Music memories with record-collector warmth.
Off The Beat and Track is a music conversation show built around memory, taste, and the records people keep returning to. Stu Whiffin moves between special-guest interviews and Patreon live episodes where listeners trade picks and formative listening stories.
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Off The Beat and Track is a music conversation show with a simple instinct: ask what someone loves, then let the answer wander. Stu Whiffin hosts with a fan's urgency and a light touch, keeping the exchanges brisk without flattening the memories behind them. Guest episodes often start with a name from music culture and end up somewhere more personal. Lily Moore talks about a musical household, creative encouragement, soul records, classical music, and the people who passed those sounds on. Carol Decker brings stories of T'Pau, Top of the Pops, new writing, family life, revival tours, and encounters around 80s pop history. Eugene McGuinness turns school listening into a vivid mix of Dr. Dre, Eminem, Coldplay, Fatboy Slim, bus rides, headphones, and shifting teenage identity. Tiffany's episode frames early global fame and the renewed life of I Think We're Alone Now through a relaxed chat. Olive connects Sunflower Bean, Stars Revenge, queer friendship, high-school change, and a record that became a private lifeline. The show also makes room for live Patreon hangouts. Those episodes are looser and more communal, with listeners choosing artists by alphabet letters or bringing albums that changed everything. The rules are simple enough to spark arguments and elastic enough to let taste take over. One person might champion LFO; another might reach for The Killers; another might defend a record through pure nostalgia. That is the point. Off The Beat and Track is less interested in ranking songs than in finding the human charge inside them. It moves easily from banter to analysis, from hooks and videos to grief, youth, family, friendship, and artistic nerve. The archive is huge, but the tone stays intimate. It suits music fans who like enthusiasm, detours, and guests who remember the exact sound that changed the room.
Made for: For listeners who like artist interviews, personal music memories, and lively arguments about formative records. It especially suits fans of pop, indie, rock, punk, hip hop, soul, and 80s music culture.
What sets it apart: The show makes music discovery feel social and autobiographical rather than list-driven. Its mix of named guests, fan-led live episodes, and concrete listening memories gives familiar records fresh emotional context.
Off The Beat & Track is the award winning and chart topping podcast from Stu Whiffen which is released through Scroobius Pips Distraction Pieces Network. Each episode feature a conversation with a special guest who will select 7 songs which have sound tracked their creative journey to date. We talk about songs that remind them of growing up, school, clubbing, home and so much more Expect a warm, honest and funny chat with some fantastic guests. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/offthebeatandtrack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Stu Whiffin turns record choices into lively accounts of musical identity, creative development, and the memories attached to songs.
Off The Beat & Track uses record talk to draw out the memories and choices behind a creative life. Stu Whiffin moves between one-to-one music interviews and live patron roundtables, asking guests and regulars to connect songs with formative experiences rather than simply naming…
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A loose, lively chat about the music and family life that shaped Lily Moore.
Stu Whiffin's chat with Lily Moore is shaped by the music that formed her, from a home where singing, instruments, and creative work were part of daily life to the records she picked up through her uncles, her gunkles, and a teenage job at a pub.
A live fan night where a sleeve, a bassline, and a chorus do most of the heavy lifting.
Off The Beat and Track's live Patreon episode is built around albums that did more than entertain and genuinely changed how music was heard. Queen, Nevermind the Bollocks, and the Stone Roses all come into view as the discussion moves from one memory to the next, keeping the…
Carol Decker links T'Pau's pop past to the messy, practical push behind Be Wonderful.
Carol Decker comes through as a guest caught between two versions of the same career: the huge 80s moment that made T'Pau a household name, and the newer work that had only just been completed.
A record conversation about the moment inherited music starts to feel privately owned.
Eugene McGuinness's record choices turn a music-interview setup into a compact study of how taste hardens into identity. Stu Whiffin draws out the shift from hearing the Beatles in the family car to discovering the private charge of Dr.
A loose, affectionate record chat finds its anchor in a song remembered as a guiding light.
A beloved song arrives here as something close to private rescue, with Olive tracing a first encounter with "Easy" from Pleasure back to a hike and a friend's headphones.
A loose, warm live discussion about the albums that made music feel personal.
Albums that changed everything take on a lived-in shape in this live Off The Beat And Track discussion, as the show's Patreons circle the records that first rewired them.
A live letter-M show turns record picks into warm, wandering personal history.
A live letter-M edition of Off The Beat & Track becomes less a rules game than a record of how songs move between people. Van Morrison opens out into the patience sometimes needed for a difficult first listen, while The Men That Couldn't Hang brings in Colours, Greenfields of…
KISS fandom with the volume left up.
Host Stu Whiffen leads a live patron show where participants pick songs by artists starting with the letter M.
Host Stu Whiffen leads a live episode of Off The Beat & Track where audience members share albums that profoundly changed their musical lives.
This live Patreon episode features host Stu Whiffin and guests discussing and adding artists whose names start with the letter K to a playlist, starting with Kirst mentioning The Killers' song 'Reasons Unknown'.
This episode is a live Patreon hangout where the host and community members discuss and share music artists starting with the letter L as part of an ongoing alphabet series.
Stu Whiffin sits down with Lily Moore for a chat that starts at home and gradually widens out.
Stu Whiffin opens the live episode with the Patreons.
Carol Decker of T'Pau talks with Stu Whiffin about the new album Be Wonderful, the download single "Read My Lips" on 27 March, and a tour starting 10 April.
Stu Whiffin's Off The Beat and Track chat with Eugene McGuinness opens on Toots and the Maytals' "54-46 Was My Number," which McGuinness calls the greatest intro he can think of.
Host Stu Whiffin interviews 80s pop icon Tiffany about her early fame, hit song 'I Think We're Alone Now', and her career journey.
Olive Faber, from Sunflower Bean and Stars Revenge, talks with Stu Whippin on Off The Beat & Track about records that shaped her playing and writing.
This episode is a live Patreon hangout where the host and community members discuss and share music artists starting with the letter L as part of an ongoing alphabet series.
This live Patreon episode features host Stu Whiffin and guests discussing and adding artists whose names start with the letter K to a playlist, starting with Kirst's mention of The Killers.
This episode is a live show where the host and patrons discuss artists whose names start with the letter J, with humorous confessions about preparation mishaps.