Episode 39: 'Boybands', with Lee Murray of Let Loose
Episode 74
Saturday, January 4, 2025 • Duration 01:40:20
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
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:
Ep 38: Representations of female popular musicians, with PhD researcher Sarah Sharp
Episode 73
Friday, January 3, 2025 • Duration 02:04:40
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.
Ep 30: Adam Nutter from The Music – ADHD and Bipolar Disorder
Episode 64
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 • Duration 02:19:21
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.
Ep 29: Tonic Music and Mental Health / Tonic Rider Part 2 with Jeordie Shenton, in memory of Terry Hall the founding patron
Episode 63
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 • Duration 01:46:55
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:
To register for Tonic Rider support and programmes:
Episode 28: Ellur
Episode 62
Friday, October 28, 2022 • Duration 01:38:27
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.
Face The Music Now Foundation, by and for survivors of abuse in the music industry
Episode 27: Ian Winwood, author of Bodies: Life and Death in Music
Episode 61
Sunday, September 18, 2022 • Duration 01:41:52
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.
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
Episode 25: The real Dixie of Svengali, in memory of Holly Dixon
Episode 59
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 • Duration 01:30:38
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:
Episode 24: Hip Hop Orchestra with Georgio Savvides
Episode 58
Thursday, April 14, 2022 • Duration 01:27:16
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.
Episode 23: Hip Hop and Mental Health – Hip Hop Psych with Dr Akeem Sule and Dr Becky Inkster
Episode 57
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 • Duration 01:58:17
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.
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