Mid Life Punk Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Steve and Matt off Vanilla Pod have navigated out of the fens this week to come in and have a chat with your overweight punk rock Parkinsons.

The Pod are a mainstay of the modern (30 years, rather than 50 years) uk scene and it's great to finally have them in the hot seat.

Which band has the butteriest members? Would you like to learn a new game for when you're travelling? Are you rich enough to make a music video? listen on to find out.

This week is also Tearjerker EXCLUSIVE time! We are premiering, for the first time anywhere on the globe, the new 7" from Wearside's greatest sons: Mick, Frenchy, Jakka and the Brentmeister General - TEARJERKER!

Music this week is from: Resistors, Tearjerker, Strung Out and The Wurzels

Cincinatti's very own pop-punk legends The Dopamines join Tom & Niall for some late night love. Some being later than others.

Jon Lewis gives us a potted history of the band and an insight into their upcoming album (available from Brassneck Records in October), a trying touring time, personal injury, near amputations and the great D4 debate.

Music this week is by: Beauty School Dropout, Amyl & The Sniffers, Capdown, Millie Manders &The Shut Up and Irked.

Andy Cameron, the self proclaimed Tartan King has popped over the border this week for a chat with your two favourite obese podders.

Andy and his band Ex-Cathedra supported all the big hitters in the 90s, he laid down some dub with Suicide Bid in the Noughties and now, he's back with his new outfit Bullitz 23.

We talk about being in a hit film, having yourself recommended to you by someone famous, potentially inspiring one of Rancid's songs and all the best Scottish venues and punk bands.

Niall misuses the complaints procedure, Tom is excited for compering at Juddstock, we share yet another sneak peek at track from the upcoming Punk In Drublic tribute and Tom has a novel solution for over stimulation.

Music this week comes from: Plow United, MUDFIGHT, TSOL, The Zipheads and The Crash Mats 

This week's episode is a perfect hangover cure (it worked for me anyway) as we coax Get The F**k Outta Dodge down from the Sheffield hills. The dudey duo tell us how heavily influenced they are by 80s hardcore legends, we investigate the longevity of Def Leppard amongst the Sheffield Hive Mind and the boys also have a creepy TV recommendation for you.We also talk "the queue", breathing problems and being put off punk rock.Additional Music: Lagwagon, The Mercy F**ks, Break Anchor, The Clash and Jerk!

We've got a great reason to listen this week, and that reason is....The North West's very own Reason To Leave! Their singer lives by the seaside and used to DJ jungle, their drummer lives in Hollyoaks, their bass player joins us from his automobile and their guitarist makes a brief but impactful appearance. Their 90s/00s skate punk sound will take you right back to the days when you could be out drinking 'til 4am and be in work for 9am. The boys make their cases for who they think should be the next Queen, we chat Propaghandi records, we hear a terrible tale of trouser trouble from Manchester Punk Festival and oh, so much more.Tom's history nerd is showing, Niall is in and out of the episode, we have a review of the FIRST EVER Vader Time Promotions gig too!Music this week is from Von Danikens, Kick Up, The Wimpys, 98 Mute, The Skints and Get The F**K Outta Dodge.

It's an emotional day in MLPP towers this week as we're visited by Louis, the vocalist from Birmingham hardcore legends Rotunda!This is a welcome relief after the tragic news that NOFX are calling it a day in 2023. We have some instant reactions to the news from listeners, as well as reading out contributions from our "NO-bituary".We talk brummie hotspots, good karma benefiting your Nan, what happens when the Misfits don't want any support bands and we talk about the current state of the scene in the second city.Music this week comes from Pussy Gilette, Beastie Boys, Weird Al, Hike The Peak, TSOL and NOFX

Gratiously, 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 Pizzatramp

We're visited by Liam Ashcroft from bands such as Crocodile God, Mugsmasher (of which we have some exclusives for you), The Mighty Saguaro (and many more) for a look at his life in punk. We talk life changing gigs with Pansy Division, being taken under Frankie Stubbs' wing, scary horror films, scary Kraftwerk conventions and much more.Tom has more accent attempts, Niall is cross about Tom's penchant for detail in TV, there's a moral scruple for our guest and we exclusively reveal what would've happened if E.T had landed in the UK.Music this week is from Reason To Leave, Off With Their Heads, Skids, Welsh Elvis, Zypmouth and Gimpfist.

The MLPP party bus has stopped in Brighton this week to chat with Mark, the old top brass from Random Heroes!Mark joins on the band's 20th anniversary year, so we look to the past with tour stories about throat cutting spirits, ex pop stars nearly beating up a pop punk veteran and a look back at DIY gigs of old.This aint a nostalgia trip though, we talk BRAND NEW Random Heroes releases, the future of music formats and the state of manscaping and beer subscription services. Mark reveals his knowledge about the Fab Four, Tom's drunk before we've even started and Niallism dazzles us with his use of the French language and his facts about random superheroes.Lucy's Lucky Dip is BACK, we've had a complaint that we address robustly by perfectly blending a west midlands and Australian accent and a whole load more good stuff.Music this week comes from: Voodoo Glow Skulls, Leagues Apart, Girls Like Us, The Apers, Botched Toe and Be Fair.

A look back to the past beckons as we forensically dissect Epitaph Records' 1999 sampler, Punk O'Rama 4 - Straight Outta The Pit.Tom and Niallism are joined by Dan from Shackleford who has some zany theories. Why did Osker split up? What's the Zeke singers favourite sexual position? Listen in and find out.