K&A Podcast

Karl and Aidan first met Billy at Hanger Farm, where he filmed and streamed their live performance with the band Caroline’s Capuchin. We quickly discovered that Billy has an infectious passion for videography, alongside a wealth of expertise and stories of his adventures behind the camera.

Billy has wanted to be a filmmaker since the age of 12, and the story of his career so far is one of dedication to the craft. He talks to Karl about his approach to creating films, the differences between audio and visual formats and how they complement each other and how Billy manages to avoid GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome).

Check out Inline AV HERE

And see his team’s handiwork with Caroline’s Capuchin HERE.

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Richard Hilton is one of the keyboard players for Chic, and has worked with Nile Rodgers for over 30 years. Besides Nile, the list of artists he has worked with is quite incredible, including David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Elton John.

Richard joined Karl and Aidan from the USA over Zoom to talk about his career, including how he got his first paid gig aged 15, worked on Hollywood blockbuster movies and travelling the world, performing with Chic.

Click HERE to find out more about Richard at his website, and click HERE to see him play live with Nile Rodgers and Chic at Glastonbury Festival.

Buy Aidan and Karl a coffee HERE.

*** There are some sound issues in which Karl & Aidan sound slightly less polished than usual, but this only lasts a few minutes so bear with us! ***

Phil Griffiths joins Aidan and Karl for episode 17. As well as joining Aidan in a Chic tribute band, Phil has an impressive resume as an educator, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer.

We chat to Phil about his time spent as a music teacher and his approach to music education. The discussion moves on to his time studying performance in both the UK and USA before listening to a track from his solo album ‘Cave’

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Find Phil at www.philgriffithscreative.co.uk

Find Phil’s album Cave on Spotify

Buy Karl and Aidan a coffee HERE!

If you live on the south coast of the UK and are a fan of live music, you have almost definitely heard of Davey Jones’ Locker, the incredibly fun and talented band from Southampton. Founder member and bassist Davey joins Karl and Aidan in the lodge to talk about the philosophy of cover bands, how the band started and his own story as a bassist.

Inevitably, with three bass players of a certain age in the same room at the same time, the conversation moves onto the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Aidan treats Karl and Davey to a quiz that he described as ‘quite easy’. (Spoiler: it wasn’t). The quiz even includes two questions from Ben Townsend of Universally Speaking, the Red Hot Chili Peppers podcast!

Find Davey at:

www.facebook.com/DaveyJonesLockerBand

www.facebook.com/bearduk

Check out Universally Speaking, the Red Hot Chili Peppers Podcast at:

www.bentownsendmusic.net/rhcp-podcast

Episode 15 takes Karl and Aidan on a field trip to singer Amba Tremain's front room. Amba was the winner of ITV's 'This is Your Moment' in 2001, and the last 20 years have seen her become a vocal coach, session vocalist, youth worker and much more.

Karl and Aidan talk to Amba about how she started to sing, her musical education and journey through to performing with Boy George and being awarded a gold disc by the BPI for her contribution to Eva Cassidy's album ‘Somewhere’.

Amba also describes her approach to vocal mentoring and tuition, and gives us a sneak peek at her songwriting process with a candid demo of an unreleased song!

You can find out more about Amba at:

www.ambatremainmusic.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ambatremainofficial

Instagram: www.instagram.com/ambatremainofficial

This episode brings Chris Nichols to the podcast lodge, to chat about all things folk and fiddle related with Karl and Aidan. There is a lot more to folk music than meets the eye, and the discussion covers festivals, the difference between a Jig and a Reel and how Chris’s life led him to being one of the most active and talented folk fiddle players in the south of England.

You can find Chris at:

www.chrisnichols.co.uk

www.threepennybit.com

www.folkactive.org.uk/education/youth-ensemble

It's been 14 months since the last episode! Episode 13 brings Kelly Hampson to the podcast to talk about live stream concerts, newly discovered music and the dreaded 'C' word (apologies in advance).

Featuring:

The Black Queen
AC/DC
Billy Strings
D’Angelo
The Dirty Nil
Jamie Woon
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Regurgitator
Sam Sweeney‍ ‍

Guilhem Desq on the Hurdy Gurdy

Mark currently plays bass trombone with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Luzern Festival Orchestra and regularly works with the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Deutsche Symphony Orchestra. He is internationally active as a teacher holding positions at the Zaragoza, Weimar and Alicante Conservatories and has given masterclasses at the Royal Academy and Guildhall Schools of music in London. He is also an artistic advisor to the Youth Philharmonic of Columbia and directed the Mahler Chamber Orchestra academy for 9 years.

Mark has played in some amazing venues all across the world and Karl and Aidan asked him about his career, life as a touring classical musician and some of the parallels between the the rock and classical world.

Karl and Aidan also treat Mark to a large amount of excitement about the new Tool album - we did try to contain ourselves!

Click Here to see Mark performing with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Click here for Caroline’s Capuchin’s new single

American drummer, Theodore Carrasco is in constant demand in the UK, Europe and the USA. In addition to extensive touring in countries such as Japan, USA, Spain, France, Switzerland and Italy, he has played at many of the country’s top jazz venues including Ronnie Scott’s, The Roundhouse, The 606, The Bull’s Head and Band On The Wall (Manchester).

We were lucky enough to have him over to chat about how his childhood in California, how he came to live in the UK and his love of craft beer.

Ted’s Website

The Baker Brothers

Hannah Castleman is an award-winning jazz and soul singer based in the South of the UK. She is well known as one third of the Spitfire Sisters, an international touring vocal harmony trio. Somehow she also manages to find time to teach, release solo projects and curate festivals.

She came into K&A HQ to tell us about her performances on the Orient Express, her approach to vocal tuition and spills the beans on how to brew the perfect coffee.

You can find Hannah online at:

Hannah’s Website

The Spitfire Sisters

Down For The Count