Tonight's the night that our alphabetical musical extravaganza reaches the end of the alphabet with X, Y and Z, which means we're talking about Los Angeles' most underrated songwriter Warren Zevon and ultra prolific Canadian legend Neil Young. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us talking about Phantom tattoo artists of small North Warwickshire towns, massive amounts of cocaine, the continuing adventures of Cheese Guy & Politics man, and Kid Rock facts... Listen to ...
May 27, 2018•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 26
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical shenanigans stop breaking down at the letter W, which means we're talking about New York's finest cartoon horror metal monsters White Zombie and colour coded fake blues garage rock two piece The White Stripes. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us talking about fraudulent submissions to Guitarist Magazine's demo pages, lack of improvement in percussive prof...
May 13, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 25
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical journey is running with the devil towards the letter V, which means we're talking about British cyber-goth IT managers VNV Nation and groundbreaking Californian fun purveyors Van Halen. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing songs almost good enough to name children after, Ewok analogies and Front 242 on the Venga Bus. Listen to all available song...
Apr 29, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 24
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical search still hasn't found what we're looking for but we'll have a look at the letter U, which means we're talking about Californian Industrial Nu-Metal breakfast enthusiasts Ultraspank and tax avoiding, opinion polarising, Irish rock giants U2. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing casualties of the Nu-Metal goldrush, failed superhero musicals, s...
Apr 15, 2018•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 23
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical escapades traverse the great curve towards the letter T so we're talking about Scotland's most dependable power pop combo Teenage Fanclub and New York Art Rock pioneers Talking Heads . As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing repetition, rubbish reasons for being sacked from Mogwai, repetition, repetition, The disparity between British and American ...
Apr 01, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 22
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical adventures oscillate wildly towards the letter S. This time we're talking about Los Angeles' best kept new wave goth pop secret theSTART and Manchester's massively influential indie titans The Smiths . As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing unheeded parental warnings of pneumonia, the inherent (yet appreciated) sexism in late 90s Kerrang Magazine ...
Mar 18, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 21
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical shenanigans find everything in it's right place at the letter R. This time we're talking about Swedish post hardcore revolutionaries Refused and Oxford's finest genre defying awesome music nerds Radiohead. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing similarities between Slayer and Take That, overly cheerful sludge metal musicians and Tracey disguises h...
Mar 04, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 20
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical escapades arrive regally at the letter Q. This time we're talking about ethereal faerie-goth punk lunatics Queen Adreena and the subtle, introspective stadium pop legends Queen. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing obscure but awesome late night cartoons, terrible band names of the late 1990s and Tracey's parents exploration of experimental tort...
Feb 18, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 19
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical escapades progress forwards to the letter P. This time we're talking about modern prog legends Porcupine Tree (and the other works of it's main prog bloke Steven Wilson) and Glasgow indie dance drug chameleons Primal Scream. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing Enter Shikari's fraudulent crowd singalongs, Vitally important tambourine players and...
Feb 04, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 18
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical escapades headbang along to the letter O. This time we're talking about early 2000's Manchester Prog rockers Oceansize and Birmingham's favourite son Ozzy Osbourne, and in a slight bit of rule bending (it's our podcast so we can do that kind of thing) Heavy Metal pioneers Black Sabbath. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing why encores are rubbis...
Jan 21, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 17
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... So after a short break for christmas, our alphabetical musical mutterings get right back down in it for the letter N. This time we're talking about California's most ethereal harp wielding folk pixie Joanna Newsom and Oscar winning industrial rock scientists Nine Inch Nails. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us talking about the 10 months that defined Sta...
Jan 07, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 16
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... Warning - extra sweary episode. Probably best not to listen to when you're with your Nan. This is Part 2. Listen to part 1 first, obviously... This time we take a break from our usual alphabetical musical meanderings because as the great prophet Noddy Holder once said, IT'S CHRIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAASSSS!!!!! So instead, in n extra special very long episode, we'll be counting down our top 24 favourite songs that we...
Dec 17, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 15
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... Warning - extra sweary episode. Probably best not to listen to when you're with your Nan. This is Part 1. Part 2 to follow... This time we take a break from our usual alphabetical musical meanderings because as the great prophet Noddy Holder once said, IT'S CHRIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAASSSS!!!!! So instead, in n extra special very long episode, we'll be counting down our top 24 favourite songs that we've discovered in...
Dec 17, 2017•44 min•Season 1Ep. 14
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical tomfoolery (trip)hops along to the letter M so this time we're talking about massively influential shoegazey scientists My Bloody Valentine and Bristol's finest trip hop pioneers Massive Attack. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us talking about Neneh Cherry's inadequate nappy disposal techniques, Crippling Chinchilla ha...
Dec 10, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 13
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical voyage is rambling on to the letter L so this time we're talking about Californian indie-folk singer songwriter (and former frontwoman of Rilo Kiley) Jenny Lewis and hedonistic rock and roll leviathans Led Zeppelin. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us talking about sludge metal cherubs, King Tubby style podcast editing ...
Nov 26, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical explorations stride progressively to the letter K so this time it's a clash of kings between Scottish beardy folky bloke King Creosote and prog rock legends King Crimson. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us talking about prog rock buskers vs vindictive accordion players, Slipknot eating ice lollies and Ben Gibbard's rev...
Nov 12, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 11
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical escapades moonwalk shamblingly towards the letter J so we'll be discussing Glasgow's droniest time travelling BRMC cover band The Jesus & Mary Chain (Please note, these opinions are not held by all members of the WDM team...) and some obscure American pop artist called Michael Jackson or something like that. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks band...
Oct 29, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 10
We Dig Music - 3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical explorations gallop swiftly along to the letter I so we'll be discussing multicultural modern English folk collective The Imagined Village and London's greatest heavy metal aviators Iron Maiden. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us prattling on about irking the purists, Paul Di'anno's benefit cheats and how Ian's pet rab...
Oct 15, 2017•51 min•Season 1Ep. 9
3 music geeks from the West Midlands jabbering on about music... This time our alphabetical musical explorations stomp along defiantly to the letter H so we'll be discussing Connecticut's most positive hardcore stompers Hatebreed and Dorset's finest art rock legend PJ Harvey. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us nattering about very rude gargoyles, motivational posters for angry office workers and the best thing to listen to when fig...
Oct 01, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This time our alphabetical musical meanderings bring us to the letter G so we'll be talking about fancy musical Hodor John Grant and Los Angeles' finest glam metal detectives Guns N Roses. As usual, we never stay on topic for long so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us conversing around the topics of Jesus's fear of hidden instruments, Inappropriate soundtracks for dentistry and how to tell if you might be Axl Rose... Listen to the songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com...
Sep 17, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This time our alphabetical musical adventures go from one extreme to the other with the letter "F" so we'll be discussing Los Angeles' finest sci-fi industrial metalheads Fear Factory and transatlantic pop rock legends Fleetwood Mac. As usual, we rabbit on about all sorts of things so along with this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us blathering on about the German pop charts of the mid 1990s, David Cameron's favourite remix of a death metal classic and we also have a public service announce...
Sep 03, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This time our alphabetical musical quest is taking the time to chill out a bit as we reach the letter "E" so we'll be discussing Texan Post-Rockers Explosions In The Sky and Bury's friendliest band Elbow. As usual, we like to converse on a multitude of topics so in addition to this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us wittering on about Tracey's theory of "Boys Music", How one of us ended up on the credits to one of Elbows earlier albums and speculating whether Explosions In The Sky are secret...
Aug 20, 2017•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This time our alphabetical musical shenanigans wander vaguely towards the letter "D" so we'll be discussing Washington State's Indie nice guys Death Cab For Cutie and Basildon Stadium-Goth giants Depeche Mode. As usual, we can never stay on topic for long so in addition to this weeks bands, you can expect to hear us jabbering on about the pros and cons of Zooey Deschanel, unexpected industrial music in early 90s childrens TV shows and more examples of Colin's superhuman inability to pronounce pe...
Aug 06, 2017•45 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This time our alphabetical musical journey strolls merrily along to the letter "B" so we'll be discussing New York Emo rockers Brand New and the legendary chameleon of pop, David Bowie. As usual, on our journey we'll be taking the scenic route to enable conversations about the correct and many incorrect ways of pronouncing "Bowie" (Hint - it's not booooowie), Whether it's possible to "get" emo if you were out of your teens before 1997 and whether David Bowie would have sided with the Autobots or...
Jul 09, 2017•44 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This time it's our first proper episode, so we'll unsurprisingly be beginning our alphabetical musical journey at the letter "A" and discussing alcohol fuelled Scottish indie storytellers Arab Strap, and (fake) Australian kickass rock legends AC/DC. As usual, on our journey we'll be taking the scenic route to enable conversations about the preferred music format for extra terrestrial beings, Tracey repeatedly trying to change the subject to a completely different band and the curiously violent t...
Jun 25, 2017•45 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Music discussion Podcast with 3 music geeks from the West Midlands. This week it's our first ever episode so to get to know Colin, Tracey and Ian we'll be discussing our best/worst/last/first albums and gigs including discussions about the advantages of leather jackets in moshpits, Tracey's embarrassing easy listening past, whether 3rd rate Nu-Metallers Disturbed are an elaborate joke and how playing The Cure at high volume can stop co-workers from bothering you on valentines day. Bands featured...
Jun 08, 2017•43 min•Season 1Ep. 1
