I Formed A Band

Ep. 6: In our most faeces-tastic episode yet, we once again read out a mixture of ABSOLUTELY REAL and QUITE DUBIOUS listener letters to try to capture the life, times and tribulations of the lah-di-dah indie gad-about-town Eddie Argos. We're aiming to document the life, times and tribulations of Eddie Argos – and boy did we find out some... surprising and turd-adjacent stuff. In this episode, Eddi...

Ep. 5: Eddie and Joe chat to James Smith, singer (or, much to Eddie's delight, he's more of a speaker-singer) with the totally ace Yard Act; and they speak to him just before the band was about to play Glastonbury.*  That seemed like a good time to take stock – and James recalls how drawing cartoons led to him becoming a drummer, then a guitarist, and finally a charismatic front man. It was a...

Ep. 4:   We continue to document the life, times and tribulations of Eddie Argos – and this time, he's sporting the kind of hangover that required him to be mostly lying down during the podcast recording. Thankfully it allows him to tap into some deep recesses of his mind. In this episode, Eddie: > Reveals that he’d be happy to listen to a Simply Red, a Fall, *and* a Mumford and Sons album...

Ep. 3: Eddie and Joe chat to the funny, erudite and extremely dapper Dunstan Bruce – he of 90s Tubthumping BEHEMOTH Chumbawamba, and, latterly, Interrobang. This was a great interview: Dunstan has so much thoughtful stuff to say about life, music fandom, art, anarchy, pranks, learning, growing – and selling millions of records well over a dozen years into your career. Eddie came away from the inte...

Ep. 2 : We begin to document the life, times and tribulations of the much-storied, celebrity-beef-starting, indie troubadour Eddie Argos  – and then compile the stories in... The Argos Catalogue. Yes, indeed, it's the inevitable "readers' letters" episode, and boy, do we learn some eye-opening stuff about Eddie's career. So join Eddie and Joe – the Richard and Judy of indie music podcasting –...

Ep. 1: Eddie and Joe talk to the deeply lovely Manda and Steve from the amazing Bis - possibly the most DIY of all the British bands that also managed to break through to the big time. They talk about how the band formed as teenagers; how Manda migrated from the side of the stage to centre-stage, transforming their fortunes overnight; drawing your own artwork; and how they stuck resolutely to thei...

Eddie Argos is a man so obsessed with forming bands that he did it, recorded a song about it, wrote a book about it, painted pictures about it – and now has a podcast where he can ask other people the timeless question: "why did you form a band?" Join him and sort-of journalist Joe Sparrow (who didn't form a band) as they talk to artists about the part before they got famous: why did they form a b...