HOSS THOMPSON – TWO INTERVIEWS IN ONE: NEW ALBUM, HAMSTERS IN SPACE, AI AND CARPENTRY
Feature interview 1,686 in an ongoing series. This extended audio piece features two new interviews in one place. Around 4 weeks ago I did a 60-minute ‘fireside chat’ format interview with Hoss Thompson. We talked hamsters, AI, journeys into space and smashed down the genre silos – talking music from 90s pop to Petty, prog […]
VIOLET BLEND: THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM IN LONDON TOWN
London town at the end of May 2025. The day before their showcase show in London – and on the back of a run of news coverage across the UK national press – I met Violet Blend in Soho for morning coffee in the bright spring sunshine. As George served us Italian coffee, Giada presented […]
BADFLOWER – ‘NO PLACE LIKE HOME’
Click the heels and make a wish – “You can go wherever you wish to go.” Badflower opens their fine new album with a line from the ‘Wizard of Oz’. Dorothy yearns to go home.
SARI SCHORR UK TOUR FINALE AT THE 229
Feature interview #1,689 in an ongoing series. Ahead of the final show of her UK tour, I met Sari backstage in London at the 229. There was a piano in the room, just inviting to be played. So we sat at piano together and did a spontaneous interview whilst also playing the keys. A special […]
BADFLOWER – THE ROCK CATS, NEWS FROM THE FARM AND NEW ALBUM COUNTDOWN
Feature audio interview 1,688 in an ongoing series, with one of rock’s most authentic , forward-looking and original bands. With the countdown on for the new Badflower album – ‘No Place Like Home’ – I spoke again with Josh from the band on the story behind the new songs. News too on the farm, the […]
Jack J Hutchinson
Feature interview 1,687 in an ongoing series. A lovely catch up with guitar maestro and accomplished songwriter – Jack J Hutchinson – who talks about his 2025; the big gigs he’s going to, his touring and new writing work. We also reflect on creatives getting through the lockdown era – and now the challenging geo-political […]
AMONGST LIARS: ROCKSHOW FOR FREEDOM – THREE YEARS ON
Three years ago, quite a number of fabulous rising bands and artists joined me for a series of 4 ‘rockshows for freedom,’ as we stood up for peace and freedom in words and music, response to world events…
Those Damn Crows – ‘God Shaped Hole’
For the last decade, there has been much talk about the latent promise of bands from the rising rock scene – and Those Damn Crows could well be the band from a new generation that go all the way and bag a Number 1 album.
A TWO-WAY FIRESIDE CHAT WITH MATT SIMONS
Feature audio interview 1,685 in an ongoing series. An expansively long interview with Matt Simons from GMS alumni Band of the Year DeadBlondeStars. Matt has been a big part of the GMS community and the rock show over the years. In fact this one’s possibly not even an interview at all; more a spontaneous fireside […]
CRY FOR MERCY: NEW ALBUM SPECIAL
Audio interview hour special #1,844 in an ongoing series, on the eve of the release of the band’s new studio album, I had a 60 minute fireside chat with Kevin. We talked about the making of the new album, what the truth of success looks like to a DIY band in it for the music. We reflected on […]