In this very special episode, Pete Paphides meets Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark as she ponders the influence of David Bowie’s ‘Kooks’ on her own parenting style, looks back on her recent infamous encounter with Bobby Gillespie and also reveals exactl

The Raincoats

Nov 13th, 2019 58m 15s

Forty years after the release of their phenomenal debut album, Pete Paphides meets Gina Birch and Ana da Silva from incalculably influential post-punk legends, The Raincoats. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tanita Tikaram

Oct 10th, 2019 47m 48s

To mark the release of her career-spanning anthology To Drink The Rainbow, Tanita Tikaram talks to Pete Paphides about her fascination with the female voice and guides him through 12 vocal performances that continue to inspire her.To Drink The

Stephen Duffy & Stephen Street

Jul 10th, 2019 52m 2s

To mark the release of Stephen Duffy’s acclaimed 1997 masterpiece I Love My Friends on Needle Mythology Records, Pete Paphides meets Stephen along with the record’s producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, Steve Mason, Cranberries, Kaiser Chi

Sarathy Korwar

Jun 27th, 2019 1h 2m

Sarathy Korwar talks to Pete Paphides about the explosive synergy of influences that inform his brilliant new album, to be released on July 26th.  Inspired by Indian classical music, Sufi devotionals, modern jazz and the nascent rap scenes of M

Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie (Part 2)

Jun 20th, 2019 38m 17s

In the second part of this career-spanning interview, Ian talks about his years with the Lightning Seeds: the journey from Pure –a song he didn't even intend to be released – to a string of chart successes such as Sense, Life of Riley, Lucky Yo

Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie (Part 1)

Jun 20th, 2019 50m 48s

In the first part of an extensive career-spanning interview with Pete Paphides, Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie talks about his years as a key player in the Liverpool post-punk scene, first as a member of Big In Japan (alongside Holly Johnson, Bil

The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon

Jun 20th, 2019 42m 20s

Ahead of The Divine Comedy's excellent new album Office Politics, Neil Hannon reflects upon the breakthrough success of his group's 1996 album Casanova and also revisits a formative release from his childhood, The Human League's Dare! Hosted on

Travis' Fran Healy

Jun 20th, 2019 44m 49s

For the second Needle Mythology, Fran Healy from Travis talks to Pete Paphides about his group's massively successful second album The Man Who and also about the album that had a formative influence on his own songwriting, Joni Mitchell's Blue.

Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon

Jun 20th, 2019 37m 51s

This interview with Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon is the first of a new series of interviews in which Pete Paphides talks about beautiful records, usually but not always with the people who made them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

Trailer

Needle Mythology with Pete Paphides - the full series coming 20th June 2019!

Jun 18th, 2019 38s

Needle Mythology is a small (cyber)space where people can enthuse about beautiful records and the people who make them. It's also a record label, but more about that later. Occasionally, we'll post conversations with well-loved musicians and mu

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