Episode ten of my podcast: Bonbon and Bangbang and Beyonce

The latest edition of my podcast is out. Sellotape your ears to the internet for half an hour and listen to it below.

In this episode, the last of the series, I chat to a leather nun and an electronic music artist. I review Beyonce's latest album, and Producer Lee and I talk about an epic journey and a chance meeting in Manchester's Northern Quarter.

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What IS the most important thing in Dr Who, Hey Fat Roland?

The latest edition of my podcast raises some important questions. What's the most important thing in Dr Who? What are actors made of? Is space just down the road? How would I cope being on Any Questions? What is Producer Lee's best costume?

If you're hear for electronic music, then you might be disappointed by the knockabout waffle of Hey Fat Roland. Then again, if you're sometimes a total idiot like me, then you'll enjoy it. You can subscribe to Hey Fat Roland on iTunes or get it on Podbean. You can listen to Hey Fat Roland on this site. Or search Hey Fat Roland on your podcast app and binge-listen the lot.

Also because we are living in the future and everyone drives UFOs on magic slides that get wi-fi from rainbows, you can now follow my podcast on social media. Here's the Twitter page, which I'll probably use most, and here's the Facebook page, which will update you with the most important hot pod news.

Hey Fat Roland extra: Rubbish Outtakes

My podcast listeners have been camped outside Fats Towers waiting for a new episode for weeks. Igloo tents, marquees, bivouacs, the whole works.

I've been concentrating on having a new job instead. I will get back to Hey Fat Roland podcasting soon, honest. 

In the meantime, here is a modest selection of what modern people call "bloopers" but what I call "bits I scraped from the floor of the editing studio that my pet iguana missed when hoovering up because it lied on its CV about its ability to operate household machinery".

Hey Fat Roland podcast latest: booms, dogs, toilets

My Hey Fat Roland podcast is chugging on like a lorry weighted down with 31-minute wav files.

Episode six featured The Real Story's Kate Feld saying "boom", episode seven had comedian Jack Evans talking about dogs, and the newly released episode eight has my favourite use of the word "urinal" in the podcast so far.

All the links you need are on my podcast page - or you can just stream directly on that page. Nice, eh. Or just search for Hey Fat Roland in your chosen podcast app.

Hey Fat Roland podcast S01E05: The Truth About Rabbit Poo

Yes, I have a new episode of my podcast out. My favourite moments in this latest edition include me saying the word "trousers" very briefly and having no memory of why, the comment "can you tell I'm lying" which was funnier than I allowed credit for during the interview, the breathing method, and remembering the bemused alarm on Lee's face when I started doing accents.



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Hey Fat Roland podcast S01E04: Bear In The Air

The latest edition of my Hey Fat Roland is now out.

In episode four, I chat with Dodo Ink author Seraphina Madsen at the launch of her new book to ask her all sorts of nonsense questions. And for the first time, I chat to a couple of singers in bands: Rocketship Forest’s Thom Hammersley and Monkeys In Love’s Laura Simms-Luddington. Our respective conversations revolve around rocketships and forests, and owls (not monkeys).

And as ever, I chat to Producer Lee about time he did stand-up comedy badly and a time I went up into the air in a piece of wood.

You can find Hey Fat Roland on iTunes here. And if you're a non-iTunes person, you can grab Hey Fat Roland here. Or just search for Hey Fat Roland in your chosen pod app. And if the podcast vaguely entertains you, please take an extra step and leave a brilliant rating on iTunes. That would mean the world to me. Hurrah!

Enjoy Rocketship Forest making some music noise in their studio.

Hey Fat Roland podcast S01E03 - International Fringe Wazzock

The third episode of my Hey Fat Roland podcast is now out.

Hey Fat Roland is a fortnightly podcast about meeting people. In this third edition, I speak to Daniel Carpenter, the co-founder of the literature organisation I run called Bad Language, I catch up with ex-poet Zach Roddis at the Edinburgh Fringe, and I attempt to have a filthy conversation with performer and comedian Ros Ballinger.

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Published (two times), podcasted (two times), Edinburgh Fringing (four times), no times (a lady)

Here is an update on Things Wot I Done That I Need To Plug. Think of it as a newsletter I've just printed off on one of those blue-ink rolly things we had before Blogger was invented.

I'm in a book. The story is called Panda and you can find it in A Box Of Stars Beneath The Bed, an anthology released to mark National Flash Fiction Day. There are loads of other people in there too: Sarah Hilary, Angela Readman, Paul McVeigh, Nik Perring, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and plenty more. Mine might be the only one with a panda in, though. And a sad, lost one at that.

I'm in a magazine. You can find the latest Electronic Sound in WH Smiths across the country. Yep, a print magazine! And it's really quite lovely. The latest edition has Bob Moog, Paul Hartnoll, Ladyhawke and a free CD. Oh and my 21st column for the 'Sound, and in this one I mention my Brian Eno hot pants. Sorry about that.

I have a new podcast out. Hey Fat Roland is a podcast about meeting people, and in episode two I bump into a chap called Wyl Menmuir who, just hours before we spoke, had been longlisted in the Man Booker Prize. Have a listen: you can get the Hey Fat Roland iTunes audio here or grab it on Podbean here.

Do subscribe to the podcast - and leave an all-important billion star iTunes rating because without it everything will shrivel and die, and we'll be back to those old days with the blue-ink printy machines and letraset and those stinky cans with the spray glue in.

And finally, I am performing four short shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. Hey Fat Roland! 40 Minutes Of Idiot takes place this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings (11.05am). I think it might go full weird and/or total panda, I'm not quite sure. Anyhoo, it's on for just four days so blink and you'll miss it. Free entry, no ticket required.

Speaking of which, expect this blog to be a bit Edinburgh-y for the first half of August as I stagger around the Fringe... watch this space.

Hey Fat Roland podcast: in which I meet people and talk to their faces

As if there weren't enough soundwaves in the world already, this weekend I will launch a new podcast.

Hey Fat Roland is a podcast about meeting people. I'm one of those annoying people with a very wide but sometimes shallow social circle. While I'm skimming across that circle like a greased turtle, I might as well bring a microphone with me.

There will be a few interviews in each episode as I bump into random arty people. Those interviews, er, don't always go well. My producer and old Theatre Of Noise cohort Lee Moore will also yack with me about unusual people we have met in the past.

I'm planning ten fortnightly episodes for starters, with the first episode going out on Sunday 17 July 2016.

You can go to the direct link here if you want to, but don't fret too much because the podcast will feature right here on this website, and also on your favourite podcast subscription service. Or you can catch me in Edinburgh.

How do all the soundwaves fit into the world anyway? And do they tickle if there are too many?