Bigmouth

159: Glastonbury 2019: Live and Lo-Fi

158: Hot Chip, horror satire In Fabric, Mark Ronson

157: Killing Eve S2, Prince Originals, I Am Mother on Netflix

Joining us to feel the bumps on pop culture’s skull this week are our rock’n’roll raconteur guests GUY PRATT – bass player to Pink Floyd, Bryan Ferry and Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets – and SOPHIE HARRIS of Mojo, the Guardian and Time Out New York.

155: Memoirs of a Britpop Machiavelli, Elton’s Rocketman, Richard Hawley

154: Amyl & The Sniffers, The Virtues on C4, Flying Lotus

This week, ECKIE THUMP: Why Scottish rave movie BEATS might be the best movie yet to capture the essence of waving your arms in a field while being chased by the “polis”. FANGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER: Can Taika Waititi’s TV adaptation of his bat-on-the-wall vampire houseshare movie What We Do In The Shadows match the original? And our two guests Michael Hogan of the Telegraph and NME and Select veteran Lucy O’Brien sell us on the virtues of the albums that only they like.  Please enjoy your weekly recommended intake of pop culture blather, produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black, recorded by Tom Bullen at Air Edel, London. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ** Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you [back us](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.

RADIATION FOR THE NATION: Does HBO’s Chernobyl disaster epic work as either science or drama, or would you be better off reading [this excellent book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0593076834?pf_rd_p=330fbd82-d4fe-42e5-9c16-d4b886747c64&pf_rd_r=CHG5BXV03445TZFG3DQH) instead? HOUSE OF HOROWITZ: How the Beastie Boys’ rap-funk-jazz monster ‘ill Communication’ remade the 90s. TEENAGE LOBOTOMY: The bleak, comic and heartbreaking life of the contemporary American teenager in new independent drama-comedy ‘Eighth Grade’. And, naturally, a whole lot more. Music business journo and U2 fanatic **EAMONN FORDE** and Face and Arena mag veteran **MARK HOOPER** join us for our latest rummage in the bran tub of pop.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ** Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you [back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).

It’s an epic-length BIGMOUTH this week. First we welcome special guest DAVE BALL to our appropriately subterranean Soho lair to talk about Soft Cell’s one-off (?) reunion and his new memoir of life in pop’s sleaziest duo. Then Dave and guest MARTIN ASTON stick around as we look at BBC2’s THE LOOMING TOWER – can a doggedly factual 9/11 intelligence drama work and how soon is too soon? – and check out the fourth album by well-heeled New York ethnomusicologists VAMPIRE WEEKEND. 
 And then it’s spoiler time as geek squad members LINDA MARRIC and MICHAEL MORAN join us to dissect AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Who lives? Who dies? What did it all mean? All will be revealed in a conversation that you definitely should NOT listen to unless you’ve already seen the movie. What do you mean, you haven’t already seen the movie…? Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ** Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you [back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).

On this week’s pop culture death match we’re joined by JUDE ROGERS of The Guardian, New Statesman and The Word RIP and dance music man about town RALPH MOORE of Mixmag fame. On the agenda: Does LIZZO have the body-positive bangers to match her outsize personality? Can C4’s continent-spanning marquee drama CHIMERICA spin fake news, the purpose of journalism, geopolitics and Wham!’s visit to China into a coherent image of the way the world is right now? And can electro-pagan Scouse trio STEALING SHEEP negotiate the tricky step up to the big time? Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Elsie Bath. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ** Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you [back us](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast) on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.

We’re back from our recuperative week off with **SLADE** on Spotify at last – should today’s young people be force-fed stomping Midlands yob-pop from the Middle Ages? Also we read the runes for the final season of **GAME OF THRONES** and experience the antipodean antics of **KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD**, the pop Hawkwind we didn’t know we needed. Pop culture journo and Throneshead **Michael Moran** joins us as special guest.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Alex Rees. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ** Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you [back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).

On this week’s podcast… Special guest Andy Gill of **THE GANG OF FOUR** on new album ‘Happy Now?’, the return of angular rock for crisis Britain, and his secret past with Adam ‘The Power Of Nightmares’ Curtis. Plus Andy joins David Stubbs, Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison to debate the Brexit-blocking beats of the new **CHEMICAL BROTHERS** album, the surprising pathos of **BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY** and whether **BILLIE EILISH** is appropriate for impressionable older listeners. As ever, your leisure is our pleasure.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Elsie Bath. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ** Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you [back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).

The death of The Prodigy’s much-loved KEITH FLINT by his own hand left countless people – ravers, rockers, ’90s veterans, lovers of pop and good times in general – shocked, saddened and broken up. Numerous stories emerged afterwards confirming that, far from the twisted firestarter of the videos, Keith was a friendly, warm and above all kind man. It was desperately unfair that evidently he could not feel the happiness that he brought to millions.  Friend of the show and radio producer **ROBIN LEEBURN** traveled to Braintree for Keith’s memorial service last Friday and spoke to Keith’s fans and friends. Here’s what he saw and heard, as a special mini-edition of BIGMOUTH and a way to remember a lovely man who deserved a much longer, happier life. **Recorded and produced by [Robin Leeburn](https://fairly.media/) for BIGMOUTH. **

On this week’s podcast… WE’RE LOVING ENGEL INSTEAD: The irreplaceable Scott Walker. AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: Is Jordan Peele’s latest horror movie ‘Us’ a worthy successor to ‘Get Out’? VERY METAL: Is the Netflix adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s infamous ‘The Dirt’ worth a watch even if you can’t stand their music? And does it whitewash the depravity? NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: New albums from Jenny ‘Rilo Kiley’ Lewis and Andrew ‘you might not know him’ Bird.  Joining us to rummage through the bran tub of pop culture this week are GEORGINA GODWIN, presenter and Books Editor at Monocle24, and Bigmouth regular ANDREW MUELLER, himself a Monocle24 regular. Hey, it’s almost a podclash.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ** Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you [back us](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast)on the crowdfunding platform Patreon.

On our latest pop culture patterfest, Q Magazine editor TED KESSLER and comedy writer DAN MAIER of Harry Hill fame join Siân and Andrew to sift through the week’s most interesting stuff. The great **EDWYN COLLINS** confronts age and mortality through the medium of sounding as much like Iggy Pop as possible on new album ‘Badbea’. Is ‘Feud’ and ‘Glee’ producer Ryan Murphy’s dramatisation of the New York drag ball scene **POSE** worth your eyeball time? Ted gives us a bumper crate of new release recommendations. And we stare into the abyss inhabited by freelance internet moderators on the BBC Storyville documentary ‘**THE CLEANERS**’.  Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Alex Rees. **Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.**  Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you [back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast).