CHAT THE GREAT

Promoter, PR and music mogul Caffy St Luce. Caffy has worked closely with some of the biggest names in music from Bloc Party to Manic Street Preachers to Radiohead. She is also a huge supporter of emerging bands and artist and massively supports upcoming presenters, journalists, blogs and magazines.

We talked about working with Radiohead and the Manics, discovering Bloc Party and advice for emerging talent.

Tarek Musa is an Award winning Producer, Songwriter, Mixer and Engineer. He has collaborated with some of the UK’s most exciting acts. Having great success as a songwriter, musician and frontman of both Spring King and Dead Nature, he’s played Reading & Leeds festival, appeared on BBC’s Jools Holland and headlined shows around the world.

We talked about the music industry today, working on his new solo venture Dead Nature, his journey into Producing, from recording from his bedroom to national radio play and loads more.

The Wizard Of Wolverhampton, Gavin Monaghan is one of the most prolific producers in the Uk and owner of the iconic Magic Garden studio. A notorious workaholic he's worked with bands and artists like
Robert Plant, Editors, Ocean Colour Scene,Carina Round,Paul Murphy,Scott Matthews,Nizlopi, The Twang, The Blinders and Moses and the list does goes on

We talked mainly about music and how a new artist can break trough but also about being nice, space and politics.

Tom Sarig is an experienced A&R and innovative leader in the entertainment industry who has shaped some of the most creative marketing campaigns for consumer brands. Tom has worked with exceptional musical talent such as Against Me!, The Bots, the Violent Femmes, and She Wants Revenge . Additionally, Tom Sarig is the former manager and friend of the late rock legend, Lou Reed.
In 2017 he founded Antifragile Music.

Mark Morriss is a singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman for The Bluetones, the band that scored thirteen Top 40 singles and three Top 10 albums in the UK charts.
Their debut album "Expecting to Fly" was released on 12 February 1996, knocking Oasis's "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" off the number 1 spot in the UK Albums Chart for a week.

Promoter and Founder of Crosstown concerts, Conal Dodds joins us for Episode 4.

He's promoted shows with many acts including Massive Attack, Lana Del Ray, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds & so many more.

We also chat promoting the iconic 125,000 capacity Oasis show at Knebworth.

Mike Smith is The Global President of Downtown Music Publishing and one of the most relevant person in music history singing and working with bands and artists like: Blur, Gorrillaz, The White Stripes, The Libertines,Arctic Monkeyes, Arcade Fire, Stormzy, Liam Galagher, Skepta, Kasabian, Foo Fighers, Iggy Azalea, MGMT, Kings Of Leon, Bruce Springsteen, The Vaccines, and the list could go on for ages...

Before being Managing Director at Warner/Chappell UK, the longest established major international music publishing company and now the Global President of Downtown Music Publishing, His main gig has been A&R, discovering and launching bands, his first ever singing, was Blur when he was only 22 but he has also run labels as Columbia Records, Mercury Records and Virgin Emi.

He's basically a living legend.

Karen is the CEO of Key Production which she started in 1990. Through several acquisitions, Key has become the largest agency in the UK specialising in manufacturing vinyl records and CDs, bespoke packaging, global sourcing, and project management for both music and other industries.

Karen has recently won the 2018 NatWest Everywoman award, as well as Enterprising Women 2014 Women of the year and a commendation for the Music Industry Women in Music.

DJ Dan, founder and owner of the incredibly successful club night Propaganda will be on the Podcast on Friday. Dan has also DJ’d at the official after parties for the likes of Oasis, The Prodigy, The Stone Roses and so many more plus some of the biggest festivals globally including at Glastonbury, V Festival, Reading & Leeds Festival, Bestival and Benicassim.

We chat everything from the beginnings of Propaganda to stories from the dance floor of those infamous after show parties and from politics to an Oasis Reunion.

John Kennedy is a Presenter and DJ who supports and champions new music on his Radio X - Xposure show. John is the longest running presenter on the station and has given artists including Adele and Mumford & Sons their first radio airplay.

We chat everything from the beginnings of his radio career to experiencing the joys of new music today.