Award winning podcast host Phil Griffin talks life & the moments that change us with iconic cultural figures whose own lives have shifted culture. Phil encourages and empowers each guest to explore their journey; even when it feels like it's against the tide. The conversations with our collaborators are deep and insightful, with empathy and celebration at the core. We focus on the true unfiltered experiences of our guests; the epiphanies & the pitfalls, told in their own words, on their own terms.
"Always be a little bit out of your depth. And when you don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting."
- David Bowie
A NEW KIND OF PORTRAIT
Each episode is a portrait, created through the art of open conversation, where trust is always the signature. Through long- form interview we discover in each interviewee, who they are now, the journey to making that happen, and what all that means for the person, the artist and the future.
We share stories that provide real artist insight and new moments of revelation for our guests. Each episode adds a little piece to the jigsaw of the bigger story; how to become self-aware, self-actualised and self-accepted.
Unlearning doubt. In this deeply reflective episode of PRESS RECORD, Maverick Sabre sits down with Phil Griffin for a conversation about music, loneliness, purpose and the long journey back to trusting your own instinct. Maverick talks about the music that saved him growing up, describing it as something like a home-cooked meal — a form of sustenance that has been there for him in his loneliest moments. From his early love of Irish hip hop to the pressures of the music industry, he reflects on what it means to stay connected to the original reason you began creating in the first place. This is a conversation about what happens when doubt enters the room. About losing touch with your instinct. About becoming a commodity — even to yourself. And about finding your way back. Together, Phil and Maverick explore identity, the loneliness of the artist, the danger of selling pain, the strange relationship between ego and intuition, and why vulnerability can feel both like a gift and a threat. Maverick also speaks with rare honesty about masculinity, softness, anger, kindness and responsibility — asking what it really means to be strong without becoming hardened. This isn’t just a conversation about music. It’s a conversation about purpose. About learning to listen again. And about the courage it takes to unlearn doubt. Heartlines, not headlines.
4 Jul 2026
Dannii Minogue: When I Said No....
When I said no, everyone else said yes.
In this deeply personal episode of PRESS RECORD, Dannii Minogue reflects on the decisions that shaped her life—not the ones that made headlines, but the quiet moments when trusting herself changed everything.
From navigating fame and public scrutiny to discovering that intuition is often louder than opinion, this conversation explores the courage to say no, the power of intention over ego, and why self-trust is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves. Dannii shares how she learned that just because somebody says something about you doesn't make it true, why the "nos" can be more important than the "yeses," and how joy, kindness and purpose have become the compass for both her life and work. T
his isn't a conversation about celebrity. It's a conversation about becoming yourself.
Heartlines, not headlines.
In this episode
• Why saying no changed Dannii's life
• Trusting your intuition when everyone disagrees
• Surviving public judgement without losing yourself
• The difference between intention and ego
• Finding joy, purpose and self-belief
• Why kindness is more powerful than we realise
• Reframing the past instead of reliving it
30 Mar 2026
Using Pain as an Advantage - Loreen | Press Record
Today we welcome 2 x Eurovision winner and force of nature Loreen. In this intimate & heartwarming episode we explore how Loreen uses pain as an advantage, taking pain & making purpose, making sadness sanctuary for growth. From humble beginnings with a talent she resisted for sharing, in the end - and through it all, living & breathing her art, Loreen is somehow triggered to triumph. This is what happens when we Press Record
0:00 Opening Montage 1:04 Introducing Loreen
5:22 Growing Up & Family
7:27 Swedish Idol 11:33 The Duty of the Artist
14:00 Fear as an Illusion
17:51 Euphoria & Refusing to Compromise
20:50 The Journey - Euphoria to Tattoo 23:51 Finding Peace
27:25 Love, Identity & Sexuality
29:23 Rapid Fire & Closing
Guest: Loreen Host: Phil Griffin Press Record is all a bot the art of conversation. A co-production between Pete Townshend's Extended Play & Phi Griffin, this series of intimate conversations set in the safe space of our Soho Studio, explores the journey that brings our guest to us today . Every step has led them here. The moments where a left or right turn felt right.\ The moments when standing still was the only option. Every choice, every changes, every struggle & every triumphs paints a picture where me meet each other and celebrate how it happened.
23 Feb 2026
Breakdowns? "I Only Have Room For Breakthroughs..." | JP Cooper - Press Record
Today I am blessed to share connection with Jp Cooper a singer songwriter who always gives us everything in his heart, but only on the understanding it may hurt...just a little.
We meet as Jp's Album "A few Folk" offers the audience the most truthful and heart felt collection of songs to date. Songs that get his dopamine firing on all emotional cylinders. The result is a gift to our ears.
In this episode I learn that JP, is the friend my soul never knew it needed and I am grateful to have met him. Without doubt, this is an artist for the ages, a unique human whose ability to understand the "beauty of tragedy" allows him to touch us with compassion from the moment his un-parralleled voice soars into our hearts.
Enjoy x
6 Feb 2026
Darcus Beeses OBE "How Race Wars Class Wars & Cultures Wars Shaped Me"
Today we talk. What it takes to turn resilience and chaos into purpose and potential.
Today we are joined by music industry, Titan, darkest Beese, OBE, the man who brought us. Amy Winehouse, Jesse J Taio Cruz, Florence & the machine Mumfords and Sons, and so many more.
We explore a past where volatility was a state of being for Darcus where race wars, class wars, and culture wars shaped and tuned him into both an artist and businessman where failure was simply not an option.
From early struggles, finding his blackness to understanding his own mental landscape.
From the pressure cookers of West London to the skyscrapers of New York for Darcus, being ready to run, ready to move, ready for anything has not only been a passport to success, but also due to his un-diagnosed A-D-H-D - ticket to humility.
This is what Happens When We Press Record
12 Dec 2025
Celeste The Outsider Who Gets Into Your Heart
The Incredible Celeste and I sat down a couple of years ago now and I
was lucky to meet her just as she was creating phenomenal new album.
Woman Of Faces
Celeste's energy and honesty reveals not only a determination to be
vulnerable and a true artist but also a quiet power.
A power that takes loneliness and makes communion , takes otherness and
offers togetherness and provides a space for art where it becomes not
just sanctuary but also solace.
9 Oct 2025
Rachel Chinouriri. The Restless Revolutionary Press Record Episode 3
Rachel Chinourri is a restless revoultionarty. Her Curiosity and Thirst
to be heard is matched only by her compassion for those who have the
courage to listen
Caught beteween the cultures of her Zimbabwe roots & her British
upbringing Rachel sits down with us willing to share the confusion &
pain her story reveals.
Rachel is rare, truth is her currency, fear shame & self pity &
just not part of the plan.
This is what happens when we Press Record
8 Sept 2025
CRAIG DAVID EPISODE 2: The Locked Heart Pushes Back.
In this episode we dive further into
inspiration, motivation and what he calls a lack representation as a kid
Raised in the main by women, Craigs, gentle approach to love is also boundaries by an intense fear of being hurt.
I challenge him on that locked heart
and the continued absence of a significant other
In this episode Craig pushes back!
He takes me out of my comfort zone & we both learn a little more than we
expected.
From Southampton to London to Miami and back, with all the giant leaps and many massive missteps, Craig has sustained and is man who just won’t give up on his dreams
So, say what you will, for my money Craig David was undoubtedly Born to do it
enjoy episode 2
18 Aug 2025
Press Record - Craig David EPISODE 1
Today, in this our first ever full episode of Press Record, we talk people pleasing, imposter syndrome, chocolate addiction & positivity with the bona-fide legend that is Craig David
I have known Craig since he was a 15 year old awkward but focused teenager
with a hit making ability and hopes for a career in music.
There is no question that Craig has delivered on tat focus, every one from Drake to Bieber to
Stormy respect and are influenced by his voice & talent, he is not only divinely gifted but his humility and vulnerability are worn like badges of honor in a career that spans decades and whilst stellar, has not always felt stable.
In today’s Conversation we go in. we dig deeper than Craig has ever been willing to go before.
We uncover some difficult truths but also celebrate not only the undisclosed suffering of a genius but also the incredible success of the gentle kind & caring human that he has
become .
Craig is an artist who has always felt the need to take control of his world, so when I ask ask who is Craig david when no one is looking, the answer might suprise you.
Enjoy.
PG x
14 Aug 2025
WHY PRESS RECORD?
In a world full of noise. Talk is cheap. Truth, expensive.
The WHY of Press Record is to offer artists a safe place to be curious. To have an honest curated conversation that we sculpt and caress into life. Their story in their words.
Press Record is not just promo or another artistically cloaked sales mechanism, its a place to explore, to figure our who we are, why we do what we do and what we can learn in the mirror of another artists words.
Enjoy
25 Jul 2025
Press Record - A new Kind of Coverstion: Trailer
Welcome to Press Records and our first Trailer.
My Name is Phil Griffin, an artist photographer & film director, your guide in these new conversations.
My life as an artist has blessed me with collaborations with some incredible artists from many disciplines & somehow the work we make has always led to deep & meaningful conversations.
After 2 years with Audible making Award wining Podcast Origins I felt it would be a wonderful next step to take the chats I had at work while photographing & filming my friends one step further & let the world in. I wanted to let the conversations that so often moved me deeply become shared with the world in the hope they may move others.
These Press Record Conversations are designed to open a new space for artists to talk candidly about their life & work. Its about getting to the heart of the artists path, the heart of how they life & art have unfolded. Our collaborators are diverse. Celeste, Craig David, Loreen, Gareth Gates, Amverick Sabre & Many more . Beginning with my friends and heroes from music but we will develop into art, fashion & sport. This will be a show about extra-ordinary stories.
On Press Record, I hope to explore those moments in our lives that change & shape us forever. Every Step in My Life Has Led me Here. That simple idea is how we begin our exploration. Then. We press record & see what happens
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