AGITATORS ANONYMOUS the Alan Averill Podcast

AA looks back over the dumpster fire of 2020, the year the world lost its mind, rakes the coals and sifts the ashes looking to make some sense of it and decide whether he lost his mind also, or not. …

In E 37 Alan discusses what it's like to release music under lockdown, how all roads lead to Rome and the music industry needs to know when bands can play again. Then in a more serious episode consid…

In this Episode AA chats to an old and dear friend, comedian STEVE HUGHES, when an irresistible force meets an immovable object this is a long chat that puts the world to rights and then some! What A…

In E 35 AA talks soccer in the wake of the death of Maradona and looks back at how one man....Jack Charlton, the Irish soccer manager lifted the Irish Nation in the 80s and early 90s, his own experi…

Bonus Episode 34 is a slightly different one in light of Alan releasing some new music with his other band Dread Sovereign. This slightly shorter podcast tells the story of the band and ends with the…

In E 33 Alan unwisely does some Ozzy impersonating, plays his dusty old acoustic guitar, and attempts to explain the Devil's Interval. Before launching into an unplanned ramble on why Punk never kill…

In what we can consider part 2 of the sidebar 'Freedom is not the Default setting of Society' Alan looks at the year 1974 and the simple thesis that if you were a betting man you would have backed Co…

In Episode 31 I talk to my old friend Ivar from ENSLAVED

We discuss the positivity of cultural differences, what it feels like to be cultural 'ambassadors' for your country as you travel the world, wh…

In Episode 30 Alan can not avoid the unavoidable and this one is dedicated to the US Election. He pulls up a front row seat, dons a cape and some spandex and gets ready for a good old fashioned Royal…

BONUS PODCAST

In this bonus podcast Alan takes a more light hearted look at how we can keep our sanity during lockdown and why giving a F about Art, Culture, Theatre, Community and things beyond our s…

In this Episode Alan discusses political polarisation, and the lack of nuance in modern society. What does conspiracy theory even mean? Are we about to enter some dystopian world of digital social co…

In E 27 Alan discusses what returning to and living under Level 5 of Lockdown means in Ireland. The reasons why this has happened and what the reaction is. Have Irish people only a romantic notion of…

In this Episode AA considers the city, his love/hate relationship with Dublin, do cities have a future and what place do we have in them in the 'new normal'. Might just be time to up and leave. Is th…

In E 25 Alan recalls a trip to Chernobyl in the Ukraine, formerly the Soviet Union which was the site of the worlds biggest nuclear disaster. A place that fascinated him as a child, this story descri…

In Episode 24 Alan exercises his newly found mastery of the Russian Language! and lays out the new 12 point plan for the satellite communist state of Dublinistan. A satirical yet kinda serious look a…

Episode 23 is again a very special guest and also another videocast!! This time it's the enigmatic and reclusive Mat McNerney (Grave Pleasures/Hevvessel/ex Beastmilk/Dodhaimsgard/Code and more) who w…

In Episode 22 Alan looks at the state of the Live Music Industry and who is trying to take to the stage and where, and what the future might look like. How can sub cultures survive the lockdown? as l…

In Episode 21 Alan returns with a special guest! Andy Sneap is the current stand in guitar player for Glen Tipton in Judas Priest, ex played in both Hell and Sabbat and producer/engineer of metal alb…

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In Episode 20 Alan examines cancel culture and freedom of speech in society at large and what it means for music and metal in general. the how, when and where it came from and how not to avoid being …