All Yesterday’s Parties

Good day, hearty listeners!  Once again Mike, Emily, and John return to King Street, and while discussing the Area 51 raid (REMINDER: this was recorded in July 2019) and the first album Emily ever acq...

Greetings to you all!  We (Mike, John, and Emily) continue unabated with a fresh dip into Rolling Stone's Top 100 albums - we can't remember what the last one we did was (Bob Dylan, possibly?), but de...

We return!  It's another spin of the nonsense wheel with Mike, John, and Emily, as we run a full emotional gamut of cattle interference news, sublime/bonkers cover versions we love, and savage analyse...

Yes, we're back once again, and a new face joins the AYP family this week, in the form of Staffordshire Poet Laureate 2017-2019, WordCraft co-founder, AND self-professed wordy half of Rose&Cloud: ...

TWO EPISODES IN A DAY?!  We really want you to get a flavour of the Autophonography vibes, so that if you want to take part in an AYP recording, you'll be prepped.  As mentioned previously, we recorde...

WE'RE BACK.  After the excitement of 'AYP Festival Fest 2018 (Cancelled)', we needed a rest, so we had one, and then realised that we had recorded a couple of episodes prior to 'AYPFF2019(C)' which Jo...

Apologies in advance for the last two thirds of this week's episode, as our time ran out in the back room of The Greyhound, and we were forced to de-camp to John's house, where there was nowhere to se...

We start this week with a complete absence of control, some of which is clawed back for the middle section, and gleefully abandoned again for the last five minutes.As ever, we are organising another d...

It's PART TWO of Festival Fest 2018!  Picking up from last week's band-off, curating a fictitious festival that not only doesn't exist but also won't happen, our plucky young pillocks have more acts t...

Festival Fest 2018 is HERE, in the Year of Our Lord 2019.  We apologise for the delay, having recorded these next four episodes in June last year, and the Greyhound pub in Hartshill.  In the wake of S...

Season 2.5, Episode 13. Oh, how bittersweet it is to be uploading this episode. At the time of recording, Safe As Milk Festival hadn't been cancelled, and we were eagerly looking forward to three da...

Season 2.5, Episode 12. SPOT THE BURP! There is a burp hidden on this week's Safe As Milk preview episode, so if you can find it, comment on the All Yesterday's Parties Facebook page, or tweet us at...

Season 2.5, Episode 11. ANOTHER strangely concise Safe As Milk-themed episode of AYP, we hope you don't get too used to this. This week, John, Mike, Matt, and Gordon (recording once again at King St...

Season 2.5, Episode 10. The Safe As Milk Alliance returns, continuing to plough into the 2nd wave of artist announcements like a rugby scrum that, bleeding profusely and covered in mud & shit, s...

Season 2.5, Episode 9. Just when you thought we'd done the gamut of acts at Safe As Milk Festival 2017, they go and announce another 17 acts! John, Mike, Matt and Gordon reconvene to start anew, thi...

Season 2.5, Episode 8. The Safe As Milkery continues, as John & Mike, ably (more or less) assisted by Matt & Gordon, get stuck into the last three of the first glut of acts announced for the ...

Season 2.5, Episode 7. Another week, another Safe As Milk Fest love-fest. This week, John, Mike, Matt & Gordon take a preliminary stumble through another alphabetical stage of the billing, this ...

Season 2.5, Episode 6. John and Mike are rejoined by Matt and Gordon to discuss three more acts performing at the inaugural Safe As Milk festival in April 2017. This week, Moor Mother, Nurse With Wo...

Season 2.5, Episode 5. More festival goodness, this time with special, not to mention familiar, guests! Featuring Matt Tyrer and Gordon Kochane, whom you will remember from our very first episode ba...

Season 2.5, Episode 4. We're still running up to Safe As Milk Festival at Pontins in Prestatyn (why, is it coming out?), and in this edition, Mike & John are burying their heads in Mark Ernestus'...

Season 2.5, Episode 3. The third wander through Safe As Milk's announced acts, with John & Mike's insights (such as they are) into Shirley Collins, Carla Dal Forno, and Dopplereffekt, and there i...

Season 2.5, Episode 2. Our between-season season continues apace, as John & Mike listen to another three artists due to appear at Safe As Milk festival. This week, it's down to Islam Chipsy &...

The Road To Safe As Milk, Season 2.5! We're taking a significant enough divergence from our regular format to warrant calling this a between-season season, and this is a season of pure research in t...

Season 2, BONUS EPISODE. To round off the season arc of post-millennial top picks, Mike did a bit of research and discovered that clash magazine did a top 100 Albums of the ten years it had been in p...

Season 2, Episode 12. John & Mike present their final choices for post-millennial albums worthy of inclusion into a Top 100 Albums Of All Time (the most succinct way we've been able to phrase it ...

Has it really only been a week? Well, Mike and John return to drop more post-millennial pop pickings on your ass (sorry to those of you not in possession of a donkey). This week, Mike provides the L...

Season 2, Episode 10. Hello! You came back! How very novel of you. This week continues our foray into post-millennial top albums, with Mike giving us Fuck Buttons' 'Street Horrsing' and John dolin...

Season 2, Episode 9. Gary wilcox has managed to escape the building, and so our two brave boys must once again duke it out alone, resorting to their usual tricks of fancy beers, making niche Stewart ...

Season 2, Episode 8. It's here - the last of our triptych of 'The Wilcox Saga'! This week, we probe Gary Wilcox to find out what musicians comprise 'Early Snow', the name for his Fantasy Five-Piece ...

Season 2, Episode 7. It's time to discuss 'Bands What We Have Loved And Left Behind' again, this time with Special Guest Gary Wilcox discusses his love of Canadian folk-pop-rocksters Barenaked Ladies...

Season 2, Episode 6. Prepare to dance around your living room and chant like a cretin, before finally opening the door to reveal ALL YESTERDAY'S PARTIES' FIRST EVER SPECIAL GUEST! We welcomed Don't ...

Season 2, Episode 5. Remember last week, when our trusty twosome told you of their fatigue for what populates 'Top 100 Albums' lists? Well, one week on, guess what? That still stands! John and Mik...

Series 2, Episode 4. As you may remember from last series, the Rolling Stone Top 100 managed to break John & Mike when they listened to Van Morrison, and their jaded eyes scoured various Top 100 ...

Another week, another podcast, another look at some musicians we love. This week, our heroes look back at artists who once lit their fires - fires which have since extinguished ever-so-slightly. Joh...

Season 2, Episode 2. The ball is well and truly rolling on our second series of podcasts, as John and Mike share the albums they first stumped up the cold, hard cash for as children. If you were onc...

Season 2, Episode 1. John and Mike return after a heady two weeks off (frantic, in some cases) and are ready once again to trade albums, The Dø's 'Both Ways Open Jaws' and 'NEU!' by NEU! (beware when...

There's a fire between us, listeners, and a markedly different one, compared to the fire that exists between AYP and Babylon Zoo's debut album, 'the Boy With The X-Ray Eyes'. Mike decided it would be...

Hello! It's another action packed episode as Mike and... er, the other one, have a pre-emptive natter about Pokemon Go (as is the way with news this year, in the week and a bit since recording this, ...

Greetings once again, dear listeners. In a move intended to soften our often-harsh bashing of Van Morrison, we listened to another record from the Rolling Stone Top 100 Albums list, 'Astral Weeks'. ...

"Like a stumpy John Travolta!" Welcome back to All Yesterday's Parties, where it's all about Mike introducing John to Erase Errata's debut album 'Other Animals', but not before Mike sets a quiz for J...

Get some money in yer jazz meter, as Mike and John take a virgin look at Miles Davis' 'Kind Of Blue' album. Mike not long ago discovered that he had not listened to even a quarter of the albums in th...

Episode 4 is back from the wilderness! It's been shampooed, petted, preened, and now is ready to be put on show. This week, John and Mike list the musicians that would make up their ideal respectiv...

Don't be too alarmed by the disparity in the number of podcasts and the number of this podcast - Episode 4 has fallen into a comedy vortex of Adam Sandler films and needs to be cleaned, scraped and re...

After the ATP specials, John and Mike get down to business with the inaugural Album Swap of the series. This week, John recommends 'Second Love' by Emmy The Great, Mike brings Of Montreal's 'Hissing ...

The conclusion to our reportage of the Stewart Lee-curated ATP weekend in Pontins, Prestatyn. Recorded on Monday 2nd May, we discuss Stage 3 (and the difficulty of entering therein), Ex Easter Island...

Recorded on 17th April 2016, on the Sunday morning of the Stewart Lee-curated ATP weekend at Pontins, in Prestayn, Wales. We discuss the best & worst of experimental jazz, whether or not podcast...