Stagione 1
S1E01 - Not Holding Back the Years
Album of the Year 2024
BONUS - Rule Britannia 1977-79 (featuring David Stubbs of Chart Music Podcast)
BONUS - A Purple Episode (featuring Arthur Turnbull of The Music Snobs Podcast)
The first episode of The Cacophony Sessions sees Dan, Pete, Martyn, Tom and Dave talking about time. Specifically, the years we think are the greatest. Join us to find out about our musical tastes, what we've been listening to in during lockdown, inflation rates, Brian Eno's leopard print cardigans and which band sounds most like the run-of-the-mill Turin Brakes/Fleetwood Mac/Godspeed! You Black Emperor every other band sounds like these days. Join us as we step into the boxing ring of musical debate and thrash out our thoughts. We hope you enjoy The Cacophony Sessions and would welcome any feedback as we begin our adventure. This podcast contains some strong language and one too many references to S Club 7. Featured Music: Untitled - Martyn Ley #Thangs (Instrumental) - Danny W & The Dope Untitled - Martyn Ley & Thanks to Tom Stembridge for his amazing artwork. Support the show
This is the audio-only version for the old school soldiers. The Cacophony Sessions Podcast returns to dive deep into our favourite records of 2024! Featuring Dan Whitell's returning ragtag band of cohorts Jim, Martyn and Tom this year, please enjoy this year's definitive channel list from a year that some were more enthusiastic about than others.All albums were scored out of ten to one decimal point, and naturally the scores presented are the collective scores from all of us combined. With deliciously juxtaposed snacks, accidental Partridge galore, terrifying forgotten adverts and another round of Does It Slap, as well as some strong cardigan game - the Cac is back, baby.Stay Funky Support the show
It's time for another of our bonus episodes and this month we are extremely lucky to have secured the services of British music journalism royalty, David Stubbs. Dan and Tom pick out the best and worst of British music from the pre-Thatcher era of 1977-79. David was a staff writer at Melody Maker magazine in the 80s as well as numerous other music publications and has his own bibliography of British comedy analysis and musical deep dives so adds a tremendous volume of knowledge to our usual discussion in the round. We highlight our favourite singles and albums as well as the bands that we find to be quite overhyped, and discover which particular artist was not a fan of one of David's reviews as well as, obviously, the most pertinent of questions in his favourite musical year and selection for the undeniable banger hall of fame.We would like to thank David for taking the time to chat with us, and for the uninitiated we implore you to check out his contributions to Chart Music Podcast for their hilarious Top of the Pops commentary. You can find them on Twitter here, David's account here and our own Twitter page right here. Let us know your thoughts on some of our controversial selections and we'll be back with another episode soon, with more new voices! Support the show
As you know if you've listened to us for more than four minutes, Dan is a huge Prince fan. This has been a long time coming, so along with Dave and Martyn we've recruited Arthur of the wonderful Music Snobs podcast to help as we discuss our favourite side-projects, and main albums and what we'd like to see in the future from the mythical Paisley Park vault.Whether you're a True Funk Soldier or if you know [two thousand] zero, zero about Prince, we promise there's something here for you amongst the recommendations we give you in this podcast. This all-encompassing discussion delves into various eras and aims to explain some of the subtext surrounding His Royal Badness for the unfamiliar. Let's get Purple!Oh, and I wonder if Arthur has brought his undeniable banger and favourite year in music to the chat. Them's the rules after all...Our blog is now live! Stay tuned for a lot more, coming soon.https://thecacophonysessions.wordpress.com/All music snippets performed by DJ Funktapuss, Longships and Danny W & The Dope. Support the show
In a special bonus episode of The Cacophony Sessions, Dan, Martyn and Dave chat with legendary Plymouth-based DJ Aldo Vanucci all about our favourite soul records of all time. We cover a lot of the greats - Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield to name but a few. Don't worry, we still find time to divert the talk train away from the station, as per usual.We would like to thank Aldo for his time in chatting with us and we hope you all enjoy what is ultimately a more condense version of our usual conversational shenanigans. If you like soul music, this one's for you!Music courtesy of Martyn Ley. Support the show