Mid Life Punk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Strap yourselves in, we've gone HARDCORE! Holly Fury, vocalist of Burning Flag, curator of 'Hell Hath No Fury' Records and promoter joins Niallism and me for a chat. We cover cats and their prey, gatekeeping punk promoters and a whole raft of stuff in between. Dr Tim is sorting out your problems, we talk the future of NOFX and play you choice cuts (ours and Holly&ap...

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Send us Fan Mail Are you getting a burn? Tom and Niallism are joined by Austin TX Scene Historian and Suburbia fan Marc Dautreuil to discuss the 1983 punk teen drama, Suburbia. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, this gritty look at the 1980s LA punk scene has become a cult classic. We take you through it and offer our thoughts on the issues contained within and swap some tales. Music comes from the fi...

Send us Fan Mail It's that time of the year! Where you get pissed and embarrass yourself in front of colleagues! Except, this year it'll be on Zoom. Same for us!  So, we've contacted some old guests from the year passed and checked in. We've got Joe Atom (The Atoms) reading us a poem about a burning issue. Hassle pop in and update us on (New) Jersey life, Kunt off Kunt and the...

Send us Fan Mail Look what you did, you little jerks. We are 2 thirds of the way through our festive episodes. We have The Home Alones with us this week, talking about the timeless John Hughes festive flick. Just how rich were the McAllisters? How many songs can you squeeze out of a single movie? Why is Uncle Frank such a c...ontemptible man? Tom and Niallism struggle with similes, pick out some o...

Send us Fan Mail Our first crimbo special is here! The Radio Buzzkills join the gang for a festive frolic, but we're invaded by a mystery guest! We're getting them to pronounce English place names, we're chatting about the Gutter Pop Christmas Carol compilation which features a load of your favourite bands, there's highlights from the recent MLPP Quiz which featured previous gu...

Send us Fan Mail It's the final "normal" episode of the series (sad face emoji). But, we're going out on a high, with punky singer/songwriter, Chloe Glover. We hear a couple of tracks off her debut ep, she picks a couple of her faves that she's into right now. We also talk mental health, the lockdown and more. We get nostalgic with a bit of Whitmore and Tom has an extra sp...

Send us Fan Mail Chicago's Double Feature have joined us this week for a chat. They talk about their new album "Third Testament" (which has a great cover btw)and the DF boys show that not even your most mental Big Book Of Bullshit questions can challenge them.

Send us Fan Mail This week, we are well chuffed to say that legendary bass layer, producer, academic and Don Quixote expert Mass Giorgini joins us for a good old chat. We talk Screeching Weasel, Common Rider, Squirtgun, Kendal (the town in the Lake District) gifts to the fans, and much, much more. We are now an educational resource, so this is our most wholesome episode to date.

Send us Fan Mail A new series of specials where we dissect films that either depict or star punk rockers. Our first foray into the world of the moving image takes us into the 2016 drama/comedy(?)Ordinary World starring Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong. Are the NYPD communists? what kind of idiots do they have working at the Drake Hotel? Should the main character just be put down? Listen in an...

Send us Fan Mail USA Election SPECIAL! We chat to The Blowies from Austin, Texas. They’ll be happy with this result, that’s for sure! We talk the old Myspace days (what’s Tom up to now?), I show my ignorance of American voting systems and Tucker from the band dispenses sage advice on social media usage. Additional tuneage is from To The Helpless and Dead Kennedys.

Send us Fan Mail dditional tracks courtesy of Tear Them Down and Chloe Glover

Send us Fan Mail It's our spoooooky Halloween Episode. Alex and Vez from Wonk Unit join us and talk the history of Wonking, getting sage advice from Duncan Redmonds, THAT album cover and much, much more. Additional tuneage comes from Houseghost and Squirtgun.

Send us Fan Mail Lookout!'s own Larry Livermore once called them one of the best bands in the world, so we enter the world of the Zatopeks this week. We talk previous bands, the most goth thing the drummer's ever done and the worst toilets in the world. Additional music comes from The Blowies and The Sewer Rats

Send us Fan Mail Our first guests from abroad of Series 2! It's Hassle, New Jersey's finest. One of their number is trapped thousands of miles from NJ but that didn't deter us from discussing their first full length (Unsweet), The Boss and Premier League soccer. The nicest guys in punk rock? they're definitely up there. Additional tracks from The Prostitutes and Mugsmasher.

Send us Fan Mail Compilation CDs. We all loved them, didn't we? Niall and Tom re-visit and analyse some of your favourites, selected at random by the roll of a dice. Sadly, fate dealt us a shitty hand. We look in-depth at Nitro REcords' sampler "Go Ahead Punk, Make My Day". It definitely didn't make our day.

Send us Fan Mail Yam Alroyt? Wolverhampton's Swaktang have been around a while. They've honed their skills over the years and felt it timely that they should talk to me. They even bought their very own 90s Correspondent. Additional tracks from Sloppy Seconds and Rebrl Troubadour. PLUS Niall and me (literally) roll the dice to decide which legendary compliation we'll be dissecting fo...

Send us Fan Mail Nottingham skate punk stalwarts Consumed kindly invited me to their crib to chat about the olden days, the re-emergence of their song "Heavy Metal Winner" on the re-mastered Tony Hawk game and much more.

Send us Fan Mail Jason (and Steve, a bit) from Funbug (the first UK band to sign to Lookout!) join me to talk about their gigs with Green Day, Rancid and more. The final episode of series 1.

Send us Fan Mail So, we finally get to it. The final part of our review and dissection of the Fat Wreck Comp "short music for short people". The Propaghandi vs Guttermouth results are in too!

Send us Fan Mail Spooky horror surf punx The Terrorsurfs have caught a tubular wave across the internet to talk to me this week. Hot topics include, lightbulbs, how they became the darlings of BBC Radio 4 and their beef with their not so scary, very gig-keen rivals.

Send us Fan Mail Reddich skatepunks Swan Prince are in, talking about their debut album "Hell On Earth" and whether "female fronted" is a thing. hint: It's not. Additional music comes from Clobber and Funbug...IT'S AN ACCIDENTAL REDDICH SPECIAL!

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of our dissection of the very influential Fat Wreck Compilation "Short Music for Short People". The results of our Bad Religion poll are in, and is track 45 The Offspring's best work since "Smash?"

Send us Fan Mail Catalonia's premier punk purveyors of their native language drop in via Skype to bring us English up to date with their career.

Send us Fan Mail Leeds newbies SCUM pop in for a chat and I fanboy over New Jersey's HASSLE.