Best Giles Sibbald Podcasts (2024)

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S13 E2: AVR (Anna von Raison) 59:14

1d ago59:14

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https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently. Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives. - brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™ - swirl logo and art by Giles Sibb…

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S13 E1: David Ruffy 1:29:09

9d ago1:29:09

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https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently. Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives. - brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™ - swirl logo and art by Giles Sibb…

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S12 E10: Magdalena Stephens 1:09:51

16d ago1:09:51

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https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently. Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives. - brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™ - swirl logo and art by Giles Sibb…

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S12 E9: Jemima Coulter and Ed Tullett 1:04:27

25d ago1:04:27

1:04:27

A few years ago I was going through some stuff with my mum and dad - they were getting towards the end of their lives – and as the only child I was finding it really tough to make the choices I had to make. And having to make these choices didn’t stop. I wrote a piece about friendships and family relationships, ostensibly about my uncle – my dad’s …

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S12 E8: Nick Llobet 54:59

1M ago54:59

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There have been plenty of times when my shyness and tenuous self belief has turned up like the proverbial bad smell. Like the naughty people in my ear telling me why I shouldn’t do something. They almost stopped me from taking the plunge and doing this podcast – but I did need more than a push. I’m managing it far better than I used to, but still t…

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S12 E7: Naël Kaced 40:48

1M ago40:48

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Naël is an artist who has made me realise that I need to up my game as far as awareness of new music is concerned. He has the most incredible voice that brings in influences from soul, gospel, RnB, hip hop, jazz. He has been on tour with the amazing Jeanne Added. A couple of weeks ago, he released a really beautiful track called Roses and is going …

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S12 E6: Hua Li 化力 58:44

2M ago58:44

58:44

I’m gonna start with a quote that I remember coming across about 7 years ago now when I started thinking about what we needed as human beings to navigate through what is best described as a 100 year life – and credit to Dr Lynda Gratton for that term – or multi stage life - which is one that breaks away from that model of my parents generation – ed…

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S12 E5: Brother Michael 57:29

2M ago57:29

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You know when you’re listening to a song and, y’know, there’s an unexpected chord or tempo change, or something that throws you a bit off kilter. And then there are LP’s that throw up another, perhaps unexpected, direction for the artist – even for an artist known for their eclectism - maybe some influences that you hadn’t heard before. Then there …

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S12 E4: DRAGG 1:04:45

2M ago1:04:45

1:04:45

DRAGG has been releasing music for around 12/13 years now; a brand of sparse, West Coast-y hip hop, tinged with RnB and soul, all the time showing a progressive approach and high degree of emotional intelligence in the subject matter and how to connect with his audience. His story is remarkable, not least because he lost his sight early in his life…

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S12 E3: Lizzie No 1:00:48

2M ago1:00:48

1:00:48

I met up with my old friend John Robb over the UK May bank holiday weekend. He was in London talking about his birthday, sorry life and career (!). For those who don’t know John, he formed The Membranes in the early 80’s and he’s an author whose writing about music and the future I admire hugely – and his talk was called “Do You Believe In The Powe…

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S12 E2: Diana Burkot 1:07:35

2M ago1:07:35

1:07:35

My first experience of censorship in music came with the battle between the Dead Kennedys and Tipper Gore’s PMRC (remember the “Parental Advisory Explicit Content” stickers?) which culminated in the obscenity trial in 1985/6 over the artwork for DK’s record Frankenchrist. I don’t know if anyone remembers but the board members of the PMRC were a bun…

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S12 E1: Amanda Mac 1:26:45

3M ago1:26:45

1:26:45

If I were to create a mixtape (it’d have to be an old school cassette cos that’s probably the last time I made one!) for Amanda and her music life, it’d probably open with The Undertones’ Family Entertainment with the classic line “Got To…Keep it In the Family”. I mention family not so much to talk endlessly about the quite rare band structure of h…

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S11 E10: Saint Saviour 1:10:54

4M ago1:10:54

1:10:54

You know when you hear a song or a collection of songs that literally make you shiver? Songs that could make you cry at how effortlessly beautiful they are. Another thing that interests me is the neuroscience of how some pieces of music can transport me to a time, a place, an older version of me, a perhaps as yet unseen version of me, how they can …

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S11 E9: Johnny Manchild 1:05:06

4M ago1:05:06

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What’s been intriguing me today? Reality. What is it? Is there “a” reality or is it all subjective and determined by our own perception, prediction and interpretation. I think it's a word - like so many others - that has been hijacked – you see it used in order to dogmatically defend belief systems or stances and this plays into our susceptibility …

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S11 E8: SkyDxddy 58:59

4M ago58:59

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As regular listeners will be painfully aware, I’m no fan of genres. I can hear the groans already….here he goes again getting on his soapbox…yes, well, you know you gotta reinforce the message, right! I do believe that genres are obsolete to the point of being dangerous, created by an industry to keep people in their lanes, to reinforce “rules” and…

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S11 E7: Sukie Smith 1:08:33

4M ago1:08:33

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We live in a culture of immediacy and entitlement, brought upon us, in part at least, by the emergence of new technologies of the last 20 years that were supposed to democratise society, to disrupt the big corporates, but have laid themselves bare as the same old monolithic structures where the power bases and wealth are maintained and society is l…

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S11 E6: Belle Chen 52:32

5M ago52:32

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Listening to the music of Belle Chen brings me some mixed emotions – firstly, incredible love and admiration for the creativity and innovation of her thinking and the beauty and talent in executing this thinking through her composition and playing, yet still leaving room for the listener’s own interpretation. The second, and I fight hard against th…

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S11 E5: Hannah Joy 59:51

5M ago59:51

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As a habitual loafer, I spend a fair bit of time thinking about how some songwriters can create music that can feel familiar yet unfamiliar and why I’m attracted to music that gives me both of those feelings. I also love finding music that feels very unfamiliar to me and I’m interested in why. As you might expect I’ve failed to come up with anythin…

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S11 E4: Brad stank 1:03:44

6M ago1:03:44

1:03:44

When we’re kids, before we get to school and start to get hemmed in by society’s expectations, we don’t have the inhibitions that start to follow us around and start to influence our words, our actions, the clothes we wear, the way we cut our hair (although that’s not really been an issue for me for decades). I think this is also relevant in music …

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S11 E3: Skinny Pelembe 1:08:32

6M ago1:08:32

1:08:32

As with most stuff, I was late to the Skinny Pelembe party and the way I got into his music was as random as it gets: I came across an Instagram post (see, Instagram does have its uses) of his about buying an Austin Allegro with his streaming royalties ( I think that was the gist of it). Now my old man - rest his soul - was an Austin aficionado bac…

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S11 E2: Nayana AB 54:32

7M ago54:32

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Nayana AB is an outstanding songwriter, musician and producer, who, for me, is taking influences from great songwriters of the past but making the music in very much her own vision. She’s using that history and those legacies positively to shape her own future and the future of others. I think this is exactly what legacy is about and how it’s inten…

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S11 E1: Noble Brown 1:34:35

7M ago1:34:35

1:34:35

In the bands my guest has played with over the past, what 30 years maybe – like Minority, Brick, One Against Many and presently Black Mercy – I’m getting influences from some outstanding bands and I’m thinking Negative Approach, Whipping Boy, Poison Idea, Artificial Peace definitely a bit of Napalm Death thrown in there to grind things up a bit. Fu…

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S10 E10: Patrick Wagner 1:18:13

8M ago1:18:13

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Situations and elements of duality, dualisms and paradoxes have started to become more evident in my life. I think I started to become more aware of this maybe 6/7 years ago when I started thinking and writing about the importance of mindset for surviving and functioning in this very complex and volatile world which, with a bit of gentle and not so…

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S10 E9: Gianluca Buccellati 1:02:20

9M ago1:02:20

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I think more and more these days about how we’ve sleep walked into allowing our world to become one that doesn’t serve us, one that does its best to prevent our ever-evolving identity to find its path, to do things on our own terms and away from being defined in a certain way by preconceptions or however our brains uses predictions of who others ar…

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S10 E8: Lesley Woods 1:19:15

9M ago1:19:15

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I interviewed Andrew Butler from Hercules and Love Affair last year and he made a really great point about how the most exciting music is produced when one “scene” starts to fade but the next “big thing” hasn’t yet arrived – l think of it like when a new star is being born from all this gas and dust coming together - before the “rules” of that genr…

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S10 E7: Trevor Dunn 55:56

9M ago55:56

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If this podcast were a musician, it's highly likely it would be called Trevor Dunn. Trevor is a hugely respected and valued composer, bassist, double bassist, collaborator, ultra-improviser and fantastic conversationalist, coming to prominence with the ever fluid and experimental Mr Bungle. He has also played with John Zorn, The Melvins, Fantômas, …

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S10 E6: J. Willgoose, Esq. 46:28

9M ago46:28

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There’s so much about the work of J. Willgoose, Esq. of Public Service Broadcasting that really is everything that this podcast is about – resilience, curiosity, the importance of your physical environment, reinvention, collaborations, adaptability, trying things out, learning from the past – from successes or mistakes to what should have been or c…

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S10 E5: Alan Palomo 1:05:31

10M ago1:05:31

1:05:31

Since I started this podcast malarkey (maybe before actually, maybe the podcast just encouraged me to be more open about it - gawd, this sounds like a confessional!), I’ve developed a fascination with how music can whisk you off into a distant world, a kind of musical Narnia, not just through the lyrics, but the song structures, the atmosphere, the…

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S10 E4: Alaura O'Dell 1:22:09

10M ago1:22:09

1:22:09

I first met Alaura when we did an online workshop for the South London Arts Lab in October 2020. It was a practical exploration of Stream of Consciousness writing. It was called “Telling The Stories We Were Always Told To Keep Secret”, where we were encouraged to delve into our memory to write about things that have a hold over us, maybe things we …

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S10 E3: Becca Mancari 56:58

11M ago56:58

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Our mindset is super important to how we handle life and what the future might hold for us. The importance of maintaining and regenerating our friendships and relationships shouldn't be overlooked but they often are. Of course, how we view them can be wrapped up in things that happened to us going way back. I’m also interested in how friendships ev…

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S10 E2: Tony Njoku 58:37

1y ago58:37

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Tony Njoku is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, musician, producer and visual artist whose music is impossible to categorise. It has so many influences that its identity is unique – just like it should be. He's assembling his art in ways that tell a story that helps him and helps others by bringing us together over shared experiences. Asking tho…

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S10 E1: Stephen Mallinder 55:09

1y ago55:09

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Curiosity is one of the most endearing things that we have as children – the never ending barrage of “why?”. It’s also one of the things, along with playfulness and adaptability, that can get kicked out of us as we get older. Stephen Mallinder is one of the most prolific, influential and pioneering DIY sound, art and writing radicals, from opening …

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S9 E10: Lora Logic 1:25:02

1y ago1:25:02

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We're signing off Season 9 with a pioneering legend. Here's what the incomparable Vivien Goldman wrote about Lora Logic back in the nascent days of punk: “The remarkable Lora Logic, several phases ahead as usual, proves yet again that she’s the best thing that ever played in the Roxy…The woman defines herself, un-pompously fills a cultural vacuum. …

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S9 E9: Alianna Kalaba 1:35:06

1y ago1:35:06

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Alianna Kalaba is a multi-instrumentalist, most renowned, I guess, for playing drums for the past 10/11 years with Cat Power and this beautifully distorted, snake-like bass with FACS, signing off from them with their latest album Still Life In Decay which is just a masterpiece - I’m totally in love with that record. Alianna is also the first person…

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S9 E8: Gordon Sterling 1:09:35

1y ago1:09:35

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When I started thinking about experimental mindsets, I started looking for examples of that mindset at use in real life. I wrote something about Detroit. Detroit has always fascinated me, just like Moscow (weird how we get drawn to certain places or scenes isn’t it?). It went something like this - Detroit is THE example of how a city was blindsided…

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S9 E7: Marcus Machado 58:32

1y ago58:32

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One of the wonderful things about an experimental mindset is that it gives you the willingness and desire to be not just open to other ways of living and approaching your life – whether that be your work, your hobbies, your relationships - but to actively going to find those other ways. In terms of music, this could be being bringing in different m…

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S9 E6: Elisabeth Elektra 55:47

1+ y ago55:47

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Elisabeth Elektra has lived with and through change, uncertainty, improvisation and transformation – the sort of things that today’s world throws at us. She gained her degree in experimental music and visual art, so she has got used to throwing herself into strange creative situations. She’s always pushed herself outside of her comfort zones and th…

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S9 E5: Marissa Paternoster 44:43

1+ y ago44:43

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Marissa Paternoster is doing too many amazing things to be defined by any one of them – she’s best known for her music in the Screaming Females, a band whose whole ethos of self sufficiency, open mindedness, strong integrity and ability to evolve without ever not being the Screaming Females I just love, she writes phenomenal melodies, harmonies and…

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S9 E4: Brix Smith 1:06:08

1+ y ago1:06:08

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Dedicated to the memory of Matt Evans. "Brixton is God" Brix Smith is a rock legend. Her life story is as inspirational as it is turbulent. It’s inspirational because of that turbulence and how she’s navigated it all. From growing up in LA and starting her first college band Banda Dratsing, to moving to Chicago and joining The Fall in 1983, branchi…

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S9 E3: Matt Black 1:01:51

1+ y ago1:01:51

1:01:51

Matt Black is half of the magnificently innovative and renegade DJ + multimedia pop group Coldcut, co-founder of Ninja Tune, one of the world’s leading electronic music labels and a beacon for the independent music spirit and creator of the brilliant sample instrument Jamm, and Pixi a visual synth instrument. Amongst other things! “Sound is living …

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S9 E2: Gena Rose Bruce 51:00

1+ y ago51:00

51:00

It's a great privilege to have conversations like I do with so many talented and amazing humans, each of whom is making their mark through their music and other creative projects. Today's conversation is one of those. Gena Rose Bruce is a phenomenally talented Melbourne-based artist who has just released her sophomore album Deep Is The Way. The tit…

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S9 E1: Louise Distras 1:01:39

1+ y ago1:01:39

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Louise Distras has always made her music with a progressive mindset. New visions, new influences, new collaborations and new ways of doing things. I think she’s challenged the way that we behave when we're on our own and when we're part of groups and also the way movements have a tendency to institutionalise themselves the longer they exist and cre…

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S8 E10: Billy Nomates 57:41

1+ y ago57:41

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Three things struck me about Billy Nomates when I first heard her work - vulnerability, humanity and what a bloody exciting talent. I first saw Tor perform live when she supported the Sleaford Mods at the 100 Club in September 2020. She played with such charisma - perfectly DIY, raw and defiant intensity with gallows humour vulnerability, it was a …

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S8 E9: Jesse Malin 42:34

1+ y ago42:34

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“There’s a world outside if you want it” …. …. this lyric from Jesse's 2015 song Oh Sheena kinda sums up his desire to find the positive in life, to make the best out of the good times and the tough times. Jesse Malin is someone who embraces all sorts of influences to produce a music that is full of honest emotion, humility, positivity and that sli…

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S8 E8: Jennie Bellestar 1:11:13

2y ago1:11:13

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It's the early '80's and I'm going through one of many identity searches. I was always drawn to the non-conformers, even though I conformed in many ways. Therein lies a struggle. Music was obviously a massive part of that identity search and the early 80s kinda gave me the chance to experiment with clothes (usually atrocious) and music (stuff that …

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S8 E7: Arrow de Wilde & Henri Cash 47:37

2y ago47:37

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Thank fuck for Starcrawler When I first heard their debut album around 5 years ago and I was like, well, this is what the world’s been waiting for. A good dose of Hollywood underbelly, a bit of glam, a bit of punk rock horror, a bit of No Place for Old Men and a huge dose of heart. Starcrawler were just feeding me all of this charisma, swagger, agg…

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S8 E6: Kelly Ogden 38:32

2y ago38:32

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Today's special guest is Kelly Ogden! Kelly, together with her husband Luis, started The Dollyrots for a bit of fun whilst college students in Florida. They then decided to take the leap of faith and make the band a full time gig, moved to LA and have been on an epic journey playing their brand of music that is chockablock full of melodies, riffs a…

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S8 E5: Sam Quartin 46:51

2y ago46:51

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Sam Quartin is the guitarist and vocalist for THE BOBBY LEES. They're one of my favourite bands, rooted in punk, the blues, the garage and a big old dose of weird. Live, they are a tight, ball of wild, nihilistic claustrophobia that comes and finds you and detonates in your face. They're free of inhibitions and straitjackets and this just feeds int…

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S8 E4: JD Pinkus 1:09:07

2y ago1:09:07

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The Butthole Surfers didn't play the UK that often back in the day. And when they did, I missed them: damn that shit English Pennine weather! One of life's regrettable moments. So, 35 years later, the Butthole healing process continues and I finally get to talk to the legendary Pinkus from his home near Asheville, NC. And what a great chat we had a…

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S8 E3: Steve Hillage 39:57

2y ago39:57

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Steve Hillage is one of music’s greats - a great musician, a great innovator, a great free thinker and great experimenter whose achievements and career is just one whole wall of inspiration for doing the things that excite you and on your own terms. It's a terrific conversation, talking about how family circumstances dictated that he spend a lot of…

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