Episode 3.1

On this episode we delve into the rise and fame of Taylor Swift. We start by focusing on her career history and how she shifted from country singer to mainstream popstar. We examine her business strategy and how her fans, Swifties show their devotion, which can sometimes mean dissecting her personal life and romantic relationships. This episode also considers the criticism and controversies of “Swiftmania” 

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This episode is presented by Megan

Written and recorded by: Megan and Claire

Recorded on: Riverside

Music by: Anton Vlasov on Pixaby

Episode 2.6

In this episode we look back at the COVID-19 pandemic and reflect on what happened over these couple of years in the United Kingdom. From

This episode is presented by Claire and discussed with Megan.

Written and recorded by: Megan and Claire

Hosted on: Spotify for Podcasters

Music by: Anton Vlasov on Pixaby

Episode 2.5

In this episode we examine the origins of the term 'culture wars' and the debate around the existence of such a thing. We focus mostly on the United Kingdom by tracing the sociopolitical histroy of post-war Britain up to today, in order to give some context to modern British culture. In this episode, we have tried to stray away from specific 'culture war' issues and, instead, we discuss the reasons for rising tensions in spaces online like social media and whether there are clues to the cause of this in the experiences of past generations.

This episode is presented by Megan and discussed with Claire.

Written and recorded by: Megan and Claire

Hosted on: Spotify for Podcasters

Music by: Anton Vlasov on Pixaby

In this final episode of Rock Icons’ first season exploring the career of Pink Floyd and its members, we will detail their standout moments from the 1990s to present day. This will include taking a look at Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason’s final performance as a four-piece together for Live 8 in 2005. 

Sources Cited:

Blake, M. 2013. Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Updated). Aurum Press: London. 

Musical Milestones, 2016. Pink Floyd – Album by Album: The Definitive History. Music Milestones. 

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Taylor, T. 2021. Looking back at Roger Waters landmark performance of ‘The Wall’ in Berlin, 1990. Far Out Magazine. Available from: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-waters-performance-the-wall-berlin-1990/ 

DeRisco, N. 2017. How Roger Waters reanimated his legend on ‘Amused to Death.’ Ultimate Classic Rock. Available from: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-amused-to-death-album/ 

Garrad, S. 2015. Album Review: Roger Waters – Amused to Death. Renowned for Sound. Available from: https://renownedforsound.com/album-review-roger-waters-amused-to-death/ 

Graves, T. 1994. The Division Bell. Rolling Stone. Available from: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/the-division-bell-187918/ 

Fowle, K. 2014. Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell is a lesson in the unfortunate power of nostalgia. AV Club. Available from: https://www.avclub.com/pink-floyd-s-the-division-bell-is-a-lesson-in-the-unfor-1798275146 

Classic Rock Review. 2014. The Division Bell by Pink Floyd. Classic Rock Review. Available from: https://www.classicrockreview.com/2014/05/1994-pink-floyd-division-bell/ 

Franqueli, A. 2014. PINK FLOYD: THE DIVISION BELL (20TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION). PopMatters. Available from: https://www.popmatters.com/184220-pink-floyd-the-division-bell-20th-anniversary-deluxe-edition-2495633592.html 

DeGagne, M. 1996. Broken China – Richard Wright. All Music. Available from: https://www.allmusic.com/album/broken-china-mw0000613524 

Taysom, J. 2020. Revisiting Pink Floyd's unlikely reunion for a barnstorming show at 'Live 8'. Far Out magazine. Available from: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pink-floyd-reunion-roger-waters-david-gilmour-live-8/ 

Black, J. 2022. When Pink Floyd reunited for Live 8: "It was like sleeping with your ex-wife". Classic Rock. Available from: https://www.loudersound.com/features/pink-floyd-reunite-at-live-8 

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Petridis, A. 2014. Pink Floyd: The Endless River review – a fitting footnote to their career. The Guardian. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/06/pink-floyd-the-endless-river-review 

Sullivan, C. 2015. David Gilmour: Rattle That Lock review – Pink Floyd guitarist's melancholy fourth. The Guardian. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/17/david-gilmour-rattle-that-lock-review 

Riding, A. 2005. 'Ça Ira,' opera witha dash of Pink Floyd. The New York Times. Available from: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/arts/a-ira-opera-witha-dash-of-pink-floyd.html 

Sputnik Music. 2006. Roger Waters – Ca Ira. Sputnik Music. Available from: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/4899/Roger-Waters-%C3%87a-Ira/ 

Gramophone. 2006. Waters Ca Ira - Spirited performances aren’t enough to lift Waters’s revolutionary project. Gramophone. Available from: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/waters-%C3%A7a-ira

This episode charts the career of Pink Floyd through arguably its most difficult decade, the 1980s, because this would see Roger Waters eventually leave the band and bring about a new era with David Gilmour at the helm.

Sources Cited:

Blake, M. 2013. Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Updated). Aurum Press: London.

Mason, N. 2004. Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd. Wiedenfield & Nicolson: London.

Wikipedia. Pink Floyd. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd

Musical Milestones, 2016. Pink Floyd – Album by Album: The Definitive History. Music Milestones.

Mann, R. 2013. 30 Years On: Pink Floyd's The Final Cut Revisited. The Quietus. Available from: https://thequietus.com/articles/12504-pink-floyd-the-final-cut

Starkey, A. 2021. Revisiting Pink Floyd's lowest ebb: 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason'. Far Out. Available from: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pink-floyd-a-momentary-lapse-of-reason/

Classic Rock Review, 2012. A Momentary Lapse of Reason by Pink Floyd. Classic Rock Review. Available from: https://www.classicrockreview.com/2012/09/1987-pink-floyd-amlor/

Singsaas, F. 2022. Pink Floyd – The Final Cut (1983) – Classic Album Review. Now Spinning Magazine. Available from: https://nowspinning.co.uk/pink-floyd-the-final-cut-1983-classic-album-review/

Cook, J. 2014. About Face by David Gilmour. Class Rock Review. Available from: https://www.classicrockreview.com/2014/10/1984-david-gilmour-about-face/

This is a supplementary episode to the previous one which looked into Pink Floyd’s career in the 1970s. Their last album of the decade (released in 1979) was The Wall, and this episode is dedicated specifically to this concept album.

Sources Cited:

Thompson, D. 2013. Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall. Backbeat Books: Milwaukee.

Blake, M. 2013. Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Updated). Aurum Press: London.

Mason, N. 2004. Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd. Wiedenfield & Nicolson: London.

Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall. 2000. Directed by Bob Smeaton [Film]. Channel 4: UK.

Wikipedia. Pink Floyd. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd

Powell, P. (n.d.) The 1980/81 Wall concert performances in detail. Brain-damage. Available from: https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/the-wall/the-1980-81-wall-concert-performances-in-detail.html

Lifton, D. 2015. How Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ Tour Reinvented The Rock Concert. Ultimate Classic Review. Available from: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-the-wall-tour/

Pink Floyd – The Wall. 1982. Directed by Alan Parker [Film]. United International Pictures.

Schaffner, N. 1991. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. Sidgwick & Jackson: London.

Malcolm, D. 2016. Pink Floyd’s The Wall film review – archive. The Guardian archive. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/15/pink-floyd-the-wall-film-review-1982

Jankowska, B. 2018. Distorted identity, madness and trauma: the struggle for identity in Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Currents: A Journal of Young English Philosophy Thought Review, 4, pp. 129 – 146.

Urick, B. 2010. A Complete Analysis of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Available from: https://thewallanalysis.com/ - I REFER TO 'URICK' AS 'UBRICK' IN MANY PLACES IN THIS EPISODE AND I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGISE FOR THIS MISTAKE!

Simmons, S. 2009. Pink Floyd: Goodbye Blue Sky. Guitar World. Available from: https://www.guitarworld.com/features/pink-floyd-goodbye-blue-sky

Reising, R. 2006. 'Speak to Me': The Legacy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. Routledge: London. [see, Kimi Karki essay]

Sundermann, L. & Scullin, J. 2019. We Do Need an Education: Teaching Pink Floyd: The Wall. SIAS Faculty Publications.

Romero, J.S. & Cabo, L.M.V. 2006. Roger Waters’ Poetry of the Absent Father: British Identity in Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’. Atlantis, 28(2), pp. 45-58. Available from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41055246

In the third episode of this Pink Floyd season of Rock Icons, we return to the band’s career, now in, what could be classed as, their heyday of the 1970s (including Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here – a specific next episode will be dedicated to The Wall). We will tour through their key albums of this decade and chart how success effected the band. 

Sources Cited:

Blake, M. 2013. Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Updated). Aurum Press: London.

Fielder, H. 2013. Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall. Race Point Publishing: New York. 

Wikipedia. Pink Floyd. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd

Starkey, A. 2022. The understated genius of Pink Floyd album ‘Meddle’. Far Out. Available from: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/understated-genius-pink-floyd-meddle/

Denshaw, R. 2022. Pink Floyd at the Rainbow: ‘many of the audience left in tears’ – archive, 1972. Guardian Archive. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/18/pink-floyd-at-rainbow-review-dark-side-moon-1972

Jones, C. 1996. Echoes: Pink Floyd – The Stories Behind the Songs. Omnibus Press: London. 

Winthrop-Young, G. 2016. Implosion and Intoxication: Kittler, a German Classic, and Pink Floyd. Theory, Culture & Society, 23(7-8). Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276406069884

Wardle, D. 2021. The Cover Uncovered: A peek behind the artwork of Pink Floyd album 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Far Out. Available from: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/pink-floyd-album-art-dark-side-of-the-moon-story/

Povey, G. 2007. Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd. Mind Head Publishing: London.

Jonze, T. 2019. Lunar tunes: culture's fascination with the dark side of the moon. The Guardian. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/03/culture-fascination-with-the-dark-side-of-the-moon

Fielder, H. 2022. Dark Side of the Moon: why is it so bloody popular? Classic Rock. Available from: https://www.loudersound.com/features/dark-side-of-the-moon-why-is-it-so-bloody-popular

Reising, R. 2006. 'Speak to Me': The Legacy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. Routledge: London. 

Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here. 2012. Directed by John Edginton [Film]. BBC Four: London, UK. 

Lyng, E. 2022. 45 years on from Pink Floyd album ‘Animals’. Far Out. Available from: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/45-years-of-pink-floyds-animals/

DeRiso, N. 2017. How Pink Floyd’s Muscular, Political ‘Animals’ Changed Everything. Ultimate Classic Rock. Available from: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-animals-album/

Schaffner, N. 1991. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. Sidgwick & Jackson: London. 

Easlea, D. 2022. Raving and drooling: how Pink Floyd made Animals. Prog. Available from: https://www.loudersound.com/features/raving-and-drooling-how-pink-floyd-made-animals

Thompson, D. 2013. Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall. Backbeat Books: Milwaukee. 

This is a supplementary episode to the previous one exploring the early years of Pink Floyd. Here, we will be specifically discussing the life and work of original frontman Syd Barrett and looking at his own legacy and the musical imprint he left even after departing Pink Floyd.

Sources Cited:

Chapman, R. 2010. A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett. Faber & Faber: London.

Fielder, H. 2013. Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall. Race Point Publishing: New York.

Heylin, C. 2012. All the Madmen: Barrett, Bowie, Drake, the Floyd, The Kinks, The Who and the Journey to the Dark Side of English Rock. Constable: London.

Classic Rock Review. 2015. The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett. Class Rock Review. Available from: https://www.classicrockreview.com/2015/05/1970-syd-barrett-madcap-laughs/

‘theindiependent’, 2015. A Blast From The Past: The Madcap Laughs // Syd Barrett. Indiependent. Available from: https://www.indiependent.co.uk/blast-past-madcap-laughs-syd-barrett/

Harris, J. 2006. Barrett’s influence. The Guardian. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jul/12/popandrock.sydbarrett2

Marriott, J. 2016. Interview: Ian Barrett on the legacy of Syd Barrett. God Is In The TV. Available from: https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2016/01/22/interview-ian-barrett-on-the-legacy-of-syd-barrett/

Wikipedia. Syd Barrett. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett

Wikipedia. Pink Floyd. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd

Episode 2.4

In this episode we delve guilt free into the romcom movie land. Long having been disregarded as 'chick flick' films, romcoms have endured since the first motion picture but reflect our cultural understanding and experiences of life, love and dating. However, with genre has not been without its faults, often tied to the formulaic and perhaps problematic narratives which has made it hard for good romcoms to come through, let alone stand the test the time. We look back at some of our favourite romcoms and how the genre has evolved over the decades from its nineties heydey to the fatigue of the 2000s. It is often cited that the modern romcom has died but despite the challenges facing these films, we look at what it takes to reinvent the genre and make it as culturally significant as it once was. 

This episode is presented by Claire and discussed with Megan. 

Written and recorded by: Megan and Claire

Hosted on: Anchor

Music by: Anton Vlasov on Pixaby

For the second episode of our Rock Icons season on Pink Floyd, we will give a fuller explanation of the life and work of the band in its formative years in the decade of the 1960s.

Sources Cited:

Fielder, H. 2013. Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall. Race Point Publishing: New York.

Blake, M. 2013. Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Updated). Aurum Press: London.

Mason, N. 2004. Inside Out: A Persona History of Pink Floyd. Wiedenfield & Nicolson: London.

Wikipedia. Pink Floyd. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd

Schaffner, N. 1991. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. Sidgwick & Jackson: London.

‘Altrockchick’, 2018. Pink Floyd – Classic Music Review – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. 50thirdand3rd. Available from: https://www.50thirdand3rd.com/pink-floyd-classic-music-review-the-piper-at-the-gates-of-dawn/

Easlea, D. 2007. Pink Floyd A Saucerful Of Secrets Review. BBC Music. Available from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/b2f9/