Listening To Punk With My Parents

I got my mum to listen to some of the best in underground U.K punk music and as I anticipated, she hated it. She reviewed the songs, destroyed the band's reputations, lists the rubbish she likes among other things.

My Dad discovers he likes the powerviolence sub-genre of punk, unveils his new hit single to the world, writes a theme tune for this show two episodes in, and learns about Jehovah.

In my head, getting my seven year old son, usually calm and chatty, and previously a huge Bad Brains fan, to do the podcast with me was a brilliant idea. I forgot that he now loves terrible pop band for people who don't like music Imagine Dragons, and he no longer wants a mohawk or tattoos. And likes saying bum a lot and shouting. But I published it anyway.

This week we flip the script. My punk rock mum Fizzy came on to review songs my real mum sent us. So disclaimer there is absolutely no punk on this punk podcast whatsoever. But we do record a Hip Hop song and end up liking Bruno Mars, so it's not all bad.

This week I have Mary Banger, our long suffering drummer Dan's mother. We take it really seriously, listen to church music, discuss Mick Hucknall's sexual prowess, opera singers not writing their own music, and just bully her son for half hour or so.

This episode sees my punk grandads Jeff and Richie, punk veterans with bands such as Skindred, Dub War, The Abs and Bad Sam talk to me about Russian lunatics, a visit to Paul Weller's house, ruining Patrick Swayze's Hollywood moment and a load more rubbish with a bit of D.I.Y punk thrown in the mix for good measure

My mum returns for a second round, and I took it easy on her and didn't play her any hardcore punk this time. She miserably fails a relationship test, rates her own son lowest, and some shady details about her past are revealed.

Firstly, sorry that the audio quality isn't great, my choice of mic placement for this episode was a disaster, and me and my dad are way too punk to fake it and do it again. Anyway this week sees us learning how to be more punk rock from How To Youtube videos, we discover that my dad's hit song Red Island has been adapted into a Hollywood movie, and we listen to some wicked DIY punk bands too.