A&M Audio Adventures

About A&M Audio Adventures

ROCK PODCASTS & AUDIO FICTION. FIERY VOICES in a FLESHY IRISH AURALIA. More than radio. Foley-rich comedy adventures & story-filled rock shows. Original twisted tales & immersive podcasting. Written and performed by Adrian Byrne & Michael Taylor. On all good audiophilic emporia - https://linktr.ee/Moshtalgia

Publisher

A&M

Category

fiction · music

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Jan 2024

Latest episode

8 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Feb 2026

   Moshtalgia - Episode 15 - 1987

   The latest episode of Moshtalgia belches back to 1987, the year hard rock and heavy metal hit fever pitch, hairspray clouds thickened, and the east coast of Ireland's teenage metallers were fiddling with cassette decks and robbing Kerrang! Hosts Taylor and Bourney ditch the usual deep-dive into one album for a special 10-song showdown: five tracks each that defined the year for them. A demented, unhinged ramble packed with snark, nostalgia, vulgar asides, self-roasting, and those signature twin-mic facts delivered with full harmonised wailing and complaining. Best served with beer, a black-toothed grin, and zero fucks. The lads kick off by painting 1987 as the perfect shhtorm: bigger riffs, bigger egos, bigger shoulder pads, and pricier tapes! Metallica's Master of Puppets still echoed, Bon Jovi rode the Slippery When Wet tsunami, Whitesnake made old Davey Coverdale the sex symbol du jour, and July dropped the double bombs of Guns N' Roses' raw, snotty Appetite for Destruction and Def Leppard's gleaming Hysteria. LPs crept to £9, CDs terrified wallets at £13.99, and Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show kept Irish kids connected, if the weather and transmitter permitted. Gigs under a fiver, cider a quid, Walkman batteries the biggest worry. Spandex, eyeliner, biker boots, the whole lot. The chaps reminisce about meeting in secondary school, '86 into '87, in art class mixing "stupid lads" with brainboxes, and how their friendship sparked the podcast decades later. Emotional? Briefly. Then straight to vulgar banter about hand-related Pamelas and relationships shorter than their 39-year bromance. Just can’t get rid of each other. Taylor's picks lead off with Savatage's ‘Hall of the Mountain King.’ He recalls hearing it on a taped Friday Rock Show in a damp cellar amid a Lego town. The theatrical prog-metal beast, original, not a Grieg cover, rebirthed Savatage after near-breakup. John Oliva's gravel-to-falsetto roar, Chris Oliva's shredding gallop, fantasy lyrics about a mad king in a timeless lair. Malcolm Dome's 5Ks in Kerrang!, Metal Hammer's 7/7. Taylor geeks out on its epic pivot to conceptual prog, bridging Maiden storytelling with Queen grandeur. Sad note: Chris's 1993 death in a drunk-driving accident. Bourney ribs him ("Yoda vibes?"), but the passion sells it as fantasy metal peak. Bourney counters with Suzanne Vega's ‘Luka,’ the jaunty-yet-devastating child-abuse narrative from Solitude Standing. It hit UK #23 but Ireland #11 ("a country full of abused lads"). Bourney ties it to radio plays in the car with his dad, among unspoken family tensions. Lyrics literal: bruises, excuses, "they only hit you until you start crying." Twist: Vega revealed in 2021 it drew from her own stepfather abuse. They riff on priests upstairs, poor families affording Lego as hush money, and the video kid later in The Sopranos. Bourney admits it stirred young social awareness amid Whitney and George Michael fluff. Taylor's second: Metallica's ‘Crash Course in Brain Surgery’ from the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP (August '87). A raw tribute post-Cliff Burton's tragic death, introducing Jason Newsted amid hazing (spit included). Cover of Budgie's 1971 proto-heavy rocker; short, cryptic, riff-heavy. Taylor details Budgie's influence, Burke Shelley's passing, Lars Ulrich's obsession. The EP: therapy after tragedy, underground soul amid Hysteria polish. Bourney: "My father used to love to say that... “Ya Little Budgie!”. Bourney's second: Pet Shop Boys' ‘Always on My Mind’ (Elvis cover, Christmas #1 '87). Camp, ironic, deadpan posh delivery over twinkling synths. Beat the Pogues' ‘Fairytale of New York.’ Taylor mocks the "big gay bar" feel; Bourney defends the emotional violation. Video: Neil in sexy funeral director coat, Chris sunglasses indoors. Accidental smash from an Elvis tribute special. Taylor's third: Joe Satriani's ‘Surfing with the Alien’ (the title track from the all-instrumental platinum-seller). The baldy shredder's sci-fi odyssey;

2. 

   3 Nov 2025

   Sinners

   September 1992. Come taste the chaotic, hormone-fuelled world of Rahrum's most delinquent teens in A&M’s audio romp that'll have your inner 15-year-old a-cackle. 'Sinners' follows the misadventures of Ace, Floyd, Porky, Percy, Tomty, Bubbles, and Vernon – a ragtag crew of schoolyard reprobates navigating post-Debs drama, surprise pregnancies, stolen cars, and one hell of a forbidden teacher-tryst that spirals into orgiastic absurdity. The plot kicks off with long-haired thug Zombie Doyle storming the wrong venue, mistaking a seedy strip club for a hotel and unloading his gun into the walls – only to befriend arms dealer Clovis Ginkle. Back at school, vengeful Principal Walshe schemes to flunk the lot, while Civics teacher Ms. Tobin turns a lesson on moral boundaries into a peep show with confiscated porn. Cue museum trips with nipple-fixated statues, crude banter about “burying the length,” and Percy's girlfriend Jenn dropping a baby bomb, as she calves in the back of a hot-wired Toyota during a high-speed getaway. I bet you can’t wait to hear Floyd's explosive breakup with cheating Linda (complete with a bee-sting tongue-sucking excuse that's just pure Linda), and the gang's crash-landing at Tobin's house for wine-fuelled debauchery that'd make Caligula want a videotape. Fr. Daithi mistakes Floyd for a "beautiful young lady," a shotgun-wielding dad chases the boys with his rabid dog Bully, and a conspiracy evolves involving a corrupt priest, bumbling principal, and springing sonorous psycho Lilo McGregor, ready to bump off the crew and seize Porky's bar. There's trips across the fields of Knockrath, down the R755, Clara Lara way, up through the Croneybyrne woods, and into Garryduff, all in one extraordinary night... Quips fly thick and fast – from Tomty's Kerry drawl dropping snarky asides to Bubbles' perpetual giggles amid the mayhem. Violent twists amp the stakes: slaps, sideswipes, rock-hurling vandalism, and shotguns that are not held back in anger. This feature-length audio adventure is jammers with full foley FX, it’s over-the-top, filled with afterbirth, betrayal, and bonkers brotherhood – American Pie meets Father Ted in a blender of bravado and bullets. Perfect for bus rides, bog breaks, or binging while avoiding adulthood. 🌟 We make audio adventures for your inner teen and adults who never quite made it out. We are the head boys with original strange stories. Feature-length, full FX, and showcasing new characters. FULL SHOWS to immerse your ears in audio heaven: https://aandm.podbean.com/ FULL VIDEOS with subtitles and the occassional weird visual surprise: https://www.youtube.com/@aandmaudio Over 100+ hours to digest. Sci-fi, historical and modern, we educate your aural orifice with comedy audio adventures and manic rock shows. Moshtalgia - A review of albums we loved growing up. Filled with twin microphone facts from Taylor and Bourney, and uncomfortable revelations of teen, eh, fingering. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZUn9ZotEeoFyujt9YK0CRsaCDqHzQ8pw&si=CrlgWEr2ylZV_gvd The Friday Rock Show - a 2-hr rock show with music and stories! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZUn9ZotEeoHdlLm4AfGoqtgLq5Bz0R0K&si=cg6D74tLJ8mujIGO United Mutations and Panspermia - An original small town alien invasion series - 15 hours so far! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZUn9ZotEeoFx4sq4e3po7Uymgvi1WIZp&si=RoXn8y3KiKis56Py The Mental Holmes trilogy - Bunk off with Tomathy Wilson and Aubrey Holmes in 1922, 1923, 1924! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0iRER0UsShB3R4OqBh8C0d Mount Pheasant - Teaching you about the gnarly old Richard Pheasant. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BfC33A8jo7W6HjPbpL0aO The awesome Frumpy Dumpster and Timefiddler epic tales: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XIkdlA5GT9xRML5CWd3jq See Timefiddler on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZUn9ZotEeoGpNsHRWr2HOy-I7jrhfA3K&si=EsEYXH3QzopfB1x6 And when these Rahrum boys finally made it to college: U.C.L.S: https://

3. 

   13 Jul 2025

   Moshtalgia - Episode 14 - 1984

   Fire up the Oberheim OB-Xa and OB-8, strap on the ’58 Gibson, and finger your Frankenstrat, as we’re heading off the rails on a crazy train to Van Halen’s Valhalla! Dive bouffant-first into the neon-soaked, synth-driven, spandex-clad world of Van Halen’s ‘1984’ with Episode 14 of Moshtalgia! Join bungling hosts, Taylor and Bourney, two narky metallers from Ireland’s east coast, emerging from their teenage Neanderthal caves, barely 11 years old when 1984 dropped in January 1984, to relive the album that shifted 17 million and soundtracked a sonic youth. A rollicky, wine-fuelled schoolbus back to 1984, where two soggy-cornflake-eating kids raced home from school in Ireland’s ‘Multi-channel land,’ to catch Bosco on RTÉ, followed by ITV’s and BBC’s legendary lineup of Dangermouse, He-Man, Rod Hull, Chocky, Blue Peter, Grange Hill, and even Emmerdale Farm with Amos Brayley’s legendary sideburns. But the real magic happened when the radio dial hit the UK’s BBC Radio One at 10pm, where Tommy Vance unleashed Van Halen’s 1984 on the Friday Rock Show, igniting young imaginations with unfathomably blistery riffs and David Lee Roth’s preeny swagger. Oo-ooh! In this episode, Taylor and Bourney crack open ‘1984’ track by track, wincing at Roth’s made-up lyrics and marvelling at Eddie Van Halen’s genius in his 5150 studio along with he and brother Alex's prodigious talent for booze. Eddie was some man for the taps. He had good taps. From the iconic parpy synths of ‘Jump’ to the boundary-pushing arse-cheek of ‘Hot for Teacher’ (Bourney’s still got it bad for his secondary school religion teacher, Ms. Tubin, and might need a quick loo break mid-show), the lads dissect the album’s cultural impact with snark, absurdity, and twin-mic facts. Expect vivid anecdotes of Star Wars, Seymour Diddy, orange corduroys, carpet-cut tank-tops, and the cigarette jar of the notorious Mr. 'Strawballs' Egan. Oh, and a school robbery? Yeah, there was that too. Riffing through the hallowed pages of Kerrang! magazine, Taylor and Bourney channel the spirit of rock scribes like Malcolm Dome, Dante Bonutto, Dave Dickson, and Howard Johnson, while giving a bone to Krusher Joule’s dog, Bullseye. They’ll spar over teenage bemusement, roast their metal heroes (would you let Dave Lee Roth crash at your place with you and the missus?), and revel in the hedonistic scuttered chaos that birthed '1984'. Taylor’s uncanny Michael McDonald impressions - Doobie-Doobie-doo! - add a gob of Yacht rock snot, while resident riffer Pat “The Fingerer” Shaughnessy lays down some fine fat, freckled guitar segues straight from Annamoe. Moshtalgia isn’t just two mates yapping about their long-haired, heavy metal days. It’s a delirious, curated, gorgeous-sounding day trip to the 80s, packed with squirming stories, analogue anecdotes, and antsy accusations. From misheard lyrics to metal mistakes, this podcast is a black-toothed grin at the music that parted us from our pocket money and shaped our souls. So grab a beer, lie back, and join Taylor and Bourney as they raise a rusty scalpel to Van Halen’s masterpiece, just before the studio vacuum cleaner roars to life. Get it in to ya! Moshtalgia with Taylor and Bourney. A proper podcast. @aandmstudios1987 #moshtalgia#aandm #original © Copyright A&M.

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YouTube views

86,775

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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62

Social presence

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92

Engagement

32