Hardcore Listing with Chris & Stu

Keith and Chris from We Are Scientists popped by to hang out with the boys at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. They may be touring the UK right now with their new album Megaplex, but that was all organised around the more important business of settling once and for all who the Top 5 Fictional Crime Fighters are. We Are Scientists are a New York City-based rock band that formed in Berkeley, Calif...

Happy Bank Holiday Gang. As an extra special treat we are giving you two releases this week. The first being our wicked catch up with Suicide Girl, Club Promoter and fellow podcast host Rebecca Crow! Chris had met Rebecca whilst attending a Progress Wrestling event and having had Jimmy Havoc on the show a few weeks before, thought it would be cool to have Rebecca come and run through a Top 5 of he...

Everything happens for a reason, thats why Rou Reynolds came on the show to talk through his chagrin of motivational platitudes and how they are lazily applied to the nuances in every day life. Rou is an English musician, singer, songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of Enter Shikari but he is also a DJ and that's how the boys met him, through their clubnight we.are.lizards. Hosted on Acast....

Fresh from visiting Scroob for a chat on Distraction Pieces Jay McAllister sat down with the boys for a natter about a subject close to all their hearts....watering holes. They talk about Jay’s new book, Drunk Folk stories, his ingenious merch stand at his show, gentrification, and the many wonderful venues and pubs across the country. Known by his performing name as Beans on Toast, Jay is from Br...

Todays episode is possibly Chris' favorite. You probably already guessed this from the Top 5 our awesome guest chose. Who is our guest? No other than Charlotte Hatherley, singer, guitarist and songwriter extraordinaire. Charlotte started her career in Britpop giants Ash, then went on to pursue a solo career as well find time to be a touring instrumentalist for Bryan Ferry, KT Tunstall, Bat for Las...

Fellow Essex boy Sam Duckworth met Chris & Stu at the Pink Toothbrush to run down his Top 5 Lyrics. Sam grew up in Southend-on-Sea and was signed to Atlantic Records in March 2006, after playing many gigs, both with punk rock band Silverskin and as Get Cape. As Get Cape, Duckworth has collaborated with Billy Bragg, Nitin Sawhney, Shlomo, Killa Kela, Baba Maal, Flea, Kate Nash and many others....

International comedian Rich Wilson is one of the countries finest comedians and popularly regarded as the UK’s best MC’s by many top comedians, such as Frank Skinner, Richard Herring and Sarah Millican. Stu saw Rich perform and Chris never heard the end of how funny it was. So to get Stu to shut up, they agreed to have him on the show. Turns out by Chris' own words Rich is a bit of a legend. He's...

International comedian Rich Wilson is one of the countries finest comedians and popularly regarded as the UK’s best MC’s by many top comedians, such as Frank Skinner, Richard Herring and Sarah Millican. Stu saw Rich perform and Chris never heard the end of how funny it was. So to get Stu to shut up, they agreed to have him on the show. Turns out by Chris' own words Rich is a bit of a legend. He's...

Why has it taken nearly 60 episodes for a guest to suggest this monster of a Top 5!?! Who knows, but thankfully James Walsh, Starsailor frontman and song writer finally took up the herculean task of trying to pick his favorite Shane Meadows films. This episode is an absolute treat, not only do you get to hear three Meadows fans discuss one of the greatest UK directors of all time but you get to ha...

Why has it taken nearly 60 episodes for a guest to suggest this monster of a Top 5!?! Who knows, but thankfully James Walsh, Starsailor frontman and song writer finally took up the herculean task of trying to pick his favorite Shane Meadows films. This episode is an absolute treat, not only do you get to hear three Meadows fans discuss one of the greatest UK directors of all time but you get to ha...

Don't you just hate everyone on Facebook? Chris and Stu do, and they were joined by Rob to go over a top 5 that all of us can relate to....one that covers all the annoying things other human beings get up to on Facebook. This episode is cathartic to say the least, we get all our frustrations out whilst having a good laugh and hearing about Rob's journey from Rugby League and the World Championship...

Don't you just hate everyone on Facebook? Chris and Stu do, and they were joined by Rob to go over a top 5 that all of us can relate to....one that covers all the annoying things other human beings get up to on Facebook. This episode is cathartic to say the least, we get all our frustrations out whilst having a good laugh and hearing about Rob's journey from Rugby League and the World Championship...

Born in Aberdeen to a military family, David’s formative years were spent all over the world in various army camps. David went to a military school Gordons in Surrey. Where he learnt the bagpipes and ironically an English accent. The plan was to join the British Army, until the last minute when he chickened out and went to drama school instead. David trained at the Drama Centre at the same time as...

The boys managed to grab 40 mins with Lee backstage at the Thameside Theatre in Grays before the launch of his new comedy night. Despite not having very long it was fun to meet and talk to Lee about his career, writing jokes, jokes being stolen, alternative comedy, best places to see it, and how he started on the Late Show. Hurst first became known to television viewers as a regular team member on...

Matt is a Scuzz TV presenter, dj, compere, music journalist and all round legend with a podcast you really need to check out called Life in the Stocks. He's been lucky enough to interview many punk, rock and hip hop legends such as John Lydon from the Sex Pistols, Nick Oliveri from Queens of the Stone Age and B-Real from Cypress Hill. He swang past the Whiff Inn on the same night as his pals the D...

Matt is a Scuzz TV presenter, dj, compere, music journalist and all round legend with a podcast you really need to check out called Life in the Stocks. He's been lucky enough to interview many punk, rock and hip hop legends such as John Lydon from the Sex Pistols, Nick Oliveri from Queens of the Stone Age and B-Real from Cypress Hill. He swang past the Whiff Inn on the same night as his pals the D...

Darkness visited the Whiff-Inn a few weeks back, as one of the UK's most infamous hardcore wrestlers Jimmy Havoc visited the boys to tell them what the official Top 5 batman graphic novels of all time are....and they weren't about to disagree. Actually, as it turns out Jimmy is one of the nicest dudes we'd ever had the pleasure of chatting to. Chris couldn't wait to get stuck into Jimmy choices as...

Darkness visited the Whiff-Inn a few weeks back, as one of the UK's most infamous hardcore wrestlers Jimmy Havoc visited the boys to tell them what the official Top 5 batman graphic novels of all time are....and they weren't about to disagree. Actually, as it turns out Jimmy is one of the nicest dudes we'd ever had the pleasure of chatting to. Chris couldn't wait to get stuck into Jimmy choices as...

Holy smokes we had Charles from Love Beer on and we didn't get totally wrecked!!!! Ok we get a bit wrecked! Instead we hit the jackpot with some of the best beers the North could offer us and Chris and Charles both popped their 2018 drinking cherry. Oh and the lads also bring their best bar snacks to the table. We dare you to watch this episode and not want to go get a high calibre beer from somew...

Holy smokes we had Charles from Love Beer on and we didn't get totally wrecked!!!! Ok we get a bit wrecked! Instead we hit the jackpot with some of the best beers the North could offer us and Chris and Charles both popped their 2018 drinking cherry. Oh and the lads also bring their best bar snacks to the table. We dare you to watch this episode and not want to go get a high calibre beer from somew...

Pritchard and Dainton swing past the Whiff-Inn to meet the boys for a cheeky beer and to discuss their top 5 Hellraisers, and seeing as these two boyo's made up 50% of the craziest bastards in the UK they are in a fair position to judge. Expect mental stories of partying in excess from all the biggest bands and actors in the world, but all pale in comparison to Pritchards story about the time he w...

Valentine's Day is upon us, so we felt there could be no better guest to feature than Alix Fox and her outstanding decision to list her Top 5 most bizarre sex toys. Definitely the most sexy episode so far, 'too sexy' some might say. Those 'some' being Chris and Stu as Alix gave them a peak behind the curtains on what fun and sometimes very niche appetites people are feeding with their favorite onl...

Valentine's Day is upon us, so we felt there could be no better guest to feature than Alix Fox and her outstanding decision to list her Top 5 most bizarre sex toys. Definitely the most sexy episode so far, 'too sexy' some might say. Those 'some' being Chris and Stu as Alix gave them a peak behind the curtains on what fun and sometimes very niche appetites people are feeding with their favorite onl...

Nick Hodgson is one talented musician. Drummer and songwriter for the Kaiser Chiefs, releasing some of the most infectious pop of the last decade. Nick now produces his own solo material and has worked with legends such as Duran Duran, Shirley Bassey, Q-Tip, Mark Ronson and more recent artists such as Rat Boy. Nick visited Chris and Stu at the Acast studios where the boys soon discover his Top 5 i...

Finally we have got round to releasing the Xmas Essex Homecoming gig! Over the course of these two episodes you are going to get to catch up with some of the great guests the boys have had over the last year.....all on one show based on the best things about Essex. And as it was Christmas, Chris bought Stu and the guests some lovely presents....but do they contain pubes?? And did Stu buy Chris one...