Mid Life Punk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Museums. Academics. These aren’t words you’d usually associate with punk rock. That all changes now though, because this week we’re joined by Dr Emma Parker, from the team behind Punk: Rage and Revolution.   It’s an exhibition celebrating the inception of Punk and how the city of Leicester welcomed (or not) the new subculture. This weekend (18th, 19th and 20th August) sees the exh...

Send us Fan Mail Our accidental tour of the commonwealth continues this week with a bloody lovely chat with Emmett from off Canada's very own Pkew Pkew Pkew! We get the info on the updated line up, we get a spin of the first single from their upcoming album "Siiick Days" and hear the heart breaking story behind the new single. Emmett shares his top Canadian acts with us, we discuss...

Send us Fan Mail G'day mates. It's a trip to the antipodes (Brighton) today for a chat with Pat from Western Australia's finest skate punks The Decline. Pat talks us through the upcoming record and gives a WORLD EXCLUSIVE off it, we chat about the do's and dont's of pet ownership, a new video game release and Pat reveals his top tip for avoiding litigation and much more. B...

Send us Fan Mail Round the houses guv! It's a trip to South London this week for Tom and guest co-host Mark L Williamson (Niall's off on a Kraftwerk pilgrimage) to meet, greet and chat with grungy, punky 3 piece Girls Like Us. We discuss their upcoming festival appearances, hear about their fame amongst the narcotic retail community and get the inside track on their personal and sincere...

Send us Fan Mail It's that time again folks! It's our special series of episodes where we listen to and discuss record label sampler CDs from back in the day. This time, the sacrificial offering is Hellcat Records' Give 'Em the Boot 2! We're joined by Eddie French and Red Redmond, stand-up comics by day (well, by night really) and hosts of the Punk Rock Elite Podcast (a po...

Send us Fan Mail Lincoln's finest al fresco antagonists, Glitchers, are our guests this week. They cut their teeth on the streets by carrying out "flash punk gigs" in town centres across the UK, leaving a trail of bemused bobbies and nerve wracked grannies in their wake. Ahead of their EIGHTY DATE tour, we chat about powering their brief gigs, scary 90s tv shows and the remit over-r...

Send us Fan Mail Get some tablets down you cause we're giving you Headaches this week! Charlie, the main man, has come in to discuss his narrow miss of major label stardom, the perils of being in a band with a significant other, his old band The Merics and of course, his current project. We've got a never before heard EXCLUSIVE cover from Headaches, we discuss Charlie's love of the...

Send us Fan Mail We're blasting off up the A52 this week to visit Austin Rocket in Nottingham! Austin currently plys his trade in Scene Killers and The Hip Preists, but, there's a much longer backstory to his musical endeavours! We start out in the arse-end of Lincolnshire where there's nowt but fields and RAF bases and take a journey through the early 90s uk pop-punk scene, Scandir...

Send us Fan Mail Cornwall's not all tin mines, pasties, cyder, pirates and more pasties you know. Lurking out on the moores is a punk/hardcore bohemouth the locals call "Rash Decision" and its roar is known to scare away all legal action. Yes, Dave and Si off Rash Decision are in MLPP Towers this week to educate us on a number of things, such as: British Beach Wildlife, Do's an...

Send us Fan Mail It's back to Wales this week as Tom and Niallism chat up Question The Mark. The melodic hardcore/gruffpunkers love a pun, hate their old van, hate the tories and hate working in call centres. Niallism is absolutely furious at the state of the world, Tom is carrying out a coronation activity check and the great debate of "who has the best (climbable by amateurs) mountain?...

Send us Fan Mail Ciao Bellends! Southern Europe has summoned us this week as we head to Italy to chat with Latte+’s bass playing master, Jay Lattepiu! Jay’s bought along four tracks from the latest Latte+ record for us hear and it’s a goodie! We also discuss the Italian scene, touring Europe, what it was like in Italy when covid ravaged it and we get the definitive view on the best way to reheat p...

Send us Fan Mail It gives me massive pleasure to say that this week, your boys have been visited by Dal Failure, the newest member of Frenzal Rhomb! Our globe spanning chat will give you unique insight into what its like when a bloke gets to join his favourite band. We chat about Dal's early days in punk rock, his first band Local Resident Failure and how meeting a punk rock legend didn'...

Send us Fan Mail This week we're joined by Welly , creator of Artcore fanzine, former vocalist of Cardiff punks Four Letter Word and now, a published author. 'Directions To The Outskirts Of Town' is a collection of Welly's tour diaries that he jotted down in 1994 and 1999 whilst crossing the USA. First as merch guy/roadie for Chaos UK and then with Four Letter Word. The discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been smuggled across the Mexico/USA Border in someone's car? Cause we have! Miski from City Mouse is our guest this week and we chatted to her as she crept slowly towards the border. Miski and your brave hosts discuss a number of deeply important topics such as killing, murdering and making lurve to cartoon characters, getting to grips with the English nicknames...

Send us Fan Mail This time we're joined by none other than Chris Wrenn, owner and top brass at Boston's legendary hardcore label: Bridge Nine Records! Chris joins us from the Bridge Nine Shop to discuss everything you ever wanted to know about starting and running an enduring record label. It's got tales that span the globe and Chis shares with us his choice cuts from 4 Bridge Nine...

Send us Fan Mail It's back over the Atlantic this week as we give you a taster of what's kicking off in Denver, Colorado. CFP (aka Captain Farrell's Pistols) actually asked to come on, which makes a change, and we discuss life post-California, the differing approaches to mental health in the UK and the USA, we quote some classic comedy and....would someone LIE to get into a band? su...

Send us Fan Mail What's the point of doing a PREview, if you're not going to do a REview? Join your intrepid adventurers as they recount the highs, the lows and the succulent Chinese meals that we had at the UK's premier punk music festival. Scott off Eat Defeat was unavailable so we roped Nottingham gig legend, 🎶 Richard Fu**inWhite🎶. music choices contain: Discharge, The Overjoy...

Send us Fan Mail Freshness is the order of the day this week at MLPP Towers as we are joined by York's freshest Shoegaze/punk/90s/Riot Grrrl outfit What Fresh Hell. We chat with the gang about York geography, audience interaction, dream merchandise ranges and one member gets an intervention from their significant other. Tom's become (more) useless at tech, Niall is ssuper buzzing about M...

Send us Fan Mail This, my friends is YOUR unofficial companion podcast to the 2023 Manchester Punk Festival! Tom and Niall have gathered some of the friendly punks together to discuss who we're most looking forward to seeing, and just like the line up the variety is stonking! Your dynamic panel of punx includes: Tom & Niallism off MLPP (obvs), Danny Barrett off the Crash Mats, Scott Reyno...

Send us Fan Mail Behold, the band named after the evilest sleepover ever: Vampire Slumber Party! The South London trio have popped in to MLPP towers ahead of a gig to discuss their upcoming (OUT NOW!) debut album. We get home recording tips, chat about famous vampires, test VSP's moral scruples and give you a short Christopher Lee biography. Niall's got one on him and takes a novel appro...

Send us Fan Mail It’s not all rock n roll, parties and moshing at MLPP Towers you know. So, we bring out our cultured side with author, publisher, sometimes musician and record label head honcho, David Gamage. We discuss David’s new book, “A Hardcore Heart”, we get a deep dive into the Tunbridge Wells scene past and present, David’s euro adventures and perhaps most crucially: which one of your fav...

Send us Fan Mail Join us on a magical mystery tour of Chesterfield this week, with it's vape shops, charity shops and local minstrels W.O.R.M. What does W.O.R.M stand for? (Don't google their answers, for god's sake), who are the original members?, how did Chesterfield's biggest landmark end up a twisted mess? All this and more are answered inside. It's got nervous breakdo...

Send us Fan Mail Knowledge. True, it equals power, but does it equal punk points? No, it doesn't. But, that didn't stop us gathering up two Yorkshire musical combos (Get The F Outta Dodge and Character Actors) and pitting their grey matter against each other. One of the contestants finished in a medal position on a classic BBC quiz show, one can't remember which county he lives in,...

Send us Fan Mail To compliment the release of their BRAND NEW album Ailments we are joined by the general Greater Manchester Area's Clayface this week. The boys are keen to share their new tracks with you and we were obviously more than happy to oblige! As well as the origins of Clayface, life as part of clayface, the criminal endeavours of one of Clayface we also discuss the mysterious &quot...

Send us Fan Mail     They’re not ALL, but they are NOT.     Western USA Supergroup NOT are in the hot seat this week to discuss their project which is a homage to the Descendents offshoot. We hear about their favourite records and tracks from their heroes, we get a unique insight into how things work at Bill Stevenson’s studio The Blasting Room and we can exclusively reveal what records the lads l...