The Paper Crane

This week the guys look at the nominees for this year's Mercury Prize and pick their own winners! Normal service resumes next week...

In lieu of a classic playlist, I'm suggesting you all go and listen to Low! Here's a playlist of our favourite Mimi Parker performances, she is an incredible singer, musician and performer. The harmonies she creates with Alan are truly one of a kind. Sending all love and strength to her and the family!

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This week's guest is the fantastic comedian, writer and international footballer (!) Josh Pugh! Josh has been a stand up for the best part of a decade with brilliant shows such as 'Sausage, Eggs, Josh Pugh, Chips and Beans' (nominated for this year's best show award at the Edinburgh Fringe!) and 'Maybe The Real Comedy Awards Are The Friends We Make Along The Way'. Josh is also known for his incredibly accurate and hilarious videos online, you can (and should) follow him on instagram and twitter.

You can buy Josh's book, 'Grassroots: A Step Dad's Quest For Silverware' on Amazon.

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This week's guest is audio engineer and mastering magician Katie Tavini. Katie has mastered artists and groups of all genres, including Arlo Parks, Nadine Shah, Emili Sande, We Are Scientists, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and many more.

Find out more about Katie and her work on her website: www.katietavini.co.uk

Read more about the work of 2% Rising: https://www.2percentrising.com/

Musicians who wish to protect your hearing, find out more about the musician's union subsidising ear protection: https://musiciansunion.org.uk/membership-benefits/musicians-hearing-health-scheme

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This week's guest is the fantastic Tom Hodge! Film and TV composer, Ivor Novello nominee and all round nice guy!

Tom's new project Collisions features our very own Ciaran as well as previous guest Ollie Howell!

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This week's guest is the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and live member of Bastille - Charlie Barnes.

We had a great chat with him and he is full of fascinating stories, from gigs in pubs to splitters to Rick Astley.

Don't forget to send in your band stories! We love reading them!

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This week's guest is designer, artist, illustrator, writer and bookbinder Emily Juniper. Emily first came to our attention through her collaborations with Tim Key, the books released during Covid were so stunningly put together I had to find out more about her work. She was a lot of fun to talk to and I know you'll love listening to her talk about her work.

Emily Juniper's website

A brief introduction to Emily's work:

Seasalt Cornwall Modern Creatives: Emily Juniper

Emily's collaborations with Tim Key are available now through Utter and Press:

Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush. An anthology of Poems and Conversations (From Outside)

He Used Thought as a Wife. An Anthology of Poems And Conversations (From Inside)

Tim Key poetical playing cards

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This week we're joined by (Grammy winning) musician and producer John Congleton. John has produced some of your favourite albums and artists, I can almost guarantee it. It's a brilliant conversation full of great insight into music-making, a must listen for all musicians.

The playlist to accompany this episode is here.

John Cleese book on creativity.

Just some of the artists John has produced.

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This week's guest is Rasmus Stolberg from the brilliant Efterklang. This episode is a must-listen for anyone who has ever been in, is currently in or ever wants to be in a band. Ramus gives us a great insight into what it's like to maintain a career as a successful musician and is constantly interesting and engaging.

Efterklang are on tour until October and their new E.P. Pixieglass is available now.

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We want to hear your bad band names, your great band names, song titles, gig experiences - all of it!

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This week Joe and Ciaran spoke to the amazing Isy Suttie. It's a great conversation about writing, voice overs, performing, music, comedy etc etc.

Isy's fantastic book Jane Is Trying is available everywhere now, in paperback and hardback, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

Isy will be on tour this year across the UK, including a run at the Soho Theatre in London in August. Tickets and all information about her shows and books and other brilliant things are available on isysuttie.co.uk

Buy Jane Is Trying on Amazon or Waterstones or whatever your preferred book shop.

This episode's spotify playlist features artists mentioned in the episode as well as a few recommendations from Isy herself, you can find that here.

We want to hear about YOUR band names, your bad gigs and everything in between.

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We are back and our first guests are the brilliant GoGo Penguin. We've been huge fans of these guys for a long time and it was a thrill to have them on the show. Joe and Ciaran have a great chat about a multitude of things including Leeds United, staying creative, loss, joy, working with new band members, and a very geeky chat about synths and pedals.

GoGo Penguin's new E.P. 'Between Two Waves' is out now and it's fantastic. Go and enjoy it.

As always we have a playlist to accompany the episode, which features all the tracks from their new E.P. as well as other artists and tracks inspired by this episode - you can find it here ENJOY!

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