Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S2E6 - (Greater) Manchester: The Courteeners (Overrated) & (We Are) Performance (Underrated) - with Matt Latham

S2E6 - (Greater) Manchester: The Courteeners (Overrated) & (We Are) Performance (Underrated) - with Matt Latham

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06/10/21 • 80 min

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs

We're back travelling across the UK to (Greater) Manchester with special guest Matt Latham from the Pickadisc podcast. We discuss whether Courteeners successfully manage to escape the "landfill indie" label - despite having some great lyrics? Also, Matt introduces Fran & Babs to (We Are) Performance, who make "catchy, '80s inspired pop with a dance-rock bent" - something which, on paper, sounds right up our streets...

Listen to Matt's podcast Pickadisc in most places you find podcasts. Babs previously guested on Pickadisc, where she picked the album Future Perfect by Autolux.
You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

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S2E5 - Mixed Gender Pop Groups: S Club 7 (Overrated) & Liberty X (Underrated) - with Sophie Davies

Joined by Sophie Davies from the It's an S Pod Thing! podcast - which analyses S Club 7's various TV shows - we ponder whether the band's music holds up and hear about how the placing of some their songs in the TV show negatively impacted Sophie's opinion about them!

Unfairly labelled "Flopstars" Liberty X, runners-up of the 2001 TV show Popstars, are also in contention this week - as it turns out they have more bangers than you might think...

Follow Sophie on Twitter @ItsSophieDavies. As well as It's an S Pod Thing!, Sophie also hosts the podcast Smashed Prawns in a Milky Basket, focused on the work of "comedy writer/performer/director/all-round genius Julia Davis".

S Club 7 storming out of an interview with Claudia Winkleman is on YouTube. The Josh Weller parody of "the rap verse in the middle of the song" is on Twitter. You can also find Kevin Simm's tear-inducing The Voice audition on YouTube.

You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

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S2E7 - Special Episode: Fran's Neighbourhood, Dorset & Hampshire

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It's another special episode! Fran & Babs are both very keen to discuss local music talent in their areas, so this is Part I of II of our neighbourhood chats...

Fran hails from Bournemouth and has made a ten-track playlist showcasing musicians from "Wessex" a.k.a. Dorset & Hampshire. Some are well-known (PJ Harvey, Klaxons) others definitely more underrated (Ed Dowie, Betika)....and who does Fran call the region's "local Jarvis Cocker"?

You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.