DiscoverStates of IndependenceEp 10: From BB to 4AD with Simon Neil, Mat Berninger, Martin Mills & Jamie East
Ep 10: From BB to 4AD with Simon Neil, Mat Berninger, Martin Mills & Jamie East

Ep 10: From BB to 4AD with Simon Neil, Mat Berninger, Martin Mills & Jamie East

Update: 2025-11-13
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In this last episode of the series we’re at the end of the 90s, a time when Beggars Banquet were signing a lot of guitar bands, but finding it hard to get any of them away. Derby’s own The Beekeepers struggled - the band’s ex-singer Jamie breaks down exactly why. Another that soldiered on and broke internationally was Biffy Clyro, but only after they’d left the label, as Biffy’s singer Simon Neil explains. In 2008 the Beggars Banquet label was shuttered and some artists were moved to 4AD - one of them was The National - and singer Matt Berninger talks us through that whole process. As ever, Beggars boss Martin Mills speaks with striking openness and honesty about these huge decisions of the past and the future of the Beggars Group.

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Ep 10: From BB to 4AD with Simon Neil, Mat Berninger, Martin Mills & Jamie East

Ep 10: From BB to 4AD with Simon Neil, Mat Berninger, Martin Mills & Jamie East

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