We Are The Road Crew Podcast

This week Stephen is joined by Frank Fanelli, who has not only been a professional Tour Manager and Merchandiser for over 14 years but is the co-founder of For The Nomads, a fundraiser focused on helping the touring music industry crews who are laid off of work as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As well as giving us a unique insight into how he started the fundraiser, Frank talks us through his early years in music, his career as a musician, and how he came to land his very first Tour Manager role with Bam Margera. Since then he's gone on to work with the likes of Emmure, Black Veil Brides, Andy Black, Pennywise, Hatebreed, and more recently a diversion in the genre to artists such as J.I.D, Earthgang, and Yelawolf. Also Frank gives us a fascinating insight into his five experiences of working Vans Warped Tour and all the highs and lows which came with working on such an iconic touring festival.
We are proud to be partnering this season with our friends over at Signature Brew who have been brewing music-inspired beers and supporting live music since 2011. Their award-winning core beers include the Nightliner coffee porter, which shares its name with sleeper busses used by touring bands across the world. There's the equivalent of a shot of espresso in every can – definitely a beer to keep you going throughout the podcast!
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Welcome to another must-listen episode of We Are The Road Crew where this week Stephen talks to Jon Burton, a Sound Engineer with many years of experience working at the very highest level. Included in his long list of prestigious clients, Jon has spent over 15 years working as chief Sound Engineer to electronic dance giants The Prodigy. We talk about his career with them, including focusing on some of the band's most iconic performances, as well his feelings on the tragic death of vocalist Keith Flint. Jon also gives us a potted history of his career to date, beginning in his hometown of Oxford and the music scene there, growing up and working with the likes of The Candyskins, Radiohead, Pulp, Suede, Gene, Katrina And The Waves and many many more iconic Britpop era bands. Now spending most of his time teaching, Jon has a degree in Music Technology and lectures at The University Of Derby.
Alongside listening to this week's episode, grab yourself a Signature Brew and put your feet up! We are proud to be partnering this season with the team over in East London who have been brewing music-inspired beers and supporting live music since 2011. Their award-winning core beers include the Studio Lager, which is a staple in bars and venues around the country and has been known to have been found in iconic recording studios such as Metropolis and Strongroom in East London, which happens to be where Signature Brew was conceived!
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In this episode, Stephen is joined by Rishi-Louis Gowry, who talks passionately about his rise in the live music industry to become one of the top Promoter Rep and Stage Managers in the business. From humble beginnings crewing at MTV in London, to running festival stages and arena shows around the world, Rishi recalls working with British rapper Slowthai and American rock supergroup A Perfect Circle. The sometimes comedic pressures of running a podcast tour featuring Kevin 'Silent Bob' Smith. The joy and excitement he gets in festival season, managing stages at festivals such as All Points East and Creamfields. And finally trying to curb the fanboy in him whilst working with the musical genius that is Ronnie Wood. For added refreshment whilst listening to the show, we are proud to be partnering this season with our good friends over at Signature Brew who have been brewing music-inspired beers and supporting live music since 2011. Their award-winning core beers include the Backstage IPA, which is named in tribute to all the backstage antics that (allegedly) go on!
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Welcome back to the start of SEASON 2 of the We Are The Road Crew Podcast! It's been a long time coming, mainly due to the current world health situation we all find ourselves in, but we are battling on and are delighted to bring you this season's first guest, Stevie Firth who has been Guitar Tech for over 15 years with the likes of Cradle Of Filth, Napalm Death, The Wildhearts and Therapy? This is an episode not to be missed, as Stevie candidly discusses with Stephen growing up in and around the music scene in the north of England, his journey from a Doncaster nightclub seeing an early incarnation of The Wildhearts, to years later becoming their long-term Guitar Tech. And presently his role with Therapy? as not only their Guitar Tech but as a live performer in the band. In further exciting news for the podcast we are delighted to have the support this season of our good friends over at Signature Brew who have been brewing music-inspired beers and supporting live music since 2011. Their award-winning core beers include their fan-favorite All-Night IPA… fittingly called Roadie, which, much like this podcast, is dedicated to road crews around the world! 
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We are BACK! Thanks to all the great feedback we are back, to bring you a unique behind the scenes insight into the world of the backstage crew and individuals who are responsible for bringing you the best live shows, from some of your favourite bands and artists. Please Subscribe & Follow the 'We Are The Road Crew Podcast' over on Facebook & Twitter using the Handle/Tag @RoadCrewPod #RoadCrewPod

Closing this first season of the Podcast is legendary Lighting & Stage Set Designer Paul Dexter, who joins Stephen remotely from Los Angeles to discuss his fascinating career to date, including his very first tour with Billy Preston, working with Elton John in the late Eighties and stories of the excess of being on the road with Motley Crue on the Theatre Of Pain & Girls,Girls,Girls tours. We get a first hand account of THAT bat story whilst working with Ozzy on the Diary Of A Madman Tour, before going on to explore the emotional ups and downs of deciding to move to the UK, and then having to move back to the US to work as crew chief for pop icon Michael Jackson. Paul then goes on to open up about his unique and fascinating working relationship with the much missed legendary rock star Ronnie James Dio, his role in Hollywood films and much much more...This is an episode not to be missed.
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Joining Stephen this week in the studio is FOH/Monitor Sound Engineer & RF Tech, Hannah Brodrick who chats about her fascinating career so far working with the likes of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Raging Speedhorn, Carly Rae Jepson, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, PG.Lost and many more. She also discusses her pride in founding a European organisation and online community focusing on the growing number of women within the live music industry, called Women In Live Music. And we find out Hannah's best and worse day on the job, which may/or may not involve a certain pop punk festival here in the UK..

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Our guest this week is highly talented live Sound Engineer Steven Carr who has worked with some of the biggest names in music over the past few decades, artists from the likes of Chris Rea, Katherine Jenkins, Goldfrapp, Birdy, Nick Mason, Agnes Obel and many more. Steve sat down with host Stephen Hill (Metal Hammer, Riot Act Podcast) and passionately talked through his diverse musical career highlights, including his first show as a fan seeing British rock band Bush at Brixton Academy in 1995, through to partying on tour with The Shaolin Monks, his journey from warehouse to front of house, being known as the “go to” engineer for mixing world class female vocalists, earning the honour of being Front Of House Project Manager of the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, and the story of a random encounter with Blues legend BB King…

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We celebrate Halloween this week with our very special guest, punk legend Andy Corrigan. Alongside being Managing Director of entertainment Visa specialists Viva La Visa, Andy was lead singer of British punk band The Mekons, and then spent the next 20 years working as a Tour Manager for the likes of Bow Wow Wow, New Order, ABC, Kim Wilde, Human League, Public Image Ltd and many more.. Andy shares his thoughts with Stephen on the Punk scene in Britain & beyond throughout the 1980's, touring the world with new wave band Bow Wow Wow, hilarious Tour stories of struggling with a trio of Flight Cases around America, and what he REALLY thinks about working with a certain member of The Sex Pistols..
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Episode 3 see's host Stephen Hill (Metal Hammer, Riot Act Podcast) chatting over Skype with Graham Wright, roadie with the greatest heavy metal band ever, Black Sabbath.
Graham talks about seeing The Beatles live in concert, working with Sabbath throughout the 1970’s, meeting his future wife whilst touring America with UFO, designing the iconic Wall stage sets for Roger Waters and how fate played a part in him avoiding the tragic Eagles Of Death Metal show at The Bataclan on the 13th November 2015….

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