24 episodes

Burg and Blake discuss current affairs, issues of interest alongside playing punk, indie and pop and some film and TV reviews. Different topics each time and nothing is off the table. Think it into being; superbeast. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @superbeastpod to join in the conversation.

Superbeast Podcast Burg and Blake

    • Society & Culture

Burg and Blake discuss current affairs, issues of interest alongside playing punk, indie and pop and some film and TV reviews. Different topics each time and nothing is off the table. Think it into being; superbeast. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @superbeastpod to join in the conversation.

    Superbeast 24 - December 2023

    Superbeast 24 - December 2023

    Intro - 0.00:00

    What we've been up to - 0.00:50

    This episode’s jingle - 0.06:25

    Song 1 - Billy Liar: Oblivion- 0.07:45

    News - 0.11:00

    Music News - 0.37:50

    Song 2 - The Big Moon: Suckerpunch - 0.50:05

    Seasonal Chat - 0.55:00

    Film, TV recommendations - 1.02:15

    Dopesick - dir. Barry Levinson, Under the Banner of Heaven - dir. David Mackenzie, Canal Boat Diaries - dir. Robbie Cummin, Henpocalypse - dir. Jack Clough / Holly Walsh.

    Book and Zine recommendations - 1.07:25 

    Zines: Raising Hell - Ben, Gadgie 49 - Marv Gadgie, The Little Greyscale zine of Gratuitous Violence - made by Chris,  My First Comic Zine - Sio Orient, The Cunningham Amendment - ed. Dr Peter Good, Books: The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath, Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonegutt, Blind Faith - Ben Elton, Plan for Choas - John Wyndham, Golden Apples of the Sun & Something Wicked this Way Comes - Ray Bradbury, The Fellowship of the Hand - Edward D. Hoch, Pent Up - Adam Byfiled, Logan’s Run - William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Brave Old World - Tom Hodgkinson

    Song 3 - Melonball: Break a Leg - 1.41:00

    Niché Knowledge - 1.23:55

    Room 919 - 1.28:15

    Shout Outs and Conclusions - 1.30:40

    Song 4 - Wilderness States - Like Love 1.33:40



    Recorded October 2023, released December 2023.

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our listeners from Blake, Burg and Charlotte. x

    • 1 hr 38 min
    Superbeast 23 - March 2023

    Superbeast 23 - March 2023

    Intro - 0.00:00

    What we've been up to - 0.00:30

    This episode’s jingle - 0.08:00

    Song 1 - X-Ray Cat Trio: True Romance - 0.09:40

    News - 0.13:00

    Music News - 0.31:40

    Song 2 - Sarabeth Tucek - The Gift - 0.41:30

    2022 Round Up - Top Albums - 0.45:50 

    Charlotte’s top wines - 1.03:25

    Best ales of 2022 - 1.12:50

    Good things about 2022 - 1.17:10

    Film, TV recommendations - 1.19:10 

    (Severance - dir. Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, Titane - dir. Julia Ducournau, Infinity Pool - dir. Brandon Cronenberg, SAS Rouge Heroes - dir. Tom Shankland, Guy Martin’s Great British Power Trip - dir. James Woodroffe.)

    Book and Zine recommendations - 1.30:45 (books: Children of time - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Web - John Wyndham, Amid - weekly flash fiction on www.adambyfield.com, Digger’s Diary - Charles Osborne, zines: The Cunningham Amendment - ed. Dr Peter Good, Lights Go Out issues 103-108, Strix - poetry and short fiction - ed. SJ Bradley, Ian Harker & Andrew Lamberth, All About Columbo - Missy Tassles, Positive Creed - ed. Rob, independent media - Tribune, British Sci- Fi Association, - Vector & Focus magazines, Amnesty International magazine)

    Song 3 - The Hu: Triangle - 1.41:00

    Niché Knowledge - 1.47:10

    Lousy Liars - 1.49:30

    Room 919 - 1.51:20

    Shout Outs and Conclusions - 1.53:30

    Song 4 - Lighthouse - Future Island 1.54:20

    • 1 hr 59 min
    Superbeast 22 - December 2022

    Superbeast 22 - December 2022

    Intro - 0.00:00
    What we've been up to - 0.00:30
    This episode’s jingle - 0.08:30
    Song 1 - Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies: What’s on the Inside has to come out - 0.09:10
    News - 0.13:30
    Music News - 0.29:00
    Song 2 - Lewsburg - Cold Light of Day - 0.39:00
    Leeds Zine Fair Interviews - 0.43:00 (Ella - Radical Roots housing Coop, James - Jamzilla, Dimitri - @d.a.pieri, Jenessa - @pennycress.zine, Krystianya - @kybaczynski, Sean - @beardedhorse, Becky - @vaginaguck, Becky - @bex_purple, Paloma - @uhpaloma, Aqeel - @ap.writer, Olliana - @milkku_tea, Mx Jinn - @mx_jinn 
    Film, TV recommendations - 1.25:00
    Book and Zine recommendations - 1.35:00 (zines: Much Ado About Pudding - Claire O’Brien, Season wild - Krystiana Baczynski, The Sceever - Lee, Confined & Echotopi - Nina Zina, NHS Nurses have Stories, Gadgie 48 - Marv Gadgie, Poor Lass 8 - ed. Em & Seleena, Anarchy & Piracy - Gabrielle  Kuhn, books - Bound for Glory - Woodty Guthrie, Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi, The Silver Locusts - Ray Bradbury, They - Kay Dick.
    Song 3 - Velvet Fist: Premature Emasculation - 1.44:00
    Niché Knowledge - 1.47:50
    Room 919 - 1.52:00
    Thank yous & Conclusions - 1.55:00
    Song 4 - Ratso (with Yasmin Hamdan) - I Want Everything 1.59:00

    • 2 hr 5 min
    Superbeast 21 - August 2022

    Superbeast 21 - August 2022

    We catch up on the last few months and chat news, reviews, music, books, zines, music, TV, niche knowledge and have a good laugh.

    0:00 - Intro Jingle

    0:30 - What we’ve been up to

    09:30 - New jingles

    10:45 - Song 1: The Sewer Cats - Answer the Question

    14:30 - News

    45:30 - Music News

    57:10 - Song 2: Leonard Cohen - Do I have to Dance all Night?

    1.01:45 - Topic: Electrodermal - we discuss the launch of the new new sci-fi novel written by John Davison

    1.13:10 - Film / TV reviews - Liquorice Pizza (Film, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson), From (TV. cr. John Griffin), Midnight Mass (TV. cr. Mike Flanaghan), Wild Wild Country (Doc, dir. Mclaine Way & Chapman Way), Ben Fogles’s New Lives in the Wild (TV), Big Boys (TV, dir. Jack Rooke)

    1.19:50 - Books and zine reviews - Lord Brocktree (Brian Jaques), The Die Decides (C.M.Lowry), Sinopticon (various writers, trans. Xueting Christine Ni), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams), A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick), Space Ranger (Isaac Asimov), Cubesville - Anarchy Absurdity & Punk, A Little Zine about Fermentation (Rev. R. Cubesville), Dead Singers Society (various, Good Comics), Asterix and Cleopatra (René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo), The Gangster We Are All Looking For (Lê Thi Diem Thúy)

    1.26:30 - Songs 3 & 4: The Sex Cripples - Work Related Meeting & Social Distancing

    1.34:05 - Niché Knowledge

    1.45:00 - Room 919

    1.47:45 - Shout outs and Conclusions

    1.51.25 - Song 5: Chartreuse - Swedish Water

    • 1 hr 56 min
    Superbeast 20 - February 2022

    Superbeast 20 - February 2022

    0:00 Boom Boom Intro
    0:30 How we’re doing
    10:20 New Jingle
    13:20 SONG 1 & 2 - WONK UNIT
    17:20 News
    (Deduct times from these based on the edit)
    43:25 Music News
    52:30 SONG 3 - THE WATERBOYS
    57:00 Roundups - beers & wine
    1.03:40 Music of 2021
    1.18:20 Films and Tv of 2021
    1.20:30 Books and zines
    1.29:25 CLT DRP song
    1.34:50 Niche Knowledge
    1.39:20 Room 919
    1.45:00 Bye and conclusions
    1.48:10 SONG 4 - AMANDA PALMER

    • 1 hr 59 min
    Superbeast 19 - November 2021

    Superbeast 19 - November 2021

    We get imaginative - talking fungi, tory policies, refugees, reviewing films, books and zines, spinning tunes from pop, punk, electronic and indie. Episode 19 is ready, enjoy please! 😊

    00:00 - Intro (Boom Boom Racoon jingle)

    00:30 - What have we been up to?

    06:30 - Jingles

    09:10 - Song 1: Blues Came In by The Burner Band

    12:15 - News

    37:20 - Music News

    46:20 - Song 2: Wet Dream by Wet Leg

    49:20 - Original Thoughts

    1.06:10 Film / Book / Zine Reviews: Documentary Film: Fantastic Fungi - dir. Louis Schwartzberg. Books: The Heeding by Rob Cowen, Triple Point by Adam Byfield, The Witches of North Yorkshire by Michael Wray. Zines: Work Community Politics War - www. Prole.info, Kiki with Family - Celebrating the Dutch Ballroom Scene by Raezor Beam, The Cunningham Amendment vol. 20 no. 1 ed. Dr. Peter Good, Sticky Sounds vol. 13 - A Malignity of Goblins by Sticky Vicky.

    1.23:55 - Song 3: Food Not Bombs by The Rebel Riot

    1.27:40 - Room 919

    1.34:40 - Shout outs & Conclusions

    1.38:10 - Song 4: Darkhorse (Live) by Emma Ruth Rundle

    • 1 hr 45 min

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