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