Mid Life Punk Podcast

Apr 09 2025 241 ep. 79 mins 19

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Music and interviews with bands from across the global punk scene, all coming at you from Spondon in Derby, UK. Join us every week and get rad with the fat lads.

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MLPP191 - Save Ferris

Apr 09 2025 81 mins

Pick it up (please)! Its a ska special in MLPP Towers this week, and what better way to usher in the summer than to have a chat with Save Ferris' very own Monique Powell! She's been in movies, toured the world and gets mentioned in autobiographies and has taken time to speak with the fat lads about being mates with Two-Tone legends, Bro Culture, living in Birmingham, protesting and

MLPP190 - The Slow Death Return!

Apr 03 2025 78 mins

Jesse Thorson joins us this week to make up for the time he got stuck in a field in France with no phone signal. The Slow Death (his band) have a new record dropping imminently and we have some tracks from that as well as a reimagining of one of their old songs which is something of an EXCLUSIVE. We chat about family holidays, the band's very high membership numbers, Wank Hilliams

MLPP189 - The Raging Nathans Return!

Mar 27 2025 89 mins

They're back and they're more raging than ever....It's The Raging Nathans! In anticipation of their 6th LP, Josh Goldman has popped in and a couple of the other Nathans make brief appearances too. We discuss liking rock n roll, deconstruct the Welsh language and playing gigs in mortuaries. We have 3 gig reports and a mini interview with The Bucky Bombs at their EP launch party (the

MLPP188 - Last Ditch Effort

Mar 14 2025 96 mins

We're making the effort this week with San Jose's very own Last Ditch Effort. 2 of these political, melodic skate punkers have escaped the California heat for a chat about learning a new instrument, the positives and negatives of Craigslist, Ice Hockey, memes and of course the high profile bromance of President Faketan and his South African mate. Tom and Niallism chat about Niall's

MLPP187 - Roach Squad

Mar 05 2025 88 mins

We have quite a boon of an interview for you this week as we're joined by Canadian/Scottish/Mackem supergroup ROACH SQUAD. They're made up of 50% Leatherface, 25% Sainte Catherines and 25% pure Murderburger, so their pedigree is top tier. We talk about Graeme and Frankie's return to collaboration, the logistics of your vocalist being on the other side of the planet and we discover

MLPP186 - Snackwolf

Feb 12 2025 75 mins

We have some Teutons in MLPP Towers this week, namely, Stuttgart's punk rock heroes, Snackwolf! We underscore the point around "roman salutes", discuss a near miss in the mountains near Austria, hear about their upcoming dates with some Dutch friends of the show and of course, we get the story around the band motto: SUPPORT BAND FOREVER. Tom has a gig report from South Yorkshire, N

MLPP185 - Bandages

Feb 06 2025 74 mins

We have all things Ohio covered this week as we welcome Shannon off Bandages, an emerging band that became a success by accident. We get a first hand account of what our colonial cousins' election result has been so far, we chat about our inability to comprehend long distances and we talk about songs that write themselves. All this and much more is inside your favourite serious mus

MLPP at East Angrier 10

Jan 27 2025 47 mins

Tom's been on his travels to beautiful new town and Diesel City, Peterborough. No, he hadn't forgot his passport, he was asked to report on East Angrier X (put on by Socks On Records). He gathered people under Tom's chatting tree at the back of the closed-down Debenhams to conduct micro-interviews with some of the artistes performing, provides in-depth analysis of the bands' perfor

MLPP184 - Blagged

Jan 22 2025 74 mins

It's returning guests this week, Blagged (formerly The Mustard) are back! Manchester is their home and NOFX-y 90s inspired melodic skatepunk is their game. We get the lowdown on their first release, their new bass player (who is an MLPP veteran) and we get the full story around THAT name change. We discuss the outcome of our "are the Proclaimers punk?" debate, Niall finally tells a

MLPP183 - Das Kapitans & MICES

Jan 15 2025 81 mins

We've doubled the guest capacity at MLPP Towers this week as we welcome not one, but TWO bands in for a chat. Namely, Das Kapitans and MICES. These Peterborough (Diesel City) and Norwich pop groups are releasing a split EP on Valentine's Day and they wanted to give you a taster. We cover Norfolk slang terms, Norwich's traffic calming measures, appropriate times to wear ladies' tigh