If you’ve never been ready to square up in a Spoons car park over your favourite band, are you even a real music fan? In this unreasonably passionate episode, Andrew is joined by the charmingly volatile Martin Whiskin as they dive fists-first into the bands they’d get into an actual fight over. Expect tales of local legends, rag-tag riffs, posh ska punks, and very specific ball-based analogies.

Featuring bands that should’ve made it, bands that did, and bands no one's heard of (but somehow still inspired violence), the duo unpack the emotional landmines hidden in guitar feedback. Andrew laments the trauma of his first kiss being ruined by Guns N’ Roses, and Martin outs himself as the Medway scene’s unofficial enforcer.

Subhumans, Ruben, Waldo’s Gift, Russian Circles, Inner Terrestrials, Lupen Crook and the Murderbirds, The Hold Steady... they’re all here, along with a few others you'll pretend you always knew about.

Come for the music chat, stay for the emotional damage.

### Riffs of the week

#### Martin Whiskin's Riff

- And So I Watch You From Afar - North Coast Megafauna

#### Andrew's Riff

- Waldo's Gift - Candifloss (LIVE)

### Martin Whiskin's track choices

1. Lupen Crook and The Murderbirds - Lest We Connect

2. Ruben - No One Wins The War

3. The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend

4. Hundred Reasons - I'll Find you

### Andrew's track choices

1. Subhumans - Apathy

2. Inner Terrestrials - Enter the dragon

3. Russian Circles - Fathom

4. Against Me - Those Anarcho Punks Are Mysterious

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