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Cult UK director Ben Wheatley returns to his folk-horror roots with the post-pandemic shocker In The Earth. Will we be able to see the horror for the trees? John Grant's new album Boy From Michigan is searingly powerful on its creator's chequered life, but is it, you know, fun too? And guests James Medd (ex-The Word) and Kate Hodges of The Hare And Hoofe challenge Andrew and Siân with albums to broaden their horizons. What will we like and what will we hate…? www.patreon.com/BigmouthPodcast Produced and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Faster Horses | A podcast about UI design, user experience, UX design, product and technology
What design software do you use?Regular hosts Mark Sutcliffe, Nick Tomlinson and Paul Wilshaw are joined by the award-winning artist, musician, and UX expert James Medd to explore what our favourite design software is and why?Does it matter if you're using a different platform from the designer next to you?What's the most important thing in the design process where software helps (or hinders)?++ UX Tombola, we take an everyday task and UX the hell out of it (or just gently nudge it a more user-friendly way).Also, find out if our Podcast setup has improved and another musical delight from Nick.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/FasterHorses)
Faster Horses | A podcast about UI design, user experience, UX design, product and technology
In this episode Mark, Nick and Paul, with special guest host James Medd, explore UX misconceptions.Featuring guests, Maria Panagiotidi – https://twitter.com/mariapage and Stacey Rey – https://twitter.com/ReiStaceyWhat are UX misconceptions, what are the problems behind these misconceptions. How have our other experiences defined how we see digital experiences.++ UX tombola returns, with another theme tune and our take on another everyday task that needs some UX love, what will be this episodes subject?Saddle up, it's time for Faster Horses.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/FasterHorses)
Faster Horses | A podcast about UI design, user experience, UX design, product and technology
A short podcast about hackathons and my personal experiences, attending, organising and judging them.Hackathons are generally techno-creative events where delegates form teams in a physical location (Richterich, 2017) to solve a problem statement or brief defined by the organisers. Hackathons are generally competitive, with teams competing under the confines of limited time pressures for incentives such as prizes (Richterich, 2017).The conventional aim of a hackathon is for teams, or individuals, to practice collaborative software development. The first time the term 'hackathon' was used to describe an event gathering volunteers software developers working together on an open-source operating system, OpenBSD, in 1999 (Richterich, 2017).This episodes resources:https://www.hackathon.io/events (not hack.io – sorry).https://angelhack.comSpecial guest Niomi Wilshaw.Music by James Medd and artwork by Nick Tomlinson.For careers at Blue Prism, https://www.blueprism.com/who-we-are/culture-and-careers/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/FasterHorses)
Faster Horses | A podcast about UI design, user experience, UX design, product and technology
We explore physical user experiences and how we can learn from their successes and failures as designers.What good and bad design does to its user from those pesky push/pull handles, to bathrooms, bars and beyond.We look into these problems and more.This show features Paul Wilshaw, James Medd, Stacey Ray, Nick Tomlinson and Mark Sutcliffe.Special guest Dom Jones.Links and resources for this episode are:Donald A Norman, The design of everyday things.Nick's teapot:Grey Speckle TeapotRevolutionary milk carton demonstration:https://youtu.be/DuYLgEstc1YOrwell's classic essay on his quintessential English public house:https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-moon-under-water/Real-life UX examples I've learned during two years in Japan:https://medium.com/nyc-design/ux-in-real-life-what-i-learned-from-living-in-japan-a062024acdd2Music by James Medd and artwork by Nick Tomlinson.For careers at Blue Prism, https://www.blueprism.com/who-we-are/culture-and-careers/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/FasterHorses)
Faster Horses | A podcast about UI design, user experience, UX design, product and technology
We answer the question, should designers code and should developers design?We explore what it means to be a designer in 2020. What tools help bridge the gap from design to development. How much code and which frameworks are relevant now. How can you manage the dreaded handoff better and when is a design done?We answer these questions and more.This show features Paul Wilshaw, James Medd, Stacey Ray, Nick Tomlinson and Mark Sutcliffe.Special guests Ant Sherratt and Dom Jones.Links for this episode are:https://uxplanet.org/in-ten-years-design-will-be-dead-29a3b2fb2612Music by James Medd and artwork by Nick Tomlinson.For careers at Blue Prism, https://www.blueprism.com/who-we-are/culture-and-careers/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/FasterHorses)
Faster Horses | A podcast about UI design, user experience, UX design, product and technology
What is UX and UI? We explore the differences and how to negotiate with your stakeholders and clients. We meander through the quagmire of what it means to different people. Some of the encounters we've faced and how we liken it to terrorist negotiations.This show features James Medd, Stacey Ray, Nick Tomlinson and Mark Sutcliffe.Music by James Medd and artwork by Nick Tomlinson.For careers at Blue Prism, https://www.blueprism.com/who-we-are/culture-and-careers/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/FasterHorses)
Trawling through the muddy flats of pop culture this week… HELLO, I MUST BE COHEN: Leonard Cohen's posthumous album Thanks for the Dance is released this week. Compiled by his son Adam, did Leonard have more to say after 2016's You Want it Darker?POP YOUR CHERRY: "You can't sing, you look awful, you'll go a long way..." Can Charli XCX's new girl band Nasty Cherry make it big in the Netflix show I'm With the Band, despite in-band rivalries and zero experience? OF COURSE THEY CAN.Reed United: The complete Lou Reed lyrics book I'll be Your Mirror numbers 670 pages. Is this the "autobiography" Laurie Anderson talks of in her introduction or does it offer less of a glimpse of the man (not The Man)?Beats Woking: BBC's War of the Worlds is a new adaption of the HG Wells novel, set in leafy Surrey. A lot of people run around in tweed as aliens arrive. What did the panel think?Joining Siân are this week’s special guests, Conde Nast Traveller and Times writer James Medd; plus actor and writer Dan Maier.Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week we have special guests Miranda Sawyer - author of Out of Time, she writes for the Observer, appears on Radio 4 and much much more – plus ex-Word magazine writer and Bob Dylan boffin James Medd to discuss the pop culture issues of the day.PALE AILES: Will Sky's The Loudest Voice plump Succession as the latest Citizen-Kane-for-our-times? Starring Russell Crowe as Fox News founder Roger Ailes and Sienna Miller as his wife, this aims to lift the lid on the controversial figure pre Fake News and #MeToo. But do heavy prosthetics simply... get in the way of a good story?BOOM-CHAQUE: New French movie Shock of the Future stars Alma Jodorowsky as proto-electronica pioneer Ana, a frustrated jingle-writer intent on making her own way in the music business. Huge racks of 1970s audio equipment! The Roland CR-78! Loads of cigs! What's not to like?AINT NO MOUNT HIGH ENOUGH: Metronomy Forever is the new album from indie emo dance-crew Metronomy - hence the name. On the heels of the Hot Chip album, are we expecting more sad dad bangers from head honcho Joe Mount? This album has 17 tracks. 17!CAM SLAM: The Capture is the BBC's new hot crime drama. Yes. Starring Holliday Grainger and Callum Turner, we enter a world where CCTV is King - but is it a reliable witness or is someone manipulating the live streams? And why are there so many posh people in it? Tune in and find out.Presented by Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Alex Rees. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. Get every episode of BIGMOUTH a day early, plus the famous EXTRA BIT, when you back us on the crowdfunding platform Patreon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Joined by RBP contributor James Medd, Barney Hoskyns and Mark Pringle hear tales of interviewing Morrissey and Joanna Newsom for Esquire and of life at The Word. Paying tribute to drummer Hal Blaine, one of the great American session players, the trio discuss L.A.'s legendary Wrecking Crew and marvel at just how many hits they played on. Talk then moves on to the week’s free feature, Lambchop, via another great session player, Charlie McCoy – a stellar guest on their forthcoming album. James, Mark and Barney hear an excerpt from an audio interview with the late great Minnie Riperton and discuss her "whistle register" and cancer activism. Mark then presents his selection of choice cuts from the week's new library pieces, including articles on Rolf Harris, the Osmonds, Johnny Nash, Scritti Politti, Carl Wilson and the Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense. The show this week winds up with some thoughts on Madonna, sparked by a 7000-word NME interview conducted by Barbara Ellen in 1995. Produced by Jasper Murison-Bowie Pieces discussed: Morrissey, Joanna Newsom, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew, Lambchop, Kurt Wagner, Charlie McCoy, Minnie Riperton audio interview, Rolf Harris, The Osmonds, Johnny Nash, Scritti Politti, Carl Wilson, Talking Heads and Madonna
Is Netflix’s new rockumentary series Remastered up to BBC4 music doc standard? We look for things we don’t know in their episodes on JOHNNY CASH’s relationship with Richard Nixon and the attempted murder of BOB MARLEY. The producers of House Of Cards stage a realistic Mars shot in THE FIRST – but is the myth-making too earnest? And Andrew gets all excited about a lost gem of comic books from the late 2000AD artist CARLOS EZQUERRA, a spaghetti western for kids called El Mestizo. Special guests JUDE ROGERS of The Guardian and New Statesman and JAMES MEDD of The Times – veterans of the late lamented WORD magazine both – join Siân and Andrew for this week’s pop culture autopsy. Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Underwater love: Is Guillermo del Toro’s amphibiosexual romance The Shape Of Water more than just Oscar bait? And who will win the Oscars anyway? Can Father John Misty’s mate Jonathan Wilson update the sensitive Californian longhair songbook? And what are the worst gigs we ever went to. Special guests TERRI WHITE – editrix of Empire magazine – and Word mag veteran JAMES MEDD join presenters Siân “Stan” Pattenden and Andrew Harrison to sort the prize catches from the tiddlers. Click here to listen now or subscribe at http://po.st/BGMitunes Studio production is by Sophie Black. Bigmouth is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Guests Ted Kessler of Q Magazine and James Medd join Andrew and Matt to pick over Modus ( the latest Scandi Noir to hit BBC 4), make like Pat Benatar with Brad Pitt's WWII romance thriller Allied, and review the latest LPs from Pete(r) Doherty and The Weeknd. Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On the show this week Eamonn Forde and James Medd join Andrew & Matt in the studio to discuss the 50th anniversary of #blondeonblonde, review the return of Lush, 'the shoegazing ABBA', and peer into Eamonn's big bag of terrible showbiz auto biographies... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In celebration of James Medd's stupendous piece in Word 108 on the secret world of the bass guitarist, Medd and Mark Ellen present a podcast with session wizard and bon viveur Guy Pratt – who tells tales of working with Pink Floyd, The Smiths, Jimmy Page, the dictatorial Madonna and David Coverdale (who he impersonates immaculately). And explains the correct pronunciation of “Whitesnake” and how he did a Sophie Ellis-Bextor hit in 17 minutes. He also peels off the world's greatest bottom lines on the office bass guitar. Our story starts on an aeroplane piloted by Floyd drummer Nick Mason experiencing strange and artificial turbulence... Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In celebration of James Medd's stupendous piece in Word 108 on the secret world of the bass guitarist, Medd and Mark Ellen present a podcast with session wizard and bon viveur Guy Pratt – who tells tales of working with Pink Floyd, The Smiths, Jimmy Page, the dictatorial Madonna and David Coverdale (who he impersonates immaculately). And explains the correct pronunciation of “Whitesnake” and how he did a Sophie Ellis-Bextor hit in 17 minutes. He also peels off the world's greatest bottom lines on the office bass guitar. Our story starts on an aeroplane piloted by Floyd drummer Nick Mason experiencing strange and artificial turbulence... Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In celebration of James Medd’s stupendous piece in Word 108 on the secret world of the bass guitarist, Medd and Mark Ellen present a podcast with session wizard and bon viveur Guy Pratt – who tells tales of working with Pink Floyd, The Smiths, Jimmy Page, the dictatorial Madonna and David Coverdale (who he impersonates immaculately). And explains the correct pronunciation of “Whitesnake” and how he did a Sophie Ellis-Bextor hit in 17 minutes. He also peels off the world’s greatest bottom lines on the office bass guitar. Our story starts on an aeroplane piloted by Floyd drummer Nick Mason experiencing strange and artificial turbulence...
We're joined by Ian McMillan and James Medd. Features: live vuvuzela performances, actual impressions of Keats, the ethics of Kindie rock, how many free tickets is too many tickets and why we all miss Hovis Presley. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We're joined by Ian McMillan and James Medd. Features: live vuvuzela performances, actual impressions of Keats, the ethics of Kindie rock, how many free tickets is too many tickets and why we all miss Hovis Presley. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We're joined by Ian McMillan and James Medd. Features: live vuvuzela performances, actual impressions of Keats, the ethics of Kindie rock, how many free tickets is too many tickets and why we all miss Hovis Presley.
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall talks about the ticketing controversy with writer James Medd and Joe Cohen of seatwave.com; the squad system of rock bands; the inaccurate chording of Keith Richards; the God-like genius of Bernard Cribbins; the correct spelling of Shakespear's Sister; and the hunting and gathering role of Digital Dad. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall talks about the ticketing controversy with writer James Medd and Joe Cohen of seatwave.com; the squad system of rock bands; the inaccurate chording of Keith Richards; the God-like genius of Bernard Cribbins; the correct spelling of Shakespear's Sister; and the hunting and gathering role of Digital Dad.
Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall talks about the ticketing controversy with writer James Medd and Joe Cohen of seatwave.com; the squad system of rock bands; the inaccurate chording of Keith Richards; the God-like genius of Bernard Cribbins; the correct spelling of Shakespear's Sister; and the hunting and gathering role of Digital Dad. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.