Permanent Records

With their new record ‘Swell’ out earlier this year, We talk to Dylan Mattheisen from Tiny Moving Parts about their steady growth from DIY touring to Triple Crown Records.

Since defining the sound of indie dance floors in the early 2000’s, The Futureheads have remained inventive throughout their career. Having been inactive for a few years, we caught up with Ross Millard to talk through the bands back catalogue.

Over the last 15 years Sam Duckworth has been making music under his own name, as Recreations and as Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., touching on a multitude of genres while retaining a clear common thread. Last year he announced the return of the Gat Cape name having retired it under extraordinary circumstances a few short years before.

We talk to James Spence from Brighton (via Nottingham and Sheffield) band Rolo Tomassi about a career that has seen the band release five records before most of the band turn thirty. From early shows while he and vocalist Eva Spence were still at high school, to their new record ‘Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It’ which has seen the band reinvigorated both inside and out.

In this episode we talk to Kyle Fasel, bassist in Chicago pop-punk band Real Friends. We talk about maintaining many elements of the running of the band 'in house', mental health and touring and the bands back catalogue in the wake of the release of their third record 'Composure' which marks a sea change in approach for the five piece.

We talk to Alexei Berrow from Birmingham band Johnny Foreigner about the band's career following a seemingly reverse trajectory, from immediate international success to DIY band - always headed towards the way of operating which seems to most suit the band - and his newer projects Yr Poetry and itoldyouiwouldeatyou.

We talk to folk singer songwriter Grace Petrie about her career from early records recorded in a day, through to her sixth studio album Queer as Folk which smashed every expectation for it's crowd funding campaign earlier this year.

We talk to Rory Friers from Northern Irish instrumental band And So I Watch You From Afar about the bands career from early collaborative EPs with other bands from Belfast's fertile music scene, through their self titled debut, Gangs, All Hail Bright Futures, Heirs and most recent offering The Endless Shimmering.

This is an Introduction to Permanent Records, a podcast that discusses an artists recorded output and the route they've taken through those records. Over the course of the next ten weeks I'll be bringing you the first series of Permanent Records talking to ten musicians about their discographies, their memories of the context those records were released in and really anything else that comes up during the course of that conversation.