Time For Heroes

This weeks guest is Matt Hickman of Brownbear, fresh of the back of their second album 'Demons' and after an amazing Glasgow gig at St Lukes, I spoke to Matt all about whats been happening and what the plans are for the future, and Matt picked his heroes to come for dinner.. I spoke to Matt for my previous podcast which you can check out here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SiNAjth6j2lYpjq0nteU...

This week my guest is Jack Horner, better known as Leon The Pig Farmer, a spoken word performer from North Yorkshire who also fronts The Dirt with his wife Sachiko. We spoke about loads in this episode including PTSD, Leon, The Dirt and even Japanese football! You can find all Jack's work here: Leon The Pig Farmer – Website by Steve Reilly – "A Manchester-dwelling Yorkshireman Beat Poet with a lit...

The guest on the podcast is Pete Jones aka Pete Welsh aka Welsh Pete aka Jack Jones (but not The Trampolene one!) A man with many names and many talents, he played in Kill City alongside Lisa Moorish and previous guest Tom Bowen, he has written a book 'Kids In the Riot: High And Low With The Libertines' and has Directed a documentary all about Swansea and Liverpool footballing legend John Toshack...

The first podcast of 2023! Todays guest is Tom Bowen, Tom played in noughties band Kill City who toured with The Libertines, Tom also modelled for Calvin Klein, battled with addiction and is now an online guitar coach. We spoke about all this and then Tom picked his heroes, i hope you all enjoy this episode as much as i enjoyed recording it, check out Tom below: tombowen | Instagram, Facebook | Li...

Episode 34 with the amazing Simon Williams, the man has done everything, NME, XFM as well as running his own record label Fierce Panda for nearly 30 years and he's only gone and written a book all about it! We discussed it all from growing up in E17 to trying to take his own life in 2019 right through to his journey to recovery, Simon or Si as he refers to himself now was a brilliant guest, what a...

Welcome back! Episode 33 is with David Stevens, frontman of up and coming Scottish band Dovv, we discussed David's early life growing up in Kirkcaldy and his musical journey, of course at the end David picked his heroes to come for dinner. David was an excellent guest, I hope you all agree! If you haven't already heard Dovv i urge you go see them, i guarantee you will not be disappointed! Check Do...

Welcome to the 32nd episode of Time For Heroes, this week my guest is Matt Abbott. Matt is a poet (you might have seen him on the Nationwide Building Society adverts) and also frontman of Skint & Demoralised, as well as this Matt runs his own spoken word label, Nymphs & Thugs, where he releases his own work as well as other artists. We discussed Matt's career in full and then he picked his...

Welcome back! Here's episode 31 of the podcast with Jamie Crellin, manager of Three Bridges FC. Before we go on, I've started a Ko-Fi page, Ko-Fi enables me to receive donations from listeners in order to help me grow the podcast so if you'd like to buy me a coffee head to https://ko-fi.com/timeforheroespod its quick and easy and it'll help make the podcast bigger, better and more polished! So, As...

Welcome back! After nearly 5 months out I'm back, I've had a lot to deal with these last few months and the podcast fell to the back of the queue, but now I'm back, and I've got plenty of guests booked. Before we get onto the new interviews, this is the last episode I recorded back in May with Ben Taylor, fresh from celebrating Fulham's promotion to the EPL i spoke to Ben about his career as a mag...

Welcome back to the podcast and after a slight technical hitch and change of laptop, I'm back with Episode 29 with Craig Birrell of Dunfermline band Birrell Or Biscuit. We spoke about Craig's career both as a musician and as co-founder of Whanga Records and at the end he picked his heroes, this time via WhatsApp! Check out Birrell or Biscuit here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Es640Txcb8Ek7vu4z...

Here we are again, back with another episode and this weeks guest is the brilliant Gordon Raphael! Gordon produced the first two albums by The Strokes as well as Regina Spektor's 'Soviet Kitsch' With The Strokes coming up so often on the podcast, I thought it would be good to hear from someone that was there throughout and none better than Gordon. We covered all of Gordon's career, what the role o...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes Podcast, this weeks guest is Graeme McKay. Graeme is a contributor of The Cynic, a Celtic fans podcast, as well as this he also co-host The Digressive Left podcast. We spoke about both podcasts as well as Graeme's early life, musical tastes and a whole lot more and as usual at the end he picked his heroes to come for dinner! I hope you all enjoy this episode, Graeme...

Back again with Episode 26 with the fantastic Charlotte Cooper, Charlotte plays Bass in The Subways, the band which she formed along with her, then, boyfriend and his brother. We touched on how these relationships affected the dynamic of the band as well as discussing how the sound differed between different producers. We spoke about all this and more and then Charlotte picked her heroes to come f...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes Podcast, Episode 25 is with Simon Mason Known as The Cat In The Hat or The Rock N Roll Doctor, Simon was the man that sourced class A's for most of Britpop's stars, we spoke about how this spiralled into 2 decades of addiction before getting himself clean, writing a book and forming a band! We also spoke about his latest venture and how we might be seeing him at Bri...

Welcome back to the podcast, this week my guest is Luke Hinton, Luke owns Juicebox Live, a national award winning live music promoter based in Hertfordshire and covering South East England, East Anglia, East Midlands and London. We spoke about how Luke got into this line of work, what challenges he's faced along the way and where he plans to take it next and as usual at the end he picked his heroe...

Happy Easter everyone! Welcome back to the 23rd episode of Time For Heroes Podcast! This week I have 2 guests, Aidan John & Zack Yusof of Australian Teenage Fanclub tribute band Star Sign! We spoke about how the band came to be, involving stays in many different countries before the band met in Perth, Australia..As well as playing Teenage Fanclub songs they also have their own songs and we dis...

Welcome back! Here we go with episode 22 with Photographer and owner of new online music magazine New Sound Generation. Before Billy got into all that his life was so much different; adoption, addiction and crime were just some of the issues Billy had to contend with before turning his life around and also giving others the same opportunity. We spoke about all the above and at the end Billy picked...

Welcome back to another episode of Time For Heroes Podcast. My guest this time is Laura Jean Marsh, the writer, director and lead actor of last years film Giddy Stratospheres. We spoke about Laura's life growing up and how she got into film, via music and DJ'ing. Laura also touched on what might be next for her after the success of Giddy' and at the end she picked her heroes to come for dinner! I...

Here we are with episode 20 of Time For Heroes, this week with the fantastic James McMahon! James has worked at both NME and Kerrang and also finds the time to host loads of podcasts. We spoke about James early life growing up, working in the music press and all the while living with OCD and we spoke about his many podcasts and then at the end he picked his heroes to come for dinner. Hope you all...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes podcast and this is the first episode of 2022! My guest is Chris McClure, the face of Arctic Monkeys debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. But, there's so much more to Chris than that, which you'll find out about over the course of the interview. As always, he chose his heroes to come for dinner too. Hope you all enjoy! Check out Chris here : ht...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes. This is the final episode of 2021 and it's a bumper 2 hour long discussion with Dominic Masters of noughties band The Others. Dominic spoke about his early life growing up in Somerset, his education and jobs before The Others signed to Alan McGee's Poptones label, they won the John Peel Innovation awardnin 2005 in the same year their debut album came out, we spoke...

Episode 17 with Steve Firth Steve is a guy that I've grown up listening too, joining Embrace in 1996 before releasing their debut album (The Good Will Out) in 1998 which was part of career that has spawned 7 studio albums, 3 which reached top spot in the UK album charts. I'm a passionate follower of the band and we touched on every highpoint in the bands career as well as a few lows (England World...

Back again, as promised, with another podcast! Hope you enjoyed last weeks episode, this week we have another noughties musical figure, The Paddingtons songwriting bassist, Lloyd Dobbs. The Paddingtons played on Friday night in London and have gigs coming up on the 19th, 21st & 22nd in Glasgow, Stockton & Hull, get tickets here: https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/the-paddingtons-web-broadcast-...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes podcast, this weeks episode with Alfie Jackson of The Holloways will be the first of four episodes over the next four weeks. We spoke about Alfie's early life growing up in Yorkshire, moving to London and how The Holloways came to be. A career that spawned two albums and dealt with the highs and lows of the music industry. After the band split we spoke about Alfie's...

Hello and welcome to episode 14 of Time For Heroes Podcast! This week my guest is Anthony Thornton, who along with photographer Roger Sargent, is responsible for The Libertines Bound Together: The Definitive Story of Peter Doherty and Carl Barat and How They Changed British Music.  Without a shadow of doubt, the finest book ever published concerning The Libertines. We spoke about the book and also...