Mid Life Punk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In order to slake our thirst for justice, we knew exactly what to do when we were invited back for the (record breaking, history making) 3rd time to Manchester Punk Festival: a courtroom style, debate, thing. Tom is judging, Danny Barrett is clerking. The legal team of Dickkie Watson (Shackleford), Eddie French (off Punk Rock Elite Podcast) and Archie Moss (Clayface & Incision...

Send us Fan Mail It's back, it's still unofficial (but aren't most fun things?) and it's BIGGER THAN EVER! It's the MLPP MPF 2026 Preview show! Tom and Danny Barrett sought out the quickest wits and greatest minds in the DIY punk scene for contributions, but sadly they were all busy. So, instead, we put together a team of punters and performing artistes to hype up this yea...

Send us Fan Mail A warm trans-atlantic welcome to Oh The Humanity this week who are in for a chat ahead of their upcoming uk tour! Kevin, their esteemed vocalist takes us through all the stops on their jaunt, as Tom and Jake (off Los Fatso Libres) offer up pearls of wisdom and judgement on each town and city (sorry, Leeds). We also talk about previous UK tours, dental hygiene, fests around the wor...

Send us Fan Mail It's Dinner (lady) Time! We're joined by one third of Merseyside's lunch-themed sextet Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies this week, and what a visit it was! We deep dive into the trend of wearing the merch of left wing bands whilst being a right wing piece of garbage, we dissect the Rebellion Festivals booking of The Wurzels, hear about how the Dinnerettes craft th...

Send us Fan Mail We're on a highway to Hull this week as we're joined by the kings of The Humber, Zero Cost! They have their debut full length out later this year on Engineer Records and they tease us with some details about their record release show. We also discuss rural crime, a homage using a "huh", the worst time to have a bath, water storage within one's self and a l...

Send us Fan Mail Boss La! and all that.  It's time for another Tom On One this week where I take my years of psychology experience, which I got from watching Frasier, and grill a lone punk rocker about their journey through the genre and beyond. This week it's the turn of Garreth Hirons, bass maestro from Merseyside's angry speed daemons, Code Break! Mr H has some very eclectic song...

Send us Fan Mail How Do? Goo, West Yorkshire's finest indie-pop-punk rockers are in today. Well, one of them is as they've just got back from tour and they're all full of germs.  Kurt, the drummer, has stepped up to the plate though and explains to us: the joy of 7"s, the motivational power of dividing your work day into quarters when hungover, a curry conundrum and delayed chr...

Send us Fan Mail The Remote Controls are in this week ahead of them being buried alive by snow as we spoke! It's straight up punk rock from these three, no messin'. We talk drinking culture, smoking culture, dream opening slots and, of course, their two full length records, the newest of which (Too Tough) came out late last year. And, you can get it from Brassneck Records, apparently. Da...

Send us Fan Mail Yam Oroight? Another Tom On One for you all this week, and the "one" is none other than Healer of Bastard's very own bass player, Al Lowe! Al is a full on west midlander, with the voice and everything so Tom is very happy to be amongst his people. We discuss key musical moments from Al's life: From when he turned greeb as a teen, all the way through to when he...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! To kick off 2026, we have a Tom On One episode, featuring friend of the show, bed pisser, front man of Born Shit Stirrers and the second most understandable member of the Fukpunk Radio crew, Jon Bates. We hear about tracks that accompanied Jon's life when he turned 18, 21, 30 and 40. We discuss some significant events from Jon's life in those years, as we...

Send us Fan Mail The swindle continues in the second part of our festive magnum opus: The complete deconstruction of 1980s highest grossing movie (about the Sex Pistols) "The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle". Danny Barrett off The Crash Mats and Eddie French off Punk Rock Elite Podcast are still in and Danny is revealing himself to be a Sex Pistols expert as we move through. This half ha...

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas one and all! We all like a good movie over the festive period, but we also like slagging off crap movies too. Hence, Tom has summoned the two best film critics he knows: Danny Barrett off The Crash Mats and Eddie French off Punk Rock Elite Podcast to discuss, dissect and review Julien Temple's 1980 "documentary", The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle,...

Send us Fan Mail A festive stateside visit beckons this week as Tom and his able assistant Mark Murphy (off Crocodile God) chat with The Brokedowns about their latest record (out now on Red Scare) Let's Tip The Landlord. We chat about famous punk houses, a terrible slipping over incident, health gurus, the International Criminal Court and much more. Tom's on one about audiobooks, Mark re...

Send us Fan Mail It's time to visit Brighton....but only after we've been to Croydon first to chat with Crystal Palace supporter, tall man and bass player of Phinius Gage, Mr Mike Scott. Phinius Gage kept us entertained almost a quarter of a century ago with their skate-punk riffage and hectic touring schedule before calling it a day in 2007. But, now they're back! We talk about mis...

Send us Fan Mail Spike Slawson, enigmatic frontman of Spike & The Gimme Gimmes has hauled himself into MLPP Towers this week ahead of their UK tour next month. The lad likes a chat, so we cover a lot: The name change, getting booed at bar mitzvahs, Christmas songs,  getting booed at baseball games, Spike's last live music experience as a punter, some scary UK cities,  and getting booed at...

Send us Fan Mail Another "Tom on One" chat this week with Sunderland's top singing bassist, Mick O'Brien off Tearjerker. We take a deep dive into Mick's musical past with his favourite songs from the years he turned 16, 18, 21 and 30. As well as music, we explore his ventures into further education, being on the same label as your heroes, his plans for Christmas, bouncy ca...

Send us Fan Mail The "Tom On One" odyssey continues this week, with firm fan favourite and all round good lad, Danny Barrett off The Crash Mats. BAz is treating us to tales about songs that came out in the years he turned 18, 21, 30 and 40. Seriously good variety this time, so you don't want to miss it! We cover the Olympics, films we can quote, former colleagues with unfortunate na...

Send us Fan Mail A slightly refined format this time following some turbulent times in MLPP towers. However we hope that this in-depth, one on one (or TOM on one, geddit?) chat with Dave Shackleford will be a pleasant experience for you. Dave talks about songs that have meant a lot to him from the years he turned 18, 21, 30 and 40. Theres a good variety in there, so something for everyone. We get...

Send us Fan Mail Easily the most famous Horace is the pop group Horace Pinker, who have settled in for a Monday night chat at MLPP Towers this week. The veteran punkers who are from everywhere share their stories about getting into punk, what their parents thought about it, being so wild that some famous white guys (who are pretty fly) wouldn't stay at their house, having some legends play a...

Send us Fan Mail Codes are there to be broken, so we invited Merseyside’s Code Break in to MLPP Towers. These lads come with a highly recommended live show, so keep an eye out. We discuss mischief, bread rolls, white power gigs, Halloween, bizarre Liverpool landmarks, and also a bit about their band as well. Tom’s had a bit of luck with the birds, Niallism’s had no luck at all with shaving and is...

Send us Fan Mail If you get a whiff of unemptied bins around MLPP Towers this week, its because Birmingham's very own Face Up have been loitering! We're joined by 3 of Brum's best hardcore export for a chat which covers all facets of their decade-long career, but mostly centres around slagging off their bass player. We get an insight into old bands, hometowns, old careers and what c...

Send us Fan Mail We hope to knock this one out of the proverbial park this week as we welcome pro-pitcher, pro-vocalist and all round nice chap, Scott Radinsky from off California's very own Pulley. Scott talks us through the mismatched pass times of sport and punk rock, the mismatched careers of sport and punk rock, as well as Pulley's history and future plans. Scott also sets the recor...

Send us Fan Mail Miski off City Mouse has once again popped in to promote an get you all fired up for their upcoming UK tour! As well as slagging off various towns and cities across this fair isle, we share tracks from the latest CM record "So Far Out" take a deep dive into some of Miski's favourite UK foods, meal deals and more. Tom has been to a gig and, full disclosure, is absolu...

Send us Fan Mail "All iron roads lead to MLPP Towers", so the saying goes. And this week Splitbox have been shunted into our siding. This power pop power trio have travelled via York, Leicester and Norwich with no delays to discuss their song craft, life in covers bands, leaving a sensible gap between meeting and setting up a band as well as a heap of other topics that will thrill and in...

Send us Fan Mail 😬The Brummie Boys, Back Teeth couldn't wait to return to MLPP Towers so soon after their first visit, so they did! They're in to show off their shiny new bass player, discuss their upcoming single "It's Time For The Forever Box" and to strenuously deny the existence of their upcoming album on Little Rocket Records. Lewis, their main man dials in from Slov...