Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware

Glenn Gregory and Paul Bower are Martyn's oldest and best friends. Martyn met Paul when they both became trainee managers at the Co-op in Sheffield, and Paul introduced Martyn to Glenn to a youth drama project called Meatwhistle, which was to change his life. Glenn became a lifelong friend and collaborator - apart from various hilarious one-day-only bands created at Meatwhistle (not for public consumption), they went on to form Heaven 17 who are still alive and kicking and touring constantly to the current day.

There are reminiscences form the earliest days of their friendship, including a rare performance of several of the legendary Musical Vomit songbook... 

Elly Jackson is a force of nature - she exploded onto the international music scene with LaRoux in 2009, and since has had success with several albums. We talk about her amazing and unexpected Grammy success, the break up of the band, and a mysterious encounter with Kanye West. This is an episode you don't want to miss...

Richard Hawley is a Sheffield musical legend and fellow Sheffield Wednesday fan. He is a critically-acclaimed guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Hawley initially found success as a member of Britpop band Longpigs in the 1990's, and formerly Treebound Story. Richard was asked to play with Pulp by his close friend and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.  Since then he has created many of his own solo albums to great acclaim and winning several awards, and even been responsible for a stage musical featuring his songs called 'Standing at the Sky's Edge'. His work proudly represents the mood and emotional meaning of growing up and living in Sheffield. He is also an in-demand session player, having collaborated with many world famous recording artists. Our discussion took place in a working men's club in Sheffield, and certainly tugged at my heartstrings...

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This is a trailer for the forthcoming Electronically Yours podcast. Martyn Ware is an electronic music legend - he founded The Human League and Heaven 17, and under the banner of his production company British Electric Foundation has had enormous success as a producer for world-famous artists like Tina Turner, Terence Trent, D'Arby, Erasure, Chaka Khan, Mavis Staples, Marc Almond amongst many others, selling over 60 million records over a 40-year career. The podcast dives deep into the lives of the many friends he's made in this time from the worlds of music, film, TV, comedy and the creative industries. He is still looking to the future with his immersive 3D soundscape company Illustrious, and he has always worked at the epicentre of a wide range of creative future possibilities.

And he's fun...