3 is the Magic Number

Love is in the air this week as we unleash our 2nd brand new season regular episode idea...the couples episode! In what we here at 3ITMN hope will be something we can actually keep going season on season, our guests in this week's pod are quite frankly one of the greatest couples in the metal universe right now, Sammy and Justine from Employed To Serve and Church Road Records (as well as so many o...

This week we reach the halfway(ish) point in Season 2, and have a brand new season regular to audioily (is that a word) unveil. Each season we here at 3ITMN are going to put out a podcast versus episode, where we chat with a fellow podcaster, fuse our podcast formats together and have a blooming lovely old time. This week it is the turn of journalist Giles Bidder from the brilliant 101 Part Time J...

On the 4th day of Christmas you may have got calling birds, but with us you’re getting something way betterer. Episode 4 of this new season has Matt and Remfry have a good old face to face natter with Mr metal himself Brady Deeprose from the genuinely world class Conjurer, a band on the forefront of all good things heavy (and indeed metal) in the U.K. This episode was one that lived long in the me...

As with the title of this podcast, 3 is certainly the magic number as today, episode 3 of season 2, we totally keep our cool and totally keep our calm whilst talking to Jane's Addiction / Porno For Pyros drummer and all round legend Mr Stephen Perkins. MR STEPHEN PERKINS! Now, this week's podcast might not follow to well worn and rigid 3ITMN podcast structure, but fear not as Stephen’s topic of To...

Episode 2 time all! Welcome to the second of this season's pods, this week those lovable chatty rogues Matt and Remfry, are grilling the fabulous Ithaca vocalist Djamilla Boden Azzouz on her Top 3 Pokémon. Now being totally upfront, this is a subject our hosts know almost nothing about, so this whole podcast was a steep learning curved lesson for them both. The aged pair learn all about types of P...

Merry first podcast proper of Season 2 to one and all! Our season opener has Matt and Remfry poised for a lovely face-to-face chin wag with music journalist, author and man of Barnsley, Ian Winwood. Ian and his exceptional book 'Bodies: Life and Death in Music' made both of our hosts cry tears of real teary water and then demand some answers! Ian picked his Top 3 Places in Camden, the mighty borou...

Welcome back one and all to the first episode of 3 is the Magic Number Season 2, the podcast that asks its guests for their Top 3 favourite things in any subject of their choosing. We (as in your hosts, Remfry Dedman and Matt Hughes) just wanted to take a moment, and this short, sharp and snappy podcast, to say hello again, catch everyone up on things that have been going on in 3ITMN world, as wel...

Welcome one and welcome all to this special end of year 3 Is The Magic Number podcast, 2022 A Year In Review. It’s a Christmas cracker! Breaking from the usual format of the magic 3, Matt and Remfry chat a chatty chat about their individual Top 10 things they have loved about 2022. The picks included albums, computer games, TV shows, live performances, festivals, comic books and more. Oh holy nigh...

All good things must come to an end and so is the case for Season 1 of 3 Is The Magic Number. We close out this debut season with a very special hosts face off, battle, throw down, tete a tete…the guys wage war and dive into their Top 3 Debut Albums. BOOM! A big one to have as our first season ending battle royale. What do they choose? What were their bubbling unders? How many debut albums were fr...

We are back and really getting into full swing! On this weeks podcast we welcome Andrew Groves, the songwriter, producer, resident of Iceland and former vocalist and guitarist from the much loved and much missed Arcane Roots. Andrew goes deep down into his love of all things Anime with his Top 3 Anime shows, picking some incredible sounding programmes from this wonderful world of animation. This i...

A very short and sweet ‘welcome back’ 3 is the Magic Number podcast with Matt and Remfry. Following an enforced mid season hiatus, the guys (host with the most Remfry Dedman and podcast side-kick par excellence Matt Hughes), explain their absence, talk about what is still to come from Season 1 and even find time to have a special mini Top 3 ‘face off’ - a sort of precursor to the full event that w...

We are back! After a short week off, Season 1 continues a pace with a wonderful guest in the shape of broadcaster, journalist, presenter, podcaster and all round super human, Sophie K. Sophie somehow manages to fit in DJ’ing for Kerrang! Radio, Absolute Radio, Radio 1, writing regularly for Kerrang! magazine, hosting with Amazon Music anddddddd being one of the 3 podcast hosts for On Wednesdays We...

This (Easter) Monday's podcast is a cracker! Matt and Remfry chow down into the tasty feast of chat with James Scarlett, head booker and founder of both the excellent (and award winning) 2000trees and Arctangent Festivals and the unofficial king of Bristol (true fact). The Top 3 natter this week is all about James’s Top 3 Riffs. WHAT A BRILLIANT SUBJECT! What will he choose? Sabbath? Zeppelin? Gun...

On today’s podcast, Matt and Remfry chatty chat with the musician, illustrator and all round number 1 guy, the total gent Mr Jamie Lenman. Jamie has been making music good enough for the gods, for over 20 years, both as a solo artist and also as frontman and guitarist of the exceptional and much missed Reuben. Jamie’s last solo EP ‘King Of Clubs’ from 2021 is amongst his very best and you should a...

Today’s brand new podcast features vocalist and guitarist Katie Davies from the exceptional new band Pupil Slicer, whose debut album ‘Mirrors’ was released around a year ago to huge acclaim. Katie takes us down a rather specific rabbit hole with their Top 3 Flawed Videogame Masterpieces and we dive straight in to a chat with a wholllllle lotta detail, a whole lotta expert knowledge and a wholeeeee...

On today’s episode we have a bloomin’ brilliant chat with broadcaster, journalist and all round super human being, Greg Cochrane. The conversation goes deep into the wonderful, silly, sentimental and much loved world of Football Mascots. Who doesn’t love a football mascot?!? Greg has been a journalist and broadcaster for a number of years, and has worked for a host of platforms including BBC, Time...

On today’s episode we welcome the gentleman and scholar, Mr Daniel P. Carter to the podcast. The much celebrated radio broadcaster, musician, podcast host and all round top chap has a chat with Matt and Remfry about his Top 3 Lost Albums From The 90’s. God bless the 90’s. Dan is currently the host of the hugely popular Radio 1 Rock Show (currently on every Sunday, on Radio 1, between 9pm and 11pm)...

Today’s 3 Is The Magic Number guest, the first EVER guest for the podcast, is singer songwriter Mr. Frank Turner. This conversation was recorded over a year ago at the end of November 2020 during covid lockdown one, and sees Matt and Remfry chat to Frank about his Top 3 Comedy Ensembles. The three chaps also head over to recommendation corner to endorse a couple of fantastic TV dramas and an album...

Welcome one and all to the very first episode of 3 is the Magic Number, a new podcast that asks its guests for their Top 3 favourite things in any subject of their choosing. We wanted to introduce ourselves, we being your host Remfry Dedman and podcast instigator / twisted firestarter Matt Hughes, as well as give you a little insight into our first season which will be airing in full over the next...