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Rolling Stones guitarist, Ronnie Wood discusses his parallel career as an artist. As a new exhibition of his work opens at the Andrew Martin showroom in London, Ronnie talks about how he has drawn inspiration from Delacroix, Caravaggio and Picasso. As a new three part series Boybands Forever starts on BBC2 and the iplayer, we explore what was behind the rise and fall of the boybands of the nineties and noughties with Richie Neville of Five and Hannah Verdier from Smash Hits. And, keyboard music from before the invention of the piano. Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen performs from her new album Reformation, a collection of pieces by Tudor-era composers William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Ruth Watts
Hear all the music on our rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunk A mash-up of Burt Bacharach, Scott Walker and Michael Nyman for the modern day, Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy tells us about his new best of album Charmed Life, 30 years in pop, and lovely horses. Neil joins guest Hannah Verdier plus Sîan and Andrew to discuss Guillermo del Toro's grand guignol fable Nightmare Alley, the joy of angst on the new Eels album, and low-key suspense movie Framed on Amazon Prime. And comedy writer David Quantick tells us about his friend and hero Barry Cryer who died this week. “I started a radio show because I wanted to force my musical tastes down the public's throats.” – Neil Hannon “I thought I missed all the fun in the 90s, but I preferred leaving parties after an hour and coming home to a sherry in front of Frasier…” – Neil “So many films are now like pop videos, but Guillermo del Toro really dwells on his scenes.” – Neil on Nightmare Alley “Olly Alexander is one of those pop stars who would be great Smash Hits fodder.” – Hannah Verdier “Who wouldn't love a song that rhymes ‘Colin Firth' with ‘earth'?” – Neil on Eels Written and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)' by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. The Culture Bunker is a Podmasters production. Rolling playlist: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will disaster princess Lana Del Rey hold on to her title as the F Scott Fitzgerald of the blasé Instagram generation with Chemtrails Over The Country Club? After the phantasmagoria of WandaVision, will the newly Marvelized Disney+ audience take to the bleakly realist political thriller The Falcon And The Winter Soldier? Plus a round-up of intriguing new streaming movies – The Columnist, The Banishing and Silk Road – and why you really really really should watch Sky’s new comedy thriller The Flight Attendant with Kaley Cuoco. Hannah Verdier of The Guardian and film critic Linda Marric are our guests. Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In Julien Temple’s biopic Crock Of Gold, Shane MacGowan is a wheezing wreck of himself. Is the Pogues frontman a neglected poet, a cautionary tale, an Irish hero or all three and more?Plus The Avalanches take the cut-and-paste sampledelic collage to wildly ambitious new places. And is David Fincher’s Mank – about the self-destructive alcoholic who wrote Citizen Kane – a work of dedication or just Orson Welles cosplay?Hannah Verdier of The Guardian and Sophie Harris of Mojo and Rolling Stone join Andrew and Siân to sort it all out.Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. ENDS See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week on pop culture’s premier inquisition…I’M MANDY, TRY ME: Does Diane Morgan’s new mini-series MANDY hit the highs of Philomena Cunk?CHILL BY SOUTH: Melbourne electro gadabouts Cut Copy go ambient on new sixth album Freeze, Melt. Will it assuage our panel’s heatstroke?DOING THE LORD'S JERK: It’s Catholic guilt vs teenage sexual “self-discovery” time in new comedy Yes God Yes. Will our panel experience holy ecstasy (followed by immediate shame)?William Shaw – Smash Hits and Details veteran turned writer of splendid crime books – and Guardian podcasts queen Hannah Verdier join Andrew and Siân to sort the sheep from the goats. Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to The Giddy Carousel of Pop's swingorilliant summer special! Simon and Gavin snip out their favourite bits from the ten issues of Smash Hits they've covered so far on the podcast, and stick them in their audio scrapbook to share with you. It'll brighten up your summer! The Giddy Carousel of Pop is part of the We Made This network of podcasts. HOSTS: Simon Galloway and Gavin Hogg GUESTS: Julie Hamill, David Hepworth, Rachael Galletly, Simon Philo, Catherine Sked, Barry McIlheney, Patricia Caliskan, Tim Robinson, Hannah Verdier.CONTACT DETAILS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/GiddyPopPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/GiddyPopPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/giddypoppod/Website: https://giddypoppod.home.blog/WE MADE THISTwitter: https://twitter.com/wemadethispodWebsite: https://wemadethispod.com/
Welcome to The Giddy Carousel of Pop's swingorilliant summer special! Simon and Gavin snip out their favourite bits from the ten issues of Smash Hits they've covered so far on the podcast, and stick them in their audio scrapbook to share with you. It'll brighten up your summer! The Giddy Carousel of Pop is part of the We Made This network of podcasts. HOSTS: Simon Galloway and Gavin Hogg GUESTS: Julie Hamill, David Hepworth, Rachael Galletly, Simon Philo, Catherine Sked, Barry McIlheney, Patricia Caliskan, Tim Robinson, Hannah Verdier. CONTACT DETAILS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/GiddyPopPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GiddyPopPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giddypoppod/ Website: https://giddypoppod.home.blog/ WE MADE THIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/wemadethispod Website: https://wemadethispod.com/
We loved his new album The Night Chancers and now we welcome Baxter Dury plus guest Hannah Verdier of The Guardian to this week’s conference call of pop. On the agenda: The new Sparks album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip! Do they still have it in their *checks notes* SIXTH decade in rock and/or pop? Baxter and Hannah suggest great albums of the Lockdown Era, including Jarvis Cocker’s as-yet unreleased Jarv Is. And what will the panel make of Andrew’s Old Film Club selection, Mike Judge’s fable of a dimwitted future America, Idiocracy?BONUS: Video of this high-level pop plenary will be available to everyone on our Patreon site from Sat 16 May. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Simon and Gavin welcome you back to The Giddy Carousel of Pop! In the second part of our chat with former Smash Hits deputy editor Hannah Verdier, we continue our look through the Smash Hits of 23 March - 5 April 1988 (the Easter hols!), plus she tells us about her time working at the mag in the late 90s/early 00s including a rather awkward encounter with Jon Bon Jovi and pop larks with Ash and Boyzone. Artists discussed include Pet Shop Boys, UB40, Bros, Climie Fisher, Sinitta, Taja Sevelle, Erasure, Deacon Blue, Patrick Swayze, The Fall, Morrissey and Rick Astley among many more.You can read the issue for yourself thanks to Like Punk Never Happened and Smash Hits Remembered and also check out the music from its pages on our Spotify and YouTube playlists. It's the next best thing to taping it off the radio!LINKS TO THE ISSUELike Punk Never Happened: https://tinyurl.com/u68jmmjSmash Hits Remembered: https://tinyurl.com/sn8dqn5PLAYLIST LINKSSpotify: https://tinyurl.com/slyu6zmYouTube: https://tinyurl.com/skrrpheThe Giddy Carousel of Pop is part of the We Made This network of podcasts.
Simon and Gavin welcome you back to The Giddy Carousel of Pop! In the second part of our chat with former Smash Hits deputy editor Hannah Verdier, we continue our look through the Smash Hits of 23 March - 5 April 1988 (the Easter hols!), plus she tells us about her time working at the mag in the late 90s/early 00s including a rather awkward encounter with Jon Bon Jovi and pop larks with Ash and Boyzone. Artists discussed include Pet Shop Boys, UB40, Bros, Climie Fisher, Sinitta, Taja Sevelle, Erasure, Deacon Blue, Patrick Swayze, The Fall, Morrissey and Rick Astley among many more. You can read the issue for yourself thanks to Like Punk Never Happened and Smash Hits Remembered and also check out the music from its pages on our Spotify and YouTube playlists. It’s the next best thing to taping it off the radio! LINKS TO THE ISSUE Like Punk Never Happened: https://tinyurl.com/u68jmmj Smash Hits Remembered: https://tinyurl.com/sn8dqn5 PLAYLIST LINKS Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/slyu6zm YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/skrrphe The Giddy Carousel of Pop is part of the We Made This network of podcasts.
Simon and Gavin welcome you once again to The Giddy Carousel of Pop! In the first of two parts, we have a good look through the Smash Hits of 23 March - 5 April 1988 (the Easter hols!) with the help of our special guest, freelance pop culture writer, contributor to The Guardian and former Smash Hits deputy editor in the late 90s/early 00s, Hannah Verdier. Hannah tells us about her time at the mag, as well as taking us back to the Smash Hits-obsessed teenage music geek who dreamed of nothing but getting a job at Ver Hits. Artists discussed include Pet Shop Boys, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Voice Of The Beehive, Des O'Connor, Michael Jackson, Stock, Aitken & Waterman, Patsy Kensit, Taylor Dayne, Michael Hutchence and Heart. You can read the issue for yourself thanks to Like Punk Never Happened and Smash Hits Remembered and also check out the music from its pages on our Spotify and YouTube playlists. It's the next best thing to taping it off the radio! LINKS TO THE ISSUE Like Punk Never Happened: https://tinyurl.com/u68jmmj Smash Hits Remembered: https://tinyurl.com/sn8dqn5 PLAYLIST LINKS Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/slyu6zm YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/skrrphe The Giddy Carousel is part of the We Made This network of podcasts.
Simon and Gavin welcome you once again to The Giddy Carousel of Pop! In the first of two parts, we have a good look through the Smash Hits of 23 March - 5 April 1988 (the Easter hols!) with the help of our special guest, freelance pop culture writer, contributor to The Guardian and former Smash Hits deputy editor in the late 90s/early 00s, Hannah Verdier. Hannah tells us about her time at the mag, as well as taking us back to the Smash Hits-obsessed teenage music geek who dreamed of nothing but getting a job at Ver Hits. Artists discussed include Pet Shop Boys, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Voice Of The Beehive, Des O'Connor, Michael Jackson, Stock, Aitken & Waterman, Patsy Kensit, Taylor Dayne, Michael Hutchence and Heart. You can read the issue for yourself thanks to Like Punk Never Happened and Smash Hits Remembered and also check out the music from its pages on our Spotify and YouTube playlists. It’s the next best thing to taping it off the radio! LINKS TO THE ISSUE Like Punk Never Happened: https://tinyurl.com/u68jmmj Smash Hits Remembered: https://tinyurl.com/sn8dqn5 PLAYLIST LINKS Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/slyu6zm YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/skrrphe The Giddy Carousel is part of the We Made This network of podcasts.
HOME ALONE: Is Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-scarfing class-battle nerve-twister Parasite really as good as they say? POSTHUMOUS POETICS: There’s another version of Gil Scott-Heron’s final album I’m New Here out. Makaya McCraven jazzes it up into We’re New Again. What are the pros and cons of the collab beyond the grave?MEMOIRS OF SHOEGAZING GENTLEMEN (AND LADIES): What does the vast new compilation C90 tell us about the idyllic, bowlheaded world of pre-Oasis indie pop?Guardian TV and podcasts writer Hannah Verdier and Kate Hodges – bassist and author of Warriors Witches Women: Mythology’s Fiercest Females – join Andrew and Siân to sort it all RIGHT out. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Revealed in the tea leaves of pop culture this week… LEST WE FUGGEDABOUDIT: Does Martin Scorsese’s elegiac epic The Irishman put the capstone on mob movies forever? And who’s best in it: Bobby de Niro, little Joey Pesci, Al ‘The Animal’ Pacino or Stephen ‘The Scousefather’ Graham?ME AND MY SHADOW: Trip hop originator DJ Shadow rails against the digitally-saturated present on ‘Our Pathetic Age’. Modern hip hop masterpiece or old man shouting at iCloud?THE SPECIAL FKA: The fragile, suspended, subliminal soul-poptronica of FKA Twigs – what’s her album ‘Magdalene’ saying about life as a woman in 2019 and does she need to say it a bit louder?AUTUMN ALMANACS: We choose our favourite albums for the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and is it time to put the heating on yet?Joining Siân and Andrew are this week’s special guests, Guardian TV and podcasts writer Hannah Verdier and alternative rock journo Martin Aston, author of The Story Of 4AD. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We’re joined by Guardian telly and podcasts queen HANNAH VERDIER and Telegraph/Guardian TV writer MICHAEL HOGAN to read the tea leaves of pop culture. On the agenda… FROM A VESPA TO A SCREAM: What it is with men and mod? Sky Arts’s Mod Weekend opens a window into the world of Weller worshippers and digs into the history of the thin-lapelled cult that won’t die. Is the world ready for Bradley Wiggins on Mod?OUT OF PSYCH, OUT OF MIND: Cosmic inner-spacemen of Kettering Temples return with their third album Hot Motion. Will the panel turn on, tune in or drop out? DECREE NASTY: Does Nick Hornby’s bite-sized marital counselling comedy State Of The Union (now on BBC2 and iPlayer) convince us that Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd could really be a couple? Is it funny? And what’s with the outrageous anti-middle-aged-music-journalism propaganda?Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We recorded this week’s podcast before the sad death of French house legend Philippe Zdar, who produced HOT CHIP’s fantastic new album ‘A Bath Full Of Ecstasy’. Author and ex-Face magazine editor Richard Benson and Guardian TV and podcasts writer Hannah Verdier join us to talk discuss the Chip’s magnum opus for the older, wiser raver.Plus! The astonishing horror movie IN FABRIC from Peter ‘Duke Of Burgundy’ Strickland. (Are we ready for the Scarfolk ‘Are You Being Served?’) MARK RONSON completes this week’s “sad bangers” mood with his long-awaited album of small-hours introspection, ‘Late Night Feelings’. And our guests bring in a tune each too. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Sophie Black at Soho Radio, London. 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week we scale the north face of Chatmandu with pop journo HANNAH VERDIER and pop-obsessed illustrator NADIA SHIREEN, both veterans of the sainted Smash Hits Academy of Excellence. What does our panel make of the return of ALAN PARTRIDGE, and will it make Andrew dial down his Piers Morganisms on the Bigmouth settee?Also: Can SLEAFORD MODS come to terms with the Big Time i.e. having a house with more than one bedroom? We delve into new album ‘Eton Alive’. And we missed the groundbreaking “woke horror” movie GET OUT when it first appeared, but it’s now on Netflix so that’s a good excuse to talk about it.And it’s farewell to episode numbers in the show title because Apple Podcasts have decided they don’t like them. What are you going to do, eh?Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden (pictured above). 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
They wouldn't let it lie. Spam! Pants! Soil! Is the all-new Vic n Bob's Big Night Out all we've been expecting from a big night in? The Kominsky Method on Netflix stars Mr Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, as ageing acting coach Sandy Kominsky - we ponder this dark, comedic "later life" series. Plus with new reissues of the three This Mortal Coil albums on 4AD, we listen to Ivo Watts-Russell's ethereal studio collective and debate whether it still packs a punch 27+ years on. And goodbye Nic Roeg, director of Performance, Man Who Fell to Earth, Walkabout and more. Music boffins Rob Fitzpatrick and Hannah Verdier join Siân. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a virtual pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Presented by Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
To celebrate the 101st edition of Now That's What I Call Music and the 100 song mega compilation Now That’s What I Call Now, Mark Goodier sits down with a distinguished panel of guests including Chris Moyles, Howard Jones, and more to discuss what NOW means to them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Ben Rylan sits down with Alice Vincent, arts and entertainment writer for The Telegraph, and Hannah Verdier, writer and author of The Guardian’s Pod Complex column, to talk TV and podcasts. Plus we meet Orlando Crowcroft who’s just written a book about the challenges of performing rock music in the Middle East.
This week special guests Miranda Sawyer and Hannah Verdier join Andrew and Matt to discuss the return of Clarkson, Hammond and May in Amazon's The Grand Tour, and Kate Bush’s live album. Plus London club Fabric gets one last chance, and Kanye West cancels his tour amid rumours of breakdowns. Warning: contains the phrase “Totally Quatermass!” Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We're skiving off on our hols – so here’s some of our favourite music discussion from the last few months: Alexis Petridis and Sylvia Patterson on ABC, Michael Hogan and Hannah Verdier on Bat For Lashes, Kate Mossman on The Monkees… and the obligatory much, much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week top TV journos Hannah Verdier and Michael Hogan join the smart pop culture podcast to tell us – literally – what we're missing. Also, Bat For Lashes' new album 'The Bride', the attack on the #Radiohead playback in Istanbul, and can #Beck's 'Odelay' really be 20 years old? Dear God, apparently so. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.