
Keep Dancing Podcast S11 E0: How Soft Is Your Reboot?
As the real world crashes apocalypsewards, we deserve a little strictly, as a treat. Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha, Elliott and Ewan to jump to conclusions and extrapolate from zero data points about our upcoming dance themed themed dance Q4 festival of fun.
Topics:
- Farewell to our departing legends
- New dancers and A CANADIAN?
- A parasocial gossip fantasy
- Some modest proposals
- Year of the Dads
- “Dogs/Ringer”
- Who have we cursed by making them our early fave?
If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Sep 15
1 hr 8 min

Keep Dancing Podcast S11 E0: How Soft Is Your Reboot?
As the real world crashes apocalypsewards, we deserve a little strictly, as a treat. Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha, Elliott and Ewan to jump to conclusions and extrapolate from zero data points about our upcoming dance themed themed dance Q4 festival of fun.
Topics:
- Farewell to our departing legends
- New dancers and A CANADIAN?
- A parasocial gossip fantasy
- Some modest proposals
- Year of the Dads
- “Dogs/Ringer”
- Who have we cursed by making them our early fave?
If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Sep 15
1 hr 8 min

Who’s in Marlon Brando’s Vegan Biker Gang? Ellie and Asha are here for leather, hem and LBD discourse.
Also discussed:
- Good leather
- Plant leather https://alternativeleathers.com/products/desserto-cactus-leather?variant=41589542027404
- Dear god please do something else with the transformation challenge
- Not wearing white before or after Labor Day
- The All Saints Parachute dress https://www.allsaints.com/features/parachute-dress.html
- REFLECTIVE fabrics!! https://www.helloreflectives.com/
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If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Sep 12
43 min

Huge cheers to Rebecca for having one of the most effective Sewing Bee stints in history. A super new wardrobe! Awesome friends! Accommodations! Worker’s rights! Ellie is joined by AJ & Asha to pretend to know what constitutes a gap and pretend not to know about Roald Dahl’s views about women. Slubs!
Also discussed:
- We did miss a week, sorry
- Who would have worn which deerstalker?
- Alternative literary transformation challenges
- More alternative literary transformation challenges
- Solving for Bridgerton
- In Bed With The Right on Jane Eyre https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-151-jane-eyre/id1696774612?i=1000787545439
- Please no more hem discourse
- Some vague guesses about historical hair
- Historical costume YouTube is cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzr7m-OCFas
If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Sep 7
38 min

Keep Sewing Podcast S4 E6 - Pants Trauma
It turns out that children are people! Ellie, AJ and Asha investigate clothes, but smaller. It all ends in discourse, naturally.
Diversions include:
- Supermarket kids clothes genders
- The Magic of Dance with Margot Fonteyn https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0gwdrjj/the-magic-of-dance-series-1-4-the-romantic-ballet
- Cat Ouija https://www.petsathome.com/product/pets-at-home-halloween-ouija-board-cat-toy/7154694P?productId=7154694&size=oneSize
- Orville & Cuddles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0V5xiMK8_4
- Dinosaur Beef https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/679-the-bone-wars/
- Conical hat issues
If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Aug 23
46 min

Sports week! What *do* men like? Surprising numbers of mentions of The Stranglers, maybe? Ellie is joined by AJ and Asha to talk about sewing stuff for jigging about in. We wish we were at the Jamboree.
- Modern Pentathlon obstacle course I AM NOT MESSING WITH YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeIV9mu1mmI
- Aesthetics of kitesurfers vs windsurfers
- An idea for a ‘hairdressing’ reality show
- SANDCASTLE BAKE OFF https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002zkr2/race-against-the-tide
- The Cheetah Citation https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cheetah-dog-furry-friendship
- High end Methodist banner game
- Ewan’s Fringe podcast https://thepodcastcorner.com/show/edinburghfringe/
If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Aug 17
34 min

We’re off to Mexico and we might never shut up about it! Ellie is joined by AJ and Asha to talk trim, fann(y)ing about and ribbons. It’s a bit of a rapid run through but we bid farewell to a real one.
- Prepare for your in-depth lecture on Mexican weaving https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/Wrapped%20in%20Color%20Exhibit%20Booklet%202.pdf
- The endangered crafts list https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/skills/redlist/
- World of Wearable art https://www.worldofwearableart.com/
- What is pigeon milk? https://www.distractify.com/p/what-is-pigeon-milk-animal-crossing
- We’re not doing the Met Gala any more
If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Aug 9
31 min

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Returns! Let’s upcycle our way out of this modern hell! This episode starts out with Ellie, Asha and Elliott talking about our favourite ecohabits then we actually get to talking about the Sewing Bee. Sorry for being depressing, but it makes you think dunnit.
- Miniml cleaning gloops https://minimlrefills.co.uk/
- Locavore, you might have something like this near you https://www.locavore.scot/
- The Energy Dashboard! https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live
- How an Overlocker works https://weallsew.com/overlocker-for-beginners-an-introduction-to-sergers/
- The knickers https://communityclothing.co.uk/collections/womens-underwear/products/womens-high-rise-brief-2-pack-black
- Bow discourse
- Barbie Exhibition https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/kelvingrove-art-gallery-and-museum/barbie-the-exhibition
- Hemgate as a failure of The Edit
- Ikea dress https://shunvogue.com/article/how-to-make-a-dress-out-of-an-ikea-bag
If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
You’d better be reading Ariadne’s blog https://ariadnereviews.com/
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Aug 1
45 min

AJ sits in and is joined by Ariadne and Elliot in an industrial complex on the M60 to pick apart the latest episode of the UK’s favourite fabric-based light entertainment show!
Featuring:
- Summer matcha shaming
- The mortifying ordeal of Lewis being perceived
- Sam’s Mrs Overall tribute
- The inherent eroticism of water
- Our designated fave cishet man for the series
- The Crisp Sideboard
Show links:
Mrs Overall https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f4fl1
That J-Lo Versace dress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Versace_dress_of_Jennifer_Lopez
Walkers spring onion crisps https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/walkers-crisps-discontinued-flavours-uk-27863449
Dan’s engagement https://www.instagram.com/p/Da-45EojZlC/?img_index=1
Johnny Vegas Jacamo ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOI9CE8sEo
Buy Ellie’s Strictly/Eurovision things! https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/totallyflagulous
Support AJ’s GoFundMe! https://gofund.me/48297356
If you’d like to get in touch with us, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
Keep Watching Pod supports the work of Not A Phase and you can too. https://notaphase.org/
Jul 25
49 min

The Haberdashery has been restocked! Ellie is joined by AJ, Asha and Elliott to chat topstitching, aprons and our ideal summer days.
Also discussed:
- The Year of the Soft Reboot!
- In defence of the ergonomic apple picking bag, sorta
- Freehand embroidery explained (not well)
- Light menswear conspiracy theorising
- Poo bag or poo bag bag?
- Sewing meme to fast fashion pipeline
- Chaos Suzy forever
If you’d like to get in touch, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Instagram at @keepdancingpod and Bluesky at @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social.
Don’t forget the shop at https://totallyflagulous.etsy.com where there’s Strictly and Snooker and Football and Taskmaster and Christmas number one stuff!
Our favourite charity is NOT A PHASE, stick them a fiver if you like what you hear.
Jul 19
44 min
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