Down With Boring

Delaying this week’s broadcast for 24 hours so Dream Wife could drop their new single, ‘Love You More’, the band are our special guests part of a packed show that features the new album from Olivia Rodrigo (it’s all anyone is talking about, anyway), plus new music from CMAT, Romy, Divorce and more. Oh, and for some reason, Lou Bega’s ‘Mambo No. 5’. We don’t like to ask.

We spent the weekend at Reading 2023 , and now we’re reporting in with a special edition recorded direct from the festival. We wrangled up a bunch of acts, lost half of them ( thanks, BBC Radio 1 – Ed ), and then grabbed a bunch more to bring you an episode featuring just-dropped-their-debut-album  Ashnikko , about-to-drop-their-debut-album  Lucia And The Best Boys , main-stage-icon  James Marriot...

This week, we're at Dork's Day Out for an episode recorded earlier this month at our annual big summer party. We're joined by all 'the bands' - Thomas Headon, Courting, Swim School, Honeyglaze, Talk Show and Jo Hill - to prove we can indeed organise a piss up... erm... socially responsible event in a brewery.

Dork's flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is off to Truck Festival, as we bring you all the action from our two live editions at the Oxfordshire festival earlier this month. Recorded on-site, hosts Jake Hawkes and Jamie Muir are joined by Circa Waves, DMA's, Everything Everything, Panic Shack, Stone and - rather predictably if you've been to a festival in the last couple of weeks -...

DEADLETTER are the special guests on the latest edition of Down With Boring.; Calling in from their… erm… “meaty” smelling van from a car park in Belgium before playing a festival, we may not be able to offer a luxurious green room filled with fresh fruit and soft furnishings, but we can promise one of the most exciting new bands on the circuit. Elsewhere this month, we’re rammed with very excitin...

This time round, Down With Boring returns from its trip to Worthy Farm tonight with a Glastonbury 2023 special. Running back across the standout sets from this year’s festival, there’s also new music from Olivia Rodrigo, The Last Dinner Party, Picture Parlour, Holly Humberstone, Stormzy, and more, plus new albums from The Japanese House and Do Nothing.

Our flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring is back with special guests Enter Shikari. Recorded at last month’s Slam Dunk North festival, we’re catching up with Rou Reynolds of the genre-defying masters with a chat that goes far and wide. There’s also new music from The Japanese House, Bombay Bicycle Club, CMAT, Do Nothing, and more, and an album focus on Killer Mike‘s Really Very Brill...

Down With Boring is celebrating The Great Escape with a special edition recorded live at the festival, held earlier this month. Caught up in the buzz and hype of the Brighton event, Jake and Jamie are catching up with some of the most exciting new names across the three days, including Nell Mescal, Lime Garden and SOFY.

Last week, our flagship podcast-slash-radio-show-slash-nonsense Down With Boring embarked on an IRL journey with the mighty Swim Deep, to London’s The Boogaloo. There, we reminisced over a decade of the band’s debut album ‘Where The Heaven Are We’ for a night of stories, memories, special guests and very good music. Aired at the time on Boogaloo Radio, you can catch up with this week’s special edi...

Catching up with Do Nothing, the headliners of April’s sell-out show at London’s Sebright Arms, we’re checking in as Nottingham’s premier purveyors of new band buzz continue their run-up to an impossibly exciting debut album. A big, bumper interview special, normal service will resume next time around, now Jamie has come down from his, erm, mountain(?). Don’t ask.

On this week's show, we're talking to one of the buzziest new names around, Gretel Hänlyn. There's also a dive into the new album from boygenius, plus new music from Nell Mescal, The Japanese House and more.

Blazing a trail as they go, Swim School are quite probably one of the most exciting bands in the country right now – and they’re fronting up an episode typically packed with new music. There’s also a focus on the new album from Black Honey, plus new music from Sabrina Carpenter, VLURE, Balancing Act and loads more

Fresh off announcing a huge Alexandra Palace show, we're catching up with Dork fave Cavetown on the latest edition of Down With Boring. Plus new music from Shame, CHVRCHES, Priestgate, Lucia & The Best Boys, Do Nothing and more.

This week, we're introducing one of our favourite new acts, Heartworms. Plus, new music from Inhaler, Beabadoobee, Lovejoy, Ashnikko, Feet and more.

This week, we’re chatting with Dork's Night Out headliners Coach Party, Sad Boys Club and Deep Tan at our recent first show of the year, alongside all kinds of other musical ‘fun’. There’s also a focus on the new album from SG Lewis, plus new music from Dolores Forever, Inhaler, Swim School, Zara Larsson and loads more

Our flagship podcast-slash-radio-show Down With Boring welcomes our Dork Hype List Tour 2023 headliners Priestgate, ahead of their jaunt round the country next month. With a new EP due later this year, we’re catching up with the band before they head out with Bleach Lab and Medicine Cabinet. There’s also a focus on the new album from current cover stars The Murder Capital, plus new music from boyg...

On 2023's first episode of Down With Boring, we're at Rockaway Beach to catch up with Yard Act, LIFE, VLURE and The Goa Express.

We catch up with The Amazons as they headline our Dork Christmas party, after they dropped third studio album ‘How Will I Know if Heaven Will Find Me?’ earlier this year. There’s also loads of other ‘stuff’ to enjoy too, with new music from the likes of Paramore, Caroline Polachek, FLO and loads more.

Featuring our 2023 Hype List, plus new music from Stormzy, The Murder Capital, Bonnie Kemplay and more.

With a new album set to arrive early next year, indie icons Circa Waves join us for a show packed with new music That includes Cavetown, Black Honey, Stormzy, Dream Wife, Spill Tab and loads more.

We're reporting from our Halloween spectacular Night of the Living Dork for a special edition of the show, featuring headliners Black Honey and King No-One. Insert spooky emoji here.

We’re joined by Courting for our landmark 100th edition. Fitting the description above the door – they’re definitely not boring – the kings of indie-pop nonsense front up a show packed with new music. That includes a deep dive into Taylor Swift‘s new album ‘Midnights’, new songs from Arctic Monkeys, Priestgate, STONE, Inhaler and loads more.

With their second album ‘Burn The Empire’ firmly lodged at the top end of the Official UK Album Charts, The Snuts' frontman Jack Cochrane joins us for a show packed with new music. That includes Paramore, Easy Life, Chloe Moriondo, Black Honey, Sorry, Alvvays and loads more.

On the latest edition of Down With Boring, we're delving deep into Sports Team's new album 'Gulp', checking out new music from Stormzy, The 1975, Dylan and The Murder Capital, plus so much more.

Grabbed while in the UK to play a few shows in support of their Really Very Good album ‘Tell Me That It’s Over’, Wallows join us for a show packed with Dork faves. That means new music from Cavetown, The 1975, Dry Cleaning and Sorry, amongst others, a deep dive into The Amazons new album ‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?’ and loads more.