Time To Talk with Sean Sennett

You might know Andrew and Mike Tierney as part of Human Nature. Their forthcoming album, Soundtrack Of My Life sees the pair working as a duo after all these years. They’ll also be supporting Human Nature on tour next March (2025). The Tierney Brothers debut album will also be released in March to coincide with the Human Nature Motown 20th Anniversary Tour. The Tierney Brothers have 3 singles out now – ‘Lemonade’ ‘Praying’ and ‘Shining Star’.

The Saints’ Ed Kuepper joins Sean Sennett on Time To Talk to chat about the news Saints’ box set ‘(I’m) Stranded’ and the formation of The Saints ’73 - ’78. Ed talks about the early days of the original Saints, his earliest influences, recording ‘(I’m Stranded)’, what happened to his original SG and much more.

Paul Kelly joins Sean Sennett to talk about his new album Fever Longing Still. The artist chats about recording the LP, his songwriting process, artists he admires and his relationship with the film adaptation of ‘How To Make Gravy’. There’s also a little cricket talk and we’ve gone for an audio vérité introduction as a homage to the album’s opening track ‘Houndstooth Dress’.

Sarah Blasko joins Sean Sennett to talk about her latest album ‘I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain’. Along the way they discuss Sarah’s relationship with organised religion, the loss of friendship, songwriting, her earliest influences, following intuition, Sarah’s upcoming tour and even her relationship with ‘Flame Trees’.

Jon Landau joins Sean Sennett on this special episode of Time To Talk to discuss the new film Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. A producer on the film, Jon has managed Bruce’s career for over five decades. Along the way Jon co-produced all of Bruce’s records on an extraordinary run from Born To Run (1975) through to Human Touch and Lucky Town (1992). Jon also discusses his earliest film influences, his work with the MC5 and touches on his time writing for Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone.

Thom Zimny is the director behind the new film Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Thom has a long history with Springsteen and today he talks about that working relationship, alongside exactly how his collaborative process with Bruce operates. Thom has also directed Wings for Wheels: The Making of 'Born to Run' (2005), The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (2010), Letter To You (2020) and Elvis Presley: The Searcher. Road Diary is released through Disney+ on October 25.

ABBA remains as popular today as they were in their heyday. UK author Giles Smith has written a fine new book on the band My My! ABBA Through The Ages. Today he joins Sean Sennett to discuss the writing of the book, offering valuable insights into ABBA, the Voyage show and why they are so engaging fifty years after they won the Eurovision song contest.

Leila George and Greta Scacchi join Sean Sennett on this week’s episode to discuss their new film, He Ain’t Heavy. Directed by David Vincent Smith and also starring Sam Corlett, the film is about a desperate young woman who kidnaps and enforces rehab on her violent brother in a last-ditch effort to save their lives. The pair talk process, accents, how the film was made and what they’re up to now - including Leila co-starring in the new series Disclaimer.

Kasey Chambers joins Sean Sennett from the road this week to talk about her new album Backbone and her new book ‘Just Don’t Be A Dickhead’. Beyond that, they chat about Kasey’s early life growing up in the bush, her songwriting process, the album that changed her life, how she wrote a book on her iPhone and much more.

The great Richard Clapton joins Sean Sennett on this week’s episode to talk about the re-release of three classic albums, Prussian Blue, Goodbye Tiger and The Great Escape. Richard also discusses his early days, collaborations, life adventures, the writing of ‘Girls On The Avenue’ and much more.