Mid Life Punk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail The second part of the Round of 16 (aka The Culling) is covered in this episode! With our team managers Steve Potter & The Prisoner of Peterborough & Simon Bailey (off Das Kapitans), Benny Rabble (People's Poet), Josh Booth (Character Actors) Big Willie Shango (The Papashangos), Dave Shackleford and TJ Whittaker (77 Spears) have been putting a shift in The bands are:...

Send us Fan Mail We're whittling 'em down like nobody's business now. The first half of the Round of 16 is covered in this episode and features our intrepid correspondents TJ (77 Spears), Ross (Shackleford) Willie Shango (for the Papashangos), Richard White (the aldi cider aisle), Steve Potter and the Halfbood Prince (Das Kapitans) and Dave Rolfe of Guineapigs. The bands providing t...

Send us Fan Mail Pour one out for some of the great (and not so great) bands/songs we learned to love in the group stages. Sadly, we lost 2 of our 12 participants in the Round of 32, so join us in commiserating them. Things are hotting up now gang, so buckle up and get ready. To play us out this time, it had to be the Bosnian Crash Mats: The Dubioza Kolektiv

Send us Fan Mail Tom and Danny Barrett provide an update on which bands were sadly eliminated from the MLPP World Cup. No huge losses, but sad all the same. Music to commemorate the fallen is from Tunisia's KHASSARAT.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the North West of England, where we keep a band called Lynskey. We've let Bea come on the pod to share their new, updated and extended line up as well as the vast majority of their latest EP "This is for you". We chat about hate crime near misses, putting a tour together featuring musician thespians and plate spinning. Tom declares VV day, Barrett gives a...

Send us Fan Mail The final group up for dissection is group L. The musical sleuth assigned to unearthing bands from each place is Dave off Shackleford. The countries he's got to work with are: England, Ghana, Panama and Croatia. The bands he's chosen are Leatherface, Mizerija, Factor VIII and Osekre & The Lucky Bastrds Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A po...

Send us Fan Mail Group K. Probably the most geographically disparate group of them all. The person who has been extracting nugs from this particular diamond mine is Steve Potter, off Das Kapitans. The countries in that group are: Portugal, Uzbekistan, Columbia and DR Congo. You'll be very glad to here that the Nazis make a return, as well as Northern Irish soap stars and property experts from...

Send us Fan Mail 9 down, 3 to go! Group J of the MLPP World Cup is managed by top spoken word artiste, Benny Rabble! All of his countries except one begin with A. They are: Argentina, Algeria, Austria and Jordan. The lucky bands that he's selected are: Red Lights Flash, Jabal Al Mareikh, Demokhratia and Cadena Perpetua. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A podcast ab...

Send us Fan Mail Global super star Richard Fuckin' White is in to explain his choices to represent the countries which populate group I. He also explains the backstory of a song that was snatched away from him because he got the artist's nationality wrong.  Those countries are: Iraq, Senegal, Norway and France. The bands he has chosen are: Lion's Law, The Promdates, Dog Faced Corpse...

Send us Fan Mail Group H representatives have been chosen by Dave Rolfe from off Guineapigs. He has been lucky enough to have to research punk artistes from Spain, Cape Verde, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia. The artists he has chosen are: Main Line 10, Scúru Fitchádu, Porfiados and Sound of Ruby. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A podcast about life, law and... Listen on: App...

Send us Fan Mail Group G of this global punk odyssey is curated by none other than Willie Shango, bass twanger for The Papashangos! Willie has had the good fortune to select bands from Belgium, Iran, Egypt and New Zealand.  The Bands he's chosen are: The Lashes, Gnar Jar, Dick Move and Crackups. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A podcast about life, law and... List...

Send us Fan Mail Don't tell my heart, my achey jakey heart. That's what will be ringing around stadiums of Group F in Japanese, Swedish, Arabic (Tunisian dialect) and Dutch. Jake Dobbins has been allocated to this one, and the bands he's chosen to represent their countries are: Hi-Standard, The Shivvies, Khassarat and Adhesive. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real im...

Send us Fan Mail The representatives of Group E have been chosen by stand up comic and podcaster Eddie French off the Punk Rock Elite Podcast. The nations having their punk rock gubbins explored this time are Curacao, Ivory Coast, Equador and Germany. The representatives for those countries respectively are The XQs, Akeikoi, Senor Jaid and Turd Sandwich. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real peo...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined by our first of two Shackleford members of the tournament, namely Ross the singing bass player, who has had the unenviable task of choosing punk rock representatives for all the nations in Group D of the World Cup. Those nations are: Turkey, USA, Australia and Paraguay. The chosen representatives are: Padme, Joyce Manor, Local Resident Failure and Area 69. Laugh...

Send us Fan Mail Group C is introduced to your earholes today, and your global guide will be none other than 77 Spears frontman, TJ Whittaker! Group C has offered up some mixed blessings for TJ. The group comprises of Brazil, Scotland, Morocco and Haiti. So there was some digging required. In the knockout stages TJ has announced he will be joining us from the USA LIVE! Music this episode comes fro...

Send us Fan Mail The second group in this global feast of punk is introduced and explained today by none other than Leeds' very own Josh Booth off Character Actors. Josh was fortunate enough to draw the group containing: Qatar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada and Switzerland. Get ready for quips about desserts, neutrality, nazi gold, being polite all the time and everything you've come...

Send us Fan Mail It's World Cup Time! And to talk us through his chosen representatives for each country in Group A, it's Simon off Das Kapitans! Simon's had the pleasure of researching bands from Mexico, South Korea, Czechia and South Africa. Enjoy this taste of what's to come! only 11 more to go, and that's just the group stages! Music is from: Los Perritos Genericos, Th...

Send us Fan Mail WELCOME TO THE BIGGEST CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL PUNK ROCK ON THE GLOBE! 12 fact-mad punx will be researching punk bands from exotic locations that are represented in the 2026 World Cup. They will each start off with one of the groups and choose a band for each country in that group. We'll have chats with them about their selections and as the tournament progresses, there...

Send us Fan Mail Orange County's Mad Tab are in the hotseat this week. Their versitility and skilled musicianship will amaze you, their in-depth knowledge of all things punk, ska and reggae should astound you. When they last shit their pants will blow your mind. Also, their record label gaffer, Norwood from Fishbone, also pops in for a bit. Tom's got a gig report from his home county whi...

Send us Fan Mail We are Bolton-bound this week to chat with Lancashire legends, The Papashangos! Lol Shango and Jimmy Shango are in MLPP Towers after we saw them wearing dildos at MPF and thought "these are our kind of people". We chat Shango history, getting pre-judged by people and venues, animal hostage situations, the Cambridge definition of confetti, song inspirations, live recordin...

Send us Fan Mail It's a rock n roll legend extravaganza this week as Blag, frontman of The Dwarves, comes to MLPP Towers to cause some chaos! As well as discussing The Dwarves new record "Jenkem" (which lands on 5th of June) we hear stories about very short gigs, fibbing your way onto an acclaimed documentary, get some views on punk and rock royalty, discuss English weather, English...

Send us Fan Mail Oh Heck! It's Hell Beach!  Manchester (New Hampshire) minstrels Hell Beach are under the microscope this week. Their top boy, Jordan has visited MLPP towers to share their 2024 record "Beach World" with you all as well as discussing such diverse topics as: songs being bleeped unnecessarily, Manchester NH punk rock deep cuts, Keytars, bad high school memories and fes...

Send us Fan Mail We have a Number 1 charting artist (I don't make the rules) in MLPP Towers this week. Pet Needs' very own Johnny has taken time out from extremely significant life events in order to talk to us two idiots about his band's latest album: Elbows Out! This is Capitalism. We get tour stories, board gaming with philosopher stories, acoustic songs on the Caribbean sea stor...

Send us Fan Mail Some folks from Suf-folk join us this week. The Winonas are in to discuss (mainly) their newest release, the full length "Dead Romantic" (out now on Socks On Records, who also have a podcast, apparently). As well as that, though, we chat about preferred grammar, create a new slang term, garage rock and its loudness, the south east scene and much more. The hosts are stuck...

Send us Fan Mail Phew. Have you recovered yet? A handful of brave souls convened to discuss the MPF 2026 experience on Wednesday night to recount and piece together the previous weekend. We all discuss our personal highlights and lowlights, including self analysing all our own performances. But, to get your juices flowing like ours were: Which guest is a security risk? Who turned up in a sarong? W...