(Previously released on the RP Patreon. Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik) Your latest RP movie roundup, in which Jack and Yair review the following films: - It: Chapter Two (Andy Muschietti, 2019) - Us & Them (Joseph Martin, 2017) - The Day Shall Come (Chris Morris, 2019) - El Camino (Vince Gilligan, 2019) Plus we have a little bit of Joker pre-chat, before we review it in depth on a future episode. The episode isn't as long as the running time would suggest: that extra seven minutes at ...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 17 min
Musician, broadcaster and all round friend of the show Emmett Cruddas AKA roof access(@roof__access on Twitter) joins Jack (@gapesology) once again to run through the rest of the filmography of director supreme Bernard Shakey AKA Neil Young. We talk about Young's later directorial projects: the well-intentioned but inept anti-Iraq War documentary CSNY/Deja Vu, and the strange mimed eco-rock opera Greendale, plus Young's four films in collaboration with the great director Jonathan Demme, and one ...
Oct 22, 2019•1 hr 32 min
The new album by the rock and roll band Crazy Moose. All songs written, performed & produced by Jack Frayne-Reid. Artwork by Yair Rice. TRACKLISTING: Side One: 1) Side Two 2) Tombstone Bones 3) Fickle 4) Fucking Vindicated 5) Talking Thunder Side Two: 6) Pall Fell Over The Earth 7) I Need The Sky 8) Hunting For A Feeling 9) I Can Live With It
Oct 16, 2019•38 min
Reel Politik Series Seven kicks off with the kind of staggering indulgence only RP would dare to get mired in: it's the 90+ min first volume of a two-parter on legendary rocker Neil Young's *ahem* divisive side-career as a director. Welcome to the Neil Young Film Festival! Joining Jack (@gapesology) to go where no self-respecting film critic has gone before is Emmett Cruddas (@roof__access) - musician, broadcaster, DJ and lifelong Neilologist (Neilist? Youngian?), known for the band Phil Graves ...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 37 min
a tribute to all the outlaw podcasters out there & really the whole outlaw podcasting scene
Oct 12, 2019•3 min
FROM THE ARCHIVES! Our first ever Patreon exclusive, now unlocked after more than a year for the general public. Subscribe for more content of this estimable quality @ patreon.com/reelpolitik Original description: A commentary on the auteur Sylvester Stallone's 1985 red-baiting magnum opus, featuring Jack, Tom F, Yair and MIKE. Produced by Tom F with additional production by Jack.
Oct 12, 2019•1 hr 34 min
Recorded back-to-back with Episode 112 - Milk Over Matter, Messrs Rice & Frayne-Reid present the latest entry in the Reel Politik reading series; a full reading, with commentary, of Robert Webb's seminal 2013 column for the New Statesman, "Dear Russell, choosing to vote is the most British kind of revolution there is", a response to fellow comedian Russell Brand's political revolution, set out in the previous edition of the New Statesman, of which Brand served as guest editor. The piece - wh...
Sep 26, 2019•57 min
In the latest of what should hopefully become our regular movie roundups, Jack and Yair first get a couple of non-cinematic topics out of the way: the death of Robert Mugabe, and the shitty reactions from right-wing western idiots, plus left Twitter's ongoing Britpop wars, and what it means to be an author in 2019 when even Stephen King isn't deemed to have sufficient name recognition to get on a poster. Finally, we get to the films: Yair reviews Spanish Holocaust drama The Photographer of Mauth...
Sep 21, 2019•56 min
the new single by chart sensations Crazy Moose
Sep 20, 2019•3 min
In what'll likely be the last RP before we're off to The World Transformed to cavort with Gape Nation and hobnob with the great and the good of the hard left, writer and New Socialist culture co-editor Rhian E. Jones joins Jack - who holds the same position at NS - and Geraint, to review the great Mike Leigh's most recent film, last year's Peterloo, and talk about the historical events that inspired it. Rhian has a unique perspective on politics and their intersection with culture popular and ot...
Sep 19, 2019•1 hr 18 min
In this week's RP politics omnibus, we tackle a grab-bag of recent events and long-term issues: The Great Tory Purge, bold new fronts opening in Milneology, the latest defections to the Lib Dems, whether or not Emily Thornberry is an "Assadist" and, of course, the latest antics of Iron Mike Gapes, all rear their heads. We celebrate the music of Conservative MP Greg Knight, and read from friend of the show Joe Kennedy's 2012 interview with none other than Mr Seumas Miwne, which you can read here:...
Sep 12, 2019•1 hr 37 min
With melt pundits like Martin Kettle touting a glorious comeback for the failing joke of a party, Jack and Geraint look back at the Liberal Democrats' recent history, particularly the Tim Farron era. (Taken from RP101 Extra, available in full on patreon.com/reelpolitik)
Sep 12, 2019•28 min
CRAZY MOOSE - PALL FELL OVER THE EARTH/SIDE TWO 2 new songs I recorded on 2nd September 2019. These were just my rough mixes I made that night and exported as mp3s to send my friend Dom (a very cool guy who Did Brexit). I forgot to save the master files so I can't really go back and edit these recordings - I do want to make changes, but I'll have to record them from scratch. And 'Side Two' is kind of throwaway anyway - just a spur-of-the-moment attempt to channel, well, side two of Neil Young's ...
Sep 07, 2019•12 min
Capping off a month of (compared to usual) frantic RP activity, we tie up loose ends in the Pogues canon in episode 110. Tackling the downslide of the band's career, we speed through their last two albums with Shane MacGowan as lead vocalist, pretty much ignoring the two made without him, briefly touching on Joe Strummer's brief sojourn as Pogues frontman, and devoting a sizeable amount of time to Shane's second solo album with imaginatively named backing band The Popes, The Crock of Gold. We lo...
Sep 07, 2019•1 hr 17 min
This is an abridged version of our latest episode on patreon.com/reelpolitik. If you want to hear the full episode, which is an hour and seventeen minutes long, please subscribe and support the RP propaganda machine! In this Short Cut we discuss Martin Scorsese's love of Elia Kazan, The Wicker Man's assorted spinoff films, Louis Theroux's third Westboro Baptist Church documentary, and the rock doc A Band Called Death, from whom the episode draws its name. In flagrant violation of episode-artwork...
Sep 02, 2019•29 min
In RP108, Jack (@gapesology) and Geraint (@wariotifo) are joined by Mark Seddon, current media adviser to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and - in no particular order - former speechwriter for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, former editor of Tribune magazine, aide to a pre-chancellor Gordon Brown, UN & Diplomatic Correspondent for Al Jazeera, longtime representative of the left on Labour's NEC, and (unsuccesful) Labour parliamentary candidate. Mark is a stalwart of the...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 28 min
In a laid back rock-themed RP for the weekend, Jack and Yair (who co-produced this episode) the lads discuss a myriad bits of trivia under the auspices of a vague musical framing. We remember the late, great documentarian DA Pennebaker, tell a story involving Lou Reed, Guns N' Roses, John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Live Aid and Farm Aid, and look back at Bernie Sanders' predecessors as left-wing US presidential candidates, George McGovern and Jesse Jackson. We even venture away from dad rock and int...
Aug 23, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Listen to the full episode at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29372061 NEW RP! We've kinda let down our Patreon subscribers lately in terms of the amount of exclusive content, so this week we've got something very special for those supporting the RP Propaganda Factory... AND YOU HAVE THE second instalment of our two-parter on the hated Harry's Place, the pro-war shitrag that set the blogosphere alight in the early to mid 2000s. We conclude our discussion on these horrendous hawk bastards - includ...
Aug 22, 2019•5 min
Jack is joined by the Reel Politik Podcast's new Director of Strategy & Communications (Mr Seumas Miwne), Geraint (@wariotifo on Twitter), to go back to the mid-00s heyday of the Sensible/Decent Left, the pro-war ideologues who gave us the Euston Manifesto, the website Harry's Place, and various LM Network-style front organisations. We look at how this tendency of the Crank Centre laid the groundwork for much of the centrist hysteria directed today at the Corbynite left for their foreign pol...
Aug 15, 2019•1 hr 27 min
The Pogues are one of Britain's greatest bands (we're not being disrespectful to the occupied people of Ireland here by the way, the Pogues were formed in London by largely English musicians) and their hard-drinking frontman Shane MacGowan is one of the most talented and iconoclastic writers of his generation, bringing more of the approach of great literature to popular music than anyone since Lou Reed. In the first of a two-part chronicle of the band, taking plenty of time to assess the social,...
Aug 07, 2019•1 hr 8 min
For free use by RP fans in cyberwarfare against the decadent west.
Aug 02, 2019•52 sec
We'll return to politics on our next episode (probably, not recorded it yet) but for now we're continuing the promotional roll-out of Patterns, the album recently released independently by RP co-host Jack Frayne-Reid under the name Crazy Moose, which can be heard on this very SoundCloud account here - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/crazy-moose-patterns - and on our Patreon account here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/28477662. In our 103rd episode, Yair and - from about halfway into t...
Aug 01, 2019•1 hr 33 min
Recorded on Jack's birthday (20th July), he and Tom provide a running commentary on both 13-min episodes of the BBC's weird front for the UK foreign policy establishment, 'Tonight with Vladimir Putin', a mock talk show hosted by an animatronic caricature of the Russian leader and Reel Politik paymaster. As you'd expect of assets of the Russian state, the verdict is disdainful. The boys also look at the viral satire of the 2000s that provided a precedent for this contemporaneous work - Chris Morr...
Jul 22, 2019•53 min
Patterns is an album of songs written by Jack Frayne-Reid between 2014 and 2019 and recorded in 2019. All vocals & instruments on the album were performed by Jack, and the artwork was designed by Y. S. Rice. A podcast on the album - in which Yair and fellow RP co-host Tom Foster interrogate Jack on the matter of his musical work - will be shortly forthcoming. You can stream (or even download) the album as one continuous track here, or alternately you can go to https://www.patreon.com/posts/p...
Jul 18, 2019•47 min
In episode 101 - CUK'd and Bomb'd - Geraint @wariotifo endures a rite of passage for RP associates, recording his first episode with only Jack for company. Some major Yair news is announced, in addition to some news about the new album by RP house band 'Crazy Moose', but the best part of the episode is dedicated to The Independent Group For Change, The Independent Group, Change UK, For Change Underscore Now, The Independents, Water UK and the various other permutations of the new centrist party ...
Jul 11, 2019•1 hr 34 min
From the forthcoming Moose Shit Highway EP, on which Crazy Moose are: Jack Frayne-Reid - vocals, guitars & bass Timmy Lambert - percussion & vocals
Jul 01, 2019•2 min
In our second and final release from Jack's visit to Southampton Transformed, Reel Politik present an unedited recording of the panel he spoke on, New Left Culture, which asked "How can we change the ways we live and think to raise our consciousness and experience true collective joy?" The panel was chaired by Marika Rose (@MarikaRose on Twitter) and Rose Holyoak (@RoseHolyoak) of Southampton's Radical Reading Group (@radical_reading) and also featured writer and New Socialist culture co-editor ...
Jul 01, 2019•1 hr 37 min
Live from Southampton Transformed, Reel Politik presents THE GREAT REALITY COLLAPSE: ABSURDITIES IN BRITISH POLITICS 2015-19, an audience-inclusive pub quiz that looks back on some of the key issues our podcast has dealt with over its 100-episode history, including full rounds on PigGate, Owen Smith, Tim Farron and the Artists Formerly Known as CUK-TIG. Unfortunately, only the questions were recorded live, so the final half hour of the episode is just Jack sitting in his study going through the ...
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 39 min
It's taken 99 episodes for Jack to take a day off. In the first listed episode (not counting Tom & Laura's 20min world cup commentary from last year) not to feature the RP head honcho at all (although he did make some very minor edits to the cut Yair produced) host Yair Rice is joined by his partner Em Wheeler to discuss two seminal - and politically potent - films starring Dolly Parton, and directed by presumed Parton-whisperer Colin Higgins; 9 to 5 (1980) and 1982's The Best Little Whoreho...
Jun 05, 2019•46 min
In the latest of our hated Serious Episodes (just kidding, you guys love them, right? right?) Jack is joined by journalist and RP Seriousness Correspondent Joana Ramiro (kidding again, she's actually really funny!) to dig into whatever the fuck is going at centre-left weekly the New Statesman. After several months of what appeared to be a move to the left, spearheaded by sometime political and then deputy editor "Red" George Eaton, the New Statesman has slid back well and truly into the bowels o...
May 22, 2019•1 hr 19 min
