Ep 150: Our favourite guests, most awkward interviews, and answers to your questions, with Jarvis Cocker, Matt Berninger and more
What's been our most awkward interview yet? How do we charm our guests? Who have we been starstruck by? And c'mon guys, why is this thing called 'Midnight Chats'? As our podcast reaches its 150 episo...
24 Sep 202450min
Ep 149: Big albums coming this autumn, Jane’s Addiction implode, and are people about to start selling their vinyl collections?
The summer slump is over and what feels like hundreds of artists are gearing up for new albums this autumn. On this week's episode, Greg and Stu get into what coming soon from The Cure, FKA Twigs, Col...
17 Sep 202436min
Ep 148: The best acceptance speeches ever, Kendrick at the Super Bowl and Geordie Greep on the death of Black Midi and the birth of his debut solo album
For the last 5 years, London band Black Midi have pushed experimental rock music to new and thrilling places, inspired as much by jazz fusion as math rock and no wave. But last month, quite unexpected...
10 Sep 202453min
Ep 147: The scam of Oasis' 'dynamic' ticket pricing, no thanks to a Smiths reunion, and interview guests Lankum and The Lemon Twigs
Part of this week's episode of MC comes from End of the Road festival, where Stu met up with Irish drone folk band Lankum and put your questions to Long Island sibling duo The Lemon Twigs. Even the on...
3 Sep 202445min
Ep 146: Oasis reunion verdict – the good news, the worrying news, and the inside story about plums and pints of piss
Like it or not, Oasis are back together for the reunion tour that's surprised absolutely no one. As a former stan of the band, Stu really should be feeling better about this news than he is, while Gre...
27 Aug 202435min
Ep 145: Charli XCX archive interview revisited – not as bad as we originally thought
Charli XCX's career highlight was coming on our podcast back in 2018, for what turned out to be a rushed conversation about art school, living in LA, writing songs for Blondie and seeing songs as colo...
19 Aug 202444min
Ep 144: Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten on throwing away good ideas, the band's new look, and going beyond punk
Ahead of their new album Romance, people can't stop talking about Fontaines D.C.'s new look. One week after Glastonbury, the Dublin band's singer, Grian Chatten, had Stu round to his flat to discuss t...
12 Aug 202444min
Ep 143: Jeff Bezos firing William Shatner into space, working at the New Yorker and almost quitting music, with Cassandra Jenkins
New York musician Cassandra Jenkins really shouldn't be on Midnight Chats, or any podcast talking about her new album, My Light, My Destroyer, because that record, near-perfect though it is, was never...
5 Aug 202450min
