The Counterforce with Aug Stone

Young Southpaw talks to American ‘English eccentric’ Anton Barbeau about ABBA, memories of lost songs, the bird lifestyle, meeting Graham Chapman, and so much more.    Listen to new record ‘Manbird’ at https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/album/manbird   http://www.antonbarbeau.com/   https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/   @antonbarbeau    Young Southpaw: What made you fall in love with music as a kid,...

Young Southpaw talks to Amelia Fletcher & Rob Pursey of Heavenly, Swansea Sound, The Catenary Wires (and many more bands) about Spinal Tap, mix tape mishaps, wearing togas, and much more.     https://swanseasound.bandcamp.com/releases https://thecatenarywires.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/heavenlyindie/   Young Southpaw: I was going to introduce you and list your bands but there’s like a...

Young Southpaw reflects on how much Eddie Van Halen's music has meant to him 

Young Southpaw has his first repeat guest with The Black Watch’s John Andrew Fredrick. Always a good time with the elegantly loquacious Mr. Fredrick, talking about Nabokov, tennis, the new Black Watch album ‘Fromthing Somethat’, the possibility that Rachel Cusk, Epiphone Guitars, The Ocean Blue, & Congress are all listening to this episode together, and much much more    https://theblackwatch.band...

Young Southpaw gets the scoop on one of his favourite new bands, High On Stress. Chatting with singer/guitarist Nick Leet about The Replacements, Prince, seeing Def Leppard at a mall, High On Stress’ fantastic new album Hold Me In, and a whole lot more   Young Southpaw: What’s your favourite Replacements tune?  Nick Leet: Oh jeez, it’s all the hard-hitting questions today! It changes by the day fo...

Young Southpaw talks to Suede bassist Mat Osman about James Bond, Kraftwerk, Los Angeles, Swedish LARPers, where he’d take Liza Minnelli for dinner, and his excellent debut novel, The Ruins    Twitter: @matosman IG: @matdosman Buy The Ruins at  https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-ruins/     Young Southpaw: When did the title, The Ruins, come to you?    Mat Osman: Titles are really, really hard,...

Young Southpaw talks to author John Higgs about Aleister Crowley, Robert Anton Wilson, William Blake, the possibility of a supernatural James Bond film, Iron Maiden, and a whole lot more    johnhiggs.com  @johnhiggs      John Higgs: Illuminatus! is a very important book, and it is a very powerful book. And it has had a sort of strange reality-warping impact on a lot of people at a lot of points. I...

Young Southpaw talks to Carla Easton about her fantastic new record ‘Weirdo’, her love of Taylor Swift, ‘pop’ not being a dirty word, and much more    https://www.carlajennifereaston.com/ https://twitter.com/CarlaJEaston https://carlajeaston.bandcamp.com/   Young Southpaw: What have you been listening to the past couple of years while making this record?    Carla Easton: I was really into Lily All...

Whitney Matheson chats to Young Southpaw about comics, pop music, her many various writing projects, the great American rock bands, what her make up would be if she ever joined KISS, and much more  https://www.patreon.com/whitneymatheson   http://www.whitneymatheson.com/   Young Southpaw: The Ramones, I don’t know if I would consider them a ‘rock’ band...it’s a tough call on that one.    Whitney M...

Young Southpaw chats to Kevin Crace and gets the skinny on his legendary label, Humbug Records. Ignored in their native country, the label was nevertheless home to some of the finest eccentric British songwriters - Captain Sensible, Martin Newell, Simon Turner, Colin Lloyd Tucker, TV Smith... Some excellent records were made, along with homemade jam, early xmas parties, and the conviction/label mo...

Young Southpaw talks to The Church’s Steve Kilbey about his new solo album 11 Women, the songwriting genius of Kilbey, Bolan, Dylan, Lou Reed, Lennon, McCartney, and the magic & mystery of songs themselves  https://www.instagram.com/stvklby/ http://thetimebeing.com/ https://twitter.com/stevekilbey   Steve Kilbey: That’s what I want to do with songs, truly break through to that sort of hypnogogic s...

Young Southpaw talks to Martin Atkins (Pigface, PiL, Brian Brain, Killing Joke, Damage Manual, etc.) about his punk rock ethos, entrepreneurial skills, books and zoom talks, as well as Public Image Limited on American Bandstand, Commercial Zone, GG Allin, the ‘Paul McCartney clause’, and much more  https://martinatkins.bigcartel.com/products   https://twitter.com/marteeeen   Martin Atkins: I’ve go...

Young Southpaw talks to The Silent Academy founder Andrew Shaw about his new metaphysical mixtape in book form questions, Bill Drummond, suspending your brain, Pigs & Zen, and much more. Van Halen too, obviously...    https://www.silentacademy.com/product/questions-book/       Young Southpaw: At the end of the intro you write that your hope is that ‘in accessing intuitive awareness, we are free to...

Young Southpaw chats to magician and comedian Paul Kilmer, aka Magical Paul aka Jurassic Paul, about songs about cards, being offered large amounts of dairy products while performing, his positive philosophy of comedy, and dinosaurs, of course.    Paul Kilmer: In the early 90s my dad was a construction worker and a mechanic so he exposed us to all those late 70’s/early 80’s “metal” bands, hair ban...

Young Southpaw talks to phenomenal Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad about her new record Ekhidna, opening for John McLaughlin while six months pregnant and having just had appendix surgery, snakes, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Lifeson, and much more.   https://soundcloud.com/hedvigmollestadtrio     Hedvig Mollestad: How do you feel about John McLaughlin’s way through music, his career, where he start...

Young Southpaw chats to David Ryder Prangley about his debut solo album Black Magic & True Love, KISS & their solo albums, Shampoo & swatches, Twin Peaks, and Prangley’s Great Van Halen Smiths Theory, leading Southpaw to conjecture post-interview ‘what if Johnny Marr had joined KISS?’ https://davidryderprangley1.bandcamp.com/ Young Southpaw: What’s your favourite of the KISS solo records? David Ry...

Young Southpaw chats to Matt & Mauro from the UK ‘Ronettes Punk’ band The Speedways about their new album Radio Sounds, what Eddie Van Halen being in KISS would’ve been like, Billy Ocean/ABBA covers albums, Hanoi Rocks, and much more.   Check them out at https://thespeedways.bandcamp.com/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/JustAnotherRegularSummer       Young Southpaw: That’s all my questions...

Young Southpaw chats with Pynchon In Public Podcast mastermind, Bo Butler, about Thomas Pynchon of course, the pre-sequel to 'The Empire Strikes Back', mechanical ducks in 'Holiday Inn' and 'Boogie Nights', what Mr. Pynchon might think of Canadian power trio legends Rush, and much more.   Listen to the PIPcast at  https://pynchoninpublicpodcast.com/   Follow the podcast on Twitter at  @PynchonPod...

Young Southpaw talks to the musician and comedian Nick Grunerud about Bauhaus leading the way to the future of hide-and-seek music festivals, a new calendar where you never know what month is coming next, Toledo, Ohio’s role in nocturnal fitness, and much more   https://nickgrunerud.bandcamp.com/ https://nickgrunerud.wordpress.com/blog/  

Young Southpaw talks to The Black Watch main man, John Andrew Fredrick, about their ace new record 'Brilliant Failures', their fantastically named previous albums 'Led Zeppelin Five' and 'Magic Johnson', shoegazing & tennis, time travel (he's not into it), and much more   https://www.facebook.com/theblackwatchmusic/ https://theblackwatch.bandcamp.com/

Young Southpaw talks to Boston comedian Rob Crean about his new record, 'Sadly Sackerton', his comedy nights and their relation to Roman mythology, The Replacements, and more @robcrean   Buy the record at  https://deadandmellow.com/rob-crean  

Young Southpaw offers a unique career retrospective of The Indelicates, speaking with Simon & Julia about time travel, spectral presences, Ohio, Paul Nicholas, and much more  Their info:  www.theindelicates.com FB/Twitter/IG: @theindelicates     

 David Devant & His Spirit Wife frontman discusses their magical new record, futuristic Victorian bathtubs & cosmic eggs, and how it might have gone if  William Blake had been in the Manic Street Preachers   FOLLOW: Facebook: @youngsouthpaw Instagram: @youngsouthpawetc Twitter: @youngsouthpawaf www.youngsouthpaw.com

Make-up tips, séances, and hidden occult meanings with Jo and Simon of the brilliant London post-punk four-piece  

The acclaimed comics writer of Die! and The Wicked + Divine regales Southpaw regarding the time he DM’d a role playing game where all the campaigners played members of the fictional band Skirmish