Guffcast XL with Blank Atlas

Coming soon to your local podcatcher... GUFFCAST XL with Blank AtlasWe chat absolute guff in the van en route to one of our gigs!Subscribe so you don't miss future episodes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Guffcast XL!If you're familiar with our band you'll know that we like to do a mini-podcast in the van en route to gigs called THE GUFFCAST. We've actually uploaded 99 of these mini podcast clips onto social media. To celebrate the 100th episode, we thought we'd do our first ever FULL LENGTH GUFFCAST! So enjoy all the guff for a glorious 45 mins xoxIn this episode, we talk about the Guffcast origins, the time we had to put on a gig when we were 16 for charity and we play the Blank Atlas pub quiz!Not on a strict schedule for these episodes so make sure to subscribe if you don't wanna miss any future podcasts.Thanks so much for checking out the Guffcast XL!Links:Website: http://blankatlas.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19mN1VhMbwBSnFmLrX3a6mInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blankatlasbandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blankatlasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlankAtlasOfficial/About Blank Atlas:Blank Atlas are a Bristol Based, Alt Rock 3 piece boasting 3 part harmonies, dirty riffs and huge choruses. Taking inspiration from bands ranging from Meshuggah to McFly.The band consists of twin brothers Dan & Tom Thould and their closest friend, Chris Simpson who they met in school when they were 11 years old and have been playing together since. Since their formation, they have shared the stage with bands such as Holding Absence, Jamie Lenman, Puppy, Salem, Fatherson & Dream State to name a few. 2023 saw the band releasing their debut album, Dawn Chorus which gained the support of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. They also made their debut appearance at 2000 Trees Festival where Kerrang! named it as “one of the biggest small band buzzes of the weekend”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of the Guffcast XL, we delve into our musical past and what we got up to when we first started playing music. We also talk about how we started playing music together. Thomas also finds some rather cringe emails he used to send out to venues and festivals when we were young naive 16 year olds...Make sure you give us a follow to make sure you don't miss the next XL, and please leave us a review as that helps us a bunch xoxLinks:Website: http://blankatlas.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19mN1VhMbwBSnFmLrX3a6mInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blankatlasbandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blankatlasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlankAtlasOfficial/About Blank Atlas:Blank Atlas are a Bristol Based, Alt Rock 3 piece boasting 3 part harmonies, dirty riffs and huge choruses. Taking inspiration from bands ranging from Meshuggah to McFly.The band consists of twin brothers Dan & Tom Thould and their closest friend, Chris Simpson who they met in school when they were 11 years old and have been playing together since. Since their formation, they have shared the stage with bands such as Holding Absence, Jamie Lenman, Puppy, Salem, Fatherson & Dream State to name a few. 2023 saw the band releasing their debut album, Dawn Chorus which gained the support of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. They also made their debut appearance at 2000 Trees Festival where Kerrang! named it as “one of the biggest small band buzzes of the weekend”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Guffcast XL, we delve into a recent fan voted setlist and we judge everyones picks, and we also discuss what we would choose if we could vote! Then we play IS IT DANIEL THOULD OR JAMES HETFIELD?! Thomas reads a lyric to Chrissy and Daniel and they gotta guess whether it's a Daniel Thould lyric or a James Hetfield lyric. All the lyrics are pretty bad, enjoy!If you'd like us to answer one of your questions on the Guffcast XL, leave a comment on Spotify or DM us @blankatlasband on Instagram.Give us a follow to make sure you don't miss the next XL, and please leave us a review as that helps us a bunch xoxLinks:Website: http://blankatlas.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19mN1VhMbwBSnFmLrX3a6mInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blankatlasbandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blankatlasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlankAtlasOfficial/About Blank Atlas:Blank Atlas are a Bristol Based, Alt Rock 3 piece boasting 3 part harmonies, dirty riffs and huge choruses. Taking inspiration from bands ranging from Meshuggah to McFly.The band consists of twin brothers Dan & Tom Thould and their closest friend, Chris Simpson who they met in school when they were 11 years old and have been playing together since. Since their formation, they have shared the stage with bands such as Holding Absence, Jamie Lenman, Puppy, Salem, Fatherson & Dream State to name a few. 2023 saw the band releasing their debut album, Dawn Chorus which gained the support of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. They also made their debut appearance at 2000 Trees Festival where Kerrang! named it as “one of the biggest small band buzzes of the weekend”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of the Guffcast XL we welcome our first guest, Rowan Deverson to the pod! Rowan is one of the finest sound engineers in Bristol and we brought him along to a recent gig in Exeter so we thought we'd twist his arm onto coming on the pod too. Rowan is also a v talented instrumentalist playing in his own bands, [1313] , Hellios and The School of Rock Experience!We chat about his tribute band, The School of Rock Experience, the worst gig he's ever witnessed on the job, the worst gig he's ever played, gig etiquette and whether artists should be allowed on stage vocal tuning...Thanks so much for checking out the Guffcast XL, subscribe so you don't miss the next episode!Links:Follow all of Rowan's things!Rowan's insta: https://www.instagram.com/rowan_deversound[1313]: https://www.instagram.com/1313.ukHellios: https://www.instagram.com/hell_iosbandThe School of Rock Experience: https://www.instagram.com/schoolofrockexperienceFollow us: Website: http://blankatlas.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19mN1VhMbwBSnFmLrX3a6mInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blankatlasbandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blankatlasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlankAtlasOfficial/About Blank Atlas:Blank Atlas are a Bristol Based, Alt Rock 3 piece boasting 3 part harmonies, dirty riffs and huge choruses. Taking inspiration from bands ranging from Meshuggah to McFly.The band consists of twin brothers Dan & Tom Thould and their closest friend, Chris Simpson who they met in school when they were 11 years old and have been playing together since. Since their formation, they have shared the stage with bands such as Holding Absence, Jamie Lenman, Puppy, Salem, Fatherson & Dream State to name a few. 2023 saw the band releasing their debut album, Dawn Chorus which gained the support of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. They also made their debut appearance at 2000 Trees Festival where Kerrang! named it as “one of the biggest small band buzzes of the weekend”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we're at 2000 Trees Festival! This year, we played The Word Stage on the Wednesday so we do a full debrief on the set and everything we got up to over the course of the weekend at the festival! Massive thanks to James Scarlett for inviting us back to play our favourite festival xoxIn this episode we also roped some bands into coming on to the pod - We have Orchards, Chroma, Mallavora, Failstate and even Hamartia sneaking in to chat to us about their worst gigs, bad band names and their favourite festival food vendors! Massive thanks to all of the bands that came on our little pod <3 Can check em all out via the links below!We also announce that we're going on tour in the UK + Ireland in November, listen until the end to hear more info on that. Head over to blankatlas.co.uk for tickets.Links:Orchards: https://linktr.ee/orchardsforeverChroma: https://www.chroma.band/linksMallavora: https://linktr.ee/mallavoraFailstate: https://linktr.ee/failstatebandHamartia: https://linktr.ee/hamartiabandukWebsite: http://blankatlas.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19mN1VhMbwBSnFmLrX3a6mInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blankatlasbandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blankatlasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlankAtlasOfficial/About Blank Atlas:Blank Atlas are a Bristol Based, Alt Rock 3 piece boasting 3 part harmonies, dirty riffs and huge choruses. Taking inspiration from bands ranging from Meshuggah to McFly.The band consists of twin brothers Dan & Tom Thould and their closest friend, Chris Simpson who they met in school when they were 11 years old and have been playing together since. Since their formation, they have shared the stage with bands such as Holding Absence, Jamie Lenman, Puppy, Salem, Fatherson & Dream State to name a few. 2023 saw the band releasing their debut album, Dawn Chorus which gained the support of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. They also made their debut appearance at 2000 Trees Festival where Kerrang! named it as “one of the biggest small band buzzes of the weekend”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bit of a different one for this episode, we came across a old Guffcast we recorded in March 2024 featuring our good friend, Ben Shiels of Hamartia / Hellios after an excellent gig we did in Falmouth. 80% of this is totally new unused gold so enjoy!Ben tells us his worst gigs, we chat about said excellent gig in Falmouth, we tell each other who inspired us to start playing music, we also chat about school talent shows and dream guffcast guests! This was a bit of a gem that we couldn't believe went unused, so we thought we'd make it an XL since we're not super active at the minute and you guys still have an XL to enjoy xoxMake sure to check out all of Ben's bands in the links below!We'll be straight back to it in the van later this month so expect more XL's in your feed ❤️Follow Ben Shiels!Ben: https://www.instagram.com/ben_shielss/Hamartia: https://www.instagram.com/hamartiabanduk/Hellios: https://www.instagram.com/hell_iosband/Follow us!Website: http://blankatlas.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19mN1VhMbwBSnFmLrX3a6mInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blankatlasbandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blankatlasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlankAtlasOfficial/About Blank Atlas:Blank Atlas are a Bristol Based, Alt Rock 3 piece boasting 3 part harmonies, dirty riffs and huge choruses. Taking inspiration from bands ranging from Meshuggah to McFly.The band consists of twin brothers Dan & Tom Thould and their closest friend, Chris Simpson who they met in school when they were 11 years old and have been playing together since. Since their formation, they have shared the stage with bands such as Holding Absence, Jamie Lenman, Puppy, Salem, Fatherson & Dream State to name a few. 2023 saw the band releasing their debut album, Dawn Chorus which gained the support of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. They also made their debut appearance at 2000 Trees Festival where Kerrang! named it as “one of the biggest small band buzzes of the weekend”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, we're in the van en route to our show in Exeter supporting our old pals in Lastelle. We decided we'd listen to all the old demos from out debut album, Dawn Chorus. Some of which are pretty different to the final song. Hope that's kinda interesting to some of ya, enjoy!We also do a batlas pub quiz at the end!Thanks so much for checking out the Guffcast XL, follow for more episodes!Links:Website: http://blankatlas.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19mN1VhMbwBSnFmLrX3a6mInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blankatlasbandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blankatlasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlankAtlasOfficial/About Blank Atlas:Blank Atlas are a Bristol Based, Alt Rock 3 piece boasting 3 part harmonies, dirty riffs and huge choruses. Taking inspiration from bands ranging from Meshuggah to McFly.The band consists of twin brothers Dan & Tom Thould and their closest friend, Chris Simpson who they met in school when they were 11 years old and have been playing together since. Since their formation, they have shared the stage with bands such as Holding Absence, Jamie Lenman, Puppy, Salem, Fatherson & Dream State to name a few. 2023 saw the band releasing their debut album, Dawn Chorus which gained the support of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. They also made their debut appearance at 2000 Trees Festival where Kerrang! named it as “one of the biggest small band buzzes of the weekend”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of the Guffcast XL, we're on tour across the UK with our friends in The Last Vinci, we discuss the new line ups from Download + our beloved 2000 Trees, we talk about our first ever time at a festival back in 2013 and then we do another batlas quiz!Enjoy!Follow us!Website: http://blankatlas.co.ukSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19mN1VhMbwBSnFmLrX3a6mInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blankatlasbandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blankatlasFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlankAtlasOfficial/About Blank Atlas:Blank Atlas are a Bristol Based, Alt Rock 3 piece boasting 3 part harmonies, dirty riffs and huge choruses. Taking inspiration from bands ranging from Meshuggah to McFly.The band consists of twin brothers Dan & Tom Thould and their closest friend, Chris Simpson who they met in school when they were 11 years old and have been playing together since. Since their formation, they have shared the stage with bands such as Holding Absence, Jamie Lenman, Puppy, Salem, Fatherson & Dream State to name a few. 2023 saw the band releasing their debut album, Dawn Chorus which gained the support of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. They also made their debut appearance at 2000 Trees Festival where Kerrang! named it as “one of the biggest small band buzzes of the weekend”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.