Is it possible to just be a musician anymore?

After a wandering preamble I take a look at the new Napoleon movie, should historical movies try and be accurate? Where does the line end between artistic license and open culture war propaganda, or t...

8 Dec 202337min

In Episode 184 I look at old rock and metal bands re-animating old albums and reaching back into their youth for inspiration, is it a simply cash grab to sell some merch and a reason to tour or a genu...

1 Dec 202338min

I had planned a completely different podcast, something or other about the music industry but seeing as my city was on fire last night and I walked through it I thought today should be a kinda emergen...

24 Nov 202328min

Episode 182 is a random look at 1960s counter cultural movement 'The Discordians', their founders, teaching and resonance in the modern age, feels like we could do with a lot more discord in our lives...

17 Nov 202346min

Episode 181 is chat about awful metal.....the worst bargain basement metal, joke albums made to cash in on how big metal was in the 80s, whole labels were devoted to doing so!Trust Metal Salvage to sh...

10 Nov 20231h 24min

This may be a fools errand but Episode 180 is a complex and controversial one, maybe I should stay out of it but we've tackled difficult subjects before on the podcast and I did one on the war in Ukra...

3 Nov 202339min

My brain is like Swiss cheese....is about the most insightful thing Episode 179 offers you but I try and get to grips with Joan of Arc, from a mention in a Celtic Frost lyric all the way to a whole ve...

27 Okt 202342min

This is the first podcast in weeks, I took a short break while on tour, so I look back on that, how you end up living in this artificial bubble on tour, which almost feels like a pre-internet period! ...

20 Okt 202339min