Juvenalia

More like The Amber Cry-Glass amirite? Alan and Andrea are back to talk about the final book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass (2000). We’re talking about the Mufela, the change in Mrs Coulter, the inscrutability of Lord Asriel, and of course, Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and Mary Malone. We’re doing a live show at All Together Now on Aug 3rd at 15:45 at the Theater Of...

Author and podcaster Anna Carey returns to the show to talk to Alan and Sarah about John Waters’s punk camp classic Hairspray. We talka about camp, the lived-in-ness of the sets of Hairspray, the genius of Divine, the aesthetics of low-budget filmmaking, and so much more. Anna is @urchinette . Her new novel Our Song is out now and she co-hosts the very popular Double Love podcast. Alan is  ⁠@alan_...

The Juvenalia Book Club is back! We’re talking about book 2 of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, The Subtle Knife . We talk about our love for new characters Will and Mary, the nature of dark matter in the His Dark Materials universe, whose dark material is it anyway?, trusting that a book will give you the answers you’re looking for if you just keep reading. Also, Andrea probes Alan’s u...

Author and Journalist Vicki Notaro joins us to talk about the queen of melodramas, the wind beneath our wings, Garry Marshall’s Beaches (1988). There’s a lot to get through, the performances, shitty New York Apartments, Nouveau Riche New York Apartments, Celeb/Normie friendships: can they ever work? Boradway auditions, and lots more. It’s a good time. Vicki Notaro is @VickiNotaro . Her new novel L...

Donegal folk artist Ramper is with us to talk about the impact that Rory Gallagher’s live album Irish Tour ‘74 had on him as a young fella. We also talk about how our taste in guitar gods has changed as we’ve gotten older and just about the whole idea of guitar gods in general. Ramper’s debut album Loner is out now. He’s on tour this month. You can catch him on 25th May in Belfast, followed by Gal...

Welcome to the first meeting of the Juvenalia Book Club. We’re going to be taking turns introducing each other to book series that we love. For our first run Andrea will be introducing Alan to the His Dark Materials books by Philip Pullman. We’re going to be talking about Pullman’s amazing worldbuilding, taking children’s problems seriously, the biggest boy Iorek Byrnison, and lots more. Join us a...

James Hudson is the festival director of the Trans Image Trans Experience (TITE) Festival which runs in the Lighthouse from April 25th-27th. He joined Alan and Andrea to talk about the fourth film in the Aien Quadrilogy, 1997’s Alien Resurrection. We talked about picking up gender clues from Ripley 8 and Coll, Tumblr RP, the Joss Whedon of it all, Vera Drew, the tragedy of the Newborn, MTV’s Teen...

the bus goes fast Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠ . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does a bit of standup sometimes too. Andrea ⁠ @AndreaCleary_⁠ . Her other podcasts are My Favourite Album With Andrea Cleary and The Nialler9 Podcast. Her newsletter is at ⁠https://andrea-cleary.ghost.io/⁠ Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork. We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our p...

Singer-songwriter Maria Kelly is back to talk to us about Kate Nash’s 2007 debut album Made Of Bricks . We talk about Kate Nash’s songwriting, production choices, her appeal to teenage girls, Foundations, Foundations, Foundations. Also Alan accidentally repeats a story he told the last time Maria was on the show. Maria is @mariakellymusic . Her fantastic new album Waiting Room is out now. Alan is...

Hello, here's the first ten minutes of Alan and Andrea's reaction to the season 2 finale of Severance. The full 95 minute episode is available for our Slammer-level patrons over on Patreon. Enjoy!

HACK THE PLANET! $p@gB011(Julie Hough of HAVVK and PostLast) is back and she’s brought us something special, 1995’s Hackers. She joins Steve Buffers (Alan) and Em@il (Andrea) to talk about the music, the fashion, the rollerblades, that once scene where Fisher Stevens skitches on a limo for no reason, and lots lots more. Julie is @julie _ hawk . You can hear her in HAVVK and PostLast. Alan is @alan...

We’re back baby! Back with a bang because Irish internet legend Kelly Earley is here to talk about how important Tegan And Sara were to her as a young lesbian. We talk about Tumblr, treatong albums like haircuts, JoJo Siwa, Yearncore, and finding community on the internet. We’re happy to be back, we’re happy you’re here. Kelly is @ earley . Her Substack is Kelly’s Rubbish . Alan is @alan_maguire ....

Hey! We’re back! Alan has never seen Miracle On 34th Street , Andrea has never seen Gremlins … until now. We’re talking about Gizmo, we’re talking about Phoebe Cates’s inappropriate Christmas stories, we’re tsalking about Mara Wilson and Richard Attenborough. All that good stuff. Thanks for sticking around, see you in 2025! Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he does...

On Halloween Night 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch, which purported to be a live investigation into a house and family that had been plagued by poltergeist activity. The studio segments were hosted by Michael Parkinson, while children’s presenter Sarah Greene explored the house and interviewed the family at the center of the haunting. Things started to go very wrong and the show ended in disaster....

Hey there, Alan and Andrea have some recommendations for you now that autumn has properly hit. They’ve got an album and three TV shows. We say recommendations but you’ve definitely heard of at least two of these already. The things are: Hayley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden (with some bonus chat about Cat Cylde) Frasier (told you you’d heard of some of them already) Gilmore Girls (ditto, a...

Happy Bisexuality Awareness Week! To celebrate, award winning food TikTok/Instagram person Sian Conway joined us to talk about Brainiac: Science Abuse. If you know you know. We talked all about our school experiences of science, Richard “The Hamster“ Hammond, and of course, Jon Tickle walking across a swimming pool full of custard. We’d also forgotten quite how sexist the show was so we pitch some...

Writer Rachel Connolly joins us to talk about Disney’s The Fox And The Hound (1981). We’re asking all the big questions this episode, questions like: why does Disney keep making sexy foxes? How much, if any, moral instruction do children take from the media they consume? Did the worm in Snow White have a face? And many more. Rachel is @RachelConnoll14 . Her debut novel Lazy City is out now. Her Su...

Musician and actress Kate Nash joins us for our 200th episode as we take another run at Buffy The Vampire Slayer . Kate is a Buffy mega-fan so we had plenty to talk about. Things like Spike, Angel, femininity, The Body , a defence of Xander, Band Candy , and Kate’s live performance of the entirety of Once More With Feeling in 2012. Kate is @KateNash . Her latest album 9 Sad Symphonies is out now....

Singer-songwriter Callum Orr joins us to talk about Paul Verhoeven’s super-camp, super-violent satire of fascist propaganda Starship Troopers (1997). We talk about the difference between watching it for the first time as an adult and as a younger person, the effectiveness of the satire, we pick apart the imagery, we get deep on this thing. Callum is @callvm.orr . His debut album The Trials Of Know...

Author and podcaster Janina Matthewson joins us as we try to cover as much of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books as is physically possible in 53 minutes. We talk about the religious stuff, the mistreatment of Susan in The Last Battle, about how maybe The Magician’s Nephew is the best one?, about why consistent lore and geography is overrated, and lots more. Janina is @J9andlf . She does the podcasts Wi...

Award-winning poet Jessica Traynor joins us to talk about 90’s alt-rock legends Babes In Toyland with some detours into their contemporaries Hole and Bikini Kill. We talk about female rage, taping late night MTV so you could watch in the next day, seeing your teenage heroes live, and lots lots more. Jessica Traynor is @JessicaTraynor6 . You can find her most recent collection Pit LullabiesI at jes...

This is a big one. We had a little gap in our schedule so Alan & Andrea decided to get all of their feelings about Elliott Smith down in podcast form. We talk about that voice, those melodies, that guitar playing, the time he and Louis theroux interviewed each other for Select Magazine, his creative partnership with Jon Brion and so much more. Sidenote: consider this a kind of reverse trigger...

Claire Anne is the studio head of Dúlamán Studios and creator of upcoming YA “sci-fi cosplaying as a fantaasy murder-mystery” animated series Oribis. She joined us for a super-sized episode about a super-sized game series, Kingdom Hearts . We tried to unravel the looping complex story, the integration of Disney and Final Fantasy characters, the music, and loads more. Claire Anne is currently prepa...

Submitted for the approval of The Midnight Society, Serra Petale and Agustina Ruiz from Los Bitchos join Alan and Sarah for a big ol chat about Nickelodeon’s long-running spooky anthology series Are You Afraid Of The Dark? We talk about our favourite episodes, which ones genuinely traumatised us for life, the importance of a good scare, watching true crime with your mother, Melissa Joan Hart, and...

Electro-pop twins ROOUE aka Róisín and Lulu join Alan and Andrea as we enthuse wildy about Britney Jean Spears. We talk about the VMAs, that voice, her dancing, the whole virginity thing, and of course her vast discography of classic pop. ROOUE are @ROOUEMusic . Their debut EP Juxtaposition is out May 24th. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bit of stand...