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Mid Life Punk PodcastMPF REview 2025The third part of this year's MPF trilogy has arrived! Tom, Niallism, Richard White, Danny Barrett, Bagsy Baker and Riaz off Grail Guard have got together to review and assess their attendance at the most recent instalment of Manchester Punk Festival.It's got falling over (lots), Bargain Hunt, Country and Western, Austrians, Succulent Chinese Meals, performances, shouting swear words at hard men and a lot of lolling.Music is by: Tripsun, The Restarts, Mark Murphy & The Meds, Fast Blood and Pizzatramp2025-04-291h 17
Mid Life Punk PodcastBastardmind LIVE @ MPF 2025Once again, for reasons we can't fathom, we were graciously invited to appear at the tenth instalment of MPF in order to test the grey matter of some punk rock celebrities.Don't tell the BBC, but its based on Mastermind.Abi (Fast Blood), Danny Barrett (The Crash Mats), Vez (Wonk Unit & XRay Vez) and Riaz (Grail Guard) are all up for the challenge, but who will be crowned victorious? With specialist subjects as diverse as dogs and turn of the century emo, it's anybody's game.Musical interludes are graciously provided by Our Souls...2025-04-2341 min
Mid Life Punk PodcastMPF 2025 PREviewAs per Easter Traditions, we have decided to preview the upcoming Manchester Punk Festival to give you all a flavour of what we'll be doing, who we'll be seeing.Tom & The Boy Niallism are joined by Riaz off Grail Guard, Danny Barrett off The Crash Mats, Duco Van Der Veen from The Netheregions, Richard F White from Wolverhampton, Mark Murphy off The Meds and long time listener Bagsy Baker wonders what he's got himself in for.Music is kindly supplied by Hard Skin, Diaz Brothers and Grail Guard.2025-04-141h 04
Mid Life Punk PodcastMLPP Special - 2024 Round-UpHappy New Year one and all!What better way to bin off the old year than by remembering some stuff about it and discussing it with your mates?Tom, Niallism and guest discusser Danny Barrett off The Crash Mats have painstakingly remembered 2024 and have each chosen their top song, top gig and top album of last year.Without giving too much away, music this week/year comes from: Fucked Up, White Trash Two Theys & a Jock, Dead Wet Things, Incisions, Clayface, Frenzal Rhomb, Fast Blood, The Dopamines and The Zatopeks.2025-01-011h 06
Mid Life Punk PodcastMLPP180 - Fast BloodLock up your stottie cakes, 'cause this week we're joined by Newcastle's very own Fast Blood. Well, we're joined by 50% of the band (and 50% of its Daves): Davey the drummer and Abi the vocalist.We discuss retro computer games (bonus points if you spot the hidden game theme music), when things started going down hill in the world, irritating pets, riots, our home towns and of course we squeeze in a bit of chat about their band.Niallism's off at a pop concert this week so Tom has soldiered on ably assisted by Danny Barrett...2024-12-121h 30
Mid Life Punk PodcastMLPP Special: Twat Music for Twat People30 years ago Obese Mick had a vision: a showcase of bands on his label, Fat Wreck Chords.Join Tom and Niallism for a flippant and playful discussion about that very compiliation: Fat Music for Fat People.Ably assisted by guest contributors Dave Shackleford and Danny Barrett off The Crash Mats, we discuss whether time has altered our perceptions of the comp, which footballer each song is most like, home computer care.Did you have pubes when this came out? What happens when your facebook page is hacked, do you even care? Do you...2024-08-191h 38
Mid Life Punk PodcastMPF 2024 PREviewIt's back! And sadly, so are we.The MPF Preview has become a tradition that we are very happy to indulge, as Tom & Niallism delve excitedly into the line-up alongside some esteemed guests.If you're struggling to pick which bands to watch on each day, let us take the pressure off with our inside knowledge, high-brow views and deep thoughts.We're joined by: Dutch Mafia Boss Duco Van Der Veen, Shackleford's Dickkie, Helen off Smoking Gives You Big Tits, The Crash Mats' Danny Barrett, Scotty Too Hotty from off Eat Defeat, Liz from...2024-03-2355 min
Mid Life Punk PodcastThe 6th Day of Christmas feat. Danny Barrett off The Crash MatsOn the 6th day of Christmas MLPP gave to me.....Six punkers wrestling!Danny Barrett from The Crash Mats is in on day 6 to share with us 3 factoids about wrestlers and 3 punk songs about wrestlers! Some of these genuinely blew our tiny minds, so i hope you get blown too!2023-12-3027 min
Mid Life Punk PodcastTop Of The MLPP Pops 2023Yes it’s the top 10 albums of 2023 as voted for by YOU, dear listener. Danny Barrett joins Tom and Niallism to dissect your votes.In no particular order, the pop groups involved are:Grade 2NOT (feat Davey Warsop)Frenzal RhombGoodbye Blue MondayRivalryThe Raging NathansMaking FriendsTearjerkerThe Crash MatsBSS2023-12-1757 min
Mid Life Punk PodcastMLPP Manchester Punk Festival PreviewThis, 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 Reynolds from Eat Defeat, Mark Murphy off Crocodile God/ Mark Murphy & The Meds, Dickkie from Shackleford and the Netherlands' cuddliest teddy bear, Duco Van Der Veen (Wet Camper).Enjoy yourselves and see...2023-03-281h 00
Mid Life Punk PodcastMLPP104 - The Mercy Fu**sVinny, drummer from The Mercy Fucks, has been left high and dry by his bandmates. Cut loose and left to explain songs like "Panty Sniffer" and "Commode Crusher" despite not having written them. He puts in a sterling performance however, thrilling us with stories about panty sniffing, commode crushing and spurious activity in the back of a car.Vin and Niall demonstrate the strength of their egos, Tom's is made of paper or something, we enjoy a gig report from Bolton (thanks Danny Barrett off The Crash Mats), Niall's lost a crucial grooming tool and we prove that we...2022-11-161h 12
Mid Life Punk PodcastMLPP Special - Violent World - Tribute To The Misfits💀Spooky Special💀This week, we delve into the murky dungeon of 1997’s “Violent World- A Tribute to The Misfits”.We’re joined by Danny Barrett from The Crash Mats and Hello & Hoof. We’ve got facts on Wrestling, Revelation Records and West Midlands street performers. There’s views, unpopular opinions, half truths and hypothetical scenarios all based around these cover versions of the globe’s top horror punkers. Perfect for fans of The Misfits, haters of The Misfits and everything in between.2022-11-041h 34
Mid Life Punk PodcastMLPP At Crapfest SpecialGratiously, Crapsons invited us to attend and document their annual Liverpool festival: Crapfest! and it definitely was not crap.Tom & Niallism venture forth to find out all the hard hitting Crapfest questions: How many people will die during Pizzatramp's set? Did Wonk Unit have a nice journey? How many bands did we get to flick Hello & Hoof's Danny Barrett in the pods? We have chats and tunes with/from Crapsons, Leech Bleeders, Pat Butcher, Parker Pardon Us (Tom's cider tolerance maxes out at this point), Wonk Unit and Pizzatramp2022-08-3155 min
Mid Life Punk PodcastMLPP67 - The Crash MatsGet ready for the most exciting thing in Oldham!* It's Danny Barrett from The Crash Mats!Danny is also the top bollocks at Evil Music Live so we discuss: whether his band is Ska Punk, quite how he pulls off mint gigs that are free admission, why so many punx love wrestling, his previous house guests, a North West England Punk Rumble and top Oldham landmarks.Tom's got the fear after his holidays Niallism talks lookalikes, We take a sniff of Duco's Dutch Oven and so much more.Tunes are from The Black Flags, Hodges & Peacock, Southpaw, Antillectual, Burning...2022-01-161h 24