Mid Life Punk Podcast
Music and interviews with bands from across the global punk scene, all coming at you from Spondon in Derby, UK. Join us every week and get rad with the fat lads.
Episodes
For the first time in a very long time, we have a fully fledged ska band on! And that band is West Yorkshire's Nutty Skunk! They, by their own admission, were groomed....into ska at a young age.
Logistics are a key topic in the conversation for this 7 piece who have a "do what you can" attitude to practicing. We also hear a HMV horror story, discuss the sound engineer reaction to seeing a 7 piece band with a brass se...
Putting the "oop" in Super-Group this week are our guests, fen dwellers Al Pacino's Sister.
This rock band is made up of members of both Sprainer and Das Kapitans, so get yourself excited.
We discuss their extensive tours, their back catalogue which is so robust they've had to put out a compilation and we get the inside track on how a super group copes with multiple egos and creative stylings.
Tom's got a gig report fr...
It's over. All done for four years.
The MLPP World Cup closing ceremony is contained within this episode! We're joined by some of our participants to round off the tournament and to reflect on some of the music we've discovered.
We also hear from "Campiones Del Mundo", Spain's Main Line 10 who have been in touch to collect their trophy.
Music this week is from: The Shivvies, Turd Sandwich, Codigo Rojo, Lion's LAw...
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 n...
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...
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, Co...
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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
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
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 repr...
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.
Global super star Richard Fuckin' White is in to explain his choices to represent the countries which populate group I. He also explains the backstory of a song that was snatched away from him because he got the artist's nationality wrong.
Those countries are: Iraq, Senegal, Norway and France.
The bands he has chosen are: Lion's Law, The Promdates, Dog Faced Corpse and scene stalwarts Malick Pathe Sow & Bao ...
Group H representatives have been chosen by Dave Rolfe from off Guineapigs. He has been lucky enough to have to research punk artistes from Spain, Cape Verde, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia.
The artists he has chosen are: Main Line 10, Scúru Fitchádu, Porfiados and Sound of Ruby.
Group G of this global punk odyssey is curated by none other than Willie Shango, bass twanger for The Papashangos! Willie has had the good fortune to select bands from Belgium, Iran, Egypt and New Zealand.
The Bands he's chosen are: The Lashes, Gnar Jar, Dick Move and Crackups.
Don't tell my heart, my achey jakey heart. That's what will be ringing around stadiums of Group F in Japanese, Swedish, Arabic (Tunisian dialect) and Dutch. Jake Dobbins has been allocated to this one, and the bands he's chosen to represent their countries are: Hi-Standard, The Shivvies, Khassarat and Adhesive.
The representatives of Group E have been chosen by stand up comic and podcaster Eddie French off the Punk Rock Elite Podcast.
The nations having their punk rock gubbins explored this time are Curacao, Ivory Coast, Equador and Germany. The representatives for those countries respectively are The XQs, Akeikoi, Senor Jaid and Turd Sandwich.
We're joined by our first of two Shackleford members of the tournament, namely Ross the singing bass player, who has had the unenviable task of choosing punk rock representatives for all the nations in Group D of the World Cup. Those nations are: Turkey, USA, Australia and Paraguay.
The chosen representatives are: Padme, Joyce Manor, Local Resident Failure and Area 69.
Group C is introduced to your earholes today, and your global guide will be none other than 77 Spears frontman, TJ Whittaker!
Group C has offered up some mixed blessings for TJ. The group comprises of Brazil, Scotland, Morocco and Haiti. So there was some digging required.
In the knockout stages TJ has announced he will be joining us from the USA LIVE!
Music this episode comes from: Nou, Bratakus, Taqbir and Zonbi
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