Episodes

  • Episode #9 - Albert Gold (aLBERT gOLD)

    Episode #9 - Albert Gold (aLBERT gOLD)
    Nov 24 2025
    It’s Episode 9 of the mighty Birth. School. ROCK! Death. podcast, brought to you by Fierce Panda records. This week label boss Simon conversates with Hackney’s finest alt-soul artiste aLBERT gOLD. As he prepares for the new year launch of brand new material focusing on personal growth and introspection after writing about so much heartbreak and pain, he talks childhood, top tunes and making himself an ace singer. Hear aLBERT’s dulcet tones on ‘California’, alongside Phundo & Tom Ford, released on December 5th.

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    23 mins
  • Episode #8 - Jed Morgans (Hideous Mink, Opus Kink)

    Episode #8 - Jed Morgans (Hideous Mink, Opus Kink)
    Nov 19 2025
    It’s episode 8 of the fierce panda podcast called Birth. School. ROCK! Death. What can possibly go wrong? Nothing at all as this week magazine editor, label boss and frantic muso Jed Morgans hits the SO sofa. Last week he played his wild saxamaphone onstage in Opus Kink at a rampant Electric Ballroom. Last whenever, his Hideous Mink label released the toweringly glowering ‘Hideous Collective’ compimilation album, chocful of all your latest perverted leftfield loves. And lastly, but never leastly, Tanzana’s ‘Covert’ supercool single is tickling our Scottish indie pinky punk eardrums. Honk Kong, indeed…

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    29 mins
  • Episode #7 - Simon Williams (Fierce Panda)

    Episode #7 - Simon Williams (Fierce Panda)
    Nov 10 2025
    It’s the seventh episode of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. and we are smashing through the fourth wall as this week’s Fierce Panda podcast guest is…Simon Williams from Fierce Panda as he prepares to curate the Tonic Music parlour at Shiiine On festival later this week. Jed Morgans from Hideous Mink asks the questions while Simon sits in the hot spot of the sofa to gurgle softly about the highs of ELO and the Farmer’s Boys while merrily misremembering key facts about his own back furry back catalogue. Good times, people. Good times.

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    43 mins
  • Episode #6 - Angus Rogers (Opus Kink)

    Episode #6 - Angus Rogers (Opus Kink)
    Nov 3 2025
    Episode Six of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. has snuck in through the back door, glowering at the scatter cushions and casting a giant dark shadow over the hearth rug. Because this week’s fierce panda podcast finds Opus Kink singer Angus Rogers in full seething effect as he rattles through the tracks of his tears. With his band of skronking jazz post-punkas preparing to decimate the Electric Ballroom on November 7th the mighty frontman talks poetry, passion and passionately poetic farewells. Top lad.

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    47 mins
  • Episode #5 - Jo Bevan (Desperate Journalist)

    Episode #5 - Jo Bevan (Desperate Journalist)
    Oct 27 2025
    Episode Five of the florid Fierce Panda podcast Birth. School. ROCK! Death. crashes in through the conservatory door in the company of Jo Bevan from the mighty Desperate Journalist. Armed with a bionically glowering pre-post-punk catalogue, including current Fierce Panda album ‘No Hero’, the quartet hit the road this week, giving us a fine time for a compelling chat about high art, real indie and touring with total heroes with the DJ singer.

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    29 mins
  • Episode #4 - J. Willgoose, Esq. (Public Service Broadcasting)

    Episode #4 - J. Willgoose, Esq. (Public Service Broadcasting)
    Oct 20 2025
    The fourth forthright episode of the Birth. School. ROCK! Death. Panda Podcast brings forth learned musical student J. Willgoose, Esq. As driving force in Public Service Broadcasting he joins us on the release campaign for ‘Night Flight’, the remix companion to their ‘The Last Flight’ album, to talk instrumental glories, literal literary research and orchestral manoeuvres in the park.

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    31 mins
  • Episode #3 - Glenn Smyth (Solar Eyes)

    Episode #3 - Glenn Smyth (Solar Eyes)
    Oct 13 2025
    It’s episode three of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. and our guest is one Glenn Smyth (pronounced ‘Smith’), frontman in Brummie psych rock combo Solar Eyes. With their second album, ‘Live Freaky! Die Freaky!’, out right now and a UK tour occurring any minute in the future, the singer chats about hearing his music on Match of the Day, writing a concept record about escaping the clutches of the Manson Family and his great hometown love for ELO. Boy, he’s got the Birmingham Blues…

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    45 mins
  • Episode #2 - Tim Wheeler (Ash)

    Episode #2 - Tim Wheeler (Ash)
    Oct 6 2025
    The second episode of Birth. School. ROCK! Death. brings Tim Wheeler and his five fruity song choices to the SO sofa. As Ash head to the stars, and indeed to the stores, with their excellent ‘Ad Astra’ album, the Northern Irish power punk popper spills the beans on breaking America in all the wrong ways and playing onstage with Coldplay at Wembley as well as ruminating over 30something years of ever-youthful melodic mayhem.

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    55 mins