DIY Podcast

Over the weekend of 23rd and 24th April, DIY Alive took over the venues surrounding Oval Space in East London for a weekend of not just live music - but a glimpse behind the music industry’s various curtains, with a...

Over the weekend of 23rd and 24th April, DIY Alive took over the venues surrounding Oval Space in East London for a weekend of not just live music - but a glimpse behind the music industry’s various curtains, with a...

We're at Reading Festival this episode, talking to headliners Fall Out Boy about mixing it up - and their new/old EP, Sunflower Bean about playing bass while crowd surfing, and a very wet Sports Team about Pete...

It's a Bestival extravaganza as we're Dorset bound, talking to IDLES (pre-chart success), Sundara Karma about what they've been beavering away at, House of Vans headliners Spring King about keeping calm on the road...

We're at one of Spain's best-known festivals, Benicàssim this episode, where we find out what Metronomy has been up to (spoiler: there's new music sooner rather than later), what BODEGA's reading habits are...

We're in a hot and sunny Madrid for this episode, as we head to Mad Cool festival. Find out what FIDLAR have been up to, how Perfume Genius is working on his dance moves, the best £20 Serge from Kasabian has ever spent...

It's up to Hull for 53 Degrees North with Slaves, Dream Wife, The Horrors, LIFE and more. Find out why the festival exists in the first place, why Dream Wife are wearing matching t-shirts (and their experience of walls...

A series in which the bands are allowed to talk about anything at all... except their music. It's a wild ride with Peace, as they discuss banana theories, peeling lemons and expanding their vocabulary - not to mention...

We're down on the pier once again, with interviews from across The Great Escape, including Demob Happy, Yonaka, Hatchie and Drahla.

As festival season kicks off, updates from two of the first. We were once again at the Brudenell Social Club for Live at Leeds, hosting both the DIY and Neu stages there. We talk to stage headliners Pale Waves about...

We headed to Austin, Texas once again for SXSW - and spoke to some of our (and your) favourites along the way. Features interviews with Shame, Public Access TV, LIFE, Baywaves, Boniface and a human panda.

There's just one rule with this series: artists can talk about anything at all - except their music. Twin Atlantic talk Tiger Woods' literary skills, and travelling the world, while looking out of the window of a van.

There's just one rule with this series: artists can talk about anything at all - except their music. In this episode, Diet Cig's Alex Luciano delves deep into her celebrity gossip obsession, from favourite Kardashians...

Each September, the German city of Hamburg hosts Reeperbahn Festival, a bonanza of new artists (and a few old favourites - Liam Gallagher popped along this time 'round). While out there, we caught up with a handful of...

This year saw Bestival take residence in a new home - that of the Lulworth Estate in Dorset. The weather may have had its way with the site (while we're talking to Circa Waves they're not even sure if they'll get to...

While we were at Reading this past weekend, we caught up with headliners and August cover stars Kasabian, plus Bastille, and Muncie Girls.

Anything But… with Sadie Dupuis! Sadie Dupuis is a busy bee. Along with fronting the ever-ace Speedy Ortiz, she’s also at the helm of the banger-central pop colo project Sad13, and has been touring all over the place...

Glastonbury! Our team - the trusty Will, El and Emma - are still going strong and, shockingly, still have voices, which is handy really because on the final day of this year's festival we have another report from the...

Report number two from the DIY magazine team members Will and El down on Worthy Farm, this time with chats from George (or should we say Geoff) Ezra, a very lively Black Honey tell us about their celeb fans, Declan...

The DIY Magazine team, the UK's foremost new music heads descend on Worthy Farm, in Somerset to give you the latest news, interviews and nonsense with daily episodes from the country's biggest festival. This episode we...

In our new audio series 'Anything but...' El Hunt, the boss of bizarre lines of enquiry and DIY magazine's features editor, really gets to know some of her favourite acts, by not uttering a word about the music (well...

Returning to the venue that they played their first ever London show in, Liverpool's Circa Waves have come a long way in that time. Worldwide tours, main stages of festivals and with the release of their second record...

The DIY magazine team head to Europe's biggest new music festival where thousands of bands and fans descend on Brighton beaches to find their new favourite act. The team were out in force putting on everything from...

Here's your access all areas pass... On tour to celebrate 10 years of their classic 'Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever' DIY Staff Writer Lisa Wright gets up close and personal with The Cribs at soundcheck, then again...

Brighton's Black Honey, have got tour life down, after years of practice and hard work, they are selling out rooms right across the country, and it's no surprise why, they are ace. This April, DIY Mag's Lisa Wright got...