AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

This podcast is part 2 of the tour diary, you wanted sex, drugs and rock n roll and you are gonna get parking congestion, Brexit confusion, industrial wastelands, wet leather, the continuing saga of the missing merch and who took all the Vitamin C. How habits have changed, are people not buying tickets any more in order to be able to pull out of being social at the last moment? and all sorts of ot...

After finally getting back to playing live music and being back on tour this is part one of a sideways look at the experience. In theory a tour diary but of course in normal AA style it rambles across quite a few subjects and takes some sideways turns and twists! to be continued next week!!! to listen to the newly released demo version of the Primordial 'Redemption' album go to https://fanlink.to/...

In E 105 AA continues the recent threads about the Music Industry, as Primordial embarks on another tour, AA considers how the industry has changed over the decades, what did managers do back in the day, the demands put on musicians now to have a multitude of skills, how the punk rock, hardcore, Nwobhm Do It yourself ideal changed the music world back in the day and how the ideal of remote living...

Tuesday's bonus episode was a video cast on AA's Youtube channel, Call from the grave's 'Guide to Slayer'. It does what it says on the tin! Looking back on the career of Slayer from 1981 to the present day! Haunt that damn chapel. www.patreon.com/AlanAverill Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

In E 104 AA asks can touring survive? inspired by listening to the audio book of Henry Rollins 'Get in the van' for the first time, AA looks at the logistics of touring, how new costs are being absorbed by musicians and the crowd, what is because of the war? what is simply price gouging, what is price gouging? how does a tour get started, get booked and become structured. How will that change as w...

Continuing the theme of Tuesday being the rock, metal, music chat this is part 2 of last weeks great Metallica debate, which originally appeared as a video cast over on AA's Youtube channel. This is the format for as long as AA's brain is still functioning! Expect normal Agitating service to resume on Friday! support the show over at http://www.patreon.com/AlanAverill the podcast is sponsored by h...

Episode 103 is a chat with Mikko from SWALLOW THE SUN. Primordial are on tour with them and Rome in under two weeks so it seemed like a good idea to get together for a conversation. Mikko is Finnish, so as laconic, low energy, glass half empty and bleak as you can imagine! Check out their new album 'Moonflowers' on Century Media!! see you all on tour IG nemtheanga_primordial primordial_official to...

Tuesday is music day so this one does what it says on the metal tin! This one originally appeared as a video cast on my Youtube channel! The great Metallica debate 1983-1991 with Addi from Solstafir IG nemtheanga_primordial primordial_official to support the show go to http://www.patreon.com/AlanAverill the show is sponsored by http://www.metalblade.com use the promo code ALAN for 10% off in N.Ame...

The Echoes of Animism...... Episode 101 is a long form chat with multi instrumentalist KATI RAN, using a variety of historical folk instruments she is part of what we could call the new-folk scene that's been growing across the world over the last decade. She's just worked on the soundtrack for the Netflix show VALHALLA, has released several of her own solo albums, worked with Gaahl, soundtracked...

So AA is going twice a week for the time being, so Tuesday will be music industry chat, heavy metal, tour stories, and generally chat about bands, the rock and the roll....Friday will remain more about politics, social commentary, culture, history and all of the other! Let's see how long AA keeps this up for! This one is pretty simple, how is the current war economy, the crisis in Ukraine and pric...

The news is that AA is going to be a twice weekly podcast, looks like a Tuesday episode will be more about music, the industry, metal and tour stories/info and the Friday will remain to the episode for cultural commentary, left of field takes on society, politics and history. This being the Friday episode this one is about the war in Ukraine, how huge sections of online society seem to have simply...

Episode 98 is something of a stopgap episode while AA takes a few days off from the screen and unplugs.....a discussion that originally appeared on his Patreon last year about the Primordial album 'The Gathering Wilderness' ! if you want more content like this and to support the show go to www.patreon.com/AlanAverill Normal service will be resumed next week!!! Support this show http://supporter.ac...

Part two of looking at the war in Ukraine, the Nuclear component. What was game theory and how did it apply to the cold war and what does it mean now, why this changes the nature of this conflict compared to all others in recent history. is Putin a rational actor? will Ukraine become the new Afghanistan? what did the West get wrong, why are the right alligning themselves with Putin and some of the...

Generals gathered in their masses..... In E 97 I try to tackle the Ukraine crisis from a few angles, personal stories, reflections on visiting both countries having spent a lot of time in Eastern Europe, the experiences, history, people and culture. Trying to understand Putin's motivations, from the fall of the Soviet Union through to the current crisis. Some dark dark Ukranian history and the reg...

As promised just a few weeks late a podcast about the life of Elisabeth Bathory, her story has resonated through the centuries, sex, death, murder, sadism, intrigue, witchcraft, it has all the components of a story we would click on in a heartbeat today, but what is fact and fiction? Did she really kill over 600 women making her the greatest female serial killer of them all? did she really bathe i...

Episode 95 is a chat with my old friend comedian STVE HUGHES, random and spontaneous this one is a wild ride. Best enjoyed over on my Youtube channel for the facial expressions and hand gestures! Steve is a free spirit, a deep thinker, a spiritual animal but also one who stands up for free speech and called cancel culture for what it as and the threats it as gonna pose for us all way way back in t...

E 94 considers an overheard conversation in the post office about war, the replacement of Fiat currency, Bitcoin and the social currency system.....or was it just the new stylings of working class flirting? how the Canadian trucker story is being framed by the media, does Rogans apology mean anything or is it now just a sign of weakness for his enemies as they smell blood in the water, and what th...

In E 93 AA dive into the war of words and calls for censorship between Neil Young and other musicians on one side and Spotify, Joe Rogan on the other over and what they consider misinformation during the pandemic. Threatening to pull their music from the streaming platform. I look at Youngs history with Spotify, who actually owns his back catalogue, is pulling his strings and what would seem to be...

So this podcast is quite the landmark episode! Ireland has more or less lifted all restrictions, moved out of the lockdown fog, while many places in Europe and the Anglo-sphere are doubling down, why is that? what could the reasons be? Are we trolling the EU, is our decision along with the UK to drop all restrictions a signpost for other countries or are we massive outliers? What has Putin been up...

Episode 91 is a chat with Scottish comedian LEO KEARSE Leo is an open opponent of cancel culture, free speech proponent, famous for not only his award winning comedy but hilarious takes and take downs on and over woke-ism on mainstream terrestrial TV and Youtube. He might also be known to ye for his contributions to the 'Podcast of the Lotus Eaters' IG : nemtheanga_primordial support the show over...

In E 90 AA goes all Black Mirror, does a small bit of heavy metal commentary before getting into the recent exchanges in the US congress between Fauci and Rand Paul, the implications of the email leaks, why sports captures the public imagination more than boring old politics. Why are some of our European leaders now leading with language from the Trump playbook? what does the AR Meta, Oculus rift...

In the first Episode of the New Year we remain firmly in Season 1 as restrictions still stay in place. Have we sacrificed social society for health and safety? was that the trade, only we were not aware we had signed up to the agreement? A visit it to a testing facility has AA thinking maybe so. A mixed response to an angry post about the fact that Ireland still has an 8pm curfew, and how the stat...

The last transmission of the year considers what is freedom? did we ever have it? AA considers that it means much much more than simply 'doing whatever you want' as critics of libertarianism claim, it's much more complex than that, and do we get it back, does the new milder variants indicate the end of the pandemic, will vaccine passports stay in place if so, or will there be another emergency aro...

Episode 87 is a chat with Jackie from Into the Necrosphere podcast, one of the many up and coming metal podcasts out there and definitely a kindred spirit when it comes to issues of freedom of speech, liberty, freedom and sceptical thinking, this one ain't got much music involved, although does contain a story about Avenged Sevenfold, but deals with where we are right now politically, culturally a...

Episode 86 is a breathless stream of consciousness, a ramble across many topics, is using the words conspiracy or tinfoil hat just the last resort of the lazy and ill informed who have no will to debate but just want to shut down conversation? when did metal and punk become quite so conformist? are there any dissenting voices to the mainstream narrative? are musicians now just carrying water for m...