Episodi

  • 2017: 'Stench of the Unburied'

    2017: 'Stench of the Unburied'
    Jan 9 2026
    It'll take twenty years for the toxins to flush. Today's episode is about looking back at a lost age, earnestness and foolishness, and things which dim and flicker but won't stay dead. It's 2017 and the song is 'Stench of the Unburied.'

    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2017-stench-of-the-unburied
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    16 min
  • 2016: 'Blood Capsules'

    2016: 'Blood Capsules'
    Dec 19 2025
    This was my last and best idea. Today's episode is about work songs, desperation, and what an ageing wrestler can do when he can't see his way clear to a change in perspective. It's 2016 and the song is 'Blood Capsules.'

    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2016-blood-capsules
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    13 min
  • 2015: 'Unmasked!'

    2015: 'Unmasked!'
    Nov 27 2025
    A sort of unrestrained fantasia. Today's episode is about the public and the private, rituals of humiliation, and Roland Barthes' 'The World of Wrestling.' It's 2015 and the song is 'Unmasked!'

    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2015-unmasked
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    15 min
  • 2014: 'Song for Black Sabbath’s Second North American Tour'

    2014: 'Song for Black Sabbath’s Second North American Tour'
    Nov 11 2025
    New creatures with new hearts. Today's episode is about Ozzy Osbourne and the joy and shock of playing music all around the world when you never expected to make it beyond Birmingham. It's 2014 and the song is 'Song for Black Sabbath's Second North American Tour.'

    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2014-song-for-black-sabbaths-second

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    11 min
  • 2013: 'You and Me and A High Balcony'

    2013: 'You and Me and A High Balcony'
    Sep 1 2025
    Clean slate. It's 2013, and I'm all over the place. Here are some Onegin stanzas.


    You can also read this episode at thirtyyearslater.substack.com. Unusually it doesn't have any references, but I'm drawing on Stanley Mitchell's Penguin translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin throughout.
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    11 min
  • 2012: Steal Smoked Fish

    2012: Steal Smoked Fish
    Jul 29 2025
    Feast when you can. Today's episode is about the feasts in the books I've been reading, and the famine happening in the real world right now, spotlighting a poem by Hanan Al-Kafarna. It's centred around a walk through Portland in 2022 in the footsteps of our song for 2012: 'Steal Smoked Fish.'

    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2012-steal-smoked-fish

    Hanan al-Kafarna on Instagram, where a fundraising campaign link will be shared soon: https://www.instagram.com/_hanan._.jalal_/

    My poem 'John Clare Reaches the Pacific' on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/notrockyhorror.bsky.social/post/3lqafuiv4tc25 - and available to purchase in Nimrod magazine: https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/current-issue/

    Links to Gaza aid organisations and fundraisers:
    https://www.map.org.uk/?form=FUNFXHDCJPK
    https://donate.wfp.org/1243/donation/regular
    https://www.zakat.org/
    https://chuffed.org/project/110294-please-donate-to-help-oday-halava
    https://4gaza.bugx0r.nl/lifeline4gaza/
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    43 min
  • 2011: ‘Beautiful Gas Mask’

    2011: ‘Beautiful Gas Mask’
    Mar 31 2025
    Only one kick drum. Today's episode is about ambiguous imperatives, glowing alien rocks, universal feelings, Universal Monsters, haunting presences in the background, and a group of British and American twenty-something getting drunk in a series of French apartments. It's 2011, and the song is 'Beautiful Gas Mask.'

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    'The Sink' - Chapter One of my Nantes-set novel, published by the Irish lit magazine An Capall Dorcha, is available to read on my university research page here - https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/files/125981534/Immersion_An_Capall_Dorcha_extract_v2.pdf - or you can buy the issue online here: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/an-capall-dorcha-issue-4


    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://open.substack.com/pub/thirtyyearslater/p/2011-beautiful-gas-mask

    Live shows taped by Lyric: https://archive.org/details/@astrolyric?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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    29 min
  • 2010: ‘You Were Cool’ (Live, 2011-03-25)

    2010: ‘You Were Cool’ (Live, 2011-03-25)
    Feb 28 2025
    It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves. Today's episode is about songs and sonnets, the nuts and bolts of versification, and the dramas of archival preservation: nearly-lost media, and media that I'm happy has been lost entirely. It's 2010, and the song is 'You Were Cool.'

    My Jenny From Thebes review for PopMatters: http://popmatters.com/mountain-goats-jenny-from-thebes

    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2010-you-were-cool-live-2011-03-25
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    26 min