

Down With Boring
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Direct from leading UK music mag Dork, Down With Boring is our flagship podcast, delivered every two weeks. Featuring the best and most exciting new, emerging and established acts around, the latest tracks, the best new albums and loads more.
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Nov 8, 2020 • 45min
Mez's Sunday Lunch #0006: Family Feud
This month, Mez is joined by brother Mick for a lovely family outing, soundtracked by some excellent musical picks.
In this month's show you'll hear:
Viagra Boys - Aint Nice
TV Priest - Decoration
Fleet Foxes - Can I believe you
Leonard Cohen - Lover Lover Lover
Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy
Yard Act - Fixer Upper

Nov 2, 2020 • 1h 50min
Down With Boring #0025: APRE
This week's special guests are APRE. Plus we focus in on the new album from Ariana Grande, check out new tracks from Coach Party, Pixey, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, and loads, loads more.

Oct 26, 2020 • 1h 47min
Down With Boring #0024: Walt Disco
This Week's Down With Boring features special guests Walt Disco! PLUS! Boy Pablo, Arlo Parks, Easy Life, Inhaler and MUCH MORE.

Oct 19, 2020 • 1h 30min
Down With Boring #0023: Reader's Poll 2020 Special
This week, we're breaking the usual format on Down With Boring, as we launch 2020's Dork Reader's Poll.
We're asking you to vote for your favourites from the past year over on readdork.com so we can crown the best of the last twelve months in our final issue of the year.
To help jog your memory, we've invited a few Dork scribblers to run through some of the categories and pick a few possibilities. Feel free to disagree at will.

Oct 12, 2020 • 2h 1min
Down With Boring #0022: Lauran Hibberd
This week, we're joined by slacker pop queen and Friend of the Magazine Lauran Hibberd as our Very Special Guest. Plus, an album of the week chat about Beabadoobee's much anticipated debut, new tracks from MICHELLE and newcomer MAY-A, Phoebe Bridgers becomes a label boss and loads more.

Oct 12, 2020 • 44min
Mez's Sunday Lunch #0005: Halloween
Things get spooky as LIFE's Mez recalls moomin ghosts in the latest episode of our Sunday spread.
Featuring:
Dead Kennedys - Halloween
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
Courting - David Byrne's Badside
Nadine Shah - Club Cougar
Jape - Floating
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
Working Men's Club - John Cooper Clarke

Oct 6, 2020 • 1h 50min
Down With Boring #0021: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard
This week! A chat - and LIVE MUSIC - with-slash-from those glorious upstarts Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, plus our album of the week from Working Men's Club, and loads, loads more. We spoil you, really we do.

Sep 28, 2020 • 1h 53min
Down With Boring #0020: Will Joseph Cook
On tonight’s Down With Boring - special guest Will Joseph Cook, a dive into *that* new album from IDLES, the latest new music, a cake in the shape of a pop-punk star’s head, and ‘more’.
The Portlanders, courtesy of The Portlanders and KBOO

Sep 22, 2020 • 1h 47min
Down With Boring #0019: Porridge Radio
This week, we're joined by Mercury Prize nominees Porridge Radio (oooo, swish). Plus, all the latest new music, our album of the week from Gus Dapperton, and a warning to please, please not play with knives.

Sep 20, 2020 • 48min
Mez's Sunday Lunch: Back to School
We're back with another episode of LIFE frontman Mez's delicious Sunday spread. Tuck in! On this month's show, he's spinning...
Arlo Parks - Hurt
Working Men’s Club - Valleys
Tina - Golden Rope
Ghostpoet - I grow tired but dare not fall asleep
Nas - Ultra Black
The Strokes - At The Door


