Emo Dad Podcast

Season 10 Episode 12: 2000 Trees Festival preview (Feat. Mouth Culture, Truck Violence, Native James and more) Matt and James are off to 2000 Trees and this is our preview! We are super excited to get stuck into this wonderful festival, which we are ashamed to say that we have never attended before, but always looked on from afar with jealousy and admiration. We talk you through the unbelievable b...

Season 10 Episode 11: Slam Dunk Festival review (Feat. Unpeople, Dashboard Confessional, ‘A’ and more) Matt went to Slam Dunk and have a lovely time! Want to hear his thoughts, of course you do! Join us and we discuss the day and the many many bands who were playing in a boiling hot field! Matt tells all about his day, a disastrous Jelly Babies incident, the next big band that everyone needs to kn...

Season 10 Episode 10: Slam Dunk Festival preview (Feat. Static Dress, Taking Back Sunday, Goldfinger and more) Matt and James sit down to discuss this year’s exciting edition of the mighty Slam Dunk Festival. Matt will be attending once again, so we thought we should chat about two of our favourite things, emo bands and logistics! We work our way through the set times (the correct one after James...

Season 10 Episode 9: Time is running out (Feat. Like Roses, Future Teens, Angine de Poitrine and more) As Matt Bellamy once said, time is running out. We’re backs against the wall at Emo Dad HQ so we thought we’d do a quick ep to tie the season up and give us a little bit of breathing space. We’re against the clock so are an effort to stay FOCUSED and to the point, which basically means that Matt...

Season 10 Episode 8: Emo Dad talks to LØLØ Matt and James were delighted to sit down for a lovely chat with pop-rock trailblazer LØLØ. If you aren’t already familiar with LØLØ from her collaborations with Simple Plan and Maggie Lindemann , she has carved out a lane entirely her own, cementing herself as one of today’s most compelling, confessional voices with 150M+ global streams . Kerrang! called...

Season 10 Episode 7: Small gigs, big gigs and new music (Feat. Shoreline, Deftones, Ben Quad and more) After a very mini break, because life got in the way, Matt and James are back to have a little catch up. We discuss our experience at the tiny Arm’s Length show in Kingston, how it compares to seeing bands like Deftones in huge venues, and chat about whether we prefer polished big performances, o...

Season 10 Episode 6: Emo Dad talks to Kevin Lyman (Warped Tour Founder) Matt and James were super excited to sit down with Kevin Lyman, the legendary founder of the greatest punk rock festival on earth, Warped Tour. We discuss Kevin’s early days of putting on house shows and calling the police himself to get people to leave, when we hired an air hanger and accidentally shut down an airport, and bo...

Season 10 Episode 5: Emo Dad talks to Aaron Bruno (AWOLNATION, Barbarians of California) Matt and James were delighted to catch a quick chat (during a break in band practice) with the man behind megastars AWOLNATION and the incredible hardcore band Barbarians of California, and all round top guy, Aaron Bruno. We discuss the early days of life, going to see Strife and Snapcase in LA, being inspired...

Season 10 Episode 4: Arcane Roots deep dive (Feat. Arcane Roots, Biffy Clyro, Muse and more) Matt and James are a bit tired this week, but we battle on to bring you an episode that we’ve been meaning to do for actual years! We finally decide to deep dive into the career of one of our favourite bands, the incredible Arcane Roots. A band who started in our local scene, we’ve been watching them tear...

Season 10 Episode 3: Emo Dad talks to As It Is Matt and James are buzzing to bring you a truly special interview with the lovely lads from British-American rock band As It Is . We had an absolute blast chatting with them and, in true Emo Dad interview fashion, there are plenty of laughs, a few distractions, and the kind of questions most “proper” interviewers are too scared to ask. We dive into th...

Season 10 Episode 2: Emo Dad talks to The Click Five Matt and James were excited to sit down with Kyle, Ethan and Joe from The Click Five. The Click Five are a pop rock band who burst onto the scene in the mid 2000’s, quickly gaining popularity with their good locks and catchy songs. They quickly crashed the charts and became the most viewed band on Myspace. Their career saw them tour mega arenas...

Season 10 Episode 1: Preseason (10) Training (Feat. Jerry Built, First Day Back, Prodigal and more) Emo Dad are back!! That’s right, after a little Christmas break, Matt and James are back to entertain you with more pointless chat, alternative music hot takes and massive tangents! It’s preseason once again, and that means we have got the cones out, we’re doing our shuttle runs, and working on our...

Season 9 Episode 10: End of year review (Feat. Bloom, Novalists, Higher Power and more) Matt and James finish season 9 with a look back at 2025. As is tradition on all podcasts… we take a moment to reflect on what the year has been like for music. We discuss the incredible amount of impressive albums which have been released this year, by both big household name bands and smaller up and coming ban...

Season 9 Episode 9: Silly Goose live review (Feat. Silly Goose, Brutus, Excide and more) Matt and James sit down for a long overdue catch up. We discuss how the new Brutus live record is so good that it should almost be illegal before detailing our recent (excellent) experience of seeing the mighty Silly Goose live for the first time. We also discuss some very important topics such as missing flig...

Season 9 Episode 8: NO SAFE HAVEN update (Feat. NO SAFE HAVEN, Predisposed. and Riley!) Matt and James are finally ready to give the world what they have (not) been waiting for… a NO SAFE HAVEN update. We share progress on the band that we created as an experiment. The idea being to see whether we could write, record and release an actual EP of music with very limited talent, knowledge and equipme...

Season 9 Episode 7: Emo Dad chats to Alex Shipman (Producer/Director - P-Rock The Doc) Matt and James are delighted to be joined by producer and director, Alex Shipman, to discuss her new documentary about the infamous P-Rock tv channel, which graced our screens in the early 00’s. The doc covers the incredible story behind how the channel came to be, the bands that featured and upsetting the likes...

Season 9 Episode 6: Being led by ChatGPT (Feat. The Offspring, Halifax, Elliot Minor and more) Matt and James are totally unprepared for today’s episode, so like all experts these days, they ask ChatGPT to create some content to chat about, with mixed results. We end up discussing going to Warped Tour, emo ‘one hit wonders’, the albums which changed our lives, what it would be like to have Hayley...

Season 9 Episode 5: Bananas and secret shows (Feat. Sum 41, Silly Goose, AFI and more) Matt and James are back for an episode of music chat and nonsense. This week, Matt has to explain his facial hair change before we dive straight into another pointless band guessing and ranking game. James needs answers about bananas and Matt reveals how he managed to work out who was headlining a secret show (i...

Season 9 Episode 4: Blind ranking emo bands (Feat. Thursday, Glassjaw, Funeral for a Friend and more) This week, Matt has a fun blind ranking game for James to play, much to James’ dismay! This takes way longer than you can ever imagine as we get distracted (surprise!) by golf, wineries and zoos in some obscure town in California. We also discover some new bands from all over the world… Tokyo, Ghe...

Season 9 Episode 3: Basement deep dive (Feat. Basement, Title Fight, Fiddlehead and more) Fresh back from being blown away from them at a show in London, Matt and James sit down to discuss WHY Basement are so good. We look back at the show in question, before taking a journey through the mysterious path of this hiatus loving band. We discuss their greatest releases, and examine where exactly they...

Season 9 Episode 2: Avoiding THAT band, with other bands (Feat. Seahaven, Good Hangs, Daisyhead and more) Matt and James are offering a public service this week. Our aim? To fill your ears with awesome bands that sound like a certain unnamed band but aren’t that certain unnamed band who will forever remain unnamed but is actually pretty obvious despite remaining unnamed. Got that? Turns out there...

Season 9 Episode 1: Preseason (9) training (Feat. Pool Kids, Arm’s Length, Higher Power and more) We’re back!!! That’s right, we don’t even finish season 8 but the rules of life do not apply to the Emo Dad Podcast so we’re gonna ignore that minor fact and start season 9! Summer is done and we are back with yet more nonsense for your listening please. Not much has changed, or has it?? We have BIG p...

Season 8 Episode 14: Emo Dad chats New-Nu Metal! (Feat. Gridiron, Slope, Cherie Amour and more) Matt and James take you on a little discovery tour of what is new and hot in the Nu Metal world, plus other nonsense chat. This week we begin with more apologies, this time from James. We offer an update on the ‘No Safe Haven’ project, as our new song starts to take a bit of shape. We then discuss a loa...

Season 8 Episode 13: Emo Dad talks to Coco Kinnon (Winona Fighter) Matt and James were super excited to sit down and have a chat with the lovely Coco Kinnon, from the brilliant Winona Fighter . We discuss how the band began and what it is like playing the scene in Nashville as a punk band. We chat recording and live show routines, and we of course chat about the band’s incredible new album, ‘ My A...

Season 8 Episode 12: Emo Dad at Slam Dunk (Feat. Hot Mulligan interview, Movements, Finch and more) This week we are joined by a very special guest, friend of the podcast, Andy Kleeman. The reason? Andy recently joined Matt at the awesome Slam Dunk Festival (because James couldn’t make it) and we’ve invited him on to help Matt explain all to James. We discuss all the important issues that you woul...