You can listen to ‘ Love Thy Neighbourhood’ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the rest of the gang. We've got more. Here at Time Out, we love a good poddy so much, we made our own, which aired in July this year: ‘Love Thy Neighbourhood’ is a brand-new podcast, hosted by Time Out London's editor Joe Mackertich, where London celebs walk listeners through the best spots in their area. New additions to our list include Joe Pera's new sleep podcast and The Ringer's fascinating new look at pop culture's role in the Vietnam War, which has climbed to our top 10.īut wait. And somehow, in that time, we've been blessed with endless brilliant things to listen to, and new gems are still popping up all the time. We know, it sounds weird, but podcasting actually technically began on July 9, 2003, so they haven't really been around all that long. Sidetracked with Annie and Nick is available weekly on BBC Sounds from September 28.In July 2023, podcasts turned 20. One thing we never got to do at Radio One was speak to older artists or heritage artists, or artists that didn’t align with Radio One – so it’s quite exciting that it’s not aligned to a network, and we can cover everyone from Ice Spice to Keith Richards.” “I think we should bring all of that together and not be genre-specific. “We are fans of pop stars or jazz, we can appreciate going to the Proms for a night,” Grimshaw said. She said: “So if one of us vehemently thinks a song is terrible, then the other person can come in and be a bit of a counter to that.” Macmanus said she’s particularly excited about the podcast because “there’s no boundaries”, and she and Grimshaw are “not completely aligned” in their tastes. “So we were like, let’s do a podcast, let’s let everyone into the WhatsApp group.” And we talk about things we’ve seen at award shows or something we’ve seen a pop star post on Instagram… Obviously we’re music fans, but we’re also fans of the culture around music and pop culture. Grimshaw, 39, added: “Annie and I have a WhatsApp group where we just gossip, cleverly called Into The Goss. We’re going to come from the perspective of fans and friends, then we will bring in experts if we need to really dissect something or interrogate something, we can learn more about it with the listener.” “The foundation of the podcast is our friendship. It will be “the week in music through our eyes”, Macmanus, who has been friends with Grimshaw since 2006, explained. The weekly podcast by the BBC will cover up-to-date music news, and the duo will be joined by artists, friends, industry experts and listeners. Now, Macmanus is putting her love of music into a new channel – a podcast with fellow DJ Nick Grimshaw, called Sidetracked with Annie and Nick. But she appreciates living with someone else who’s equally into music: “I like listening to different songs, I like hearing what he’s going to put on – and I think vice versa.”

“There’s always radio wars in our house,” she said, particularly when deciding what channel to play over breakfast. Now based in London with DJ husband Thomas Mackenzie Bell, whose stage name is Toddla T, and their two children, their household is still filled with music. And she moved to England, so it was like, ‘Ooh – that’s what happens if you move to England’.”

She said this was “quite a big moment” for her, and added: “As a young Irish girl, seeing someone like Roisin Murphy be so bonkers and brilliant and 100% herself was incredibly inspirational.

And afterwards, we had a lock-in with all of her family.” “She was so bonkers onstage – she had a little loudspeaker and she had a dog basket which she curled up in halfway through the show. Roisin Murphy – was her original band – played in Whelan’s in Dublin,” Macmanus said. “I was 15, I remember getting permission from my parents to go into town and see Moloko. My sister was the raver, she used to listen to pirate radio and she introduced me to electronic beats.”Ī post shared by Annie Mac early live show was particularly formative for Macmanus. Thin Lizzy, Christy Moore, a lot of traditional Irish music. “The Pogues was the biggest thing – I have every Pogues album etched into my memory forever. She inherited “traditional Irish music crossed with punk and rock” from her brothers and sister. Macmanus, who hosted the Radio One’s Dance Party for the BBC until 2021 and currently hosts the podcast Changes With Annie Macmanus, said that having older siblings was “hugely influential” in terms of shaping her musical tastes. “My sister was like Lisa Simpson and just stayed in her room playing the saxophone. My other brother played the accordion, the piano I played the piano, guitar. “We played so many instruments – my brother played the banjo, the guitar, this instrument called a bouzouki. A post shared by Annie Mac always played instruments in our house – I always describe it as we were like The Corrs, but ugly,” Macmanus said, with a laugh.

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