JJ's Album Club

What a great chat with an absolute superstar. Come listen to Lady Blackbird talk Tom Waits, Donny Hathaway, Singing in Shopping centers and popping her podcast cherry with us. We were absolutley blown away by her star power. Check out the queen of 2021 right here. 

This week we are joined by Pan Amsterdam a brilliantly inventive and super cool rapper with history steeped in Jazz as he talks to us about growing up in New York, working with Iggy Pop and making his wonderful 2nd album Ha Chu. 

Welcome back everyone to the new series of JJ's Album club. Each week comedian and new music presenter Joey Page teams up with best mate and top Journalist Jimi Famurewa (Evening Standard, Guardian) chat to a star at the top of their art form about an album they hold dear to their heart. This week Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods brings in an album to share with  us. Please like,rate and subscribe.  Credit- Theme tune- The Grove in the Shoe - Mintcake presents/Crofhill Studios.

We are back in the same (cavernous)  Trying to work out if Nas has gout? Why it's impossible to like the Killers and are Lemon Twigs OK? All this and lots mote. 

You know what? Joey has pulled out an absolute dream guest this week. Join the boys as they chat to James Petralli about being prolific, having a sporting attitude to music. How White Denim get such cool visuals and of course. Robert Palmer. 

We are back with another mighty fine edition of the Album reviews pod, Plus a new competition- What's Jimi singing and Joey does a massive U-Turn. 

What a great show! 3 South London lads on one podcast!  Rob talks about a classic Monkeys album and talks about why he always favoured comedy over music. Joey has his stand up special out now! you can catch it at Nextupcomedy.com/joeypage

For the first time in this series we are under the same roof. Also for the first time ever we were live on Twitch.  If you want to see future recordings live and get involved in real time then get yourself over to Twitch.tv/joeypagecomedy  We will put up recording times on social media. 

This week we are super lucky to talk to the best Playwright and poet in Britain about a gem of an album somewhat unknown to us but boy is it amazing. It's not even on Spotify!  Inua talks in depth about Soweto Kinch's unknown masterpiece A Life in the Day of B19 as well as about the association between Poetry and rap and the state of the world today. 

Album reviews for 3 really interesting and highly diverse albums. Plus Liam Gallagher on a combine harvester and Joey  talks about the phone in his bathroom. 

In this riveting chat John Grant pops into JJ's Album club to talk about growing up in a strict household and his love of Roller coasters.  Listen to music's most interesting and charming man wax Lyrical about Devo's New Traditionalists, the state of America plus some exclusive info on his new album. 

Possibly the most professional and entertaining episode yet. Some cracking albums and maybe for the first time ever Jimi is in a horrible mood. 

Josie Long is one Britain's most groundbreaking and  original comics listen to her bring her unbridled and infectious enthusiasm to this weeks pod as she talks about her love for Joanna Newsom's triple album Have one on me. This is one of the most fun chat's we have had so strap in you are in for a joyful treat.  

All the tech has failed, Joey is recording in the garden in the rain. Jimi is holding the show together. There are some cracking album reviews, Joey reveals so secrets about the Heinz factory and the first ever 10/10 rating gets awarded. Tune in to find out who! 

Holed up in New York the stupidly good Steve Gunn  (who's brilliant album The Unseen In Between is one of Joey's favourite of the last year) joins Jimi and Joey who are having some Friday night beers. Steve discusses how he has been making work during lockdown and the album that he uses as a comfort blanket during travel. Plus Jimi asks one of the longest questions in the pod's history.  

It’s all kicking off on this weeks show. Jimi and Joey interview the super stylish and crazy talented James Righton, who once he has finished smashing glasses and ordering a Deliveroo joins the boys to talk about his new record The Performer and one of his all time favourite albums Kid A by Radiohead.

Come on down to JJ's Album Club and hear the considered and not at all reactionary opinions of two old friends reviewing some of the hottest records released over the last couple of weeks. Plus Joey's hot tub saga continues and Jimi compares liking Drake to eating a whole pack of posh biscuits. 

Joey Page and Jimi Famurewa are back with a special episode and an extra special guest. Join the lads as they quiz Phill Jupitus about one of his favourite albums of all time; Sandinista! by the Clash. Phill also recounts some cracking tales about his time in the Blockheads; supporting Paul Weller and the Style Council and queuing up for a mile to buy tickets to see Spandau Ballet. Here is a link to Phill's playlist as mentioned in the pod. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/79K1Y6S52LSjnsohScW5eO?si=eb2joeA8TNWMk2ub3puqHw

This time Joey and Jimi convene in Joey's fancy new kitchen to lob some thoughts at four fascinating albums from the previous month. There's the new Brexit-flavoured record from Damon Albarn's reformed supergroup, Vince Staples' intriguing concept EP, TVAM's audiovisual psych experimentation and an elliptical, woozy newie from Kurt Vile, slack rock king and – hang on – Joey's new best friend!!? As ever, please rate, review and subscribe!

This month, Joey and Jimi run their eyes and ears over the shortlisted acts for the Mercury Prize 2018 and make some wild predictions. Plus they discuss Bodega's pleasing brand of wry post-punk, Let's Eat Grandma's critically adored Norfolk-pop opus and Mattiel's Jack White-approved '60s soul which, according to Joey's dad, "just sounds like Lulu". ***Please do rate, review and subscribe if you can.***

It's a delayed 2018 kick-off for Jimi and Joey as they return to the rattly confines of the pod-kitchen. This month they discuss Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's leather-jacketed stasis, Shame's thrilling debut, N.E.R.D.'s confounding comeback album and (at last!) former EastEnders star Pam St Clement's relationship with their Kentish hometown. Please share, subscribe, rate and review!

Joey and Jimi return to chew over the efficient excellence of Beck's new album, Baxter Dury's dazzlingly weird mid-life crisis and Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile's decidedly laid-back love-in. They're also joined by comedian and actor Daniel Lawrence Taylor, who talks about creating ITV2's Timewasters, selects some evocative late-90s R&B and details his longstanding, and surprising, beef with Busta Rhymes. *Please subscribe, rate and recommend us to spread the word*

Jimi and Joey return with an interview with Lee Broadbent, frontman of politically-charged Mancunian agitators Cabbage. They also discuss Liam Gallagher's solo attempt to overcome his lyrical limitations, LCD Soundsystem's amazingly terrible retirement and have contrasting responses to Wolf Alice's second record. Oh, and there's a first listen (sort of) to Benjamin Clementine's change in direction. Please rate us and subscribe on iTunes and beyond.

Joey is back from the Edinburgh festival and so are we! This month we dive into new albums from Ghostpoet, Everything Everything, The War On Drugs and Juanita Stein. Plus there's lively debate about Arcade Fire's Everything Now and an exclusive peek into Win Butler's songbook. Please subscribe and rate us! #arcadefire #everythingeverything #ghostpoet #thewarondrugs #comedy #alternativemusic #rock #rap

After a festival-induced hiatus, comedian Joey Page and journalist Jimi Famurewa return to chew over JAY-Z's confessional 4:44, Fleet Foxes long-awaited third record, Childhood's second album curveball and much, much more. Includes additional silliness and a visit from a guest with a suspiciously patchy accent.

Journalist Jimi Famurewa and idiot new music radio host Joey Page review some of the month's biggest new albums. Plus an interview with Smoke Fairies about Jack White, stalking Sheryl Crow and of course one of their favourite albums of all time, #Newmusic #album #Interview #SmokeFaires #review #Kasabian #PaulWeller #JHus #AlexandraSavoir

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