The Keep Dancing Podcast

S4E10 - I’ll Give You My Hairpiece!

It’s been Blackpool! Ellie is joined by Meg and Elliot to battle multiple health & safety failures to bring you tales of hoists, big rooms and sprung floors. We’ve also renamed the Extra Dancers as the ‘Top Up Troupe’, just so you know.

- What are the world’s largest plateaus? Is one of them Chris’s Strictly Journey?

- Introducing DISCOFOX!

- The pro dancers are now the stars of the show, but too much?

- Is Blackpool where Strictly love stories kick off?

- Who’ll be this year’s Sexy Dairy Milk?

- Have we seen a Winner’s Jive this year?

- Who should have done a frock reveal?

- In fact, do we have even a small clue who is going to win this?

An episode delayed, but well worth it. A very tired Ellie is joined by Meg, Elliott and Anne to talk over the dramatic week before Blackpool, where everyone suddenly gets serious. We recorded on Monday night, but still managed to accurately preview a few of the Blackpool dances because the producers aren’t in any way predictable.

- Alex and Neil, reunited <3<3<3

- Mike gets dignity and Katya gets a nice frock

- An attempt to describe the texture of Karim’s Viennese waltz

- Who’s off to a mob funeral?

- In what show can you watch the story of a horrible dancing man and the women he was horrible to?

- We’re holding AJ’s list to account

- And we’re also still beefing about shoes

- Plus….Strictly Risk Assessing!

S4E8 - There Are No Rules

We’re just getting on with it. Ellie is joined by Meg, Vikki and Emily to get one precious week closer to Blackpool.

- References that are too old for Karim Zeloual to understand

- A bit of detail about how your Strictly Sausage gets made

- Aljaz is a precious cinnamon roll

- Kelvin is shedding the fridge

- A gasp-inducing suggestion about Blackpool

- Whose pasty flesh ruins who’s vibe?

- What is a Byker and why does it Grove?

- How *do* the judges score the Couple’s Choice?

- We once more demand that someone leaves with dignity and a nice frock

S4E7 - Fuming!

It’s not so much a podcast as a live group therapy session, as we work through a whole load of feelings about the absolutely cursed Halloween episode of Strictly. Ellie is joined by Meg, Anne, Vikki and Emily (eventually) to angry cry about the arbitrarily cruel nature of structured reality formats.

Topics also covered:

- How does Emma solve her chemistry problem (other than the obvious)?

- Are you #easyforbreeches?

- Is it genuine cat based body horror or a 15 year old meme?

- Spider disposal horror similes from Anne

- Perhaps Strictly ought to do Literature Week?

- How many people actually watch dramas on streaming?

- Songs we thought were hits but actually it turns out that they weren’t

- Your bonus five minutes of Drag Race chat (it’s the SAME SHOW)

- A taxonomy of vampires

- THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

After a brief moment of excitement caused by a Eurovision song on the results show, Ellie is joined by Elliot, Anne and Meg to ask the tough questions.

- Is Kelvin more of a leather jacket man than a denim jacket man?

- Who is being manoeuvred over the glittery trap door?

- If I’ve licked it, is it mine?

- Is Paso the only Latin that Anton takes seriously?

- Who’s been looking straight down the lens?

- Do you mind if we just chat about Drag Race for a bit?

- Mike: why do you want to DO that?

- What IS the purpose of art, anyway?

The Big Twist occurs and Dev and Dianne get the ‘we’ll try to make it up to you at Christmas’ early shock eviction. Ellie is joined by Emily, Meg, Elliot and Vikki to try and make sense of it all.

- What’s the DnD alignment of Strictly?

- A general praising of showing training in training VTs.

- Once more we don’t exactly recommend ‘Shimmer: A Strictly Come Dancing’ novel but we don’t not recommend it

- We name The Destroyer of the Class of 2019

- What’s better in a Charleston, a coquettish wink or a fixed grin?

- Continued beef with The Greatest Showman but not with Javid Dames.

- Public Service Perving Announcements

- Have your poppers gone? Have they?

- Cognitive dissonance scoring theory

It’s Movie Week and Ellie is joined by Elliot, Anne, Emily and Meg as we ladle on the convoluted cinema metaphors to review the dances and share our confusion as we try to work out just exactly who this very odd revue is aimed at.

- We’re ready to declare a new podcast mascot… but who?

- If the first lift is for character, what’s the guitar for?

- Lots of wholesomeness and purity

- Strictly’s Greatest Ever Pole

- Who is an obelisk of patience?

- Five minutes of Rylan love

- My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoE5yHMrP0A

- On A Ragga Tip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hpeVwx1Ug

The first elimination week provides dubious thrills. Join Ellie, Elliot, Meg and Vikki to review this week’s dances, skilfully avoid libel and get deep about the psychology of reality TV.

While we struggle with Strictly’s difficult second album, we also get into the following:

- What aspects of popular culture is Elliot too young for?

- What totally inappropriate cult films should Strictly attack for future Movie Weeks?

- We like nice people working hard, learning things and having a lovely time

- But we don’t like that we no longer know where the winner track is on the spreadsheet

- What places in America could you feasibly jive?

- We watch Drag Race, but does the average Strictly viewer know what the chanté is going on?

- Karim’s mum is our new favourite Strictly parent

- Aspects of Gene Kelly’s …physique

The gang convenes to discuss the first 15 dance megashow of the Strictly 2019 season! Ellie, Emily, Elliot, Meg and Vikki are here and they’re making SO. MUCH. CONTENT.

We’re very sorry about the audio quality in the first part of the podcast - it’s to do with a cable and it won’t happen again. If you want to go straight to the buzz-free bit, we sort our selves out at 10:37 into the pod.

- Who is the New Pasha of Acting?

- Emily’s got an Inexplicable Grudge

- What animal should Aljaz cuddle next week?

- Which celeb already uses their body as an artistic element?

- Speculations about Nadyia’s hobbies. Marquetry anyone?

- The invention of salad bras. You heard.

- Who should be ripping tabards off in a post #metoo society

Plus! We award Frock of the Week.

Ellie is joined by Emily and Elliot as we take a look at the State of the Mirrorball at the start of the 2019 Series of Strictly Come Dancing. It’s our fourth series, so we’re knee-deep in in-jokes but we want you in on it too.

- Births, couplings, uncouplings and new jobs

- Frank assessments of the runners and riders in 2019

- Aljaz is definitely a Hufflepuff, but is Anton a gentleman?

- What’s Michelle Visage’s job description? Who maintains the frock spreadsheet?

- We make Kevin an offer he can’t refuse

- A meditation on the nature of suffering. And football

- It’ll all be fine? Or will it?