Midnight Chats
Ep 152: Laura Marling on psychoanalysis, motherhood, secretly cooking for Damon Albarn and, naturally, death
Seven years ago Laura Marling came on episode 19 of the podcast at a very different time in her life. As she prepares to release her 8th album, Patterns in Repeat, this month (25 Oct), she does so as a new mother, who's trained to become a yoga teacher, who's gained a masters in psychoanalysis, who…
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Ep 151: When are posthumous albums a good idea? From Michael Jackson to SOPHIE to Elliott Smith
When a musician dies and leaves behind unfinished music, what should happen to it? Shelved forever? Released in its current state? Completed by someone else? On this week's episode Greg and Stu get into when posthumous albums are a good idea and when they most certainly aren't, from last week's S…
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Ep 150: Our favourite guests, most awkward interviews, and answers to your questions, with Jarvis Cocker, Matt Berninger and more
What's been our most awkward interview yet? How do we charm our guests? Who have we been starstruck by? And c'mon guys, why is this thing called 'Midnight Chats'? As our podcast reaches its 150 episode, Greg and Stu celebrate by showing how the sausage is made, sharing stories and their tricks of…
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Ep 149: Big albums coming this autumn, Jane’s Addiction implode, and are people about to start selling their vinyl collections?
The summer slump is over and what feels like hundreds of artists are gearing up for new albums this autumn. On this week's episode, Greg and Stu get into what coming soon from The Cure, FKA Twigs, Coldplay and more, along with the recent implosion of rock giants Jane's Addiction, while a meeting wi…
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Ep 148: The best acceptance speeches ever, Kendrick at the Super Bowl and Geordie Greep on the death of Black Midi and the birth of his debut solo album
For the last 5 years, London band Black Midi have pushed experimental rock music to new and thrilling places, inspired as much by jazz fusion as math rock and no wave. But last month, quite unexpectedly, the trio split up. It was meant to be kept a secret, until singer and frontman Geordie Greep an…
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Ep 147: The scam of Oasis' 'dynamic' ticket pricing, no thanks to a Smiths reunion, and interview guests Lankum and The Lemon Twigs
Part of this week's episode of MC comes from End of the Road festival, where Stu met up with Irish drone folk band Lankum and put your questions to Long Island sibling duo The Lemon Twigs. Even the one about the Muppets. Back home Greg and Stu unpacked the fiasco surrounding Oasis' ticket sale n…
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Ep 146: Oasis reunion verdict – the good news, the worrying news, and the inside story about plums and pints of piss
Like it or not, Oasis are back together for the reunion tour that's surprised absolutely no one. As a former stan of the band, Stu really should be feeling better about this news than he is, while Greg is just happy that he finally gets to share the extremely important role he's played in Oasis myt…
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Ep 145: Charli XCX archive interview revisited – not as bad as we originally thought
Charli XCX's career highlight was coming on our podcast back in 2018, for what turned out to be a rushed conversation about art school, living in LA, writing songs for Blondie and seeing songs as colours. With Charli's career still doing reasonably well due to the release of this year's album, Brat…
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Ep 144: Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten on throwing away good ideas, the band's new look, and going beyond punk
Ahead of their new album Romance, people can't stop talking about Fontaines D.C.'s new look. One week after Glastonbury, the Dublin band's singer, Grian Chatten, had Stu round to his flat to discuss the reason behind the band's new aesthetic, his prolific writing process, a strange 9 days spend wor…
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Ep 143: Jeff Bezos firing William Shatner into space, working at the New Yorker and almost quitting music, with Cassandra Jenkins
New York musician Cassandra Jenkins really shouldn't be on Midnight Chats, or any podcast talking about her new album, My Light, My Destroyer, because that record, near-perfect though it is, was never going to be made. On this week's episode she tells Stu about how she had decided to quite music …
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