Mat Read and I have a new podcast. Listen to Episode 1 where Mat and I go full nerd spec on debut album Cloudcuckooland, giving you a deep delve on the songs, our interpretations, interesting trivia and some bonus guitar impressions just for you lot. Get it on Spotify here or watch on Youtube below.... Continue Reading →
Another great music podcast, this time with Mark Ellen and David Hepworth. David Hepworth and Mark Ellen were hosts on The Old Grey Whistle Test and launched several music magazines including Q and Word. They have been long time friends, colleagues and business partners since God was a lad and now they collaborate on this... Continue Reading →
Rockonteurs is a brilliant, entertaining podcast with Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp. Gary Kemp you'll recognise as the principal songwriter and guitarist from Spandau Ballet, plus he's tried his hand at acting including portraying Ronnie Kray. Guy Pratt is a bass playing legend, having been the touring bassist for Pink Floyd, and has a long... Continue Reading →
Best known for the Pure hit of 1989, Lightning Seeds is effectively bespectacled Liverpudlian producer Ian Broudie, once of Care, makers of the luscious Flaming Sword. Sense follows the moderately familiar format of Broudie's plaintive voice set against effortlessly memorable tunes. It's a simple formula and it works well, conjuring up visions of a more... Continue Reading →
The Lightning Seeds are not, as you might imagine, an obscure American garage band from Buttclench, Indiana, but the pop brainchild of Scouse wunderkind Ian Broudie (he of the almost legendary Liverpool groups Care and Original Mirrors). Possibly better known for his production work with Wah!, Echo And The Bunnymen and lcicle Works, Broudie's first... Continue Reading →
Paul Davies, Q, Feb 1990. From the book "Encyclopedia of Albums". Liverpudlian Ian Broudie had been at the centre of Merseyside music for a decade, firstly as guitarist and songwriter with Big In Japan and later of Echo and the Bunneymen before this, his first "solo" album albeit under a group name. It emerged on... Continue Reading →
Interview with Ian Broudie from Mojo, 1996. How much is prepared before you go in the studio? All I have us "La la la de lah" and some chord changes. That's it. I deliberately blur the writing process into the recording process because I work best when I'm responding instinctively to the situation. You seem... Continue Reading →
The third instalment of Ian Broudie's five-year plan to reshape pop music is every bit as strong as both predecessors Cloudcuckooland and Sense. His softly spoken pop vignettes have stealthily lockpicked the oak-panelled doors of mainstream acceptance and it can only be a matter of time before Broudie is swapping dressing rooms with Marti Pellow.... Continue Reading →
Pure Lightning Seeds Ian Broudie is proof positive that if you've got it, and you keep using it, eventually you'll get somewhere. Paying dues in Big In Japan and Care, he found acclaim as a producer (The Fall, Echo & The Bunnymen etc), formed the Lightning Seeds as a one-man-in-a-studio project in 1989, and set... Continue Reading →
Lightning Seeds, Falmouth Week 2023. Greetings one and all. You're more than likely here because I've spammed your social media feeds, but hey ho. Back in 2014 I made a half arsed attempt to create a blog format of my old website that I started back in the 1990s. Back then it was the... Continue Reading →
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