Talking Bollocks

Episode 243: Zoltan From Ektomorf

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This episode's guest is Zoltan Farkas vocalist/guitarist, founder and creator of legendary Hungarian outfit Ektomorf. We start out talking about their great new album "Vivid Black" and what inspired it and that leads to a place that leaves you in no doubt what the underlying motivations were. Sometimes I am lucky enough to speak with people who are willing to go wherever the conversation takes us and this is one of those occasions.

There is also the usual cursory run through the news and not news of the last few weeks which include a few stories that aren't stories, statements that aren't statements, people getting well and people getting kicked out.

This Is Two Hour Bollocks.

Bumper Bastard Movie Bollocks

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Nearly two hours of unplanned off the cuff reviews of twenty three movies and twelve TV Series!

Movies: Locked In, Oppenheimer, The Killer, The Creator, The Baker, 20 Days In Mariupol, Bad CGI Gator, Saltburn, The Great Escaper, Trees And Other Entanglements, Killers Of The Flower Moon, Rebel Moon Part One - A Child Of Fire, The Royal Hotel, Dumb money, Amsterdam, Dream Scenario, The Holdovers, Leave The World Behind, The Lesson, Silent Night, Lost City Of Z, Mercy.

TV Series: 007 - The Road To A Million, Bodies, Brawn: The Impossible Formula One Story, Murderville, A Murder At The End Of The World, Don't Fuck With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer, Des, Fool Me Once, Reacher Season 2, Welcome To Wrexham Season 2, The Puppet Master - Hunting The Ultimate Conman, Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators.

This Is Bumper Bastard Movie Bollocks.

Episode 242: Best Albums Of 2023 & Heitham From Senser

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For the tenth time in a row the year starts with my favourite albums of the last year but in a first it's a top ten (sort of) instead of a top five. Once all of that is out of the way Heitham of Senser and I have a chat prior to their awesome December show at the 100 club, Oxford Street. We talk music, pandemics and food as well as resolving to have a longer catch up soon.

There is a cut down review of the news but boy does someone get some stuff off their chest.

This Is Top Nine Bollocks.

The Reducer

Episode 241: Talking Bollocks Tenth Anniversary Special

Ten Years - Pay Your Debts

Yes it's ten years of Talking Bollocks and to celebrate I drafted in my good friend Old Head to interview... Me! We had a blast and I'm sure you'll enjoy hearing all the behind the scenes stories.

As always there is a blast through the news which includes: Dismay for Belladonna, distain for Ki$$, praise for Osborne, concern for Rush, honesty from Dickinson & respect for Sepultura.

This Is Ten Years Of Bollocks.

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Old Bollocks Episode 19

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H & Old Head are back and we bring you our views on new releases from Suffocation, Blink 182, Ektomorf & Alluvial. Plus we look ahead to who is, possibly & hopefully releasing new music in 2024.

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Episode 240: Adam & Dylan Are Fermentor

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In nearly ten years of this show I have the first instrumental band on the podcast. These guys play in a number of bands as you will hear, the most well known one of which is friends of the show Atheist. With a new Fermentor album about to drop the lads got in touch and I am so glad they did as the twisted metal landscapes these guys create are quite something to behold. The resulting interview is fun, informative and in depth as I ask the questions that need asking, what have you got against singers?!

There is brief jog through the news and actual major metal stories, some clumsy ill thought out metaphors and disappointment in some metal icons.

This Is Coffee Bollocks.

Fermentor Bandcamp

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Episode 239: Pascal Davayat Cowboy Bootmaker To The Stars

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I catch up with former Motörcast guest and bootmaker extraordinaire Pascal Davayat. He has made boots for so many famous rockers like Lemmy and Dee Snider but his own story is even more amazing. We touch on all sorts of topics from music to film from architectural brutalism to the Bullet Boys and don't forget nearly being run over by Warren Beatty and lots of 80s metal chat! There is also my latest run in with the news where an old friend comes back for the last time and I have the biggest breaking story in metal!

This Is Bootmaker Bollocks.

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Ronnie Dio Hologram

Movie & TV Bollocks Review Special

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It's that time again where I delve in to what I've been watching so you don't have to. Twenty movies and eleven TV series are coming your way in this episode. Movies: Kandahar, Blood And Gold, Blood And Money, The Forever Purge, Killer Book Club, Kajaki The True Story, Sympathy For The Devil, Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Bollocks, The Hired Gun, Tenet, Mom And Dad, Reptile, Nando Fordor & The Talking Mongoose, Master Gardener, Totally Killer, The Burial, Mission Impossible PT1, Old Dad's, Hidden Strike, Gran Turismo. TV Shows: We Hunt Together, Wolf Pack, Justified: Prime Evil, Ashoka, Who Is Erin Carter? Force Power Book IV, The Continental, Wilderness, Gen V, Brand New Cherry Flavour & Beckham.

This Is Movie Bollocks.

Episode 238: Igor Cavalera GO AHEAD AND DIE & Cavalera

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It's time for Igor and I to have a chat without Max. For their debut album it was all three of us but Igor has taken the reins of this album and made it his own and whilst traveling across the US on tour he tells me all about it. He reveals all about his many projects and also the "real" job he had to do whilst writing this album.

Then there is the news (which includes a musical interlude) this is NOT work safe from the very beginning. This Is Staind Bollocks.

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Go Ahead And Die Socials & Merch

Aaron Lewis Is A Cunt & Here Is Why

Jekyll Movie Premiere Special

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My friend Paul Waller of A Year In Horror asked me if I wanted to go to the relaunch of Hammer films and see the premiere of Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard. My answer was of course I do and this is what happened.