The Reel FEEdBack Podcast

After a 16 year break, The Zutons are back! New album The Big Decider, produced by Nile Rodgers and Ian Brodie, is proof that they are still a force to be reckoned with. Frontman Dave McCabe and saxophonist Abi Harding talk about the songwriting and recording process, past albums, a bad run in with Bill Wyman and John Lydon (on separate occasions) and more.

Editor for Christopher Nolan's debut film Following, Gareth Heal goes deep on the full story as well as an extensive look at his work on British sitcom People Just Do Nothing and it's film, Greg Davies and The Cleaner, Peacock and what it means to be a comedy editor.

Andrew Hung Fuck Buttons brings tales of dancing in music videos, songwriting on third solo album Deliverance and scoring The Greasy Strangler to the podcast. He also debates electronic music as abstract art and whether music artists ever are their true selves to their fans.

Edgar Wright takes to the stage at the Prince Charles Cinema in London for the opening episode of Season 3. He tells tales of the making of his main film credits and cult show Spaced, as well as his on stage with Scorsese, Jeremy Beadle, kicking a granny in the face, and answering questions especially sent in from the likes of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman and Jon Hamm.

Willie talks about his incredible new album Bunny and how being loaned a drum machine by friend Jamie T helped influence his change of sound, bike riding with Idles front man Joe Talbot, touring with Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine, getting signed and dropped by Columbia, being signed by former Maccabees guitarist Felix White, and a dive into the making of Bunny.

Gengahr's new album, Red Sun Titans, has already been unleashed, and what a cracker it is. Bassist Hugh Schulte and guitarist Jon Victor chat about the band's origins and how John came onboard, recording the new album and how they landed on the band's unique sound, something that Hugh details with 'noodling', meeting fans at signings, and the upcoming tour.

Talking surfing, AI-created music videos, transitioning from punk to the wholly different sound of new album My Guardian Angel, working with producer Chris 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Coady, and his love for the Strokes, Jakob 'son of Green Day's Billie Joe' Armstrong is very much his own man and a top notch songwriter in his own right. With not a whiff of nepotism in sight, he details his band's latest offering and how it came to be.

Live at Leicester Square's world-famous Prince Charles Cinema, Brian Blessed surpasses the swear quota of all previous 95 episodes combined, and covers what 'Gordon’s Alive' has become, Peppa Pig, Patrick Stewart, burping, Z Cars, sparring with Muhammed Ali, wrestling a gorilla, Blackadder, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Peter O’Toole, being in a plane crash, meeting The Queen, creating the South Downs, being a trained cosmonaut, Kenneth Branagh, I Claudius, an absolutely cutlery-dropping, eye-popping, 100% hard 18 certificate Maggie Thatcher’s funeral skit and a dazzlingly operatic finale recalling being in Stars In Their Eyes.

Just two weeks shy of releasing their debut album Plus Ultra, front men Charlie Woods and Jake Mac talk about writing the album, but also throw in the crime of venue closure, bunting, Mogwai, trying not to swear in live sessions, angering parents and children and more.