Who remembers Spangles?

The stage might be polished. The green room rarely is.Episode 75 slips backstage and takes a look at the unspoken rules of comedy’s most volatile space. The power plays. The awkward energy. The desperate attempts to “just have a quick word”. The stories that aren’t really stories.There’s the comic who vanishes minutes before they’re due on.The surprise entourage that no one agreed to.The “networking” that feels more hunt than chat.And one offence so toxic it can evacuate a dressing room in record time.If you’ve ever gigged, promoted, or lurked within 10 feet of a backstage kettle, you’ll recognise every beat.Backstage. Unfiltered. No names… but plenty of suspects. 🎙️

Episode 74 – Do Dogs Shit Due North?Science. SatNavs. Labradors. We’re getting dangerously close to the truth this week as we investigate whether dogs genuinely line themselves up with the Earth’s magnetic field before dropping the kids off. Yes, really.Elsewhere, we’re demanding answers from AI after ChatGPT’s image generator once again turns Paul into Russ Abbott and Scott into Wilfred Brambell — despite neither of them requesting a 1970s BBC sitcom filter.Scott then embarks on an astonishing performance of moral self-certification, desperately trying to convince us he’s a woke leftie by verbally noshing off Nish Kumar in what can only be described as commitment to the bit.We launch a brand-new Green Room section, pulling the curtain back on comedy life — gigs, egos, promoters, and the stuff you’re not meant to hear. The Top 5 returns with family feuds, and the Bellen d’Or once again finds fresh reasons to honour the budget gym chain that keeps on giving: PureGym.If you like comedy podcasts that ask pointless questions, overshare industry gossip, and take absolutely nothing seriously — this one’s for you.🎧 Press play. You’ll be annoyed you didn’t sooner.

There is absolutely no talk about the Beckhams in this episode. None. Spurred on by Arsenal once again finding an impressive new way to bottle it, this episode of Who Remembers Spangles? turns to elite-level self-sabotage with a Top 5 titled: Five Times Someone Had It All… and Completely Fecked It Up.The list ranges from reality-TV certainties and Hollywood royalty to comedy giants and a jewellery boss who managed to obliterate his own company’s value with a single, throwaway sentence.Elsewhere, a deeply unofficial Bellen d’Or is awarded to people who say “you can get that exact thing on Temu”, there’s a purely hypothetical (and obviously non-actionable) discussion about who someone would stalk, and an unavoidable diversion into Loddon Facebook nonsense.Later on, there’s an attempt to bring some actual sense to the Michael McIntyre hatred — not joining in with it, just trying to understand where it comes from and why it refuses to die.Gigs are coming up. Buy some tickets.Nostalgia, poor decisions, and the joy of watching other people ruin things far more efficiently than you ever could.

This week on Who Remembers Spangles? we spiral cheerfully through Britain’s favourite pastimes: overreaction, nostalgia, and finding comfort in things that cost £7.99.There’s talk of snap political certainty, knee-jerk opinions, and why everyone is always absolutely sure about everything. That leads neatly into a nostalgic Top 5 Times Everyone Got Hysterical About Some Bullshit — including the Ice Bucket Challenge, Blur vs Oasis becoming actual news, dangerous dogs, and the collective emotional meltdown after the death of Diana.We then look ahead with Top 5 Predicted Hysterias for 2026: carbs being labelled poisonous, digital ID outrage from people welded to smartphones, panic over a cashless society, protests against “AI slop,” and first-contact alien chaos.Along the way we reminisce about 80s holiday camps, and profess deep affection for Britain’s most dependable mass-produced comforts: Premier Inn, Wetherspoons, PureGym, Greggs, Ryanair — and any other discount concept that delivers familiarity, beige carpets, and zero surprises.Also some essential comedy-industry navel-gazing: making other comedians laugh, the fear of being “hack,” and whether comedy is now overthinking itself into paralysis.No experts. No balance. Just gobsh*tes remembering the past badly and musing about the future.

This week’s episode begins in the most glamorous of settings: Scott broadcasting from a Premier Inn lounge in Sunderland, asking the big questions life throws at a man surrounded by patterned carpet and unlimited coffee refills.From there, it’s straight into a Top 5 of celebrity deaths that genuinely stopped us in our tracks — from outright murder, to cultural immortals we all foolishly assumed would live forever. Elvis or Amy? Diana. Bowie. Lennon. Expect disagreement, bad memories, and that slightly awkward moment where you realise some of these still properly sting.Naturally, this then escalates into a Top 5 deaths we’re confidently predicting for 2026, which is either incisive social commentary or a cry for help. You decide.There’s also a proper industry chat on whether comedy might finally be crawling back after years of legacy-media chaos, thanks to Netflix appointing a new comedy commissioner.And because this is a local podcast at heart, we round things off with a genuinely baffling news story involving a local MP, AI, and a bikini, which raises more questions than it answers and absolutely should not exist.Half arsedly structured. Questionable. Occasionally insightful. Oh and Pablo's been playing with jingles again. These are merely the hooks we hang our gobshite-ary on.

Which comedian, who is now a household name, didn't pay their fuel contributions in shared car journeys?!Scott’s back this week after going suspiciously AWOL last episode — complete with a dubious sick note scrutinised by Spangles HR. Surprising snow falls and New Year’s resolutions immediately start to fade like a politicians promise.Whilst leaning into comedy industry gossip this week we still trample into Who Remembers Spangles? heartlands with a Top 5 of things we used to say, don’t really say anymore, but… were they ever that contentious? Manservant gets compared to a top comedian’s tour manager, courting makes a brief comeback, spinster gets a proper re-examination, comedienne refuses to die quietly, and air stewardess goes under the microscope.What does Rosie Jones say about Ricky Gervais say about Ricky Gervais and Alan Carr? Will Spangles guys agree with her?👉 Listen now on Acast and everywhere you get your podcasts.Go to patreon.com/spangles1970 for the juicy gossip we kept back.

Half Basset. Half Bellend.We ring Ross mid-episode. He rings back while taking down the Christmas decorations. Scott is in a state of flibbbertigibbertry....probably. There’s a run-in down the pub involving Dolly wearing her half-Basset half-bellend lead sleeve, Pablo getting firmly judged at by a woman who’s convinced he’s humiliating her. Should Iggy Pop sit before Meat Loaf in the record collection?We also have a pop at McDonald’s in Riverside Norwich, run through a Top 5 of New Year’s resolutions nobody kept, have our say on David Walliams and Ricky Gervais then turn our ire to the flag man, who’s popped back up to lower house prices and the general tone in Loddon.Dedicated to Ross’s menagerie of departed cats — with a special shout-out to Mr Meeowy. If you're listening up there in cat heaven then sorry for laughing at your daft name.👉 Download it. Subscribe if you like.

This week on Who Remembers Spangles? we’re counting down the Top 5 Weirdly-Formed Bands — the acts that came together for reasons so bizarre you couldn’t make them up.Cartoon supergroups created out of spite, parody pop duos who accidentally became massive, bands born from 9/11 trauma, art-school whims, and teens forming a group purely to blag their way into bars.Plus: how Johnny Marr joined Modest Mouse after one surreal cold call… and a peek at the future of music when AI bands start forming themselves.Fast, funny, nerdy — get stuck in. 🎧

WHO REMEMBERS SPANGLES? — Things People Said That Get On Your Tits a Bit SpecialTonight on Who Remembers Spangles?, in an episode powered entirely by things people said that get on your tits a bit, Steve and Pablo seize control of the airwaves.First up: a disturbing report claims brown sauce has been “improved,” immediately qualifying as things people said that get on your tits a bit if you’ve ever eaten a breakfast in Norfolk.We then cross live to the Eggs ’n’ Gammon situation — a scene so chaotic even the fry-up itself muttered things people said that get on your tits a bit.Traffic news brings us the now-infamous red-light incident: witnesses say the exchange included several classic things people said that get on your tits a bit, including “you could’ve gone there…”Meanwhile, a curry at Indian Palace results in both hosts producing low-level groans generally categorised under things people said that get on your tits a bit.In cultural developments, the Partridge Plate resurfaces without warning — prompting Steve to deliver a definitive things people said that get on your tits a bit sigh.Pablo’s digital hearing aid misfires next, emitting the electronic equivalent of things people said that get on your tits a bit, then doubling down with a sarcastic beep.Finally, we reach the Top 5 — a forensic investigation into, yes, things people said that get on your tits a bit — the phrases, the tones, the passive-aggressive horrors. You will be uncomfortable. You will be exposed. You will absolutely recognise yourself.Listen now — or you’ll be today years old when you realise this episode is wall-to-wall things people said that get on your tits a bit.