Teenage Wasteland

Teenage Wasteland with very special guest Siobhan MacGowan, journey through Shane MacGowan’s London - from King’s Cross and Hammersmith to Camden Town.Framed by The Pogues’ 'Dark Streets of London' and 'London You’re a Lady', this special episode explores the streets, stories and people behind the songs, taking in our London travels and the filming of Cronin’s new video at the London Irish Centre.Released to coincide with 20th Century Paddy - The Songs of Shane MacGowan, the episode closes with Cronin’s beautiful recording of 'London You’re a Lady', featured on the album.

Mark Dignam explores the music and friendships that took him from Finglas to Pittsburgh.He recalls playing Ultravox and AC/DC on repeat, his love of Thin Lizzy, and seeing Phil Lynott’s Grand Slam at his first gig. Then came Grafton Street, busking alongside Glen Hansard, Mic Christopher and the Odlum brothers before crowds of hundreds.We follow that community into McDaid’s and the International Bar, where original songs found their first audiences, then across the Atlantic and settling in Pittsburgh.

The Murder Capitals' Gabriel Pascal Blake explores the music, friendships and mentors that shaped his teenage years. From his first band, Jamaican Vampires, and Letterkenny’s creative community to BIMM and The Murder Capital, Gabriel reflects on the people who encouraged him along the way. We talk Grouper, The War on Drugs, Clairo and Daniel O’Donnell, working with Flood, and recording Shane MacGowan’s 'The Song with No Name'. Gabriel also discusses his solo collaboration with Anthony Cazade at La Frette in Paris and his new single, “Everything About You”.

Cam Cole traces his journey from a four-quid childhood guitar to captivating crowds worldwide. We explore his teenage influences, from Cream to Sepultura, the evolution of his extraordinary one-man band, life on the road, American juke joints, and the heavy blues and psychedelia of his new album, Lost in Creation. Plus, that unforgettable Ted Lasso appearance.

Arborist joins Teenage Wasteland to trace his journey from growing up in Ballymena in the ’80s and ’90s to making his superb new album, Looking for Love. We explore a musical education shaped by his parents’ country records, his siblings’ dance and pop collections, and his own discovery of Britpop, Snow Patrol and The Divine Comedy. From his Pixies-loving first band, Pilgrim, comes a teenage dream realised - collaborating with Kim Deal. Mark also reflects on The Holy Innocents, becoming Arborist, and how producing Looking for Love himself compared with recording alongside Matthew E. White in Virginia and at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios.

Paddy Hanna joins Teenage Wasteland to talk Thin Lizzy, growing up in Castleknock, childhood horror films and finding his way into music through friendship, Radiohead and an Elvis Costello-inspired guitar. From the wild days of Grand Pocket Orchestra to his solo work, we trace a musical life shaped by curiosity and perseverance. At its heart is his beautiful new album, Paddy Hanna’s Bacharach Show Volume One, out November 20 via Strange Brew. Plus - sharing a stage with Burt Bacharach, and why Tom Waits’ 'Flower’s Grave' is his favourite song of all time.

In this episode of Teenage Wasteland, 'Blue Jay Way' becomes a road into the curious mythology of Los Angeles. From The Beatles and Pink Floyd to Death Grips, Frank Black and the Pixies, Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, David Lynch and Naomi Watts, Chinatown and William Mulholland - we follow a single Hollywood Hills address outward into music, movies, water, power and the city itself - and ask how one Beatles song can contain so much of Los Angeles.

Darren Morrissey and Greg Marshall left Dublin for London with two acoustic guitars, a pile of songs and not much of a plan. What followed was busking, chance encounters, beautiful two-part harmonies, two albums, years on the road - and then, after a final show in Mumbai in 2019, silence.Now Morrissey & Marshall are back.In this episode of Teenage Wasteland, we trace the story from their early days in Dublin and the move to London, through being discovered by John Reynolds, recording And So It Began and We Rise, and the strange chemistry that happens when two voices lock together.

Bonnie Bloomgarden of Death Valley Girls joins Teenage Wasteland to talk teenage Los Angeles, ska, discovering Black Sabbath, tracing Sabbath back through blues and jazz, moving to New York, recording with Tommy Ramone, returning to LA, losing her home in the fires, and the hopeful new album Welcome to Earth.

Manchester guitarist Aziz Ibrahim traces his journey from playing pub gigs at twelve to Simply Red, Asia, Hot Chocolate and replacing John Squire in The Stone Roses. He talks Buddy Holly, Bollywood, desi guitar, Ian Brown, Lahore to Longsight, and why originality, for him, is the purest form of imperfection.