The Fantastival Podcast

The Fantastival Podcast is back with a bang as singer songwriter, Sam Lambeth, is our guest on #58....  Sam talks all things music including writing songs again in lockdown, recording his excellent ‘Love & Exile’ album (check it out, link below), learning to play guitar with his grandad, supporting some awesome artists, his love of some great acts who didn’t make his Fantasy Festival and...

GUI-TARA HERO...🎸  Get ready to rock on The Fantastival Podcast as solo recording and touring artist, multi instrumentalist, guitar player from the heavens, Tara Lynch, is our guest on #57....  Tara talks all things music as she talks about first picking up a guitar, buying her first records, getting into the music industry, her enjoyment of playing live, recording her excellent ‘Evil E...

It’s a banger this week as Rob Summers is the guest on The Fantastival Podcast #56...  Rob talks all about his eclectic music taste (he’s an absolute fountain of knowledge), favourite and least favourite gigs, collates his excellent Fantasy Festival, tells 2 of the best stories you’ll ever on any Pod you’ve ever listened to, reveals his personal reasons for wanting to be a guest and lots more...

The 55th Fantastival Podcast sees multi-instrumentalist/songwriter, frontman of Alternative/Rock band “Dead Days”, drummer in The Wolfe Johns Blues Band, creator of exciting new project “Hyena Black", formerly of Pyramid Tongue, the one and only Travis Marc...  Listen as Travis talks to Steve all about music including his life story in music, how he got his first drum kit, their mutual love o...

Hey Joe...  Joe Lazarus’ Fantastival Podcast is here as he talks all about music whilst also collating his excellent Fantasy Festival where a few new acts to talk about including another headliner making a Fantastival debut.  Listen as the Touring / Session drummer talks all about the acts he loves, touring with Mike Vennart, Circa Waves, Voodoo Six, Tara Lynch, meeting Dave Grohl, havin...

Perry Manning’s Fantastival Podcast is here as he talks all about music whilst also collating his excellent PTM Fantasy Festival where a headliner makes his Fantastival debut...  Listen as the acoustic singer/songwriter from the Midlands talks all about the acts he loves, his own music, his Fantasy Festival plus more in a very short but enjoyable 32 minutes.  If you enjoyed this episode...

Joining Steve for the 52nd Fantastival Podcast is the brilliant Darby Todd (currently touring with Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre, previous drum credits include The Darkness, Alan Price, Gary Moore, Kee Marcello (Europe), Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow) Gary Moore, Carl Verheyen, Robert Plant, Disney's The Lion King, Robben Ford, Paul Gilbert and many others), aswell as his solo album released earli...

We are 51 and are celebrating The Fantastival Podcast in the most rockin way that we know how, with John Rowley...  Listen as John and Steve have a great chat about all things music as John collated his wonderful Fantasy Festival, which is one of the best titled ones yet and has a superb twist with his final 2 acts, plus lots more in an episode which will make you want to rock out like you’ve...

What a way to turn 50 on The Fantastival Podcast as Steve got to chat with the brilliant frontman & songwriter for Amsterdam & Pele, the legendary Ian Prowse. ❤️💛💚💙  What an honour it was to have Ian on the podcast as we spoke all about his life in music, his time in Pele and Amsterdam, first records, favourite gigs, life during lockdown, the songs that changed his life and lots mo...

As we approach the big 50 we’re delighted that ex hmv’er, craft beer enthusiast and Port Vale fan Mr Derek Walklate joins us for The Fantastival Podcast #49...  One of the reasons I love doing this podcast is cos you find out so much about people in such a short space of time just through talking to them about music, as you’ll learn about Derek seeing gigs all over the world, dress rehearsals...

#48 of The Fantastival Podcast has musician, writer, performer and dad, Simon Mason, from the excellent Hightown Pirates, talking all things music and collating his Fantasy Festival...  Listen as Simon tells us how music saved his life, the importance of a mixtape, how seeing The Jam was world changing, hand clapping on one of Steve’s favourite Oasis tracks, touring with The Libertines and op...

It just had to be done and so it has as the wonderful human being, Juve fan, guitarist extraordinaire, Mr Del Gentilini has eventually been called up to The Fantastival Podcast to collate his Fantasy Festival and talk all things music...  Listen as Del speaks about so many different acts, gigs and festivals he’s been to and not only put together an outstanding lineup with his 5 acts, but also...

Ladies & Gentleman, you are invited to join The Fantastival Podcast for The Big Bash as this week singer, songwriter, Leyton Orient announcer, the awesome Barry ‘Bash’ Galvin guests to collate his Fantasy Festival and to talk all things music...   A great chat with many a superb story as Barry told us about his favourite acts, gigs, writing songs, getting a support slot for his favou...

Turn it up & get The Fantastival Podcast #45 on your speakers as it’s the #SoMetal Mr Jamie Dodd himself joining me to talk all things music and collate his Fantasy Festival with his 5 acts as we also talk...  🎩 Jamie being a Music Pimp  🎤 Singing in Violent Asylum  🔊 His love of ‘music with balls’  🤟Meeting bands before and after gigs  😎A quite tremendous Iggy Po...

It’s the birthday boy Tom Wakeman who joins us on this weeks Fantastival Podcast as it’s his turn to talk all things music and collate his Fantasy Festival...  A real interesting episode as once again we didn’t get many predictions correct as we realised we knew less about Tom than thought, but boy did we enjoy learning all about him as he talks about growing up in Nottingham, moving to Londo...

It’s All Killer No Filler as the awesome Yasmin Erridge joins Steve on The Fantastival Podcast to talk all things music and collate her Fantasy Festival...  No stone is left unturned as the guitar based rock, Motown loving, frontman loving Yas talks all about her early music buying habits, why she loves Latitude, having an amazing knack of seeing the right acts at the right time in the right...

Fresh from writing the Theme and Incidental music for ‘The Great British Dig’, Musician, Songwriter, Composer, Pantheist, Single Malt adorer, Wanderer, Father, Husband, Geek (his words), the one and only Matt Williams joins Steve on the #42 edition of The Fantastival Podcast to talk all things music and collate his Fantasy Festival...   Without spoiling anything Matt tells us what music...

This week we have some words from our awesome guest Dave Dhannoo about himself and music...  Dave, 34, fellow South Stander watching the mighty O’s.  'When it comes to music, I’d say the majority of the stuff I listen to is instrumental. I guess the origins of instrumental music comes from an early age – 5/6 years old. I remember my mum buying a Classical Musical magazine which I believe...

What a way to turn 40 in this week’s Fantastival Podcast as we welcome the awesome and inspirational Ian Salmon to collate his Fantasy Festival in one of the best episodes so far...  Ian had us captivated right from the start of our conversation as he speaks all about his journey so far (which is an amazing story in itself), his favourite gigs (including an adventure to New York to be very en...

It gives us great pleasure to introduce a man of many talents, a winner of Pointless, a quiz master, king of Sporcle and all round amazing man, Mr Damian Evans, on this week’s Fantastival Podcast as we leave our thirties...  Damo is a wealth of musical knowledge and it was so good to speak to him as we had a great catch up and talked all things music whilst Mr Evans collated his Fantasy Festi...

Holy cow we are up to Episode 38 and finally have the awesomeness that is Jordan Hayward on The Fantastival Podcast as he joins Steve to talk all things music and collate his Fantasy Festival by choosing 5 acts (1 playing a full studio album), venue and an encore of any song which all of his acts will perform together.  This was a real fun podcast to do as we realised fairly early on that Ste...

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY...❤️  It’s episode number 37 and what an experience we have for you as it’s our favourite Watford fan, SMG’s very own Managing Director, all round great guy, the wonderful Jeremy Michael is this weeks guest on The Fantastival Podcast as he joins Steve to talk all things music and collate his Fantasy Festival by choosing 5 acts (1 playing a full studio album), venue and an...

She finally caved in and gave into the call of the Fantasival as the amazing Lesley Watson joins Steve to talk all things music whilst collating her Fantasy Festival by choosing 5 acts (1 playing a full studio album), venue and an encore of any song which all of her acts will perform together.  Lesley told some amazing stories including meeting George Michael and getting his autograph (plus o...

Boy oh boy... what an episode is in store for you as we have superb songwriter, excellent guitarist, leader of the superb Martin Stephenson & The Daintees, the one and only Martin Stephenson joins Steve to talk all things music whilst collating his Fantasy Festival by choosing 5 acts (1 playing a full studio album), venue and an encore of any song to close his Fantastival.  Martin spoke a...

What a guest we have for you on the 34th episode of the Fantastival as Steve is joined all way from Sri Lanka by Cricketing legend, ace songwriter and musician... Mr Mark Butcher.  We had a great chat as Mark told Steve all about his musical tastes and experiences, being a songwriter and performing, how lockdown has been, cricket talk plus lots more. Mark mentioned many many great acts during...