SCENE AND NOT HERD

Surprise! The album CATTLE AND HUM is out today over at Bandcamp: https://markettavern.bandcamp.com/releases It's free for book purchasers and cheap for everyone else.

Cattle And Hum is a 19 song compilation of underground moo-sic from The Kidderminster Market Tavern, the short-lived, sort-of iconic, gloriously chaotic and thoroughly unhygienic Midlands music venue. It features NEW AND UNHEARD music by Fretblanket, Pop Am Good, Panic Beach, massive hits from Scrash, Downward Thing, Cake (UK), Dive and loads more.

BOOK

Morning! The book I've been 'helping' Mark Dawson write about the Kidderminster Market Tavern is now available to pre-order! https://markettavern.bandcamp.com/

It's 200 full-colour pages packed-full of photos, mirth and memorabilia and featuring bands, big and small: Slowdive, Sebadoh, Radiohead, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Chumbawamba, Cardiacs, The Selecter, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Wedding Present, Extreme Noise Terror, Autechre, The God Machine, Midway Still, Senseless Things, Carter USM, The Primitives, Adorable and hundreds more. The stories are told by the people who were there. bringing this iconic, chaotic, and thoroughly unhygienic venue back to life.

Blood Volume

Blood Volume

It's time to roll up your sleeves and head on down to St Vincent's because the BEST EVER episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio is out now.

This week we give blood a bad name and plunge the needle deep into an armful of red hot hits, as we put the punk in arterial puncture, and the disco into…. Discoing to hurt a little bit... (what?)

Tune in now for a sticky pool of pumping pop thumpers for every kind of blood type. A, B, AB… even, and I apologise for this, a little bit of Type O Negative…. PLUS! at least one genuinely good joke! Jingles! A massive rave up! A surprisingly heartfelt tribute to Discharge! Celebrities struggling to start their cars! Taylor Swift, Slayer AND Spitting Blood! All on the same bloody show!

We Am The Resurrection

We Am The Resurrection

If you like punks, hunks and stagecraft do we have something for you? Last night our great mates over at BBC Music Introducing broadcast the West Midlands live resurrection on the radio. Fans of dry ice and pointing did not go home disappointed.

“The best live show I have ever seen on a BBC Music Introducing stage. Enough said.” - Andrew Marston.

Listen here >>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mjsjp

Baby Love

Gather up your hot towels and remember your breathing, the 'From Here to Maternity' episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio - the nation's number one surgically spirited indie rock podcast - is available now at https://www.mixcloud.com/…/west-midlands-hospital-radio-6-…/

This week at St Vincent’s hospital we're saying Mama! OOOoOOOOoOO as we bring you metal mothers, pregnant pauses, and a little bit of baby love. We’re going to have the biggest, slightly complicated Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn agreed to DJ that kid’s bar mitzvah… (Really not sure about that joke).

Expect Hits! Misses! Chat! Laffs! Now incorporating West Midlands Hospital Radio Smooth!

Sexual Healing

Hey! The latest episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio is here. And it is pure sauce.

This week, in spite of public demand we break out of the broom cupboard, haul down our underthings and head south for the sexual health centre. Welcome, unexpectedly early, to the season finale of my radio career.

What can you expect? Well, we’ve got more forgotten songs, more massive name dropping, and more drippy, droopy utterly grotty jesus Christ I can’t un-see it sex bombs than the new Moby autobiography. There's ethereal venereal chillwave, a planned parenthood pop punk party and…. yes a little bit of Johnny B Goode.

This being sexual health week, you can expect some strong language and a lot of material intended for more mature audiences… but, you know, also ‘My Nuts’ by the Fat Boys. Wait! Come back!

BRAIN SALAD SURGERY

BRAIN SALAD SURGERY

Back once again with the ill behaviour – It’s West Midlands Hospital Radio! The nation’s number-one medically themed indie rock radio show.

Tonight’s show is one for the heads. We’re leaving affairs of the heart behind us and getting cerebral. That’s right! It’s brain week here at St Vincent’s and we let Pavlov’s dogs out with all sorts of neurological, psychological, sort of logical sounds: Pink Freud, Lisa Lobe, the sound of neuroscience. If that all sounds a bit, well, difficult, I assure you it’s not brain surgery… oh, wait…

This is Heartcore

The thrill-a-minute 3rd episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio, the nation’s top medically themed indie rock podcast is here. The only show that knows the quickest way to your heart is a unilateral incision on the upper left region of the sternum.

This week we career down to the cardio wing for 2hrs of serious heartcore. We’ve got pulsating punk jams, pumping pop songs, big beating bangers that’ll take your breath away quicker than a pulmonary embolism. We’ve got full hearts, broken hearts, bleeding hearts & the band Heart. Essentially, for 120 mins we are Heart fm. Except slightly less depressing. It’s marginal, but at least you’re not stuck in a taxi, already hungover, choking on the fug of Febreeze and the sound of Simply Red.

Pump Up The Valium!

Lock up your medicine cabinets, the sensational second episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio is here!

This week we dispense with the pleasantries, pump up the Valium, and pray that the drugs do work as we pick up prescription hits from all four corners of the rock and roll pharmacy. We've got more than enough high times, drug songs and mind-expanding sing-alongs to take the edge off the hurt for a couple of hours.

Your host Andrew Wolfman (me!) just says yes to music from Black Sabbath, Hüsker Dü, Huey Lewis (and the News!) plus, this being drug week, there's a proper tops-off, hands-aloft mega rave. (Don't worry, we'll warn you when the tops-off mega rave starts). 

Also, there are some reasonably funny jokes. 

NEW! HOSPITAL RADIO SHOW

NEW! HOSPITAL RADIO SHOW

Live! From the Brian May Wing of St Vincent's Hospital - it's West Midlands Hospital Radio. 120 minutes of loosely themed, lovingly curated songs in A and E. Old songs, new songs, but, if we're being honest, mostly 1992 songs. Request resistant rock and roll radio to make you feel a bit better...

This week's show features all the biggest hits of hospital rock. On top of that there are approximately two good jokes and a fistful of jingles. Stick with it… your host Andrew Wolfman (West Midlands the band, Wolfmania the Podcast) gets marginally less annoying as the show goes on.

REVOLUTION WINTER

If your New Year's resolution is to listen to more chat, well, you've come to the right place. Wolfman and Timpsy roar into 2K19 like Drake on a jet-ski with a twelve-months-in-the-making two-hour spectacular New Year Hootenanny! Marvel! At their totally achievable (not-at-all over ambitious) plans for REVOLUTION WINTER! Thrill! To their unimpeachably cool choices in the end of year poll of polls. Then shake your head sadly when you realise that this is actually what they did on New Year's eve.

Plus! Non-stop Pizza Party Ghost Protocol! Big Paws! Champagne Supernova! Live Show! Night of a Thousand Joolses! LadBaby gets the buisiness! Griefcase! Well-net! The Mindful Guys! Christmas Disco! MDMA sex party! Ornette Coleman! THRIVE! And your musical guests The WInter Olympics, Billy Idles and Eddie Butler!

Wolfman and Timpsy donated their fee (it's £50) to the Trussell Trust Food Bank Network. Get involved here: www.trusselltrust.org

It's Chriiiiistmassssss!

Still looking for that annoying drone that ruined your holiday? Look no further. It’s the mega-festive 2018 Christmas special edition of Wolfmania the Podcast.

With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree Wolfman and Timpsy rejoice in the things that they’ve seen (none of which, disappointingly for what’s supposed to be a film podcast, appear to be films).

With three big musical exclusives from West Midlands, Comfort and Joy Machine and By George, the boys are here to accompany your Christmas Day funtivities, whether that’s feeeling your presents under the tree, roasting chestnuts on an open fire or driving miles in the pouring rain to visit relatives you sort-of-despise and pray won’t talk about Brexit...

Plus! Snow! Sleigh! Presents! Advanced Social Media Diagnostics! Nord! Christmas!

Kick Him in the Dick!

Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check-it-out! It's the hip hop holiday episode of Wolfmania the Podcast sort of featuring very special guests The Beastie Boys (Squeeeeeeee!) As if that's not enough excitement, your Beastly Brothers Wolfman and Timpsy put the dissing and cussing into long-winded film discussion as they tackle the 1993 rhyming and stabbing Emilio Estevez 'classic' Judgment Night.

Never in the long and and storied history of notionally film-based podcasting has an episode so artistically mirrored its subject: bumbling brosephs being dinkheads at night time, half an hour longer than is strictly necessary and essentially just an excuse for a ridiculous rap-metal soundtrack...

Ah yes, the soundtrack. Not only do we take you on a tour through the genre-bending delights of the ground-breaking grunge-hop Judgment Night OST, we have THREE (count 'em) EXCLUSIVE tracks not heard on the original album: Less Than Drake v Geoff Leppard, Cyprus Phil's "Sticky Green Vape Machine" and, oh yes, the frankly frightening: "Kick Him in the Dick".

SHIT BUSINESS

Holy Lords a'leaping! my utterly unbelieveable rock band WEST MIDLANDS have brand new music for you. And it's free! Happy Christmas!

You can find our horns-aloft Health Goth anthem 'Shit Business at the L.A. Fitness' hiding behind door 10 of the (ever-excellent) Joyzine Advent Calendar. Download it now and mosh the fudge out of your way to work.

Shit Business at the L.A. Fitness is the first song to be taken from West Midlands' 2019 album: 'The Complete History of Popular Music: 1984 - 2038' which is pretty much the only record you're going to need for the next decade or two. I am not even slightly joking.

Here's the link:

https://joyzineuk.wordpress.com/…/the-joyzine-advent-calen…/

Spider Hyphen Man

Uncool at school and majorly moping over the girl next door, Wolfmania’s world is turned upside down when it gets bitten by some radioactive chat. Instantly imbued with a freewheeling chemistry and uncanny comic timing (our jingle sense is tingling!) but touched by tragedy, Wolfman and Timpsy learn that with great gags come even greater laffs.

In an out-of-character 2h 11m of stuttering sincerity, the boys pay humble homage and trembling tribute to Marvel maestro Stan ‘The Man’ Lee, and at least one of them watches Sam Raimi’s swing-o-rilliant first Spider-Man movie all the way to the end. But that’s not all! (That’s not even nearly all.) Timpsy titillates us and dishes the dirt on the Dater’s Handbook, while Wolfman takes a swing at the twin evils of toxic masculinity and the flu bug.

THE WICKER MAN(S)

Remember, remember the 14th of November with a slightly belated, slow burning, bonfire episode of Wolfmania the Podcast: Season Two: Sickbed Cinema. With a big box of fireworx and minimal duds your favourite well-stuffed Guys Wolfman and Timpsy fan the flames of filmic debate with their hot takes on the classic 1973 scorched-copper caper The Wicker Man and the diabolical (I want to say) 2006 version where Nicholas Cage steals a bike, puts on a bear suit, punches out a load of women and then gets murdered by bees.

But that's not all! The boys introduce their ambitious new proper-cooking, sitcom Buns of Anarchy. Plus! The Sorceror's Apprentice! Last Week's Punchlines Today! Proper Football Men! The Hale and Pace Movie! Social shoutouts! Celebrity Pedalpast (Aqua Edition)! Corby Trouser-Press! And special musical guest STAGZ!

Poltergeist!

They're here! Wolfman and Timpsy that is, for a creepy, kooky, spectacularly spooky Halloween special edition of Wolfmania the Podcast: Sickbed Cinema. This week your favourite pair of scary clowns find something amiss in their suburban bliss when they unleash hell (and a sort-of-fun quiz) discussing the classic 1982 Steven (Steve) Spielberg shocker Poltergeist. (Spoiler alert: it's sort of like a goth E.T.).

But that's not all! The boys are joined in studio by very special musical guest 'Less Than Drake' for two new monster jams, Timpsy reads a terrifying bedtime story and Wolfman burns the pizza.

We. Are. Back.

Would you believe it? Wolfmania The Podcast is back, Back, BACK! For an all-new! All-different! (mostly sort-of-the-same) senses-shattering second season, and it all starts right here.

After an extended lay-off Wolfman, Timpsy and Big Paws the podcast cat are back in town and trying to work out what they’re going to do now that the A - Z of Everything is over. Their answer will leave you BREATHLESS. (If you’re easily surprised by people announcing that they’re going to be running a film club podcast from now on).

The Electrifying Conclusion

So, this is the end beautiful friends. With inches to spare, Andrew and Tim reach the last stop on their alphabetical joke journey, arriving at the electrifying conclusion of the A - Z of Everything. The side-splitting, senses-shattering, slightly emo, LAST episode of Wolfmania the Podcast.

And today they answer the BIG question that fans have been asking since day one.... What would it be like if ZZ Top went to the zoo?

Plus! Zombies! A cliffhanger ending! Fudge Factory! Has it come to this! Curry live! Polly and Dolly! Big Paws! Tom Jones! Boyz II Men 2 (AET) An actual joke!

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