Iain McDermott
@poprambler.bsky.social
Back to NOW! podcast, celebrating the variously compiled world of pop. Popmaster alumni. On the TV and radio from time to time.
https://linktr.ee/poprambler
https://linktr.ee/poprambler
Back to NOW! New Episode! 🎧
Revisit the NOW Yearbook 1980 with special guests Mark Wood and Andrew Harrison (@nndroid.bsky.social)
A new decade of pop dawns!
Available at your podcast place of choice NOW or via this handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler
Revisit the NOW Yearbook 1980 with special guests Mark Wood and Andrew Harrison (@nndroid.bsky.social)
A new decade of pop dawns!
Available at your podcast place of choice NOW or via this handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Back to NOW! New Episode! 🎧
Revisit the NOW Yearbook 1980 with special guests Mark Wood and Andrew Harrison (@nndroid.bsky.social)
A new decade of pop dawns!
Available at your podcast place of choice NOW or via this handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler
Revisit the NOW Yearbook 1980 with special guests Mark Wood and Andrew Harrison (@nndroid.bsky.social)
A new decade of pop dawns!
Available at your podcast place of choice NOW or via this handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler
What a voice. A true visionary.
RIP Jimmy Cliff.
RIP Jimmy Cliff.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
What a voice. A true visionary.
RIP Jimmy Cliff.
RIP Jimmy Cliff.
This week in 1980, ABBA top the @officialcharts.bsky.social album chart for the sixth time.
Epic records: 10022.
New decade successfully navigated.
Did anyone win one of those SAABs?
Epic records: 10022.
New decade successfully navigated.
Did anyone win one of those SAABs?
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This week in 1980, ABBA top the @officialcharts.bsky.social album chart for the sixth time.
Epic records: 10022.
New decade successfully navigated.
Did anyone win one of those SAABs?
Epic records: 10022.
New decade successfully navigated.
Did anyone win one of those SAABs?
Your weekend pop listen is here! 🎧
The new Back to Now re-rewinds to 2000 & NOW45! With guest, album star & John Peel favourite - Cuban Boy @ricardoautobahn.co.uk !
Millenium bug free listening with added Daphne & Celeste.
Available here 👇🏼 or your podcast place of choice. linktr.ee/poprambler
The new Back to Now re-rewinds to 2000 & NOW45! With guest, album star & John Peel favourite - Cuban Boy @ricardoautobahn.co.uk !
Millenium bug free listening with added Daphne & Celeste.
Available here 👇🏼 or your podcast place of choice. linktr.ee/poprambler
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Your weekend pop listen is here! 🎧
The new Back to Now re-rewinds to 2000 & NOW45! With guest, album star & John Peel favourite - Cuban Boy @ricardoautobahn.co.uk !
Millenium bug free listening with added Daphne & Celeste.
Available here 👇🏼 or your podcast place of choice. linktr.ee/poprambler
The new Back to Now re-rewinds to 2000 & NOW45! With guest, album star & John Peel favourite - Cuban Boy @ricardoautobahn.co.uk !
Millenium bug free listening with added Daphne & Celeste.
Available here 👇🏼 or your podcast place of choice. linktr.ee/poprambler
Back to Now! New Episode! 🎧
Revisit the first NOW of the 21st century with guest @ricardoautobahn.co.uk - it’s NOW45! Millennial hangovers and pop tunes aplenty!
Episode and full album playlist available here or where you get your podcasts.
linktr.ee/poprambler
Revisit the first NOW of the 21st century with guest @ricardoautobahn.co.uk - it’s NOW45! Millennial hangovers and pop tunes aplenty!
Episode and full album playlist available here or where you get your podcasts.
linktr.ee/poprambler
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Back to Now! New Episode! 🎧
Revisit the first NOW of the 21st century with guest @ricardoautobahn.co.uk - it’s NOW45! Millennial hangovers and pop tunes aplenty!
Episode and full album playlist available here or where you get your podcasts.
linktr.ee/poprambler
Revisit the first NOW of the 21st century with guest @ricardoautobahn.co.uk - it’s NOW45! Millennial hangovers and pop tunes aplenty!
Episode and full album playlist available here or where you get your podcasts.
linktr.ee/poprambler
The weekend is now underway thanks to the fabulous Demon Music Group. The last truly great musical movement? Regardless, this is an essential compilation!
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The weekend is now underway thanks to the fabulous Demon Music Group. The last truly great musical movement? Regardless, this is an essential compilation!
Latest edition of Classic Pop has arrived and it is very attractive indeed! Fabulous work and the weekend is sorted!
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Latest edition of Classic Pop has arrived and it is very attractive indeed! Fabulous work and the weekend is sorted!
Ready for a new NOW time capsule?
Catch up on previous episodes: linktr.ee/poprambler
Catch up on previous episodes: linktr.ee/poprambler
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ready for a new NOW time capsule?
Catch up on previous episodes: linktr.ee/poprambler
Catch up on previous episodes: linktr.ee/poprambler
Happy release day to the latest titles from @newmodernbooks.bsky.social. Hugely grateful for my copies. I can’t remember a more poptastic and thoroughly readable November 6th.
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Happy release day to the latest titles from @newmodernbooks.bsky.social. Hugely grateful for my copies. I can’t remember a more poptastic and thoroughly readable November 6th.
Live and utterly fabulous in Edinburgh, the legend and loveliest pop star @nickheyward.com
What a fine Monday night!
What a fine Monday night!
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Live and utterly fabulous in Edinburgh, the legend and loveliest pop star @nickheyward.com
What a fine Monday night!
What a fine Monday night!
The latest NOW Yearbook is here today! 1991 looking and sounding glorious! Another fantastic year of pop, brilliantly curated. What are your favourites?
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The latest NOW Yearbook is here today! 1991 looking and sounding glorious! Another fantastic year of pop, brilliantly curated. What are your favourites?
This Friday sees the re-release of @nickheyward.com wonderful 90s albums. And Nick was a special guest recently on the Back to Now podcast chatting about the decade & his pop influences from 1979.
Available at all podcast places or via this link: linktr.ee/poprambler
Available at all podcast places or via this link: linktr.ee/poprambler
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This Friday sees the re-release of @nickheyward.com wonderful 90s albums. And Nick was a special guest recently on the Back to Now podcast chatting about the decade & his pop influences from 1979.
Available at all podcast places or via this link: linktr.ee/poprambler
Available at all podcast places or via this link: linktr.ee/poprambler
Saturday night soundtrack! 🪩
40 years after the first NOW 12” album, it’s time to celebrate 1985’s extended brilliance all over again.
Classics and exclusives - another fabulous 12” collection!
40 years after the first NOW 12” album, it’s time to celebrate 1985’s extended brilliance all over again.
Classics and exclusives - another fabulous 12” collection!
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Saturday night soundtrack! 🪩
40 years after the first NOW 12” album, it’s time to celebrate 1985’s extended brilliance all over again.
Classics and exclusives - another fabulous 12” collection!
40 years after the first NOW 12” album, it’s time to celebrate 1985’s extended brilliance all over again.
Classics and exclusives - another fabulous 12” collection!
Back from a short Autumn break with some wonderful vinyl finds. And discovering someone else’s pop story inside the copy of Mange Tout is always special.
Because in 1984, you listened to the album and wrote out the lyrics by hand.
Because in 1984, you listened to the album and wrote out the lyrics by hand.
October 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Back from a short Autumn break with some wonderful vinyl finds. And discovering someone else’s pop story inside the copy of Mange Tout is always special.
Because in 1984, you listened to the album and wrote out the lyrics by hand.
Because in 1984, you listened to the album and wrote out the lyrics by hand.
The first great decade of pop gets the NOW yearbook treatment. An iconic series lies ahead! 🫶
21/11/25
21/11/25
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The first great decade of pop gets the NOW yearbook treatment. An iconic series lies ahead! 🫶
21/11/25
21/11/25
RIP Dave Ball. Set the template for so many to follow.
October 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
RIP Dave Ball. Set the template for so many to follow.