Hold Onto The Colours Podcast

I had the pleasure to talk to one of my favorite recording engineer's Phill Brown. Phill has worked with so many artists, from Talk Talk to Little Feat to Dido to Bombay Bicycle Club. All is detailed in his amazing book '' Are We Still Rolling?''. Phill engineered on three of many favorite and best sounding albums Talk Talk-Spirit Eden, Laughing Stock and Mark Hollis's solo album. I loved the conv...

Today's guest is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and best-selling author(New York Times) Avi Loeb. We discussed his most recent book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Oumuamua, The Galileo Project and many more things. I really enjoyed the conversation. What a smart and gentleman Avi is. For more information about Avi please click...

Today's guest is philosopher and writer John Leslie. We had a great chat about death, the afterlife, the multiverse, chess, and more. I enjoyed the episode.

Today's guest is Producer, Composer, Musician, and Author Michael Beinhorn. Michael has worked with The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Brian Eno, Korn, Mew, Soundgarden, Herbie Hancock plus so many more. He is an amazing producer and a lovely person. We had a great interesting conversation. Thank you to Michael for taking the time to come on the podcast. For more on Michael, check out the links below. &n...

Today's guest is Leah Kardos. Leah is a composer and author. Recently she released her latest book David Bowie Blackstar Theory: The Last Works Of David Bowie. I really loved the book, it is a fascinating look at Bowie's music. Leah also is a talented composer. I really enjoyed the conversation. For info on Leah's works check out the link below www.leahkardos.com

Today's guest is composer/musician/Youtuber George Del Barrio, known as Geebz. George has amassed a huge Youtube following with his reaction videos which now are at 224,000 subscribers. George comes from a lineage of composers with his father and uncle being very successful in the field of composing and between them working with the likes of Michael Jackson, Sinead O Connor, and Earth, Wind &...

Today's guest is Cuber (Rubik's cube expert) and magician Sydney Weaver. She is a nine time gold medalist professional Speed Cuber. Sydney was born with arthritis and told she would probably never walk. But she beat the odds and is a inspiration. She appeared on Penn and Teller: Fool Us in which she did a lovely magic routine with a cube. We discussed cubes, algorithms, social media, magic and man...

Today's guest is Professor Timothy Darvill. Timothy Darvill OBE is an English archaeologist and author, best known for his publications on prehistoric Britain and his excavations in England, Wales, and the Isle of Man. He is Professor of Archaeology in the Faculty of Science and Technology Bournemouth University in England. [1] Timothy Darvill is recognised as one of the leading authorities on Sto...

Today's episode is with composer Kurt Farquhar. Kurt scores CBS’ comedy series  The Neighborhood , now in its 4th season; Disney +’s  The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder , the long anticipated revival of the groundbreaking animated series The Proud Family  which premieres on February 22nd; and Netflix’s upcoming fantasy teen drama series  First Kill . A televisi...

Today's guest is comic book artist/writer Jim Rugg. Jim has created many of his own comics such as Street Angel, Afrodisiac and worked with Image, DC and Marvel comics. We discuss many things including his upcoming Hulk comic called Hulk: Grand Design- Monster. I had a great time chatting to Jim. Jim also has a great Youtube channel with Ed Piskor called Cartoonist Kayfabe which is excellent. You...

Today's episode is with film maker and director Brent Wilson. We talked about his latest documentary Brian Wilson:Long Promised Road. The film is amazing, I really enjoyed it. We had a great conversation. I highly recommend the film. It was great to see Brian in a different light and more open than he has ever been. Check out Long Promised Road.

Today's guests are Frank Lopez and Kaitlyn. They are co-creators of the hit Spotify original podcast ''Who is Daniel Johns''. The podcast is amazing and gives a great insight into Daniel's life. They worked closely with Daniel and interviewed many people including Natalie Imbruglia, Billy Corgan, Kevin Parker along with many more. Together they have a company F+K which is a boutique podcast agency...

Today's guest is the first guest that was on my podcast, Caroline Curwen. Caroline is a Synesthesia researcher and recently completed a test with regard to Synesthesia which shall be release next year. Yours truely was part of the subjects that completed the test. I always enjoy talking to Caroline.

Today's episode is with musician and founder Sasha Pas of Playtronica. Playtronica make very original instruments, one being TouchMe which is such a cool device. We had a great chat. So please do check Playtronica out at the link below Website :http:// Playtronica.com Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/playtronica

I am joined by returning guests Van Dyke Parks and Verónica Valerio. We talk about their wonderful new collaboration ''Only In America''. The results are beautiful. We had a great conversation and it's always great to have such talks with such talented people.  ''Only In America'' is out now on Modern Recordings. Do yourself a favour and pick up the vinyl, you won't regret it. https://modernr...

Today's guest is with Producer, Mixer, Engineer Mark Linett. Mark has worked with The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson for over 30 years. His latest work can be heard on the new Feel Flows Beach Boys Boxset set. In addition to his on going work with The Beach Boys, he also has worked with The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Randy Newman, Los Lobos and much more. He also part owns and runs M and B Audio which c...

Today's episode is with tennis analyst and commentator Gill Gross. Gill has a huge tennis knowledge . His YouTube channel has great insight into tennis and I highly recommend it along with his 3 YouTube channel which focuses on the big 3 in tennis. We had a great chat and got in some MMA talk aswel. I am sure one day he will be rocking it on ESPN. Check out Gill at the following sites Twitter: @Gi...

Today's guest on the podcast is Dr Jonathan Grayson. Jonathan is a leading figure in the treatment of OCD with over 30 years of specializing in OCD and its treatment. Author of Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Recipient of the Patty Perkins Lifetime Achievement Award from IOCDF. We had a great conversation and I love the way he talks about OCD. For more on Dr Grayson check out http://ww...

Following the events of UFC 264 where Conor faced Dustin Poirier I talk about the rise and fall of Conor. UFC 264 was a sad sight seeing how Conor Behaved.

Today's guest is Martin Seidl. Martin is CEO and founder of Austrian Audio. A new company but already a very respected company. We talked about his long history in the music business such as his time at AKG, his own music and just general nerdy audio talk. Austrian are doing some really innovative things within the microphone and headphone world. Do check them out. Thanks to Martin. www.austrianau...

Today I am joined by the huge talent that is Marc Martel. Marc entered a competition to join Roger Taylor 's (original drummer for the rock band Queen ) official Queen tribute project, the Queen Extravaganza , with a video of Martel singing along with the Queen classic "Somebody to Love ". It's video and many others have garnered millions of views on Youtube. He also provided vocals for the Bohemi...

I had a lovely conversation with Mark Modimola. Mark is a very talented artist and super lovely guy. We talked about his art, the universe and many detours along the way. I think his art is beautiful. I love the surrealist nature in it. Thank you Mark for the conversation.  For more, visit  https://www.instagram.com/mark_draws/ https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mark_draws/

Today's episode is with talented musician, composer and teacher Alan Kupeta. Alan has a great YouTube channel in which he teaches and talks about African music and the history within it. It's a fascinating channel. For more check out www.youtube.com/rhythminafrica

I had a great conversation with Jay Parmar. Jay makes his own guitars which are super badass. He is also a talented musician and a lovely guy. Thoroughly enjoyed the conversation. Check out Jay's guitars at www.jayparmar.com

Today is returning guest Dr Patrick McGrath. This time there is no OCD talk, only some rocking music. We put together a playlist of the music we talked about in the podcast. It's always a pleasure to chat to Patrick. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5o6h0ynzOwIgx3PszaQ8Up?si=2BeNnBXkSISblbRsYTvw2g&utm_source=copy-link