Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware

Martin grew up through the formative late 70’s in Sheffield with Martyn – hanging out at the same pubs, writing fanzines while he was studying at Sheffield University. Influenced by both the early Human League and Cabaret Voltaire initially, he became the singer of Vice Versa, and early electropop act, which soon evolved into that rarest of creatures – a fully realised, truly popular modern pop cr...

Gerry Casale is a genius. There, I’ve said it. I became a close friend with him when we first met in 1981 when his US management company (DEVO, Neil Young, The Residents, etc.) took on Heaven 17. His friendly and iconoclastic personality has always been a major inspiration for me and many musicians I know. His integrated artistic and philosophical approach is worthy of much more credit than merely...

Midge Ure is an internationally famous multi-dimensional being – singer, songwriter, producer, musical director, performer, composer, writer, podcaster, lover of technology, synthesist, guitarist par excellence. He’s also one of the most lovely people on the planet – a good friend, a family man, and a man of generous wisdom. His work ethic is second to none, and his love of his music and performin...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - Martyn here…In the interview, I mention an hour’s worth of music we produced for the Sony PS2 launch party, which I’ve just rediscovered – this was the first Illustrious project Vince and I did together in 2000 As a special treat and for a limited time, Vince and I are allowing listeners to this podcast to hear this... https://soundcloud.com/martynware/sets/playstation-ps2/s...

Kim Wilde has been a glamorous pop star from her teenage years. Her father is Marty Wilde, 60’s pop star, who’s family have become a lineage of excellence. Ricky, Kim’s brother, helped to write and produce a string of massive hits on the 80’s including Kids In America, Chequered Love and You Keep Me Hangin’ On, both in the UK and across the world and the US. She is also an author, radio DJ and tel...

Glen Matlock is one of Martyn’s oldest friends in the music industry, having connected on the Iggy Pop European tour in 1979, when The Human League were plying support. His good-humour and kind mentorship of the young THL at that time helped us get through an extraordinary period. He is best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is cre...

There is much intelligence and playfulness in Ana Lynch’s creative life. As Ana Matronic in the Scissor Sisters, she is an iconic figure in the glam-art pop-rock scene. She is also currently a Radio 2 DJ specialising in the wide world of disco, and with her husband, Seth Kirby, she creates large-scale ambient visual performances. She burst onto the scene as the female co-lead vocalist for the...

Graham Fellows went to the same school as Martyn (different year though) - King Edward VII Grammar School in Sheffield. From his website... 'Graham David Fellows has been a paperboy, a champion mouse breeder, a builder's labourer, a barman, a teenage pop sensation, a stage actor, a soap star (well, a few episodes of Coronation Street in 1983), a milkman, a character comedian, a film director, a fi...

Sandie Shaw is literally a living legend. She is one of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, she had three UK number one singles with " (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me " (1964), " Long Live Love " (1965) and " Puppet on a String " (1967). With "Puppet on a String", she became the first British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest . Martyn invited her to record...

Glenn Gregory and Paul Bower are Martyn's oldest and best friends. Martyn met Paul when they both became trainee managers at the Co-op in Sheffield, and Paul introduced Martyn to Glenn to a youth drama project called Meatwhistle, which was to change his life. Glenn became a lifelong friend and collaborator - apart from various hilarious one-day-only bands created at Meatwhistle (not for public con...

Elly Jackson is a force of nature - she exploded onto the international music scene with LaRoux in 2009, and since has had success with several albums. We talk about her amazing and unexpected Grammy success, the break up of the band, and a mysterious encounter with Kanye West. This is an episode you don't want to miss...

Richard Hawley is a Sheffield musical legend and fellow Sheffield Wednesday fan. He is a critically-acclaimed guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Hawley initially found success as a member of Britpop band Longpigs in the 1990's, and formerly Treebound Story . Richard was asked to play with Pulp by his close friend and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker .  Since then he has created many of hi...

This is a trailer for the forthcoming Electronically Yours podcast. Martyn Ware is an electronic music legend - he founded The Human League and Heaven 17, and under the banner of his production company British Electric Foundation has had enormous success as a producer for world-famous artists like Tina Turner, Terence Trent, D'Arby, Erasure, Chaka Khan, Mavis Staples, Marc Almond amongst many othe...