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In this episode, we finally sit down with Steve Pilgrim. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, so buckle up and hold tight.

Steve is a drummer, guitarist and singer-songwriter (with five solo albums to his name to date). He’s an archetypical collaborator, probably best known for his work with Paul Weller.

We talk to Steve about what it’s like to play alongside such legends as, John Power, Howie Payne, Steve Craddock and Paul Weller. We also discover why Scouse Music has ‘Elbows’, what it’s like to go to Scouse Music School with John Power, how Steve Craddock’s soundscapes can move you to tears and how you can lose your way during a live Weller performance, and somehow survive to tell the tale!

We also hear about his incredible entrepreneurial drive too, exemplified by the amazing concerts he promotes for ‘St Michael’s Live’, hosted at the unique St Michael In-The-Hamlet Church, Aigburth, Liverpool. Both Paul Weller and John Power have appeared and performed live at this beautiful venue.

Steve’s enthusiasm for music is infectious, and all of these musical experience and more, have shaped the artist he’s become. It was our absolute pleasure to talk to get to talk to him, as he rehearsed for an upcoming tour with Paul Weller.

The Feeling Sound Podcast Season Three - Episode Five Raised in Glasgow and now living in the city of Toronto, guitarist Neil Clark
played with many bands in his original home city, including

Newspeak with Alan McGee and Andrew Innes, before meeting Lloyd Cole and Blair Cowan, with the three forming the nucleus of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. 

They recorded three studio albums, Rattlesnakes, Easy Pieces and Mainstream, and Neil was co-writer of some of the groups best-known songs - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken, Rattlesnakes and Lost Weekend, while also playing the multi-layered guitar coda to Forest Fire. 

He has remained a regular collaborator with Lloyd Cole over the years, including contributions to his past two albums Guesswork and On Pain. In addition to his work with Cole, he has recorded with many other artists internationally. Recent projects include Lake and
Sea with singer Theresa McKay, post-jazz trio Clark, Jones and Pottie and the solo album, Sundogs.- all of which can be found at neilclark.bandcamp.com.

We caught up with Neil at his Toronto home, where we talked about his incredible musical journey, the stories behind some of the tunes that make up the phenomenal Commotion’s back catalogue, touring … and above all else, what music means to him.

Gregg Deal is a proud member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.  He is a multi-disciplinary artist and activist, and he often describes himself as a "disruptor." 

Through his artworks, paintings, murals, performance work, filmmaking, spoken word, and more, Deal invites the viewer to confront critiques of American society, politics, popular culture and history.

He describes his work as honouring Indigenous experiences, challenging stereotypes, and pushing for accurate representations of Indigenous people in art.  Suffice it to say, it’s powerful stuff. It
was a direct result of this one of these "disruptions", a gritty art installation performance piece entitled “The Punk Pan-Indian Romantic Comedy”, which saw him establish the band, Dead Pioneers, Gregg Deal of the Dead Pioneers with the intent to create original music for the performance piece, and beyond.  The Dead Pioneers' first single, “Bad Indian” was heavily influenced by Gregg’s Indigenous voice, and solidly built on a “First Peoples” perspective.  The
band aren’t afraid to tackle hard political and social issues, standing
in solidarity with Indigenous rights, Black rights, Brown rights, Asian
rights, Gay rights, Trans rights, Workers rights and beyond.  Dead Pioneers hits hard, with plenty of original material— From songs to spoken word with punk riffs. 

We managed to line up an opportunity to speak online to Gregg at his Colorado home, where we asked him about his musical journey so far, his thoughts on the direction of The Dead Pioneers and above all else, what music means to him … 

Following the release of their second studio album ‘Delta Shakedown’ on Friday 20th October 2023, The Heavy North invited the Feeling Sound Podcast along to 3rd Planet Recording Studio in Liverpool for a catch-up.
We sat down with Kenny Stuart (Singer), Jose Ibanez (Producer/Guitarist), Andrew Horrocks (Bassist), Mark Rice (Drummer), Jack Birch (Guitarist) and Ste Penn (Keyboard player) to discuss the writing, recording and production behind ‘Delta Shakedown’ ahead of the band’s huge hometown headline show on Friday 1st December at the Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, where they’ll be performing live as a 12-piece band featuring the Norther String Quartet, brass section and backing singers.

Cole Stacey is a songwriter, singer and musician who roams from
the highest echelons of contemporary folk to legendary pop and new
romantics, from live sessions on BBC Radio 2 to Glastonbury Festival and
6 Music. Cole is also one-third of the band, India Electric Co. Where he plays bass, synths, mandolin and guitar.  Blending traditional instruments, folk melodies and subtle electronic
influences,  they’ve extensively toured throughout Europe, Australia and
New Zealand, including the UK.  Alongside bandmates Joseph O’Keefe and Russell Field, he’s just completed the ‘Voice and Visions Tour’, having
played alongside Midge Ure for nearly 10 years.  India Electric Co. released ‘The Gap’ in 2020 with FRUK declaring them “one of the truly pioneering acts in folk music”.They currently working on a new album, and are looking to release this in 2023.

Hello and welcome to Season Three of the Feeling Sound Podcast.

This episode features Lee Harris, a guitarist probably best known for his connections to Ian Dury & The Blockheads, and subsequently with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets.

In his early twenties, Lee became a touring member and co-manager of Ian Dury & The Blockheads. After playing with the Blockheads for 12 years, Lee took a break from the music industry to renovate his French property.

It was whilst undertaking these renovations that Lee attended a David Gilmour concert in 2015, with his long-term friend Guy Pratt.

One of the most significant things to come out of this experience was that it left Lee determined to get back into playing again, and more importantly, he also came up with the idea of playing some of these early Pink Floyd tracks a bit more seriously.

He eventually managed to approach Nick Mason, the original Pink Floyd drummer who unlike Roger Waters and David Gilmour hadn’t really toured much since 1994.

The dream turned into a reality in 2018, when they formed Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets together, alongside fellow musicians, Guy Pratt, Dom Beken, and former Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp.

The band's remit was to exclusively play those fantastic pre-Dark Side of the Moon, and Pink Floyd Albums, bringing these works to life again to a potentially much wider audience.

They’re just about to embark on a whirlwind European tour throughout the whole of July, followed by an extensive Australian tour on September 23.

I caught up with Lee to talk to him about his musical journey so far, what has been like to play alongside such musical legends, and also, most importantly, what music means to him…