New music, accidentally booking bands onto the podcast, navigating the baffling world of PRS, who actually gets paid when it comes to music venues, and just how much does it cost to truck water into a festival site?

James is fully immersed in Trees season, while Gav is busy firing out Damnation announcements, and with the year already at the halfway mark, it's time to see how those Album of the Year contenders are stacking up?

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Gav and James delve back into the mailbag to discuss venue upgrades, manageable festival growth and their favourite pod moments.

But before that, Gav takes the chance to gloat about the extreme metal coup of the year… booking The Berzerker outta nowhere!

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We go again, every Thursday morning.

Gav hopped on and back off the best tour of the year quicker than you can say “you don’t have a bunk”.

But bus dramas aside, the We Lost The Sea, Overhead, The Albatross and Dimscûa package delivered in spades.

Meanwhile, housebound James secured some exciting 2027 bookings and updated his favourite albums spreadsheet.

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We go again, every Thursday morning.