Needle Mythology with Pete Paphides Podcast
1) Kirsty Wark
In this very special episode, Pete Paphides meets Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark as she ponders the influence of David Bowie’s ‘Kooks’ on her own parenting style, looks back on her recent infamous encounter ...Show More
2) The Raincoats
Forty years after the release of their phenomenal debut album, Pete Paphides meets Gina Birch and Ana da Silva from incalculably influential post-punk legends, The Raincoats. Hosted on Acast. See acas...Show More
3) Tanita Tikaram
To mark the release of her career-spanning anthology To Drink The Rainbow, Tanita Tikaram talks to Pete Paphides about her fascination with the female voice and guides him through 12 vocal performance...Show More
4) Stephen Duffy & Stephen Street
To mark the release of Stephen Duffy’s acclaimed 1997 masterpiece I Love My Friends on Needle Mythology Records, Pete Paphides meets Stephen along with the record’s producer Stephen Street (The Smiths...Show More
5) Sarathy Korwar
Sarathy Korwar talks to Pete Paphides about the explosive synergy of influences that inform his brilliant new album, to be released on July 26th.  Inspired by Indian classical music, Sufi devotionals,...Show More
6) Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie (Part 2)
In the second part of this career-spanning interview, Ian talks about his years with the Lightning Seeds: the journey from Pure –a song he didn't even intend to be released – to a strin...Show More
7) Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie (Part 1)
In the first part of an extensive career-spanning interview with Pete Paphides, Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie talks about his years as a key player in the Liverpool post-punk scene, first as a member o...Show More
8) The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon
Ahead of The Divine Comedy's excellent new album Office Politics, Neil Hannon reflects upon the breakthrough success of his group's 1996 album Casanova and also revisits a formative release from his c...Show More
9) Travis' Fran Healy
For the second Needle Mythology, Fran Healy from Travis talks to Pete Paphides about his group's massively successful second album The Man Who and also about the album that had a formative influence o...Show More
10) Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon
This interview with Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon is the first of a new series of interviews in which Pete Paphides talks about beautiful records, usually but not always with the people who made them....Show More