Shed Sessions

An interlude is more than space for an idea to come and go. The interlude began as a transitional moment for audiences to catch their breath between the acts of a play or a movie. Today, interludes are most commonly employed as a pit stop; an opportunity to recalibrate and refocus our ears on the bigger picture. In this surprise episode Warren recalibrates himself and his audience with this one of...

No need to worry because Warren’s shed keeps on giving, even though this time the item doesn't even come from his shed. It’s Matt’s! Matt loaned Hellboy Seed of Destruction to Warren who loved it so much he decided to bring it to the next recording and devote the episode to Mike Mignola’s magical masterpiece. Matt started his Hellboy collection in the 90s and hasn’t looked back…until today where h...

The Eye of Thundera is open and Warren peers through it and into his childhood in the 80s. There he reclines high up in a rope tree house and plays with his favourite Thundercats action figures. He describes the toys with the usual enthusiasm and passion we have grown to love. As always, this episode is true, honest, rare and surreal. I've never heard anything like it. Warren doesn't care for conv...

Hiya! The stars, moons and planets have aligned. Salvador and Warren sip hot chocolate soup (yep) and discuss UFO encounters from a bench on a hill at the edge of a magical ancient woodland. The conversation flows unhindered and free. When you tap play, their words will begin another journey into your ears and through space and time. I hope aliens pick this up because their conversation is inquiri...

Welcome to the woods. Warren is sheltering underneath a fallen giant Beech tree. It's tipping down with rain, but Warren is dry and inspired by the wild and his collection of MAD magazines form the early nineties and beyond. He shares a wonderful tale of his first MAD magazine subscription, hide 'n seek in a dark and dusty garage, Weird Al Yankovic and more. It's bizarre and brilliant. Warren weav...

This is too good to be true. I’ve never understood that saying because it is too good and it is true. The teaser episode for season 4 is real and it’s right here on your favourite podcast player. It’s honest, it’s alive, it’s funny. Warren gives us a taste of the magic which is due to follow in season 4. I love this show. Who is this guy and where does he keep getting all these ideas from? Press p...

I bet you’re just as surprised as I am? Warren has only gone and done a bonus episode. He recorded this one with Greger, an über Pearl Jam fan. Greger has been within touching distance of Eddie Vedder, he has had some of Eddie’s red wine and nabbed Mike McCready’s guitar pick. To top it all off, Greger has worked with Cameron Crowe on the Pearl Jam Twenty film! Warren is star struck as Greger guid...

This is it! The final episode of season 3 and I hear from Warren that he’s taking a break to gather in the harvest and reflect on what he and his guests have created. I’m devastated, although I do understand that this momentary space that’s going to be left only means that season 4 will come back more powerful and stronger than we can ever imagine. But by golly! What an episode to leave us with! W...

A perfect pint of an episode! Tess joins Warren to talk about a magical machine called a Kegerator. This wonder of the beer world brought Tess, her partner and a dear friend the coldest of comforts fresh from a keg during the lockdown. Imagine 568 milliliters of beautiful TAP Social brew, freshly poured at home while all the pubs are shut. This Kegerator has also brought us yet another evening of...

Cowabunga, bodacious! Welcome to another most excellent WIYS episode. Warren and Matt share the origins, as well as their own reminiscences, behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is enthusiastically done via a collection of 1988 TMNT toys and a fabulous comic book. Warren once again questions the purpose of his material possessions and realises that the stories these items illicit justify...

Dling diiii dang twang, I see Scott over there with his shaggy hair. He holds a guitar flat on his lap and slides a metal bar across the strings over there. Yes, I’m caught in a trap, there’s no way out, because I love live music sounds too much baby. Pardon me, I got lost in the memories of yet another glorious episode. This one pulses and rhymes and finds its way straight to the part of my being...

There’s more!? Find out what happened behind the scenes on the day Warren, Lisa and Pete united by love to create a duet which left them (and me, as I write) with chills.

Hello and welcome to what might well be the best episodes of the season yet. I know I said the same thing about the bass guitar episode with Georgia and probably a few of the others, but this one is super special. Why, I hear you ask? Well, Warren has revealed one of his greatest treasures yet. It is his Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom book (written by Nelson Mandela while imprisoned for 27 years...

Warren has returned to his shed in an attempt to rescue his season 1 solo efforts from the passage of time and other exciting endeavours. Little does Warren know that his ongoing collaboration with Matt has made the podcast even more powerful than the passage of time and other brilliant endeavours. When reunited, their ultimate collaboration will spell certain doom for the fear of the next not bei...

Hello and welcome to what I believe will be a journey of a life time. This may even be the best episode yet! Georgia shares the stories of her grandad’s beloved bass guitar with Warren. They talk and play music late into the night. Bass is what gives us power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together. Thank you for listening...

Welcome to the first full episode of season 3. Hannah is back with Warren to open another new season of WIYS. They are barricaded behind locks, wood and glass in the shed at the end of the garden. Listening to their chat about George A. Romero’s 1978 masterpiece makes me feel like I’m in the safety of the shed while zombies are dragging their cold dead hands squeakily down the shed windows trying...

If you’ve been eagerly awaiting the next WIYS episode and noticed the delay, then this is your lucky day. Warren is taking a break with his family at a remote campsite on the Isle of Wight. He has invited you to join him around a camping-gas burner and a small skillet. The sausages sizzle in the iron pan as Warren reflects on Season 2. The solar shower is cold and Anja drops out of a hammock. Warr...

You've landed a Caballerial: a 360-degree turn performed on a ramp while riding fakie (backwards), then cruised front on into episode 9 of season 2. Warren and his guest Simon conclude this second season with one of their favourite past times - everything skateboarding. Simon glides into the garden with his Bones Brigade Caballero Series 10 reissue skateboard deck and the stories of skate parks, t...

You’ve rolled a Natural 20 and made a Critical Hit, landing head on into episode 8 of season 2. Welcome to an adventure of a lifetime where Matt shares with us his journey into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Matt has created a character card for Warren (WARRAN THE BARBARIAN) who now grips a front row ticket to the Theatre of the Mind in his sword wielding hand. Perceptions are checked, frien...

Please come in (vampires can now join us) and get ready for a very special story about magic, myth, religion, science and possibly beyond. Steve and Warren summon the tales from within the enchanting musty pages of The Golden Bough Volume 1. The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings by Sir James George Frazer. The dense 19th Century account explores weird and wonderful human rituals and beliefs fro...

Hou ar ye? Season 2 episode 6 sees James skip down the hill to Warren’s garden with the biggest item to be brought in for the show yet. It’s his framed aerial photograph of Edinburgh. Oh my what a beautiful city it is, wherever you look at it from. It has an extinct volcano, castle, palace, old town and (as Warren points out) a train station! We get to hear about a fascinating aerial photography j...

Welcome to season 2 episode 5, and by golly this one delves into things that make us feel alive! Warren welcomes Salvador into his shed to unpack the stories from an object he hasn’t even brought in. Yeah, I know right?! He walked down the path to the shed at the end of the garden empty handed. Not even a house key to get back in his house after the show. Plus we can't be sure if the yarn he spins...

Welcome to season 2 episode 4, the one we’ve all been waiting for! Roger, the creator of the theme tune is Warren’s next amazing guest. He has brought along his treasured Corgi James Bond Lotus Esprit from 'The Spy Who Loved Me', the film soundtrack on vinyl and a repro box for the star of the show. The wheelbarrow fire is on, there’s less birdsong, Warren sings a song (yep), the neighbours are ha...

Welcome to this season 2 episode 3 Solstice special. Oh my, and it keeps getting better. Warren tells me that he sometimes worries about waking up one day with no more ideas. I assure him there’s no danger of that happening and he ought to continue living in the moment. I also mention that you can’t control these things, but you can certainly keep working hard and with passion. I gently whisper do...

Zap! fwthip! ding! ku-toosh! wunk! thunk! thoom thoom! Episode 2 of season 2 has spluptzed into your pocket podcast player. Wowser! What a night it has been. Warren and his very special guest Matt probably had one of the best lockdown garden chats on the planet ever. Matt brought along his favourite Superhero Comic books, carefully housed in a cardboard box within a blue pannier bag, and a stash o...