Stupid & Contagious

It's a wang week on Stupid & Contagious, we’re digging through the wardrobe and heading back to the golden age of the band T-shirt! We revisit the shirts we actually owned, the ones we desperately wan...

10 Sep 1h 1min

In episode160 we’re diving headfirst into the hazy, effects drenched world of shoegaze with Stephen Patman from Chapterhouse.Stephen takes us right back to the band’s beginnings, their early influence...

3 Sep 1h 52min

In episode 159 we’re digging into a genuine Britpop time capsule. Our guest is Douglas Vicenzi, an American Anglophile who spent the mid 90s filming and interviewing British bands as they passed throu...

27 Aug 1h 53min

This week it’s time for one of Luke’s Summer Specials! With the rest of the Stupid & Contagious crew taking a well-earned week off, Luke takes the reins for a one on one dive into one of his favourite...

20 Aug 1h

It's a wang week and in honour of the nominees being released for this years Mercury Prize we’re heading back to the 1990s and going through the Mercury Prize year by year: the nominees, the winners, ...

13 Aug 1h 1min

It's episode 156 and this week we're joined by Adi Vines from SwerveDriver!We dive into the story behind Raise, the early days of the band, the Oxford scene, Creation Records, touring alongside some o...

6 Aug 2h 8min

In episode 155 we're diving into one of the most debated eras in British music with author Paul Laird, whose brilliant book The Birth and Impact of Britpop challenges everything you thought you knew a...

30 Jul 1h 37min

This week on the Stupid And Contagious Podcast, we're joined by Mat Flint, the founder of one of the most underrated bands of the shoegaze era - Revolver!In the early '90s, Revolver had the music pres...

23 Jul 1h 54min