The Line-Up with Shaun Keaveny

Pop culture hero to many, Simon Pegg reveals his music and film heroes, starting with The Clangers, that lesser-known gateway drug to Star Wars. From growing up in a music shop, to working with Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg and emailing Dave Grohl about horror comedy, Simon’s fantasy festival offers so many treats! On screen he may be enabling death-defying stunts in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckon...

From Supergrass to solo, singer-songwriter Gaz Coombes steers us through the musical moments that shaped his sound, from his early childhood in San Francisco to teenage antics in the Oxfordshire countryside. There’s the time his voice broke on stage, to working with Jim Henson’s Muppets and finding a renewed confidence post-Britpop. And watch this space, Shaun may have found himself a new band to...

From writing for Steven Spielberg, to directing ghosts for Netflix, and broadcasting with his mate Adam Buxton (Stephen!), Joe Cornish knows a thing or two about creating something fantastical. So, he’s perfectly at home with Shaun as they transplant a building Wizard-of-Oz-style to Japan for Joe’s fantasy festival. Films and music collide, along with Joe’s latest TV creation, Lockwood & Co, in th...

Alongside his festival choices, Joe Lycett breaks down what it was really like to pretend to the world that he would shred ten-thousand pounds unless David Beckham stepped away from his support of Qatar, where homosexual activity is illegal. Plus, why a festival field is not a natural environment for Joe, the unexpected joy of EDM and the sheer foodie delight of turning a Yorkshire pudding into a...

Turns out Rag’n’Bone Man – aka Rory Graham – is just as likely to be serving bacon baps at his kids’ rugby club, as he is headlining arenas. He’s also a dab hand at making pasties and killer pop choruses, as he shares a life-long appreciation for folk and americana, hip-hop and soul music. He’s also got some sage advice for setting social boundaries, and when it’s OK to not say sorry. fender.com/T...

Good people attract more good people, as Johnny delves into how Eddie Vedder, Alicia Keys and Chrissie Hynde have all helped shape his life over the years. From seminal band break-ups to musical reinventions and remaining interested in doing something new. fender.com/TheLineUp Johnny Marr's new double album, Fever Dreams Pts 1-4, is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c...

From forming The Smiths, to working with The The, Pet Shop Boys, Modest Mouse, Electronic, The Cribs, not to mention his solo work, sure, Johnny Marr is a bit talented. Musically transfixed from an early age, so much so that his mum sometimes used department store guitar areas as an ad hoc babysitting service (different times, best intentions), that curiosity remains happily intact. You can’t edit...

The British winter can be cold and oh-so-very wet so who wouldn’t rather be dreaming of a fantasy festival somewhere beautiful and warm, where all your favourite acts come out to play? Series 4 strums off (is that a thing?) with a Johnny Marr two-parter, then Joe Lycett, Rag’n’Bone Man and more will follow! Join us! Subscribe and get all new episodes on Wednesdays. Learn more about your ad choices...

They had us at ‘cocktails with Elton’, and ‘tofu pig’. A packed-out Listening Post tent at Suffolk’s Latitude Festival saw Shaun welcome Tom Findlay and Andy Cato, aka Groove Armada, for a summery saunter through their music memories. There was that time of frantic hoovering at their studio in case Madonna turned up, waiting for feedback from Bryan Ferry, and tearing the roof off multiple times wi...

In this first ever Line-Up *live* with an audience at the Glastonbury festival 2022, a can or two of lager may have been supped at the Crow’s Nest stage... Still, Bafta winning kids TV presenters Dick and Dom, share their love of Balearic beats and heavy metal, and explain why raving on the White Isle will always be their happy place. This episode also rightly extolls the added joy of a chip naan....

Interpol frontman Paul Banks gets to celebrate Shaun's special birthday (by design, not mere coincidence obvs) as he digs deep into his saxophone playing early years to collaborating with RZA, surfing in Panama and what makes him musically tick. His Line-Up features rock friends loud, old and new, a hip-hop supergroup and to eat, veggie hot dogs all the way. YUM. Learn more about your ad choices....

On Shaun's 50th birthday, it's business as usual, so here's a bite of the S3 finale coming next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kasabian singer-songwriter Serge talks to Shaun about the transitions the band has undergone and how it feels to move from the side to front of stage. Fuelled by margaritas and Mexican food, do not underestimate Serge’s festival which leans into his art side, with plenty of beats for jumping around, comedy skits and even his favourite steeplejack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...

Foals are one of the ultimate festival bands, so frontman Yannis brings all that field experience to play here. Including how music saved his life as a difficult teen, how he’s calmer now and recalls that drunken encounter with The Cure’s Robert Smith which he’s since atoned for. Plus Yannis reflects on the first time ever headlining a festival, and looking forward to that more than ever at Latitu...

Multi-talented singer-songwriter, producer, guitarist Steven Wilson, also of Porcupine Tree fame, breaks the Line-Up format in spectacular fashion here. Instead of the usual 5 acts, he suggests a 4 day-er featuring 12 of his most loved bands, and who were we to stop him? Steven goes all out for this sonic experience, while also discussing the roots of his music obsession and the recent return of P...

You may know him best as an actor, but John Simm is also a fine musician, just ask Echo & The Bunnymen or New Order. John shares his early guitar-playing ambitions from gigging with his dad, to switching gears to acting in The Lakes, Doctor Who, Grace and Life on Mars – which may well be returning soon... Music obsessions run deep at John’s Here Comes The Sun fest (minor spoiler) and we wouldn’t h...

Rebecca Lucy Taylor, aka Self Esteem, is a force of nature bringing her favourite musicians to the North Anston pit top for her fantasy festival. There’s talk of her art practise featuring Chris Martin’s T-shirts (obvs), her love of a good show tune, and how delicious salad cream does indeed transform a salad. Plus the ongoing pressure to be a positive role model for women and trying to live up to...

Music came long before acting for Paddy Considine, rivalling siblings for records, losing himself in songs & transforming a friend with a nose strip of white emulsion. He opens up about the diagnosis that changed his life, how he felt an imposter in the acting world, and why his band Riding the Low means so much. Plus, on-set tongue twisters with the upcoming Game of Thrones prequel and realising...

Radiohead guitarist Ed discusses his diplomatic ‘mum’ role in the iconic Oxfordshire band, wrestling with imposter syndrome while also expanding his creative horizons in his solo work, EOB. There’s some geeking out about specific sounds on OK Computer as Ed’s musical tales cross Brazil, Buckland and the Brecon Beacons. Plus an encounter with a rambling rock star, a jazz legend and oh, so much danc...

Kae Tempest’s imagination runs beautifully wild, putting unexpected performers together for their time travelling festival. Two of the greatest boxers square up to a 1950s swinging soundtrack, while a pair of country legends make friends with a grunge icon. There are tales of rapping to get into gigs, transitions, and just what is the best breakfast? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast...

Kiefer Sutherland gives good anecdote. From the motorcycle dreaming that got him through years of filming 24, to the near-miss with the cat that belonged to Robert Downey Jr and Sarah Jessica Parker. And musing that he’ll be outlived by his new outdoor decking, as we encounter Kiefer’s Wind In My Thistle Festival. Liking a challenge, he also offers up a whole other festival to the party as well an...

It’s that laugh that gets you every time, as Ricky Gervais deliberates his music greats and reminisces about that one time David Bowie serenaded him in New York. There’s a Central Park reunion, arguably Oxfordshire’s finest band, and in late-night festival fashion, an in-depth chat about death and regrets. Ricky also discusses what’s at the heart of his Netflix comedy-drama After Life and why the...

A good mood is hard to write effectively into a song, but George Ezra has that knack which he happily shares along with his dream festival. Prepare to singalong with the most successful girl group of all time, a folk hero, and the man who once ruled Vegas. There are tales of drunken head injuries, parental love, navigating mental health and discover how George developed his distinctive singing voi...

Unexpected sums up Natasha Bedingfield’s Lit Festival where an Icelandic superstar shares a stage with Slim Shady, and everyone’s encouraged to share their feelings as well as their music. Natasha reveals what she learned from her brother Daniel in their radio-free childhood, and there’s talk of Adele’s superpower, #MeToo and combating negativity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...

Felix Navidad! As he shall now be known… The former Maccabee, now Tailender, eschews cricket for an all-out music extravaganza divulging personal gems along the way about his family, what he thinks really bonded Lennon & McCartney, and the enduring trauma of an art GCSE nightmare. There’s an underrated guitar hero, an immense movie soundtrack, and the brilliant audacity to rework a Scorsese relate...