Time For Heroes

Here we are again, back with another episode and this weeks guest is the brilliant Gordon Raphael! Gordon produced the first two albums by The Strokes as well as Regina Spektor's 'Soviet Kitsch' With The Strokes coming up so often on the podcast, I thought it would be good to hear from someone that was there throughout and none better than Gordon. We covered all of Gordon's career, what the role o...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes Podcast, this weeks guest is Graeme McKay. Graeme is a contributor of The Cynic, a Celtic fans podcast, as well as this he also co-host The Digressive Left podcast. We spoke about both podcasts as well as Graeme's early life, musical tastes and a whole lot more and as usual at the end he picked his heroes to come for dinner! I hope you all enjoy this episode, Graeme...

Back again with Episode 26 with the fantastic Charlotte Cooper, Charlotte plays Bass in The Subways, the band which she formed along with her, then, boyfriend and his brother. We touched on how these relationships affected the dynamic of the band as well as discussing how the sound differed between different producers. We spoke about all this and more and then Charlotte picked her heroes to come f...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes Podcast, Episode 25 is with Simon Mason Known as The Cat In The Hat or The Rock N Roll Doctor, Simon was the man that sourced class A's for most of Britpop's stars, we spoke about how this spiralled into 2 decades of addiction before getting himself clean, writing a book and forming a band! We also spoke about his latest venture and how we might be seeing him at Bri...

Welcome back to the podcast, this week my guest is Luke Hinton, Luke owns Juicebox Live, a national award winning live music promoter based in Hertfordshire and covering South East England, East Anglia, East Midlands and London. We spoke about how Luke got into this line of work, what challenges he's faced along the way and where he plans to take it next and as usual at the end he picked his heroe...

Happy Easter everyone! Welcome back to the 23rd episode of Time For Heroes Podcast! This week I have 2 guests, Aidan John & Zack Yusof of Australian Teenage Fanclub tribute band Star Sign! We spoke about how the band came to be, involving stays in many different countries before the band met in Perth, Australia..As well as playing Teenage Fanclub songs they also have their own songs and we dis...

Welcome back! Here we go with episode 22 with Photographer and owner of new online music magazine New Sound Generation. Before Billy got into all that his life was so much different; adoption, addiction and crime were just some of the issues Billy had to contend with before turning his life around and also giving others the same opportunity. We spoke about all the above and at the end Billy picked...

Welcome back to another episode of Time For Heroes Podcast. My guest this time is Laura Jean Marsh, the writer, director and lead actor of last years film Giddy Stratospheres. We spoke about Laura's life growing up and how she got into film, via music and DJ'ing. Laura also touched on what might be next for her after the success of Giddy' and at the end she picked her heroes to come for dinner! I...

Here we are with episode 20 of Time For Heroes, this week with the fantastic James McMahon! James has worked at both NME and Kerrang and also finds the time to host loads of podcasts. We spoke about James early life growing up, working in the music press and all the while living with OCD and we spoke about his many podcasts and then at the end he picked his heroes to come for dinner. Hope you all...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes podcast and this is the first episode of 2022! My guest is Chris McClure, the face of Arctic Monkeys debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. But, there's so much more to Chris than that, which you'll find out about over the course of the interview. As always, he chose his heroes to come for dinner too. Hope you all enjoy! Check out Chris here : ht...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes. This is the final episode of 2021 and it's a bumper 2 hour long discussion with Dominic Masters of noughties band The Others. Dominic spoke about his early life growing up in Somerset, his education and jobs before The Others signed to Alan McGee's Poptones label, they won the John Peel Innovation awardnin 2005 in the same year their debut album came out, we spoke...

Episode 17 with Steve Firth Steve is a guy that I've grown up listening too, joining Embrace in 1996 before releasing their debut album (The Good Will Out) in 1998 which was part of career that has spawned 7 studio albums, 3 which reached top spot in the UK album charts. I'm a passionate follower of the band and we touched on every highpoint in the bands career as well as a few lows (England World...

Back again, as promised, with another podcast! Hope you enjoyed last weeks episode, this week we have another noughties musical figure, The Paddingtons songwriting bassist, Lloyd Dobbs. The Paddingtons played on Friday night in London and have gigs coming up on the 19th, 21st & 22nd in Glasgow, Stockton & Hull, get tickets here: https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/the-paddingtons-web-broadcast-...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes podcast, this weeks episode with Alfie Jackson of The Holloways will be the first of four episodes over the next four weeks. We spoke about Alfie's early life growing up in Yorkshire, moving to London and how The Holloways came to be. A career that spawned two albums and dealt with the highs and lows of the music industry. After the band split we spoke about Alfie's...

Hello and welcome to episode 14 of Time For Heroes Podcast! This week my guest is Anthony Thornton, who along with photographer Roger Sargent, is responsible for The Libertines Bound Together: The Definitive Story of Peter Doherty and Carl Barat and How They Changed British Music.  Without a shadow of doubt, the finest book ever published concerning The Libertines. We spoke about the book and also...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes Podcast, Episode 13 is here and it's with Adrian Hunter. Growing up in the West of Scotland, Adrian moved to London in his twenties and found himself in the music industry, we here what its like working with artists such as Peter Doherty, The View, Brownbear, Retro Video Club and George O'Hanlon He also helps out with Support Act, a charity helping people in the mus...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes Podcast, after nearly six weeks without a release I'm back with a brand spanking new episode for you all, and it's a cracker even if I do say myself. Here we! Here we Here we fucking go! Its Rab Allan, guitarist of Glasgow band Glasvegas. We talked about Glasvegas career to date which includes 4 studio albums, we spoke about growing up in Glasgow, being in a band wi...

Episode 11 is here and it's my very first female guest, I'm delighted to be speaking to Gemma Clarke. Gemma was the original drummer of Babyshambles, we spoke about her time with the band, as well as The Suffrajets and The Krak, and, after a decade out doing the school run she's back banging the drums with JW Paris! Gemma was an amazing guest, and we spoke about so much more and as always, she pic...

Episode 10 of Time For Heroes Podcast is here! This week i'm speaking to Mark Beaumont, Mark writes for NME as well as The Guardian, Uncut and Shortlist. He has also written several biography's for artists such as Bon Iver, Muse, The Killers, Jay Z and Kanye West. I spoke to Mark about all of this and at the end he picked his heroes to come for dinner. I hope you all enjoy the podcast! You can fin...

Welcome to Episode 9 of Time For Heroes Podcast, this time we have a mammoth chat with comedian Nick Helm. We spoke about Nick's career which includes playing Edinburgh Fringe almost every year since 2010, regular slots on 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his roles in BBC shows Uncle and Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment. We spoke about all of that and a whole lot more and then at the end Nick pi...

Welcome back to Time For Heroes Podcast! It's been a while but I've been busy recording so get ready for a fresh batch of episodes, starting with this one with Del O'Reilly. Del comes from the same area as myself, Muirhouse in Motherwell. He has recently started his own podcast, The Celtic Supporters Podcast which is available on YouTube. Del is a boy who never sits still, as well as the podcast h...

Welcome again to Time For Heroes podcast! This episode I'm delighted to be speaking to Mark Sharp of Mark Sharp & The Bicycle Thieves (MS&TBT) Hailing from the same area as Lewis Capaldi and The Snuts, it seems only a matter of time before they become the next big talent to come out of Whitburn. They've played all over Scotland with support slots with their mates above as well as Kyle Falc...

Here we go with another episode of Time For Heroes Podcast, this weeks guest is Chris Helme. Chris came to prominence as the lead singer of The Seahorses, who if you're not aware, were John Squire's band after The Stone Roses split. We spoke about how Chris came to be in the band, what it was like playing alongside a british guitar legend and what happened once the band split after only one album....

Episode 5 of the podcast is here and this week I am speaking to Jay McAllister AKA Beans On Toast. He describes himself as a drunk folk singer! Starting out in Braintree, Essex, he moved to London where he ran FROG, one of the most successful clubnights in the indie music scene in the mid noughties. On the 1st of December 2009, he released his first album and he has continued to release an album e...

Here we go with episode 4 of the pod, this week I speak to Cobain Jones. Cobain Jones is, at 20 years of age, an up and coming singer-songwriter hailing from the outskirts of Manchester.  Championed by Clint Boon and Tom Hingley and with an EP produced by James Skelly of The Coral, I'm expecting big things from Cobain in the next few years! We spoke about his music, his future plans and how he cop...