It's summertime, and what better to talk about for music nerds in the summer than our favourite music festival stories from almost 40 years of festival going between the three of us, from Reading 1988 through to modern festivals like ArcTanGent & All Points East. There's tales of goth acrobatics, melted portaloos, terrifying french umbrella sharers, and lots of instances of Tracey having no recollection of seeing legendary bands, plus we program our fantasy festival lineup! You can find a li...
Jun 29, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 8Ep. 6
This month we've gone back further than ever before to 1967 a time when none of us existed yet and everything was psychedelic and groovy. There's proto prog, primeval punk, pop masterpieces, and whatever you'd categorise Zabadak as... We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the p...
May 25, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Season 8Ep. 5
This month we're back to the mid 80s to talk about our favourite songs of 1986, including thrash metal classics, proto-industrial stompers, enormous pop bangers, massive cheesy 80s soundtrack rock and loads more. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of p...
Apr 27, 2025•2 hr 16 min•Season 8Ep. 4
It's March, so it's time for the first Now Playing episode of 2025! This time Tracey and Ian have both chosen records they somehow overlooked from their best of 2024 lists with Tracey going for Scottish indie pop melodymongers Wojtek The Bear's Shaking Hands With The NME, and Ian picking the alos massively melodic Danish prog metal band Vola's Friend Of A Phantom, while Colin goes back 20 years earlier to pick the Texan psychedelic indieprog behemoth The Polyphonic Spree and their 2004 album Tog...
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 8Ep. 3
For this months episode we head back to 1971 for a batch of epicly long prog epics, peppered with the occasional bit of folk rock, powerpop, metal, jazz, and afrobeat. Our longest playlist yet, and lots of fun along the way! We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists i...
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 49 min•Season 8Ep. 2
We begin 2025 by going back 23 years to discuss our favourite songs of 2002, including emo classics, motivational hardcore, sparkly piano pop, terrifyingly positive psychedelic religious cults, and THE GREATEST GUITAR RIFF OF ALL TIME. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the ...
Jan 26, 2025•2 hr 15 min•Season 8Ep. 1
2024 is in it's final days and as is traditional it's time for us to talk aout all of the fantastic music released this year. This year Tracey & Colin have been on board with Charli XCX's Brat summer, while Ian has pretty much avoided it entirely while he's been rocking out to masked Hardcore bands with salsa rhythms. It's been another absolutely amazing year for music and it's been really difficult narrowing it down to 10 songs each. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and ...
Dec 22, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 9
We're back, and this time we've gone back 4 whole decades to talk about our favourite songs from 1984, including lots of jazzy indiepop, metal (from extreme to hair), german pop, and the mystery of whether Lionel Richie or Prince's girlfriend keep phoning Rockwell. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with o...
Nov 24, 2024•2 hr 19 min•Season 7Ep. 8
For this month's episode we've gone back to ten years, only a few years before the podcast began to talk about our favourite songs of 2014, including trve kvlt black metal, avant garde noise, sparkly pop bangers, swedish alt country, & kraut influenced post rock. We also discuss whether Elbow make suitable gym music, global conspiracy theories involving giant stone owls, and songs that sound like you're about to be burned in a wicker man. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year ...
Sep 29, 2024•2 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 7
For this month's episode we're deep in the mid 70s to explore the finest glam, country, reggae, funk, rock, folk, afrobeat, prog, pop, avant garde noise, and whatever category you'd chuck Sparks in to. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference a...
Jul 28, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Tracey is particularly happy this month as we're discussing our favourite songs from her favourite ever year, 1991, including hip hop, shoegaze, thrash, pop, grunge, indie, & more. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back...
Jun 30, 2024•2 hr 51 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Back to this century again for our favourite songs of 2008, with a suitably eclectic mix taking in sparkly pop bangers, terrifying folk metal soundscapes, ultraviolent jungle, positive hip-hop & industrial speaker worriers. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlist...
May 26, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 4
It's our 100th episode! To celebrate we'd decided for this month's Now Playing episode to each choose an album introduced to us by one of the other members of the WDM team! Colin has chosen Duran Duran's 1981 self titled debut album as introduced to him by Tracey. Tracey has picked *shels' 2011 post metal epic Plains Of The Purple Buffalo which Ian introduced her to, and Ian has chosen Monster Magnet's 1998 Stoner Rock classic Powertrip which Colin introduced him to. You can find the Duran Duran...
Apr 28, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Hi everyone, We're currently in the process of changing our hosting company. It should all transfer across smoothly with no action needed by our subscribers, but just in case it doesn't, our next episode is due on Sunday 28th April 2024. If it doesn't appear in your feed then you may need to unsubscribe from this feed and then re-add us. If you have any problems then let us know on any of the social media platforms or email us at wedigpodcasts@gmail.com and we'll help you out. Back soon, Colin, ...
Apr 05, 2024•38 sec•Season 1Ep. 88
This month we're back to the BC era (Before Colin), where we'll be discussing our favourite songs of 1980, inlcuding lashings of nuclear paranoia, a brace of classic metal, and a nice healthy dollop of goth. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of prefer...
Feb 25, 2024•2 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 88
For the first episode of 2024 we're going back almost 30 years to 1995 to completely ignore britpop and talk about much, much better music that was happening at the same time. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen...
Jan 28, 2024•2 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 88
It's the final days of 2023 and therefore time for us once again to reflect on all of the amazing music released this year. 2023 will go down in We Dig Music history as the year Tracey went Pop, Colin went cynical, And Ian continued submitting doom metal songs almost as long as the rest of the playlist put together. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of...
Dec 22, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 88
This month we head back to one of the rare years before any of us (even Tracey) were born and investigate our favourite songs of 1970. You can expect Prog, Folk, Pop, Reggae, Soul, Jazz, Country, & Metal. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of prefe...
Nov 26, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 88
This month we're back in our current millenium with our favourite songs of 2005 including generous helpings of indie-rock, chamberpop, industrial, synthpop, prog-metal & hiphop. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to...
Oct 29, 2023•2 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 88
It's September, so it's time for the last Now Playing episode of 2023! This time Tracey has chosen the self titled 1994 debut record from Chicago's jazz influenced post-rock pioneers Tortoise, Ian has chosen The Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Volume 3, a collection of songs by the legendary Texan country singer songwriter reinterpreted by Cave In, Amenra, & Marissa Nadler, and Colin has chosen the soundtrack to the 1998 glam rock movie Velvet Goldmine featuring an array of both original 70s Glam ...
Sep 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Ian-terview #1 As a bonus to our usual episodes, Ian recently caught up with Jayant Bhadula, Vocalist for excellent Indian Nu-Metal band Bloodywood before their amazing sold out show in Milton Keynes. They discussed merch prices, sleeves or lack thereof and why it’s totally ok for drunk guys to carry boxes for them. Go listen to Bloodywood and buy their records and gig tickets (and T-shirts with minigun toting Elephant gods) here - https://www.bloodywood.net/ (Seriously, Rakshak is one of the be...
Sep 03, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 88
This month we're headed to 1994 for a smorgasbord of slacker rock, industrial, alt country, pop punk, jungle, hip hop, triphop, and more. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent them back to Helen, who totalled up the points and worke...
Aug 27, 2023•2 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 88
This month we're back half a century to discuss our favourite songs of 1973 with lashings of glam, folk, prog, funk, protopunk, metal, Boogie (but no woogie) and a lot more country than some of us were hoping for. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of ...
Jul 30, 2023•2 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 88
It's June, so it's time for another Now Playing episode! This time Colin has chosen 2022's The Gods We Can Touch by Norwegian art pop singer songwriter AURORA, Ian has chosen Output Negative Space, the 2006 album by San Franciscan Post Punk storytellers Enablers, and Tracey has picked this years debut record Rest Lurks by Lichen Slow, the new project from Malcolm Middleton (from Arab Strap) & Joel Harries' (from 72% & Team Leader). Listen to the AURORA record here - https://open.spotify....
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 88
We're back to this century for this months episode as we talk about our favourite songs from 2011, ranging from indiepop to black metal, with various arguments about The Muppets along the way. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in order of preference and sent t...
May 28, 2023•2 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Back to our time travelling shenanigans and this month we're heading back to 1981 for what may be our favourite batch of songs yet. We've got an absolutely killer selection of post punk, pop, dub, metal, & prog tracks to chuck into the battle arena to fight for supremacy. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, a...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 88
It's March so time for our first Now Playing episode of 2023. This time Colin has chosen Saddle Creek records' 2003 compilation Saddle Creek 50 featuring Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, Azure Ray, The Faint, & More to coincide with its 20th Anniversary this month. Tracey has chosen Glasgow alt rock band Cloth's self titled 2020 debut record, And Ian has chosen ambient legend Brian Eno's most recent record FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE from last year. Listen to Saddle Creek 50 here - https://open.sp...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 88
This month we're heading back to 1976 where only one of us existed yet, to explore a smorgasbord of punk, prog, krautrock, funk, dub, pop, disco, folk, reggae, metal, & whatever the hell the Hollies song classifies as. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of the 20 songs from the other two hosts, along with our own 10. We then ranked the playlists in ...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 88
We're back for 2023! and to celebrate, we're talking about our favourite songs from 20 years earlier in 2003, when Colin quit university to work in a record shop, In addition to the music we talk about linguistics in pop punk, and feature both the longest, & shortedt songs we've ever had on any of our playlists. We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were each given a playlist of...
Jan 29, 2023•2 hr 23 min•Season 6Ep. 87
We're in the last days of 2022 AD and as such it's time for us to talk about our favourite songs of the year! It's been yet another amazing year for music and each of us could easily have submitted a top 30 on our own rather than keeping it to 10 each, but that would have taken even longer for Colin to edit so thankfully we kept it to 10... We've each chosen our 10 favourite songs of the year and sent them over to Colin's wife Helen, who put the playlists together and distributed them so we were...
Dec 18, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 86
