Gnodcast

New Year, New Gnodcast! Say hello to Dr. Lauren McLean; poet, musician, compare & curator. Lauren has been an important part of the Manchester underground / improv scene since she was 17, putting on her own events and getting involved in many underground projects in & around Manchester. Check out the latest Nightingale Floor album here: 'Five Stagings' https://tombedvisionsrecords.bandcamp...

Gnodcast 23 is with Al Wilson. Al has been a member of GNOD since 2021, we hear more about his ongoing adventure in music - collaborating with many different folk through the years and the current happenings.  Heres the links Born In A Headlock - Zazen / Burning World Records / 1st December 2023 https://burningworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/zazen Holy Scum - All We Have Is Never / Rocket Rec...

After taking a winter break, we're back with a new season of the GNODCAST and who better to kick it off than longtime friend and Gnod member Mark Wagner. We've known Mark since the early days and we have crossed paths with him multiple times over the years. Anyway, listen to this it's a good one... Links: MKII: www.markandmarko.com   instagram.com/markandmarko Cymatics: instagram.com/mark_wag...

Next up.... Cecilia de Fatima dos Santos is a multidisciplinary artist from Oporto City in Portugal. She is known mostly for her documentary photography and for her surrealist , chaotic performer alter ego, Mc Sissi. What to say about the infamous DJ Uraino & Mc Sissi performances that rocked Oporto for a few years prior to Covid shite?? absolute chaos, good vibes, slapstick, bangin tunes. It...

Next up, Slomo Slomo are responsible for one of the most listened to pieces of music in my (paddy) collection. These 2 absolute gents bonded over a mutual love of antiquarianism and heavy music. They were also responsible for a lot of behind the scenes stuff at Julian Cope's Head Heritage site, which at its peak was the coolest spot on the Internet for people into heavy out there sounds and out do...

Rhys has been around the UK underground for a minute or two, we first met him in the mid 2000s and it's an understatement to say he had a big part to play in Gnod getting teamed up with Rocket and the making of the much beloved Dropout album. You may know him from his work as Acidliner, Drumcunt or with The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, Hey Colossus and most recently Thee Alcoholics. He is partly respo...

Next up on the Gnodcast is , Musician, Writer, Public Speaker and Grass roots Psychedelic Advocate .... Oli Genn-Bash. Oli is a super smart sweet heart and we had a great if at times somewhat tricky conversation about Psychedelics. Oli is a bad ass saxophinist, check his work with the excellent phuture-proto-prog........Codex Serafini https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/al... Also check out Oli's y...

We chat to our good friend, forest goblin, fungi forager and absolute diamond geezer, Sven Kruppa. Sven runs the label Svensk Psych Aften, a proper underground label with (purposely) very little online presence and has deep connections to the Danish scene and Swedish scenes recent groups, Hills, Goat, Centrum etc. Sven's ethos and approach is highly regarded here at Gnod HQ. Seek and ye shall find...

Hey yall 2024 will see us continue the Gnodcasts, will be trying a new format of talking to people we dig about their music and editing some music into the show. Theres many folks lined up, it takes a bit longer to edit etc but will be worth it . First up for this is The inimitable, Aonghus Reidy from Galway in Ireland. Aonghus has released loads of music on his own bandcamp under his own name and...

Introducing Manchester Legend .....Michael O' Neill. Gnod fans will know him from his amazing vocals on Bulletproof awareness, others will know him from The Sonar Yen ,the band that spawned a hundred others in Manchester. Most recently he collaborated with parallel_action and released an absolutely sick solo album on rwdfwd. We chat about all of it in the podcast. Mike has always dissected & q...

Next up... Our boy Will. Long time Gnod collaborator and even before the Gnod era. Multi instrumentalist, Martial Artist, Dad and all round top fella. Will has played/plays with so many people in Manchester including Aging and Graham Massey's Sun Ra Arkestra Tribute to name but a few. Much Love for this dude. https://tombedvisionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sentenced-to-love https://louclarke.bandc...

Next up... Our good friend, crate digger, vibe instigator, documentarian ,runs an excellent label...  linktr.ee/MichaelHolland Michael Holland is an inspirational character and gentleman.  He has one of the best shows on NTS , check it out. This was a nice chat. Enjoy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next up on the Gnodcast is our good pal Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai. linktr.ee/tonicutrone Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next up... our good friends over at ZamZam.  Zamzamrec website :  http://www.zamzamrec.org/ Zamzamrec bandcamp :  https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com Zohastre,  Abracadabra  :  https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/abracadabra Zohastre page :  http://www.zamzamrec.org/ZOHASTRE.html Zohastre Instagram :  https://www.instagram.com/zohastre/ 'Wizzarding', videoclip :...

We chat to our old pals and collaborators , Dave and Ego. We get into early WH years, the music biz, touring, our collabs especially the Dropout album and their new label. For all things White Hills ,hit the links below. https://whitehills.bandcamp.com/music linktr.ee/WHITEHILLS. To check out our best known and loved collab album, see below. https://gnod.bandcamp.com/album/dropo... This podcast is...

Lawrence Price. Sound engineer and tour manager.  Played in TODD, Shit & Shine, Joeyfat. This lad is a bit of a legend.  Great stories.  Great attitude. He's been on this music/noise scene forever and seen it all. Loved this chat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a great Podcast with and absolute beast of a drummer and great head, JP AKA Monty. JP has been an integral part of the Gnod sound since 2015. He has been obsessed with playing the drums since he was a kid and has played in tonnes of bands and projects such as Shuck, Aging, Locean, to name but a few. He is also a founding member of Holy Scum. JP is one of the most active drummers on the Man...

Based in Manchester, Gareth Smith is a multi-disciplinary artist and ex-engineer from Hull, and Vanishing is his project. With Karl D’Silva and using a shifting cast of collaborators, Smith assembles words, music and film that reflects his industrial roots, reworked over and again until meaning and purpose is found. Ends Without Redress, further exploration of the themes of 2021’s ‘55ºN, 5ºE’: nar...

Next up Bristol based vocalist and improviser , Dali is responsible for instigating one of the most interesting and innovative live acts/happenings in the last few years, EP64. Dali is a big part of the Avon Terror Corps, Viradian Ensemble,Scwhet, Bristol improv, noise and weirdo art scene. One of the most vibrant scenes in the UK. She is also a member of HARRGA alongside Miguel Prado creating ful...

Next up.... Our good friend , top geezer and all round legend on the scene, Jason Stoll. Jason does not mess around, hes in tons of bands and runs his own label God Unknown records. We have a nice chat with our old pal about early Gnod shows, music biz and his current numerable projects. https://godunknownrecords.com/ JAAW - Rot     • Jaaw: Rot (Offici...  ...

Next up on the Gnodcast is current drumbod, Jesse Webb. Jesse has been with us since 2016 and has become a part of the fabric of the Gnod big band sound. He has also played in bands , Big Naturals , Anthroproph and featured in quite a few EP64 performances. He has also released an excellent and extremely accomplished solo work as THE FINAL AGE https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/the-final-age A good l...

Next up on the Gnodcast is our good friend and collaborator Annett Tomporowski Annett is an amazing poet , writer, painter and musician. You can check out some of her work here: https://sophie-t.bandcamp.com/track/into-sun-glow https://soundcloud.com/sophie_t https://www.youtube.com/user/atomsophie https://www.instagram.com/sophie_t_poetry/ NB: In this episode we talk about the Manchester poet Car...

Matt Baty is the vocalist with PigsX7, Radio DJ, Box Records head honcho, music industry aficionado and all round sound geezer. Baty was a member of Gnod for a minute as you can gather from wrapping your ears around this chat. If you want these podcasts a couple of weeks earlier than when we upload to Acast or you would just like to support us in our endeavours and have access to exclusive Gnod co...

The Gnodcast aims to chat to members of the group, past, present and possibly future alongside heads from the wider music community. Expect banter, tour stories, insights and craic. We will try to shine a light on this little corner of the underground music 'scene' we are a part of. Theres so many characters out there with stories to tell and we look forward to chatting to as many heads from all a...