My Teenage Band: Recent Episodes
Nick Taylor
A podcast all about young attempts at musical stardom and a love letter to music making. Featuring chats with people in all sorts of fields including writers, actors, illustrators, comedians and broadcasters. Presented and produced by Nick Taylor
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, published by Octopus Publishing Group.
Get theaudience's album repressed by PASTNIGHTFROMGLASGOW
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
Help support the podcast - Buy me a Coffee
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
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
Help support the podcast - Buy me a Coffee
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 Notes also inspired bits of the novel, as well as all the drama, touring and obscene viral hits that came along with it. And yes, we briefly talk about Those Films.
Emma's debut novel SONGS IN URSA MAJOR is out now on HarperCollins in the UK and Knopf in the US.
More about Emma and where to purchase the novel on her website
Follow Emma on Instagram @emma.c.brodie and Twitter @emma_c_brodie
Mental Notes videos:
Viral hit 'My Enormous Penis'
Super Trooper
Stalk Me
Poison
Kiss the Girl
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
Help support the podcast - Buy me a Coffee
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
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
Help support the podcast - Buy me a Coffee
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 of musical comedy, being part of the legendary house party scene in Oxford, sabotaging rival funk bands, and a stint in Cork’s number one wedding band.
Catch up on my chats with Jonny Donahoe and Josie Long
Jonny and the Baptists are ON TOUR from 2nd July 2021! Get tickets here
Jonny and the Baptists on Bandcamp
Follow Jonny on Twitter @PaddyShambles
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
Help support the podcast - Buy me a Coffee
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 customer service in stationary chains. Jonny treats us to acapella renditions of some of these classics, as well as insights in to the craft of musical comedy, and the great lost "sincere" solo album.
Jonny and the Baptists are ON TOUR from 2nd July 2021! Get tickets here
Jonny and the Baptists on Bandcamp
Follow Jonny on Twitter @JonnyDonahoe
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
Help support the podcast - Buy me a Coffee
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 be found rocking a double bass in skiffle band The Dodge Brothers.
We also hear about how bands in the 70s and 80s promoted their gigs, awkward band break-ups and the hallowed tradition of playing with a lot of different drummers. Plus - actual audio of one of Mark's teenage bands!
Read about many more musical anecdotes from Mark's teenage years and beyond in his brilliant music memoir HOW DOES IT FEEL
LISTEN TO THE 'SUICIDE IN ST ALBANS' MIXTAPE
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live
Mark on Scala Radio
Read Mark's weekly film reviews for The Observer
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
Help support the podcast - Buy me a Coffee
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: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
Help support the podcast - Buy me a Coffee
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 or wherever you get your podcasts
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
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 Emergency
Listen to BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts
Tickets for Josie's show 'Tender' online as part of Brighton Festival on 25th May 2021
Watch Josie's show 'Cara Josephine' on Amazon Prime
Follow Josie on Twitter @JosieLong
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
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 audio from both these bands plus stories of messy band break-ups, questionable cover songs, band benefactors/dentists and how Rivkah's music lead to a comedy career.
Listen to Rivkah's podcast 'Where Are We Now' wherever you get your podcasts
Rivkah's essay 'Confessions of an Obsolete Child Actor'
Follow Rivkah on:
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Patreon
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
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' way, things didn't quite work out as planned. Rebecca talks about surprisingly hostile jazz crowds, disastrous auditions and the ways in which her jazz days would inform her early comedy years.
Find out more about Jonathan Gee
Follow Rebecca on Twitter
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
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 area, when the gigs actually went ahead of course. Shaun talks about all of these things plus Mosque's epic prog songs about Canterbury, zoos and American TV shows of the 70s. We also hear some exclusive Mosque cuts - though only a couple due to the band's producer keeping a tight grip on the archives.
Listen to Shaun every weekday on BBC Radio 6Music 1-4pm
Follow Shaun on Twitter
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
https://www.myteenageband.com/
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 keyboard player in the band, and how the days of playing instrumental post-rock eventually lead to singing Weezer's Buddy Holly at his own wedding.
Hear Lou Diamond Phillips' songs in full on Soundcloud
Follow Lanre on Twitter and Instagram @Lanre_Bakare
SERIES 2 ANNOUNCEMENT - MY TEENAGE BAND NEEDS YOU!
The podcast will be back in a month or so, and I’d love to hear YOUR stories about attempts at teenage musical stardom in the form of voice notes for me to play at the end of episodes, so if you’ve got any anecdotes from your teenage band days, ideally between 1 and 3 minutes in length, then just record them in to your phone and send it my way to myteenageband@gmail.com.
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
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 being the lead singer in a band with her brother called ‘The Fuzz’, before later changing the name to ‘Lashed’. She also talks about the hurdles of years of music education lost to incorrect psychic readings, slightly interfering band parents, gargling guitar solos and the tense band wars that took place in the Surrey village of Worplesdon.
Also stay tuned for a My Teenage Band first - exclusive recreations of Abi's songs in voice-note form.
Abi's website
Abi's book 'Sanatorium' is out now via Penned in the Margins
Follow Abi on Instagram and Twitter at @abipalmer_bot
Listen to Abi recreating more Lashed songs at www.myteenageband.com
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
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 band's songs.
Follow Hussein on Twitter @HKesvani
Hussein's podcasts include -
TRASHFUTURE
Ten Thousand Posts
Buy Hussein's book 'Follow Me, Akhi - The Online World of British Muslims' out now on Hurst Publishers
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Listen to all episodes of the podcast at www.myteenageband.com
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
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 the ranks of The Datsuns, Kimbra, The Naked and Famous, the Phoenix Foundation and other success stories from the competition? Listen and find out!
Follow Elle on Twitter @elle_hunt
Elle's website
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Listen to all episodes of the podcast at www.myteenageband.com
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor
@nick_tea
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 years (listen to find out more). Stay tuned also for at least three small anecdotes about Nick's own band experiences!
Alcopop's website
Alcopop on Bandcamp
Recommended Alcopop! acts/releases- BO NINGEN
- itoldyouiwouldeatyou
- The Spook School
- johnny foreigner - Gaffa Tape Sandy
Stream 'Jurassic Pop 4 1/2: The Erotic Adventures of Jeff Goldblum' (released on Fierce Panda)
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Listen to all episodes of the podcast at www.myteenageband.com
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
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 Bandcamp
Hear Come on Gang!'s full album
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
Listen to all episodes of the podcast at www.myteenageband.com
Web design by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
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 more recent attempts at being a super star DJ.
Diyora is the opinions and essays editor for Galdem magazine, and she also writes for a number of different places including Vice and Refinery29 and she’s the host of two podcasts for the fantastic Broccolli Productions – ‘Your Broccoli Weekly’ and ‘Broccoli Book Club’ which launched just this week on 7th January.
Diyora's Broccolli Productions podcasts:
Broccoli Book Club
Your Broccoli Weekly
Follow Diyora on Twitter @thediyora
Find out more about her writing at her website
gal-dem
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
We have a website! www.myteenageband.com
Designed by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
For the last episode of 2020 Nick chats to Alex Goldman, co-host of Gimlet's Reply All podcast, about his days playing noisecore, pop-punk, and a little something in between the two, while growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Alex and Nick talk about paying tribute to the noisecore coming out of other corners of Michigan while Alex was growing up, playing in bands with local celebs and guerrilla gigs on the counter of popular sandwich stores, among other things. Oh, and amazingly audio has survived from all three of Alex's bands, so listen out for that throughout the episode!
Recommended 'Reply All' episodes
- The Case of the Missing Hit - A Song of Impotent Rage
- Long Distance Pt 1 & 2 (plus follow up 'The Real Alex Martin')
- Voyage Into Pizzagate
All episodes available on Gimlet Media's website
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
We have a website! www.myteenageband.com
Designed by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
This week Nick talks to actor, director, writer and fitness expert Kelechi Okafor about her country music duo in secondary school. Formed in music classes in between Kelechi's various stints in school musicals, this duo were never named, nor sadly can any recordings be found of their exploits. Nevertheless, Kelechi and her friend Alice wrote and performed super emotional country bangers about skies falling in and various other powerful images before they went their separate ways at sixth form. As well as the country duo, Kelechi talks about her adventures in musical theatre, songs about scooters, and resurrecting her country career with the biggest pop star on the planet (#DestinysBanjo).
- Listen to Kelechi's podcast 'Say Your Mind'
- Kelechi's website
- Kelechnekoff fitness
- Follow Kelechi on Twitter (@kelechnekoff)
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
We have a website! www.myteenageband.com
Designed by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
Something a little different this week! What's it like to be the person in the crowd at the teenage gigs, or more importantly a person in the crowd looking up at the people on stage and thinking you’d kind of want to give that a go, but the culture and general attitudes in the scene you found yourself in created a bit of a barrier to you actually starting to play music yourself?
These are some of the things Nick talks about with this week’s guest – journalist Lauren O’Neill. Lauren is a wonderful writer for VICE UK, covering music, TV and all sorts of other areas of culture. She talks about growing up in Birmingham, going to harcore punk shows, and secretly harbouring desires to be the next Hayley Williams from Paramore, but never quite finding an outlet for it.
Lauren now sings in the band Rosary, and you'll hear brief snippets of their music towards the end of the show!
Presented/produced by Nick Taylor
Rosary on Bandcamp
Lauren on Twitter
Womxn in music resources
- Girls Rock London
- She Shreds Media
- Keychange initiative
- The F-List directory
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
We have a website! www.myteenageband.com
Designed by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
This week Nick talks to Dr Zaahida Nabagereka, lecturer and researcher in African Literature at SOAS university of London, and the co-founder of ‘Afrikult’, a literary organisation seeking to widen access to African literatures through interactive workshops at schools and festivals. Zaahida played bass in an all-female band called Harlette while she was growing up in Oxfordshire. We'll hear about how the band took the Oxford music scene by storm, recording EPs and playing festivals, before it all came crashing down in a particularly teenagery way. And listen out for a peak-noughties tune from Harlette themselves that celebrates romance and the social media site of choice c.2005-07.
Presented/produced by Nick Taylor
Find out more about Zaahida's Afrikult organisation
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
We have a website! www.myteenageband.com
Designed by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
This week Nick talks to BBC Radio 1 presenter and podcaster Phil Taggart all about his noughties indie band Colenso Parade. Having quickly abandoned initial dreams of fronting a rap-metal group, Phil and the rest of Colenso Parade soon settled in to an outfit influenced by the sounds blaring out of MTV2 in the early noughties. They went on to record a handful of EPs and embark on prestigious support slots with the likes of the View, Dirty Pretty Things and Richard Hawley. Sadly, as Phil tells us in this chat, they never quite got a record deal, partly due to a near miss in Liverpool. Want to know what on earth this means? Listen and find out!
Presented/produced by Nick Taylor
- Phil presents the Chillest Show on BBC Radio 1 every Sunday at 7pm
- Listen to Phil Taggart's Slacker Podcast
CREDITS
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now
Lead vocals by Imo Berman
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
We have a website! www.myteenageband.com
Designed by Imo Vee
Insta: @imo.vee
A bumper special for the very first episode as Nick talks to not one but TWO guests - music journalist and broadcaster Cheri Percy & illustrator and drummer Fliss Kitson who performed ferocious feminist punk music in and around Norwich under the name Violet Violet. Cheri and Fliss talk all about how they went from forming for a battle of the bands contest to touring the States, playing sessions at Maida Vale studios and picking up eccentric fans along the way. We also hear about the duo's theatrical streak which began with them performing at their school's Christmas panto and culminated in a final gig at a puppet theatre.
Check out Violet Violet on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/artist/2u7pn5R6ippdMF1MgNAX3L?si=9bpYapFZThCknpw-y2ZokA
Cheri writes under the name Cheri Amour. Check out her work here - http://cheriamour.co.uk/
She hosts the Other Womxn on Soho Radio every Thursday - https://sohoradiolondon.com/profile/the-other-woman/
Fliss performs on the Nightingales latest album Four Against Fate which is out now - https://uknightingales.bandcamp.com/album/four-against-fate
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now - https://dreamnails.bandcamp.com/album/dream-nails
Lead vocals by Imo Berman - https://trills.bandcamp.com/
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa - https://www.eloisahenderson.com/
Insta: @eloisaillustrator
A sneak preview of the My Teenage Band podcast! First episode out soon!
Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar
The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now - https://dreamnails.bandcamp.com/album/dream-nails
Lead vocals by Imo Berman - https://trills.bandcamp.com/
Artwork by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa - https://www.eloisahenderson.com/
INSTA - @eloisaillustrator