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Kathy Sledge is an American singer–songwriter and producer. She is best known as the youngest and founding member of disco soul legends Sister Sledge.

Kathy headlines Uptown Festival, at Bute Park, Cardiff, on Sunday, September 15th. Click here for more information and tickets.

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Marc Oliver.
Daniel Fahey.
Sophie Heawood.
Black Daniels.
Peter Robinson.
Imran Ahmed.
Matt Lockett.
Matthew Rayner.
Chip Chop.
Aaron Tunney.
Damian Gormley.
Elizabeth Black.
Ruairí Ryan.
Sophia.
Rob Hadfield.
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Feeder are a British rock band formed in Newport, Wales, in 1994. On this episode I speak to singer and guitarist Grant Nicholas.

The group released their twelfth album, Black/Red, earlier this month.

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Michael Woods.
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Eric Meredith.
Caitlin Moran.
Eve Barlow.
Nige Tassell. 

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Rose Elinor Dougall is an English singer, songwriter and musician. She was a member of The Pipettes and has written and performed with Mark Ronson. Since 2022 she has been a member of The WAEVE, alongside partner Graham Coxon.

The band released their eponymous debut album in February 2023.

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Andrew Harrison is the Group Editor of Podmasters, home of Oh God What Now?, The Bunker, Paper Cuts, and more. Formally the editor of Q and Word, he worked in a variety of roles at Select magazine - my favourite music magazine of the nineties, because NME was a paper then and thus doesn't count - between 1990 and 1995. 

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Saul Galpern owns Nude Records. Best known for signing Suede, thereby igniting the scene that would come to be known as Britpop, Nude also had success with releases by Black Box Recorder, Geneva, Billy Mackenzie, and my personal favourites Ultrasound.

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Rick Witter has fronted Shed Seven since 1990. Between 1994 and 1999 the York based band had fifteen UK Top 40 singles and four UK Top 20 albums. They return on January 5th, 2024, with a new album, A Matter of Time and celebrate their 30th anniversary in July with two hometown shows at York Museum Gardens.

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Andy McCluskey is the bassist and lead vocalist in British electronic pop pioneers OMD, and the only constant member since their formation in their native Wiral, Merseyside, in 1978. Having sold to date over 40 million records globally, the group recently released their fourteenth studio album, Bauhaus Staircase. They tour in the UK in 2024.

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Ian Broudie is the singer, songwriter, and guitarist, in The Lightning Seeds. A former member of Big In Japan, and the producer of classic records by Echo & the Bunnymen, the Fall, and the Coral, he recently released his first book, Tomorrow's Here Today: Lightning Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk on Nine Eight Books.

The Lightning Seeds tour in support of Madness in November/December 2023.

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I went on the telly.

Yes, I know I need to tidy my spare room.

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