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Send us Fan Mail You, my friends, are cordially invited to the ceremonial opening of the 4th wave of Ska. To open proceedings, we're joined by the official first 4th wave band, Broken 3 Ways! This double trumpeted ska-core outfit have skanked their way into MLPP towers fresh from a week long run with The Slackers, and are in to tell us all about it! As well as that, we discuss Tom's theory that there are more ska bands in areas where there was coal mines, we hear about the making of a music video, Welsh food festivals and we also talk for disproportionately long about a place they're not even from. Bazz has a gid review from Bolton featuring The Papashangos and their desired effect on audiences, he also provisdes a holiday report and of course, Tom has a game for the guests. Music This week is by: Capdown, Hark! A Shark!, Big D & The Kids Table, The Nightbirds and Tearjerker.

Send us Fan Mail Minimal Faff are in the hot seat today! They come from Manchester with tales of evictions, setting boundaries and other depressing matters. But, delivered in an upbeat and jaunty way. Barrett has tales from Whitby Abbey, Tom has another comprehensive book review for you and we finally put the "My Gay Uncle" debate to bed. Music this week is from: The Scutches, Nothing Thrives, The Vandals, My Gay Uncle and The Drowns.

Send us Fan Mail A returning guest for you this week, Mr Dan Goatham! Ahead of touring the UK with nothing but his acoustic guitar, Dan fills us in on what he's most excited about and nervous about for his trip.  We also chat new projects, Spoilers, Snuff and the Dan's new Gimme Gimme era. As well as that, Dan joins us for a culinary based game. Tom and Barrett have been like ships in the night at a gig, Barrett has done some research on mislabelled Napster songs and much more. Music is from: Manic Hispanic, Neato, DK vs The Kingdom, Every Time I Die and Rad Skulls.

Send us Fan Mail Berkshire beckons us in this week, as political punkers Tape It Shut pop in for a chinwag. We hear about gigs that were let downs, gigs that were great, least favourite politicians, parasites, capitalism of varying styles and the inspiration behind their tracks. Tom shares how he's been straying from the punk path, Barrett's buddy gets banged up, we get a story from Tom's past and of course there is a very sad Top 5 pertaining to losses we've recently suffered. Music this week is from: Secret Army, Old Foes, T.S.O.L, The Toasters and Hospital Job

Send us Fan Mail We were graciously invited by our chums at Punk Rock Elite Podcast to attend the UK premiere of the new NOFX feature length documentary '40 Years of F****n Up'. Which we gratefully accepted. Join Tom and Danny Barrett for a whistlestop tour through Obese Mick's latest cinematic offering, including remarks about: the dangers of roving microphones, seeing Wattie Buchan on the silver screen and a blow by blow account of the 'Sexhibition' we were forced to look at. Music is obviously from NOFX, but scouse buggers Code Break also make a sneaky appearance.

Send us Fan Mail Leicester is our destination, and Last Edition are our inspiration for our second Ska band in 3 weeks! Matty, the top brass, is in telling us about his pop group which features a pregnant person currently, including some of their very salubrious gigs and the not so salubrious. We chat crisps, dead snooker players, Englebert, stupidly spelled place names and soccer. Tom and Danny Barrett discuss celestial events, a Sowerby Bridge gig report, holiday nightmares, our upcoming jolly boys' outing to see the premiere of the NOFX Film and the Prime Minister's trigger happy approach to warnings of certain death. Music this week is courtesy of: Dance Hall Crashers, Guineapigs, Making Friends, NOFX and Swayze.

Send us Fan Mail MLPP Towers offers some respite to 3 weary Punkabillies this week, who are unfortunately located in Stoke on Trent. The Two Step Goodbyes are very forthcoming with their song topics, their drug (purely medicinal) addled car journeys stoking local beefs, and their tip top band nights in Stoke, "Bars Attacks". They also go all in on a brand new game of Tom's invention called "Rockabilly or Notabilly" (yes, he knows its a fantastic concept, no need to write in). We have a gig report from the centre of the universe (Nuneaton), Barrett has been forced to relocate due to nature getting its revenge, and we take an advance look at the Easy Fest '26 line up! Songs this week are from: Travis Cut, A Murder of Crows, Tinseltown Rebellion, Code Break and The Offsailors. Additional voicework provided by Mark L Williamson

Send us Fan Mail For the first time in a very long time, we have a fully fledged ska band on! And that band is West Yorkshire's Nutty Skunk! They, by their own admission, were groomed....into ska at a young age. Logistics are a key topic in the conversation for this 7 piece who have a "do what you can" attitude to practicing. We also hear a HMV horror story, discuss the sound engineer reaction to seeing a 7 piece band with a brass section arrive and also put the world to rights a little bit. Tom has a gig report from Devon, Barrett has his top5 and all the usual stuff. Music is from: Sick Of It All, Trivia, Pennywise, Pansy Division and Meryl Streek.

Send us Fan Mail Putting the "oop" in Super-Group this week are our guests, fen dwellers Al Pacino's Sister. This rock band is made up of members of both Sprainer and Das Kapitans, so get yourself excited. We discuss their extensive tours, their back catalogue which is so robust they've had to put out a compilation and we get the inside track on how a super group copes with multiple egos and creative stylings. Tom's got a gig report from Croc Fest '26, we break down Dick Van Dyke's family tree, learn where to hear the best flute solos and of course, there's a Danny Barrett Top5. Music on this occasion is from: Macc Lads, Sha Rivari & the Maybes, The Apers, Character Actors and Snuff.

Send us Fan Mail It's over. All done for four years.  The MLPP World Cup closing ceremony is contained within this episode! We're joined by some of our participants to round off the tournament and to reflect on some of the music we've discovered. We also hear from "Campiones Del Mundo", Spain's Main Line 10 who have been in touch to collect their trophy. Music this week is from: The Shivvies, Turd Sandwich, Codigo Rojo, Lion's LAw and Main Line 10.

Send us Fan Mail The 48 have become 4. Only one more game to cover after these! Argentina, Spain, France and England battle out to be 90 minutes (plus half time show) away from the WORLD CUP FINAL! Our bands are Cadena Perpetua, Main Line 10, Lion's Law and not Leatherface this time I'm afraid.... As well as the soccer, we also review a BBC drama and announce our excitedness about what our pals at Punk Rock Elite have up teir sleeves next month!

Send us Fan Mail We're down to the last 8. Not many of the original 12 punk pundits remain. It's hotting up, but is it coming home? Our remaining guests are Josh (Character Actors), Willie Shango (The Papashangos), TJ Whittaker (77 Spears), Richard F White, Dave Rolfe (Guineapigs), Benny Rabble and Dave Shackleford. The music this time is provided by Lion's Law (France), The Promdates (Norway), CRACKUPS (Belgium), Leatherface (England), Cadena Perpetua (Argentina), Taqbir (Morrocco), Main Line 10 (Spain) and Uberyou (Switzerland).

Send us Fan Mail The second part of the Round of 16 (aka The Culling) is covered in this episode! With our team managers Steve Potter & The Prisoner of Peterborough & Simon Bailey (off Das Kapitans), Benny Rabble (People's Poet), Josh Booth (Character Actors) Big Willie Shango (The Papashangos), Dave Shackleford and TJ Whittaker (77 Spears) have been putting a shift in The bands are: Taqbir, Perritos Genericos, Leatherface, Codigo Rojo, Gnar Jar, Uberyou, NOBRO and Cadena Perpetua.

Send us Fan Mail We're whittling 'em down like nobody's business now. The first half of the Round of 16 is covered in this episode and features our intrepid correspondents TJ (77 Spears), Ross (Shackleford) Willie Shango (for the Papashangos), Richard White (the aldi cider aisle), Steve Potter and the Halfbood Prince (Das Kapitans) and Dave Rolfe of Guineapigs. The bands providing the feast of global punk are: Nau (Brazil), Main Line 10 (Spain), The Promdates (Norway), CRACKUPS (Belgium), Joyce Manor (USA), Area 69 (Paraguay) Lion's Law (France) and The Youths (Portugal).

Send us Fan Mail Pour one out for some of the great (and not so great) bands/songs we learned to love in the group stages. Sadly, we lost 2 of our 12 participants in the Round of 32, so join us in commiserating them. Things are hotting up now gang, so buckle up and get ready. To play us out this time, it had to be the Bosnian Crash Mats: The Dubioza Kolektiv