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My Teenage Band

Nick Taylor

27 episodes

11 months ago

My series of conversations with current musicians about their earliest projects continues with none other than Sophie Ellis-Bextor! She talks all about her time fronting britpop band theaudience from the age of 16 including the whirlwind experience of big support tours, music videos, countless interviews, sigining to a major label at 18 before it all ended before she'd even hit 20. Love. Food. Family: Recipes from the Kitchen Disco by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Richard Jones is out now, publish...

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My series of conversations with current musicians about their earliest projects continues with none other than Sophie Ellis-Bextor! She talks all about her time fronting britpop band theaudience from the age of 16 including the whirlwind experience of big support tours, music videos, countless interviews, sigining to a major label at 18 before it all ended before she'd even hit 20. Love. Food. Family: Recipes from the Kitchen Disco by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Richard Jones is out now, publish...

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Music Interviews

Performing Arts,

Episodes (20/27)

My Teenage Band

Sophie Ellis-Bextor from 'theaudience'

My series of conversations with current musicians about their earliest projects continues with none other than Sophie Ellis-Bextor! She talks all about her time fronting britpop band theaudience from the age of 16 including the whirlwind experience of big support tours, music videos, countless interviews, sigining to a major label at 18 before it all ended before she'd even hit 20. Love. Food. Family: Recipes from the Kitchen Disco by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Richard Jones is out now, publish...

3 years ago

33 minutes

My Teenage Band

Ezra Furman from 'Frisba'

HEY! MY TEENAGE BAND IS BACK! In a little break from the norm, this is a special short series made up of conversations with current musicians about their earliest musical project. And we're kicking off with none other than the wonderful indie-art-pop artist Ezra Furman whose new album All of us Flames is out now on Bella Union! We talk about open-mics, frantic studio sessions, performing at frat parties and a short stint in a band named by an actual modern legend of American rock. CREDITS Ji...

3 years ago

36 minutes

My Teenage Band

Emma Brodie from 'The Mental Notes'

It's the season 2 finale! And we're going out on a My Teenage Band-first as special guest Emma Brodie guides us through the world of ACAPELLA! Emma is a book editor and author, her debut novel Songs in Ursa Major is set against the backdrop of the American folk/rock scene of the late 60s and early 70s, partly inspired by the relationship between James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. In this conversation Emma talks about how her time in John Hopkins University's comedy acapella group The Mental Note...

4 years ago

38 minutes

My Teenage Band

Charlie George from 'Femmes Fatales'

It's the penultimate episode of series 2! This week Nick talks to comedian and writer Charlie George about her days drumming in super-experimental punk outfit Femmes Fatales. Featuring stories of Wonderwall-obsessed guitar teachers, on-stage theatrics and a unique use of the Pocahontas soundtrack. Find out more about Charlie and her latest work on her website Follow Charlie on Twitter and Instagram Listen to Nick on the Temporary Fandoms podcast discussing Mclusky and Future of the Left ...

4 years ago

34 minutes

My Teenage Band

Paddy Gervers from 'Monkey Dog'

Our two-part musical comedy special concludes with a chat with the brilliant comedian and musician Paddy Gervers! Paddy is the comedy-partner of previous guest Jonny Donahoe - together they perform as the satirical musical duo Jonny and the Baptists. Alongside that Paddy is also an actor, podcaster, sound designer, and solo musical artist in his own right, including appearances as a singer, guitarist, saxophonist, bassist and pianist. This chat takes in more about the history and craft...

4 years ago

33 minutes

My Teenage Band

Jonny Donahoe from 'U.F.G'

In the first of two episodes touching on the world of musical comedy, Nick talks to the amazing comedian and musician Jonny Donahoe! One half of the satirical musical duo Jonny and the Baptists alongside Paddy Gervers, and real-life partner of former podcast guest Josie Long, Jonny talks about going from very briefly fronting an electro-pop band to being part of a musical comedy group from the tender age of 14. Together they sang about a range of topics from morose bears to unsatisfactory cus...

4 years ago

33 minutes

My Teenage Band

Mark Kermode from 'The Basics'

This week Nick's guest is the film critic and musician Mark Kermode! Mark has been in an astonishing amount of bands, from very early skiffle-related days, to actually building his own electric guitar in order to play in teenage bands that embraced the worlds of punk, no-wave, and just making a general racket in school music rooms. These days when he's not Wittertaining the nation with Simon Mayo, reviewing films for the Observer or selecting his favourite film music on Scala Radio, Mark can ...

4 years ago

44 minutes

My Teenage Band

Felicity Ward from 'Bastian'

This week Nick talks to the brilliant comedian and actor Felicity Ward about singing and playing guitar in grunge bands while growing up in Australia. We hear about gigs in shopping centres and ice rinks, instruments and other paraphernalia gathered from local tips, and why performing music is always scarier than stand-up comedy. Follow Felicity on Twitter @felicityward More info on Felicity including upcoming gigs at her website CREDITS Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @a...

4 years ago

35 minutes

My Teenage Band

Josh Weller from 'Your Loss'

This week Nick talks to the brilliant stand-up comedian, musician and graphic novelist Josh Weller about his punk adventures on the Norwich pub circuit with volatile band managers, playing hundreds of solo gigs in London and his (very brief) experience signing to a major label on the continent before returning to his punk routes fronting The Kenneths. Follow Josh on Twitter and Instagram Listen to Josh's single 'Jizzy Pop - Put Your Titties' Listen to the episode with Abi Palmer here...

4 years ago

39 minutes

My Teenage Band

Josie Long from 'Brain Gandhi'

This week Nick talks to the wonderful comedian and broadcaster Josie Long! Josie talks about four teenage bands - three of which even involved actually playing music. From abortive attempts at piano, clarinet and trumpet, we hear about how Josie went on to emulate the stars of Bassist Magazine, performing in band with names that ranged from the problematic to the bizarre, playing in bohemian warehouses and attempting to recruit South-East London's best teenage guitarist. Josie's website Arts...

4 years ago

33 minutes

My Teenage Band

Rivkah Reyes from 'Sweet Revenge' & 'Brother StarRace'

This week Nick talks to Rivkah Reyes - wonderful comedian, musician, podcast host, actor, and actual member of SCHOOL OF ROCK! That's right - we are blessed with young band royalty on the podcast as the bassist from the 2003 masterpiece talks a little bit about making School of Rock, but mostly about their post-movie musical adventures including a stint in a high-school emo band called 'Sweet Revenge' and later as singer and bassist in rock/soul band 'Brother StarRace'. Listen out for a...

4 years ago

39 minutes

My Teenage Band

Rebecca Front from 'The Jonathan Gee Quartet'

For the first time on the podcast we're delving in to the world of JAZZ as Nick talks to comedian, actor and writer Rebecca Front about being the lead singer of a jazz quartet in Leytonstone. At the age of 16 Rebecca joined her older brother Jeremy and their neighbour Jonathan Gee (now a successful jazz pianist) to form a jazz group who intended to take East London by storm with their takes on the great standards, featuring singing AND scatting from Rebecca. As is often the 'My Teenage Band' ...

4 years ago

30 minutes

My Teenage Band

Shaun Keaveny from 'Mosque'

Welcome to SEASON 2 of the My Teenage Band podcast! We're kicking things off with a chat with the utterly brilliant BBC 6Music presenter Shaun Keaveny, who talks to Nick all about playing guitar in prog/indie band Mosque. Shaun grew up in Leigh, Greater Manchester. He was headhunted for the band Mosque after cancelled holiday plans lead to him getting a guitar and an uncle taught him House of the Rising Sun. They went on to consume a lot of hob nobs and perform across the Greater Manchester ...

4 years ago

37 minutes

My Teenage Band

Lanre Bakare from 'Lou Diamond Phillips'

This week, to end series one of My Teenage Band, Nick talks to the brilliant arts and culture writer for the Guardian Lanre Bakare about his guitar-playing days in post-rock outfit Lou Diamond Phillips. Named after the Filipino-American actor and director, and based in Bradford, Lou Diamond Phillips were part of a healthy alternative community in and around Bradford that included putting on several gig nights. Lanre talks about these nights, his role as rhythm guitarist and occasional k...

4 years ago

28 minutes

My Teenage Band

Abi Palmer from 'The Fuzz' and 'Lashed'

This week Nick talks to the wonderful mixed-media artist and writer Abi Palmer. Abi’s work includes the installation ‘Crip Casino’—an interactive gambling arcade parodying the wellness industry which has been shown at Tate Modern, Somerset House and Wellcome Collection - and, last year she released her book ‘Sanatorium’ via the brilliant Penned in the Margins publishers — which Abi describes as “a fragmented memoir”. Over the course of this fun and freewheeling conversation Abi talks about b...

4 years ago

38 minutes

My Teenage Band

Hussein Kesvani from 'River (something)'

Nick talks to the podcaster and journalist Hussein Kesvani. Hussein is one of the hosts of such podcasts as Trashfuture and Ten Thousand Posts, and in 2019 he released his first book 'Follow Me, Akhi - The Online World of British Muslims'. In this chat Hussein talks about his short-lived days playing bass in emo and indie bands while at secondary school in Kent, the phenomenon of one-gig bands in the outer London area, and why Hussein's own heartbreak poetry never made it in to any of the ban...

4 years ago

27 minutes

My Teenage Band

Elle Hunt from 'Untitled RockQuest band'

This week Nick talks to the brilliant journalist Elle Hunt, whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Observer magazine, Tortoise, New Scientist, Grazia and The Face, among other places. Elle is based in London, having been born in the UK, however her teenage band story takes place in New Zealand where she grew up. Elle talks about her experience forming a band partly for a school assessment, but mainly to enter RockQuest, a nationwide contest for young New Zealand bands. Did her band join...

4 years ago

25 minutes

My Teenage Band

Jack Clothier from 'Milo' and 'Rue the Day'

This week Nick talks to Jack Clothier, co-founder of the legendary Alcopop! Records, home to acts such as Art Brut, BO NINGEN, DZ Deathrays, The Spook School and Dream Nails. Over the course of this conversation Jack talks about several bands he's been in spanning his teenage and adult years, including his secondary school band Milo, uni band Monsters for Gods, the slightly mixed critical reception to his metal years in the band 'Rue the Day', and finally his amazing concept band of recent ye...

4 years ago

33 minutes

My Teenage Band

Sarah Tanat-Jones from 'Come on Gang!'

This week Nick talks to the amazing illustrator, graphic designer, animator and musician Sarah Tanat-Jones about her time tearing up Edinburgh as lead singer and drummer for her indie band 'Come on Gang!', including a trip to SXSW and recording an album with a Scottish indie hero. We also hear about volatile bandmates, early days playing drums at school in the teachers' band, and Sarah's wonderful current music project 'Tanat'. Find out more about Sarah's work Sarah's 'Tanat' project on Band...

4 years ago

33 minutes

My Teenage Band

Diyora Shadijanova

Happy New Year! The podcast returns with a chat with the wonderful writer and podcaster Diyora Shadijanova. She talks to Nick about spending her early years in Uzbekistan growing up in a musical family, a short-lived attempt to live up to her Kerrang! idols by playing guitar in a band before being ousted, and later finding a more satisfying band-like experience in local guitar classes, complete with (imagined) band romances. There's also talk about representation in the music industry and mor...

4 years ago

23 minutes