My Teenage Band
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
Episodes
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.
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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 ...
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...
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.
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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 a...
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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.
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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 Sou...
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...
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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, an...
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 nat...
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 ba...
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 ...
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&...
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