Here's some podcasts featuring interesting interviews with great musicians.
Elton John and David Furnish were on Ruthie’s Table 4, a podcast by the River Cafe owner Ruth Rogers. Elton and David talk about how they met at a dinner party in Elton’s home. When Elton asked David for a date, Elton then ordered the entire menu from a local Chinese restaurant because he wasn’t sure exactly what David liked.
Alison Moyet was on Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt. She talks about her solo career, how she is also now a fine art print maker and how she went to the same school as members of The Cure and Depeche Mode. She always talks about why you shouldn’t seek validation: “One of the things I completely understand, and I say it with no rancour and no bitterness, is that you can't make other people see you the way that you want them to.”
Scissor Sisters are reuniting, so the band was recently reunited on stage on Jake Shears’ own podcast, Queer the Music. Recorded in front of a live audience, Jake switches from the question chair to the hot seat as the band unpack one of their most well-known records, ‘Take Your Mama,’ 20 years after the song originally debuted.
Meanwhile Gary Lightbody, the lead singer from Snow Patrol, was on Niall Breslin’s Where Is My Mind?, the mental health podcast. Gary talked about how songwriting has helped him process grief following the death of his father. They also both talk about the need of mental health reform, following an increase in suicide rates in Northern Ireland.
“We have such a high rate of mental health problems in Northern Ireland, higher than anywhere else in the UK and Ireland,” says Gary. “And this sort of relatively new science of epigenetics is starting to reveal that we pass our traumas on from generation to generation.”
