Free With This Months Issue

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Each episode Ian & Colin (from We Dig Music podcast) plus a guest listen to an old free cd from magazines such as Kerrang, Melody Maker, Vox, Select, Metal Hammer, NME etc & talk about it for a bit! Part of the We Dig Podcasts network, along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc. Find us at https://wedigpodcasts.com

MAY 10

Free With This Months Issue 87 - Lucy Nichol picks Melody Maker Gimme 5

In episode 87, Author Lucy Nichol (writer of The 27 Club, Parklife, & Girls To The Front, plus The Party To End All Parties & When Sally Killed Harry under the name Lucy Roth) to talk about Melody Maker's Gimme 5 tape from March 1994. The tape's full tracklisting is -1 – Kristin Hersh - Teeth (Live on SIgnal Radio)2 - Pavement - Jam Kids3 - The Jesus Lizard - Boiler Maker4 - Senser - Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun (BBC Evening Session)5 - Lemon Interupt (AKA Underworld) - Dirty You can find Lucy's books at the following links (I've tried to use independent book shops wherever possible)The Party To End All Parties - Lucy's latest book. A brilliant locked room crime thriller about a horrible hedonistic family (plus an awesome goat called Iggy Pop) Girls To The Front - an utterly fantastic riot grrl influenced feminist revenge thriller. The Twenty Seven Club - Lucy's debut novel, about friendship, mental health, and being a music fan in the 90s with a cameo from Senseless Things. Parklife - the sequel to The Twenty Seven Club, following up with the same characters a year or so later, but this time dealing with addiction amongst the 90s music references.Find links to Lucy's other books, writing, and social media here - https://linktr.ee/LucyNichol Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/925041-Various-Gimme-5 Host - Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc. Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueTwitter – https://twitter.com/thismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com

43 min
APR 12

Free With This Months Issue 86 - Matt Richardson picks Kerrang Best of 2005

In episode 86 Comedian, TV & Radio Presenter, & bloke off Tiktok answering questions about the UK Stand Up Comedy scene, Matt Richardson joins us to talk about Kerrang's Best of 2005 cd from November 2005. The cd's full tracklisting is -1 – Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds2 - Him - Rip Out The Wings Of A Butterfly3 - Team Sleep - Our Ride To The Rectory4 - Fall Out Boy - Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year5 - Blink 182 - The Rock Show6 - Green Day - St Jimmy (VH1 Storytellers Version)7 - Alkaline Trio - Time To Waste8 - Funeral For A Friend - All The Rage (Original Demo)9 - Trivium - A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation (Edit)10 - Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison11 - Rammstein - Benzin12 - Every Time I Die - Kill The Music13 - Arch Enemy - My Apocalypse14 - Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country15 - Coheed And Cambria - Welcome Home (Single Edit) You can find Matt's website at https://www.mattrichardsoncomedy.co.uk/ where you can find his tour dates, links to his youtube, tiktok, & other social media pages, and details about his podcast "I Am Prime Minister". Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/2430170-Various-Best-Of-2005 Host - Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc. Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueTwitter – https://twitter.com/thismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com

1h 51m
MAR 8

Free With This Months Issue 85 - Tara Court picks Q World Of Noise

In episode 85 Radio DJ & Podcaster Tara Court joins us to talk about Q Magazine's World Of Noise from May 1995. The cd's full tracklisting is -1 – Crowded House - Distant Sun2 - Terorvision - Alice, What's The Matter3 - The Go-Go's - We Got The Beat4 - Strangelove - Time For The Rest Of Your Life5 - Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)6 - Sinead O'Connor - Fire On Babylon7 - World Party - What Is Love All About8 - Morrissey - Spring Heeled Jim9 - Robbie Robertson - Golden Feather10 - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against The Wind11 - Spearhead - Of Course You Can12 - Shara Nelson - Down That Road13 - The Almighty - Jonestown Mind14 - Thunder - It Happened In This Town15 - Mazzy Star - Into Dust16 - Blur - This Is A Low Find Tara's podcasts & radio shows (including her horror podcast The Killening, & previous episodes of her radio show The Weekend Immune System) here - https://linktr.ee/Tara_C Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/765998-Various-World-Of-Noise Host - Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc. Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueTwitter – https://twitter.com/thismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com

1h 16m
FEB 8

Free With This Months Issue 84 - Marc Burrows picks Club Kerrang - The Future Sound Of Music

In episode 84 Comedian, Author, Musician & Journalist Marc Burrows joins us to talk about Kerrang's Club Kerrang - The Future Sound Of Music from August 1997. The cd's full tracklisting is -1 – Symposium - Introduction2 - 3 Colours Red - My Own Gauge3 - ManBREAK - Kop Karma4 - Radish - The You In Me5 - LK - Chicken Bone6 - Acrimony - The Bud Song7 - The Driven - Loaded Mama F8 - Cable - From Here You Can See Yourself9 - Tampasm - Hard Core Romantic10 - Daytona - Conversationalist11 - Iron Monkey - Fink Dial12 - The Dawn - Feel Like Living13 - Groop Dogdrill - Oily Rag14 - (sic) - Pocket Rocket You can find Marc's website at https://www.marcburrows.co.uk/ where you can buy the books he's written (Big recommendation for The Story Of The Christmas No. 1: Mistletoe & Vinyl, which was one of Colin's favourite books of last year but he's also written excellent books on Nirvana, The Manic Street Preachers, Marc Bolan & David Bowie in the 60s, & Terry Pratchett) plus his tour dates (He's touring his Britpop stand up show from all over the UK from March through to May 2026. I'll see you in Birmingham!) Find Marc on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/20thcenturymarc Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3067167-Various-Club-Kerrang-The-Future-Sound-Of-Music Host - Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc. Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueTwitter – https://twitter.com/thismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com

1h 33m
JAN 11

Free With This Months Issue 83 - Mark Adams picks Q Assorted

In episode 83 Mark Adams from the Shipwrecked & Comatose and Chuckyvision podcasts joins us again to talk about Q Magazine's Assorted! from December 1995 The cd's full tracklisting is -1 – Cast - Finetime2 - Paul Weller - Stanley Road3 - Chemical Brothers - In Dust We Trust4 - Del Amitri - It Might As Well Be You5 - PJ Harvey - C'mon Billy6 - Portishead - Numb7 - Garbage - My Lover's Box8 - Suede - Shipbuilding9 - Leftfield - Inspection10 - Menswear - 125 West 3rd Street11 - Goldie - Still Life12 - Sheryl Crow - Run Baby Run13 - Tricky - Black Steel14 - Edwyn Collins - Out Of This World15 - Boo Radleys - Reaching Out From Here16 - Oasis - Champagne Supernova Listen to Mark's Red Dwarf podcast Shipwrecked & Comatose (also featuring Colin, and our other previous guests Matt Latham, Kurt North, & Carl Bryan) at https://pod.link/1514570118 Listen to Mark's Chucky/Childsplay/Killer dolls podcast ChuckyVision at https://pod.link/1579168246 Find Mark on Twitter at https://twitter.com/markadamshc Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/455575-Various-Assorted Host - Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Part of the We Dig Podcasts network along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc. Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueTwitter – https://twitter.com/thismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes & podcasts at www.wedigpodcasts.com

1h 33m
12/14/2025

Free With This Months Issue 82 - Sam Stokes picks Mojo Best of 2025

For our December 2025 episode Sam Stokes who hosts the Den Of Ten, Reel Talk, & One Rules Them All podcasts on the Film Stories Network is back with us again to discuss Mojo's The Best Of 2025 cd from all the way back in December 2025! The cd's tracklisting is 1 - Annie & The Caldwells - I Made It2 - Emma-Jean Thackray - Maybe Nowhere3 - Pulp - My Sex4 - Adrian Sherwood - Dub Inspector5 - Wet Leg - CPR6 - Big Thief - Los Angeles7 - David Byrne - Everybody Laughs8 - Stereolab - Immortal Hands 9 - Mavis Staples - Human Mind10 - Paul Weller - One Last Cold Kiss11 - Van Morrison - Stretching Out12 - Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles - Not Broken13 - CMAT - Iceberg14 - Jeff Tweedy - Lou Reed Was My Babysitter15 - The Tubs - Freak Mode Go listen to Sam's other podcasts!Den Of Ten - a podcast where Sam & a different guest debate their top ten of anything from Alternative 80s songs to regional accents.Reel Talk - where Sam & various guests discuss new movie releases.& One Rules Them All - a Lord Of The Rings podcast Sam cohosts with Baz Greenland, although to be honest they aren't nearly critical enough about how annoying Tom Bombadil is in the books. Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the cd from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/35602597-Various-The-Best-Of-2025 Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

1h 17m
11/09/2025

Free With This Months Issue 81 - Alison B The Ex Zine Editor picks Kerrang Super Summer Swinging Sounds

This month Alison B, The Ex-zine editor joins us to talk about Kerrang Magazine's Super Summer Swinging Sounds from July 1999. The cd's tracklisting is 1 - Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff2 - Pitchshifter - Please Sir (Live in France)3 - Pissing Razors - Box Life4 - My Ruin - Sycophant5 - Symposium - Killing Position (Quick Kill Edit)6 - The Hellacopters - Alright Already Now7 - Lit - Miserable8 - Pennywise - Greed9 - Feeder - Day In Day Out10 - Skunk Anansie - King Psychotic Size11 - The Crocketts - James Dean-esque12 - Fungus - Monsters From Mars13 - VAST - Here14 - Anathema - Make It Right F.F.S.You can find Alison on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bubblegumzinearchive/ Alison's zines and patches can be found and ordered here - https://ko-fi.com/exzineeditor/shop. Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/3557877-Various-Super-Summer-Swinging-Sounds Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

1h 19m
10/19/2025

Free With This Months Issue 80 - Gemma Williamson picks Smash Hits 12 Slammin' Bangin' Hits

For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue Gemma Williamson is back after 6 years for her 3rd appearance to discuss Smash Hits' 12 Slammin' Bangin' Hits tape from May 1996. The cassette's tracklisting is 1 - TLC - Creep '962 - Michelle Gayle - Freedom (Classic Expo Mix)3 - SWV - Anything (Old Skool Mix ft U-God, Ol' Dirty Bastard, & Method Man (mislabelled on tape as I'm So Into You)4 - Benz - Where's The Party?5 - Ivan Matias - Your Love Has Gone Away6 - Sleeper - What Do I Do Now?7 - The Wannadies - You & Me Song8 - Out Of My Hair - Safeboy9 - 60 Ft Dolls - Stay10 - Duffy - Sugar High11 - Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)12 - Deborah Cox - Who Do U LoveFind details of Crafted Words CIC, The organisation Gemma helps run which is all about creativity & mental health on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/craftedwordscic/ You can find details of their callout for winter zine submissions here - https://craftedwordscic.blogspot.com/2025/09/winter-zine-call-out-hard-times-healing.html The brilliant Top Of The Pops: A Zombie Whodunnit zine Colin mentioned in the episode (and other excellent zines by next months guest Alison) can be found and ordered here - https://ko-fi.com/exzineeditor/shop Listen to all available songs on our ongoing Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mzWOWEfQ5LklJyUZkpfs2?si=LbWBi9-oTl-eXjkUJbpx2Q You can buy a copy of the tape from Discogs here - https://www.discogs.com/release/7832220-Various-12-Slammin-Bangin-Hits Hosts - Ian Clarke & Colin Jackson-BrownRecorded/Edited/Mixed/Original music by Colin Jackson Brown for We Dig Podcasts Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thismonthsissue.bsky.socialTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freewiththismonthsissueInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/freewiththismonthsissue/Find our other episodes, plus We Dig Music & Pick A Disc at www.wedigpodcasts.com

1h 17m

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05/10/2024

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Each episode Ian & Colin (from We Dig Music podcast) plus a guest listen to an old free cd from magazines such as Kerrang, Melody Maker, Vox, Select, Metal Hammer, NME etc & talk about it for a bit! Part of the We Dig Podcasts network, along with We Dig Music & Pick A Disc. Find us at https://wedigpodcasts.com

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We Dig Podcasts
Years Active

2019 - 2026
Episodes

90
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