The Reel FEEdBack Podcast

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.  

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.

As he releases his new album Wide Open, Horses, James talks about his leftfield approach to writing it, including two live shows playing the album before the songs were even finished. He also talks about record labels putting on the pressure to make videos of absolutely anything on social media, his Wicked Game cover that appeared in the trailer for Game of Thrones, the music of his that he isn't a fan of and more.

From sport participant to sport photographer, Christian decided to jump from this to movie extra and then stand-in for Tom Cruise as he worked his way to become an on-set photographer in the film industry. Years later and with some A-Lister help, he has now racked up an impressive list of credits shooting on two Mission Impossible films, Boiling Point with Stephen Graham, Ted Lasso, Michael Bay's 13 Hours and most recently, the new Star Wars series The Acolyte.

The Australian troubadour talks new album Drama King and the process of recording it with a producer for the first time, running over kangaroos, swearing in songs, getting sober and how it affected live shows and more.

From Dagenham to France to New York to Dorset, Scott Lavene has has taken his music far and wide. With new album Disneyland in Dagenham just around the corner, Scott breaks down his process with writing his unique styles of music, working with and befriending The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, breakfast, Tom Waits, The Beatles, and being in a band that was a mix of Chas 'n' Dave and Queens of the Stone Age.