Phil Taggart’s Slacker Podcast

Seasonal Slacker Greetings! Hello to you all! I hope you're mince pies are full of raisins and your pockets full on tinsel. This is number 12/16 of Season 1 of The Slacker Podcast.  This week I am joined by a full on family. The Cribs are this weeks subjects of the Slacker Podcast. I love this band for many different reasons. Mainly because they are a formative band for me. When I was in my band all i wanted to do was go on tour with The Cribs. They are the most legitimate rock and roll band going in the UK. This was the first ever Slacker Podcast I recorded, just under a year ago. I hope you enjoy it... Before I forget. The Slacker Club Night is going on tour in February. The Magic Gang will be headlining each night of the tour along with a super secret support and myself DJ'n. We are playing in Feb 20th - Engine Rooms - Southampton Feb 21st - Sub89 - Reading Feb 22n - Dreamland - Margate [You can buy tickets here -](https://www.songkick.com/artists/7449559-magic-gang)https://www.songkick.com/artists/7449559-magic-gang [@philytaggart on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/philytaggart/?hl=en) [@philytaggart on Twitter](https://twitter.com/philytaggart?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Here is a link to the magnificent [Mad Notions Podcast](https://madnotions.podbean.com/) - This is the best music podcast I listen to. I love it loads. Try it out and tell those buttholes i sent you!

Hello Slackers! Welcome to the Slacker Podcast. Thanks for joining us this week with a brand new podcast for you to do what you want with.  This week's podcast is with Scottish Synth Saviours Chvrches. What an absolutely dynamite band they are. They make pop music interesting. There's no formulaic following of patterns for Chvrches, it's a real smashing together of influences. It was great to sit down with 2/3s of the band for a chinwag. If you enjoy the pod please rate and review it as it gets it out to more people. Thanks very much! Follow Phil Taggart: Twitter + Instagram - @philytaggart Text Slacker to 78070 for a free copy of The Economist

Greetings and Winter Salutations from Slacker HQ (My living room). I hope you are all good! Thanks for jumping into this weeks podcast. It is 10/16 which means only 6 more left of Season 1\. The whole Season has absolutely whizzed by! Thank you so much for all the support This week's guest is Andrew Hozier-Byrne aka. Hozier. He is an absolute gem of a human being and was one of the most interesting people that I've have had on the show. He brought with him a never before heard version of 'Take Me to Church', the first demo of a song that would help bring him to a global audience. I hope you enjoy the podcast and as usual! If you enjoyed the podcast then please give us a rate and a review on Apple Podcasts or whatever platform you listen on Follow Phil @philytaggart on Instagram and Twitter  https://twitter.com/philytaggart https://www.instagram.com/philytaggart Also Hometown Records my record label has a brand new release. It’s a pulsing punk EP from Derry trio TOUTS. I’ve been working with them for quite a while now and i absolutely adore their music. Check it out! TOUTS on Spotify - https://tinyurl.com/ybf7vca5 TOUTS Vinyl - https://ffm.to/analysisparalysis

What's the craic Slackers? Hope yiz are all knocking lumps out of each other on Pokemon. Welcome to the 9th episode of the Slacker Podcast. Special wave to the new dodie fans who join us on this episode of the pod. My name is Phil Taggart, I'm 7 Foot 9 and have more hair on my hands than most people do on their head. I'm a music broadcaster and i started this podcast to have long form interviews with artists and to hear their very early demo's. This week dodie is the subject to take the stand. She's a wonderful human being and she is slaloming her musical journey in a completely unique way to any of the guests we've had on the podcast previously. Tighten your nose peg and dive in. If you enjoy the pod plzzzz rate and review it as it gets it out to more people. Thanks very much xxx Follow Phil Taggart: Twitter + Instagram - @philytaggart Text Slacker to 78070 for a free copy of The Economist

Well Slackers. I hope your conjunctivitis has cleared up since the last time you were here. It’s looking pretty good! Welcome to all the new listeners. On this podcast we play class artists’ early demos and we get a good chin wag in along the way.  This week’s guest is Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol. He’s legit seen it all in the world of music and has traversed the highs and lows of everything that comes with it, which places him in a very apt position for me to badger him with questions. The version of Run he plays on the podcast was dug out of one of the band's attics and hasn’t been heard before so should be special for the Snow Patrol fan boys and girls. Please give the podcast a little rating or a review if you enjoy it. This Friday (16th Nov 2018) the Slacker Live Music Night will be at Portrush at the Atlantic Sessions on Northern Ireland. I have curated an amazing lineup as has our guest this week Gary Lightbody. If you want tickets then you can grab them here! Atlantic Sessions Tickets - [https://tinyurl.com/yd675px3](https://tinyurl.com/yd675px3) Also Hometown Records my record label has a brand new release. It’s a pulsing punk EP from Derry trio TOUTS. I’ve been working with them for quite a while now and i absolutely adore their music. Check it out! TOUTS on Spotify - [https://tinyurl.com/ybf7vca5](https://tinyurl.com/ybf7vca5) TOUTS Vinyl - [https://ffm.to/analysisparalysis](https://ffm.to/analysisparalysis)

Hello Slackers! Welcome to the Slacker Podcast! This week on the show we have the man, the voice, the incredible, Leon Bridges!! I’ve got a huge amount of respect for this guy and was reppin’ his music early so it was great to get the chance to catch up with him earlier in the year and chat through the demo of his hit single, Coming Home. Tickets to Slacker at the Atlantic Sessions - https://www.atlanticsessions.com/event-detail.php?se=33 Tickets to BBC Introducing Live 18 - https://www.introducinglive.co.uk

Hello Slackers! Welcome to the Slacker Podcast! I hope this Halloween season is treating you fine and dandy like sour candy and that your pets are kept in doors and away from the fireworks. This Halloween I am going as Broken Face Man, the super hero with ability to break his face at any given point. Yeah, I broke my nose playing football at the weekend and as i type this my eye is as black as a goths socks. Welcome to the podcast to you if you are fresh and this is your first episode. Please do go back and check out some of the others that I recorded. This week's guest is Kate Nash. She is a force of nature in which ever field she chooses whether it's music, acting or activism. This being the Slacker Podcast we focus mainly on the music but we touch on the other parts as well. She brought in an early demo of her track 'Dickhead' which I don't think has been heard anywhere before, so there's a treat for the mega Kate Nash fans. Apart from all that she's just a lovely human and i really enjoyed my chat with her. I hope you do too! Please give the podcast a little review or rate it wherever you listen to podcasts please! Phil Taggart Twitter + Instagram - @philytaggart If You Need Advice or Help with Bullying - https://www.bullying.co.uk/ Tickets to BBC Introducing Live 18 - https://www.introducinglive.co.uk  Tickets to The Atlantic Sessions in Portrush - https://www.atlanticsessions.com/

Hello Slackers! This week on the podcast we have a genuine legend in Dizzee Rascal! They face of UK culture would be very different if it wasn't for the sounds Dylan Mills developed in the early 2000's. On the podcast we play one of his first ever demo's 'Boy Dem About' and we talk about a 100 different things. It was one of the most fascinating to record and i think it will be to listen to as well! Thanks for all the ratings and the reviews over the first few weeks! It would be amazing if you enjoy this and you have a little sec that you could show it a bit of love. Follow Phil @philytaggart on Instagram and Twitter Dizzee Rascal - Don't Gas Me EP - https://tinyurl.com/y96mwego BBC Introducing Live 18 Tickets - https://www.introducinglive.co.uk/

Hello Slackers! I hope all of your kitchens are full of tasty food and your shirts are crease free! This is the fourth episode of my Slacker Podcast. It feels like the podcast is becoming human and sentient now! Thanks to everyone who has been listening over the past few weeks, i hope you've enjoyed the episodes with Bastille, Wolf Alice and The Manics Street Preachers. If you are a big Declan McKenna fan and are arriving here because of that, then you are very welcome. I make this podcast for the love and make no money from it so if you would like to support the work that I am doing then giving it a review and writing a little about in the review section would be incredible. This week Declan McKenna was my guest. He is a fascinating young dude who has a deep obsession with pop music. The future of UK pop music couldn't be in better hands. I really enjoyed our chat. We did it wayyyyyy back in January 2018 and he was one of the first guests i invited on to the podcast. I could go on and on but it's all said in the podcast so i'll let you check it out there.  Follow Phil at @philytaggart on Instagram and Twitter

Hello Slackers! The third episode of the Slacker Podcast is upon us. Thank you so much to everyone who has been doing the ol' rate and review merry-go-round, because of those the podcast has hit Number 1 on the Music Charts, which has completely blown my mind. I'm really thankful, yiz are awful sound. On this weeks episode we have Dan from Bastille. He was the first person i approached (on a packed train) to be on this podcast, before it had a name or a premise. He brought himself into the fetish dungeon studio in Soho armed with a banana and a herbal tea and we talked about converted porn studios, Justin Bieber, straddling music genres, throwing warm liquid at festivals and lots of other bits and pieces. Dan also brought with him an early version of a song called 'Alchemy' which really gives you a sense of where Bastille was born from. This podcast is for you all, specifically the artists and bands toiling with the complexities of the music industry. If you have any questions or want to follow me on social media it's @philytaggart (Instagram + Twitter)

The second Slacker Podcast is here! Phil Taggart hosts Wolf Alice in the twisted fetish dungeon recording studio in Soho. Things begin with a really early and raw demo of 'You're A Germ' and then drift into the questions on everyone's lips. Which band used to keep 300K in a fridge, playing second fiddle to circus acts and Theo's love of fireworks. This podcast is for you all, specifically the artists and bands toiling with the complexities of the music industry. Follow Phil @philytaggart (Instagram + Twitter) **_Letting Off Fireworks Through Your Bum Crack Is An Awful Idea and Should Not Be Done By Anyone_** **_Drugs Are Dangerous and Bad_**

On the inaugural episode of the Slacker Podcast, Phil Taggart hosts the Manic Street Preachers. Kicking things off with a demo of their anthem, ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’, the conversation quickly uncovers stories from their Welsh beginnings, their early fashion sense and of course those early riots at shows. This podcast is for you all, specifically the artists and bands toiling with the complexities of the music industry.

The Slacker Podcast delves deep into the career of a different musical guest each week, including Manic Street Preachers, The Vaccines, Declan McKenna, Mura Masa, Snow Patrol, Wolf Alice, Chvrches, Leon Bridges, Aurora, Novelist & more. Each show kicks-off with the artist playing their first ever demo, laying bare the raw sounds that encouraged them to take up a career in music. From here the conversation freewheels down a spaghetti junction of quirky anecdotes, hot takes and uncovers the journey each artist has taken to where they are today. Episode 1 debuts September 26th - subscribe now.