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The Art of Longevity
The Art of Longevity
The Song Sommelier

Uniquely honest conversations with famous and renowned musicians. We talk about how these artists have navigated the mangle of the music industry... more

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Episodes

That One Guitar pilot episode 1: Gale Paridjanian, Turin Brakes

My guest for this pilot episode is Gale Paridjanian of (the magnificent) Turin Brakes.If you listen to the song Underdog... more

25 Oct 2024 · 53 minutes
The Art of Longevity Episode 64: Chilly Gonzales

When I heard the Chilly Gonzales song Neoclassical Massacre, I immediately got in touch with his management and label to... more

16 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
The Art of Longevity Episode 63: Nada Surf

In this day & age of abundance, you can easily forget what’s precious - like your favourite bands. If you... more

11 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 5: Eels

In Mark Oliver Everett’s autobiography “Things The Grandchildren Should Know”, the author, otherwise known as E, the frontman and band... more

29 May 2024 · 55 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 4: Marika Hackman

Marika Hackman's Big Sigh is everything a 4th album should be. Really good songs, good scheduling, sophisticated arrangements (brass and... more

12 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 3: Travis, with Fran Healy

Fran Healy and his band Travis have this longevity thing down. Firstly, you must have a love and addiction to... more

29 Mar 2024 · 47 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 2: Ed Harcourt

After 25 years in the music business, both as a major label priority artist and as a jobbing musician, Ed... more

20 Mar 2024 · 55 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 9, Episode 1: Crowded House

Try playing a Crowded House record (any of them) then let Spotify play on…you will get just the best selection... more

09 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 9 Preview, with Real Estate

When Real Estate's fifth album The Main Thing was released to fairly mixed results, was it time for a reset?... more

16 Feb 2024 · 52 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 5: The Staves

Like many women creators in the (still) white, male dominated music industry, the Staveley-Taylor sisters aka The Staves, bring a... more

09 Dec 2023 · 1 hour,
The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 4: Beirut

After the fiasco of having to cancel Beirut’s 2019 tour, Zach Condon knew he needed to take the time out... more

17 Nov 2023 · 55 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 3: Metric

Metric has become one of those bands that have paved the way for independence, along with Aimee Mann, Chance The... more

05 Nov 2023 · 45 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 2: Half Moon Run

I had invited Half Moon Run onto the podcast after first hearing Salt - imploring their BMG PR to arrange... more

28 Oct 2023 · 49 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 8, Episode 1: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

In the 70s, the teenage years of Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, one would have heard new music by word... more

13 Oct 2023 · 52 minutes
Season 8 Preview: The Goo Goo Dolls, with John Rezeznik

So many bands have a complex relationship with their biggest songs (probably because they essentially set a one dimensional benchmark... more

14 Sep 2023 · 59 minutes
The Art of Longevity 50th Episode: Corey Taylor

What better guest for this 50th episode of The Art of Longevity than metal’s renaissance man Corey Taylor? A modern... more

12 Aug 2023 · 54 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 7, Episode 7: The Walkmen

Following the highly accomplished 2012 album Heaven, cult American indie band The Walkmen went on hiatus. But now they have... more

21 Jul 2023 · 36 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 7, Episode 6: Ron Sexsmith

After he “couldn’t get arrested” in the 80s, post-grunge opened a window through which a then 30-year old Ron Sexsmith... more

09 Jul 2023 · 1 hour,
The Art of Longevity Season 7, Episode 5: Ben Folds

For Ben Folds, coming back on the scene with a new studio album feels like a breeze, literally:“I Feel like... more

28 May 2023 · 52 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 7, Episode 4: John Grant

Asking John Grant to describe the essence of the record he is working on now, elicits a response that fascinates... more

17 May 2023 · 47 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 7, Episode 3: Joseph

What’s more important in securing a band’s longevity - hit songs or a classic album? I put this question to... more

27 Apr 2023 · 48 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 7, Episode 2: Mogwai

In this episode of the Art of Longevity, we have the pleasure of chatting with Stuart Braithwaite, a member of... more

15 Apr 2023 · 39 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 7, Episode 1: Rickie Lee Jones

Being a longevous, ‘real deal’ music artist requires many things, but being pure in heart is certainly one. And there... more

05 Apr 2023 · 45 minutes
Season 7 preview, with Dave Rowntree

It has taken Dave Rowntree ages to make his first non-soundtrack body of work outside of Blur, especially when you... more

29 Jan 2023 · 55 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 7: Bush, with Gavin Rossdale

Gavin Rossdale doesn’t think that Bush's longevity story in the music business as high drama - even though they have... more

23 Jan 2023 · 45 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 6: Editors

The egoless band can go a lot further than most bands. A strong element of that is embracing creative changes... more

12 Jan 2023 · 54 minutes
The Art of Longevity Series 6, Episode 5: Gaz Coombes

Let’s face it, there is a patchy record for solo artists that began in popular 90s bands. Some crossed the... more

04 Jan 2023 · 40 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 4: Rumer

Rumer’s arrival struck a similar chord to that of Norah Jones some six years earlier i.e. refreshingly out of time.... more

22 Dec 2022 · 55 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 3: The Delines

The Delines’ world is a sprawling, blue collar soap opera. Flawed characters, aimless drifters, chancers and grifters, barroom fights, beat-up... more

12 Dec 2022 · 50 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 2: Blancmange

In this episode, Fenner Pearson chats to Neil Arthur about his writing process and how he works on the Blancmange... more

27 Nov 2022 · 41 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 6, Episode 1: Aqualung

After fading from view in the UK after "Strange And Beautiful" (a top 10 hit in 2002), Aqualung was hardly... more

21 Nov 2022 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 7: Suede, with Brett Anderson

Suede (or, The London Suede for our friends in the USA) has reached 30 years in the business (well, minus... more

06 Oct 2022 · 52 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 6: Death Cab For Cutie

How to characterise an American indie band over almost three decades and 10 albums, each with a subtly different flavour?... more

01 Oct 2022 · 54 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 5: Embrace, with Danny McNamara

Before I spoke with Danny McNamara, he’d emailed me to say how much he loved Brett Anderson’s quote - the... more

25 Sep 2022 · 54 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 4: Alela Diane

Having helped pave the way, Alela remains at the heart of a very strong current movement for female troubadours -... more

14 Sep 2022 · 57 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 3: Interpol

Interpol have honed their craft over 20 years since they ‘blasted’ onto the scene in 2002 with Turn On The... more

02 Sep 2022 · 1 hour, 1 minute
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 2: The Waterboys, with Mike Scott

“I’ve recognised that music is sort of like an inner voice that is telling me what to do. When I... more

25 Jul 2022 · 56 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 1: Everything Everything

The music journalist Paul Lester described Everything Everything as “a riot in a melody factory”, a perfect description for a... more

09 Jul 2022 · 46 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 7: Nerina Pallot

After her second album Fires (2005) Nerina Pallot was hot property. She kissed the frog that is ‘fame’ in the... more

23 Jun 2022 · 1 hour,
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 6: Bruce Hornsby

Inspired by recent collaborations with some of America's coolest indie A-listers (Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Danielle Haim, Justin Vernon aka... more

14 Jun 2022 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 5: Calexico, with Joey Burns

We spoke to Joey Burns on the eve of Calexico's recent European shows in Brussels and London. Calexico play bigger... more

25 May 2022 · 55 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 4: The Divine Comedy

When your host purchased The Divine Comedy's Fin De Siècle in 1998, I couldn’t quite penetrate it at the time.... more

14 May 2022 · 57 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 3: Norah Jones

After her fourth album The Fall in 2009 proved to be a departure from the well known blend of blues-jazz-country-pop,... more

03 May 2022 · 48 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 2: Belle and Sebastian, with Stuart Murdoch

If all music artists of longevity have a good book in them, then Belle and Sebastian are more bookish than... more

24 Apr 2022 · 48 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 1: Teenage Fanclub

When Teenage Fanclub formed in 1989, times were unusual in music, and not in a good way. It was pre-grunge,... more

18 Apr 2022 · 57 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 3, Episode 7: Steve Mason

Steve Mason first made his name as one quarter (and the frontman of) the Beta Band, one of the most... more

12 Mar 2022 · 58 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 3, Episode 6: The Wombats

The Wombats have defied all UK press scepticism (and cynicism) to become one of the country’s biggest indie pop bands.... more

04 Mar 2022 · 57 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 3, Episode 5: Sea Power, with Yan

In a warm and whimsical conversation with Yan (Scott Wilkinson) of Sea Power, I learned to appreciate just what this... more

24 Feb 2022 · 41 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 3, Episode 4: Tears For Fears

From the earliest beginnings of 1983’s The Hurting to the band’s huge 1985 LP Songs From The Big Chair, Tears... more

18 Feb 2022 · 43 minutes
The Art of Longevity Season 3, Episode 3: Spoon, with Britt Daniel

After the release of a ‘best of’ collection Everything Hits at Once in 2019, Spoon are back at long last... more

11 Feb 2022 · 40 minutes
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In a warm and whimsical conversation with Yan (Scott Wilkinson) of Sea Power, I learned to appreciate just what this unique band... more