Such A Good Feeling with Steve Anderson

My guest today is the incomparable, the beautiful and the divine Tessa Niles who has featured as a backing singer on countless hits and has performed on stages with the the most iconic artists in the world including David Bowie, Robbie Williams, , The Police , Trevor Horn, Pet Shop Boys, Tina Turner Kylie and at one of her first ever shows, Live Aid. She recently published her autobiography “Backtrack” to incredible critical acclaim and with huge success. I’ve been blessed to know her professionally and personally for more years than either of us care to remember and it was so lovely to have this catch up in London’s glittering West End. Hope you enjoy! All previous episodes available to stream now. Thanks for listening.

Anya Jones epitomises the reason for this podcast in that she is one of the only people I know to successfully make the transition from A&R where at Syco she was instrumental in  up 120 Million sales including for Little Mix, Susan Boyle and Ella Henderson to a world class songwriter currently enjoying success with Kylie, Birdy. Dylan, Benjamin Ingrosso , Tom Grennan and Rita Ora amongst others . Her emotional connection to music is one of many reasons why I've always adored her and you'll hear it so many examples of it throughout this wonderful episode. If you enjoy this episode please like/subscribe and explore earlier episodes including incredible conversations with artists and creatives including Mark Feehily, Claire Richards, William Baker, Biff Stannard, Richard X , Karen Poole and many many more. Thanks for listening.

On a recent rummage through his loft my partner in Brothers In Rhythm Dave Seaman found his old Filofax so to celebrate a few 30th Anniversaries for us this year we decided to open it up and discuss the contents of our professional engagements in the diary within resulting in differing levels of recollection ! Part One takes us through to June 1994 including productions and remixes with Kylie, Take That, Charvhoni ,The Eurythmics and an unforgettable moment with Lulu. Hope you enjoy!

Toby Alington is an award winning live sound engineer who this year is celebrating mixing his 30th Brit Awards for television alongside working with everyone from Coldplay, Adele , Take That and Kylie on their filmed live shows. His exquisite skill of delivering the most exciting live sound on multi artists shows whilst all the time executing an almost zen like modicum of cool has resulted in over 40 years of the biggest artists in the world trusting him. Here he talks about the process of translating the live concert experience sonically on filmed shows and the people that helped him along the way. Please follow/like the podcast to hear more incredible stories about the moments that changed everything for truly wonderful people . Thanks for listening.

Joanna Woodward has without doubt one of the finest female voices I’ve ever worked with , on top of that she is an established West End leading lady with roles in " The Time Travellers Wife" and "Beautiful" amongst others , a cabaret legend and also a bonafide superhero. Her incredible honesty in opening up about mental health and personal family situations has helped so many people and above it all she continually shines , brighter than ever to the complete wonder and joy of every audience member lucky enough to be watching her. I hope you enjoy it and if you do please follow/like the podcast to hear all previous episodes and make sure you don't miss out on the amazing ones to come. Thank you for listening.

Martyn Ware is one of the true pioneers of electronic music both as a founding member of The Human League , Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation. He’s also a highly respected producer with credits including Tina Turner, Terence Trent D'arby and Erasure and most recently a revered podcaster with his brilliant “Electronically Yours” series. I've admired his work tremendously from an early age discovering the League's early work like "Being Boiled", Dave Seaman and I remixed "Temptation" as Brothers In Rhythm in the 90s and we were lucky enough to have Heaven 17 perform at 80s Classical recently so this was such an honour for me to talk to him. Hope you enjoy. More info at https://martynwareofficial.co.uk If you enjoy this podcast please like/follow and catch up with previous episodes including Mark Feehily, Claire Richards, Stephen Lipson, Karen Poole and Biff Stannard. Thanks for listening.

Myself. Lee Bennett (Teases and Dares) and Larry Flick (Vero) pick our favourite songs from 2023 - hope you enjoy!

Todays guest is without doubt one of the most original songwriters of her generation , with a career spanning dancer, artist, iconic songwriter with Xenomania for artists including Girls Aloud, Sugababes and Pet Shop Boys and now musical theatre writer with the incredible Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World opening later this year  , This makes her the most perfect person to talk about the moments that made all that possible. So please welcome , pop royalty , Miranda Cooper.

Todays guest is the brilliant Katy Richardson. a truly incredible musical supervisor and musical director for some of the biggest theatre shows including the award winning Bonnie & Clyde, the incredible Hope Theatre version of “Rent”, "Jersey Boys" and of course the global phenonemon that is "Six The Musical". I’m also lucky enough to have her working with me on the new Jerry Mitchell show “Becoming Nancy” (written by Terry Ronald). Its a fascinating chat talking about her process, the small events that shaped everything for her , the slowly changing landscape of equal representation of genders within theatre and a must have hint for any musicians wanting to break into either West End or touring pop bands. Really hope you enjoy this as much as we did chatting. You can find Katy at http://www.katyrichardsonmd.com

After being critically acclaimed and universally loved as one of the UK's finest soul voices and following on from a Grammy nominated David Foster production duetting with Celine Dion on 'When I Fall In Love" from "Sleepless In Seattle" Clive Griffin withdrew from being an artist. 30 years later he's back to tell his story and celebrating his three incredible albums finally available on all streaming platforms now. From humble beginnings at stage school , through being discovered by maestro Richard Niles and onto a catalogue of much loved material including the classic "I'll Be Waiting". Clive talks about his love of incredible musicians , supporting Eric Clapton, finding audio treasures in his loft (soon to be released) , his struggles but most of all his joy and love of everything he achieved. As well as producing his third album for Sony, he's my truly wonderful friend and I hope you enjoy listening to him talk as much as we did recording this. Listen to Clive's albums here https://open.spotify.com/artist/7piYJtFSV6vtj2pK5TyHJI?si=8xYjzdBfT6GGic25whMR-Q

As always I love chatting to producers and Jon Shave has made some of my absolute favourite records including "The Show" by "Girls Aloud" and "On A Mission" by Gabriella Cilmi. He is a Grammy nominated songwriter and producer who started out as part of the hugely successful Xenomania team working with artists including Girls Aloud and The Sugababes before joining with George Astasio and Jason Pebworth to form the production team The Invisible Men working with everyone from Little Mix and Jessie J to Britney Spears , Ellie Goulding and many more including current singles for Rita Ora and Becky Hill. More on Jon here https://www.redlightmanagement.com/artists/jon-shave/

For the final episode of 2022 you are welcome to join myself and Larry Flick (Vero/Billboard) and Lee Bennett (Teases And Dares Blog) for a recap of a year of some truly incredible music with each of us picking our 5 favourites. We have a shared love of discovering new artists and songs , very often taking a lot of searching to find the gems but always worth it! If you like the sound of any of them please do check out the incredible artists featured here and support them. Find Lee at https://teasesanddares.wordpress.com Find Larry at https://www.instagram.com/larry_flick/ And find all episodes of this podcast at https://linktr.ee/suchagoodfeelingpodcast

Its the most wonderful time of the year and I've got together with actual Santa lookalike Larry Flick (Vero/Billboard) and Christmas Elf Lee Bennett (Teases & Dares blog)  to talk through our favourite hidden Christmas musical gems with some unexpected results! So grab some egg nog (which Larry admits he has never even tried) and join us for a winter wonderland of festive gems!

With over 500 million streams on Spotify, 2 UK numbers 1s and 3 UK Top 10 hits.plus one grammy nomination, Kelli-Leigh is an artist, a creative , a label owner but above all possesses one of the finest voices this country has ever produced. From singing backing vocals for Leona Lewis, Adele and Jessie J through to being the voice of hits including "I Got U" with Duke Dumont and "More Than Friends' with James Hype alongside her superb original material all released independently through her own label, KL is one of the hardest working people I know.  Here's she talks through where that drive comes from including being physically stopped momentarily by a car accident which eventually allowed her the time to consider her future and the pure joy derived from her Christmas EP released this week including what I believe to be a song that is up there with Leona and Mariah "Underneath The Tree' and new single "Unwrap My Heart" which is equally magical.  Please enjoy this wonderful episode and follow Kelli-Leigh at  https://www.instagram.com/kellileighuk/ https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO08OZ0s?si=5dd8eedd636040d6

I'm joined by Larry Flick (Vero) and Lee Bennett (Teases & Dares Blog) to discuss our favourite 5 remixes of all time plus a little bit of history on how remixing evolved and the legendary producers and DJ's that helped shape what it is today including David Morales, Shep Pettibone, Frankie Knuckles, Clivilles & Cole , Oliver , Trouser Enthusiasts and many more. If you enjoy this chat please check out all other episodes of the podcast streaming now.

Join me, Larry Flick (Vero) and Lee Bennett (Teases And Dares Blog) as we pick our choices of incredible new artists to watch out for in 2024. Hope you find some in here that you love and let us know your recommendations as well! Please check out all previous episodes of #SuchAGoodFeeling on Apple and Spotify and thanks for listening.

I always love talking to producers and Mike Spencer is one of the very best with an incredible history of superbly made records for a wide variety of artist from Gabrielle Aplin and Tom Walker to Kylie and Zara Larsson. He’s also responsible for so many of my favourite records of all time including "Heaven" by Emile Sande, "Spinning Around" by Kylie, "Salvation" by Gabrielle Aplin and the truly epic "Once" for Diana Vickers. We speak about all of these and more including how he got his first breaks as part of UK Dance act Definition Of Sound through to how he works at his incredible studio "The Larks Tongue" which is now entirely self sufficient as an energy source and home to ducks, geese and most recently otters (which we also talk about in a SAFG first!). It was such a joy chatting to him and I loved every minute of this episode , hope everyone enjoys the stories and truly inspiring journey of one of our true production gems from the UK. You can find out more about Mike and his incredible studio here https://thelarkstongue.com/mike-spencer

Once again I am joined by pop royalty Larry Flick (Vero/Sirius/Billboard) and Lee Bennett (Teases and Dares Blog) to talk about a period of time that is having quite the renaissance right now, the golden era of 2000-2010 as we uncover some hidden gems and sometimes overlooked classics. It's always so much fun doing this and hopefully it will bring back some lovely memories or inspire you to seek out something you are hearing for the first time. I really hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did making it and please do follow #SuchAGoodFeelingPodcast to hear more gems and wonderful interviews with incredible creative humans who all have had those magic moments when the smallest thing changed everything for them.

I love talking to remixers as its where I started out so it was wonderful to chat to the  brilliant Jon Dixon who has worked as a remixer as part of Almighty and 7th Heaven working with artists including, Cher, Steps, Kylie, Barry Manilow, Ariana Grande,, Whitney Houston, Britney Pet Shop Boys and Donna Summer. He’s also an acclaimed producer and long time collaborator for the fabulous Jane Mcdonald working on albums and TV shows with her. We talk about his process including a step by step approach to creating a remix from scratch and reminisce about the very limited technology we both started out using and how sometimes having less options can be very inspiring. Really hope you enjoy this as much as I did recording it. For more on Jon https://www.7hproductions.com

Sarah deCourcy is living proof of how taking chances and change can be transformative. Already a successful producer/writer/musician she decided to pursue her dream of being an in demand film , tv and now game composer by packing up her London studio and moving to LA 3 years ago.  A move that has paid dividends with huge success.  She's worked with world class artists including Kylie, Little Mix and Christophe Willem as well as countless film and TV credits alongside being the first woman to score music for the Far Cry Ubisoft Game Franchise. We talk here about her her journey from child piano prodigy through studying at the Royal Academy Of Music and how discovering synths and falling in love with studios paved the way for an incredibly successful career driven by a passion for music and unflinching determination. More on Sarah here https://www.sarahdecourcy.com