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MIM Episode 9: The Viper Label with Paul Hemmings
Paul Hemmings, co-founder of the amazing Viper Label is our guest in episode 9 of the Misadventures in Music podcast with Ian Prowse and Mick Ord. Paul, ex-Las’s and Lightning Seeds guitarist, co-founded the label in 1999 with another ex-La’s stalwart and solo artist in his own right, Mike Badger. The label specialises in vintage blues,…
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China Crisis
Kirkby’s finest, China Crisis, are the guests in this month’s Misadventures in Music podcast with Ian Prowse and Mick Ord. Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly founded the band in 1979 and notched up a string of hits in the album and singles charts in the 1980’s. They’re still going as strong as ever and regularly…
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Paul Simpson – Revolutionary Spirit – A Post-Punk Exorcism
Paul Simpson’s band The Wild Swans burned briefly and brightly in the flourishing Merseyside music scene of the early eighties. They had one celebrated single in the indie charts but disbanded acrimoniously having failed to replicate the commercial success of their contemporaries like Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, OMD, China Crisis, Dead Or Alive and Wah!…
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Jayne Casey
Our guest in Episode 27 is the musician, artistic director and all-round Liverpool legend, Jayne Casey. She formed the short-lived but influential 70’s band Big In Japan which boasted Ian Brodie, Holly Johnson, Bill Drummond and Budgie in its ranks. Then she founded Pink Military and Pink Industry before finding herself at the epicentre of…
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Spencer Leigh
He interviewed everyone from Paul McCartney to Willie Nelson for his long-running radio show, and he has written more than 50 books on the likes of Bob Dylan, Little Richard, and the Beatles. Now Spencer Leigh has written HIS autobiography, ‘ 80 @ 80 – A Liverpool Life’, after more than 50 years throwing the spotlight on…
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Clive Langer – Deaf School
️ Misadventures in Music presents an unforgettable festive episode featuring legendary musician and producer Clive Langer! A co-founder of 70s Liverpool favorites Deaf School, Clive went on to shape the UK’s music history, collaborating with Alan Winstanley on iconic hits for Madness, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, The Teardrop Explodes, and Morrissey. He also co-wrote “Shipbuilding” with…
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Ian Prowse
Born in Chester and raised in Ellesmere Port, Ian has spent decades refusing to slow down, fronting cult bands Pele and Amsterdam with the enthusiasm of a man who still believes every gig might change the world (It deffo can!).
A master of rabble-rousing, Celtic-tinged anthems and emotional sledgehammer choruses. Checkout where to catch him live here: amsterdam-music.com. A self-styled “typical left-wing gobshite”, he somehow also squeezed in a history degree and a masters in Irish Studies. Still touring, still writing, and still loud, he remains gloriously incapable of doing anything by halves, ever or otherwise.
Mick Ord
Born in Liverpool, Mick has spent most of his life on Merseyside. However, after jobs ranging from a jacuzzi deck-builder in California to tobacco-picking in Ontario, he joined the BBC in the 80’s, eventually becoming Radio Merseyside’s longest-serving manager.
Despite being dubbed “tone-deaf” at school, he developed eclectic musical tastes spanning Scott Walker to The Fall (and Ian Prowse, of course). He now runs media consultancy mickord.com, specialising in media and crisis communications training, and remains a frustrated musician, writer, presenter and perennially disappointed Everton fan.