Talking about music and chatting with the musicians who make it. We’re interested in the experiment, the heavy, the light, the new and the old. This is not about the world of pop, this music podcast is about the fringes of the musical world, and we’re going to pull at those threads until it unravels.
Hosts – Dr Sam Page and Andrew Culture
Email us at beatmotel@lawsie.com
Beat Motel Podcast Episode List
The Ballad of Blur
S01 E07 Blur have announced that they will soon be releasing a new album, so this seemed like the perfect time to look back over their long career and pick out some songs that highly the weirdness and glory of Colchester’s finest band with a four-letter name. We encourage you to listen to this episode…
Rival Consoles + Hainbach live at The Barbican | Review
S01 E06 Live gig review, 27th May 2023, London Barbican We’ve been fans of Rival Consoles for many years, so a Rival Consoles show at The Barbican in London was a no-brainer for us, and the fact that Hainbach was the support made this a gig we had to go to. We recorded this live…
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Why do good bands make bad recordings?
S01 E05 Why do bands mess up excellent songs with the wrong production choices? Why would any band choose to make their recordings sound deliberately terrible? Dr Sam Page and Andrew Culture answer these questions and many more in this episode of the Beat Motel podcast. If you expect objective facts and reasonable arguments, you…
Gateway Bands
S01 E04 What bands led you to discover an entirely new music genre, or scene, instrument or whatever? In this episode of the Beat Motel podcast Dr Sam Page and Andrew Culture lead us gently on a wobbly journey of discovery through their own gateway bands. But this is Beat Motel, so we set the…
Falling out of love with Rancid and musicians releasing too much music
S01 E03 Do musicians these days make too much music? If so, then why, and should they stop? In this episode of the Beat Motel, Sam springs an essay on us, and we discuss bands we used to love but have since stopped listening to. Also covered in this podcast episode: Bands who end up…
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Cuckoo Farm Studios Experimental Music All-Dayer
S01 E02 Robin Alderton and Jay Mills What do you get if you take a bunch of experimental noise musicians and put them in a barn in the Essex countryside with a loud PA? This. This is what you get. For this episode of the Beat Motel podcast, we take you on an occasionally aurally…
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Beat Motel Episode 1 – Knowing you, knowing us
S01 E01 Hey hey! It’s the first episode of the Beat Motel podcast. It’s your chance to meet your hosts Sam Page and Andrew Culture. We talk about our backgrounds in music journalism and our lives as musicians. Also covered in this episode: A love letter to Against Me Getting into bands after interviewing them…
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