Beat Motel Zine
By Andrew Culture
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Welcome to Beat Motel Zine, the comedy-infused alt-music podcast! Born from a zine from the DIY scene, we blend laughs with punk, metal, and everything offbeat. Discover the weirder side of bands, from unintentionally funny stage antics to musical mishaps. Tune in for a profane, comedic journey through alternative tunes, where every episode is a laugh. Join us as we explore music's funniest fringes with a punk rock spirit!
Can the alternative music scene and comedy mix? Of course they can; we'll prove it to you. Warning, episodes contain creative profanities in the vein of The Thick of It.
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Echo and the Bunnymen: Blinding the Audience for Art
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May 11, 2026 |
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Viking influence on music
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Foreign music
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Interwar music (world war one and two)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Beat Motel Episode 161 Ego-death indulgent Spectacular Special
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Great Bass lines of our time with Tom Klute (a.k.a Tommy Stupid)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Normal lineup, weird noises
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Influential albums that sold naff all copies
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Autumn
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Great music, uncomfortable lyrics
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Beefy Smells and Bad Riffs: The Water Episode
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Citric Dummies Drew Special (not quite an interview)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Fast music for slow times
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mike Watt on The Stooges, The Minutemen, and Why Bass is Actually a Drum
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Good musicians that pop up in interesting places
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Songs We Like That Were About Sport
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Acts we used to hate, but now we love
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Jumpers for goalposts
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Bands we respect but don't get
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Musicians in films that weren't about them
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Crazy Crowds
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Odd concept albums
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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How to end side A
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Bands That Are Better as a Documentary Than to Listen To
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Cats
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Obscure Genres
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Back to School
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Songs to swing your pants to
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Summer Holidays
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Songs for long car journeys
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Hellsinki Metal Festival 2025 - Beer, bands and bonkers wrestling
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Scenes Like These – Bury St Edmunds Rehearsal Rooms Fundraiser Special
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Crusty Jugglers and Flaming Skulls: A Guide to Iconic Album Covers
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Great band, terrible name
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Peel Sessions – DIY Music Glory & Elderly Gentlemen from Mayhem - with Mick Derrick from Prolapse
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Bands we'd get in a fight over, with Martin Whiskin
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Bands We Wish We Were In (For Beer, Glory & Ridiculous Haircuts)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Kin Heavy Tunes
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Making sweet sweet music with the person you make sweet sweet love with
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Difficult Person, Interesting Artist
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Colours
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Forbidden Music
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May 26, 2025 |
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Albums That Feel Like Coming Home (and Other Toilet Mishaps)
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May 19, 2025 |
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Band or Business? The Ugly Truth
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May 12, 2025 |
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Machines of Music: Robot Bands, Fear Factory Drama, and McCartney's Madness | Beat Motel Podcast
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May 05, 2025 |
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Sunglasses, Squirrels & Skepta: A Musical Meltdown
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Bands We Dismissed (Then Had to Eat Our Words About)
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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How to End a Song (or Not): Slam Cores, Crust Punks & Bendy Phones
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Now that's what I call Beat Motel Music Podcast
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Velvet Underground's Influence: From Nico to Noise Rock | ft. Dave Lennon
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Bands with Weird Merch
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Music we think we'll like when we're very old and weather forecasting man plums
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Bands to introduce friends to a genre
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Bands and genres we've grown out of
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Crate Digging and Smug Chord Progressions
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Albums That Broke Bands: The Most Painful Recordings Ever
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Albums That Should've Been EPs (And Toilets in Bury St. Edmunds)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Bad Band Reunions vs Good Reunions & Michael Crawford joining Queen
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Great Collaborations in Music (And Why Ginger Baker Had Horses in His House)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Pointless Collaborations in Music (And Why We Love to Hate Them)
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Good B-sides vs Bad B-sides
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Bands you wouldn't want to cover
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Soundtracks you NEED to hear
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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They sampled WHAT?
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Forgotten bands
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Rivals
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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When the Drums Kick In
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Best album endings
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Great album, terrible song
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Singing Drummers
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Non English language tracks
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Multiple songwriters in one band & great band, terrible decision
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Bands who change members, for better or worse
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Great band, terrible decision & multiple songwriters in one band
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Albums for hangovers - Beat Motel Music Podcast
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Bands you wish you were in
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Bands whose sound doesn't match their image
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Naff debut album, great follow up
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Bands with fake drummers
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Cars in songs
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Music videos as movies
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Deathfest Helsinki 2024 review
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Bands who made films
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Best and worst music documentaries
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Best and worst biopics
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Love or hate the art, but love or hate the artists
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Gigs we wish we had gone to - with David Jago
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Bands that outgrew their genre with David Jago
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Church organs in contemporary music, with Stuart Bowditch
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Bands we missed out on
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Bands that changed my life
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Brighten the Corners 2024 day 2 (Saturday) - review
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Brighten the Corners Festival - day 1 review
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Songs about being musicians
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Bands that change the way you think - with Oli Anrufen
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Bands with longevity who definitely did turn into w@nk
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May 27, 2024 |
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You only need one of their albums
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May 20, 2024 |
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Killer compilation albums
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May 13, 2024 |
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Bands with longevity, who don't turn into w@nk
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May 05, 2024 |
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Green Lung + Lowen live at Colchester Arts Centre 30/04/24
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Sounds nasty, but it's nice
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Sounds nice, but it's nasty
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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I preferred their early stuff - with Dan Callis
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Best opening lyrics
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Bands you love but wish you didn't - with Dan Callis
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Irrelevant Intros
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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The Replacements - All Shook Down DEEP review & reappraisal
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Nitpicking lyrics
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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BC Camplight + William Doyle - Ipswich Baths - live review
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Bands who cover themselves
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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ExBuryMental 13 experiment electronic/noise live review
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Make me like Metallica
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Cool odd noises in songs
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Singalong live bands
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Best live music videos on Youtube in the world ever (with Jay Trenchart)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Bad band names
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Best of 2023, but it's not a clips show, it's all new content!
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Best drum fills
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Honest love songs with Luke Littleboy
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Bands my friends hate (but I adore) with Jay Trenchart
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Time travel gigs - with Martin Whiskin
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Le Petite Mort - odd post-hit albums
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Perfect albums
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Late bloomers - Musicians with late-era excellence
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Covers beat originals
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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ATP - we love you, and we hate you
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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BATUSHKA + Kanonenfieber @ The Dome, London - Live Review
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Middle 8s - take it up the bridge
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Fascinating Aida @ Ipswich Regent - live review
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Wolfheart + Before the Dawn @ The Dome, London - live review
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Live albums - what's the point?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Drummers- can we get some action from the back section?
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Marv Gadgie - Ferocious thrashing punk rock, zines and childhood larks
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Field recordings and the glorious noise scene with Stuart Bowditch
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Henge + Dogshow @ St Stephens, Ipswich - live review
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Questions from an AI hipster (bonus episode)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Bass (How Low Can You Go, Morally)- Beat Motel Music Podcast
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Gadgie #50 & Network of friends #5 - zine reviews
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Band Books
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Hot Tramp, Ecto Peach, J.S. & The Lockerbillies, The Interesting Times Gang, Impilo (live review)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Secret Album Tracks
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Max Cooper + Alex Banks @ Norwich Arts Centre 01/10/23 (live review)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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The Grey & Vandampire, The Smokehouse, Ipswich (live review)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Country Music, but not awful Country Music
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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More solo than song!
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Workout Tracks
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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ExBuryMental 11 @ The Rehearsal Rooms, Bury St Edmunds 09/09/23 (live review)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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The SKA Punk episode
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Revisiting The Fall with Mark Beaumont-Thomas
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Swans live @ Norwich Waterfront 23/08/23 - Live Review
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Meshuggah + Halo Effect @ Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland (live review)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023 - a gonzo review
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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And none of them knew they were parodies
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Bunjies of Soho, folk, skiffle and fire hazards with Nick Blatchley
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Nujumi + John Bowers + Strandings + Mawhrin Skel live at Ipswich Smokehouse
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Supermerger in Rotterdam (interview)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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A short history of the Amen break
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Wu-Tang: An American Saga - review
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Ipswich Music Day 2023 Report
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Trv, kvlt black metal lo-fi-isms - academic notes
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Bands who don't translate from stage to record
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Brighten the Corners Festival - Day 2 review
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Brighten the Corners Festival, Day 1 review
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Asunojokei + Lebrique + The Grey | Colchester Arts Centre | Review
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Never mind the melody, here's the lightshow
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The Ballad of Blur
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May 29, 2023 |
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Rival Consoles + Hainbach live at The Barbican
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May 28, 2023 |
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Why do good bands make bad recordings?
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May 15, 2023 |
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Gateway Bands
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Falling out of love with Rancid and musicians releasing too much music
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Cuckoo Farm Studios Experimental Music All-Dayer
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Knowing you, knowing us
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Beat Motel Zine (Trailer)
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Mar 19, 2023 |