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Phew. Have you recovered yet?

A handful of brave souls convened to discuss the MPF 2026 experience on Wednesday night to recount and piece together the previous weekend.

We all discuss our personal highlights and lowlights, including self analysing all our own performances. But, to get your juices flowing like ours were:

• Which guest is a security risk?
• Who turned up in a sarong?
• Why did Danny Barrett get a bottle of water chucked at him?
• Does Tom know how many kids he has?
• Who is the best son out of the guests?

Music is courtesy of: Pizzatramp, The Papashangos, Fucked Up and Healer of Bastards

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In order to slake our thirst for justice, we knew exactly what to do when we were invited back for the (record breaking, history making) 3rd time to Manchester Punk Festival: a courtroom style, debate, thing.

Tom is judging, Danny Barrett is clerking. The legal team of Dickkie Watson (Shackleford), Eddie French (off Punk Rock Elite Podcast) and Archie Moss (Clayface & Incisions) are doing legal battle with Alex Lowe (Healer Of Bastards), Mark L Williamson (The trainline) and Benny Rabble (Serial Bowl Records).

Precedents will be set, matters will be resolved and we get an insight into the minds of our top barristers.

Music is from: The Clash, Descendents, Sublime and Guttermouth.

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It's back, it's still unofficial (but aren't most fun things?) and it's BIGGER THAN EVER! It's the MLPP MPF 2026 Preview show!

Tom and Danny Barrett sought out the quickest wits and greatest minds in the DIY punk scene for contributions, but sadly they were all busy. So, instead, we put together a team of punters and performing artistes to hype up this year's MPF, discuss what we're all looking forward to and what our plans are.

The Team in question are:

Riaz off Grail Guard

Dickkie off Shackleford

Archie off Incisions and Clayface

Al Lowe off Healer of Bastards

Duco Van Der Veen off Interpol's most wanted list

Benny Rabble off Serial Bowl Records

Richard White off Crimewatch

We cover all the exciting acts playing the fest this year, as well as the dangers of industrial equipment, celebrity manslaughter, Al's harsh punishments for his cats, Duco's sporting career, Benny Rabble's emigration, Richard White's hangover and completely unpromted, a number of guests share their first bands' first cover versions.

I'm not going to tell you who the music's by, or which bands get mentioned. You'll have to listen, won't you?

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A warm trans-atlantic welcome to Oh The Humanity this week who are in for a chat ahead of their upcoming uk tour!

Kevin, their esteemed vocalist takes us through all the stops on their jaunt, as Tom and Jake (off Los Fatso Libres) offer up pearls of wisdom and judgement on each town and city (sorry, Leeds). We also talk about previous UK tours, dental hygiene, fests around the world and song writing problems.

Jake provides us with a gig report, a top 5 AND a stag do report. Tom outlines his pathetic existence of late, but then cheers himself up with an impromptu announcement.

Music this week is courtesy of: TSOL, Last Ditch Effort, Bad Year, Zero Cost and Avem.

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It's Dinner (lady) Time!

We're joined by one third of Merseyside's lunch-themed sextet Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies this week, and what a visit it was!

We deep dive into the trend of wearing the merch of left wing bands whilst being a right wing piece of garbage, we dissect the Rebellion Festivals booking of The Wurzels, hear about how the Dinnerettes craft their choreography and we disclose a village in Warwickshire's top shagger.

Tom asks all the big questions about cosplaying, Danny Barrett shares his nerdy day out and we discuss what happens when you head to the wrong town for a gig.

Music this time is provided by: WIZO, The Winonas, Healer of Bastards, The Hawaiians and The Aquabats.

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We're on a highway to Hull this week as we're joined by the kings of The Humber, Zero Cost!

They have their debut full length out later this year on Engineer Records and they tease us with some details about their record release show. We also discuss rural crime, a homage using a "huh", the worst time to have a bath, water storage within one's self and a lot more.

Danny Barrett furnishes us with another top 5 punk songs, Tom hears a heart breaking story about a man whose illness prevents him from listening to the pod and we finally get around to discussing our views on "ska for BBQs", Sublime.

Music this week comes from: The Dirtbombs, Headaches, Dead Kennedys, Rivalry and The Overbites.

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Boss La! and all that.

It's time for another Tom On One this week where I take my years of psychology experience, which I got from watching Frasier, and grill a lone punk rocker about their journey through the genre and beyond.

This week it's the turn of Garreth Hirons, bass maestro from Merseyside's angry speed daemons, Code Break!

Mr H has some very eclectic song choices to keep you on your toes. We also discuss his honeymoon, covid employment practices, an English brewery in Tokyo and much more.

Sweary Jon's regular question finally comes back to bite him on the arse, so enjoy that.

Music comes from: Chixdiggit, The Bucky Bombs, Rocket From The Crypt, Dirtbombs, Guitar Wolf and The Chats.

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How Do? Goo, West Yorkshire's finest indie-pop-punk rockers are in today. Well, one of them is as they've just got back from tour and they're all full of germs.

Kurt, the drummer, has stepped up to the plate though and explains to us: the joy of 7"s, the motivational power of dividing your work day into quarters when hungover, a curry conundrum and delayed christmas clear-ups.

Bazz has created a new segment which is about haircuts this time, Tom's been out and about in Peterborough and we reveal our list of weird names for the remote control as compiled by you, the listeners.

Music is from: Sublime, Mutiny, Los Fatso Libres, AFI, The Clash and Joyce Manor