Oh we have a great episode for you, really....all bias aside...it's a belterWe look at one of the longest standing and most important bands to come out of the Pacific Northwest's Riot Grrl scene ... Sleater-KinneyWe discuss sexism in the music

Neutral Milk Hotel

Jun 17th, 2021 1h 31m

New episode Bagpipe alert. Somehow we have a really long episode about a band with only two official studio albums. Although one of those albums is very very critically acclaimed. (Though not by all of us)We've only gone and done NEUTRAL MILK

Future of the Left

Jun 10th, 2021 1h 8m

You can't stop us now. Fresh from last week's Mclusky we take on Andrew Falkous' next band...The Future of the Left!!!We discuss under 18 gigs at Camden Crawl, seminal indie-albums, pitchfork reviews, eating cheeseburgers at a Butlins, oh and a

Mclusky

Jun 3rd, 2021 1h 1m

We are back for Season ThreeJust as we kicked off Season Two with something loud, we thought we would repeat the trick with South Wales' own (well apart from the lead singer) Mclusky. If you are thinking "who?" then you probably feel exactly li

ESG

Apr 29th, 2021 1h 33m

We have finally done ESG justice!!!So, back in the early days of Temporary Fandoms we put out a half-finished pilot looking at the output of criminally underrated band ESG. Finally, after a year of churning out episodes we are able to present a

Number Girl

Apr 22nd, 2021 1h 17m

Welcome to your new favourite band.OK, welcome to your new favourite band if you like Pixies, Hüsker Dü and Japanese stuff. In this episode Ewan tries to convince Nick, returning pod favourite Chris Whitby, and pod newcomer, guitarist of Math R

Love: Part 2 1969 - 1974

Apr 15th, 2021 53m 15s

Can Arthur Lee make good business decisions?It's 1969, surely they play at Woodstock?What is the actual difference between a Love album and an Arthur Lee solo album?What did Arthur Lee do at an Our Price record store? (post credits nugget)Re-jo

Love: Part 1 1966 - 1968

Apr 8th, 2021 1h

If you have ever wanted to know what makes music "Baroque" then listen on...Putting The Fall behind us, kind of, we head back to the 60s and take in the West Coast sound of Love. The Band that could have had Jimi Hendrix in, that could have pla

The Fall: Part 6 2010- 2017

Apr 1st, 2021 1h 19m

If it's me and your granny on bongos (and the 66 other guitarists, drummers, bass players, keyboardists, flutists, and more)It doesn't feel like it's over. We have spent weeks listening to, digesting, dissecting, and discussing over three decad

The Fall: Part 5 2001- 2008

Mar 25th, 2021 1h 13m

Mark E Smith as Doctor Who? The Eleni Period Begins.Do The Fall suffer a post millennial slump, or is it all guns blazing into the new century? Does MES revamp the line up again to ruin Nick's argument that the line up was relatively stable? Ho

The Fall: Part 4 1995 - 2000

Mar 18th, 2021 59m 44s

Tony Blair, Elton John, and Mark E Smith as a pre cog?And we are back with the late 90s. As Cool Britannia reigned and Brit Pop peaked and died how did this impact one of music's great acts?The line up remains the same as last time with TempFan

The Fall: Part 3 1990 - 1994

Mar 11th, 2021 53m 29s

We are Falling through the halfway mark... MARK?... there's a joke in there somewhere.Despite Nick constantly banging on about how The Fall have a pretty solid line up, I'm going to refer to our Fall-esque constantly revolving line up.Back on t

The Fall: Part 2 1983 - 1988

Mar 4th, 2021 1h 21m

Yup, it's gonna take a while. Let's continue with the discography of one of music's great acts: THE FALLNick and Ewan are re-joined by our very special guests, John Henderson of Tiny Global Productions, Fliss Kitson of The Nightingales, and po

The Fall: Part 1 1979 - 1982

Feb 24th, 2021 1h 25m

Join us for the foreseeable future as we tackle the discography of one of music's great acts: THE FALLNick and Ewan start this journey with the help of some very special guests. They are joined by John Henderson, of Tiny Global Productions, Fli

Spoon

Feb 14th, 2021 1h 59m

Join us as we take a look at one of the most critically lauded US Indie rock bands of the past twenty years.Nick and Ewan discuss the career of Austin Indie-Rockers Spoon by welcoming back to the pod Emily Baldoni and welcoming for the first ti

The Queens of the Stone Age (Feat: Kyuss)

Jan 23rd, 2021 2h 20m

We decided to kick off 2021 with some no nonsense Stoner Rock.Joining Nick and Ewan to go through the career of Josh Homme are Scott Donald and Si Sharp. It's a long one, in fact it might be the longest we have done so far. As usual, take your

Can Part 2: 1974 - 1989

Dec 23rd, 2020 1h 11m

We left our German pioneers at the peak of their creativity, surely it's all up from here...Continuing our look at German experimental rock/reggae/psych/afro beats band Can we wonder...will Ewan come round to everyone else's way of thinking? Wi

Can Part 1: 1968-1973

Dec 16th, 2020 1h 20m

Can we follow the exceptional pair of Yo La Tengo episodes? Yes we Can!Nothing says future podcast success than a dive though the discography of a 1970s experimental German rock (ish) band.We have a look a one of the most influential bands ever

Yo La Tengo Part 2: 2000 - 2018

Dec 4th, 2020 1h 52m

It's a long one, so buckle upNick and Ewan are joined again by Ben Zimmer, Jesse Jarnow, and Jeffrey Lewis to talk through the work of Yo La Tengo this century.We get side-tracked a little by Ewan getting excited about Slade.As you know Ben is

Yo La Tengo Part 1: 1986 - 1997

Nov 19th, 2020 1h 35m

For this very special pair of episodes we decided to call in the experts!Nick and Ewan are joined by Ben Zimmer, Jesse Jarnow, and Jeffrey Lewis. What could bring these three togethers for a mammoth three and a half hour chat? (Don't worry it's

David Bowie Part 3: 1993 - 2016

Nov 10th, 2020 1h 29m

After ignoring Tin Machine we walk through Bowie's work and life from the early 90s through to his sad death and swansong with Blackstar. We take a brief detour through the Buddha of Suburbia, talk about Reeves Gabrels and one of us just didn'

David Bowie Part 2: 1977 - 1987

Nov 1st, 2020 1h 30m

So, we were really happy with the last episode and worried that we could carry on with what we think was a pretty damn fine piece of podcasting.Here, we take an in depth look at the Berlin period, and then try to make it through the Eighties wi

David Bowie Part 1: 1967 - 1976

Oct 14th, 2020 1h 47m

Ok, I admit it, we've got a little cocky. After the dive into the surreal world of The Butthole Surfers we decided to tackle something big. Something big and precious to a lot of people. We've gone full Bowie.Obviously this is a big undertaking

The Butthole Surfers

Sep 29th, 2020 1h 4m

Fresh off hitting the 60 listener mark we decided to chase them all away by going through the history of Texas experimentalists The Butthole Surfers.Nick and Ewan are joined by Butthole virgin Aron T White and stalwart Brendan Emmett Quigley to

The Mercury Sessions Part 2

Aug 27th, 2020 1h 10m

Join an extended Temporary Fandoms crew as we look at the 2020 Mercury Prize shortlist. Four more guests, 6 more albums, and this time Ewan doesn't read out the entire list of previous winners. He does bang the table a little too much though.We