Love is the Message Podcast
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Love is the Message: Music, Dance & Counterculture.
A podcast hosted by Tim Lawrence & Jeremy Gilbert.
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A podcast hosted by Tim Lawrence & Jeremy Gilbert.
Tune in, Turn on, Get Down!
www.LoveistheMessagePod.com
Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod
January 29, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Finally, we introduce a major character in out story over the coming months: Arthur Russell...
January 29, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Finally, we introduce a major character in out story over the coming months: Arthur Russell...
The guys unpack how funk and reggae were influencing bands like The Contortions in their experimentation with rhythm, visit the CBGB club in New York, and dispute received ideas about the division between punk and disco.../
January 29, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The guys unpack how funk and reggae were influencing bands like The Contortions in their experimentation with rhythm, visit the CBGB club in New York, and dispute received ideas about the division between punk and disco.../
They discuss where the term came from, what exactly the ‘punk’ it was following was, and some the music’s early proponents. With reference to The Slits, Wire, Talking Heads and more, we hear about the Hacienda, John Peel, Modernism and Mark E Smith.../
January 29, 2026 at 9:38 AM
They discuss where the term came from, what exactly the ‘punk’ it was following was, and some the music’s early proponents. With reference to The Slits, Wire, Talking Heads and more, we hear about the Hacienda, John Peel, Modernism and Mark E Smith.../
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January 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Jeremy and Alex discuss blues rock, ‘sophsti-pop’ and Sting, the folk club legacy of the North East, Prefab Sprout, the smallpipes and the Sultans of Swing.../
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Jeremy and Alex discuss blues rock, ‘sophsti-pop’ and Sting, the folk club legacy of the North East, Prefab Sprout, the smallpipes and the Sultans of Swing.../
Alex talks us through the particulars of the region, one of Britain’s main post-industrial heartlands, exploring through music various expressions of white working class identity and a particular form of masculinity that artists have variously embodied or pushed against.../
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Alex talks us through the particulars of the region, one of Britain’s main post-industrial heartlands, exploring through music various expressions of white working class identity and a particular form of masculinity that artists have variously embodied or pushed against.../
Our interest in this subject was piqued by Sam Fender’s victory in last year’s Mercury Music Prize. Fender is himself an artist indebted to our recent subject, Bruce Springsteen.../
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Our interest in this subject was piqued by Sam Fender’s victory in last year’s Mercury Music Prize. Fender is himself an artist indebted to our recent subject, Bruce Springsteen.../
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Jeremy describes how Springsteen’s songs of New Jersey post-industrialisation were heard in the cities of North West England, Tim interrogates his endorsement of Obama, and both try to understand his unique mass appeal in the USA.
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Jeremy describes how Springsteen’s songs of New Jersey post-industrialisation were heard in the cities of North West England, Tim interrogates his endorsement of Obama, and both try to understand his unique mass appeal in the USA.
We hear about the sense of place in his music, the influence of Dylan on his writing, the iconography of the small town and the big car, and his various attempts to express a white vernacular working class experience.../
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We hear about the sense of place in his music, the influence of Dylan on his writing, the iconography of the small town and the big car, and his various attempts to express a white vernacular working class experience.../
Tracing his life from his early career up to 1984, they unpack specificities of the Boss’s politics, his particular aesthetic, and the often confused reception of his repertoire.../
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tracing his life from his early career up to 1984, they unpack specificities of the Boss’s politics, his particular aesthetic, and the often confused reception of his repertoire.../
We also hear a potted history of the DSA, consider the particularities of Left Populism as a contemporary political tendency, spend time with Bernie and de Blassio, and appraise a couple of the incoming mayor’s early rap tracks.
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We also hear a potted history of the DSA, consider the particularities of Left Populism as a contemporary political tendency, spend time with Bernie and de Blassio, and appraise a couple of the incoming mayor’s early rap tracks.
Tim and Jeremy recount the emergence of Zohran as a political figure, his background and parents, his democratic socialist politics and what his election means for the Left and anti-imperialism more broadly.../
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Tim and Jeremy recount the emergence of Zohran as a political figure, his background and parents, his democratic socialist politics and what his election means for the Left and anti-imperialism more broadly.../
On the music side of things, we hear a potted history of the conga drum, some drum and bass, electric thumb pianos, handmade amplifiers and an African cousin to footwork./
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On the music side of things, we hear a potted history of the conga drum, some drum and bass, electric thumb pianos, handmade amplifiers and an African cousin to footwork./
They also unpack the ‘resource curse’ of the DRC’s mineral stocks, the activities of companies like Apple and Tesla, and finish with a reflection from the great Franz Fanon.../
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
They also unpack the ‘resource curse’ of the DRC’s mineral stocks, the activities of companies like Apple and Tesla, and finish with a reflection from the great Franz Fanon.../
Beginning with the overthrow of Lumumba, they discuss the colonial and imperialist dynamics that have buffeted the country for the last half century, cycles of violence this engenders and the role of nations like the US, China, Rwanda have played in destabilising the country.../
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Beginning with the overthrow of Lumumba, they discuss the colonial and imperialist dynamics that have buffeted the country for the last half century, cycles of violence this engenders and the role of nations like the US, China, Rwanda have played in destabilising the country.../
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Elsewhere in the show we hear a post-punk Fela cover, a classic piece of Sharon Jones funk soul, Highlife guitar, the price of vinyl, a shoutout for the humble 7”, Afrofuturist mythology and… Alan Partridge.../
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elsewhere in the show we hear a post-punk Fela cover, a classic piece of Sharon Jones funk soul, Highlife guitar, the price of vinyl, a shoutout for the humble 7”, Afrofuturist mythology and… Alan Partridge.../