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Before the age of 10, Adam had sat behind Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Frenzy. His future was set around that time. Now, he is an award-winning producer of comedy classic such as The Thick of it, Inside No9, The League of Gentlemen and I'm Alan Partridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Manchester band Wax Head deliver brash, angry, 'I wanna break stuff' garage punk. Frontman/drummer Lewis chats about his dual role in the band, playing along to Nirvana, angry sound engineers and encouraging 'friendly violence' at their live shows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harry (vocals/ guitar) and Miles (bass/ producer) talk about the band's new album Clasping Hands With The Moribund, demoing during lockdown, live sound engineers and turning duo songwriting into a 7 or 8 piece finished track. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bob's music career started writing for television and after travelling to Asia and Africa, he was inspired by tribal music and ethnic sounds which birthed African Drug, the track remixed by Coldcut and other DJs which put his name on the club underground scene. ​He talks about his love/hate relationdhip with live performance, how an electronic ambient composer writes music compared to a ‘standard' songwriter, his love of Radiohead and The Smile, his music being used in The Sopranos, Friends, Ace Ventura and Lost, doing all the music for documentary until Jeff Bridges had another idea and new music Hidden Voices Unveiled. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James talks about the difference in pressure of releasing album 3 to album 2, his struggle with mental health and having therapy, songwriting tips from friend and Wolf Alice drummer Joel Amey, Air BnB Monopoly and working with producer Andy Savours on new album Reason Enough. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first returning guest on the podcast, Paul comes back to talk about the cracking new Maximo Park album Stream of Life, how where he is in life has informed it's content, recording in America, set list disagreements, Maggie Thatcher and working with Low's Mimi Parker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Starting as runner at Talkback before climbing the production ladder to become researcher and sketch writer on Bo Selecta, James De Frond now directs his childhood friend and famous comic Tom Davis on projects they write together. Credits like BBC's King Gary, the BAFTA-winning Murder in Successville and Channel 4's The Curse have ensured James is a writer/ director with serious comedy chops. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With industry backgrounds in film in the US and the UK, married filmmakers Sam and Bertie talk firstly about their work on Sharknado, Eternals, Spiderman: Far From Home and Cats, as well as short films about zombies and Splinter Cell, before breaking down new debut feature Midnight Taxi; how they got it funded, their process writing, directing and promoting, and the cameo by one Peter Serafinowicz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ali talks about how work experience on the same floor as Empire magazine led to where he is today, namely interviewing A-List Hollywood royalty like Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, and critiquing film. He details his process of how he makes his interviews different for both viewer and guest; how he goes from 20 minutes with Tarantino straight to a chat with the aforementioned stars of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; how he made Harrison Ford emotional and his dream guest couch if he got his own TV talk show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Stamp lays out his journey of Kurupt FM's humble webisode beginnings to being picked by the BBC for 5 series. He details how he approached the writing, being scared when he had to actually act, and how it felt collecting his BAFTA. He also covers working on the excellent The Curse with comedy powerhouse Tom Davis and 'sweetheart' Michael Smiley, and which actor would shout at the floor to get into the right frame of mind. And then his other baby, Peacock, and it's inception and development of story and characters from season 1 to the recently released season 2. Oh, and of course, he talks about his sex scenes in the show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As he releases his new album Wide Open, Horses, James talks about his leftfield approach to writing it, including two live shows playing the album before the songs were even finished. He also talks about record labels putting on the pressure to make videos of absolutely anything on social media, his Wicked Game cover that appeared in the trailer for Game of Thrones, the music of his that he isn't a fan of and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From sport participant to sport photographer, Christian decided to jump from this to movie extra and then stand-in for Tom Cruise as he worked his way to become an on-set photographer in the film industry. Years later and with some A-Lister help, he has now racked up an impressive list of credits shooting on two Mission Impossible films, Boiling Point with Stephen Graham, Ted Lasso, Michael Bay's 13 Hours and most recently, the new Star Wars series The Acolyte. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Australian troubadour talks new album Drama King and the process of recording it with a producer for the first time, running over kangaroos, swearing in songs, getting sober and how it affected live shows and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Dagenham to France to New York to Dorset, Scott Lavene has has taken his music far and wide. With new album Disneyland in Dagenham just around the corner, Scott breaks down his process with writing his unique styles of music, working with and befriending The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, breakfast, Tom Waits, The Beatles, and being in a band that was a mix of Chas 'n' Dave and Queens of the Stone Age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a 16 year break, The Zutons are back! New album The Big Decider, produced by Nile Rodgers and Ian Brodie, is proof that they are still a force to be reckoned with. Frontman Dave McCabe and saxophonist Abi Harding talk about the songwriting and recording process, past albums, a bad run in with Bill Wyman and John Lydon (on separate occasions) and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Editor for Christopher Nolan's debut film Following, Gareth Heal goes deep on the full story as well as an extensive look at his work on British sitcom People Just Do Nothing and it's film, Greg Davies and The Cleaner, Peacock and what it means to be a comedy editor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrew Hung Fuck Buttons brings tales of dancing in music videos, songwriting on third solo album Deliverance and scoring The Greasy Strangler to the podcast. He also debates electronic music as abstract art and whether music artists ever are their true selves to their fans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Edgar Wright takes to the stage at the Prince Charles Cinema in London for the opening episode of Season 3. He tells tales of the making of his main film credits and cult show Spaced, as well as his on stage with Scorsese, Jeremy Beadle, kicking a granny in the face, and answering questions especially sent in from the likes of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman and Jon Hamm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Willie talks about his incredible new album Bunny and how being loaned a drum machine by friend Jamie T helped influence his change of sound, bike riding with Idles front man Joe Talbot, touring with Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine, getting signed and dropped by Columbia, being signed by former Maccabees guitarist Felix White, and a dive into the making of Bunny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gengahr's new album, Red Sun Titans, has already been unleashed, and what a cracker it is. Bassist Hugh Schulte and guitarist Jon Victor chat about the band's origins and how John came onboard, recording the new album and how they landed on the band's unique sound, something that Hugh details with 'noodling', meeting fans at signings, and the upcoming tour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Talking surfing, AI-created music videos, transitioning from punk to the wholly different sound of new album My Guardian Angel, working with producer Chris 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Coady, and his love for the Strokes, Jakob 'son of Green Day's Billie Joe' Armstrong is very much his own man and a top notch songwriter in his own right. With not a whiff of nepotism in sight, he details his band's latest offering and how it came to be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Live at Leicester Square's world-famous Prince Charles Cinema, Brian Blessed surpasses the swear quota of all previous 95 episodes combined, and covers what 'Gordon's Alive' has become, Peppa Pig, Patrick Stewart, burping, Z Cars, sparring with Muhammed Ali, wrestling a gorilla, Blackadder, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Peter O'Toole, being in a plane crash, meeting The Queen, creating the South Downs, being a trained cosmonaut, Kenneth Branagh, I Claudius, an absolutely cutlery-dropping, eye-popping, 100% hard 18 certificate Maggie Thatcher's funeral skit and a dazzlingly operatic finale recalling being in Stars In Their Eyes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just two weeks shy of releasing their debut album Plus Ultra, front men Charlie Woods and Jake Mac talk about writing the album, but also throw in the crime of venue closure, bunting, Mogwai, trying not to swear in live sessions, angering parents and children and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Born in France, raised in Australia and living in L.A, Flo Chase brings his extraordinary origins to his music, even initially using it to communicate when he couldn't speak English. He talks about his admiration for John Mayer, writing and recording debut album Toi, writing in French and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Australian singer/ composer Matt Corby talks photoshoots, being signed by a Mumford & Son, live shows, Covid, his love for Radiohead's Kid A, breaking down his Lonely Boy cover and new upcoming, rather excellent album 'Everything's Fine'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The DMA'S guitarist Johnny Took talks supporting Arctic Monkeys, ‘fessing up to an onstage boo boo, first coming to the UK after Liam from The Courteeners got them over for a tour from hearing one song, Neil Young cocaine nose, breaking down writing a heavily electronic song compared to writing on an acoustic, DMAs time off on tour schedule, playing drunk, Sonic Youth's influence on a song from the new album and getting married. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scottish singer-songwriter Hamish Hawk talks about recording his new album Angel Numbers under the pressure of it being the follow up to a very favourably received predecessor, being compared to playwrights such as Euripides, horoscopes, lockdown, his upcoming tour and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Dublin to Paris to London, Somebody's Child, aka Cian Godfrey has soaked up a lot of culture and it shows in his music. After three EP releases in two years, he is now releasing his debut, self-titled album produced my Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Arcade Fire) in Feb 2023. He talks about writing and recording it, his intent on showing Ireland as modern and progressive creatively, and why he ticked yes on a visa for to the question 'Have you ever transported human organs?' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former Duke of Darkness, now Archduke O'Darkdom, Garth Marenghi is not usually one to allow his words and wisdom be recorded and scrutinised forevermore. Maybe it was the Christmas season, but live at The Comedy Store in London's West End, the horror author talked not only about his new smash-hit novel TerrorTome, but also the man behind the mystery; what makes him tick, what he does for Christmas, what scares him, as well as fielding questions from his fans in the audience. So listen if you dare, I'm sure he hopes you have an UN-pleasant experience doing so. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Black Angels released their latest album Wilderness of Mirrors in Sept 2022. Front man Alex Maas, a true gent, opens up about the difficulty of writing lyrics, his love for The Beatles and Radiohead, his fear of war, touring as a parent and ghostly goings on in the studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For his sophomore album, John Mark Lapham a.k.a Old Fire has enlisted another impressive list of singers and instrumentalists, including Bill Callahan and Julie Holter, to deliver an album that doesn't sit comfortably in any genre or even sub-genre it is such a diverse range of sounds. From his home in Texas, he talks about its creation, why it took five years to release, studying in Manchester and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Live from The Old Market Theatre in Brighton, Chris Helme joined me onstage to talk about how he went from busking to fronting The Seahorses, recording with Tony Visconti in Hollywood, watching Liam Gallagher get told off by Noel, paying to see the Stones while supporting them, and clashing with John Squire which would ultimately see the band break up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As their third album hits is unleashed on the world, LIFE's frontman Mez talks about it's recording and writing process. From laying down the intimate vocals to Duck Egg Blue at 2am to how he crafts lyrics with his brother (LIFE guitarist Stewart), Mez also talks supporting Pearl Jam, his peers such as Idles and Crows, his dad's Nissan Bluebird and gelato. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Working closely with the likes of John Hughes, Michael Mann, Howie Deutch, Joel Schumacher, Kathryn Bigelow, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey and Brad Pitt, Script Supervisor Pamela Alch's career is littered with diverse A-List strewn credits. She talks about working on Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ferries Bueller, The Cable Guy, Showgirls, Miami Vice, Up in Smoke, Strange Days and more, giving great insight into what is a vital role in the movie-making business. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Top Gun: Maverick Editor Eddie Hamilton reveals just what it was like to work on the set and in the cutting room of Tom Cruise's latest and biggest hit. Collaborating closely with the man himself and producer Christopher McQuarrie, Eddie had his work cut out for him with the huge task at hand but boy, did he deliver! He also talks about the last two Mission Impossible films' bathroom fight, motorbike chase, mask and mission rules, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service. Grab your cozzy and dive in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just a week before the release of sophomore album My Other People, TV Priest front man Charlie talks about fatherhood, recording the first album in a room so small they could only fit half a drum kit at a time in it, his vocal styles and the sounds his band mates create and getting signed after one gig in a giant freezer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For the first podcast recording in front of a live audience, Reel Feedback joins Turin Brakes at The Old Market in Brighton to talk songwriting, band origins, Damon Albarn making tea at Band Aid 20, writing songs for Gary Barlow, the pressure of success and supporting Travis while singer Ollie vomited throughout the gig. Also, the success of debut album The Optimist and their forthcoming new album 'Wide-Eyed Nowhere' and tour. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Terminator 2, True Lies, Heat, The West Wing and more, Nicholas R.Allen has worked on some of the biggest productions capturing sound. He breaks down the gunfight and infamous cafe scenes with De Niro and Pacino, talks about being involved in every scene of T2, how to record the walk-and-talk audio of The West Wing and how the business itself has changed over the years, causing division between technicians and the higher echelon's of the industry. Throw in some Elm Street 4 and Galaxy Quest and you had a big episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pink Mountaintops frontman Stephen McBean has cited many unexpected influences for his first album with the band in eight years, including John Carpenter and David Cronenberg movies, bodybuilding books written by postmodern feminist Camille Paglia and 70s Disney read-along books.He talks from the tour bus en route to Denver, Colorado as part of the band's U.S tour about writing and recording the eclectic new album Peacock Pools (mostly) in lockdown, touring with Dinosaur Jr, David Bowie and the punk scene in his town when he grew up in Canada. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Crows frontman talks in the lead up to sophomore album Beware Believers, a no holds barred, glorious ear-assault of an album off the back of the success of their debut Silver Tongues that saw them tour with Idles and share the stage with Slaves and Wolf Alice to name a couple more. Cox talks his ‘rabbit hole' dives when researching for lyrics, Daniel Johnston, SXSW in Texas, his onstage persona and both albums. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Behind-the-scenes vlogging on movies like 28 Weeks Later, Sunshine and Son of Rambow, Prince's 21-date residency at the 02 and Michael Jackson's Is This It residency announcement are all jobs sitting on Damien's CV. Add to that having his photography as part of the world's first camera phone exhibition, working on Radio 2 and Radio 1Xtra, being given two choice words from Kevin Spacey and babysitting Daniel Radcliffe, and Sung has quite the story to tell. Links to his work and more can be found at Linktr.ee/Damnsung. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dodgy are at the forefront of bands when you think Britpop, but what was that scene like from the inside? Frontman Nigel Clark tells all, including what those whirlwind few years were like, how he and Dodgy wrote songs like In A Room, their beginnings at the Dodgy Club and how they got signed, his solo work, punk and The Beatles. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sea Power's frontman talks about the process of making the band's new album Everything Was Forever and the new way the band approached recording during Covid. He also talks early days club nights in Brighton, appearing on David Letterman in New York, scoring soundtracks and his feelings on playing live. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In one of his first chats about the upcoming Feeder album Torpedo, frontman Grant talks about it's tracks and how he wrote them. Also, he chats about early Feeder gigs and getting the band known, the origin of the name (which incidentally he wouldn't choose today) and the tragic death of drummer Jon Lee and how he dealt with the aftermath, from drinking to songwriting. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Starsailor gear up to embark on a UK in support of the 20th anniversary of their debut Love Is Here, also lovingly reissued as a double album, singer James Walsh talks about the process behind writing and recording the album, how the band got their record deal, why Phil Spector was let go as producer on Silence Is Easy, cooking, fatherhood, hanging with Travis and Coldplay, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A delicious mix of stories from the ongoing second season of the podcast. Near-death experience, pulling knives on men with snakes, upsetting Dave Grohl, and working with Jim Carrey are just a few of the tales told here by guests Gary Numan, Skunk Anansie's Skin, Fontaines D.C's Grian Chatten, The Subways' Billy Lunn, The Horrors' Faris Badwan, Ben Schwartz from Parks and Recreation, Censor Director Prano Bailey-Bond, Garth Marenghi creator Matthew Holness, The Clockworks' Sean Connelly and James McGregor, Shame's Charlie Steen, Cat's Eyes' Rachael Zeffira and Tyne James-Organ. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Speaking from his editing man cave, adorned with posters and memorabilia of his favourite movies, Neil Marshall covers a lot of ground in his episode. How he got Dog Soldiers up and running, his process on the Descent including details on creating the monsters movement and THAT jump scare, shaking things up when directing Game of Thrones, informal movie chat with Sir Anthony Hopkins (NB call him Tony) on Westworld, unleashing his inner pretension directing Hannibal and the bluntly verbalised reasons why he deems the Hellboy reboot the worst experience of his professional career. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bang, flames, bullets, car wreck, a good action movie has some if not all of these. But how do you create the glorious destruction that has adorned our movie screens for years? The answer is with people like Terry Glass. With his first job being working on Alien, Terry's career was off to a great start. He moved onto, among others, 80s great Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and continued to explode his way through Hollywood for the next few decades and is still causing carnage with Michael Bay on 13 Hours and Transformers as well as Mission Impossible 6 and 7. And he talks about all these and more in this episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The full story of how an idea to run a horror festival at a famous backstreet London cinema grew into the gore behemoth it is today is laid out by one of it's directors, Ian Rattray. From a struggled start to a George Romero guest appearance to putting a PR woman in her place in front of an entire cinema to suprise director appearances and the grisly content itself, the movies, Ian details the huge effort and process of putting on the globally renowned, Frightfest. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Queensway Tunnel links Birkenhead to Liverpool, and it is driving through it that musician Zuzu finds most of her song ideas come to her. It's only right then to name her debut album after it, which is exactly what she did. On this episode, she talks about her songs and how she created them as well as working as an elf, opening for Blossoms at the UK's first non-socially distanced gig during the pandemic and her love for both Taylor Swift and Arctic Monekys and how they influenced her to get into music herself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The name Prano Bailey-Bond is already known in both the horror community and as a director-to-watch, and this is before the UK release of her brilliant debut Censor. She talks about writing and directing the acclaimed film and how she obsessed on The Evil Dead so much that she went into the BBFC to look at the film's editing notes when researching her own film. She also details how she made a disturbing music video with only herself as the star, with one light gaffa-taped to a ladder and editing it for six months around her job in a pub and working with her lead actress, Niamh Algar. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.