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<p>If there was a definitive discography of classic albums, what should be in it? Hosts Mark Fraser and Chris Cusack, plus the occasional guest, discuss and dissect perceived classic albums to decide which albums would make this list. We also interview amazing artists, do genre deep dives and throw a journalistic lens on musical topics you might not know much about.</p>
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Recent Episodes
July 7, 2026
FROM THE VAULT: Split 7" - Our Perfect Festival Line Ups
<p>We reach into the vault this week to extra an old bonus episode that has a fairly unique format we liked to called the Split 7". In this episode, we talk build our own festival line ups.</p><p>ORIGINAL SHOW NOTE</p><p>We’re going to be 4 years old soon and for pretty much every single week of those 4 years (with the sole of exception of around this time last year when a technical issue made us lose an entire episode) we’ve been able to release an episode a week. However, this week we just couldn’t. Some life things got in the way and we had to take care of that. We couldn’t just leave everyone hanging though, so we decided to reach way back into our vault of bonus content and excise this little gem from back in October 2019. One of our subscribers, Chris Hynd, asked us what our perfect festival line-up would be and we duly obliged. So enjoy as Chris, Mark and Dave talk about who would play their festivals. We will return next week with special guest Neil from The Accordion Podcast as we talk about Finelines by My Vitrol.</p>
June 29, 2026
IN SESSION: Mark Davyd from the Music Venue Trust Talks About How PRS for Music Refuse to Show Artists The Money
<p>In this interview, Mark Davyd, founder and CEO of Music Venue Trust, mentions the "famous" and famously misattributed Hunter S. Thompson quote about the music industry. It goes "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."</p><p>It's now common knowledge that Thompson didn't actually say this, or at the very least if he did it wasn't about the music industry. Mark acknowledges as much in this interview. And yet, it remains a perfect summation of the music industry at large even today, and in this interview Mark expounds upon that at length.</p><p>In April 2026 he unleashed a series of 4 Substack posts which shone a light on the dodgy dealings of the UK's performing rights body PRS for Music. In them, he details how each year millions of pounds earmarked for artists who perform in grassroots music venues is "held" by PRS because they are unable to attribute it to anyone — ostensibly because many of the artists who are due it have never signed up to PRS, and thus the money goes unclaimed. After 3 years, this money is then distributed to the largest music publishers and most successful songwriters in the world.</p><p>The true figure is difficult to ascertain due to the opaque nature of PRS' reporting, but it is estimated to be around £18m — more than the combined profit generated by all 800+ grassroots music venues in the UK each year. What's happening is, in effect, a reverse Robin Hood scenario where huge amounts of money are being transferred to the most high-profile, wealthiest musicians and publishers.</p><p>In this episode we dive deep into those 4 articles with Mark, getting to the heart of all that is rotten with the current PRS model, the organisation's response, and some suggestions for how it might be fixed.</p><p>You can read Mark's articles here: Part 1: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://markdavyd.substack.com/p/prs-for-music-and-the-grassroots">https://markdavyd.substack.com/p/prs-for-music-and-the-grassroots</a> Part 2: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://markdavyd.substack.com/p/prs-for-music-and-the-grassroots-5a0">https://markdavyd.substack.com/p/prs-for-music-and-the-grassroots-5a0</a> Part 3: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://markdavyd.substack.com/p/prs-for-music-and-the-grassroots-618">https://markdavyd.substack.com/p/prs-for-music-and-the-grassroots-618</a> Part 4: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://markdavyd.substack.com/p/prs-for-music-and-the-grassroots-3d9">https://markdavyd.substack.com/p/prs-for-music-and-the-grassroots-3d9</a> </p><p>Highlights:</p><p>00:00 Grassroots Cash Grab</p><p>00:24 Meet the Hosts</p><p>01:46 What Music Venues Trust Does</p><p>03:30 COVID Crisis Response</p><p>07:23 Venue People Helping Venues</p><p>09:16 Why PRS Matters Here</p><p>12:45 How PRS Works</p><p>16:02 Unclaimed Royalties Problem</p><p>21:35 Archaic Setlist System</p><p>23:22 Tariff LP vs Tariff P</p><p>27:35 Real World Money Example</p><p>30:40 Show Me the Money</p><p>32:00 Unclaimed Royalties Black Box</p><p>32:58 Venue Economics And Losses</p><p>34:00 Rules Court Case And Publishers</p><p>35:53 Broken Reform Promises</p><p>39:20 Why PRS Won't Change</p><p>42:00 Estimated Bills And CCJs</p><p>44:44 Scale Of Grassroots Impact</p><p>48:18 Audio Recognition Solution</p><p>55:08 PRS Rebuttals And Backlash</p><p>59:16 Wrap Up And Where To Read</p>
June 15, 2026
IN SESSION: An Interview with the Lord of the Logos, Christophe Szpajdel
<p>You might think you don't know Christophe Szpajdel's work. You almost certainly do. The Emperor logo. The Metallica Mankind clip. The Rihanna lettering that went a hundred feet high at the MTV VMAs. If you've spent any time near heavy music, his hand has been on things you've stared at without knowing his name.</p><p>This week we sit down with the man known as Lord of the Logos — Belgian-born, Devon-based, currently on shift at the Co-op — to talk about a career that has produced somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 logos, and counting. We get into his early years doodling in school notebooks in Liège, the Art Nouveau obsession that underpins everything, and how a chance encounter on the Tube ended with his work displayed at one of the biggest awards shows on the planet for £500 — a fee he only learned was for Rihanna after he'd already quoted it.</p><p>We cover the Emperor logo that defined his reputation, the Metallica commission that required him to draw at Heathrow five hours before a flight to Japan, and the Foo Fighters Christmas jumper that was a mutilation of his work, and what he did about it. We also discuss the readability question that divides the scene, the three-month creative block triggered by a South Korean band, his forestry degree and why nature sits at the centre of everything he makes, and the political stance on Ukraine that has cost him ten logos in one go.</p><p>The question running through all of it: how does someone this prolific stay original?</p><p>Highlights </p><p>00:00 Intro </p><p>01:00 Meet Christophe Szpajdel — Lord of the Logos </p><p>04:00 Logo Count and the Goal of 20,000 by 2030 </p><p>06:00 The Process Explained </p><p>09:00 The Unsung Logo and Chris's Tattoo </p><p>10:00 Background: Belgium, Poland, Ukraine, Devon </p><p> 11:00 The Co-op Day Job and Why It Works </p><p>13:00 Side Projects: Murals and the Polish Calendar </p><p>17:00 Musical Influences: Kiss, Motörhead, Celtic Frost </p><p>19:00 First Logos and Early Career </p><p>21:00 The Emperor Logo </p><p>25:00 Chilean Influence: Rick Zuniga </p><p>26:00 Nature, Art Nouveau, and the Forestry Degree </p><p>28:00 Best Work Comes from Anger or Obsession with Death </p><p> 29:00 Symmetry, Creative Block, and the Client Problem </p><p>33:00 Live: Working Through the Drag Logo </p><p>38:00 The Readability Debate </p><p>43:00 The Rihanna Story </p><p>47:00 Metallica at Heathrow </p><p>53:00 The Foo Fighters Bootleg Response </p><p>54:00 The Mandy Soundtrack </p><p>57:00 AI and Market Saturation </p><p>59:00 Ukraine, Politics, and the Russian Flatmate </p><p>01:02:00 Losing Ten Logos Over a Political Stance </p><p>01:03:00 Black Metal, Church Burnings, and Forbidden Fruit </p><p>01:08:00 The Trump/Putin Artwork </p><p>01:09:00 The Books: Lord of the Logos, Archaic Modernism, Oracles in Black</p>
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<p>If there was a definitive discography of classic albums, what should be in it? Hosts Mark Fraser and Chris Cusack, plus the occasional guest, discuss and dissect perceived classic albums to decide which albums would make this list. We also interview amazing artists, do genre deep dives and throw a journalistic lens on musical topics you might not know much about.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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