the heady heyday of britpop. Along the way we meet cancelled misogynistic car and Mülller rice ads. We then try to go full method and bring you the authentic accents of Liam Gallagher, Graham Coxon, Jarvis Cocker, Phil Savidge (Savage?) Et Al to varying degrees of success (sorry). So without further ado come back to 2003 and bathe with us in the nostalgia, the regret, the class A drugs, the cigarettes, the alcohol and the musicians that got all tangled up in the britpop machine and made it out the other side to embrace a new century. J & N xoxo

Hey guys! Hope you're taking it easy in the New Year. Since we can't rave at the minute we're bringing the rave to you! This week we're taking a deeper dive into rave culture in the west coast of Scotland and how it is intrinsically tied up with working class, "ned" youth culture and the futile need to escape. We look at the culture through the lens of Graeme Armstrong's (writer of The Young Team) BBC documentary Scotland The Rave. We hope we provide a meaningful, respectful commentary on the rave community and the associated sub cultures. Graeme Armstrong you're an amazing guy who has written a truly beautiful account of being a YT member and all the anxiety and hopelessness that comes with that but the presenting style in this doc is off the wall. There's a segment where he's just skating around the Time Capsule.. or was he? J was convinced there was stunt legs involved. For anyone that was a YT, PC DJ, Raver, Scheme wean looking to escape this one is for you. J & N xoxo

Links:

Scotland the Rave https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000z4dn

The Young Team The Young Team https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/152901736X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_ZHBJEMTGVP39ZA34M11B

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Ho Ho Ho guys! The festive season is upon us and whether you celebrate or not, whether you love it or hate it, whether it's a rough time for you or if it brings you joy, come have a babycham with us and be merry as we discuss Christmas music! J regales us with anecdotes and Christmas songs from her experience with weird retail Christmas playlists. Pet rats for Christmas anyone? Then I try to (probably unsuccessfully) cancel "sexy" Christmas songs. Does Sexualising Santa make you wanna chuck up your mince pies too? After I've calmed down I bring you some blinkmas bangers. And then J and I round things off by discussing our favourite Christmas songs of all time. Ranging from a deep dive into the beautiful, deep meaningful imagery of The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood by J to me trying not to fall deeper in love with soft boi Liam Gallager as he spreads Christmas hope in tough times. Merry Christmas to all of our beautiful listeners. Reach out if you need a friend. J & N xoxo

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Hey friends, we are celebrating J's birthday this week and we've chosen to share it with you - a relaxed episode where we look at weird lyrics in songs pt 2 and strange vocal inflections that probably only we notice. Shout out to our content creator of the week, Finn McKenty for inspiring our content in a way he probably never expected. Come get bloated with us as we listen to Meatloaf and riff with Shania on her two different versions of "that don't impress me much", where she becomes increasingly less impressed. Crazy cowbell shenanigans with Britney, weird vocal runs with Christina Aguilera, and missing bridges with Backstreet Boys. Come on in and learn how to be a considerate lover with us…apparently. J & N xoxo

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Hey arrr kids! This week we're taking you back to the mid 90's when the UK was hooked on a little thing called britpop. So grab your bucket hats (they're back in fashion you know) and come journey with us as we comment on various incoherent britpop documentaries. We have conversations surrounding the iconic artists of the era: blur, Oasis, Suede, Supergrass, Pulp and many more. Actually perhaps some less iconic artists too...Menswe@r anyone? We look at how the genre was heavily influenced by the issues surrounding the British class system and politics and see how our opinions on the blur v Oasis battle have changed with the passage of time. Anyway, here's Wonderwall... J & N xoxo

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Links:

Britpop Now (1995): https://youtu.be/skb6lVS35Jk

The Britpop Story: https://youtu.be/K7ZKk2phozs

Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Britpop: https://vimeo.com/60764750