Podcasts about Rockfield

This week, we talk to Nick Brine (who, as a teenager, worked on The Stone Roses' 2nd LP & Oasis' What's The Story Morning Glory and has worked with everyone from Nick Cave to Bruce Springsteen) about the legendary Welsh recording studio that Nick got his start in the doc Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm. We discuss all the legends that have recorded there from Hawkwind to Queen from The Beta Band to Shane MacGowan, how The Ward Brothers who created Rockfield transformed their family farm into the first residential recording studio in the world, using pig stalls for reverb chambers, Joe Meek, the birthplace of Britpop, dealing with the paparazzi, Kingsley's ability to spin yarns, Iggy Pop & David Bowie recording with a piece of cheese, the magic of the Welsh countryside, driving Robert Plant around, Roy Thomas Baker's gold toilet seat, the posh side of town vs the farmer side of town, Andy Wallace, Nick's very strange initial job interview, Nick's first two sessions with Sepultura and The Stone Roses, getting used to seeing rock bands walking around your small town, working with Oasis and Nick witnessing the legendary fight that broke them up, if the Stone Roses ever get any work done in the 14 months they were there, the Wonderwall wall, using bathroom hallways as vocal booths, building studios with members of the Darkness,Teenage Fanclub and so much more!If you want amazing stories about one of the most magical places that somehow created much of the greatest music ever made…you've got it on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.New episodes of Revolutions Per Movies are released every Thursday, and if you like the show, please subscribe, rate, and review it on your favorite podcast app.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. There, you can get weekly exclusive bonus episodes and physical goods just by joining!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovie.bsky.socialTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.comARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Click here to get EXCLUSIVE BONUS WEEKLY Revolutions Per Movie content on our Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The lads are joined by Dylan and Fin from Subterrania and talk about meeting at open mic nights, starting out as a cover band and how those nights still now cover the costs or creating their own music, putting on their own gigs and playing at the iconic Dublin Castle in Camden. The boys talk about recording at Rockfield studios, playing the Swansea Arena Houseparty, headlining a sold out gig at The Bunkhouse, playing the Isle of Wight Festival, Paddy is off to Malta to watch Liam Gallagher and the Subterrania boys and Ryan gloat about securing Oasis tickets plus much more….@ambitioniscritcal1997 on Instagram @TheAiCPodcast on Twitter

Rockfield is a converted farmhouse in the Welsh countryside where, for over 50 years, bands have lived while recording. In the ‘70s Tiffany Murray's mum was the in-house cook, filling Motorhead to the brim with boeuf bourguignon and Black Sabbath with salmon en croute. Her touching memoir My Family And Other Rock Stars – hailed as “a rock and roll Cider With Rosie” – sees a succession of visiting bands though the wide eyes of a child and in a wholly new light - Freddie Mercury is the man who “smelt of sweet wood and oranges” and was nice to her dog, Julian Cope is “pretty and dressed in a white sheet”. It's a movie waiting to happen. We loved this highly original and revealing book and our conversation with Tiff which involves … … the ‘Saffy from Ab Fab' relationship she had with her mum who began her professional life spying on the Duchess of Argyll from a wardrobe. … floppy hats, Biba dresses and a purple beach buggy. … the only woman who recorded at Rockfield in the ‘70s. … the realisation that the men singing “Galileo” repeatedly in the stables were the same people later on Top Of The Pops. … her mother's Book Of Rules for visiting rock stars, “a matron in the body of Julie Christie in Darling”. … ample proof that rock music allows a life of extended adolescence. … shelved albums and unpaid bills. … Tiff's stepfather and in-house Rockfield producer Fritz Fryer. … Nick Lowe through the eyes of a 10 year-old – “tall, kind and looked like a bird”. ... Graham Parker's trout in almonds and how the cook was paid extra “just to get food into Lemmy”. … and mentioned in despatches – Squeeze, the Tyla Gang, Showaddywaddy, Van Der Graaf Generator and Dr Feelgood. Order ‘My Family And Other Rock Stars' here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Other-Rock-Stars-groundbreaking/dp/0349727538Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rockfield is a converted farmhouse in the Welsh countryside where, for over 50 years, bands have lived while recording. In the ‘70s Tiffany Murray's mum was the in-house cook, filling Motorhead to the brim with boeuf bourguignon and Black Sabbath with salmon en croute. Her touching memoir My Family And Other Rock Stars – hailed as “a rock and roll Cider With Rosie” – sees a succession of visiting bands though the wide eyes of a child and in a wholly new light - Freddie Mercury is the man who “smelt of sweet wood and oranges” and was nice to her dog, Julian Cope is “pretty and dressed in a white sheet”. It's a movie waiting to happen. We loved this highly original and revealing book and our conversation with Tiff which involves … … the ‘Saffy from Ab Fab' relationship she had with her mum who began her professional life spying on the Duchess of Argyll from a wardrobe. … floppy hats, Biba dresses and a purple beach buggy. … the only woman who recorded at Rockfield in the ‘70s. … the realisation that the men singing “Galileo” repeatedly in the stables were the same people later on Top Of The Pops. … her mother's Book Of Rules for visiting rock stars, “a matron in the body of Julie Christie in Darling”. … ample proof that rock music allows a life of extended adolescence. … shelved albums and unpaid bills. … Tiff's stepfather and in-house Rockfield producer Fritz Fryer. … Nick Lowe through the eyes of a 10 year-old – “tall, kind and looked like a bird”. ... Graham Parker's trout in almonds and how the cook was paid extra “just to get food into Lemmy”. … and mentioned in despatches – Squeeze, the Tyla Gang, Showaddywaddy, Van Der Graaf Generator and Dr Feelgood. Order ‘My Family And Other Rock Stars' here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Other-Rock-Stars-groundbreaking/dp/0349727538Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rockfield is a converted farmhouse in the Welsh countryside where, for over 50 years, bands have lived while recording. In the ‘70s Tiffany Murray's mum was the in-house cook, filling Motorhead to the brim with boeuf bourguignon and Black Sabbath with salmon en croute. Her touching memoir My Family And Other Rock Stars – hailed as “a rock and roll Cider With Rosie” – sees a succession of visiting bands though the wide eyes of a child and in a wholly new light - Freddie Mercury is the man who “smelt of sweet wood and oranges” and was nice to her dog, Julian Cope is “pretty and dressed in a white sheet”. It's a movie waiting to happen. We loved this highly original and revealing book and our conversation with Tiff which involves … … the ‘Saffy from Ab Fab' relationship she had with her mum who began her professional life spying on the Duchess of Argyll from a wardrobe. … floppy hats, Biba dresses and a purple beach buggy. … the only woman who recorded at Rockfield in the ‘70s. … the realisation that the men singing “Galileo” repeatedly in the stables were the same people later on Top Of The Pops. … her mother's Book Of Rules for visiting rock stars, “a matron in the body of Julie Christie in Darling”. … ample proof that rock music allows a life of extended adolescence. … shelved albums and unpaid bills. … Tiff's stepfather and in-house Rockfield producer Fritz Fryer. … Nick Lowe through the eyes of a 10 year-old – “tall, kind and looked like a bird”. ... Graham Parker's trout in almonds and how the cook was paid extra “just to get food into Lemmy”. … and mentioned in despatches – Squeeze, the Tyla Gang, Showaddywaddy, Van Der Graaf Generator and Dr Feelgood. Order ‘My Family And Other Rock Stars' here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Other-Rock-Stars-groundbreaking/dp/0349727538Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tiffany Murray in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/tiffany-murray/my-family-and-other-rock-stars/9780349727530/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Other-Rock-Stars-groundbreaking/dp/0349727538 It's the late 1970s and Tiff lives with her mum, Joan, at Rockfield, the iconic recording studios. This place of legend, where some of the most famous rock albums of all time were recorded, is the background to a freewheeling, ever-changing whirlwind of a childhood. Tiff's days are spent running around the farm, making friends with local wildlife and helping out with the endless array of dishes her mum creates to keep the bands fed. She's looking for a dog, she's looking for a father; but the one constant throughout is her and Joan, building an unconventional family in the most unlikely of locations. My Family and Other Rock Stars is Tiff's remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of bumping into Freddie Mercury playing piano, or a group of Hell's Angels turning up to record for Lemmy, or even the hope of David Bowie appearing, were as normal as hopscotch and homework.

Songwriter and producer Sophie Ackroyd tells Headliner about her role at the upcoming Pro7ect Rockfield Studios songwriting retreat, taking place from July 16-20.

Clive is joined by impressionist Jan Ravens (who brings along Liz Truss and Theresa May) chatting about the challenge of developing an impersonation and what happens when the politician who forms part of your act gets the boot... Award-winning novelist Tiffany Murray describes her unusually starry childhood at the residential recording studio Rockfield. It includes a childhood visit from David Bowie and being woken by Freddie Mercury singing "Galileo" - as revealed in her new book My Family and Other Rock Stars. Viv Groskop chats about her One Ukrainian Summer a memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR. The Will Barnes Quartet and Aleighcia Scott provide the music. Presented by Clive Anderson Produced by Kevin Core

Drumming legend Pick Withers shares fascinating insights into his illustrious career and selects his top five favorite songs. With captivating stories behind each choice, Pick tells stories about legendary bands such as Mott the Hoople, Bob Dylan, and Dire Straits. He discusses his experiences working at iconic studios like Rockfield, Muscle Shoals, The Power Station and George Martins AIR Studios, offering a unique perspective on the creation of iconic tracks. Check out the full career deep dive I did with Pick back in 2020 on Episode 12 of VRP Rocks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Adventures In Vinyl we discuss the debut studio album from a Northern Irish rock band whose album title is the year I was born.  That band is Ash and the album is 1977.Song of the Week!The Black Keys - This is NowhereThe Killers - Run For CoverAsh-1977Genre:  Brit PopRelease Date:  May 6, 1996Studio(s):  Lock, Usk Valley, Wales, & Rockfield, Rockfield WalesProducer(s):  Ownen Morris, AshLabel:  Infections, Home GrownLength:  61:52Number of Tracks:  11For more information on the band Ash be sure to check out their website at www.ash-official.com and check out their new album released last year Race the Night.  And with that this closes another episode of Adventures in Vinyl.  If you like this podcast be sure to check us out on our website at www.adventuresinvinyl.com where you can find links to our episodes and through our support section you can find a place to order your very own adventures in vinyl T Shirt.   Follow us on instagram @adventures.in.vinyl and send us a message if there is a certain album you would like for us to cover and be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a 5 star review on your favorite platform of choice.

Having just released their FOURTH studio album 'People Like Me & You' in this episode of the XS Long Player we go right back to the beginning with The Sherlocks to take a look at their 2017 debut album. 'Live For The Moment' was recording in the iconic Rockfield studios at a time when there was a real hype around the band having had jsut become the first unsigned band to sell out the iconic Leadmill in Sheffield since Arctic Monkeys. On this podcast Jim Salveson speaks to Kiaran Crook about the buzz around the band at the time, the aspirations for its release and the hard work that got them to this point. Get stuck into this classic album on Spotify via: https://open.spotify.com/album/49Q15rKVk1Glpcy8ggNtcW?si=nI3VtsqUTSCXYTfGr3oThw Check out the bands Autumn 2023 tour dates: https://www.thesherlocksmusic.co.uk/tour The XS Long player Podcast is taken from the XS Long player radio show on XS Manchester: A classic album played in full - listen live via www.xsmanchester.co.uk - where Jim also hosts the XS Evening Show. Follow XS on Twitter: @XSManchester Follow Jim on Twitter: @Mr_Jimbob Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello and welcome back to the Oasis Podcast, the ultimate audio guide to Oasis. Today you can come on a journey with me to the legendary Rockfield Studios First off its me and @rbmusicwriter in the car as I discuss my ranking of all the Oasis album covers. If you'd like to hear the discussion but as a video with the album covers so you can see them as we talk through I uploaded it to youtube... check it out - https://youtu.be/HqIa1Xxzzug Then at Rockfield Studios I catch up with Nick Brine @brinestonpickle and Kyle Dale @kyle.ocg (instagram)

Hello and welcome back to the Oasis Podcast! Today's guest is Kyle from the Oasis Collectors Group - Check out the promo video from last years Rockfield Event - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_omtjUR2csM Get tickets for this one here -  FULL TICKET http://www.Sessionrecall.com/ocg2023 EVENT ONLY https://www.sessionrecall.com/offers/VE2PVnXb Here's the Remastered Soundboard recording of Earls Court -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-yQBBp1uOI&t=5s Here's the unheard progression of Street Fighting Man -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiH5eqtk9Ew Thanks to oasis-timeline.com , http://www.stopcryingyourheartout.co.uk/ and Richard Bowes' book for help putting this together - Richard's book is still available here -   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Might-Say-Definitive-Story/dp/1916258255#:~:text=Richard%20Bowes%20is%20a%20freelance,definitive%20audio%20guide%20to%20Oasis.

Today on Just Chopsing podcast we are joined by author, radio presenter, news reader and all round good guy, Jeff Collins. Jeff has a new book out called Rock Legends at Rockfield and he tells us some stories from the book, how he got in to journalism and much more.

Today on just chopsing podcast we are joined by Rob and Graeme from The Autumn Killers. The guys checked in with us to tell us what they have coming up in the next few months which includes a new single, a trip to Rockfield studios, a european tour and what animal they describe themselves as. Lot's of laughs in this episode and not for the faint hearted. Links: http://theautumnkillers.uk/ ***PLEASE NOTE*** The Just Chopsing Podcast is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from a video/podcast channel & we could not be more proud and excited to watch this unfold and grow. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only

Sheer Heart Attack (1974) es el tercer álbum de la banda británica de rock Queen, publicado el 8 de noviembre de 1974 por EMI. Fue grabado en los estudios Trident, Wessex, Rockfield y Air (Reino Unido) entre julio y septiembre de ese mismo año y producido por Roy Thomas Baker y Queen. Llegó al número dos de la lista de discos más vendidos en el Reino Unido y al número doce en Estados Unidos.  El álbum fue editado después de su segunda obra musical Queen II, con la cual se consagraron como banda en Reino Unido, pero no fue hasta Sheer Heart Attack donde se convirtieron en banda de renombre internacionalmente. Con los sencillos "Killer Queen"​ y "Now I'm Here"​ la banda consiguió el éxito fuera del Reino Unido. El sencillo "Killer Queen" alcanzó el puesto n.º 12 en las listas estadounidenses. 

I'm honored to talk to my great friend and podcasting partner on Knife Talk, Craig Lockwood about the debut of his new Single: “This Town”. You are reading that correctly.. Knife Maker, podcaster and now Recording Artist…Craig is a man of many talents and had the bucket list opportunity to record at the legendary studio Rockfield; home to Queen, David Bowie, Ozzy Osborn, Oasis, Coldplay and many more. How did this happen? We got into the anatomy of his song “This Town”, and got to hear the development with early sounds clips. How he met famed producer Nick Brine and incredible stories about Rockfield and how that recording studio embedded itself into rock history—-we fooled around a little at the end to. Always fun and Craig rules. Thanks again- GFGo support Craig by buying his single here:https://www.craiglockwoodmusic.com/Follow him on instagram:https://instagram.com/craiglockwood?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Listen to his amazing podcast “Album Sleeves” where he interviewed Nick Brine:https://open.spotify.com/show/182j6i1EQxXSJbJQGMeqG2?si=1F61z7Q4Ro-qvRcGNypZTgCheck out Brodbeck Ironworks for yourself:https://brodbeckironworks.com/***TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEIR HUGE BLACK FRIDAY SALE FROM 11/20-11/27****$325 OFF THE MAX PLUS PACKAGE$415 OFF THE PREMIUM PLUS GRINDER $545 OFF THE SUPER MEGA PACKAGE $200 OFF THE SURFACE GRINDER 10% OFF ATTACHMENTSFollow Brodbeck Ironworks on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brodbeck_ironworks/Follow Full Blast and interact with the show on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/thefullblastpodcast/***** The episode with Kev Slattery had an overpowering reaction and I want to reiterate that Kev has started a crowd funding page to help raise money for the procedure he needs to fix his back. 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This episode is about the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales. This storied studio created classic albums by Hawkwind, Queen, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Stone Roses, Oasis, and more! We do an overview of the highs, lows, and revival of this special place. Intro(2:00) New Music Recommendations(12:00) Rockfield and Hawkwind(25:45) Ace “How Long”(27:33) Queen Sheer Heart Attack(34:30) Indie 80s(37:10) Stone Roses Revive Rockfield(44:15) Charlatans Tellin Stories(47:34) Oasis Morning Glory(49:00) Other Brit Pop Albums(51:47) Manic Street Preachers First No 1 Single(57:14) PlugsYoutube link to music discussed in this episodehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOGGFlrUDXNABb9YgeFWsXQE4K4QYtvAGSpotify Link to music in this episodehttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/6auwYBOfy2MJUPIEV84blh?si=_mpi9B8uRImC57UzWLPxSgDavid Linksinstagram.com/strandedmusictwitter.com/strandedmskdoublephantomrecords.bandcamp.comDrew Linksinstagram.com/persistentmidnight

This episode focuses on 1977 by Ash, released on Infectious Records in 1996. Tim Wheeler joins me to talk about: the band's earliest days, recording demo tapes, signing to Infectious, recording with Owen Morris in Rockfield, the writing process of the songs on 1977, supporting Therapy? and Babes in Toyland, revising for A-Levels while doing press interviews, the rollercoaster of touring between 1995 and 1997, playing small clubs and eventually headlining the Point Depot, the culture shock of touring in Japan, performing 'Girl From Mars' on Top of the Pops, the success of 1977 and its singles, the 'Give Peace a Chance' concert before the Belfast Agreement Referendum and much, much more.

Nick Brine has been a freelance music engineer since 1996. He's experienced working in most major studios in the UK, across Europe and America. Nick worked with some amazing artists including;At 16, he was a tea boy at the famous Rockfield Studios in Wales.At 17, he was a music enginner working with the Stone Roses. At 18 he was working on the second Oasis album  (What's the Story) Morning Glory? . . . which went on to become one of the biggest selling albums of all time . . . which sold over 22 million copies. What We Discussed With Nick Brine How he went from a 16 year old tea boy at the famous Rockfield studios to working with Oasis, Bruce Springsteen, Stone Roses and many more big names in music . . . That one moment with Oasis which still makes the hairs on the back of his neck stand up just thinking about it . . . Why  some people only want to stay where they are, and they don't want the responsibility of moving forward . . . which is like so business owners . . . The crucial importance of believing in yourself and trusting your instincts when you want to succeed . . . The times Nick clashed with musicians and band members over the direction of their music and how he dealt with it and much more . . .    When you like this Podcast, kindly leave us a review here . . . even a few words help.When you enjoyed this episode and you want to know more about Nick Brine . . . check him out on Facebook, LinkedIn and take a look at his website. https://www.facebook.com/nick.brine.372 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brine-65146b26/ http://www.leedersvale.com/

Liverpool singer Jamie Webster, returns to the podcast talking about making his new album 'Moments'. Recording at Rockfield studios, and some mad stories. One of the best we have ever recorded this.

Hello and welcome to the 64th episode with the return of DJ Chappers.This week's show is all about the music of Rockfield Studios, which is a recording studio just outside the village of Rockfield, Monmouthshire, Wales. so I'm going to be talking about the history of Rockfield, why it is so special and which massive artists recorded there.In 1963 brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward converted an existing farmhouse into a recording studio by investing in an 8-track tape deck and sound proofed it. Then in 1965, they became the world's first residential studio, set up so that bands could come and stay in the peaceful rural surroundings to record. They have two studios, which are both set up for digital and analogue recordings.The show is going to be very studded to say the least so you can expect to hear some cracking tracks from the likes of Ace, Queen, The Cult, The Icicle Works, Oasis and Coldplay. So please enjoy your journey back through the history of music!

My guest today is Clint Murphy a multi-platinum, award-winning producer, engineer, mixer, songwriter, and musician. He has worked on records as diverse as Manic Street Preachers, Enter Shikari, RØMANS, and 50 Cent, racking up hits both in the UK and internationally.  UK chart successes include recording and mixing No.2 album ‘Half Way There', for English pop-punk band Busted, mixing No.3 album ‘Rip It Up' for hard rock legends Thunder and producing, mixing and writing for upcoming bands such as Keir, Courts, Twin Wild and Youth Club. Most recently, Clint has been working with British rock band Enter Shikari, mixing their critically-acclaimed, UK No.2 album ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible'. Back in his native New Zealand, Clint's work continually tops the charts through artists such as Devilskin, Opshop, Annabel Fay, The Feelers, Kimbra, Junica (Ladyhawke), 8 Foot Sativa and Bic Runga. This has resulted in Clint being recognized as ‘Engineer Of The Year' multiple times at the New Zealand Music Awards. Other international successes include Chinaski's no.1 album ‘Rockfield', covering three no.1 singles notching up over 60 million YouTube streams, Codes' multi-award-winning album ‘Trees Dream In Algebra' and Melanie C's multi-platinum album, “Beautiful Intentions”, which spent nine weeks topping the charts in Europe. Thanks so much to Ryan Smith at (Sterling Sound) for making our introduction. Get access to FREE mixing mini-course: http://MixMasterBundle.com THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! https://RecordingStudioRockstars.com/Academy Use code ROCKSTAR to get 10% https://JZmic.com Use coupon ROCKSTARS to get 20% off The Pop Filter Spectra1964 is having a bundle sale! Save $$ hundreds on the STX600 and the BBDI combo at https://www.Spectra1964.com http://MacSales.com/Rockstars http://iZotope.com/Rockstars use code ROCK10 for 10% off https://carltatzdesign.com/Mixroom-Mentor http://UltimateMixingMasterclass.com Hear guests discography on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lrpi9fxxtz6t729cN6HWX?si=36aa44cacdab4c4b If you love the podcast, then please leave a review: https://RSRockstars.com/Review CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE SHOW NOTES AT: http://RSRockstars.com/313

In 1963, brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward turned their family farm in Wales into a recording studio that would change music forever. Boasting sessions with rock legends like Queen and Black Sabbath, Rockfield became the destination for bands looking to record a hit for the next five decades. Kingsley joins John Landecker to share stories […]

Engineering - the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, structures and much more. In this technical episode featuring Gonvida Pandey (CEO of Rockfield and Co-founder of LiXiA),  we took a deep dive into a discussion to understand what 21st century engineering now involves alongside the heavy technologies' integration. Govinda, from his extensive engineering experience and leadership in innovation, humbly details expert responses to questions such as - What did Engineering entail 50 years ago and how has it evolved into the 21st century in comparison? How does this technical industry fall within advanced manufacturing? What are the technologies – such as drones, sensors, IoT, BigData - and how do they play a role within engineering? Following the impeccable amount of detail for the above, Govinda goes on to share his advice for the future engineers (students/graduates) as well as what 21st century educators now need to take on to align with the requirements of 21st century engineering. This episode carefully unpacks exactly what key skills & attributes are required in engineering for the modern world. Tune into this episode and learn all the technical nuggets of gold shared within this exciting industry.

We went to the Palestine Rally to try to get a difference of opinion in a political dialogue but I guess that's not allowed in America anymore if you don't agree what's going on in the narrative that the media pushes then you dont a right to speak --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Early I talk with KINGSLEY WARD, co-founder of legendary recording studio/farm ROCKFIELD, movie out tomorrow ROCKFIELD: THE STUDIO ON THE FARM. Gregory Wrightstone is on from the CO2 Coalition, we talk the Biden Climate change craziness and more.

Siete años después el retorno de Adam Duritz y su banda. Desde las tres de la tarde está disponible el single que forma parte de una especie de suite de dieciocho minutos en la que el líder de Counting Crows (¿quién no se acuerda de "Mr. Jones"?) cuenta las aventuras de un chico recorriendo distintos pueblos y relaciones con diferentes amantes. Definición (como si los Clash interpretaran a Abba) de lo que será el próximo disco de Manic Street Preachers que grabaron durante dos semanas (el primer día nevaba y eso lo tradujeron por un buen augurio) en los estudios Rockfield en Gales. Además, añaden que es sobrio y de buen gusto y con guitarras. Noticia del día es también los elogios ("hombre brillante, gran artista") de Ringo Starr hacia John Lennon a la par que se muestra encantado de haber formado parte de aquella historia de la Plastic Ono Band hecha primer disco en 1970. Además, sabemos que Ron Wood tras superar un cáncer de pulmón en 2018 ha dado esquinazo a otro raro y agresivo de células pequeñas el año pasado. Ante eso, actitud positiva y ser fuerte. Y para rematar lo internacional el directo de Frank Zappa cinco años antes de su muerte en el Nassau Coliseum en marzo de 1988 se transformará en "Zappa: The last US show". Novedades de aquí son el estreno de César Domínguez que era voz y guitarra de El Alpinista con el nombre de Ulises Messner; otro anticipo de lo que será el álbum de Manuel Martínez Wynonas que es Máximo Pájaro; el canto a la amistad sin penas de Grande Amore; el debut de Quique Gallo desde Valencia que es Flores y el apoyo de Anni B Sweet a la más que promesa emergente Maren Trío de música de fuera para acabar. La californiana Lexi Vega que es Mini Trees, Hayley Willaims (Paramore) lee a Broadcast y Van Morrison y algo más de su nuevo tratado de soul jazz y blues. Escuchar audio

Percussion Discussion - Episode 12 features Dire Straits founder member and drummer Pick Withers, Join Pick and myself as we chat about his incredible career, from gigging in Germany in the 60's through to being the house drummer at the legendary Rockfield studios in Wales, playing for many artist including Ralph Mctell and Andy Fairweather Low, through to meeting Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits being formed! This one of the first interviews Pick had done for many years, i was very grateful for the opportunity. keep a look out for part two

This is the one you have all been waiting for - Citylightz came on the virtual sofa... and not for the first time! We jump into who Citylightz are, where that unique style of music comes from and the bands journey, including a breakup! They get deep into the Birmingham scene as well as the music industry in general, including a crazy story about a certain radio DJ! We cover social media, Abbey Road & Rockfield, new music and of course play the scenario game. The lads shout out some top up and coming artists to finish off as always: MOONLIGHT PARADE, REVIVALRY, CRIMSON BLOOM, COLUMBIA, TAXI WITH STRANGERS, SHOCKS. We hope you enjoyed this one, these lads are doing amazing things in the scene and their tunes ain't half bad either. Check them out, check us out and we will see you all next week.

THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED IN NOVEMBER AND HAS BEEN DELAYED. So, this episode is older, but it's still very enjoyable. I went with the Methy track talk because we love hearing about Methy drive cars around Rockfield! Oh and some guy named Chase Elliott won the championship or something. Follow us on twitter @LTLNpodcast and subscribe to us on Twitter

It's Christmas Eve so join us for a chat about our favourite Christmas Movie memories as well as discussions around Clash of the Titans, The Bible: In The Beginning, Mandalorian Season 2, Rockfield: the Studio on the Farm, Mission Impossible, Spontaneous and MORE Subscribe (and review us) at Apple Podcasts Check out Mike's other show The Rewatch Project Feedback appreciated at chinstrokervspunter@gmail.com and hang with us on facebook Check out the other PODSYNDICATE SHOWS

La Tienda De Biblioteca Del Metal: Encontraras, Ropa, Accesorios,Decoracion, Ect... Todo Relacionado Al Podcats Biblioteca Del Metal Y Al Mundo Del Heavy Metal. Descubrela!!!!!! Ideal Para Llevarte O Regalar Productos Del Podcats De Ivoox. (Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Queensrÿche, (pronunciado /kuínsraik/) es un grupo de metal progresivo estadounidense creado en 1981 en Seattle, (Washington). El grupo ha editado un EP y once álbumes de estudio y, hasta la fecha, continúa haciendo giras y grabando.La creación del grupo se remonta a principios de la década de los años 1980. El guitarrista Michael Wilton y el baterista Scott Rockenfield eran miembros de una banda llamada CrossFire, haciendo covers de bandas populares de heavy metal tales como Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath y Judas Priest. Reciben la influencia del grupo de rock británico Queen, de quienes hacen un cover de la canción "Innuendo". Luego se agregan el guitarrista Chris DeGarmo y el bajista Eddie Jackson, cambiando el nombre del grupo a The Mob. The Mob, que no tenía un cantante, reclutó a Geoff Tate como cantante en un festival de rock local. En ese momento, Tate ya estaba en una banda llamada Babylon. Cuando Babylon se disuelve Tate hizo algunos shows con The Mob, pero se fue porque no estaba interesado en el heavy metal. En 1981, The Mob consigue grabar un demo. Una vez más, Tate fue llamado para cantar. Grabaron cuatro canciones - "Queen of the Reich", "Nightrider", "Blinded" y "The Lady Wore Black". El grupo mandó su demo a varios sellos y no fue aceptado por ninguno. A solicitud de su nuevo manager, The Mob cambió su nombre a Queensrÿche (inspirado en la primera canción de su demo). Fueron los primeros en aplicar la diéresis (umlaut del heavy metal) sobre la letra Y. Tate bromeaba al respecto: «La diéresis sobre la 'y' nos ha dado un gran dolor de cabeza. Hemos estado once años explicando como debe pronunciarse». La demo circuló y recibió buenas críticas de la revista Kerrang!. Queensrÿche grabó su disco EP Queen of the Reich en su propio sello 206 en 1983. Basados en el éxito del EP, Tate acepto dejar Myth y ser el cantante permanente de Queensrÿche. Ese mismo año la banda firma con EMI y reeditan Queen of the Reich con moderado éxito, llegando al número 81 en el chart Billboard.Luego del EP tour, Queensrÿche viajó a Londres para grabar su primer disco. La banda trabajó con el productor James Guthrie, quien había trabajado con Pink Floyd y Judas Priest. Publicado en septiembre de 1984, The Warning tenía más elementos de rock progresivo que en el primer disco. Alcanzó el puesto 61 del Billboard chart y un éxito comercial moderado. Ninguno de los singles sacados de The Warning repercutió en Estados Unidos, "Take Hold of the Flame" fue un hit para la banda pero fuera del país (particularmente en Japón). Rage for Order, grabado en 1986, presenta un estilo y un sonido más pulido. El álbum presentaba predominantemente tanto teclados como guitarras, y el grupo adoptó una imagen más asociada con el glam rock o glam metal que con el heavy metal.En 1988, Queensrÿche presentó Operation: Mindcrime, un álbum conceptual narrativo que tuvo una crítica masiva y un éxito comercial. La historia del disco giraba alrededor de un drogadicto que es drogado para asesinar en nombre de un movimiento contestatario; el drogadicto ("Nikki") está atrapado entre su lealtad a la causa y su amor por una prostituta devenida monja ("Mary", cuya voz fue interpretada por Pamela Moore). Operation: mindcrime fue mencionado por los críticos junto a discos conceptuales notables tales como "The Wall" de Pink Floyd y "Tommy" de The Who. La banda estuvo de gira a lo largo de todo el año 1988 y 1989 con varias bandas, incluyendo a Metallica. La presentación del disco Empire (1990) llevó a Queensrÿche a la cima de su popularidad comercial. Llegó al ranking número 7 y vendió más de tres millones de copias solo en los Estados Unidos, más que sus cuatro trabajos anteriores juntos (recibió también el disco de plata en el Reino Unido). La power ballad "Silent Lucidity", en la que presentaba a una orquesta, se convirtió en el primer single Top 10. Mientras la banda mantenía su estilo de protesta social, tocando tópicos tales como política y control de armamento y la defensa del medio ambiente, las letras de "Empire" iban más al grano de lo que lo habían hecho hasta ese momento. La subsiguiente gira "Building Empires" fue la primera que presentaba a Queensrÿche como acto principal. El grupo utilizaba su status para interpretar Operation: mindcrime completo, como también canciones de "Empire". La gira duró 18 meses, más de lo que cualquier banda había tocado hasta ese momento. Después de tomarse un tiempo para lidiar con cuestiones personales, la banda grabó Promised Land en octubre de 1994. Fue un álbum oscuro e intensamente personal, que reflejaba el estado mental de la banda en ese momento. Si bien el álbum debutó tercero y hasta recibió el disco de platino, era claro que no tendría el éxito comercial que había tenido Empire. Como muchas bandas de heavy metal y hard rock, la fortuna comercial del grupo dio lugar a la aparición de las nuevas bandas exponentes de la música grunge y rock alternativo.Queensrÿche grabó su sexto álbum en estudio, Hear in the Now Frontier, en marzo de 1997, con una mezcla y crítica por parte de los fans. El álbum debutó en el número 19 pero rápidamente desapareció del chart. El sonido musical y el estilo del mismo eran más crudos que lo que la banda había grabado hasta ese momento, y algunos fans y críticos apuntaron que el sonido y estilo grunge era la mayor influencia del disco. A pesar de esta reacción, los singles Sign of the Times y You recibieron mucha difusión. Agravando la desilusión por las ventas hubo situaciones que plagaron el tour. Menos de un mes antes del tour Hear in the Now Frontier, Geoff Tate enfermó y la banda se vio forzada por primera vez a cancelar conciertos. Para completar, el sello de la banda, EMI America Records, quebró durante el mismo periodo. Queensrÿche se vio forzado a usar su propio dinero para financiar el resto de la gira, que finalizó en agosto después de solo dos meses. El grupo tocó algunos shows en Sudamérica debido a obligaciones contractuales, y fue durante este momento que el miembro fundador Chris DeGarmo anunció que dejaba Queensrÿche. Aunque los motivos de la partida de DeGarmo no se hicieron públicos, los miembros de la banda dijeron que DeGarmo estaba en búsqueda de otros horizontes como razones de su partida. Después de que dejara Queensrÿche, en 2001 DeGarmo grabó y se presentó con Jerry Cantrell, en una banda llamada Spys4Darwin. DeGarmo a fecha de 2006 es piloto en una aerolínea comercial.DeGarmo fue reemplazado por el guitarrista y productor Kelly Gray. La conexión de Gray con Queensrÿche viene de los 80, cuando fue guitarrista de Myth, la anterior banda de Geoff Tate. Gray previamente había trabajado también como productor de bandas como Dokken y Candlebox. El primer álbum de Queensrÿche con Gray fue Q2K, grabado en 1999. Este fue también el primer álbum del nuevo sello, Atlantic Records. Musicalmente, Q2K tiene una pequeña vuelta al metal progresivo de los inicios de la banda, mostrando también un sonido similar al de Hear in the Now Frontier. Gray no fue muy bien recibido por los fans, quienes sintieron que su sonido "blusero" no se ajustaba a la banda. Además, la popularidad declinante del grupo los forzó a tocar en clubs y teatros, en vez de grandes estadios al aire libre. Después de la salida de un disco de grandes éxitos en el año 2000, Queensrÿche se embarcó en otra gira, esta vez como soporte de Iron Maiden. Esto permitió al grupo tocar por primera vez en el Madison Square Garden. Insatisfechos por la falta de soporte que recibieron de Atlantic, Queensrÿche firmó con Sanctuary Records en 2001. En julio de ese año, la banda se presentó algunos conciertos en el Moore Theater, en Seattle, Washington. Los shows fueron grabados y lanzados en septiembre de 2001 como Live Evolution, el segundo álbum en directo de la banda. Kelly Gray dejó el grupo un tiempo después.La banda entró al estudio como cuarteto en el otoño de 2003 para grabar su próximo álbum. En abril, anunciaron que Chris DeGarmo volvía a la banda, pero que su futuro en la misma era incierto. En julio, Queensrÿche lanzó su primer y único álbum de material nuevo en el sello Sanctuary: Tribe. DeGarmo, quien tocó y escribió cuatro canciones, no se unió oficialmente a la banda ni tampoco tomó parte en el tour. El reemplazo oficial de Kelly Gray fue Mike Stone, quien acompañó al grupo durante el tour Tribe como segunda guitarra. En junio de 2003, Queensrÿche se lanzó en un tour presentando a otra banda muy popular de metal progresivo: Dream Theater. Las dos bandas alternaban la apertura y cierre de los shows, tocando al final juntas un puñado de canciones. Fates Warning fue el invitado especial del tour.En julio de 2004, Queensrÿche anunció planes para grabar una continuación del disco Operation: Mindcrime. A fin de generar el interés de los fans en el nuevo álbum, la banda salió de gira a finales de 2004 con el tour An Evening With Queensrÿche. El mismo abría con algunos grandes éxitos seguida de una producción revisada de Operation: mindcrime con actores en directo y vídeos; Pamela Moore retomó su rol como Sister Mary. El grupo tocó pregrabó una versión de "Hostage," una canción del nuevo álbum. La segunda parte del tour comenzó a principios de 2005. Antes de embarcarse en una tercera parte del mismo a fines de 2005, Queensrÿche tocó con Judas Priest a lo largo de Norteamérica, tocando durante una hora un set que consistía en viejos temas y una canción de la nueva secuela, llamada "I'm American". Operation: Mindcrime II fue lanzado internacionalmente el 31 de marzo de 2006, diciendo que respondía algunas de las preguntas de la primera parte. Este disco es el primero de esta banda con el sello Rhino Entertainment, con el cual firmaron en 2005. Ronnie James Dio grabó las voces de Dr. X, el villano de ambos discos. Este debutó en el número 14, la más alta posición para un álbum de Queensrÿche desde 1997. El grupo a finales de 2006 está haciendo la gira de Operation: Mindcrime II. Pamela Moore se unió a la banda para presentar los discos Operation: Mindcrime en su totalidad. Queensrÿche posteriormente anunció que Ronnie James Dio aparecería durante algunas fechas para representar su rol como Dr. X.El 9 de agosto de 2007, la banda anunció que lanzaría un álbum de grandes éxitos, titulado Sign of the Times. El álbum fue lanzado el 28 de agosto de 2007 y una edición especial del coleccionista llevaba un disco extra que incluía demostraciones y una nueva canción "Justified", con Chris DeGarmo en la guitarra. El 23 de noviembre de 2007, la banda lanzó un álbum de covers titulado Take Cover. El álbum contiene covers de canciones de U2, Queen, The Police, Black Sabbath, Peter Gabriel y Pink Floyd. Take Cover es el segundo lanzamiento que realizó la banda a través de Rhino Records. El 3 de febrero de 2009, Stone anunció el fin de su asociación con Queensrÿche para enfocarse en su proyecto Speed-X, aunque las declaraciones de la corte revelaron que Geoff y Susan Tate lo habían despedido por "realizar demandas muy grandes", sin haberlo discutido con los otros miembros de la banda. Wilton grabó tanto la sección de la guitarra líder como de la guitarra rítmica para el undécimo álbum de la banda, American Soldier, lanzado el 31 de marzo de 2009. El álbum conceptual trata el tema de la guerra desde la perspectiva de aquellos que participaron en las líneas de las guerras americanas desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial hacia el presente, especialmente la Guerra de Iraq. Parker Lundgren reemplazó a Stone en el tour.El 14 de abril de 2012, durante un concierto en São Paulo, Brasil, Tate atacó físicamente y escupió a Rockfield y Wilton en un acto de respuesta debido a un conflicto suscitado entre los integrantes por el despido de Susan Tate como manager de la banda y su hija Miranda del club de fans. Tate continuamente escupió a los integrantes del grupo y tuvo que ser retenido por los guardaespaldas y seguridad local. La banda intentó reconciliarse con Tate durante el transcurso de los siguientes conciertos antes de despedirlo, ya que su comportamiento empezó a empeorar hasta el último concierto con él, llevado a cabo en el Rocklahoma Festival, el 26 de mayo en Pryor, Oklahoma. Durante el concierto, Tate le dijo al público "Ustedes apestan".Dicho concierto fue transmitido en vivo a nivel nacional a través de HDnet. Un testimonio de la corte reveló que Tate y su familia habían sido despedidos por el mal uso de las cuentas bancarias de la banda para pagar los gastos de un grupo irlandés que Susan Tate estaba manejando, llamado The Voodoos, quienes no tenían visas legales de trabajo en los Estados Unidos, y que teloneaban a Queensrÿche durante su gira estadounidense de 2011. Geoff Tate también pactó en secreto un acuerdo con Zoetifex Studios sobre los derechos de Operation: Mindcrime para realizar una adaptación fílmica animada basada en el álbum, que le otorgaría un pago por adelantado, y la mayoría de las regalías asociadas con la mercancía de la película.Tate alegó que él era el único dueño de los derechos de la historia, a pesar de que la mayoría de los integrantes había creado el concepto de Mindcrime.En mayo de 2012, se anunció que los miembros originales Wilton, Rockfield y Jackson junto a Parker Lungdren y el vocalista de Crimson Glory Todd La Torre formaron una banda llamada Rising West, tocando solamente las canciones de los primeros cinco álbumes de Queensrÿche. Los primeros conciertos se realizaron en Seattle, en el Hard Rock Café, el 8 y 9 de junio de 2012. Se anunció el 20 de junio de 2012 que Queensrÿche despidió a Geoff Tate como vocalista, y que será reemplazado por La Torre. Se desconoce quién posee los derechos del nombre Queensrÿche.El 13 de julio de 2012, una corte desestimó la moción de Geoff Tate por un interdicto preliminar que pudo haber privado a Michael Wilton, Scott Rockenfield y Eddie Jackson de realizar sus giras y operar bajo el nombre de Queensrÿche.La propuesta de Wilton, Rockenfield, Jackson y La Torre finalmente devino en la continuación conceptual de Queensrÿche, junto al guitarrista Parker Lundgren, quien se unió a la banda en 2009. Con Geoff Tate fuera del grupo, la banda planea un nuevo lanzamiento de estudio para 2013, tras Dedicated to Chaos, de 2011. El título elegido para el álbum fue Queensrÿche, y la fecha de salida se estableció para el 24 de junio de 2013. Sin embargo, y a pesar de esto, el exvocalista Tate, lejos de aceptar esta decisión, planteó su propia versión de Queensrÿche, negándose a reconocer la legitimidad de sus excompañeros al utilizar el nombre y seguir adelante con la historia del grupo. En el año 2015 lanzaron el segundo álbum con La Torre como vocalista, llamado Condition Hüman. Tracklist: 01 - Queen Of The Reich 02 - Warning 03 - Walk In The Shadows 04 - Take Hold Of The Flame 05 - I Dont Belive In Love 06 - Eyes Of A Stranger 07 - I Dream In Infrared 08 - The Whisper 09 - En Force 10 - Neue Regel 11 - Chemical Youth ( We Are Rebellion ) 12 - Prohecy 13 - The Needle Lies 14 - Silent Lucidity 15 - Another Rainy Night ( Without You ) 16 - Empire 17 - Best I Can

Welcome back to the Oasis PodcastSupport at patreon.com/oasispod Follow on Twitter and Facebook @oasispodcast and Instagram @OasisPodBuy Some Might Say - The Definitive Story of Oasis - https://thisdayinmusicbooks.com/books/some-might-say-the-definitive-history-of-oasis/ Email oasispod@gmail.com Today's guest is Andrew Cushin @andrewcushinHis new single is out now streaming everywhere 0:00 Liam clip and Vision - Shine On0:27 JC Intro1:20 Andrew Cushin - Its Gonna Get Better1:54 Andrew Cushin interview6:52 Andrew Cushin - Waiting for the Rain11:40 Andrew Cushin - Wheres My Family Gone (This Feeling TV live performance)19:56 Andrew Cushin - Where's My Family Gone25:30 NGHFB - AKA Broken Arrow26:24 News - Interview with Richard Bowes @rbmusicwriter#MorningGlory25 review33:27 Return to Rockfield clip37:17 Track by track - Swamp Song40:24 Track by track - the b-sides47:50 New track round up 49:47 Andrew Wyatt feat. Liam Gallagher - Bless You53:03 Noel Gallagher - Mind Games58:09 Andrew Cushin - Dead In The Water1:02:39 Camelphat feat. Noel Gallagher - Not Over Yet1:12:02 Andy Bell - Cherry Cola1:15:16 Miles Kane - Hey Now1:17:55 The Clockworks - Some Might Say1:20:43 Rich Austin - WTSMG in 3 minutes1:24:02 Camelphat feat. Noel Gallagher - Not Over Yet1:24:40 JC rounds up the other stuff1:25:34 Richard Bowes interview with James Walsh from Starsailor clip - full interview here - https://www.richardbowes.com/blog/interview-james-walsh1:28:37 Katy Georgiou interview with Steve Lamacq clip - full interview on Sound Affects podcast https://www.listennotes.com/bg/podcasts/sound-affects/episode-14-steve-lamacq-3CtPnfLhEVZ/1:30:25 Clip of me on Britpop Revival Show - full show here - https://www.mixcloud.com/britpoprevival/britpop-revival-show-342-7th-october-2020/1:32:09 Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy1:32:54 JC ending and Patreon thanks1:34:02 Oasis - Stay Young

The Damned are Britain's greatest surviving punk rock band from the good old days and the Rockfield studios are especially important, because this is where the band would record, what would eventually become their most successful releases: The Black Album and Strawberries. I had the privilege to speak with one of British punk rock's OGs - Captain Sensible about the new EP, and his thoughts on the pandemic - it is apparent the man does NOT like Bill Gates (sorry Bill). He also Shares with me some fun stories from the old days, including a special one about a show in Toronto which had him waking up in the hospital. THE DAMNED Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3lRjZzj Apple Music | https://apple.co/3iZo42F Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/eternally_damned/

Hot Again, The Light Fantastic, Snowfall, Greyhound, Shirley, Rockfield, I May Destroy You, Dectorists, Torchwood, Stargirl, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Expanse, Comic-Con@Home, Tweetdeck, Show Notes Update, BLM Changing Tech Culture for the Better, Amazon's Response to Nazi Products, Diversity and Representation in Genre, New Old Theme Music, Doctor Who Marathon Continues Next Time

Hot Again, The Light Fantastic, Snowfall, Greyhound, Shirley, Rockfield, I May Destroy You, Dectorists, Torchwood, Stargirl, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Expanse, Comic-Con@Home, Tweetdeck, Show Notes Update, BLM Changing Tech Culture for the Better, Amazon's Response to Nazi Products, Diversity and Representation in Genre, New Old Theme Music, Doctor Who Marathon Continues Next TimeShow Notes: https://roymathur.com/podcast/2020-07-31-captain-roys-rocket-radio-show.txt

Hot Again, The Light Fantastic, Snowfall, Greyhound, Shirley, Rockfield, I May Destroy You, Dectorists, Torchwood, Stargirl, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Expanse, Comic-Con@Home, Tweetdeck, Show Notes Update, BLM Changing Tech Culture for the Better, Amazon's Response to Nazi Products, Diversity and Representation in Genre, New Old Theme Music, Doctor Who Marathon Continues Next TimeShow Notes: https://roymathur.com/podcast/2020-07-31-captain-roys-rocket-radio-show.txt

New episode out now. Pleased to announce The Vigil and their brand new album Hypervigilance' due out on the 21st August 2020 About the band The vigil are from Bristol Olly Smith: Guitar & Vocals Rhys James: Bass & Backing Vocals Jamie Davenport: Drums Sam Jarman: Guitar Following on from the debut album ave our Souls The Vigil bring a concise banger of an album with Ginger Wildheart producer Dave Draper at the helm. The album was recorded in the studio where Queen recorded two albums and features 10 slamming rock anthems by the power trio released on the bands own Fever Dog The band recorded the album in 3 days in spring 2019 pulling in mammoth late-night sessions with the band putting their heart and soul into the process. Rockfield was an inspiring place and even lead to the band finishing 3 songs in the studio playing those songs together for the first time yielding spontaneous and pure results. The Vigil have a DIY approach and make music simply for the joy of cranking out loud rock songs with passion and heart. The title ‘Hypervigilance' is a reference to putting out the best version of ourselves and about finding that purpose and drive in life, in these difficult and unprecedented times we live in. A place where we are all becoming hyper vigilant to our surroundings and trying to survive in the unknown. Getting back to what is important and those you care about.

Today I’m talking to Leslie Mcelwreath, of SIR in Greenwich, CT. Leslie is #1 Realtor in Greenwich and #1 Sotheby’s International Realty agent in the state of Connecticut. Her career sales volume exceeds $650 million and her annual production makes her one of the top Sotheby’s International Realty agents in the country.Leslie has represented three historic Greenwich estates; Rockfield's, a former Rockefeller estate which sold in 19 days for $22.5 million; Sabine Farm which sold for $25 million in 2017; and Old Mill Farm, formerly owned by Mel Gibson, which sold for $13.25 million in 2019. These transactions are several of the highest-priced single-family home sales in Greenwich history.Leslie’s previous career as a Wall Street executive encompassed 15 years with firms such as Bankers Trust Company, Bear Stearns & Co, NationsBanc, Drexel Burnham and Lambert,Leslie and I talk about what it takes to be a record-breaking agent in your market.What did Leslie love so much about this business (3.31)The differences between the training for securities and the training to get into real estate (07.40)She shares with us about the secret of her success (11.03)How does she negotiate as a listing agent (20:56)Her conversations on negotiating (25:31)Her AHA moment to get into the breakthrough (30:56)Learning vs getting a deal (34:57)The story of her first deal (35:43)The final three (37:04)Resources / People Mentioned:Stanley Druckenmiller Floyd Wickman Chris VossBooks Mentioned:Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss Quotes/Takeaways:"A very large portion of my successes by the fact that I surround myself, by my peers here and by the brand and all that we have to offer our clients."Jere interviews the world’s most renowned and best real estate agents around the country and the world.These outstanding Agents tell their stories, how they got into the business, and what has made them successful in one of the oldest and most competitive industries.All of this on the “Jere Metcalf Podcast, Top Real Estate Agents tell how they do it.”www.JereMetcalfPodcast.comPowered by Jere Metcalf Partners 404.627.7789jere@jeremetcalfpartners.comJeremetcalfpartners.com

Welcome back to the Oasis Podcast and Happy New Year!Support at patreon.com/oasispodFollow on Twitter and Facebook @oasispodcast and Instagram @OasisPodBuy Some Might Say - The Definitive Story of Oasis - https://thisdayinmusicbooks.com/books/some-might-say-the-definitive-history-of-oasis/Email oasispod@gmail.com0:00 Liam clip and Vision - Shine On0:27 JC Intro & news - Liam gig for NHS workers https://www.theo2.co.uk/events/detail/liam-gallagher-nhs2:13 Alan White drums to Be Here Now on Instagram... could Liam's NHS gig be a mini reunion6:44 Oasis - Lyla7:13 Interview with Romesh Dodangoda @longwaveromesh10:14 Bring Me The Horizon - Wonderful Life13:17 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize16:32 Oasis - Cigarettes & Alchol (Demo)21:56 Oasis - My Big Mouth24:14 Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean (NG 2016)26:10 Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life27:33 Oasis - It's Getting Better (Man!!)30:38 Romesh playing DLBIA on the Rockfield piano36:09 I Walk On Gilded Splinters - Johnny Jenkins38:59 Oasis - Lyla42:46 Oasis - Turn Up The Sun52:36 Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol53:23 #OasisA2Z - Cum On Feel The Noize54:27 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize56:51 Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize1:02:15 Oasis - Cum On Feel The Noize1:03:23 Oasis - Cum On Feel The Noize (Live at Maine Rd)1:04:34 Audio review of Cum On Feel The Noize by @tonypottinger1:09:45 Oasis Top of The Pops 1:11:31 Oasis - Cum On Feel The Noize (Live Later with Jools)1:13:35 JC ending and Patreon thanks1:16:16 Oasis - Stay Young

Redline is a rock band, make that metal band, that hails from Birmingham, England, the ancestral home of metal. Balls to the wall guitars, a locked and loaded rhythm section and a powerful vocalist, Redline has forged its own distinctive blend of classic hard rock and British heavy metal. With influences drawn from a rich heritage, the band has been compared to Judas Priest, Saxon, Dio, Iron Maiden and a host of others from the founding fathers of metal. Redline has played a number of British festivals including Hard Rock Hell, Planet Rockstock, Planet Rock’s Winter’s End, and Europe’s biggest free festival, The Godiva Festival in England. One of the tracks featured anthemic King Of The Mountain which has become the soundtrack to the Isle Of Man TT (http://bettereachday.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/72040553_2099478230360528_2644826554340737024_n.jpg) Motorcycle Races. Music from the album is also used exclusively on Full Throttle, a challenging motorcycle theme pinball  game. Songs will now be featured on the new official video game of the IOM TT Races to be released in 2020 on PS4 and all formats by BigBen Interactive. The band has welcomed Chris Basener, an accomplished and exciting new guitarist. Chris has released a number of solo albums as well as authoring books on guitar technique and brings fresh impetus to the song writing process. Redline has found a great chemistry that sees them writing material that has a darker and heavier feel than before… and from this cauldron Gods And Monsters was born. Redline recorded the album at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, England. This is a legendary studio that not only Rush, Black Sabbath and Robert Plant have recorded hit albums, but where Queen recorded one of the biggest tracks of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody. (http://bettereachday.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/21369343_1697093850598970_1961511105139391268_n.jpg) Nick Brine at the console was a natural choice. Having worked at Rockfield and engineered, mixed and produced such diverse talents including The Darkness, Thunder, Tyketto, Brian May, Bruce Springsteen, and The Stone Roses. Nick has a great understanding of capturing that live band feel that the band was seeking. The finished mixes were passed onto Pete Maher, mastering  engineer for The Rolling Stones, U2, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Thunder, and Paul Weller. Redline had no doubt that Pete’s mastering would unleash the full power of the tracks. Redline's Rockfield pilgrimage set out to capture the band’s signature classic rock sound, a raw energy that forms the basis of their music. Riff laden rock, power-pipe vocals and hook laden songs telling tales of the good…and the bad, of the darkness that lies within, and of hope that lights the way. Kez Taylor, vocals Chris Basener, guitar Ade Yeomans, guitar Steve “Reg” Hill, bass Mark Biddiscombe, drums Redline's Homepage (https://www.redlinerock.com/)

Redline is a rock band, make that metal band, that hails from Birmingham, England, the ancestral home of metal. Balls to the wall guitars, a locked and loaded rhythm section and a powerful vocalist, Redline has forged its own distinctive blend of classic hard rock and British heavy metal. With influences drawn from a rich heritage, the band has been compared to Judas Priest, Saxon, Dio, Iron Maiden and a host of others from the founding fathers of metal. Redline has played a number of British festivals including Hard Rock Hell, Planet Rockstock, Planet Rock’s Winter’s End, and Europe’s biggest free festival, The Godiva Festival in England. One of the tracks featured anthemic King Of The Mountain which has become the soundtrack to the Isle Of Man TT (http://bettereachday.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/72040553_2099478230360528_2644826554340737024_n.jpg) Motorcycle Races. Music from the album is also used exclusively on Full Throttle, a challenging motorcycle theme pinball  game. Songs will now be featured on the new official video game of the IOM TT Races to be released in 2020 on PS4 and all formats by BigBen Interactive. The band has welcomed Chris Basener, an accomplished and exciting new guitarist. Chris has released a number of solo albums as well as authoring books on guitar technique and brings fresh impetus to the song writing process. Redline has found a great chemistry that sees them writing material that has a darker and heavier feel than before… and from this cauldron Gods And Monsters was born. Redline recorded the album at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, England. This is a legendary studio that not only Rush, Black Sabbath and Robert Plant have recorded hit albums, but where Queen recorded one of the biggest tracks of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody. (http://bettereachday.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/21369343_1697093850598970_1961511105139391268_n.jpg) Nick Brine at the console was a natural choice. Having worked at Rockfield and engineered, mixed and produced such diverse talents including The Darkness, Thunder, Tyketto, Brian May, Bruce Springsteen, and The Stone Roses. Nick has a great understanding of capturing that live band feel that the band was seeking. The finished mixes were passed onto Pete Maher, mastering  engineer for The Rolling Stones, U2, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Thunder, and Paul Weller. Redline had no doubt that Pete’s mastering would unleash the full power of the tracks. Redline's Rockfield pilgrimage set out to capture the band’s signature classic rock sound, a raw energy that forms the basis of their music. Riff laden rock, power-pipe vocals and hook laden songs telling tales of the good…and the bad, of the darkness that lies within, and of hope that lights the way. Kez Taylor, vocals Chris Basener, guitar Ade Yeomans, guitar Steve “Reg” Hill, bass Mark Biddiscombe, drums Redline's Homepage (https://www.redlinerock.com/)

This week we speak with Jon Cariveau from Moots while touring their factory in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. We explore the benefits of titanium, the value of in-house manufacturing and the evolution of the brand. Moots Website Moots Instagram Tech Corner sponsor Thesis website  Tech Corner sponsored by Thesis. A bottom bracket, or BB, should allow your cranks to spin smoothly and silently under the intense stresses of pedalling for a long time. Unfortunately, the pursuit of weight and cost savings has led to a proliferation of flawed and often proprietary designs that can bind, creak, or even damage your frame. So what are the hallmarks of a reliable BB? Look for large, premium cartridge bearings with hardened stainless steel races and weathertight seals. Check that they’re spaced as widely apart as possible to distribute the load. Make sure they’re pressed into metal cups that are themselves separate from the frame for serviceability but then part of a rigid and tightly-toleranced metal assembly for proper alignment and support. And finally, check that it’s built to common open standards so that it’s easy to source parts or upgrade. There are only three bottom bracket standards that come close to meeting these criteria: First there’s BSA, a legacy standard optimized for metal frames and 24mm spindles. Under this standard, each bearing is pressed into a metal cup that is then threaded into the frame itself. Next there’s T47, which is essentially BSA updated to work with modern 30mm spindles. Finally there’s BB386EVO. This is my go-to because it is a common and open standard, it utilizes large bearings pushed widely apart for stiffness and durability, it doesn’t require metal to be bonded into carbon frames in a way that invites galvanic corrosion, and it is compatible with the widest range of crank options available. Note that not all bottom brackets using this standard are created equal. To prevent binding and creaking, bearings must be pressed directly into a one or two piece metal shell, and in the latter case the two cups must thread together to create a properly aligned and supportive assembly. So the next time you buy a bike, take a moment to make sure it includes a bottom bracket that will spin in silence for years to come. And with that, back to Craig and this week’s guest. Moots Interview -- automatic transcription (please excuse the typos). All right, everyone. I'm actually in steamboat springs this week. I'm talking to John from Moots and I just got a tour of the Moots factory, which was absolutely fascinating. I love seeing how everything was built from the raw tube set across the board. So John, first off, thanks for that tour. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for coming on, uh, being here with us. So just, I always like to give a little bit of context about you as an athlete to get your perspective. So how did you sort of arrive at gravel? What's your background as a cyclist? I know you've been in this sport a long time. Yeah, I think, um, you know, my, my background is mainly coming from a cyclocross, the my, I mean, as a kid I was a BMX rat and racer through college on the mountain bikes and then a road bike. And then, you know, around here in steamboat, uh, I just got really into cyclocross and was competitive and traveling and doing quite a bit of that. And you know, you don't go out and train on a cyclocross course. You go out and you ride some miles. And this bike that could take a bigger tire than a road bike all of a sudden became really useful, um, to explore these roads that are around here. And, uh, that's, that's kind of how me, myself personally got into it. Um, and uh, you know, I s I was not the first person in the valley to have a cyclocross bike, but kinda one of the first, and I found myself loaning that bike out to friends that wanted to check it out and they were like, Oh man, this is incredible. I can turn off this paved road and I can go down this junkie dirt field Rockfield road and explore and have a good time and get away from the traffic. Nice. Well we'll definitely get into some of the roads around here cause we're out here for steamboat gravel on it. I understand we've got a lot of great miles ahead of us, but for those of the listeners who haven't heard of Moots, can you tell us a little bit about the history of Moots? We're located here in steamboat springs. We always have been here. We were founded in this town in 1981 and the first 10 years of our business we built out of steel. And that was the material of the time. And in 1991, we had a pivotal moment with the company based on our why BB soft tail that we had been building that out of steel. And it was prestige to mean at the time and the fatigue resistance of steel is not nearly what titanium is. So when we made the switch, the YGB was kind of the driver, uh, with the fatigue, resistance and longevity that titanium offered. And we made that switch in 91 and haven't deviated from that path since it's our material of choice and it's what we're, uh, experts at. And if we tried another material, it would only be us kind of faking it. So that's, that's kind of our take on it. It's for us, it's the material that rides so nicely under the rider. It can be customized, it can be tuned to a heavier or lighter rider. And the durability is just kind of second to none out there. Yeah. I imagine as gravel started to pick up titanium as a material is a pretty natural choice given the sort of suppleness that can be built into the frame when you're going off road on stutter bumps and what have you. Yeah. You know, people always ask us, you know, why, why would I ride a tie bike? And um, many of them have been on steel bikes over the years. And I think the best analogy is a tie bike rides a lot like a really nicely made steel bike and ride quality smoothness, but it has this, um, a little bit more backbone to it, so to speak. And it's lighter, it doesn't corrode and it doesn't fatigue like steel will over time. You know, when you get a tie bike on day number one, it will ride the same in year number three. So it really, the ride quality doesn't degrade over time like other materials can. Right. And then for someone who's considering a carbon bike in the market, how do you talk about the differences in feel from boots, titanium frame versus a, you know, a nice carbon frame in the market? Yeah, it's, you know, we, we get that question a lot too. And it's a, it's a great comparison and, and you know, carbon is definitely the, the material of choice out there in, in most of the cycling world. But we, uh, we always talk about our bikes and what we can offer as a ride quality, um, compared to carbon and [inaudible], you know, carbon, um, when it first came out, you know, people wanted to step as possible and now they've really kind of backed down from that a little bit. And actually they're doing a really good job of providing different layups and different tube diameters that really affect the ride quality. And so, you know, it just really depends on what the, the rider is looking for. I think there's somebody that, um, gravitates towards titanium because it Kinda has this, a bit of soulfulness to it in some ways where it's like, man, I feel connected to the ground, but I'm not feeling every little jarring crack in the, in the road or, or stutter bump on the gravel road. So I think it's, um, yeah, I don't know. We're, we're never going to build our moods bikes as light as you could get a carbon bike. That's always kinda like the first thing is how light is it. And, uh, we will never have fake that. If you build a titanium bike that is large light as a carbon bike, it's going to ride horribly and it's, it just gets too light. It's not stiff enough. And so we, we don't lead with that. We lead with, it's a, a ride quality that you just can't find elsewhere. And you know, weight is third or fourth on the list for us. Really. Yeah. And as you said, I mean, when you buy a tie frame, you expect that the ride quality is going to remain the same for years and it's just simply not going to degrade. Yeah. And it's, you know, it's a lot of people come at it like, Oh man, this is going to be my last bike, my lifetime bike. And, and that's, and, and titanium's a great material for that. But as you know, the, you know, standards change and, you know, through axles come along and different fittings come along. And, and we, we really try to evolve with the good standards that do evolve out in the industry. Um, for a good purpose. You know, through axles. Um, it's the perfect made up with disc brakes. You get no rotor rub, you get no flex between the frame and the wheel. And so that was a good one for sure. Yeah, it has a positive outcome on the ride quality of the bike for sure. When you lean on a, on a through axle bike, it goes where you put it. You know, on the older quick release bikes, there's a little wiggle room in there. Yeah. Speaking of evolution, obviously this sport of gravel kind of was birthed out of opportunity and desire. So opportunity was dyspraxia, tubeless, tires, all these things that made it. So if you wrote a drop bar bike with narrow tires off road, you weren't flatting all the time and opportunity obviously like as traffic becomes more and more of a problem, people just want to get off road for that adventure. In my mind, you know, Moots having such a long history, obviously I was familiar with you on the road and on the mountain and I started to see what I categorize it as adventure bikes come out. I started to see people doing the tour divide on Moots bikes, moods designed bikes, which was really interesting. But then I started to see you guys move into the sweet spot of the great quote unquote gravel market at this point. What was the first model that was sort of that pure gravel bike that you, you made? Yeah, it's a great question. So the first model we made, we actually took one of our older cross bikes and it was called the Cyclo ax. And the first year that we really moved towards like a true gravel geometry of lower bottom bracket, little longer chain stays in the cross bike, more tire clearance and maybe a little more relaxed angles. Um, we changed the geometry, but we didn't change the name. And in hindsight we were, we've all, all of us have said to each other like, what were we thinking? Um, we didn't rename it and people always kept thinking it was the Cyclo x, uh, cyclocross bike. And so that was actually put out as a product. Um, gosh, it was probably about 2013 maybe something like that over six years ago. And it was an instant hit. And what, what kind of drove that was our own riding around steamboat, like everybody up Moots rides in some form or another. And we started using cross bikes as that and then we were like, you know, we can tweak this to be better for the purpose. And we had several shops ordering our cross bikes as customs and tweaking the geometry themselves to lower bottom brackets, the longer chain stays. And there was one in one shop in particular. Um, in Northern Illinois, uh, that Toby DePaul, a very good friend of ours was involved with and he kept ordering this bike with this same geometry. And we're like, what are you doing? He's like, it's for these big heavy gravel roads out here. And they called it the minute tar in their shop. It was like their own name for one of our bikes and a Toby's super nice guys. He's really involved in the industry and development of tires now and things like that. But that was the start of it. And, um, the following year, you know, we finally, uh, realize, hey, we need to change the name of this. And, uh, that's where the route name, uh, came in and the, the, the history of their route. R O u t t is actually the county that we live in, uh, here in steamboat. It's called Routt County, Colorado. And we thought it was a clever play on words, you know, hey, I'm going to go out and do a route or this route or that route. And we were like, yeah, that should be our gravel bike name. And so that first bike went from cyclo acts the first year with the gravel geometry and then it was renamed the second year to the route. Okay. Yeah. And then the line has expanded from there at this point. Yeah, it, it really has. And, and you know, as the evolution of great bike components like really started happening, um, tires got better, rims got better. And so the need to expand our, our tire sizes, uh, accessibility was there. So, uh, shortly after that, um, we developed the route 45 and that is named, there's a couple of reasons. His name, route 45 is, there's a county road out here called Cow Creek. And on the map it's actually county road 45 and it is in the steamboat gravel race this year. It's got some of the bigger, chunkier stuff in the county. And so with that we expanded the tire clearance to a 45 millimeter on that bike. And we also, we had to bump the chain, stays out to a 45 centimeter chain stay for the clearance. Yeah. And one of the things we were talking about offline, which I think is interesting as it comes up often on the podcast, is just the notion of 700 c versus six 50 and a lot of bike brands are offering the ability to run both. But you guys have have said sort of, unless it's custom, we're squarely in the 700 c route. Um, can you talk a little bit about that decision and that sort of ramifications on design and performance that you see? Yeah, and you know, I think, um, for Moots we really, when we talk to our customers, our dealers out there as well, it's really about the best ride quality we can give them. And when it comes down to bike frame switching in between 700 c and six 50 B on the same bike frame, it, it can be done. But in some ways you're, you're kind of, uh, settling for like maybe not the best performance with each one of those setups. It's kind of the middle ground. Um, and with titanium we run into a pretty big issue of manipulating the curves of the chain stays to accommodate that tire size. So we, we really feel, you know, when we come out with our, our line, which now includes the route RSL, which is the racier gravel bike, the route 45 and then the route y BB, we really design from the onset around 700. See it's optimized to perform best with that wheel set and that's anywhere from a 35 millimeter to a 45 millimeter tire. And for us, when you go to the six 50 [inaudible], um, it drops our bottom bracket height too much and we're really afraid that we're going to give a customer out there a ride experience that is not optimal. They're going to be hitting cranks on trail debris and rocks and stuff like that because the bottom bracket changes, the height is different. Um, and so we haven't got there yet. Um, we'll see what the future holds for us. I'm not, not saying that we have one in the works or anything, but we definitely understand the need for the six 50. That's, it's really a very regional in, in a lot of places, you know, where it's steep trails and, and we've kind of migrated back to riding our mountain bike trails, um, on drop bar bikes now and gravel bikes. So there is that, um, you know, the coastal California stuff where it's really steep and rocky and, and it's the old school mountain bike trails. Um, we, we definitely understand the need for that. And then the, on the outer end of your lineup, you do have the Baxter, which would you describe it as a drop bar? Mountain bike? Yeah, exactly. It's, you know, drop bar mountain bike or monster cross. But it really, that bike is specifically made, um, you know, for 2.1 to 2.2 tires, um, in a 29 format. And geometry is adept adjusted for drop bar reach versus a flat bar reach. And that's, that's our, you know, our super adventure, you know, ha, super heavy gravel, light trail, even heavy trail. And then loaded, uh, bike packing on drop bars for sure. And then if you run a narrower tire on that bike, what are the shortcomings like if you, if you chose that as the model of choice for you, but you wrote it on the road as well, where, where are you seeing the shortcomings? Well, it's, it's kind of a, a Mutt of a bike. So it's primarily basically designed around a mountain bike drive, train. And so if you were to put real small tires on it and go out and hit the road, you would pretty soon find out that your gearing was not where you wanted to be. And that's, you know, again, you've got to kind of got to straddle the fence a little bit of trying to, um, you know, design a bike that we see that as primarily being written on single track and double track and stuff like that. And you're going to suffer a little bit on a smooth paved section to get to the next dirt. Yeah, it's interesting. I think that's been sort of a challenge as, as a consumer in the gravel market. And really the reason I started podcasting was I went on this journey of soul searching as to what bike did I really need for the type of riding that was going to give me the most pleasure. And I optimized around that and you know, it wasn't optimized around the road side of things, but I'll still ride that bike on the road. So I think it's, it's something that consumers have to contend with. You know, you have to make that, that choice at some point. Yeah. There's always a little bit of sacrifice, like unless it's a very specific area, um, there's going to be some, some, uh, sacrifice of a how it's not going to perform the best right in this setting, but for 80% of my riding it is, and then you kind of suffer through the 20% a little bit here and there. Yeah. Yeah. Talking about sort of choices consumers have to make, there seems to be a growing trend towards looking at adding more and more suppleness to these gravel bikes. And it was exciting to see at sea otter this year, the release of your YTB based gravel bike. You mentioned earlier that the technology obviously was created many years ago on the mountain bike and was responsible for a lot of Moots growth during that time period. Can you talk about the why BB specifically and maybe distill some of that, that concern someone might have about a non pivot point suspension on gravel bikes. Like I said earlier, the y BB made it with the titanium material. So you've got this material that has a fatigue resistance that um, with our, uh, testing that we've, we've sent our products off too and had them cycle tested. They just very rarely if ever fail. And so basically what we're relying on is the flex of the chain stay true to provide travel at the axle. And with the new, the route y BB gravel bike, we are, we're mapping out just a little over 20 millimeters of travel at the axle. And so we use that modest a, a piece that conceals a steel spring. And on the last summer core, very simple set up. There's no air. There's no, uh, compressed air or compressed oil to leak. It's greased, has a wiper seal on it, just like your, a suspension fork does it serviceable by the consumer, very easy. Um, and it's only really needed to be serviced every two to three years. And so what that provides us is this ability to take the edge off of all the little tiny frequency hits that are out there on the gravel road. So washboard, potholes, bigger rocks, things like that. And it allows the, the rider of the bike to stay seated in the saddle instead of having to lift their weight out and activate their thigh muscles or their back muscles. And you can kinda stay seated and pedal right through a lot of stuff. And in the end, you know, like on a a hundred mile day that like on a tomorrow for the, the gravel race, you're going to feel fresher. Um, you're not going to be taking it in the lower back all day long. And, uh, yeah, it's, it's kinda where we see things going. Um, and it's, it's been with us, like we were talking earlier since the late eighties in a steel mountain bike and then on into our, our regular mountain bikes. So we really know our tech, that technology and um, it's, it's pretty simple stuff. Do you tune it based on the rider weight? Yes, as the frame. Uh, as that model goes up through the sizes, um, it's stiffened up towards the bigger bikes and then it's softened up towards the smaller bikes and it all kind of operates on kind of an average rider weight for the given size. And if we, if we get a customer that's maybe on the light side for 56, say, uh, we can soften it up a little bit. If they're on the heavy side for 56, we can add a little bit of stiffness to it. Um, but really it's, you're not trying to control a ton of travel, so there's a very limited amount of tuning that can actually be felt or, or notice. But there is a little bit. So if you're, if you're a consumer kind of thinking about that model, or is it typically going to be someone who's writing primarily off road and not using that as a, as a road bike? Um, we get, we have, um, but heavy on the off road use for sure. Um, you can still put a, a set of, uh, you know, slick 35 millimeter tires in that bike and go and enjoy a, a paved road ride. And it's interesting about the Y BBI. People get on it and they ride it for a couple of weeks when they, when they buy it and they're like, yeah, I, I kinda understand it. I kind of feel it. Um, and then you say, okay, we'll put that bike away in the garage and then get back on your old bike and go for a ride. And then they come back and they go, oh, now I get it. Yeah. I think that's probably the best thing if they can only just kind of feel it. Yeah. And then they'll start to learn, like the fatigue factor is minimized by having that kind of design element. Yep, absolutely. Yeah, it's, it is, it's, you know, short distances, long distance. It's just a great feeling bike. And, um, many years ago we used to build, um, our road bike with a y BB unit in it, kind of like a Perry ru bay style bike. And there weren't many of those out there in the world, but those that have them absolutely swear by them, even on the pavement all day long. Yeah. Um, with Frost heaves and, you know, the state of most paved roads that we have around our or is not very good. Yeah, absolutely. I jokingly say that in Sonoma there's a big series called the grasshopper series, and I find that Rhodes to be more dangerous than the trails we're on. Right, exactly. Uh, yeah. Well, it's, I mean, it's, I think it's really fascinating, as I said before, that there's the notion of suspension coming to gravel bikes and how it's gonna fit into people's lives and, um, it's going to be really interesting, I think over the next couple of years just to see where, you know, where it ends up falling. Is everybody attracted to that or is there a little bit of resistance and I mean that's the beauty of gravel to each their own right. Get the bike that works for you. Yeah, I think there, there is a definitely a writer that is like, that is absolutely what I'm looking for. And then there's some that'll stick with the, you know, the RSL or the route 45 in the hard tail. Um, that, you know, they'll get their suspension from high volume tires and low pressures and um, but I think, you know, as we kind of see people riding for many years during their lifetime, you know, they want to continue riding into their, you know, golden years, so to speak. It's definitely going to be a factor of a, this is more comfortable. I can ride longer and I'm not as stiff afterwards. Yeah. Since we're out here for SBT gravel and you're a local, I'd love to get your take on the course as I'm sure it's inspired many of the models we've just talked about. Yeah. It is a, it's so awesome. It's, you know, we host our own little event here in June every year, which is called the ranch rally. And it uses, uh, uh, some of the same courses and areas there'll be on tomorrow. But, um, yeah, it's uh, my take on it is, uh, [inaudible] I think the fast people are going to go through this course pretty fast. It's going to be, um, it's, it'll be a fast pace. Is it conducive to riding in groups? Um, there most of the course, yeah, the roads are fairly wide and we have, um, our, uh, road and bridge, which is county road maintenance around here. They do a treatment to the roads called MAG chloride. And so in June, after the rains hopefully stop in the spring, they grade them and then they seal them with this mag chloride that makes them, in some cases almost like pavement. Um, but in August, right now you get to the point where the roads are starting to fall apart a bit. Uh, the dirt roads and the gravel. So we'll see. I think it's going to be conducive to a pack racing. So there'll be really important. On some of the longer, more dirt road versus gravel road sections to be with somebody or a group of people yeah. To conserve some energy in and get a little free ride here and there. But uh, it's gonna be tough. It's, uh, you know, I look at this course and it's kind of our three most favorite gravel loops tied into one big day. Okay. And that's exciting because the folks that are racing it, you're gonna get an unbelievable tour of Routt county. Um, and you're going to probably want to come back and do some more writing. And for the, as, for the climbing, or is it mostly on sort of those same type of roads that the big climbs occur on? Or do we get a little bit on some quieter trails? Um, there's no real trail out there, but the, the climbs that you're going to be hitting, in my opinion, the, the steeper one will be up around steamboat lake. Uh, it goes up around the back and that's dirt and there's, there's a few switchbacks in there. It's kind of gets to that point where it's that steep and then, you know, it's mainly five, six, maybe 7% Colorado grade where they can't really build the roads too steep around here. Even the gravel roads because they still have to use them during the winter. And if they're built super steep, that presents a problem with our amount of snow that we get. Yeah. And around here, but now I think it's going to be amazing. You're going to get views of north route up around the lake and then as you head south on the south end of the course, you're gonna get some views of the flat top mountains that are, you're going to get lost in your own head. It's going to be very scenic. Nice. Or sure. I, for one athlete, we'll probably need to get [inaudible] lost a little bit to that. Forget about how much of my lungs are pounding and my legs are pounding. Yeah, yeah. The altitude. It'll be okay. Interesting. It's, I think probably one of the grom longest gravel races at altitude. Um, that's around. Yeah. You know, we're base base elevation. A Steamboat's about 6,700 feet and I think you'll get close to almost 9,000 feet out on the course. Yeah, I think you're right about, I hadn't thought about that. But you know, if you think about as a professional athlete that the types of races they're racing is, there's a lot of sea level staff up there out in the calendar. Yeah. I mean we, we were out at the DK and June and uh, that's, that's down to sea level for us. It felt like we were absolutely drinking oxygen, um, up here. That'll be a challenge. You know, the, the longer day and the vertical climbed coupled with the altitude, it'll be, it'll be a tough day. Nice. For sure. Well, thank you so much again for the tour. It was great to kind of look around moods I've, I've known about the brand for decades and decades and all this admired what you do and looking at the detail work that you've been able to achieve with the etching and the organization and bringing everything pretty much in house in Colorado. You can tell the output is so much in your control and the brand and the quality is so elevated that I encourage everybody to kind of look at the [inaudible] website, check out the imagery, find a local dealer to take a test drive on one of these bikes. I've done a little bit of time on a moot to myself and it was a pleasure. So John, thanks for having us look forward to seeing you out on the course tomorrow. Yeah, probably from behind at some point. Well, thanks for coming in. Uh, yeah. Anytime you're in steamboat, come and look us up.

Age of Chance special with Neil Howson in conversation with David Eastaugh Steve Elvidge was a Leeds native, and attended St Michael's College (R.C.); being the most notable musical alumnus of that school since Jake Thackray. Neil Howson, (guitar) also from Leeds studied at Jacob Kramer College of Art, Geoff Taylor (Liverpool) and Jan Perry (Stockport) were students at Leeds Polytechnic, now Leeds Beckett University. Age of Chance first came to national attention in 1985, when their debut single, "Motorcity/ Everlasting Yeah" released on their own label, Riot Bible, was picked up and championed by BBC Radio 1 DJ, John Peel. A session followed, recorded at Maida vale studios and four songs, "Going, Going Gone Man", "Mob Hut", "The Morning After the Sixties" and "I Don't Know and I Don't Care" were recorded. "I Don't Know.." was re-recorded for Gunfire and Pianos, a compilation album released by Zigzag magazine. They released their second self-funded single, "Bible of the Beats" / "Liquid Jungle" in January 1986, which led to an invitation to contribute a track, "From Now On, This Will Be Your God" on the NME C86 compilation tape. The band made their London debut at the ICA Rock week in July 1986. A second Peel session was recorded in June 1986, with "Be Fast, Be Clean, Be Cheap", "From Now On, This Will be Your God", "Kiss" and "How the West was Won". "Kiss" was recorded for the John Peel session while the Prince single was still in the charts. The band then signed to the Sheffield independent record label, Fon, for "Kiss" and its remix 12"s and six track mini-LP Crush Collision. "Kiss" was No. 2 in John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1986. The band signed to Virgin in January 1987, and embarked on a nationwide UK tour. They recorded a Janice Long session comprising "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Noise", "Hold On" and "Bible of the Motorcity Beats." They began recording their first single for Virgin with producer Howard Gray: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Noise/Big Bad Rap" and then started their first Virgin album, One Thousand Years of Trouble. A second single "Don't Get Mad, Get Even" was released in October, followed by the album. In 1988, Channel 4 began using "Don't Get Mad..." as the music for the American Football programme, which ran over the next three years. The band began recording their second Virgin album in the summer at Rockfield in Wales. Original singer Steven-E left in September 1988, during the recording of their second LP, forcing the rest of the band to recruit a new singer, Charles Hutchinson, in January 1989, and "re-vocal" the LP, which was released as Mecca in 1990. The main single from that collection, "Higher Than Heaven" reached No. 53 in the UK, despite being voted "record of the week" by BBC Radio 1's breakfast show listeners. When Hutchinson left, Perry took on vocal duties briefly before the band split in 1991.  

Music Journalist Laura Barton visits Rockfield Studios to hear how this farm based facility became the birthplace to some of the greatest albums of all time. Rockfield Studios lies just outside just outside the village of Rockfield, near Monmouth in Wales. It began its commercial recording life in 1961 and in 1965 was acknowledged to be the first residential recording studio in the world. It’s played host to many of the world’s biggest artists including Iggy pop, Coldplay, Oasis and Black Sabbath and in 1975 it was the primary studio used by Queen for recording their legendary track ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ – but it began life as a family farm and still holds on to these rural routes. Laura spends the day with members of the studio's founding family and hears the stories of how this rural landscape and local community found their way into the ground breaking albums that were produced there. Presented by Laura Barton Produced by Nicola Humphries

DRR Show for broadcast 5/13/19Opening Salvo-The Flies - I'm not your stepping stone [Decca 1966] 45 rpm*Bed: Ray Barretto - James Bond ThemeSet 1: Bluemoons & Marys-Pete Dunton - Taking time [RCA 1973 / Rockfield '73] 45 rpm-Butterfield Blues Band - Mary, Mary [Elektra 1966] LP - East-West-Buddy Emmons - Bluemoons [Mercury 1963] LP - Steel Guitar Jazz-Clash - Overpowered by funk [Epic 1982] LP - Combat Rock*Bed - see aboveSet 2: Soul Sauce & Magic -C.J. & the Fish - She's a bird [Vanguard 1970] LP - C.J.& the Fish-Mad River - Revolutions in my pockets [Capitol 1969] LP - Paradise Bar & Grill**Onion Radio News -Timebox - Soul Sauce [Piccadilly 1967] 45 rpm [borrowed]**NYC blackout in the 70's w/ Tony Pigg-Paupers - Magic People [Verve 1967] LP - Magic People*Bed - see aboveSet 3: Bamboo & Crayons-Andy Williams - House of Bamboo [Cadence 1958] 45 rpm-Electric Crayon Set - Good Girl [Soundhawk 2007] LP - What a Rotter of a Day-Earl - Beautiful Delilah [Undertow 2004] LP - Brown Eyed Handsome Man-The Lemon Pipers - Through with you [Buddah 1968] LP - Green Tambourine

Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (Creation, 1995) Champagne Supernova

This one's for all you business-minded people out there, as today's guest is Adam Bere, the director of consultancy at Sweansea-based geomechanical engineering consultancy Rockfield. He tells us about the disappointed reactions to the referendum result in the US and France, as well as Brexit's possible aggravation of the nation's engineering skills gap and PhD funding.

In the last show of the summer season, Jack goes for a leisurely spin around the Welsh borders with local cyclist Owen Davies as his guide, from Abergavenny to Monmouth and back, past Raglan Castle, Rockfield recording studios and the unlikely Welsh residence of the notorious Nazi politician Rudolf Hess. Continue reading →

И хоть это понедельник был провозглашен британской (а значит имеющей отношение к Англии - родине ДнБ) группой исследователей, как самый скучный день для жителей планеты, я постарался поскорее исправить это недоразумение с помощью хорошей музыки! Этот onAir мы провели вместе с Andy Pain and Z Connection , молодыми музыкантами из Санкт-Петербурга, прекрасно  прочувствовав вайб их новошкольного микса и, конечно же, в компании друг друга, где я играл новую актуальную музыку и пытался взбодрить вас, а вы....а что делали в это время вы? *) ANDY PAIN and Z CONNECTION guestmix! 1) Getz - Open your heart [Absys] 2) Spectrasoul - Lost Disciple [Shogun] 3) Andy pain & Z connection - Bone snatcher [Dub] 4) Andy pain & Z connection - Cloverfield [Respect] 5) Icicle - Arrows [Shogun] 6) Andy pain & Z connection - Mind map [Interactive Dub] 7) Andy pain & Z connection - Package [Interactive Dub] 8) Getz - Silent Galaxy [Cause 4 concern] 9) Andy pain & Z connection - Journey [Dub] 10) Emalkay - The World [Teebee Remix] + Bonus "Broken silence EP"[ Respect dub] minimix 11) Andy pain & Z connection - Jerry 12) Andy pain & Z connection - Backwater 13) Andy pain & Z connection - Broken silence 14) Andy pain & Z connection - Lizard GVOZD do it again! 1. Tantrum Desire - uncontrolled( Technique ) 2. Mind Vortex - hotbox (Ram) 3. L Plus ft. Shaz Sparks - catastrophe (Technique dub) 4. DaVip,Engage and Conectivers - massacre (Mainframe) 5. Redco - siren (dub) 6. Rockfield - on the other side (dub) 7. Prime Time - laufey (Black Home dub) 8. Critycal Dub - slump (Chronic digi) 9. MD - electronic rain (free tune) 10. Foreign Concept - mob justice(Enei rmx) (Critical dub) 11. Den Vector - last date (Goldplate dub) 12. Chromatic - androids ( Formation dub) 13. Ambrela - rays of heat (Liquid Brilliants dub) 14. Smooth - cyber funk (Viper) 15. Bladerunner - feel for you (Dread) 16. Physics - back to the days (dub) 17. Tim Cant - legends(Midnight Sun digi) 18. Tokyo Prose and Phil Tangent - parity (Red Seal) 19. Kabuki - rodesia vip(Liquid V ) 20. Netsky - give and take(Hospital digi) 21. L Plus and Erb and Dub - replica (Technique) 22. Dom and Roland - enforced vip( Dom and roland productions digi) 23. E-Axe - apophis (dub) 24. June Miller - snapcase (Modulations) 25. Bios Destruction - the visitors (dub) 26. Mr Joseph - sparkle in your eye(Liquid V) 27. dj Fresh - pink panther(Breakbeat Kaos, 2006)

И хоть это понедельник был провозглашен британской (а значит имеющей отношение к Англии - родине ДнБ) группой исследователей, как самый скучный день для жителей планеты, я постарался поскорее исправить это недоразумение с помощью хорошей музыки! Этот onAir мы провели вместе с Andy Pain and Z Connection , молодыми музыкантами из Санкт-Петербурга, прекрасно  прочувствовав вайб их новошкольного микса и, конечно же, в компании друг друга, где я играл новую актуальную музыку и пытался взбодрить вас, а вы....а что делали в это время вы? *) ANDY PAIN and Z CONNECTION guestmix! 1) Getz - Open your heart [Absys] 2) Spectrasoul - Lost Disciple [Shogun] 3) Andy pain & Z connection - Bone snatcher [Dub] 4) Andy pain & Z connection - Cloverfield [Respect] 5) Icicle - Arrows [Shogun] 6) Andy pain & Z connection - Mind map [Interactive Dub] 7) Andy pain & Z connection - Package [Interactive Dub] 8) Getz - Silent Galaxy [Cause 4 concern] 9) Andy pain & Z connection - Journey [Dub] 10) Emalkay - The World [Teebee Remix] + Bonus "Broken silence EP"[ Respect dub] minimix 11) Andy pain & Z connection - Jerry 12) Andy pain & Z connection - Backwater 13) Andy pain & Z connection - Broken silence 14) Andy pain & Z connection - Lizard GVOZD do it again! 1. Tantrum Desire - uncontrolled( Technique ) 2. Mind Vortex - hotbox (Ram) 3. L Plus ft. Shaz Sparks - catastrophe (Technique dub) 4. DaVip,Engage and Conectivers - massacre (Mainframe) 5. Redco - siren (dub) 6. Rockfield - on the other side (dub) 7. Prime Time - laufey (Black Home dub) 8. Critycal Dub - slump (Chronic digi) 9. MD - electronic rain (free tune) 10. Foreign Concept - mob justice(Enei rmx) (Critical dub) 11. Den Vector - last date (Goldplate dub) 12. Chromatic - androids ( Formation dub) 13. Ambrela - rays of heat (Liquid Brilliants dub) 14. Smooth - cyber funk (Viper) 15. Bladerunner - feel for you (Dread) 16. Physics - back to the days (dub) 17. Tim Cant - legends(Midnight Sun digi) 18. Tokyo Prose and Phil Tangent - parity (Red Seal) 19. Kabuki - rodesia vip(Liquid V ) 20. Netsky - give and take(Hospital digi) 21. L Plus and Erb and Dub - replica (Technique) 22. Dom and Roland - enforced vip( Dom and roland productions digi) 23. E-Axe - apophis (dub) 24. June Miller - snapcase (Modulations) 25. Bios Destruction - the visitors (dub) 26. Mr Joseph - sparkle in your eye(Liquid V) 27. dj Fresh - pink panther(Breakbeat Kaos, 2006)

“It’s a little bit suspect with it (Shoegaze) coming into mainstream indie now, it looks like it might be the next thing to be mined. Then obviously there’s going be a backlash and then everyone’s going to be sneering at it again. Its like it’s cool and worthy to be a stripped down punk band but if you admit you’ve got a lot of a lot of effects pedals then you’re hiding behind it. But then I think those people don’t like their own company and just like not talking for five minutes.” Engineers bassist/vocalist Mark Peters giving his perspective on a totally different music scene from the one his band left four years ago. With all the talk of a rise in nu-gaze and rapturously received albums from M83, Maps and Kyte, along with the rise in labels like the Sonic Cathedral and Northern star and the sell out return of My Bloody Valentine there’s confirmation that excelling in sonically adventurousness is in fact something that should be applauded, not derided. Unfortunately the phrase took on a derogatory meaning during its blossoming in the early 90s, slung at anyone wielding a guitar and hiding behind a wall of sound, with long greasy hair and a lumberjack shirt on their back, but was Shoegaze as easy to pigeonhole as the mainstream music made out? Or was there something more nuanced beneath the tides in this ocean of noise: ’Something that interested me that at the time was only the press coined the term (Shoegaze) and labelled a lot of the crapper bands that came out at the time with it.’ Continues Mark ‘The ones that were just taking on the sounds of bigger acts like My Bloody Valentine or Ride when those bands were at their peak. But at the time there wasn’t really much difference between the Stone Roses, ‘Screamdaelic’ by Primal Scream and Spiritualized it was all just kind of epic, hedonistic kind of music.‘It shouldn’t be forgotten that way back in 2005 the Engineers debut offered up an intimate record that bore its way into people’s subconsciousness, followed by a series of standout shows that saw them leading a the first wave of new acts that skilfully blurred the lines between dream pop, post rock and Shoegaze. Indeed Mark doesn’t feel that ‘shoegaze’ is a dirty word anymore. It’s been embraced by a new generation of underground bands from the sighing dream pop of Kyte to the MBV flecked indie fuzz of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, but Mark thinks his band steps out of any crude boxes through the force and intricacy of their work, contacting the listener on different levels: ‘I think its become an accepted genre there’s a big community of people who love that music and don’t care what the mainstream press say about it, or what trendy bands want to do.’ Mark points out ‘I’m not going to be so naive to think they we won’t be pigeon holed because I know that we already are but I think there’s a lot more to us. I think if you actually listen to us opposed to just skimming through it. ‘He’s right to be confident, returning with their startlingly new lush and swirling LP ‘Three Fact Fader’ - brought into creation via a labour of love that spun together writing, recording and production sessions over a four year period into an elegiac, multi-layered piece of work. But that’s not to say it’s birth was anything like easy. There was a danger at one point that the record that could never seen the light of day: 'We started writing this album in 2005, since the first one came out, we finished recording it in 2007. But our record company (Echo part of Chrysalis) just stopped releasing records in the traditional way.’ Mark recalls ‘We'd had quite a long intensive period of writing and recording, so opposed to sitting around waiting we thought we'd take a break. A couple of labels approached us but we didn't think it was moving on in the right way so we thought we'd wait until the right label (Kscope) to come along.'In the intervening period the band (full line up: Simon Phipps, Mark Peters, Dan MacBean, Andrew Sweeney), released a cover of the Tim Buckley’s classic "Song to the Siren" for the 2005 tribute album 'Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley’, worked on various different musical projects, Mark recently teamed up with German electronic genius Ulrich Schnauss, producing a single by Daniel Land and the Modern Painters. The push that finally made it possible for the album to come blinking into the light of day, was driven organically by the interest in the recordings from the fans 'We had a remix done by DJ Sasha that prompted a bit of interest on the myspace so we put up a few songs and that prompted more interest. We just got loads of really positive responses from it people asking where they could get it. Then this label (Kskope) approached us and they weren't even aware that there was another album they were just interested in us as a band because they loved the first album, and what we were doing.'In the time between albums the Engineers had grown as people, musicians and producers, learning new production techniques on different projects and bringing a different slant to the recordings that had been lying dormant, bringing new ideas to the table and jamming them out. That working with renowned producer Ken Thomas (M83, Maps, Sigur Ros) sounds more like collaborative processes ‘He’s more of a counsellor than anything else; he's not really a nob twiddler, although he can do that. He just brought an impartial aspect to it, more of a philosophical approach. He did the M83, and the Maps album after he did our album he didn't even know what shoegaze was. We just wanted to make a great album and that was his opening gambit. We properly recording in 2006 we were touring, we started off at a place where Ken did his apprenticeship here in Surrey where ‘Meat is Murder’ (which both of us agree is the best Smiths album) was recorded; we were the last band to record there actually. Then we went to Rockfield in North Wales.’ Perhaps surprisingly to some there are propulsive Krautrock elements new to the world of the Engineers. Samples from Harmonia’s Watussi provide new single and opening track ‘Clean Coloured Wine’ with a disarming familiarity, and yet at the same it time manages to sound fresh and modern. It's a rich vein of influence that’s carried into the axis of the album with the track ‘Crawl from the Wreckage’ a crashing, haunting slice of modernistic pyschedlia ‘We were just listening to a lot of Neu!, Harmonia and Can was a big influence on the album just in terms of an artistic idea of music, opposed to just write a song.’ remembers Mark. There are more up to date flourishes too the bleeping wide screen electronic harmonic rushes of ‘What Pushed Us Together’, ‘By What You Are’ and ‘Emergency Room’ influenced by the likes of Panda Bear’s ‘Person Pitch’ and The Animal Collective’s ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’, recording in different locations seems to have brought a different colour to each track ‘Most of it was recorded in this lockup in a industrial estate when you're in a big studio you're more tempted you've got the vibe a bit more.’ Mark points out ‘but I wouldn't have liked to record the whole thing there coz I think you're not truly yourself in a big studio because you can do it whichever what you want it, why would you want to lose your personalities to that?’‘Three Person Pitch’ is a personal record: with the cascading cautionary ‘Song for Andy’ and the grand string led ‘The Fear Has gone’ that’s contains hypnotic looping vox, and the sighing ‘Brighter As We Fall’ with it’s Nick Mcabe-esque shimmering guitars that are ‘so-cavernous-you-feel-like-you-could-step-into-their-world’ while the heartbreaking Pink Floyd ‘Dark Side of the Moon’-esque vocals brings you down to earth with a bump. These are just a few of the myriad of moments on this long player that ring with a wistfulness, but as Mark points out they’re careful not to call into a trap of being saccharine and overtly commercialised. It’s a fine line to tread but Engineers navigate it with ethereal majesty: ‘Anything that's got a slick manufactured sound loses the personal touch. But there's also this horrible thing where its a pared down sound, that's intentionally emotional, that’s seen by some as almost a fast ticket to being worthy and real, that later gets used for a car advert.’ Before he reveals ‘There's so many people like that you meet when you’re out, they might be thirty five but they're pretending to be teenage girls.'Carefully and deliberately avoiding the commercial cynicism of mainstream ‘elevator acts’ that lack real heart, the Engineers create finely tuned sonic patterns dappled by harmonies that attempt to reflect their own voices, always trying to move the listener with their music. In turn taking them to places filled with rushes of misty melancholia and epic epiphanies, and creating a bond between musician and listener much like emotional heartache of Spiritualized and Chapterhouse. It’s an aim that apparently seeps through both the recording and writing processes “It’s quite personal from the point of view of the lyrics and vocals, musically we start off trying to tap into an otherworldly vibe and the lyrics always take it back to a personal experience, whether that’s something going on in our lives at the time, or something we've seen in the news or read in a book but its always best to have something to relate to because otherwise it can just be vague. We do sometimes approach it as instrumental but we do bring the lyrics in as the focus of what we build the music around, an intimacy, it acts as though one person can have enormous ideas but then at the end of the day they’re just one person and a vocal can portray that, but then music can portray that your imagination is endless.’ Mark laughs apologising for his pretension, but continues ‘The music can take you to places, a place you remember someone who’s gone, there’s a kind of elegy about it I think that’s how we are as people really. But I think it’s important, that the material that will come next will have more of a forward of approach about it.” Since 'Three Person Pitch’ was four years in the it’s influences can seem disparate this is reflected by Mark’s listening habits that are as eclectic as any modern music fan 'The last thing I listened to ‘Lux supreme’ by John Coltrane that's one of my favourite albums, whatever’s lying around I'm surrounded by CDs or on Ipod Shuffle. I really got into Deerhunter last year; I'm waiting for them to do their brilliant album.’ Of the newer acts was he’s enjoying ‘A band I really love are this act from Baltimore called Beach house. And although I really love the Animal Collective stuff, I really love the Panda Bear one that became before it. Someone said the rest of them heard that album and got that their ideas from that. I think its really interesting that they got a hip hop producer in they totally not only went into Panda Bear territory but they also took that a step on as well. Aside from the experimental side to it I think they’re just great songs...' Perhaps burned by experience, Mark’s suspicious of much of the music being pushed by larger label, rightly pointing out the cynical commercialism at the heart of decisions that sees huge big label marketing machines back the likes of Florence and the Machine, La Roux, Little Boots et al, looking hopefully to a future where most bands and music is driven by artistic, personal forces rather than commercial ones: 'We’re at the end of an era where big labels dictate the trends now.’ Mark smiles ‘A lot of the big labels have all got a young, pretty, 80s electro girl at the moment to me that should have been three years ago, really! It's weird that these so called partially indie acts are being pushed so hard because Girls Aloud did it last year. Like anything with big labels its not necessarily or what they think is amazing it just kind of ticks the boxes, its just kind of the lowest common denominator of indie’ before sarcastically adding ‘Oh that'll be OK because we can relate it to that, is it actually that special? No.' Yet you really get the sense of redemption when Mark speaks, thankful that 2005 will not be there only crack at catching the attention of the music loving public, but he’s keen to make the point that it’s still an album constructed for them and their loyal fans: ‘Before we had a break we did two gigs and one of them was at the Sonic Cathedral and it was definitely the best gig we’d played in four years because we had nobody telling us what to play and then people on our message boards saying it was the best gig they’d ever been too and it was just like ‘shit why didn’t we just listen to our own’ you know. I think its just growing up really; I just think you should take your own opinion as the one to listen too.'With such a long gap between albums, and a gap in live performances of over two years surely there’s a tour to follow up their recent Sonic Cathedral date? ‘I think the first album was kind of a staying in late at night album, dare I say chillout. We wrote the songs for this album with a view to having something more exciting for us to play live. There’s a strong possibility that we’re going to support this band Porcupine tree in October, so that’s going be good, bigger gigs are better for us because we tend to need a bigger sound system to get the music across in the best way. And going to different places especially abroad is more inspiring than anything else, it just writes songs for us those kinds of experiences.’ It will be fascinating to watch these returning Sonic Engineers forge more new ground.All content syndicated from http://wwwg.odisinthetvzine.co.uk