Sound Affects Podcast: Music & Mental Health, with Katy Georgiou – Details, episodes & analysis

Let Loose have reformed and are out on the road again this year after a busy 2024 – details of tour dates at htttps://www.letlooseofficial.com/

In this episode, drummer Lee Murray reflects on his experiences with fame in Let Loose during the 90s and how he coped once the phone stopped ringing. We explore the boyband culture of the 90s and what became of many of his contemporaries, off the back of a recent BBC documentary exploring Boybands. As well as reforming Let Loose, Lee has recently set up Drum Hub, offering drumming lessons to neurodivergent students in response to recognising what powerful effects drumming has had for him. 

Thank you Jody Thompson at Jody Thompson Media Consultancy Ltd

Contact Lee/Let Loose:

https://www.letlooseofficial.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lee_murrayinsta/?hl=en

Contact Sound Affects Podcast:

Twitter/X and Bluesky: @SoundAffectsPod

Instagram: sound_affects_podcast

Email: soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com

Support and helplines:

Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/

Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

CALM: https://www.thecalmzone.net/

My Blackdog: https://www.myblackdog.co/

Talk Club Charity: https://x.com/talkclubcharity

If you're a musician or music industry professional looking for specialised counselling, coaching or emotional support, the following charities are set up for this purpose:

Tonic Music for Mental Health: https://www.tonicmusic.co.uk/

Help Musicians UK: https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/

Music Minds Matter: https://www.musicmindsmatter.org.uk/

Music Support: https://www.musicsupport.org/

British Association for Performing Arts Medicine: https://www.bapam.org.uk/

Lucy Heyman: https://www.instagram.com/lucyheymanmusic/?hl=en

Denise Devenish Counselling: https://www.denisedevenishcounselling.co.uk/

Music Industry Therapist Collective: https://www.musicindustrytherapists.com/

OWHL: https://www.owhl.co.uk/

Useful Books and links:

Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual: https://www.musicindustrytherapists.com/publications/

Sound Advice: https://www.foyles.co.uk/book/sound-advice/rhian-jones/9781838194901

Can Music Make You Sick?: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_66%3A9781912656646

BBC Documentary 'Boybands Forever': https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0023h94/boybands-forever

Sarah Sharp (FRSA) is a PhD researcher of popular music and mental ill-health at University of East Anglia. She is currently researching representations of popular female musicians, including Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Halsey and Demi Lovato. She illuminates her findings and interweaves this through a candid reflection of her own life history, including her experiences of psychiatric care, misogyny and emotional, domestic abuse.

Sarah's blog post for Tonic Music for Mental Health: https://www.tonicmusic.co.uk/post/sarah-sharp

Contact Sarah:

BlueSky: sarah5harp@bsky.social.

LinkedIn: Sarah Sharp FRSA

Facebook: Sarah Richarda Marie Sharp

Research Profile: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/sarah-sharp

Contact Sound Affects Podcast:

Email: soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com

Twitter/X and Bluesky: @SoundAffectsPod

Instagram: sound_affects_podcast

Helplines and support:

Refuge: https://refuge.org.uk/

Women's Aid: https://www.womensaid.org.uk/

Rape Crisis: https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-help/want-to-talk/

Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/

Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

Amy Winehouse Foundation: https://amywinehousefoundation.org/

Face The Music Now Foundation, by and for survivors of abuse in the music industry:

https://facethemusicnow.com/

Women and Girls network: https://www.wgn.org.uk/

Beat (eating disorders): https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/

OWHL: https://www.owhl.co.uk/

More links to things mentioned:

Misogyny in music inquiry: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6736/misogyny-in-music/

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-factsheets/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-making-misogyny-a-hate-crime-factsheet

Adam Nutter is set to release his debut solo album 'Badlands on Fire' 21st April 2023, alongside a book of artwork by Ross McCully, all available to purchase on www.adamnutter.com

In this episode, Adam talks through the heartbreak and loss of identity he experienced when The Music disbanded, and how this interplayed with his experiences with ADHD and bipolar disorder, which he received a formal diagnosis for in his late 20s.

Follow Adam:

Website: www.adamnutter.com

Twitter: @nutter_adam Insta: adam.nutter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adamnutterofficial

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/adam_nutter?fbclid=IwAR3mDdLCCmE4ECxm5sTyCS-MEzMQjRE206mSjn8GY8-VpkTKZA2769WPwvg

Adam's podcast and patron: https://www.musicandmorepodcast.com/

Follow/contact Sound Affects Podcast: Twitter @SoundAffectsPod Insta @sound_affects_podcast Email soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com Support Sound Affects at ko-fi.com/SoundAffectsPod To get help and support: ADHD: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/adhd-and-mental-health/

Bipolar disorder: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/bipolar-disorder/about-bipolar-disorder/

Get help and support

Samaritans: 116 123, or https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/symptoms-of-ocd/#WhatIsPureO

Black Dog: https://www.myblackdog.co/

To find a therapist in the UK:

https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/find-a-therapist/?Distance=10

https://www.bacp.co.uk/search/Therapists

UK  

Addiction: https://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/ 

Anxiety UK: https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/ 

Beat, eating disorders: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ 

CALM, male suicide: https://www.thecalmzone.net/ 

Combat Stress: www.combatstress.org.uk 

Homelessness: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/housing/ 

Mental Health Foundation, reducing stigma: www.mentalhealth.org.uk 

MIND: www.mind.org.uk A-Z and guidance on any mental health issue 

The Maytree sanctuary if you’re suicidal: https://www.maytree.org.uk/ 

OCD: www.ocduk.org 

Samaritans: www.samaritans.org , 116 123, jo@samaritans.org 

Solace Women’s Aid, domestic abuse: https://www.solacewomensaid.org/ 

Rape Crisis: https://rapecrisis.org.uk/ 

Rethink: www.rethink.org

https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/living-with-mental-illness/treatment-and-support/going-into-hospital/ 

Self-referral through the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service: http://www.lets-talk-iapt.nhs.uk/make-a-referral/. 

If you're outside the UK:

https://www.thecalmzone.net/international-mental-health-charities 

https://www.wheretotalk.org/charities/ 

Asociacion Argentina de Salud Mental: https://www.aasm.org.ar/eshttps://www.aasm.org.ar/es 

Canadian Mental Health Association: https://cmha.ca/ 

CVV (Brazil): https://www.cvv.org.br/ 

Ibunda (Indonesia) https://www.ibunda.id/ 

Tell Japan: https://telljp.com/lifeline/ 

12 step programmes: https://www.addictioncenter.com/treatment/12-step-programs/ 

Addiction: https://atforum.com/related-websites/international-organizations/ 

Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation: https://www.bbrfoundation.org/ 

Jed Foundation, teen and young adult suicide prevention: https://jedfoundation.org/ 

Rethink: https://www.rethink.org/ 

StrongMinds: Treating depression in Africa for women and young people https://strongminds.org/ 

TalkLife, 16-24 peer-to-peer support network: https://www.talklife.com/  

The US 

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): https://nami.org

To Write Love On Her Arms: Depression, Addiction, Self-injury and Suicide: https://twloha.com/ 

This episode is Part 2 of an exploration into the work of charity Tonic Music for Mental Health. In Part 1, I spoke to Dub Pistols' Barry Ashworth, a patron of the charity, to talk about how Lockdown was affecting musicians and his fundraising and personal life experiences that made him interested in this charity's work; now in this Part 2, I speak to Jeordie Shenton, a PhD researcher into substance misuse amongst working musicians and the co-ordinator for the Tonic Rider programme of Tonic Music for Mental Health – a programme that promotes good mental health within the music industry via delivery delivery of free peer-support groups, training and events to all music industry professionals. Contact Tonic Music for Mental Health / Tonic Rider:

Website: https://www.tonicmusic.co.uk/

Twitter: @tonicmusicmh @tonicrideruk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tonicmusicmh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonicrideruk/

https://www.instagram.com/tonicmusicmh/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonic-music-for-mental-health-ltd

To register for Tonic Rider support and programmes:  https://www.tonicmusic.co.uk/tonic-rider

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Email: soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com

Twitter: @SoundAffectsPod

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New single by Ellur ‘Now I’m Alone' out 9th November

22-year old singer/songwriter Ellur gives insight into her lyrics and life in the music industry for young women. Trigger warning: We discuss eating disorders and sexual violence against women. Around 16 minutes in, the episode includes some recent real-life news clips on this topic.

All things Ellur:

Website: https://ellur.biz/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellurrrr/?hl=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ellurrrrr

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ellurrrr/

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/Ellur

Contact Sound Affects Podcast:

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Twitter: @SoundAffectsPod

Email: soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com

Support Sound Affects Pod: ko-fi.com/SoundAffectsPod

Getting help and support:

Face The Music Now Foundation, by and for survivors of abuse in the music industry

https://facethemusicnow.com/

Women and Girls network

https://www.wgn.org.uk/

Beat

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/

Samaritans: 116 123, jo@samaritans.org , www.samaritans.org

Mind

https://www.mind.org.uk/donate/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw--2aBhD5ARIsALiRlwAPpxIdPRxAv6yAeAvAUdIVbyhlTZS29Tae1fTHC0fdMF7WgxcLagsaAtXfEALw_wcB

Help Musicians

https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/

Tonic Music for Mental Health

https://www.tonicmusic.co.uk/

Music Support

https://www.musicsupport.org/

Music for mental wealth

https://www.musicformentalwealth.com/

Music industry therapist collective

https://musicindustrytherapists.com/

British Association for Performing Arts Medicine

https://www.bapam.org.uk/

Thumbnail image: Ellur Songs (in order) played in this episode by Ellur: Best Face On Migraine June

Music journalist and book critic Ian Winwood is the author of 'Bodies: Life and Death in Music'. In this interview, we unpick his experiences over the years as a music journalist travelling the world and interviewing bands amid the "routine ruinations" (alcohol and drugs) he describes surrounding the music industry.

Follow Ian on Twitter: @IanWinwood1

Louder than Words Festival: https://louderthanwordsfest.com/

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In this episode, I speak with Danny McNamara, lead singer of Embrace, ahead of the release of Embrace's 8th studio album How to Be a Person Like Other People (out 26th August 2022), and upcoming tour.

We talk through the psychology behind him becoming a rockstar, his search for meaning and purpose, falling in love, and his experiences with PTSD and Pure O variant of OCD.

Intro: Ashes, Embrace 9.50 All You Good Good People, Embrace 13.30 Movin' On Up, Primal Scream 17.40 Retread, Embrace 18.10 We Are It, Embrace 1.25.50 Clip of Richard Ashcroft interview by Jon Doran on Noisey Outro: The Terms of My Surrender, Embrace

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Send voice notes and messages to:

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All things Embrace:

Embrace: @embrace on Twitter

http://linktr.ee/embraceband

Join Embrace's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/embracethesecretlist

Follow Danny McNamara on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/dannymcnamara

Get tickets for upcoming tour: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/embrace-tickets/artist/740832

Buy How to Be a Person Like Other People: https://embrace.tmstor.es/

Links to things mentioned by Danny in this episode:

PURE by Rose Bretecher/Cartwright 

Channel 4 series adaptation, Pure 

https://www.channel4.com/press/press-pack/pure-press-pack

Get help and support

Samaritans: 116 123, or https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/symptoms-of-ocd/#WhatIsPureO

Black Dog: https://www.myblackdog.co/

To find a therapist in the UK:

https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/find-a-therapist/?Distance=10

https://www.bacp.co.uk/search/Therapists

UK  

Addiction: https://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/ 

Anxiety UK: https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/ 

Beat, eating disorders: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ 

CALM, male suicide: https://www.thecalmzone.net/ 

Combat Stress: www.combatstress.org.uk 

Homelessness: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/housing/ 

Mental Health Foundation, reducing stigma: www.mentalhealth.org.uk 

MIND: www.mind.org.uk A-Z and guidance on any mental health issue 

The Maytree sanctuary if you’re suicidal: https://www.maytree.org.uk/ 

OCD: www.ocduk.org 

Samaritans: www.samaritans.org , 116 123, jo@samaritans.org 

Solace Women’s Aid, domestic abuse: https://www.solacewomensaid.org/ 

Rape Crisis: https://rapecrisis.org.uk/ 

Rethink: www.rethink.org

If you’re sectioned: https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/treatments-and-wellbeing/being-sectioned?searchTerms=being%20sectioned 

https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/living-with-mental-illness/treatment-and-support/going-into-hospital/ 

Self-referral through the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service: http://www.lets-talk-iapt.nhs.uk/make-a-referral/. 

If you're outside the UK:

https://www.thecalmzone.net/international-mental-health-charities 

https://www.wheretotalk.org/charities/ 

Asociacion Argentina de Salud Mental: https://www.aasm.org.ar/eshttps://www.aasm.org.ar/es 

Canadian Mental Health Association: https://cmha.ca/ 

CVV (Brazil): https://www.cvv.org.br/ 

Ibunda (Indonesia) https://www.ibunda.id/ 

Tell Japan: https://telljp.com/lifeline/ 

12 step programmes: https://www.addictioncenter.com/treatment/12-step-programs/ 

Addiction: https://atforum.com/related-websites/international-organizations/ 

Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation: https://www.bbrfoundation.org/ 

Jed Foundation, teen and young adult suicide prevention: https://jedfoundation.org/ 

Rethink: https://www.rethink.org/ 

StrongMinds: Treating depression in Africa for women and young people https://strongminds.org/ 

TalkLife, 16-24 peer-to-peer support network: https://www.talklife.com/  

The US 

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): https://nami.org

To Write Love On Her Arms: Depression, Addiction, Self-injury and Suicide: https://twloha.com/ 

T/w Suicide This episode is an interview with Dixie, manager of Jarvis Lane, raising awareness of suicide with Jarvis Lane's charity single cover Baba O'Riley for MIND. Dixie was band manager to Jonathan Owen's 90s band The Pocket Devils, and was the inspiration behind the 2014 cult film Svengali (and 2009 internet episodes), starring Jonny Owen as Dixie, Vicky McClure, Martin Freeman, Carl Barat, Alan McGee, Michael Socha, Matt Berry, Maxine Peake and many more. Prior to lockdown, Dixie's daughter Holly Dixon tragically took her own life and Dixie celebrates her life in this episode, along with tributes to his other family members and friends of Jarvis Lane – Alan Green and Laurence Brown – who also took their own lives.

You can download the Mind charity single or donate through the Just Giving page below:

Fundraiser single Baba O'Riley, in memory of Holly, Laurence and Alan:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Baba-ORiley/dp/B097DFLVR7

To donate to the Just Giving Page:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jarvis-lanebabaoriley

Jarvis Lane: https://www.jarvislane.co.uk/

Svengali Music Management: https://www.facebook.com/svengalimusicmanagement/

Svengali film (2014) trailer: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7wqLzxnI0

Svengali soundtrack:  https://open.spotify.com/album/0Y5GM6gQRuEsygV0zlFN7o

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Support and helplines

If you're feeling suicidal: Call Samaritans free of charge 116 123 in the UK or email jo@samaritans.org

Visit https://www.nami.org/Home in the US

Cruse Bereavement support:

https://www.cruse.org.uk/

For more information, helplines and advice in the UK:

www.mind.org.uk

List of global mental health support and helplines:

https://unitedgmh.org/mental-health-support

I continue with the hip hop theme in this episode with founder of Hip Hop Orchestra and Keep it Certi Georgio Savvides, who explores his reasons for starting the orchestra and his combination of hip hop with classical music. He's a pianist, composer, producer and music teacher in schools and talks through his methods of working with neurodiversity after his own experiences of learning within school settings.

You can follow Georgio @GioSavvides and @TheHipHopOrch or georgio@thehho.co.uk

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In this episode, I'm exploring the effects of hip hop on mental health, with senior Cambridge university hip hop academics Dr Akeem Sule (Psychiatrist, lecturer in medicine) and Dr Becky Inkster (Neuroscientist), who together co-founded Hip Hop Psych.

Hip Hop Psych

Website: https://www.hiphoppsych.co.uk/

Academic papers: https://www.hiphoppsych.co.uk/publications.html

Community links: https://www.hiphoppsych.co.uk/links.html

Social media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiphopsych

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HIP-HOP-PSYCH-244036239063749/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1u0nmhGUSrYlxENccfPetQ

Dr Becky Inkster:

https://www.beckyinkster.com/

Dr Akeem Sule:

https://www.cam.ac.uk/people/akeem-sule

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Mental health support info

Samaritans: jo@samaritans.org, or call 116 123

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (USA): 1 800 273 8255

Mind: www.mind.org.uk

Hearing Voices Network: https://www.hearing-voices.org/

Addiction support: https://www.talktofrank.com/get-help/find-support-near-you

Crisis support:

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/crisis-services/useful-contacts/

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/crisis-services/

Find a therapist at: https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/

https://www.bacp.co.uk/

https://www.bps.org.uk/

https://www.hcpc-uk.org/

Further links Logic 1-800 at the MTV VMA Awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ju6Q8Azcmg

Key Changes: https://twitter.com/keychangesmusic

Spoke: https://www.spoke.world/about-1

Kombat: https://www.beckyinkster.com/lyrical-kombat

Cambridge Department of Psychiatry: https://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/

'Hip Hop Saved My Life Podcast' by Romesh Ranganathan: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hip-hop-saved-my-life-with-romesh-ranganathan/id982388481