Yelling at concrete

Continuing the chain letter of suggested guests! This week I got time to sit down with Ska Punk extraordinaire  @DavidMcWane  Former drummer now Singer of Big D and The Kids Table. A band who I actually found out about maybe 20+ years ago when I was coming up through the alternative music scene. Dave sat down with me to talk multiple topics the main of which is the American fascination w...

More of a conceptual walk through that a narrative one. After seeing a mountain of Essays and reviews of The Simpsons I decided the only real apporach I could take is to ask. Is it art or is it just content and filler? So join us as I think about what art means and if oddly enough The Simpsons could be considered bad content but good art? The show is available on: Itunes https://podcasts.apple.com...

This week i sit down with a word smith in the form of  @AllOneVoice  Bruce. Bruce is a writer, rapper, poet and journalist who i know of having seen him perform along side one of my other guests! I sort of knew Bruce would be a great conversation to have as his work often delves into topic i consider in my own creative process as well as just being a very well rounded creator who is simp...

As we enter the new year it's important to take stock and listen to your mind and your body and the random man on the internet as he has a slight breakdown of recent conversations he's had about why we create art. How we improve on ourselves and how that comes through in the work we make. Resolutions can be a flag, a badge of honour or just a bench mark but they dont need to be ruiners of your sel...

Welcome to 2025! First episode of the year as is tradition I sit down with my brother Martyn and this time his Partner Amy  @AlternativeAdventures  as we discuss the state of online and what really is "cool" when it comes to an online database of content. Is it slang and constant clout being shown off? Is it just a database of information? Is this just a man in his late thirties complain...

Bad is subjective but throwing out a whole things because of one aspect of what you were expecting to me seems like madness? Maybe I'm becoming the poster child of middle ground but I think you can enjoy much more in life if you embrace the things which change your view and expectations. So lets talk, about bad things. Inspired by the recent Joker 2 reviews and Borderlands debacle I decided to loo...

There are a couple of guests on the podcast who have been back many times. Pinch is one of them. We met many years ago at a women in the arts event in Lincoln and since have continued to swap and share stories and tales with one another in personal and professional capacity. We in fact last sat down to do this three years ago! Since then Lauren has gone "full time artist" and settled into the role...

Call it a bad habit, call me an enabler but it seems everyone I meet i encourage to make something. This could be a fundamental flaw in myself but if I have a goal that goal is to convince everyone to explore creating. This is not to say everyone could and should be an artist but there is nothing stopping you exploring putting pencil to pad, paper to paper or baked good in a bowl to discover the f...

This week I get to chat to an enigma. Comic artist of 'The other end comics' Neil Kohney has been popping up on my instagram feed for a while and no doubt you have seen his work! He create comic strips which subvert expectation and jump from extreme to extreme. Wanting to know more about them and the man behind the rats. I reached out to talk, subversive art, the nineties styling in the work but a...

This week I sit down to talk about you! Finding and audience for your work can be hard and everyone and their aunty is out there telling you how to build and grow your views and clicks. So this week I sit down to talk about the other side of it. What about the fear of actually having one? Being held to account and needing to be kept in line because your audience begins dictating what you can and c...

This week i sit down with NY based musician, artist, creator and overall legend which is  @ItsKavi  . Who I met a couple years back and has in the last few months become quickly someone I wanted to collaborate with and get to know more. Kevin or Kavi as he's known is a ball of creation working in improvisational word play, music and visual art and really shares a lot of ethics when it co...

This week we talk money and how the in reality these investments in art "art" are really short sighted financially. By alienating the creative user base companies are going to quickly find themselves in the process of needing unique ideas. Something AI cannot generate without theft. There is also the question of financial return. If you invest a few thousand in an art art engine and then need peop...

This week i sit down with good friend of mine Emma Louhglin! Emma and I have known each other for a few years now and actually did the terrible dangerous thing of chatting via the internet first when i was streaming throughout the pandemic! Turns out we ended up living in the same area but she is in her own right a talented marketing manager working in New York within the music scene! With a histo...

This week we focus on the big questions the non trivial internet answers. What happens when your mind is so focused on small arguments that you expunge your energy and thoughts into the simple idea of putting a fruit on a pie? I tend not to get dragged into internet arguments, even in real life i avoid these kinds of asks because I have other things to focus on. Bigger questions I want answers too...

This week i sit down with the highly recommended Bob Cronin! Bob is a multimedia artist and creator which an in-depth knowledge of life and experience which is fascinating. The voice and host behind  @rocdocs  with Dennis Ball a talking tennis ball he's also a creator of mash up masterwork the Beastles back when he was under the title dj BC. This was a great opportunity to talk about DIY...

During a very recent solo podcast I talking about how the internet had become gentrified and in a world of online subscriptions, ad block and internet gate keeping we were in a different age. And Along with that I had another thought. Can you gentrify a human being? A mind? A thought? It's something I believe I've witnessed. Something where those who didn't have money no longer appreciate the simp...

This week we break new ground with the most people I've ever had on an episode on an episode! I'm hanging out with local New York based band  @PostageTramps  . Comprised of members : Tristan, Julian, Sophia and Akshay they have been doing what artists do best and finding their sound and space within NYC. That's not an easy route to take especially in NY and with online spaces dominating...

This week I get a little nostalgic. I get a little reminiscent and I get a little honest about how I was a few weeks back. The older internet was a free place but not completely free. But it was just enough that you could find random spaces and hang out there with no need to buy anything or watch an advert or even pay attention because they couldn't even collect your details! So lets sit down and...

This week I sit down with Poet Laureate Brooke Finegold. Brooke is an absolutely fantastic poet, comedian and artist. Just filled with a passion which inspires people around her. Not only being a performer in her own right having performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with rave reviews and consistently performing her work round Brooklyn but getting other involved with her Poetry Salon PIG (Poetry is Ga...

How do you count value in art? How do you know how much you will pay for anything? Is it an hourly rate? Based on how much you'd spend on coffee? Your min/max of the product? Lets take a moment and think. This show costs you nothing but your time but is it worth it? Is it worth the 28.29 mins? Lets talk film, photography, painting and all the plethora in between as we discuss how the cost of livin...

This week I sit down with fantastic artist Warren Wright. I came across Warren whilst exploring my love of stop motion and was instantly taken with the playful nature of his work. Having been artistic and exploring different mediums for years Warren has been in illustration, cartoons and currently is getting critical acclaim for his film making with dollmations. So we sat down to talk artistic and...

The internet is an odd place, as discussed recently with WTF Pots the length and breadth of what can get you in hot water with the powers that be of any platform is a real challenge for artists and not just in the modern era. In 1966 Lenny Bruce listed out nine words he'd been arrested for in 1972 George Carlin made a statement on his album Class Clown to follow it up with seven words you cant say...

.This week i sit down with purveyor of funny and filth Sarah Sharp. AKA WTFPots. Sarah is a self taught sculptor who is best known for portraying the weird and wonderfull human body in a sculpted fashion. Everything from prolapse anus's, mice in vaginas and penis bananas. There is no end to the wonderful things her mind can do with imagery and pottery. Recommended by a previous guest we catch up t...

The first fundamental of creating is "F*** your fundamentals" Or rather that the best way to create anything is to consider that your core values and what you're looking to get out of things is often different to someone else. So whether you're looking to understand the fundamentals of photography, Illustration, sculpture, baking, building, music or anything which requires some level of method and...

Available also on: Itunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86sa Acast https://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcrete This week I sit down with Spadgerina aka Sarah who is something intriguing to my grammar deficit brain which is a copywriter and wordsmith. As someone who fully utilizes visual language as a way...