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This Is Not Happening - An Album Of The Month PodcastAuthor: Guy, Joey, Nolan and David
Welcome to This Is Not Happening: an album of the month podcast with four massive music fans that have been talking and blogging about their favourite records for the last ten years together. An exiled Londoner in the North (Guy), a Leeds scriptwriter (David), ex-housemates in Leeds Joey and Nolan whose paths all crossed through music, be it festivals, DJing, gigs, or just sitting at home listening to entire albums without talking. Music is the bedrock of our friendship. The podcast name nods to our one nailed-on shared love: LCD Soundsystem, but our tastes are wide, sometimes odd, and often not the same! From bass to balearic, disco to dub, house to hip-hop, folk to funk, pop to punk, and rock to r'n'b, we'll all have music to champion, ready to be blessed or butchered by each other. Each episode we'll be talking freely about our album of the month, and what we've been listening to lately. The conversation twists and turns, and while we are serious about music, it's not so much that we can't enjoy ourselves talking about it, in fact it's why we do it. For everything we've loved in the past years, check out www.thisisnothappening.net, which will run alongside the podcast choices and much, much more. So why not join us for the conversation. It will always be lively.... Language: en-gb Genres: Music, Music Commentary Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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EP. 62 | Juniper | Joy Crookes
Episode 5
Monday, 17 November, 2025
We are officially 62 months old. Welcome to the latest episode of This Is Not Happening, an album of the month podcast.In Part 1, we review and Album of the Month. This month Guy brings back an artist that we first featured in early 2022, Joy Crookes. Joy is tackling the tricky 2nd album syndrome with her latest release 'Juniper'.In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month, we stick with theme of 'Joy' and ask each other to brings tracks that bring us joy and happiness. ----- Part 1 | Joy Crookes | Juniper -----In January 2022 we reviewed Joy's debut Skin. The consensus was that we loved it and it became a very important and deeply album for some of us. In terms of expectations, the bar was raised when Joy released the single 'Pass the Salt' in January of this year. So what did we get with this sophomore release? Well, a lot is the simple answer! Perhaps not a big leap stylistically but a massive long-jump forwards in terms of song writing and performance. Will that be enough for the pod ... have a listen and tell us what you think.Listen to the album ... HEREWatch some great videos ... HEREWatch a great reaction video from Jakar right ... HERERead a great interview with Joy in Glamour magazine ... HEREListen to a deeply personal and revealing interview ... HERE ----- Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | 'Joy' -----Songs that bring us 'Joy and Happiness' sounds like a simple theme to find music for ... well, not for one of us who revels in the dark and miserable side of music. The selections are predictably brilliant!Nolan chose 'Jayou' by Jurassic 5.David chose 'Make Me Smile (Come up and see me)' by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.Joey chose 'Superstylin' by Groove Armada.Guy went mental and chose 'Josephine' by Chris Rea!We all chose 4 tracks as a shortlist which we combine into a belter of a 16 track playlist, listen to that bad boy HERE.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look - https://thisisnothappening.net/
