Down With Boring

Down With Boring comes at you recorded live from this month's Rockaway Beach, featuring Antony Szmierek and Prima Queen.

This week, Fred from Spector drops by to chat about the shows wrapping up the year, the 10th anniversary of ‘Moth Boys’, and what Christmas presents he’d buy for Nelson Mandela and CMAT. Naturally. We also get into our favourite — and least favourite — Christmas classics, talk about ‘Lullaby’ by Together For Palestine, and attempt to unpack the mystery of Elton John’s oven. We’ll be back in January with a special live episode recorded on stage at Rockaway on 2nd January.

This time Jake and Jamie are running through the tracks and albums that made their 2025 - expect a bit of Viagra Boys, a touch of Antony Szmierek, a teaspoon of Turnstile and a big old helping of CMAT.

Another Monday, another Down With Boring. This episode, we’re diving into Danny Brown’s latest full-length, ‘Stardust’ — a wildly inventive, joy-soaked reinvention from an artist who’s swapped chaos for clarity without losing the weird. Clean(ish), gym-going and living in Austin with a new crew of hyperpop misfits, Danny’s found his people and made a record that sounds like 2025: part grime flashback, part future-pop meltdown, all personality. There’s new music too, obviously — Hayley Williams adds another track to her ever-expanding solo album with ‘Showbiz’, while ROSALÍA’s ‘La Perla’ lands as part of an album that’s set to scramble those end-of-year lists. Holly Humberstone is back with ‘Die Happy’, Sorry preview their new album ‘COSPLAY’ with ‘Candle’, and The Itch drop ‘Space In The Cab’, right before their First Fifty show for Dork at London's Sebright Arms this week.

No guest this week, but instead we're going deep on the new album from Lily Allen, and checking out new music from the likes of Sports Team and... Cruz Beckham?!

We’re joined by Friends of the Magazine and Dork 100 at The 100 Club alumni Divorce, fresh from the surprise release of the deluxe edition of their brilliant debut album ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’. With new single ‘Wendolene’ in the wild, we’ll be catching up on what’s been ‘quite the year’ for the four piece. Elsewhere, we’re taking a closer listen to Hype List stars Good Neighbours’ debut ‘Blue Sky Mentality’, plus new tracks from Westside Cowboy (‘Don’t Throw Rocks’), Maisie Peters (‘Audrey Hepburn’), Sorry (‘Today Might Be The Hit’) and Fcukers (‘I Like It Like That’).

Down With Boring is back, and we’ve got a bumper show lined up. This week, Friends of the Magazine and former Dork cover stars Sprints swing by, with Sam and Jack chatting all about their brand new – and properly ace – album, plus plenty of nonsense besides. We’re also diving into the buzzy new record from Geese that’s picking up rave reviews everywhere, while in tracks we shine a light on Olivia Dean’s crowning moment and celebrate the brilliant return of Danny Brown, alongside fresh new cuts from current cover star Tame Impala and the Really Very Good Brogeal. With new festival lineups dropping and a whole lot more to chew over, it’s set to be another jam-packed night with Down With Boring.

Down With Boring is back on home turf tonight, returning to full-fat chaos after a summer of irregular specials and festival shenanigans. Joining us in the ‘studio’ (well, Zoom call – Ed) are Friends of the Magazine VLURE, who are about to drop their much-anticipated and Really Very Good debut album ‘Escalate’; we will, once again, attempt to make pill-punk happen. Elsewhere, we dig into two standout records: King Princess with ‘Girl Violence’ and Shame with ‘Cutthroat’. There are brand-new tunes from JADE, Gurriers and Vegas Water Taxi too, plus a spin from our newest best mate David Byrne. No, we’re not explaining. You’ll have to wait.

And breathe. Reading Festival 2025 is over, and what a weekend it was. To celebrate another massive year, we’ve put together a very special edition of Down With Boring, recorded live from the festival site. This week, we’re bringing you all the action and gossip from the field. We’ve got three of the weekend’s most exciting artists, starting with the magnificent Lambrini Girls, who dropped in for a chat after they made their incendiary Main Stage debut. We also caught up with the brilliant Nell Mescal to get all the details on her upcoming EP and massive new tour dates. Plus, we dive into what’s coming next from Liverpool’s own buzzy new talent, Luvcat, who gives us the latest on that much-anticipated debut album. It’s the perfect way to relive the weekend, or just catch up on what you missed.

Down With Boring has escaped the studio, pinched a couple of wristbands and planted itself slap-bang in the middle of Live at Leeds: In The Park for another one-off, on-stage spectacular. Yep – we rocked up to Temple Newsam at the tail-end of May, flanked by the lingering aroma of churros and factor-50, determined to prove that Jake and Jamie can, in fact, operate heavy machinery (read: microphones) in broad daylight. To kick things off, we corralled three of the day’s finest rabble-rousers – Sunday (1994), Do Nothing and Brògeal – for an hour of controlled mayhem that somehow took place in an actual pub on an actual festival site. It gets louder, sillier and 100% more likely to derail into chaos, basically.