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Breaking The States

Wolfmania is a Podcast in search of a purpose. In this pilot episode, Andrew and Tim try to work out, by painful process of elimination, exactly what it is that they're doing. This takes a while, as you might imagine. Featuring the song: The A-Z of Everything. And jokes.

A - Z of Everything

s01e01 - What's the Point?

In the second episode of Wolfmania The Podcast Andrew and Tim open up their Encyclopedia of Everything at the letter 'A'. Well, where else do you start?

Topically (sort of topically) the team discuss getting excited, ill and bankrupt in America: terror on the subway, horror at the ball game, and the little-known Mr Robot tourist market.

Andrew explains why his burgeoning career as an astronaut failed to launch, and finds out who Tim Peake's favourite grime artist is while our  Tim tries to prove that he is more yoga master than Jagermeister by working out with his favourite internet celebrity.

Plus! Fun! Games! Arty bits! And music courtesy of the Wolfpack of One 'classic' The Fifteen Greatest Things I Found In The Woods (it's sort of relevant to the bit about America - you'll see).

s01e02 - Astronauts, America and Adventures with Adriene

Fading nineties rocker Lol from Gonch joins Andrew and Tim in the internut space station to talk all things Britpop: Why Kula Shaker were right, what really happened with Tommy from Space and what it's actually like looking after Richard Ashcroft's Instagram account. Meanwhile, the boys get all emo in Umea, as they reminisce about seeing the world's oldest ski at a wedding in Sweden, and try to launch a hot new broadcasting craze - brass rubbing on the radio.

s01e03 - Brollop, Britpop and Brass Rubbing

The Encyclopedia of Everything entry for the letter 'D' is so massive we're having a two-parter. In the first of our Double D specials there is a WOLFMANIA EXCLUSIVE! from West Midlands (the band) the boys dig up some dirt on dinosaurs, and challenge Big Paws (the fictional cat) to a game of Daley Thompson's Decathlon. Also! Last Week's Punchlines Today! talking Trebuchets! Star Wars tat! My Little Ponyman! Liam Neeson In Studio (sort of) and much, much more....

Wolfmania

s01e05 - Daley Thompson's Decathlon and Dinosaurs

In this very special episode of Wolfmania the Podcast Andrew and Tim are joined in studio by their great mate Dungeonmaster Dave for a rapid descent into the Mines of Mayhem (bwahahahahahahahaha!) Will the boys unearth the gemstones of whatever-it-was? Will they be devoured by a giant toilet worm? Will Andrew get all sniffy about it, thinking he's better than this this nonsense? Tune in and find out!

Wolfmania The Podcast

s01e06 - Dungeons and Dragons (A Very Special Episode)

Extra big, extra funny and a-bit-more-clever-than-you-think, this is the best episode of Wolfmania the Podcast EVER! Andrew and Tim open up the Encyclopedia of Everything for a bit of Magic E and unearth some practically Jurassic Early Stuff! If that's not enough, there's an extra terrestrial abduction, an utterly brutal EGG BATTLE and (hold the front page) the boys get a sponsorship deal. Plus! Rain, Sleet and Snow! Andrew evolves! Brian May! BADGERS! Sisqo! Thumbs up from a ghost! A rare space party remix! This is the one! - this week's episode is brought to you by the Play Canvas video game Master Archer for Facebook.

s01e07 - Magic E, Early Stuff, Extra Terrestrials and Egg Battle

Come over to the dark side with the first episode of Wolfmana Late Night - the slightly more erratic, marginally more erotic after-hours version of Wolfmania the Podcast. This week Andrew and Tim drop the 'F' bomb and talk filth, fighting, fear, football and freedom. Or at least they try to. (If you found this episode on an Indian restaurant menu it would probably have two little chillies next to it.)

Episode F features the songs 'Wolfmania Late Night' and 'How Do They Stay in the Air' along with some piping hot locker room talk, with all the toilet words left in. Your normal swear-free service will be resumed next week.

s01e08 - Wolfmania Late Night - The F Bomb (explicit content)

Episode F of Wolfmania the Podcast is a sprawling, glittering, chat odyssey. An epic word jam full of laughs, songs and sort-of facts. This week, Tim and Andrew come down with a terrible dose of FESTIVAL FEVER (everything’s a festival these days isn’t it?) FISHERMAN’S GROTTO! (The adventure! The horror! The fashion!) and FOSSIL HUNTING ON THE RADIO (can we dig it? Yes, we can).
 
As if that wasn’t enough, we unveil Tim’s FURTIVE FEATURE and listen to the amazing ‘MY OWN NEWS’ an exclusive new track from seminal nineties emo band FUNCTION! Plus! Dumptruck Donnington – the great new travel game for kids - Ticketmiffle.com, The Barron Knights, Hugh Jackman news and A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.

s01e09 - Festival Fever, Function, Fishermans Grotto and Fossil Hunting

Episode 10 of Wolfmania the Podcast ain't nothin' but a G Thang. And it really is quite a thang. This week Andrew and Tim meet Magneto in an off licence, unearth an unreleased rarity from a mystery Boston grunge band and unleash Geordie Gangster, the greatest song in the history of pop. Twice. But that's not all! We horrify They Might Be Giants, snigger at a bad tattoo and, seeing as how this is Masters week, bring you m-m-m-m-m-mind golf, the zen of Caddyshack and three minutes of instructional hip hop guaranteed to help you lower your handicap. What have the other podcasts done for you this week?

s01e10 - Game of Pricks, Geordie Gangster, Gandalf Style, Godfathers of Grunge, and Golf Rap

When Wolfmania is struck by the sidekick strike, Andrew is faced with a dilemma. Strike out solo, or create a CGI Tim out of newspaper, string and a bit of bad back. You know, like they do in the Star Wars films.

This week's fun-filled fifty minutes features BIG CHAT (TM) about jobs, and the most jaw-dropping sentence ever spoken on the radio (or anywhere else) plus, we are joined in studio by internet fashion vlog sensations (yes, that's a thing) The Jersey Boys to learn about 'the 5 jumpers that we should be wearing, literally right now'. OMG!

And that's not all! We sneak into an Elbow recording session and hear a new song! J'Accusi! The wedding of the year! Wolfmania Live! Pool Crashers! Mosquito and Big Lips! Street Magic! What are you waiting for? Get downloading...

s01e15 - Just me then, Jobs, Jaw dropping sentence and Jersey Boys

The concluding part of K-Town from Wolfmania the Podcast and This West Midland Life. Everybody dies.

K-Town - Chapter 3

K-Town (Chapter 3)

Andrew and Tim are reunited in the internut space station on the hottest day of the year and celebrate with an extra long, extra sweaty comedy jam.

Marvel at the mysteries of the deep as we explore the depths of Loch Ness! Thrill to the behind-the-music exploits of the legend Luther Grosvenor, Uncover the Scandinavian noir crimebuster Lagerbeck (insert your own umlauts on that). 

Plus! the ghost of Leonard Nimoy! KISS live! Country Grandma! Michael Portillo! MORE! MORE! MORE!

s01e19 - Leonard, Luther, Loch Ness, Legends and Lagerbeck

After last week's emo disaster-thon Andrew and Tim veer back on to safer ground - half-remembering things from the past, rock hard pizza, plugs for the shop - when they are joined in studio by Very Important Person Mike Nothing.

Mike joins Tim for the pilot of the new BBC Sunday night show 'Round Anglesey with Tim and Mike' while Andrew opens up the Van Halen Time Capsule and unearths a Sausage Revolution.

Featuring for the first-time-online (and possibly the last time) songs by The Fizzy Corporation, The Peasants are Revolting and All Aboard the Eggbasket, this is one for the ages. Well worth sticking with for the bit where, after exactly two hours, Mike Nothing decides he's finally had enough to drink and just walks off to get an Uber. A masterclass in broadcasting.

s01e30 - V.I.P. and the Van Halen Time Capsule (featuring Mike Nothing) 123

s01e30 - V.I.P. and the Van Halen Time Capsule (featuring Mike Nothing)

Ho! Ho! Holy sh*t! The Wolfmania Xmas Special is here. And it's seasonally stuffed with all the gifts, gags and years of seething unspoken resentment you'd expect from 51 minutes in the company of your family. 

This being a showbiz Christmas, of course, we are joined in studio by some very special guests (no spoilers, but its NEW BLOODY ORDER! doing a totally exclusive Christmas song. Yes. Really!) and at the end there's a big musical number, and everybody learns a lesson.

Plus! X-Wings (we've seen Star Wars. There's hard Porg-talk) X-Men (Will Hugh Jackman honour his booking?) X-clusives - The Wolfmania All-Stars featuring the Hell is for Heroes Choir and two actual members of Bananarama. Bloody hell!

Happy holidays!

s01e32 - Xmas Special: First order, New Order, A big musical number and everybody learns a lesson

So, this is the end beautiful friends. With inches to spare, Andrew and Tim reach the last stop on their alphabetical joke journey, arriving at the electrifying conclusion of the A - Z of Everything. The side-splitting, senses-shattering, slightly emo, LAST episode of Wolfmania the Podcast.

And today they answer the BIG question that fans have been asking since day one.... What would it be like if ZZ Top went to the zoo?

Plus! Zombies! A cliffhanger ending! Fudge Factory! Has it come to this! Curry live! Polly and Dolly! Big Paws! Tom Jones! Boyz II Men 2 (AET)An actual joke!

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s01e34 - The Electrifying Conclusion - ZZ Top go to the Zoo

Remember, remember the 14th of November with a slightly belated, slow burning, bonfire episode of Wolfmania the Podcast: Season Two: Sickbed Cinema.

With a big box of fireworx and minimal duds your favourite well-stuffed Guys Wolfman and Timpsy fan the flames of filmic debate with their hot takes on the classic 1973 scorched-copper caper The Wicker Man and the diabolical (I want to say) 2006 version where Nicholas Cage steals a bike, puts on a bear suit, punches out a load of women and then gets murdered by bees. 

But that's not all! The boys introduce their ambitious new proper-cooking, sitcom Buns of Anarchy. Plus! The Sorceror's Apprentice! Last Week's Punchlines Today! Proper Football Men! The Hale and Pace Movie!  Social shoutouts! Celebrity Pedalpast (Aqua Edition)! Corby Trouser-Press! And special musical guest STAGZ!

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s02e03 - The Wicker Man(s)

Uncool at school and majorly moping over the girl next door, Wolfmania’s world is turned upside down when it gets bitten by some radioactive chat. Instantly imbued with a freewheeling chemistry and uncanny comic timing (our jingle sense is tingling!) but touched by tragedy, Wolfman and Timpsy learn that with great gags come even greater laffs.

In an out-of-character 2h 11m of stuttering sincerity, the boys pay humble homage and trembling tribute to Marvel maestro Stan ‘The Man’ Lee, and at least one of them watches Sam Raimi’s swing-o-rilliant first Spider-Man movie all the way to the end.

But that’s not all! (That’s not even nearly all.) Timpsy titillates us and dishes the dirt on the Dater’s Handbook, while Wolfman takes a swing at the twin evils of toxic masculinity and the flu bug. 

Plus! Be More Like Robert! Social Shout-Outs! Dingle Debenham-North! Greater Omaha! The Swimming Dead! The Snüffel! Möttley Cerrütti! Sick! Sick! Sick! Wolfmania Late Night! Data's Handbook! Celebrity Pedalpast! The Claudio Clapper! Norway! Dead-Eyed Stuart! Casper Mattress! Spielberg, McCartney and Lee! Stop Going On About The Universal Bloody Ear! Fact Splat! Enchantment Under the Sea! Pep Music! The Leech! Macho Man Randall Savage! And very special musical guests StanBand! The Ramones! And My Glamorous Australian Wife! Is it long? Listen bud. We've got radioactive blood.

Parental warning! This week's show comes with a PG-13 rating. The Dater's Handbook is pretty electric, there's an un-caught eff-bomb about 1h 45m in and someone says 'vagina' while talking about modern art. 

Tech Splat! This week's episode is exactly the same length as the 2002 film Spider - Man, and can be played alongside the film as a fancy blu-ray commentary track extra. You know, if you want.

Thwip!

s02e04 - Spider Hyphen Man (2002)

Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check-it-out! It's the hip hop holiday episode of Wolfmania the Podcast sort of featuring very special guests The Beastie Boys (Squeeeeeeee!) 

As if that's not enough excitement, your Beastly Brothers Wolfman and Timpsy put the dissing and cussing into long-winded film discussion as they tackle the 1993 rhyming and stabbing Emilio Estevez 'classic' Judgment Night. 

Never in the long and and storied history of notionally film-based podcasting has an episode so artistically mirrored its subject: bumbling brosephs being dickheads at night time, half an hour longer than is strictly necessary and essentially just an excuse for a ridiculous rap-metal soundtrack...

Ah yes, the soundtrack. Not only do we take you on a tour through the genre-bending delights of the ground-breaking grunge-hop Judgment Night OST, we have THREE (count 'em) EXCLUSIVE tracks not heard on the original album: Less Than Drake v Geoff Leppard, Cyprus Phil's "Sticky Green Vape Machine" and, oh yes, the frankly frightening: "Kick Him in the Dick".

Whatever else you do with this episode (skip it and put that Peter Crouch one on probably) you will not want to miss "Kick Him in the Dick". (it's at 74 minutes, Cyprus Phil is at 46 minutes, you can probably 2x through the rest).

Plus! Timp Bucks! Social Shout Outs! Around the Grounds! Boiler Man! Christmas Down Under! Intergalactic Child Fight! The Gig Pig! Def Leppard Christmas Jumper! Anthony the Theatre Anteater! Timpsy's World of Impressions! Brand Champions! Celebrity Treadlefoot! Rap disaster! Ladder 42 Where Are You?! Infinity War Ending!

Parental warning: The song Kick Him in the Dick (at 74 minutes) features strong and repeated dick kickings.

Also I failed to bleep out a bit where we call Pearl Jam a 'shit funk metal band' (about 64 minutes). Soz.

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s02e05 - Judgment Night (Kick Him in The Dick)

Still looking for that annoying drone that ruined your holiday? Look no further. It’s the mega-festive 2018 Christmas special edition of Wolfmania the Podcast.

With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree Wolfman and Timpsy rejoice in the things that they’ve seen (none of which, disappointingly for what’s supposed to be a film podcast, appear to be films).

With three big musical exclusives from West Midlands, Comfort and Joy Machine and By George, the boys are here to accompany your Christmas Day funtivities, whether that’s feeeling your presents under the tree, roasting chestnuts on an open fire or driving miles in the pouring rain to visit relatives you sort-of-despise and pray won’t talk about Brexit... 

Plus! Snow! Sleigh! Presents! Advanced Social Media Diagnostics! Nord! Christmas!

Christmas Special 2018

If your New Year's resolution is to listen to more chat, well, you've come to the right place. Wolfman and Timpsy roar into 2K19 with a twelve-months-in-the-making two-hour spectacular New Year Hootenanny!

Marvel! At their totally achievable (not-at-all over ambitious) plans for REVOLUTION WINTER! Thrill! To their unimpeachably cool choices in the end of year poll of polls. Then shake your head sadly when you realise that this is actually what they did on New Year's eve.

Plus! Non-stop Pizza Party Ghost Protocol! Big Paws! Champagne Supernova! Live Show! Night of a Thousand Joolses! LadBaby gets the buisiness! Griefcase! Well-net! The Mindful Guys! Christmas Disco! MDMA sex party! Ornette Coleman! THRIVE! And your musical guests The WInter Olympics, Billy Idles and Eddie Butler!

Wolfman and Timpsy donated their fee (it's £50) to the Trussell Trust Food Bank Network. Get involved here: www.trusselltrust.org

s02e07 - Hootenanny!

Live! From the Brian May Wing of St Vincent's Hospital - it's West Midlands Hospital Radio. 120 minutes of loosely themed, lovingly curated songs in A and E. Old songs, new songs, but, if we're being honest, mostly 1992 songs. Request resistant rock and roll radio to make you feel a bit better.

Live! From the Brian May Wing of St Vincent's Hospital - it's West Midlands Hospital Radio. 120 minutes of loosely themed, lovingly curated songs in A and E. Old songs, new songs, but, if we're being honest, mostly 1992 songs. Request resistant rock and roll radio to make you feel a bit better...


This week's show features all the biggest hits of hospital rock. On top of that there are approximately two good jokes and a fistful of jingles. Stick with it… your host Andrew Wolfman (West Midlands the band, Wolfmania the Podcast) gets marginally less annoying as the show goes on.

Contact the show at westmidlandsband@gmail.com or @andrewWM on Twitter (or @andrew_wolfpack on Instagram). Our next episode is a pharmaceutical special (there must be some songs about drugs, right?) so get your requests and drugs in now!

West Midlands Hospital Radio - Episode 1 - Songs in A and E

Lock up your medicine cabinets, the sensational second episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio is here!

This week we dispense with the pleasantries, pump up the Valium, and pray that the drugs do work as we pick up prescription hits from all four corners of the rock and roll pharmacy. We've got more than enough high times, drug songs and mind-expanding sing-alongs to take the edge off the hurt for a couple of hours.

Your host Andrew Wolfman (me!) just says yes to music from Black Sabbath, Hüsker Dü, Huey Lewis (and the News!) plus, this being drug week, there's a proper tops-off, hands-aloft mega rave. (Don't worry, we'll warn you when the tops-off mega rave starts). 

Also, there are some reasonably funny jokes.  

Parental warnings: Strong drug references throughout, plus after 43m I call Ted Nugent "a twat". At 55m the band Drug Church really let rip and at 1h 54m there is some talk of the ITV4 TV show 'Tattoo Wankers'. On the plus side, if you stick around to the very end, there is a very funny joke about a horse that kids are just going to love.

West Midlands Hospital Radio - Episode 2 - Pump Up the Valium

The thrill-a-minute 3rd episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio, the nation’s top medically themed indie rock podcast is here. The only show that knows the quickest way to your heart is a unilateral incision on the upper left region of the sternum.

This week we career down to the cardio wing for 2hrs of serious heartcore. We’ve got pulsating punk jams, pumping pop songs, big beating bangers that’ll take your breath away quicker than a pulmonary embolism. We’ve got full hearts, broken hearts, bleeding hearts & the band Heart. Essentially, for 120 mins we are Heart fm. Except slightly less depressing. It’s marginal, but at least you’re not stuck in a taxi, already hungover, choking on the fug of Febreeze and the sound of Simply Red.

If you’d like to get in touch, send your requests to westmidlandsband@gmail.com, visit wolfmania.org or follow us around on Instagram @andrew_wolfpack or on Twitter @andrewWM - or, you know, just shove a note under the door on your way to the canteen.

West Midlands Hospital Radio - Episode 3 - This is Heartcore

Hey! The latest episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio is here. And it is pure sauce.

This week, in spite of public demand we break out of the broom cupboard, haul down our underthings and head south for the sexual health centre. Welcome, unexpectedly early, to the season finale of my radio career.

What can you expect? Well, we’ve got more forgotten songs, more massive name dropping, and more drippy, droopy utterly grotty jesus Christ I can’t un-see it sex bombs than the new Moby autobiography. There's ethereal venereal chillwave, a planned parenthood pop punk party and…. yes a little bit of Johnny B Goode.

This being sexual health week, you can expect some strong language and a lot of material intended for more mature audiences… but, you know, also ‘My Nuts’ by the Fat Boys. Wait! Come back!

West Midlands Hospital Radio - Episode 5 - Sexual Healing

Gather up your hot towels and remember your breathing, the 'From Here to Maternity' episode of West Midlands Hospital Radio - the nation's number one surgically spirited indie rock podcast - is here.

This week at St Vincent’s we're saying Mama! OOOoOOOOoOO as we bring you metal mothers, pregnant pauses, and a little bit of baby love. We’re going to have the biggest, slightly complicated Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn agreed to DJ that kid’s bar mitzvah… (Really not sure about that joke).

Expect Hits! Misses! Chat! Laffs! Now incorporating West Midlands Hospital Radio Smooth!

West Midlands Hospital Radio

West Midlands Hospital Radio - Episode 6 - From Here to Maternity

It's time to roll up your sleeves and head on down to West Midlands Hospital Radio, because Andrew Wolfman (me!) is giving blood a bad name.

We're plunging the needle deep into an armful of red hot hits, putting the punk in arterial puncture, and the disco into…. Discoing to hurt a little bit…. Is that a good joke? (Honestly, I can’t tell any more).

We’ve got a great show HONESTLY, WE HAVE. A sticky pool of pumping pop thumpers for every kind of blood type. A, B, AB… even, and I apologise for this little bit of Type O Negative…. PLUS! One genuinely good joke! Jingles! A massive rave up! A surprisingly heartfelt tribute to Discharge!

West Midlands Hospital Radio - Episode 7 - You Give Blood a Bad Name

I've been agonising over whether it would be a good idea to do my Hospital Radio show in the current climate (would it be in terrible taste? Do we really need a weird fake Hospital Radio show, now that all radio is pretty much all radio is hospital radio?)

Well, yes it probably would be, and no, we almost definitely don't, but you know, I've only really got the one act - and it was either this or an Instagram live concert, and nobody needs any more of that right now.

Here then, is my actually-much-more-heartfelt-than-you'd-think lockdown rockdown tribute to our keyworkers and up yours to the virus. It's Episode 8 of West Midlands Hospital Radio - Smells Like Quarantine Spirit. 30 massive bangers and several days of 'hilarious' sit-down 'comedy.' Stick with it...

If you like the show, please tell a friend. Or, alternatively, bang some pots and pans out of the window on Thursday evening. I'll know it's me you're thanking....

Cheers!

West Midlands Hospital Radio - Episode 8 - Smells Like Quarantine Spirit

West Midlands are a gang of weird pop magpies cranking out high-concept, no-budget DIY death rock from a dank room on an industrial estate, round the back of PC World. 

Their songs chart the decline and fall of a rapidly decaying musician, dropped by his label, forgotten by fans, and forced to return to his childhood home in the Black Country to confront his demons – some of which, it turns out, are actual demons. It’s sort of a documentary. 

Cosmic Scouse super producer and legendary Windmill soundman Paul of Sound provides the music, former Winter Olympics’ singer Andrew Wolfman plays the unknown frontman.

Live, the band are bolstered by a gang of serious heads who transform West Midlands’ lofty ideas into an often hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking festival-ready rock show that’s long on stagecraft, self-loathing, and big songs. BBC Introducing called them, “The best live show I have ever seen.” Joyzine magazine thought them a “ridiculously addictive stone age riot… weird music for weird times,” while Kurt Vile just called them, “Genius.” 

The band takes the last 50 years of West Midlands music as a jumping-off point for their sound (and the reason for their name).  

It’s all there: the Hammer Horror heaviness of Black Sabbath, the chaotic post-punk clatter of The Swell Maps, the grubby grebo rock from that weird six month period in the nineties when Stourbridge was the new Seattle. 

There’s a decidedly Dexy’s “whoa-oh!” here, a whiff of Zeppelin’s spooky village mysticism there, and more than a nod to the plate-eyed after-party poetry of The Streets and the Brummies-on-a-yacht pop swagger of Duran Duran. In the background, the dull throb of a secret rave rolls off the Clent Hills in the distance. 

This is pop music for music nerds, by music nerds. The musical proof that comedy equals tragedy plus time. Hard art by high friends in low places. It’s not for everyone, but it might just save your life.

West Midlands

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