Listen to the Professor AKA Shane Atlas discuss the reality of loving music, with Fanboy AKA Indie Hipster AKA Conor McCabe.
From 'Gig Etiquette', to 'Why is My Noise Better Than Yours?'


Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 1

A music show about...music. This week, Professor and the Fanboy ask: 'Why is My Noise Better Than Yours?'

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 2

Professor and the Fanboy Episode 3. Gig Etiquette Pt 2.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 3

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 4

This week, the Professor and the Fanboy talk about The Wall of Sound.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 5

Professor and the Fanboy investigate if there's a song that encapsulates Dublin. Or expresses something about Dublin. Or is a quintessential Dublin song. Or something.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 7

Its a cover version of last weeks show! But it's got different words. And different melodies. That's right folks, the second part of a two-parter: Cover Versions Redux!

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 10

Fanboy is angry and the Professor is more than a little concerned. This week the duo cast their eyes (or is that their ears?)over a pressing topic: Protest Songs.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 11

This week the Professor and the Fanboy discuss songs you keep coming back to. Those hardy perennials that transport you back in time or those songs that erupt, unprompted, from your subconscious. Songs that are part of you, like it or not.

Professor - And - Fanboy - Ep - 12

"Drinking that mess is our delight. When we get drunk we start fightin all night. Knocking out windows, tearing down doors, kicking half gallons and calling for more. Drinking wine mother___ker, drinking wine."
The Prof and the Fanboy share a tipple and discuss songs about the demon booze.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 13

Its Thursday...homework's done...dinner's on your lap...it's Top of the Pops!

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 14

The recent Brexit result has done funny things to Fanboy's head. It's like watching your mate having a breakdown, he says. The Professor thinks he's talking bollocks.

Professor - And - Fanboy - Ep - 15

This week the Professor and the Fanboy talk about travel, the songs it inspires and the memories of a happier peripatetic youth invoked by certain tunes. Peripatetic. Look it up.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 18

Once upon a time Alexander Graham Bell figured out how to capture human noise for posterity. Now you're listening to this show via the wizardry of internet-connected mp3s. Let the Professor and the Fanboy take you on a trip through wax, vinyl, rust (yes, actual metal rust!)to the new musical landscape of digital downloads.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 19

Fanboy says bands are better than solo artists. 'No they're not', say the Prof. 'Yes they are,' said Fanboy, saying something about gangs and the sum being greater than the parts. 'What about solo artists that used to be in bands, then?' There was a bit of a stare-off, but it's ok now.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 21

Does every event in the Olympics have a musical equivalent? Is Half Man Half Biscuit's 30-second 'Vatican Broadside' a kind of sprint? How about Bohemian Rhapsody as a decathlon (it being made up of loads of different bits)? Fanboy thinks so. The professor, on the other hand, can't quite seem to get his enormous noggin around the idea.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 22

What's a one hit wonder? What's a hit? Who is Larry Gogan? Why is Fanboy singing? For the answer to these and other deep mysteries stay tuned to the Professor and the Fanboy, the internet's only something something something.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 23

Ho ho ho! Or as the Professor would say 'I hate Christmas Songs!' The Fanboy thinks its a bit a front to hide his gooey centre. Merry Christmas everybody.

Professor - And - The - Fanboy - Episode - 24

This episode has Richard Thea and Matt discussing the merits, or lack thereof, of Archie and Reg, Help I Sexted My Boss and The Guilty Feminist.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 48

Richard Thea and Matt are a bit digressive this week. Rumours abound as to why. But they are no less incisive about When Diplomacy Fails and Gangster House.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 79

Philosophy abounds this week. Thea, Richard and Matt ponder Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins and I Learned Nothing.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 80

This week our trio, weighed down by cake and coffee, review The Adventure Zone and 10ish.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 81

In an effort to appear insouciant, they review podcasts about trucking and truckers. Namely, Over The Road and Trucking After Hours.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 82

Together through the isolation, our tri-pod has become a feminist bastion, this week reviewing Unladylike and the Last Bohemians.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 83

Richard is perched in his attic, Thea is jogging in the rain and Matt is losing it. Together they review The David McWilliams Podcast and Judge John Hodgeson.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 84

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 85

In this episode, our troublesome trio talk up two tasty aural two-handers, namely In The Psychiatrists's Chair, from everybody's Auntie, the BBC and How to Fail with Elizabeth Day.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 86

This is an episode from the archives, featuring reviews of Dr Death, The Ratline and Last Seen.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 87

This week our trusty trio listen to and ponder upon The Nobody Zone and Such Things.

Podcast - Review - Show - Ep - 88

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