E2: Flavour Nurse with Toby Cozens │ The Seed That Started It All Creating A Universe

In this second episode of the podcast, I talk to my good friend and long time collaborator Toby Cozens about our journey as a band with Flavour Nurse. Topics and timestamps can be found below.  

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00:33 Introduction & Synopsis 

01:39 How Flavour Nurse began 

04:19 Toby's first bass 

06:22 Writing our first songs 

08:21 The 2015 era - partying in the slums 

10:43 Recording our first demos 

13:16 Searching for members / Not wanting to sing 

18:03 The 2016 era - living together & focusing on music 

19:03 Our crude home recording setup 

19:57 Starting to produce our own music 

23:32 Getting our first full lineup together 

25:23 Our first rehearsals 

27:00 Our first gig 

29:06 Early concept development 

32:42 The 2017 era - new place, non stop party & gigging momentum 

35:28 Solidifying the lineup 39:18 Oscars drum audition tape 

41:30 Oscars insane style & destructive force 

45:55 Lots of gigging 

46:35 Founding Love Anarchy 

50:00 Grundle Bumfist 

52:20 Creating LovAnaverse 

53:30 Flavour Nurse look & show 

57:12 The 2018 era - refining & recording our first single 

58:47 Anthony’s production skills and impact on the band 

01:04:29 Starting to record an album with Bogdan 

01:07:35 How the band began to unravel 

01:13:13 Toby’s advice for bands playing gigs on the local scene 

01:16:51 Changing direction for Flavour Nurse 

01:20:26 Realising I needed to become a producer 

01:24:34 Flavour Nurse retiring from stage & entering hiatus 

01:27:45 Finishing the Flavour Nurse album 

01:29:50 Making the Majesty music video 

01:32:52 Finally releasing our work in 2021 

01:34:00 Reflecting on the journey & Closing sentiments   

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