A Good Day To DIY

Today we’re speaking to Tom - bassist, football fan, and all round very nice chap. You may know him from the bands Attack! Vipers!, Personal Best, & Grand-Pop. Alex and Lucy have known him for ages and neither of us are quite sure when or how we even met him, but he’s been a devotee of the podcast since the beginning. He has a special accolade which is he emailed us immediately after the first episode to express how much he loved the Modern Life Is Worf pun! Tom, we are so grateful that you joined us for an evening, it was bloody lovely.

Conversation includes but is not limited to:
- The joy of video shops
- The joy of mixtapes
- Being in different scenes though association and osmosis
- Fringe (TV show)
- Dawsons Creek as a gateway drug for ska punk 
- Jim Henson goes Trek
- How young do you have to be to go to starfleet academy
- Animation and shows with moral messaging
- Some of the BEST band puns we’ve heard
- Drunk and naked shows in Guildford
- Conservatory shows


Bands mentioned:
Last Kiss
Scholastic Deth
Das Oath
Farewell to Arms
DS13
Deftones
Thursday, Braid, Hey Mercedes
Eternal ft BeBe Winans
Plague Sermon
Chillerton
Spice girls
Alicia's Attic
X-ray Spex
Link 80
Falling Sickness
Dogs of Ire

And of course Attack! Vipers!, Grand-pop, Personal Best, and Seven Arrows In Your Bastard Heart <3 

Thanks to Simon for mastering this episode! And apologies for the audio - it was all a bit tricky.

Today we're talking with Simon: Self diagnosed sci fi fan, mender, aspiring space cowboy of south east London and truly a jack of pretty much all trades (check out his youtube! https://youtube.com/@toomanyprojects). As usual we talk about all sorts of everything and our conversation is entirely random, PLUS there's not only a great pitch but a special bonus section. WHAM.

 

Some excellent conversational threads especially on pub gigs, collective leadership, the Soviet union, and the best noises in Trek. Further conversation includes but is not limited to:

Simon's one true love: Classic, hard boiled adventure stories

The "badmiral" problem

The greatest sci fi of all time: Thomas the tank engine

Why there should be more sax solos in Trek intros

The most egregious racism of The Original Series (we all agree)

Lego boobies

In defence of goth

No trek is shit trek

Morgoth's back up dancer

How long it actually takes to open up a hoover

Managing resources without money

Also mentioned:

Vote for policies, not personalities: https://voteforpolicies.org.uk/

Repair Cafe Nunhead: https://www.repaircafenunhead.com/

This podcast episode: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/322-the-sound-of-star-trek-roundtable/

Donate to support the Repair Cafe Nunhead here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-repair-cafe-nunhead

Today is a deep dive/info-dump special with Lucy talking about their special interest area: soil and compost. How long can you stay awake for? 

 

Discussions covering but not limited to:

Solar punk, soil punk, and a... secret third thing
Europunk and mosh shorts
Fluff fest (RIP)
Gladiators (RIP)
Inclusion and meaningful accommodation
Steam punk vs diesel punk
Kes, our lady of nitrogenated soil (RIP)
Friends don't let friends have un-pissed-on compost <3
Do politicians dream of electric sheep?
Unusual ways to absorb more b12
The capitalism of solar panels
The logistics of Dyson spheres
Terraforming gone wrong
What it feels like to see dawn on another world
Why one Voyager probe simply isn't enough


Referenced:

Under a banished sky fest

South London Scum gig collective

The Trek Cruise (again)

GreenGirlLeah

https://tractorbeamearth.substack.com/

Charles Dowding

The wonderful Liz Argall, Vince, and https://ngombor.org/

The Light Eaters book

Gaia's Garden book

Caitlin Doughty

Episode 11: Hotter Than The Sun (with Allan) from Joyce, Secondary Education, Bowers and the Worst of Times (https://secondaryeducation.bandcamp.com/).

 

Join us as we talk to Allan: singer, songwriter, drummer, touring musician, stage manager and production professional, star trek punk, and top vegan.

 

Our chat covers but is not limited to:

Why DS9 and Allo Allo are basically the same show

The cost of cookie dough living crisis

An extremely long digression into our favourite cruelty-free foods

Desk fans on the simulation of life

What happens when you cross the Illuminati and Brownies (or Scouts for our US listeners)

Why holodeck friends are better than IRL friends

Why punk music is basically like OnlyFans

Hiding from neonazis at shows

Carry On Trekking

Kahn as Trek’s King Herod

The lament configuration in Scooby Doo

 

We talk over each other A LOT in this episode so if chaos ain’t your thing… Well, you’ve been warned.

 

Bands, genres, and people mentioned in this episode:

Jungle, djent, classical, and ofc punk and metal

Will Burrows https://willburrowsart.com/ 

Allan Partridge

Allo Allo

Red Dwarf

Benedict Cumberbatch

Dillinger Escape Plan

Propagandi

Slipknot

Jog Division

In At The Deep End Records

Alex’s festival! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/under-a-banished-sky-fest-tickets-1442080103409

Clean Sheet https://clean-sheet.co/our-product

Mary Wiseman, Tig Notaro, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Naveen Andrews, George Takei

Join Alex and Lucy as they speak to academic, comedian, writer, science communicator, speed puzzler, SETI champ, digital rights advocate, and entirely approachable and friendly public speaker Dr Hannah Little.

Among other things, this episode covers: Vulcan nannies, the beauty of theramins, tuning the human ear to hear other cultures, the best music for speed puzzling, Martian poetry, the ills of anthropocentrism, science fiction as professional development, the power of storytelling, Dita Von Teese singularities, why we should bring back the bumflap, and the beauty in puzzles of communication.


Mentioned:
Univ of St Andrews
SETI
METI
The Light Eaters book by Zoe Schlanger
History of Language book by Steven Roger Fischer
2001: A Space Odessy
Cosmos
How The Light Gets In Festival
David Attenborough and the BBC
Event Horizon
Pop Galaxy
Michael Okuda
Star Trek