The Wonder Years’ Soupy: WWE, the 2010s punk explosion and the real reasons to make art

Welcome to episode number 42 of Kerrang! In Conversation.

This week, Kerrang! Editor Luke Morton is joined by The Wonder Years frontman Dan ‘Soupy’ Campbell for a deep dive into punk rock, pro-wrestling and much more.

Chatting at the tail-end of 2025, Soupy reflects on the 10-year anniversary of No Closer To Heaven and the importance of using art to process our emotions, he explains the importance of staying true to yourself and your fans as an artist, and shares his thoughts on the surge in popularity of punk-adjacent music the mid-2010s.

He also discusses how he came to work with Becky Lynch and WWE and how it feels to turn 40 this year.

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