So enjoying this podcast, so good to see the author and interviewer actually speaking rather than just listening. My first of many, thank you for introducing me to this podcast site.⭐⭐⭐
Celebrating 'being silly' and having the 'courage to look daft' is important but vastly overlooked. Kate Bush has a wonderful, if quirky, sense of humor. All the better artists seem to have that streak. She was so good at keeping her focus and controlling her music and videos. I am glad for her renewed fame with more exposure to her music. Now I may need to read her biography! She seems very bright and perceptive on many levels. Such a precocious and creative person with a determined vision. Wouldn't it be nice to sit down with her "for a long chat"? This mad recluse. LOL The only way I know John Martyn is through Phil Collins. He mentioned John's singing and songwriting in his interview with Howard Stern. I find his music soulful and creative. Why was he so self-destructive? A vast insecurity? An emperor with no clothes? It seems he never grew up (oh, you just said that!). He envied the gangster, which you say he was not, at heart. Conflicted. His early life seems the opposite of Kate's. Your discussion reveals an alcoholic personality with all the chaos and probable enablers in his life. A sad story of a brilliant yet self-destructive mind. Now I will need to reacquaint myself with the band 'Simple Minds'. But my next question would be who would you write about next. It seems you prefer people with ties to Scotland, so Phil Collins would not be on your list....perhaps with him there is not enough for which to write a biography? He certainly dared to look daft and had the fortitude to make fun of himself. Or Peter Gabriel, would he be a fine candidate? Thanks for the fine conversation.
Daniel is my cousin, he has been flying pigeons from a young boy when he lived in Milton Keynes. Ive not even seen the show yet and can’t find it anywhere. Glad he made it back to Greenock and looking at the scenery makes me want to do the same
An completely absorbing interview. Dare I say it, but Night Moves is a better film than Chinatown. It's an astonishing work. This podcast has given me the impetus to explore Sharp further. Elsewhere, he gives a very frank, iconoclastic assessment of Sam Peckinpah - who he met during the production of the Osterman Weekend. Sharp seems utterly driven to get to - and to tell - the plain truth; even (and perhaps especially) when it gets him in trouble! I appreciate this excellent podcast. Well done!👌
I’ve only recently discovered Hollow Horse, and thoroughly enjoy the band. Thank you Kenny for sticking with it, and for joining BandCamp so that I could find you.
I saw this play today. Forbes was absolutely mesmerising from beginning to end, it was spine tingling, made my blood run cold and made me laugh. Superb show, and superb podcast!
Early Simple Minds first 5 ( 6) Albums recorded between 1979-82 were absolutely amazing and filled with Artistic brilliance and so experimental sound scapes, then they went mainstream and more rock/ Pop and followed the same path as U2 through the door marked " Dollar and pound " and ok they had loads of no1 Albums and made a shed load of money and even made a few decent songs as time went on but when you listen to their early pre 1982 stuff then compare it to Dont you...its almost like a cosmic joke being played out. Having said all that even if you went through their Albums from 1990 until the present day you could still make a great double album,even if they have really been half a band with session players apart from" Neapolis" which of course was written in 1998 with Derek Forbes back in the fold and was half decent,.....but still all said and done Simple Minds are one of the greatest British bands of all time and deserve any praise for the joy and happiness they have given to millions of people around the world for decades and for that we must be eternally grateful, Thank you Simple Minds.
Thanks for this! Sometimes you just want to hear that the artist that gives you a gateway to the transcendental magic of music is doing well and is happy❤. Thank you, congratulations and bless you. Allt gott från Sverige!
Am working on my PhD, with her Kindness of Enemies in mind. Now that she comes with River Spirit, I can feel the urge to read the latest work and reconsider a few things.
