Songs From a Padded Envelope

Rewind choice #2 from Ben is Will Burns.

Join us for a conversation that took place just as Will was about to release his first novel, ‘The Paper Lantern’.  Listen in on his full circle journey from musician to poet that finishes with ‘Chalk Hill Blue’,  his magical collaboration with renowned composer Hannah Peel. A lesson in how to follow your true creative drive.

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben

https://willburns.co.uk/

https://www.hannahpeel.com/work/chalkhillblue/

https://idolrecords.bandcamp.com/track/call-the-legion-in-tonight  Centromatic

Steve's second Rewind episode takes us back to episode #10 and a wonderful conversation with the peerless, James Acaster!

So much to recommend about this chat with James and we'll always be grateful to him for this opportunity to talk music and so much more - including Cardiacs!

Love and thanks

Steve and Ben xx

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