In 2011 Martin Johnston and Huw Williams began doing a radio show called Take Off Your Sunglasses. It quickly became the most popular alternative music show on a Tuesday night, at 9pm, in Stockport, in the UK. Playing great music that no one else is playing is all very well. But the poor anecdotes, lazy jokes and poorly thought-out features needed a home of their own. This podcast is just those same two chumps talking about books, TV shows, films and records. Culture for people who've been hit by a train, essentially.
Latest episodes
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42 min
Episode 10 - Geordie Medieval Electro Nu Folk
Flaming toasters, Stan Boardman's love of Rhyl, Will Ferrell, President Kevin and pictures in awful sports biographies (all of them). Narcos improves your Spanish, hovercrafts aren…
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50 min
Episode 9 - Karate Swan 2 & 3
Welcome to episode number 9 in which Huw confesses to being a cheese dictator, we rue the demise of small record labels, talk about where bands haven't played in Manchester, admit…
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46 min
Episode 8 - Milk Roll and a pint of Hofmeister
We go for another 5-a-side edition on FBTSOOP this week - i.e. we each discuss one thing we've enjoyed, one we've not enjoyed, one disappointment, one thing we've learnt and one th…
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42 min
Episode 7 - Muesli Styles
Songs referred to in this episode: Joan Osborne "What if God was one of us?", Canned Heat "On the road again", Lynyrd Skynyrd "Sweet home Alabama", House of Pain "Jump around", New…
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46 min
Episode 6 - El Chapo's visit to Clarks
Chilean crab pie, Lord Reith, unruly children, Mark E Smith, the Mercury Muisc Prize and The Godfather 3 all come under the microscope in this episode.
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44 min
Episode 5 - The Magical World of Red Lemonade
Note: this episdode contains real, actual, harmful spoilers for the Netflix series Stranger Things. We also discuss cheating at walking football, terrible drinks and toasted sandwi…
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45 min
Episode 4 - Putting Wales on the map
From lots of Ocelots to Eric Young's brown headband. And from Max Boyce to Bargain Booze and back. Plus the debut of Jim Disaster's uncle, General Disasters. The working class, nor…
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44 min
Episode 3 - The glory days of the Fish Finger
Episode 3 Every day is like Christmas without the joy, Scummy Mummies v Giovanni from Strictly, cod goujons and lively batter, BBC wages scandal, we are raging feminists, shut up c…
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50 min
Episode 2 - The tender touch of a lady doctor
Get ready for: chicken scratchings, Thom Yorke's monocle, Wes Anderson films, prostate fun, Tesco hacks, Elliot Titensor, Ezra Furman and Chuck D on Twitter, Farrelly Brothers film…
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43 min
Episode 1 - Here we go
**SHOW NOTES In this inaugural episode we fly by the seats of our pants by talking about ballpark hedges, skateboarding Nazis, Rob Lally Cycles of Brecon, invisible Chinchillas, Tw…