The Reel FEEdBack Podcast

Manchester band Wax Head deliver brash, angry, 'I wanna break stuff' garage punk. Frontman/drummer Lewis chats about his dual role in the band, playing along to Nirvana, angry sound engineers and encouraging 'friendly violence' at their live shows.

Harry (vocals/ guitar) and Miles (bass/ producer) talk about the band's new album Clasping Hands With The Moribund, demoing during lockdown, live sound engineers and turning duo songwriting into a 7 or 8 piece finished track.

Bob’s music career started writing for television and after travelling to Asia and Africa, he was inspired by tribal music and ethnic sounds which birthed African Drug, the track remixed by Coldcut and other DJs which put his name on the club underground scene. ​He talks about his love/hate relationdhip with live performance, how an electronic ambient composer writes music compared to a ‘standard’ songwriter, his love of Radiohead and The Smile, his music being used in The Sopranos, Friends, Ace Ventura and Lost, doing all the music for documentary until Jeff Bridges had another idea and new music Hidden Voices Unveiled.

James talks about the difference in pressure of releasing album 3 to album 2, his struggle with mental health and having therapy, songwriting tips from friend and Wolf Alice drummer Joel Amey, Air BnB Monopoly and working with producer Andy Savours on new album Reason Enough.

The first returning guest on the podcast, Paul comes back to talk about the cracking new Maximo Park album Stream of Life, how where he is in life has informed it's content, recording in America, set list disagreements, Maggie Thatcher and working with Low's Mimi Parker.  

Starting as runner at Talkback before climbing the production ladder to become researcher and sketch writer on Bo Selecta, James De Frond now directs his childhood friend and famous comic Tom Davis on projects they write together. Credits like BBC's King Gary, the BAFTA-winning Murder in Successville and Channel 4's The Curse have ensured James is a writer/ director with serious comedy chops. 

With industry backgrounds in film in the US and the UK, married filmmakers Sam and Bertie talk firstly about their work on Sharknado, Eternals, Spiderman: Far From Home and Cats, as well as short films about zombies and Splinter Cell, before breaking down new debut feature Midnight Taxi; how they got it funded, their process writing, directing and distributing the finished film, and the cameo by one Peter Serafinowicz.

Ali talks about how work experience on the same floor as Empire magazine led to where he is today, namely interviewing A-List Hollywood royalty like Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, and critiquing film. He details his process of how he makes his interviews different for both viewer and guest; how he goes from 20 minutes with Tarantino straight to a chat with the aforementioned stars of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; how he made Harrison Ford emotional and his dream guest couch if he got his own TV talk show.

Steve Stamp lays out his journey of Kurupt FM's humble webisode beginnings to being picked by the BBC for 5 series. He details how he approached the writing, being scared when he had to actually act, and how it felt collecting his BAFTA. He also covers working on the excellent The Curse with comedy powerhouse Tom Davis and 'sweetheart' Michael Smiley, and which actor would shout at the floor to get into the right frame of mind. And then his other baby, Peacock, and it's inception and development of story and characters from season 1 to the recently released season 2. Oh, and of course, he talks about his sex scenes in the show.