Down With Boring

Dork's flagship podcast-slash-radio show Down With Boring is back this month with a special show recorded direct at this year's Great Escape! Spanning the festival's four days, Jake and Jamie caught up with Dork favourites in pubs, vans and gazebos across a brilliant week on the south coast. There's  Shame  ahead of their headline set on the Dork stage for our official closing party, Keo mid-takeo...

Back for another edition with an album of the month from Lime Garden, new music from Olivia Rodrigo, Blossoms and The Itch, and loads more.

Dork's flagship podcast-slash-radio-show  Down With Boring  returns with an hour of extra sunlight and  Naomi Scott  in tow, fresh off the release of her brilliant new album  'F.I.G.'  The acting-type-turned-pop-force joins us for a chat recorded at London's hive of new music, the Sebright Arms – and, because we can't help ourselves, we're also settling the very important question of whether Jamie...

Jake and Jamie check in with  Westside Cowboy  at both ends of their completely sold-out UK headline tour — once at the start, and once at the finish line (cheers, technology failures). Across the episode, they dig into the band’s rapid rise, the reality of touring, and – as ever – the important stuff, including what absolutely nobody wants to discover downstairs after hosting a house party. With ...

Overpass join as special guests. We get into their debut album, life on the road, what touring actually does to your brain, and whether they’d happily live on a log flume forever. There’s plenty of new music to get stuck into too. We’re talking Madison Beer’s new album, A$AP Rocky’s latest, and spinning fresh tracks from The Itch, Lime Garden and Bleech 9:3, alongside a cut from the extended editi...

Down With Boring comes at you recorded live from this month's Rockaway Beach, featuring Antony Szmierek and Prima Queen.

This week, Fred from Spector drops by to chat about the shows wrapping up the year, the 10th anniversary of ‘Moth Boys’, and what Christmas presents he’d buy for Nelson Mandela and CMAT. Naturally. We also get into our favourite — and least favourite — Christmas classics, talk about ‘Lullaby’ by Together For Palestine, and attempt to unpack the mystery of Elton John’s oven. We’ll be back in Januar...

This time Jake and Jamie are running through the tracks and albums that made their 2025 - expect a bit of Viagra Boys, a touch of Antony Szmierek, a teaspoon of Turnstile and a big old helping of CMAT.

Another Monday, another Down With Boring. This episode, we’re diving into Danny Brown’s latest full-length, ‘Stardust’ — a wildly inventive, joy-soaked reinvention from an artist who’s swapped chaos for clarity without losing the weird. Clean(ish), gym-going and living in Austin with a new crew of hyperpop misfits, Danny’s found his people and made a record that sounds like 2025: part grime flashb...

No guest this week, but instead we're going deep on the new album from Lily Allen, and checking out new music from the likes of Sports Team and... Cruz Beckham?!

We’re joined by Friends of the Magazine and Dork 100 at The 100 Club alumni  Divorce , fresh from the surprise release of the deluxe edition of their brilliant debut album ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’. With new single ‘Wendolene’ in the wild, we’ll be catching up on what’s been ‘quite the year’ for the four piece. Elsewhere, we’re taking a closer listen to Hype List stars  Good Neighbours ’ debut ‘Blue...

Down With Boring is back, and we’ve got a bumper show lined up. This week, Friends of the Magazine and former Dork cover stars  Sprints  swing by, with Sam and Jack chatting all about their brand new – and properly ace – album, plus plenty of nonsense besides. We’re also diving into the buzzy new record from  Geese  that’s picking up rave reviews everywhere, while in tracks we shine a light on  Ol...

Down With Boring is back on home turf tonight, returning to full-fat chaos after a summer of irregular specials and festival shenanigans. Joining us in the ‘studio’ ( well, Zoom call – Ed ) are Friends of the Magazine VLURE, who are about to drop their much-anticipated and Really Very Good debut album ‘Escalate’; we will, once again, attempt to make pill-punk happen. Elsewhere, we dig into two sta...

And breathe. Reading Festival 2025 is over, and what a weekend it was. To celebrate another massive year, we’ve put together a very special edition of Down With Boring, recorded live from the festival site. This week, we’re bringing you all the action and gossip from the field. We’ve got three of the weekend’s most exciting artists, starting with the magnificent Lambrini Girls, who dropped in for...

Down With Boring has escaped the studio, pinched a couple of wristbands and planted itself slap-bang in the middle of  Live at Leeds: In The Park  for another one-off, on-stage spectacular. Yep – we rocked up to  Temple Newsam  at the tail-end of May, flanked by the lingering aroma of churros and factor-50, determined to prove that Jake and Jamie can, in fact, operate heavy machinery (read: microp...

After a weekend of seaside nonsense, sticky floors and far too many tote bags,  Down With Boring  is back with a stacked Great Escape 2025 special. We had  three  stages across the weekend (not to brag, but yes, that  is  a lot of stages), and we’re recapping the chaos the only way we know how — by talking to some of our favourite artists on the line-up. We catch up with  Picture Parlour , fresh f...

Down With Boring returns, and this week we’re joined by special guests Prima Queen. With their debut album ‘The Prize’, the London-based indie-rock duo Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden are fulfilling all that much talked about potential in style – and this is their reward. The poor souls. Elsewhere, we’re delving deep into Julien Baker and TORRES’s highly-anticipated collaborative album ‘Send...

Down With Boring’s latest episode is here, with everyone’s favourite Swedish troublemakers in tow.  Viagra Boys  are our special guests. With their brand new self-titled album  ‘viagr aboys’  set to drop on 25th April, the Stockholm post-punk outfit are checking in for a chat and a dose of their trademark chaos ahead of its release. Meanwhile, we’re going over  Black Country, New Road ’s new album...

Down With Boring is back with a legitimate long-term Friend of the Magazine in tow. Chloe Moriondo  is our special guest. With brand new album ‘oyster’ set to drop this coming Friday (28th March), the two time Dork cover star is checking in. Meanwhile, we’re going over  Welly ‘s new album ‘Big In The Suburbs’, and blasting through some quality new music from the likes of  The Pill, Courting, Good...

Down With Boring is back for its 150th (!!) episode for a new edition of our flagship radio-show-slash-podcast. Bradley Simpson  is our special guest, grabbed live and direct from our rammed Dork 100 show last month. That came straight ahead of the release of his debut solo album, ‘The Panic Years’, as he steps out as a Proper Concern in his own right. If how that gig went down is anything to go b...

Down With Boring  is back for its latest episode, recorded live at the London leg of our  Hype List 2025 Tour  with  Welly ,  Polly Money , and  The Pill . Expect a bumper edition of our flagship radio-show-slash-podcast, as we dig into all the behind-the-scenes action from one of the most exciting bills around. First up,  Welly  stops by to chat about his(-slash-their-slash-whatever) brand new al...

Down With Boring is back for its latest episode. overpass  are our special guests. Fresh off being included in our very exclusive Hype List for 2025, the quartet are on the verge of dropping their new EP, ‘Dependent’ at the end of the month. It’s a collection that showcases a bdn hitting their stride, occupying that sweet spot between ambition and authenticity. Which basically means it’s high time...

This time, jasmine.4.t  is our special guest, fresh off the back of the release of her Really Very Brilliant Indeed debut album, ‘You Are The Morning’. Released on Queen Phoebe Bridgers’ label Saddest Factory, we get some (probably not) world exclusive stories of what it’s like to be ‘in’ the ‘studio’ with your actual Boygenius, plus an extended chat about weird sea creatures. You’re used to it by...

Down With Boring brings the seaside shenanigans of Rockaway Beach to your ears, as our intrepid hosts Jake and Jamie deliver a festival special recorded live from the glamorous Butlin’s Bognor Regis that proves January doesn’t have to be all dry veganuary pledges and forgotten gym memberships. Special guests include Isle of Wight’s newest noise-makers  The Pill , who’ve been turning heads since fi...

Ho ho ho, etc etc etc.  Sports Team  are wrapping up 2024 by joining us for a very special Christmas edition of Down With Boring, and – much like your nan’s present pile – this one’s absolutely stacked. Our essential podcast-slash-radio-show is closing out the year with a festive feast of reflection, selection and (lack of) direction, as the gang dive into twelve months of musical brilliance to cr...