Songs From a Padded Envelope

Revisiting our conversation with inspirational and inimitable, Bruce Russell. Noisemaker! Outsider! All around wonderful human being!

Hear about Bruce’s journey from ground zero at the start of Flying Nun records in Dunedin in the 80’s to his position as one third of the indefatigable noise rock trio, The Dead C.

Listen, learn, enjoy!

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

http://www.badabingrecords.com/the-dead-c

https://www.discogs.com/label/44446-Xpressway?page=1 Xpressway records on discogs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Nun_Records

In the first of our rewind series, ahead of our new episodes, we present this amazing conversation with Libyan heavy metal guitarist, Jonathan Steel.

As we said when this episode dropped originally, this is one of those episodes which is best left to unfold, as the conversation did for us. Needless to say we're very grateful to Jonathan for sharing his time and stories with us.

Check out Jonathan's music through the link below.

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

Jonathan Steel on Bandcamp

Return, Relaunch, Rewind!

Ahead of the official launch of Season 2 of Songs from a Padded Envelope we took a deep dive into the archive from Season 1 to come up with our top highlights 

If this is your first visit to Songs from a Padded Envelope and you have even a passing interest in what it means to be a musician, then you're in for a real treat 

And if you're returning to the podcast then thanks for joining us again - and you know exactly what to expect- stories behind the songs, origins and entries into music, tales of lifelong friendships forged, moments of hard fought glory and so much more....

Join us for this episode presenting in no particular order our top 10 picks

Over the next 5 weeks we will be revisiting each of the featured episodes in their original full length form as part of our Rewind Series.

Watch out for Season 2 arriving here soon.

Enjoy!!

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

Welcome to episode #1 of Songs From a Padded Eiggvelope!

Yep, we're joined by the truly splendid Johhny Lynch aka Pictish Trail for a funny, frank and fascinating conversation recorded back in May 2022.

This is a wonderful conversation and an epsiode we're certain you're going to take lots from, dear listener.

Huge thanks to Johnny for coming on the show. Please do take some time to check out his music, podcast and tell your friends!

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

https://www.lostmap.com/pictish-trail

Its been a while and our apologies for the radio silence! But we're back with Episode #59 and the very excellent Will Crewdson aka Scant Regard.

Will is a lifetime musician with the stories to match and we are hugely grateful to him for coming on the show and speaking with us.

Lots to explore in Will's back catalogue below, along with the wonderful RHLSTP (RHLSTP!) which led us to Will in the first place.

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

https://www.scantregard.com/

https://www.facebook.com/scantregardpage/

https://scantregard.bandcamp.com/

https://www.rhlstp.co.uk/website.cgi?page=podcasts

Welcome to the second of our two episodes featuring members of the fantastic Oneida, whose new album, Success, is about to be released.

Founder member Bobby Matador is a guest par excellence! So giving with his time insights and enthusiasm for the podcast and we are hugely grateful. The resulting episode is a corker!

Check out the brilliant, Success by Oneida (and we highly recommend a delve into their previous works too)!

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/success

https://oneida.bandcamp.com/music

Hello and welcome to episode #57 of Songs From a Padded Envelope.

We're joined from Brooklyn by the supremely talented and prolific, John Colpitts aka Kid Millions who joined us to talk about his work with Oneida, his solo projects and many collaborations.

So much to enjoy in the one and in exploring John's catalogue of stunning work.

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

https://johncolpitts.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-accident

https://thequietus.com/articles/31209-john-colpitts-kid-millions-interview

https://www.talkhouse.com/artist/john-colpitts/

Welcome to episode #56 of the podcast and another unique and hugely enjoyable conversation with Rudolf Buitendach and Jacques Womarans.

More than anything else, this is a story of friendship. Rudolf and Jacques take us back to Pretoria in the late 80's and share experiences unlike any we've heard before but with a kinship to so many previous guests.

Sit back and enjoy the company of these two fine fellas to whom we are very grateful for coming on the show.

As mentioned, here is a link to the wonderful Johnny Clegg as well as the bandcamp page for Haunted Sofa

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben

Haunted Sofa on Bandcamp

Johnny Clegg and Savuka

Welcome to episode #55 with our guest, Seja Vogel.

Seja is a fellow podcaster, which is where we came across her work. She makes the excellent HearSej podcast, which comes with a strong recommendation!

Seja is an accomplished and highly experienced musician who has a deep love for all things synth, as this episode will attest to. She was a wonderful guest with a cool enthusiasm for her work, her music, her friendships and connections. That and nifty line in felt keyboards!

Our sincere thanks to Seja for coming on the show. This is a really good one!

Check out Seja's work below and don't forget to help us spread the work about the podcast if you can.

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

Seja's website

HearSej Podcast

Pul(sew)idth - Felt Keyboards

A random search through facebook music archives led us to today's guest, Jens Zimmerman. What a stroke of luck!

Jens is a fantastic guest whose storytelling is chock full of energy and twists you just won't see coming.

Sincere thanks to Jens for being such a generous guest!

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

Sound of the Suburbs - The Members