electric sodcast

Mid 80's Queen, bombast, and swords. Perfect. There can be only one... Highlander soundtrack album.

Jimmy Rotten and Iain Thee Stallion return to reminisce about the music their parents loved and brought into their childhoods. Then it's time blast a terrible disc into the cold wastes of space once and for all.

Iain and James try their hand at reviving the format of classic ancient TV show "Jukebox Jury". And it goes pretty well, all things considered, at least until the wheels come off over a truly monstrous piece of trash.

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Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more, if of course by "breach" you mean "a chat about quite a big hit from the 80's" and we certainly do. James has diamonds on the soles of his shoes and Iain knows fifty ways to be left by his lovers, so why not join us for a bit of a chat about Paul Simon?

This time around, Iain and James are indulging in a battle of the bands. Which of them has created the best fictional supergroup, and will it be Dust N' Bones or Meconium?

We get a bit sweary on here. Sorry. It's NSFW, OK?

My turn to pick a subject this time, so I've chosen the faerie godmother of "kooky" singer-songwriters, Tori Amos, whose music was a huge part of my life for two decades, and I try to talk about my love for her music while, I suspect, I just come off as a tad too critical of her recent albums. Too critical by half.

A lot to talk about this time, as we both present a few top picks from 2023 and discuss our recent musical listenings.

Celebrating the greatest charity single of all time, Band Aid's original recording of Do They Know it's Christmas? Includes light mockery of Paul Young. Sorry if you're listening, Paul. Happy Christmas. Don't sing.

Jingle jingle those silver bells, Santa is a'rockin' and a'rollin all over the living room carpet. Come celebrate the sonic glories of pop stars -who should know better- writing festive hits for, let's be honest, the cash. Despicable. And lets not even mention Michael Buble...

Time to really stress test a very long friendship as James and Iain offer slightly differing opinions about the relative merits of R.E.M.'s eleventh studio album, 1998's Up, recently re-released on many formats.

James and Iain return with more music chat, this time looking at (and, indeed, listening to) new music from not only The Beatles, but also The Rolling Stones. Think about that for a second: new music from the two biggest British bands of the 1960's, still dropping new music in 2023. Incredible, really, and it's fairly safe to say this won't happen again. Unless it does. But, anyway, here are two music fans eagerly providing their two pennorth' (and they had to pool their resources to raise even that meagre amount) on this phenomenon. There's also an update on THOSE RUMOURS about our very own James being seen OUT ON THE TOWN with TAYLOR SWIFT.

Come along, SEO, and do your thing...

Travel back in time with us to the time of CBGB's, of Talking Heads, of Blondie and the Ramones and the Clash. What records were renowned music-lovers Iain and James listening to back in these heady times? Um, probably none of the above, if the truth be told. On the other hand, if you're down for a bit of Adam & The Ants, T'Pau, The Human League or Bon Jovi, then come in, sit down, shut up, and listen to a shambolic ramble through two men's early musical experiences. Ah, dear oh dear.

It's the final episode of our second series of sketches, comedy, and bumfoolery. We catch up on James' recovery from his breakdown, watch an oddly stress-free episode of Question Time, trial a new running app, catch up on another early Bob Dylan demo, and savour the literary brilliance on display in The Home Secretary Wrote A Porno? Then, this being a season finale, we end on a sickeningly gruesome murder...

Don't go away, we'll be back sooner than you think with something slightly different...

And please get in touch: I'm @seaoftranquillitylane on Threads and Insta, and @theiainmartin.bsky.social on Bluesky. We're not on X any more because it's just full of the fevered rantings of toxic human sewage. James isn't online because he can't be trusted with technology. Or chickens.

Pervert.

The New Adventures of Matt Hancock | Bob Dylan's Girls and Boys | Was He, Though? | The Curious Cabinet of Dr Earl K. Chitterlings | Cake or Not? | Christ's Kitchen

Have some Jesus with TV's top Christian bird-botherer Fintan Hullabaloo. Matt Hancock draws a line in the sand when he's asked to sink lower than ever before. The novelist Donna Tartt tries her hand at writing comedy, a newly unearthed Bob Dylan track gets its first broadcast, Ptolomy Botolph and the Looking, Up and Inside team investigate the Rose Tea Rooms in Lavenham, and top chin-beard muso show Songpoker heads into the studio with Radiohead.

Rejoice, my friends. The second series of the electric sodcast is finally here. This all-new episode contains such wonders as: The New Adventures of Matt Hancock, Spelling Bee, Youtube's hottest fashion influencer, the Victorian Father, Looking Up and Inside with Ptolomy Botolph, and my own Hospital Gift Shop sketch which I rather like. It's the sort of thing Fry & Laurie might have done, if they hadn't both succumbed to drink, drugs and morally-bankrupt sexual debauchery. (Possibly. Who knows? Seems unlikely, to be honest.) If you want to get in touch with us -and you're NOT a lawyer for Fry & Laurie- then your mission is as simple and innocent as kissing a piglet. Tweet us, at @electricsodcast. Piece of piss, really. Take care, and next time try not leaving the hob on when you go out, you steaming arsewit.

It was going to be the biggest blockbuster of a "Coming Soon" trailer EVER, with a budget of over $1 million U.S. dollars. But dickhead over here didn't switch his phone off, so the take was wrecked. I'm sorry. But please stay tuned for series two of our sketch show, the electric sodcast. For it is coming. Soon.

Some podcasts really throw everything at their Christmas episode, pulling out all the stops to bring you sonic delights, festive whimsy and yuletide editing all bullet-sharp and pin-point. We didn't. We knocked this out in about five minutes then we naffed off down the boozer like MEN. Cos it's Christmas, yeah? It's Christmas. It's all about going to the pub and drinking beer. It's what Jesus would have wanted.

Those are not MY words. They are the words, in fact, of BBC Television's top pink-skinned fury-bollock Phil Mitchell.

What do you mean, you're too young to remember EastEnders? Oh, get knotted.

Have a mince pie. Jingle jingle. Xx

Like a chocolate box, we present a festive selection of random goodies. But which sketch will be the hugely popular orange creme, and which sketch will prove to be the inedible atrocity with a fucking brazil nut hidden in the centre, just waiting to trigger a fatal bout of anaphalactic shock in some unsuspecting allergic listenist?

From the rain-soaked jungles of Costa Rica, and the piss-tinged walkways and tiny cells of Risley Remand Centre, Iain Martin and James Burton bring you a tiny bit of sonic nonsense hastily mixed together to keep the sodcast feed active while they work on some better stuff which will be dropping soon, like so much sonic elephant shit.

A nightmarish tale to chill the blood and shrivel the plums of even the bravest of skeptics. Don't say you haven't been warned. Mwahahahaha!

Follow us on twitter and you'll have slightly more idea what's coming along in the next few months. Possibly. We're @electricsodcast

Join Glenn Benjamin (and producer Olly Capon) for the launch of Little England News, Britain's all-new TV News channel that tells it like it is. Broadcasting live from a very reasonably-priced studio in Chiswick, funded by Russian oligarchs, and produced by a Philosophy graduate from the University of Kent, this is the anti-woke, snowflake-free information you've been waiting for. With added Keane, and a special guest appearance from a sodcast favourite... Written by and starring James Burton and Iain Martin.

Softly-spoken toff-botherer Nicholas Quim of our Royal News Desk mops up his damp, voluminous grief and gets on with his job. His report, which was fuelled by gin, is wildly inaccurate and was cobbled together over a weekend during rare breaks in his hysterical, performative distress, with the help of our long-suffering audio producer Mina. And if he thinks he's distraught now, wait until he checks his whatsapp and learns we've fired his oily, unctuous arse.

Popular culture? Film, music, tv, literature? Yeah, he was there. He knows where the bodies are buried. It's time to meet...the witness.

The Sketch That Goes Wrong.

Mary Bumstead's second marriage, Dave and Phil discuss snooker players' nicknames, and we journey back to the Victorian era for an episode of the classic crime drama Parsons & Quilter. It's the last episode of the series, but don't worry: we'll be back.

Mary Bumstead: Heartbreaker (0.20)
The Dark Side of the Pink: NICKNAME (7:28)
Psychopath (12.19)
Parsons & Quilter: The Crouch End Daemon (17.40)
Listener Survey (23:48) 

Will Bellingham MP (James Burton) hits upon the idea of writing a diary for future publication, but his senior political advisor Irving (Iain Martin) is on hand to point out the many logistical and creative flaws in this scheme, as they recount a tumultuous week in Westminster, react to a heatwave, and spill the beans about the behind-the-scenes intrigues of the Conservative leadership race.

Join us for another collection of sketches. It's time to meet the notorious killer Mary Bumstead, to work off the flab with the fool Abdujaparov, to cancel that Netflix subscription, and head to the Chelmsford Civic Centre for more top-flight snooker action. And then, because it's summer, we've a timely message on drunk, half-naked-in the-High-Street Gammon Rights. 

Abdujaparov Rises (0:20)
His Teeth (1:47)
Netflix (8:39)
Vet (12.18)
The Dark Side of the Pink: MURDER (13.26)
Men's Freedom Party (21.49)

The show is written by James Burton and Iain Martin, and recorded and edited in Colchester, UK and Rockville in the U.S.
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The satirical political comedy from the electric sodcast. On this perfectly run-of-the-mill, inconsequential day in British politics, Will Bellingham MP (James Burton) is kept out of harm's way with a team-building MP's regional cluster meeting from hell, while up in Westminster, his Machiavellian advisor, Irving (Iain Martin), delivers a final, decisive blow to the PM.

Including the sketches: Cybersecurity | Coldplay: Pencils | Hooompahhhh | The Dark Side of the Pink: UGLY | Someone End This Man

The satirical political comedy from the electric sodcast. Will Bellingham MP (James Burton) hopes for a quiet and pleasant day meeting with his constituents. Meanwhile his senior political advisor Irving (Iain Martin) is off for a lunch of skullduggery and pheasant roulade.

The satirical political comedy from the electric sodcast. You might think it's been a tough week for the Prime Minister, but spare a thought for lowly backbencher Will Bellingham, MP (James Burton) who is currently hurtling away from London to avoid the shame and indignity of the #masturgate scandal he seems to have become horribly embroiled in. Did he really get his #Johnsonout in the House of Commons? His senior political adviser, Irving (Iain Martin) is -perhaps surprisingly- none too worried about this. Perhaps he knows rather more about the misunderstanding than he's letting on?

Proudly sponsored by Benton's Mango. But don't think our funny little show will change just because we've sold out. Corporate whores can still, sometimes, be gently amusing... Gosh, this dried fruit is delicious.

Adverts (0:20)
Glass Eye (3:55)
Adverts 2 (9:36)
City Boy (11:45)
The Dark Side of the Pink: DATE (18:10)
Adverts 3 (23:50)

The satirical political comedy from the electric sodcast. Will Bellingham (James Burton) is now several weeks into his parliamentary career, but already he's worrying that not having gone to Oxford is hindering his party political progress. His Commons backbencher office-mate has Rishi Sunak on speed-dial, the PM is on the war-path, and all Will has to show for himself is some distinctly dodgy expenses claims from his senior parliamentary advisor Irving (Iain Martin), and a troubling amount of pigeon poo...

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Interview (0.20)
The Fool Abdujaparov (5.45)
Marriott Bonvoy (8.06)
The Dark Side of the Pink: FOOD (13.50)
Colin Tyler (20.18)

In our Local Elections Special, we go straight to the aftermath of the bye-election at Wivenhoe & Hythe, where Will Bellingham (James Burton) has just been voted in as the new MP for the constituency. His campaign manager Irving (Iain Martin) has some eyebrow-raising ideas over his staffing appointments, while Will struggles to get to grips with his new role as a Tory MP.

This it is, folks: the trailer for our new comedy show, the electric sodcast. In our delicate, tender and confrontationally naked trailer, we present a baffling buffet of stage magic, Judas Iscariot (who gets grilled about Supper-gate) and we've an exclusive interview with Lawrence + the Machine.

Please laugh, if only joylessly and internally, but do please subscribe to the electric sodcast. We are coming soon.*

*Now there's a mental image you didn't need.