Lockdown! at the Disco: Recent Episodes
Comics Youth Radio
Join Liverpool based organisation Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! Expect inspirational monologues and pop culture ramblings alongside some strops, some forget-me-nots, and some MASSIVE bops. Everything is not cool, but it can be: Stay safe and stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
This week we're honoured and delighted to have radio legend Jacob Edward (Gaydio, Radio 1) on guest hosting duties with a belter of an episode for LGBTQIA+ history month! Jacob dives deep into their own personal LGBTQIA+ history with some tip top queer bops along the way from Dream Wife, Flavia, Bright Light Bright Light, SOPHIE, and Hayley Kiyoko!
You can listen to Jacob's awesome radio show on Gaydio Mon - Fri (4pm - 7pm) https://www.gaydio.co.uk/on-air/jacob-edward/ Follow them on Twitter! @itsjacobedward Check out their website! https://jacobedward.org/
We're once again cranking the sound up to celebrate our fave trailblazing women in music from past and present with help from local music writer Megan Walder. Featuring tracks from Arlo Parks, Bloxx, GIRLI, Chelsea Wolfe, The Empty Page and more! Remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! So, stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Referenced in episode: https://gal-dem.com/arlo-parks-interview-2021-collapsed-in-sunbeams-debut-album-poetry-emo/
We're cranking the sound up to celebrate our fave trailblazing women in music from past and present! And as ever, we're paying extra tribute to LGBTQIA+ and BAME musicians. We're also joined by Ella and Eve from Where Are the Girl Bands who recommend some dynamite tunes & share their thoughts on how local music scenes can become more inclusive, and why. With tracks from Janelle Monae, Micachu and the Shapes, Karman, Dodie, Peaches and more! Remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! So, stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Where Are the Girl Bands: @wherearethegirlbands / wherearethegirlbands.tumblr.com Comics Youth: comicsyouth.co.uk
We're waving a limp hello to 2021 in today's episode and serving up loving reminders that a new year doesn't have to mean a new you - you can always begin again as the same person and level up slowly, honey! Featuring tunes about "new" things from Death Cab For Cutie, Purity Ring, The Avalanches, No Doubt and more! Remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! So, stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
2020 was THE WORST, but there was still some boss things that happened this past year worth celebrating! We dump the negative and focus on the positives with our year in review episode, featuring some of our fave tracks from 2020 from Fiona Apple, Oneohtrix Point Never, Watsky, BTS, Deftones, Yves Tumour and more! Remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! So, stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
We've cracked open the mince pies & we're GETTING FESTIVE with the Lockdown! at the Disco holiday special! We read out a letter from Santa, chat up Krampus, and talk about how much we like giving and receiving things! Yay, mass consumerism! With festive jams from RUN-DMC, Chance the Rapper, Vince Guaraldi, and Fall Out Boy! Remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! So, stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
It's dark, it's cold, and it's officially sound to eat mince pies for breakfast! On this week's episode we're chatting about why Winter gets a bad rep and all the positives of this sometimes difficult season. Plus, we investigate Rosa's various theories regarding the seasonal discography of Hozier & why every lesbian has one acoustic guitar dude they stick with! With winter sounds from Ricky Montgomery, Animal Collective, Regina Spektor, The Bangles and more! Remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! So, stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're chatting about how a good jive is good vibes with an episode all about dance! We talk about the 'dancing plague' of ye olde times & why dancing has been scientifically proven to be good for your noggin'! With dance ditties from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Natural History, Ciara, Hot Chip, and Pretty Girls Make Graves! Remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! So, stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're chatting about how awesome the ocean is, the legacy of Spongebob Squarepants, and whu screaming at the sea is good for the soul. With sea shanties from Ween, First Aid Kit, The Chemical Brothers, and Low. And remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're chatting about how and why we're ALL so sleepy all the time right now - and how to deal with it! With sleepy songs from Fugazi, Microphones, Frank Ocean, Citizen, and more! Come and do a massive yawn with us, yeah? And remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're dealing with this maddening world by chatting about ways to own our anger and how to healthily and constructively process feel mad as heck about everything! With strop-bops from Destroy Boys, Bjork, Anti-Flag, Sonic Youth, and more! Come have a stomp about with us, won't ya? And remember: Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! We're rounding off our Halloween Spook-tacular by raising the roof (and maybe even THE DEAD muahaha) with inane Halloween chatter & spoopy jams from Speedy Ortiz, AFI, Arcade Fire, The Searchers and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe, stay sassy, and STAY SPOOKY (wooOOooOOooOO) with Lockdown! at the Disco!
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! We're continuing our Halloween Spook-tacular by chatting about some of our favourite scary movies and their relevance to modern society and politics (yep! We get INTO it!). Plus our fave scary movie jams from Paramore, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Norma Tanega, The Specials, and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe, stay sassy, and STAY SPOOKY (wooOOooOOooOO) with Lockdown! at the Disco!
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're continuing our Halloween Spook-tacular by chatting about monster metaphors and attempting to dissect the true meaning of The Monster Mash. With monstrous bops from Ainsley Farrell, OutKast, The Cramps, Cat Power, and Rob Zombie! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe, stay sassy, and STAY SPOOKY (wooOOooOOooOO) with Lockdown! at the Disco!
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're kicking off our Halloween Spook-tacular by hanging out in a noisy graveyard with Maureen the burp-wolf, telling some ghost stories, and chatting about how horror belongings to the marginalised! With some haunted musical wailings from Dead Man's Bones, Mayday Parade, Billie Eilish, and RUN-DMC! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe, stay sassy, and STAY SPOOKY (wooOOooOOooOO) with Lockdown! at the Disco!
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're hitting snooze on our alarm and chucking books in our bag at the last minute cos school is back in session & we're here to chat about it! With some musical school spirit support from Nirvana, The Runaways, Deftones, Red Kross, and Belle & Sebastian! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're chatting up our fave season - AUTUMN, BABY! We throw some love at our fave Autumnal scran (cinnamon buns FTW!) & talk about the sweet, gothic romance of the season. With cosy Autumn bangers from Yo La Tengo, The Microphones, The Paper Kites, and The Kinks! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week we're hopping in a rocket and tickling the stars with our toes in The Space Episode! We chat about themes of alienation and otherness in sci-fi and the wonders of Afrofurturism, with cosmic bops from Sun Ra, Janelle Monae, Bikini Kill, Madlib, Modest Mouse, and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week is The Nostalgia Episode where we're chatting about what nostalgia is, why it can bring us a lot of comfort, and also the dangers of too much or bad nostalgia with music from Beyonce, Air, Disasterpeace, and John Carpenter! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week is The Weeb Episode where we reclaim the derisive term to celebrate our fave Japanese culture - including anime, manga, and music! With tracks from Beat Crusaders, Seatbelts, Hiroshi Yoshimura, BABYMETAL and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week is The Summer Episode where we break out our fave Summer vibes & talk about why doing nothing is the new doing SOMETHING! With music from Big Star, The Night Cafe, Peach Pit, Donna Summer and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week is The Comic Book Episode where we chat about our fave comic books, manga, and comic book movie adaptations! With music from Devo, Metric, Prince and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week is The Punk Episode where chat about how punk rock belongs to the marginalised & talk about how to be a good ally within punk scenes. With music from Spitboy, Meet Me @ the Altar, Crystal Axis, Limp Wrist and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week is The Food Episode where we chat about weird meal combos, give shoutouts to some boss Liverpool food places, and find the greatest song about wanting a can of pop EVER. With music from Salt the Snail, The Flaming Lips, Bow Wow Wow, Hozier and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week is The Cheerleader Episode where we're talking about the importance of raising some pom poms to yourself and others & why you can still totally be a grump with pep in your step! With music from Speedy Ortiz, Nada Surf, RUN-DMC, and Patti Smith! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week is The Power Episode where we're talking about ways to feel strong, mighty, and resilient in the face of uncertainty. With music from Joan Jett, Radkey, Nico Vega, and L7! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week's episode is our Pride special featuring LGBTQIA+ positive content written by our super talented young people & a bop-heavy queer playlist featuring music from Sleater Kinney, Janelle Monae, Ah-Mer-Ah-Su, Hunx & his Punx and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown! This week's episode is all about happiness and the little, every day things that can make us happy. Because, you know what? Everything is not cool right now - but it can be, and we need as much joy as we can get to fight this world right now. With an uplifting playlist featuring music from Deee-Lite, Sonic Youth, The B52's - stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Broadcast live on Sun 14th June 2020! Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown. This week's episode is a Black Lives Matter special, full of helpful resources about how to fight racial injustice and white supremacy with a playlist of music by BAME artists such as Saul Williams, Big Joanie, Lauryn Hill, Gil Scott Heron, Pleasure Venom and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be. Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Okay, so the lockdown gremlins crept in and actually ATE the recording of this episode (naughty!) BUT - you can still read the transcript of it and share in some super positive content produced by the talented young people of our Safe Spaces group.
Broadcast live on Sun 27th May 2020! Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown. This week's episode is all bout LOVE - but we're not just chattin about smooches & swooning here, we're talking about love as a mode of kindness and survival to show to others and to ourselves. Featuring love letters to the self and to others by musicians such as Speedy Ortiz, Lizzo, Swearin, Aesop Rock, and The Cars. Everything is not cool - but it can be. Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Broadcast live on Sun 17th May 2020! Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown. This week's episode is dedicated to finding ways to feel chill and sleepy during this difficult time, with soothing snoozey tracks from Low, Big Thief, Frank Ocean, Nico, Sun Kil Moon and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be. Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Broadcast live on Sun 10th May 2020! Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown. On this week's episode we flex our boldest Scouse accent to pay tribute to local heroes and local artists in Liverpool - but we also extended our love to the North West, in general - with music from local musicians like Queen Zee, Down and Outs, Bye Louis, 32 Tens, Callum Crighton, Dawn Ray'd and more! Everything is not cool - but it can be. Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Broadcast live on Sun 3rd May 2020! Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown. On this week's episode we join the pep squad for a teen movie special where we share the finest titbits of advice taken from teen movies alongside some iconic bops from teen films - with music from David Bowie, Peaches, The Donnas, Cat Power and many more! Everything is not cool - but it can be. Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.
Broadcast live on Sun 19th Apr 2020! Join Comics Youth and host Amy Roberts in a riotous recording about living through lockdown. We talk about staying strong, read out some sassy shoutouts, and discuss the complexity of turning your body into a pretzel - with music from Sleater Kinney, Fiona Apple, Shamir, MUNA and many more! Stay safe & stay sassy with Lockdown! at the Disco.