Hojo and Hunnsy’s Hard Rock House

EPISODE 19 – UFO AND GARY MOORE MAN NEIL CARTER IN DA HOUSE! LIONS IN THE STREET’S ‘MOVING ALONG’, THE ANGELS’ ‘DARK ROOM’ AND THE IMPORTANCE – OR OTHERWISE – OF LONG HAIR IN METAL.

Praise be! Episode 19 is with us, and we’ve only gone and got ‘im on! Listen to a few glorious minutes of our Neil Carter interview here, then check out the full-length version! Meanwhile, Hunnsy’s “frothing at the gills” over Lions In the Street and their Stonesy rock ‘n’ roll, while HoJo wants you to investigate The Angels’ ‘Dark Room’, the album AC/DC would have made had they gone to art school and smoked lots of dope! Plus! The important question! Where do you stand on the great metal hair debate? 

EPISODE 18 – TOMMY BOLIN’S ‘TEASER’, ACCEPT’S ‘BREAKER’ AND A METAL JOURNEY FROM HELL.

Hallelujah! Episode 18 is here, and Hunnsy’s going balls to the wall for Accept, HoJo gets all teary eyed over the majesty of Tommy Bolin, and recounts the bizarre ‘trains, planes and automobiles’ story of the superhuman effort he made to grant Accept their first Kerrang! cover story back in 1982.

EPISODE 17 – WHY DID HOJO’S MUM NEARLY KILL HIM AFTER SHE FOUND PERSONAL LETTERS FROM BLACKFOOT? AND THE BOYS GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF THEIR LISTENING WISDOM WITH ALBUMS BY UFO AND GRAND FUNK…

It’s all about ‘Lettergate’ in  Episode 17 of HoJo & Hunnsy’s Hard Rock House as HoJo recounts the sorry tale of Blackfoot and the X-rated correspondence they once sent him that was intercepted by his mum! Plus! Hunnsy goes wild for UFO’s ‘The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent’ and HoJo investigates the timeless appeal of Grand Funk’s ‘We’re An American Band’.

EPISODE 16 – A FLURRY OF BLOWS TO THE BACK OF HUNNSY’S HEAD, JOHN WAITE IS THE ONE OF THE GREATEST VOCALISTS EVER AND VON HERTZEN BROTHERS ARE JUST GROOVY

HoJo’s feeling a little bit poorly this week, but is he ready to take off his metal breastplate and retire to bed? Is he buggery! Not when there’s music to discuss and laughs to be had over John Waites 1984 album ‘No Brakes’, the one that featured colossal US Number One ‘Missing You’. There‘s also a dissection of music by Finnish rocko/pompy/folksome/popmongous outfit Von Hertzen Brothers, as well as the absolutely unwhackable story of Hunnsy being beaten around the head by Noodles from The Offspring who, incidentally, had only just finished pissing on his own glasses! Rock? It’s a weird and wonderful world alright…

EPISODE 15 – UNDERGROUND AOR LEGENDS DIVING FOR PEARLS AND A ‘SEINFELD’ CONNECTION, BILLY SQUIER AND HIS APPALLING VIDEO, AND HOJO GETTING ARRESTED WITH VARDIS.

Hold on to your headbands! Episode 15 is here and there’s mucho music for the old men of rock to get their false teeth into. Is Diving For Pearls the greatest undiscovered AOR band of them all? And if so, why did their guitarist end up in ‘Seinfeld’? Did ‘80s rocker Billy Squier create hip hop? But did he also star in the worst promo video of all time? And don’t miss out on the brilliant tale of how HoJo got arrested with British rockers Vardis in a pub near Manchester in the early ‘80s! His mum was livid!

EPISODE 14 – IS PHIL MOGG REALLY THE TAXMAN? SHOULD BLACK ‘N BLUE HAVE BEEN BIGGER THAN BON JOVI? AND WHAT THE HELL’S BROWN POWDER?

Our latest – maybe greatest – episode asks the questions other pods are too chickenshit to go near! Did UFO’s Phil Mogg really call HoJo in 1984 pretending to be the tax man? Should Bon Jovi be paying Black ‘N Blue royalties? Does Quireboys singer Spike honestly look like he’s spent the night in a damp sleeping bag in a dustbin? And why didn’t HoJo have a clue what brown powder was when Pete Way was on the hunt for it?

EPISODE 13 - QUICK! CALL THE AMBULANCE. CINDERELLA FRONTMAN TOM KEIFER’S LOST A LEG

HoJo and Hunnsy bemoan the fact that they never managed to bag a top-level LA rock girlfriend because they never went to legendary ‘80s club hangout The Cathouse. HoJo reveals why Disneyland After Dark ruined his life in the ‘80s and wonders where New American Shame have been all his life. But without a doubt the big issue of this week’s episode is what the f*ck has happened to Tom Keifer’s leg?!

EPISODE 12 - DO YOU NEED TO HAVE PUNKY’S HAIR TO LISTEN TO ANGEL? WHAT HAPPENED TO OZZY’S DWARF? AND WHEN SHOULD CLASSIC ROCK BANDS KNOCK IT ON THE HEAD?

Here we go again with another deep dive into the delightfully daft world of classic hard rock. Hunnsy’s been listening to Angel’s ‘Sinful’, wishing he had guitarist Punky Meadows’ hair, and worrying whether vocalist Frank DiMino is in the Mafia. HoJo’s going all art-rock-meets-grunge with Masters Of Reality, and we have a sad update about Ozzy’s dwarf! But the flaming hot topic of the week is this. When is the right time for rock bands to admit that they’re way past their sell-by date and should just knock it on the head?

EPISODE 11. IS NUNO BETTENCOURT, ER, LENG? NIGHT RANGER, WILD HORSES, AND WHERE’S OZZY’S DWARF?

HoJo and Hunnsy are hard at work strategising about how they can get their metal-hating kids the appreciate the glories of hard rock. Looks like they’re failing. Has anyone got any ideas? Meanwhile, the boys dive into albums by Night Ranger and Wild Horses. Also, what on earth does Hunnsy’s daughter mean when she says Nuno Bettencourt is ‘leng’? What’s the greatest opening track on a debut album? Why did HoJo meet Ozzy Osbourne’s own personal dwarf back in the early ‘80s? And where is he now?

EPISODE 10. FUNK METAL? OH PLEASE NO!! DID THE CULT REALLY RECORD ‘CYRIL WALKER’? AND TOMMY LEE PENIS ALERT.

The boys are riding into town tonight by the light of the moon to discuss The Dan Reed Network’s first album and whether it was the only good thing to come out of that awful funk metal movement? Plus! Who remembers The Cult’s ‘Cyril Walker’? Was HoJo a clairvoyant when writing about Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor in Kerrang! back in ’84? And will Hunnsy follow Tommy Lee’s example and wave his penis at his tomato plants? The ruddy marvellous 10th episode of HoJo & Hunnsy’s Hard Rock House is here right now to enlighten you on the issues that really matter in the world of loud!