MLPP239 - Nervous Twitch

Send us Fan MailSit still, it's time for the globe trotting Nervous Twitch to visit MLPP Towers.We discuss their distant touring adventures around the world, their song writing process and their seeming ability to transcend scenes and genres with ease. All tracks from them are from the 1 year old album "the Day Job Gets In The Way".Tom and Bazz have a joint spooky gig report, we take an in-depth and sensitive look at men's reproductive health and we discuss which bands scared a young Bazz almost to death.Music this week is from: Blagged, Drapslag, Spike & The Gimme Gimmes, Rudimentary Peni and Mummula.The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailFrom the home of the twisted spire (NOT Chesterfield, Wakefield) we have some mad bastards visiting. Yep, its Jambo and Luke from off The Krayons!We talk about funeral etiquette, tonic wines, celebrity chefs pubs that used to be gay bars/Nazi Bars (not at the same time, although I doubt the clientele changed much), Nans coming to gigs and the first ever Krayons Komedy Kompetition!Music this week is from: Mr Zippy, After The Fact, B.A Johnston, Born Shit Stirrers and DeeCracks.The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailYou, my friends, are cordially invited to the ceremonial opening of the 4th wave of Ska.To open proceedings, we're joined by the official first 4th wave band, Broken 3 Ways!This double trumpeted ska-core outfit have skanked their way into MLPP towers fresh from a week long run with The Slackers, and are in to tell us all about it!As well as that, we discuss Tom's theory that there are more ska bands in areas where there was coal mines, we hear about the making of a music video, Welsh food festivals and we also talk for disproportionately long about a place they're not even from.Bazz has a gid review from Bolton featuring The Papashangos and their desired effect on audiences, he also provisdes a holiday report and of course, Tom has a game for the guests.Music This week is by: Capdown, Hark! A Shark!, Big D & The Kids Table, The Nightbirds and Tearjerker.The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailMinimal Faff are in the hot seat today!They come from Manchester with tales of evictions, setting boundaries and other depressing matters. But, delivered in an upbeat and jaunty way.Barrett has tales from Whitby Abbey, Tom has another comprehensive book review for you and we finally put the "My Gay Uncle" debate to bed.Music this week is from: The Scutches, Nothing Thrives, The Vandals, My Gay Uncle and The Drowns. The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailA returning guest for you this week, Mr Dan Goatham!Ahead of touring the UK with nothing but his acoustic guitar, Dan fills us in on what he's most excited about and nervous about for his trip. We also chat new projects, Spoilers, Snuff and the Dan's new Gimme Gimme era. As well as that, Dan joins us for a culinary based game.Tom and Barrett have been like ships in the night at a gig, Barrett has done some research on mislabelled Napster songs and much more.Music is from: Manic Hispanic, Neato, DK vs The Kingdom, Every Time I Die and Rad Skulls.The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailBerkshire beckons us in this week, as political punkers Tape It Shut pop in for a chinwag.We hear about gigs that were let downs, gigs that were great, least favourite politicians, parasites, capitalism of varying styles and the inspiration behind their tracks.Tom shares how he's been straying from the punk path, Barrett's buddy gets banged up, we get a story from Tom's past and of course there is a very sad Top 5 pertaining to losses we've recently suffered.Music this week is from: Secret Army, Old Foes, T.S.O.L, The Toasters and Hospital JobThe Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailWe were graciously invited by our chums at Punk Rock Elite Podcast to attend the UK premiere of the new NOFX feature length documentary '40 Years of Fuckin Up'. Which we gratefully accepted.Join Tom and Danny Barrett for a whistlestop tour through Obese Mick's latest cinematic offering, including remarks about: the dangers of roving microphones, seeing Wattie Buchan on the silver screen and a blow by blow account of the 'Sexhibition' we were forced to look at.Music is obviously from NOFX, but scouse buggers Code Break also make a sneaky appearance.The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailLeicester is our destination, and Last Edition are our inspiration for our second Ska band in 3 weeks!Matty, the top brass, is in telling us about his pop group which features a pregnant person currently, including some of their very salubrious gigs and the not so salubrious.We chat crisps, dead snooker players, Englebert, stupidly spelled place names and soccer.Tom and Danny Barrett discuss celestial events, a Sowerby Bridge gig report, holiday nightmares, our upcoming jolly boys' outing to see the premiere of the NOFX Film and the Prime Minister's trigger happy approach to warnings of certain death.Music this week is courtesy of: Dance Hall Crashers, Guineapigs, Making Friends, NOFX and Swayze.The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailMLPP Towers offers some respite to 3 weary Punkabillies this week, who are unfortunately located in Stoke on Trent.The Two Step Goodbyes are very forthcoming with their song topics, their drug (purely medicinal) addled car journeys stoking local beefs, and their tip top band nights in Stoke, "Bars Attacks". They also go all in on a brand new game of Tom's invention called "Rockabilly or Notabilly" (yes, he knows its a fantastic concept, no need to write in).We have a gig report from the centre of the universe (Nuneaton), Barrett has been forced to relocate due to nature getting its revenge, and we take an advance look at the Easy Fest '26 line up!Songs this week are from: Travis Cut, A Murder of Crows, Tinseltown Rebellion, Code Break and The Offsailors.Additional voicework provided by Mark L WilliamsonThe Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Send us Fan MailFor the first time in a very long time, we have a fully fledged ska band on! And that band is West Yorkshire's Nutty Skunk! They, by their own admission, were groomed....into ska at a young age.Logistics are a key topic in the conversation for this 7 piece who have a "do what you can" attitude to practicing. We also hear a HMV horror story, discuss the sound engineer reaction to seeing a 7 piece band with a brass section arrive and also put the world to rights a little bit.Tom has a gig report from Devon, Barrett has his top5 and all the usual stuff.Music is from: Sick Of It All, Trivia, Pennywise, Pansy Division and Meryl Streek.The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We KeepYou hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify