Episode 24: Killer chord changes

We take a look back at the bills for Reading Festivals of 1991, '92, '93 and '94 and explore the bands whose names we recognise, but maybe weren't aware of their oeuvre. Tune in to find out who we selected.

Axe Gods, plectrum plunderers, slashers of the six-stringed beast... we're talking guitarists and guitar parts. 

Tom and Charlie welcome Mark Sturdy to the virtual studio to discuss music inspired by and made in the great city of Sheffield. 

The first of our love letters to the city of Berlin, a city that inspired many of our favourite artists and was the back-drop to Seeing Scarlet's album Laughter in the Dark 

Go West... and you'll find Country Music... and so will we. It's not a genre we're experts in but we're beginning a voyage of discovery. Please join us

Tom, Charlie, Jim and Mick talk chords - sequences, changes... instrumentation and harmonies that create dynamic changes in songs... the difference between a chord and a key change. It's not as technical as it sounds, though we have a few sound issues of our own.

We continue our exploration into how songs change, evolve and morph into different versions of one another. We take examples from Bowie and Grunge and do a deep dive into one of our own songs, Music Will Save You to see how songs change over time

In this episode we consider how songs become different songs, how one song can change over the course of its life and how tempo makes a massive difference to the success of a song

A continuation of the previous episode talking about bands in 'The Scene' - this episode features songs from Mystery Jets, Guillemots, Miss Black America, Battle, Librium and The Cling

For every musician and every band there's a scene: shared gigs, rivalries and borrowings. For us it happened in London in the early 2000s around rock and indie music. In this first episode on 'The Scene', Tom, Charlie and Stix look back on some of those scene setters....