Mid Life Punk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail You, my friends, are cordially invited to the ceremonial opening of the 4th wave of Ska. To open proceedings, we're joined by the official first 4th wave band, Broken 3 Ways! This double trumpeted ska-core outfit have skanked their way into MLPP towers fresh from a week long run with The Slackers, and are in to tell us all about it! As well as that, we discuss Tom's theo...

Send us Fan Mail Minimal Faff are in the hot seat today! They come from Manchester with tales of evictions, setting boundaries and other depressing matters. But, delivered in an upbeat and jaunty way. Barrett has tales from Whitby Abbey, Tom has another comprehensive book review for you and we finally put the "My Gay Uncle" debate to bed. Music this week is from: The Scutches, Nothing Th...

Send us Fan Mail A returning guest for you this week, Mr Dan Goatham! Ahead of touring the UK with nothing but his acoustic guitar, Dan fills us in on what he's most excited about and nervous about for his trip.  We also chat new projects, Spoilers, Snuff and the Dan's new Gimme Gimme era. As well as that, Dan joins us for a culinary based game. Tom and Barrett have been like ships in th...

Send us Fan Mail Berkshire beckons us in this week, as political punkers Tape It Shut pop in for a chinwag. We hear about gigs that were let downs, gigs that were great, least favourite politicians, parasites, capitalism of varying styles and the inspiration behind their tracks. Tom shares how he's been straying from the punk path, Barrett's buddy gets banged up, we get a story from Tom&...

Send us Fan Mail We were graciously invited by our chums at Punk Rock Elite Podcast to attend the UK premiere of the new NOFX feature length documentary '40 Years of Fuckin Up'. Which we gratefully accepted. Join Tom and Danny Barrett for a whistlestop tour through Obese Mick's latest cinematic offering, including remarks about: the dangers of roving microphones, seeing Wattie Bucha...

Send us Fan Mail Leicester is our destination, and Last Edition are our inspiration for our second Ska band in 3 weeks! Matty, the top brass, is in telling us about his pop group which features a pregnant person currently, including some of their very salubrious gigs and the not so salubrious. We chat crisps, dead snooker players, Englebert, stupidly spelled place names and soccer. Tom and Danny B...

Send us Fan Mail MLPP Towers offers some respite to 3 weary Punkabillies this week, who are unfortunately located in Stoke on Trent. The Two Step Goodbyes are very forthcoming with their song topics, their drug (purely medicinal) addled car journeys stoking local beefs, and their tip top band nights in Stoke, "Bars Attacks". They also go all in on a brand new game of Tom's invention...

Send us Fan Mail For the first time in a very long time, we have a fully fledged ska band on! And that band is West Yorkshire's Nutty Skunk! They, by their own admission, were groomed....into ska at a young age. Logistics are a key topic in the conversation for this 7 piece who have a "do what you can" attitude to practicing. We also hear a HMV horror story, discuss the sound engine...

Send us Fan Mail Putting the "oop" in Super-Group this week are our guests, fen dwellers Al Pacino's Sister. This rock band is made up of members of both Sprainer and Das Kapitans, so get yourself excited. We discuss their extensive tours, their back catalogue which is so robust they've had to put out a compilation and we get the inside track on how a super group copes with mul...

Send us Fan Mail It's over. All done for four years.  The MLPP World Cup closing ceremony is contained within this episode! We're joined by some of our participants to round off the tournament and to reflect on some of the music we've discovered. We also hear from "Campiones Del Mundo", Spain's Main Line 10 who have been in touch to collect their trophy. Music this we...

Send us Fan Mail The 48 have become 4. Only one more game to cover after these! Argentina, Spain, France and England battle out to be 90 minutes (plus half time show) away from the WORLD CUP FINAL! Our bands are Cadena Perpetua, Main Line 10, Lion's Law and not Leatherface this time I'm afraid.... As well as the soccer, we also review a BBC drama and announce our excitedness about what o...

Send us Fan Mail We're down to the last 8. Not many of the original 12 punk pundits remain. It's hotting up, but is it coming home? Our remaining guests are Josh (Character Actors), Willie Shango (The Papashangos), TJ Whittaker (77 Spears), Richard F White, Dave Rolfe (Guineapigs), Benny Rabble and Dave Shackleford. The music this time is provided by Lion's Law (France), The Promdat...

Send us Fan Mail The second part of the Round of 16 (aka The Culling) is covered in this episode! With our team managers Steve Potter & The Prisoner of Peterborough & Simon Bailey (off Das Kapitans), Benny Rabble (People's Poet), Josh Booth (Character Actors) Big Willie Shango (The Papashangos), Dave Shackleford and TJ Whittaker (77 Spears) have been putting a shift in The bands are:...

Send us Fan Mail We're whittling 'em down like nobody's business now. The first half of the Round of 16 is covered in this episode and features our intrepid correspondents TJ (77 Spears), Ross (Shackleford) Willie Shango (for the Papashangos), Richard White (the aldi cider aisle), Steve Potter and the Halfbood Prince (Das Kapitans) and Dave Rolfe of Guineapigs. The bands providing t...

Send us Fan Mail Pour one out for some of the great (and not so great) bands/songs we learned to love in the group stages. Sadly, we lost 2 of our 12 participants in the Round of 32, so join us in commiserating them. Things are hotting up now gang, so buckle up and get ready. To play us out this time, it had to be the Bosnian Crash Mats: The Dubioza Kolektiv

Send us Fan Mail Tom and Danny Barrett provide an update on which bands were sadly eliminated from the MLPP World Cup. No huge losses, but sad all the same. Music to commemorate the fallen is from Tunisia's KHASSARAT.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the North West of England, where we keep a band called Lynskey. We've let Bea come on the pod to share their new, updated and extended line up as well as the vast majority of their latest EP "This is for you". We chat about hate crime near misses, putting a tour together featuring musician thespians and plate spinning. Tom declares VV day, Barrett gives a...

Send us Fan Mail The final group up for dissection is group L. The musical sleuth assigned to unearthing bands from each place is Dave off Shackleford. The countries he's got to work with are: England, Ghana, Panama and Croatia. The bands he's chosen are Leatherface, Mizerija, Factor VIII and Osekre & The Lucky Bastrds Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A po...

Send us Fan Mail Group K. Probably the most geographically disparate group of them all. The person who has been extracting nugs from this particular diamond mine is Steve Potter, off Das Kapitans. The countries in that group are: Portugal, Uzbekistan, Columbia and DR Congo. You'll be very glad to here that the Nazis make a return, as well as Northern Irish soap stars and property experts from...

Send us Fan Mail 9 down, 3 to go! Group J of the MLPP World Cup is managed by top spoken word artiste, Benny Rabble! All of his countries except one begin with A. They are: Argentina, Algeria, Austria and Jordan. The lucky bands that he's selected are: Red Lights Flash, Jabal Al Mareikh, Demokhratia and Cadena Perpetua. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A podcast ab...

Send us Fan Mail Global super star Richard Fuckin' White is in to explain his choices to represent the countries which populate group I. He also explains the backstory of a song that was snatched away from him because he got the artist's nationality wrong.  Those countries are: Iraq, Senegal, Norway and France. The bands he has chosen are: Lion's Law, The Promdates, Dog Faced Corpse...

Send us Fan Mail Group H representatives have been chosen by Dave Rolfe from off Guineapigs. He has been lucky enough to have to research punk artistes from Spain, Cape Verde, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia. The artists he has chosen are: Main Line 10, Scúru Fitchádu, Porfiados and Sound of Ruby. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A podcast about life, law and... Listen on: App...

Send us Fan Mail Group G of this global punk odyssey is curated by none other than Willie Shango, bass twanger for The Papashangos! Willie has had the good fortune to select bands from Belgium, Iran, Egypt and New Zealand.  The Bands he's chosen are: The Lashes, Gnar Jar, Dick Move and Crackups. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A podcast about life, law and... List...

Send us Fan Mail Don't tell my heart, my achey jakey heart. That's what will be ringing around stadiums of Group F in Japanese, Swedish, Arabic (Tunisian dialect) and Dutch. Jake Dobbins has been allocated to this one, and the bands he's chosen to represent their countries are: Hi-Standard, The Shivvies, Khassarat and Adhesive. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real im...

Send us Fan Mail The representatives of Group E have been chosen by stand up comic and podcaster Eddie French off the Punk Rock Elite Podcast. The nations having their punk rock gubbins explored this time are Curacao, Ivory Coast, Equador and Germany. The representatives for those countries respectively are The XQs, Akeikoi, Senor Jaid and Turd Sandwich. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real peo...