ADAM BUXTON
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Funny rambling with a musical heart.
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST pairs handmade introductions with loose conversations involving comedians, musicians, actors, writers, and old friends. It can move from a field to rehearsal tape, therapy, outsider art, or bike-pump songs without losing its cosy thread.
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THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST is a conversational show with a handmade pulse. It often begins before it begins, with Adam Buxton outside somewhere in Norfolk, London, or another passing location, noticing weather, noise, Rosie, family life, work, nerves, or whatever has wandered into view. Those preambles matter. They set the emotional temperature before the conversation arrives. The show is funny, but its comedy rarely behaves like a neat segment. A mock advert may turn into mythological restaurant business. A live show may pause for a song about bicycle pumps. A present between Adam and Joe can become a gentle argument about amateur guitar, Bowie, birthdays, and the pain of being trapped near someone’s enthusiasm. Music is a major current here, from Frank Black and Pixies fragments to David Byrne on outsider art, John Foxx on glamour and self-invention, and Daudi Matsiko performing in front of a theatre audience. Comedy is never far away either, especially in live episodes with David O'Doherty, Richard Ayoade, and Jessica Knappett. Still, the show gives serious subjects room to breathe. Devendra Banhart speaks about therapy, fathers, suicide, and the strangeness of emotional release. Lucy Walker moves from aging and school memories into ibogaine and addiction treatment. Other passages linger on grief, parents, depression, bipolar experience, and the odd rewards and aftershocks of loss. The conversations are deliberately porous, with digressions, production caveats, recommendations, credits, and affectionate goodbyes left in as part of the texture. That looseness is the point. It makes the show feel like a private radio ramble with a strong record collection, a comic reflex, and a willingness to sit with melancholy for a minute before making a small, embarrassed joke.
Made for: For listeners who like long-form cultural conversations that leave in the pauses, preambles, jokes, and emotional side roads. It especially suits fans of comedy, thoughtful music chat, and conversations that feel personal without becoming polished.
What sets it apart: Its identity sits as much in the framing as in the guests: outdoor intros, handmade jingles, live-show scraps, production asides, and affectionate sign-offs give each episode a lived-in shape. Serious conversations and absurd riffs are allowed to occupy the same room.
British comedian Adam Buxton talks with interesting people. The rambly conversations are sometimes funny, sometimes more serious with funny bits. Adam makes the jingles and records the intros and outros for most episodes while walking with his dog friend Rosie in the East Anglian countryside where he lives with his wife and three children.Adam has appeared in films such as Hot Fuzz, Stardust and Son Of Rambow as well as a variety of TV shows in the UK. Since 2007 he has hosted BUG, a live show that combines music videos and comedy that became a TV series on Sky...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Buxton turns artist conversation into attentive, funny listening about performance, creative habits and the details surrounding a life in music.
Adam Buxton lets music conversations wander until a revealing detail appears. With John Foxx, stage identity leads into self-consciousness, visual style and dark glamour; with David Byrne, a discussion of his music room opens onto unfinished work, living spaces and outsider art.
A bike-pump song is your cue: Adam Buxton makes the detour worth staying for.
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A choir's electronic theme-song tribute sets up birthday harmonica, bad Bowie, and warm musical awkwardness.
The episode uses a choir's electronic arrangement of Adam's theme song as a neat way into music chat with a social edge. Ben Jackson's Many Men Sound System pulls Jefferson Airplane, Hot Chip, and a synth/drum machine into the same orbit, while the choir's "He's a man" warm-up…
Pixies fragments, comic unease and a tender reflection on losing a father shape this Palladium show.
Adam Buxton's London Palladium show brings Richard Ayoade and Frank Black together for an enjoyably awkward meeting of comedy and music. The musical centre is a brief piece of the Pixies' "Hey," with Black on acoustic guitar, Ayoade taking Joey Santiago's electric guitar parts…
A tender, winding conversation about therapy, grief, and the delicate meaning of calling someone Dad.
Adam Buxton's conversation with his guest is strongest when it sits in the uneasy overlap between therapy and family history. The guest recalls an early run of therapy that seemed to bring a great deal to the surface, followed by a pea-sized bump on his arm that grew to…
Lucy Walker brings sharp thoughts on ageing and a filmmaker's curiosity about ibogaine to Adam Buxton's warm, digressive company.
Lucy Walker joins Adam Buxton to talk about ageing, an unexpectedly reunion-like wedding, and her film about ibogaine. She is funniest on seeing familiar faces who look as though they have dressed up as their parents, then learning that an old acquaintance is now a judge: "Your…
A bicycle-pump song opens into a funny, affectionate look at what live podcasting does to intimacy.
David O'Doherty and Adam Buxton turn a live appearance at Dublin's Vicar Street into comedy about small things: bicycle pumps, valve terminology, and the strange business of speaking intimately to a thousand people.
John Foxx follows stage nerves into dark glamour, with a white sparkle suit catching the light.
John Foxx's conversation circles the uneasy glamour of becoming visible: a brief meeting with Vivienne Westwood, the awkwardness around modelling, and the stage persona that could hold what Dennis Lee could not.
A warm, wandering conversation about rooms, outsider art, and the odd sounds orbiting a musician's work.
The conversation finds its center in a room: an apartment that became a kind of anchor during pandemic isolation, offering protection, structure, and the emotional ground for a song about being alone.
A live comic conversation opens into Daudi Matsiko's communal song about depression and bipolar.
The York recording works because it treats a live podcast less as a polished interview than as a shared room, where jokes, nerves and second thoughts stay audible.
Chicago critics DeRogatis and Kot pair new-album reviews with deep dives into records like Rumours.
Billboard's Keith Caulfield and Katie Atkinson break down the week's Hot 100 and 200 charts.
Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson trace viral internet stories from Reddit threads to courtrooms.
Chris Black and Jason Stewart riff on fashion, food, and celebrity culture three times weekly.
On this Christmas Day 2025 episode (#268), Adam Buxton is joined by longtime collaborator Joe Cornish for a freewheeling year-end catch-up and gift exchange.
["Adam Buxton packages EP.267 around a March 2024 London Palladium live show with Richard Ayoade and Frank Black, plus a dressing-room chat from the Forum in Kentish Town the day before.
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["Lucy Walker tells Adam Buxton how moving between state schools, private schools, girls' boarding schools, Oxford, and NYU left her with a flexible accent rather than one fixed way of speaking.", "She remembers New York in the 1990s as cheap, grimy, and full of squatters and lofts, and she describes a dinner where David Bowie and Iman left her starstruck.", "The conversation turns to Westminster's smoking, drinking, heroin problems, then to Walker's own experiments with LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and supervised DMT trials at Imperial College.", "Walker links that work to ibogaine, Howard Lotsoff, How to Change Your Mind, and a discussion about whether happiness in life follows a U-shape."]
This is a long-delayed release of a 2018 live recording with Irish comedian and musician David O'Doherty, taped at Vicar Street during the Dublin Podcast Festival and held back for eight years.
John Fox tells Adam Buxton how Ultravox grew out of the Royal College of Art, Tiger Lily, and an art-school interest in Fluxus, Wendy Carlos, and Kraftwerk.
Adam Buxton interviews David Byrne in London in June 2025 about Who Is The Sky?, the first single "Everybody Laughs," and Byrne’s long path from Talking Heads to solo records.
Adam Buxton hosts a live podcast episode recorded at York Theatre Royal in May 2024 with comedian Jessica Knappett and musician Daudi Matsiko.