Sound Affects Podcast: Music & Mental Health, with Katy Georgiou
Music and Mental Health podcast, with Katy Georgiou. As featured in NME's Podcast of the People series and Therapy Today
Episodes
Let Loose have reformed and are out on the road again this year after a busy 2024 – details of tour dates at htttps://www.letlooseofficial.com/
In this episode, drummer Lee Murray reflects on his experiences with fame in Let Loose during the 90s and how he coped once the phone stopped ringing. We explore the boyband culture of the 90s and what became of many of his contemporaries, off the back of a recent BBC documentary exploring ...
Sarah Sharp (FRSA) is a PhD researcher of popular music and mental ill-health at University of East Anglia. She is currently researching representations of popular female musicians, including Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Halsey and Demi Lovato. She illuminates her findings and interweaves this through a candid reflection of her own life history, including her experiences of psychiatric care, misogyny and...
Oli Rose is the global development director of the Lang Lang Foundation and previously an independent consultant for Universal Music Group, Warner Music, Sony Music, Island Records, Decca and the X Factor. In this episode, Oli talks through his collaboration with Lang Lang, the famous piano virtuoso who founded the Lang Lang International Music Foundation in order to provide piano music education and mentorship to underprivileged s...
Musician, Rolling Stone/New Yorker music journalist and author Jeff Slate released his new book 'Guitar' earlier this year co-authored with Earl Slick, and is on tour with The Wallflowers.
We explore social media politics and rock n roll's reckoning with historical racism, misogyny and MeToo.
Get in touch:
Email: soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com
Twitter: @SoundAffectsPod
Insta: @sound_affects_podcast
Jeff Slate:
Book: https:/...
The book 'Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual' is published by Omnibus Press and is the brainchild of music industry psychotherapist and Music Industry Therapist Collective (MITC) founder Tamsin Embleton. It's is a collection of well-researched and rigorous essays authored by experts and academics in the field offering insight, signposting and mental health support for musicians and music industry professionals on ...
Dr Sice Rowbottom, famously known as singer/songwriter of the Boo Radleys, is also a chartered psychologist, associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, a prolific practising counsellor and is respected voice within the music industry mental health field. We talk through why he did a doctorate in counselling psychology following his exit from the music industry, his choice to become a stay-at-home dad, his research on ma...
Hi everyone, some time ago I collaborated with Oasis pod with 2 episodes on Oasis and mental health and in those episodes I had said I would at some point take a further deep dive on this topic, especially this ethereal 'feeling' evoked by Noel's songwriting, for those who are interested in the emotional impact of Oasis' music, ethos and influence. This project is still in the works but in the meantime, in the week of world mental ...
Yvette Caster is an award-winning freelance journalist, podcaster and speaker. At the time of interview, she was the long-standing co-host of Metro UK official mental health and wellbeing podcast 'Mentally Yours' along with Ellen Scott.*
I interviewed Yvette about how hip hop music has supported her over the years in her experiences with bipolar disorder. We talk through her attendance as an out-patient in a mental health unit duri...
Writer, podcaster and musician Nico Tatarowitcz explores the romance of music and the inspiration behind his Stupid Hearts Club podcast.
Follow Nico/Stupid Hearts Club podcast: Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/stupidheartsclub/posts
Non-patreon link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/stupid-hearts-club/id1652327681
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stupidheartsclub/?hl=en
Adam Nutter is set to release his debut solo album 'Badlands on Fire' 21st April 2023, alongside a book of artwork by Ross McCully, all available to purchase on www.adamnutter.com
In this episode, Adam talks through the heartbreak and loss of identity he experienced when The Music disbanded, and how this interplayed with his experiences with ADHD and bipolar disorder, which he received a formal diagnosis for in his late 20s.
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This episode is Part 2 of an exploration into the work of charity Tonic Music for Mental Health. In Part 1, I spoke to Dub Pistols' Barry Ashworth, a patron of the charity, to talk about how Lockdown was affecting musicians and his fundraising and personal life experiences that made him interested in this charity's work; now in this Part 2, I speak to Jeordie Shenton, a PhD researcher into substance misuse amongst working musicians...
New single by Ellur ‘Now I’m Alone' out 9th November
22-year old singer/songwriter Ellur gives insight into her lyrics and life in the music industry for young women. Trigger warning: We discuss eating disorders and sexual violence against women. Around 16 minutes in, the episode includes some recent real-life news clips on this topic.
All things Ellur:
Website: https://ellur.biz/
Music journalist and book critic Ian Winwood is the author of 'Bodies: Life and Death in Music'. In this interview, we unpick his experiences over the years as a music journalist travelling the world and interviewing bands amid the "routine ruinations" (alcohol and drugs) he describes surrounding the music industry.
Follow Ian on Twitter: @IanWinwood1
Louder than Words Festival: https://louderthanwordsfest.com/
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In this episode, I speak with Danny McNamara, lead singer of Embrace, ahead of the release of Embrace's 8th studio album How to Be a Person Like Other People (out 26th August 2022), and upcoming tour.
We talk through the psychology behind him becoming a rockstar, his search for meaning and purpose, falling in love, and his experi...
T/w Suicide This episode is an interview with Dixie, manager of Jarvis Lane, raising awareness of suicide with Jarvis Lane's charity single cover Baba O'Riley for MIND. Dixie was band manager to Jonathan Owen's 90s band The Pocket Devils, and was the inspiration behind the 2014 cult film Svengali (and 2009 internet episodes), starring Jonny Owen as Dixie, Vicky McClure, Martin Freeman, Carl Barat, Alan McGee, Michael Socha, Matt ...
I continue with the hip hop theme in this episode with founder of Hip Hop Orchestra and Keep it Certi Georgio Savvides, who explores his reasons for starting the orchestra and his combination of hip hop with classical music. He's a pianist, composer, producer and music teacher in schools and talks through his methods of working with neurodiversity after his own experiences of learning within school settings.
In this episode, I'm exploring the effects of hip hop on mental health, with senior Cambridge university hip hop academics Dr Akeem Sule (Psychiatrist, lecturer in medicine) and Dr Becky Inkster (Neuroscientist), who together co-founded Hip Hop Psych.
Hip Hop Psych
Website: https://www.hiphoppsych.co.uk/
Academic papers: https://www.hiphoppsych.co.uk/publications.html
Medi Music: https://medimusic.co/service/
https://twitter.com/MediMusic_
Sound Affects Podcast:
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soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com
Follow Denise Devenish at https://www.instagram.com/denisedevenishcounselling/
If you're a musician or work in the music industry and are seeking therapy support, you can contact Denise at https://www.denisedevenishcounselling.co.uk/
Or visit British Association for Performing Arts Medicine: https://www.bapam.org.uk/
Help Musicians UK:
https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/
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