Sound Affects Podcast: Music & Mental Health, with Katy Georgiou

Let Loose have reformed and are out on the road again this year after a busy 2024 – details of tour dates at htttps://www.letlooseofficial.com/ In this episode, drummer Lee Murray reflects on his experiences with fame in Let Loose during the 90s and how he coped once the phone stopped ringing. We explore the boyband culture of the 90s and what became of many of his contemporaries, off the back of...

Sarah Sharp (FRSA) is a PhD researcher of popular music and mental ill-health at University of East Anglia. She is currently researching representations of popular female musicians, including Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Halsey and Demi Lovato. She illuminates her findings and interweaves this through a candid reflection of her own life history, including her experience...

Oli Rose is the global development director of the Lang Lang Foundation and previously an independent consultant for Universal Music Group, Warner Music, Sony Music, Island Records, Decca and the X Factor. In this episode, Oli talks through his collaboration with Lang Lang, the famous piano virtuoso who founded the Lang Lang International Music Foundation in order to provide piano music education...

I interview Johnny Marriott, lead singer/songwriter of punk band Pet Needs and patron of British Association for Performing Arts Medicine:  Website:  https://www.petneedsband.com/ Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/5bBMfsANUM0cj5h5MjEdxP YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/PETNEEDS Bandcamp:  https://petneeds.bandcamp.com/ Pet Needs on tour:  https://www.petneedsband.com/tours Follow Pet Ne...

Musician, Rolling Stone/New Yorker music journalist and author Jeff Slate released his new book 'Guitar' earlier this year co-authored with Earl Slick, and is on tour with The Wallflowers. We explore social media politics and rock n roll's reckoning with historical racism, misogyny and MeToo.    Get in touch: Email: soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SoundAffectsPod Insta: @sound_affects_podc...

The book ' Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual ' is published by Omnibus Press and is the brainchild of music industry psychotherapist and Music Industry Therapist Collective (MITC) founder Tamsin Embleton . It's is a collection of well-researched and rigorous essays authored by experts and academics in the field offering insight, signposting and mental health support for musician...

Dr Sice Rowbottom, famously known as singer/songwriter of the Boo Radleys, is also a chartered psychologist, associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, a prolific practising counsellor and is respected voice within the music industry mental health field. We talk through why he did a doctorate in counselling psychology following his exit from the music industry, his choice to become a s...

Hi everyone, some time ago I collaborated with Oasis pod with 2 episodes on Oasis and mental health and in those episodes I had said I would at some point take a further deep dive on this topic, especially this ethereal 'feeling' evoked by Noel's songwriting, for those who are interested in the emotional impact of Oasis' music, ethos and influence. This project is still in the works but in the mea...

Yvette Caster is an award-winning freelance journalist, podcaster and speaker. At the time of interview, she was the long-standing co-host of Metro UK official mental health and wellbeing podcast ' Mentally Yours ' along with Ellen Scott.* I interviewed Yvette about how hip hop music has supported her over the years in her experiences with bipolar disorder. We talk through her attendance as an out...

Writer, podcaster and musician Nico Tatarowitcz explores the romance of music and the inspiration behind his Stupid Hearts Club podcast.   Follow Nico/Stupid Hearts Club podcast: Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/stupidheartsclub/posts Non-patreon link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/stupid-hearts-club/id1652327681 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stupidheartsclub/?hl=en Songs by Ni...

Adam Nutter is set to release his debut solo album 'Badlands on Fire' 21st April 2023, alongside a book of artwork by Ross McCully, all available to purchase on www.adamnutter.com In this episode, Adam talks through the heartbreak and loss of identity he experienced when The Music disbanded, and how this interplayed with his experiences with ADHD and bipolar disorder, which he received a formal di...

This episode is Part 2 of an exploration into the work of charity Tonic Music for Mental Health. In Part 1, I spoke to Dub Pistols' Barry Ashworth , a patron of the charity, to talk about how Lockdown was affecting musicians and his fundraising and personal life experiences that made him interested in this charity's work; now in this Part 2, I speak to Jeordie Shenton , a PhD researcher into subst...

New single by Ellur ‘Now I’m Alone' out 9th November 22-year old singer/songwriter Ellur gives insight into her lyrics and life in the music industry for young women. Trigger warning: We discuss eating disorders and sexual violence against women. Around 16 minutes in, the episode includes some recent real-life news clips on this topic. All things Ellur: Website: https://ellur.biz/   Instagram: htt...

Music journalist and book critic Ian Winwood is the author of ' Bodies: Life and Death in Music '. In this interview, we unpick his experiences over the years as a music journalist travelling the world and interviewing bands amid the "routine ruinations" (alcohol and drugs) he describes surrounding the music industry.   Follow Ian on Twitter: @IanWinwood1 Louder than Words Festival: https://louder...

In this episode, I speak with Danny McNamara, lead singer of Embrace, ahead of the release of Embrace's 8th studio album How to Be a Person Like Other People (out 26th August 2022), and upcoming tour. We talk through the psychology behind him becoming a rockstar, his search for meaning and purpose, falling in love, and his experiences with PTSD and Pure O variant of OCD. Intro: Ashes, Embrace 9.50...

T/w Suicide This episode is an interview with Dixie, manager of Jarvis Lane , raising awareness of suicide with Jarvis Lane's charity single cover Baba O'Riley for MIND. Dixie was band manager to Jonathan Owen's 90s band The Pocket Devils , and was the inspiration behind the 2014 cult film Svengali (and 2009 internet episodes), starring Jonny Owen as Dixie, Vicky McClure, Martin Freeman, Carl Bara...

I continue with the hip hop theme in this episode with founder of Hip Hop Orchestra and Keep it Certi Georgio Savvides, who explores his reasons for starting the orchestra and his combination of hip hop with classical music. He's a pianist, composer, producer and music teacher in schools and talks through his methods of working with neurodiversity after his own experiences of learning within schoo...

In this episode, I'm exploring the effects of hip hop on mental health, with senior Cambridge university hip hop academics Dr Akeem Sule (Psychiatrist, lecturer in medicine) and Dr Becky Inkster (Neuroscientist), who together co-founded Hip Hop Psych. Hip Hop Psych Website: https://www.hiphoppsych.co.uk/ Academic papers: https://www.hiphoppsych.co.uk/publications.html Community links: https://www....

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Follow Denise Devenish at https://www.instagram.com/denisedevenishcounselling/ If you're a musician or work in the music industry and are seeking therapy support, you can contact Denise at https://www.denisedevenishcounselling.co.uk/ Or visit British Association for Performing Arts Medicine: https://www.bapam.org.uk/ Help Musicians UK: https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/ Get in touch with Sound Affe...

If you would like to buy a copy of Sound Advice by co-authors Lucy Heyman and Rhian Jones, you can use the discount codes below:   HARDCOVERPROMO (20% off hardbacks), PAPERBACKPROMO (25% off paperbacks) or EBOOKPROMO (15% off e-books). You can access the Shopify site through  www.soundadvicebook.com  by clicking on ‘buy now’.    Lucy's Elevate Music podcast is as follows: https://podfollow.com/ele...

Trigger warning: This episode contains references to childhood sexual abuse, racism, self-harm, suicidal ideation, drug use and also contains some details of a traumatic incident involving fire. (See support links below.) In Part 2 of the Oasis and Mental Health mini series, I interview previous @OasisPodcast guest @Cynthializa , who is a stylist at Selfridges. In her previous interview with James...

I've collaborated with James from Oasis Podcast for a mini series over the next few weeks and months exploring the theme of Oasis and mental health. Why Oasis, why mental health? I have openly expressed my love for Oasis since starting this podcast, and it remains a running theme throughout as I get to grips with exactly what it is about the band that has such an effect on me and millions of other...

With Father's Day on Sunday and male mental health awareness week this week, here are some clips of Alan McGee, Bez of Happy Mondays and Mark from Skunk Anansie talking to me about their relationships with their fathers and sons.    

Welcome back to Sound Affects Podcast. This episode is split in two parts, exploring the impact of the pandemic on musicians, and the work that Tonic Music for Mental Health are doing to address this. Part 1 is an interview with patron of the charity, Barry Ashworth (Dub Pistols) about his own life, career and previous struggles with drug addiction. Part 2 is an interview with Tonic Music for Ment...