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GN'R Legend Alan Niven
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Alan and I have known each other since 1987 and have worked together and been friends ever since. Alan was an indispensable source for my 2016 GN'R book, Last Of The Giants. And an inspiration for many other more important areas of my life. Former manager of GB'R and Great White, the man who signed Môtley Crüe and put out their first album when NO ONE else wanted to know. He is also a songwriter, producer, long-form writer and author. And someone who Knows Things. Dig it.
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20. Willie Dowling Live!
33:40||Season 5, Ep. 20This was the first set at the West Hampstead Arts Club last November when Luke Morley was our Special Guest. Willie happened to be there and Jon and I immediately got him up to chat during the first half. Golden era Kerrang! readers will remember Willie from Brit Rock sensations The Grip. But in the early 90s I also managed his then band Cat People. That's a Cat People track that opens and ends the pod. It's called 'Tough At The Top'. It was never released. After that he formed Honeycrack with CJ from the Wildhearts and after that he did a million other brilliant things. Check out his current outfit The Dowling Poole. Also his latest solo album The Simpleton.
19. Francis Rossi
41:54||Season 5, Ep. 19For reasons I can't actually recall but assume - coming as it did at exactly the halfway point between my disastrous bowel op in Dec 24 and my even more calamitous heart 'event' in Jun 25 - I just forgot about it. Something I seem to have done about most things during that terrible six-month hell (our eviction notice came the day after this interview). Anyway, here it is now, two old boys who go so far back they communicate in words only so others might have some clue as to what they're on about. LMK what you think.
18. STEVEN WILSON Live Part TWO
46:58||Season 5, Ep. 18STEVEN WILSON Live! The second set from the live pod recored at the West Hampstead Arts Club in London on December 3, 2025. With special guest star, STEVEN WILSON!
17. STEVEN WILSON LIVE!
40:28||Season 5, Ep. 17Recorded live before a raucous audience at the West Hampstead Arts Club earlier this month. Part 2 released next week.
16. Alan Niven World Exclusive
01:03:45||Season 5, Ep. 16A conversation between me and my mystic old mate and former manager of GN'R and Great White, Alan Niven. No punches knowingly pulled all delivered with the rattlesnake charm and past-caring humour of Two Who Lived It Til They Nearly Died.
15. Picture Paints 1000 Words Shock
39:55||Season 5, Ep. 15As shit hits the fan over Halfin selling other photographer's pictures we investigate. (It's not funny!!)
14. Steven Wilson LIVE tx still available HURRRRRY!
35:41||Season 5, Ep. 14Tx still available. Tomorrow night - WEDNESDAY 3 December - join me and Little Jonnie Googly for a special live pod recording with STEVEN WILSON!
13. Live Pod With LUKE MORLEY
55:55||Season 5, Ep. 13Doncha wish your Fridays were hot like... this.
12. David Coverdale Special Pt 1
51:13||Season 5, Ep. 12Jon and I go deep in the first of a two-part special on David Coverdale - the Richard Burton of Rock.