We Are The Road Crew Podcast

01/01/2023

Happy New Year to you all. Thank you for listening during 2022. Please keep sharing the podcast, we'll be back with more great content during 2023 👊🏼🖤

19/11/2022

Today (Nov 19th) marks the 7th Anniversary of the horrific bus crash which claimed the lives of two people and changed the lives of The Ghost Inside and their crew forever. In this exclusive episode, Stephen talks to Tim Irons, a crew member who was onboard the bus that fateful day. Tim talks about his love for music and following band’s such as Bleeding Through & Let Live that frequented the local California music scene growing up. As his friendship groups and connections expanded, Tim’s enthusiasm and passion led him to embrace the opportunity to work with The Ghost Inside over several touring cycles, until his career came to a stop the morning of November 19th 2015 when the band's tour bus collided head on with a tractor trailer on U.S. Highway 180, just outside El Paso, Texas. Tragically both drivers died at the scene, but the ten people on the bus that day survived albeit with life changing mental and physical injuries. Tim recollects that day in great detail and tells Stephen about how his own life has changed since.

This episode is dedicated to Greg Hoke (RIP), Steven Cunningham (RIP), Jonathan Vigil, Andrew Tkaczyk, Zach Johnson, Jim Riley, Chris Davis, Danny Lupio, Charles Anthony Billings, Nathan Wilden, Armando Cardona and (last but not least) Tim Irons

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08/07/2022

In this episode, Stephen talks to George Davison, a Tour Manager with over 25 years experience in the industry. George shares his early beginnings working with Nottingham metal legends Earthtone9, before going on to work with a host of Welsh bands including FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, Bullet for My Valentine, and most notably Lostprophets, overseeing their meteoric rise from a small town in Wales to global stardom. It's no secret how the Lostprophets train imploded in a way nobody in or around the band including George would ever envisage but George's career continued going from strength to strength with him looking after Swedish rock band Ghost in arena's throughout the world, as well as successful stints with Mastodon and Of Mice & Men.
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22/05/2022

"It seems completely unfathomable you would go out to watch a pop artist and something like that would happen"...🐝



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In this latest episode, Stephen talks to Simon JP Thomas, an Award-winning Front of House Sound Engineer with over 30 years experience in the industry. Detai...

12/04/2022

In this latest episode, Stephen talks to Simon JP Thomas, an Award-winning Front of House Sound Engineer with over 30 years experience in the industry. Detailing his career journey to date, Simon recalls his early experiences working with the likes of BB King , Gary Numan , Echo and the Bunnymen and Moby. By 2017 Simon had earnt his place as Front of House Engineer on US pop superstar Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman World Tour. After a string of dates across North America the tour arrived at the Manchester Arena, UK on May 22nd and was enjoyed by over 14,000 avid pop fans, many of them families and children. At the very end of the show when the audience were making their way out, a bomb exploded just outside of the arena killing 22 people and injuring over 1000. Simon talks to Stephen about some of his memories of that appalling attack whilst also detailing his superb work in bringing together artists for the One Love Concert which occurred just two weeks later and highlighted the strength and resilience of the people of Manchester. Ariana Grande I Love Manchester

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01/03/2022

Really pleased to say we have been nominated for Best Independent Music Podcast at the
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19/01/2022

Spending 11 hours on an Ed Force One flight from China to New Zealand for the next show means only three things... Poker, Beer, and a Cheese Board? 🧀 ✈️
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08/01/2022

You're on tour with one of the biggest bands in the world, grounded at Mexico City Airport and surrounded by men with guns... What would you do?? ✈️
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21/12/2021

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the WILMAwards 21...We look forward to speaking with some of you in the New Year!

✨ Congratulations to all the winners of this years WILMA ✨
Well in fact - Congratulations to all the 110 nominated in the 33 categories that covered all from tourmanagers to upcoming crew members💃🏆 We hope to see you at our WILMA ceremony party in London, (hopefully sometime in March!) 🌺🍾🎊

***Don't forget to listens in on the next WILM radioshow on the 27th, where we have a WILMA special edition***

A huge applause to our graphic designer Anna Gideonsson for the WILMA certificates 🙌

21/12/2021

Surprise! We’re back! After what has been a horrendous year for Live Music and the super talented Crews and Technicians who look after your favorite bands, artists, and musicians, it’s a pleasure to bring you this very special episode of the podcast featuring the legendary John McMurtrie, a hugely talented British Music Photographer who has carved out a professional career photographing the biggest bands and musicians in the world for Metal Hammer and Kerrang! magazines whilst contributing to Rolling Stone in the US and Q Magazine in the UK. As well as discussing his career to date working with bands like Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, Ghost, Foo Fighters and BABYMETAL, John gives us an insight into his work as Official Photographer for Iron Maiden and his experiences touring the world aboard Ed Force One, the bands own Boeing 757. You can listen & download now on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and many more

You can follow John on his Instagram , here on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JohnMcmurtriePhotographer and also purchase Limited Edition Fine Art Prints at https://johnmcmurtrie.bigcartel.com/

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"We Are The Road Crew Podcast" is a Factory Originals Production
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17/10/2021

Whilst we eagerly prepare Season Three of the podcast, we wanted to share this fab review from the guys over at Aux: Open Music 🙏 Thank you for including us and highlighting the great work of crews from around the world

If you're a musician or just a music lover then you should be tuning in to these top tier music podcasts 🎧

Let us know which ones we've missed out!

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25/09/2021

Our thoughts today are with the family, friends and colleagues of Steve Strange. A legend of the business and will be sorely missed by many. RIP Steve 💔 X-ray Touring

12/06/2021

💔 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-06-11/roadies-crews-touring-concerts-covid-pandemic

From guitar techs to road managers to crew chiefs, a year without work devastated live music's behind-the-scenes workers, and many may never recover.

01/01/2021

Happy New Year! Well, against all the odds we managed to get season two recorded and published in 2020, so to every single person who downloaded and shared the podcast a MASSIVE THANK YOU for your continued support. We have some awesome things lined up for this year and I pray our industry gets back to some sort of normality in 2021 and crews can get back to doing the job they love. Keep listening, keep subscribing and keep sharing. Love you all 💙🙏

28/12/2020

Please take a minute to help our UK Crew & Artists with this potential headache now we are leaving the EU.

We would like the UK Govt to negotiate a free cultural work permit that gives us visa free travel throughout the 27 EU states for music touring professionals, bands, musicians, artists, TV and sports celebrities that tour the EU to perform shows and events & Carnet exception for touring equipment.

28/12/2020

Born to Lose, Lived to Win

02/12/2020

Our wonderful guest on Episode 14 of the podcast Tom Campbell, has this week co-launched a brand new project over at STNDBYworld, producing stylish, high-quality technical gear for crews. Head over to their website www.stndbyworld.com and show them some love. MADE BY CREW - FOR CREW 👏🏼

27/11/2020

Really pleased to announce ALL EPISODES from Seasons 1 & 2 are now streaming on our dedicated YouTube Channel. Please head over and subscribe for exciting updates coming soon..https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TyUv1sVcwju8mA5ww7xzQ

19/11/2020

Who would YOU like to see featured in Season 3? Drop your ideas in the comments below!

30/10/2020

Thank you Charlie Rickard of Independent Venue Week for mentioning the podcast in his interview 💙 Check it out below! Byta

Byta speaks with Charlie from Independent Venue Week about artist discovery, mental health in music, gigs, listening habits & more!

28/10/2020

Really exciting conversation with Stephen about Season 3 of the podcast. Please continue to spread the word and refer people across to the show, we have some great things lined up for you all ✌🏼

25/10/2020

We are really honoured to be included in this list of Best UK Music Podcasts as recommended by Signature Brew. There's some fantastic podcasts featured so please have a read and listen!

With the recent podcast renaissance, we decided to pull together our favourite shows that we love to pop on. Grab an ice cold Studio Larger, stick an episode on, and join us...

06/10/2020

Still remains one of the greatest ever guitarists..You'll be missed #5150

23/09/2020

We promised you an amazing end to this season of the podcast and we have delivered it, by bringing you a unique, open, and intimate conversation with Chad Zaemisch, who, for over 16 years has been the Guitar Tech for James Hetfield of Metallica. Undoubtedly one of the biggest rock bands in the world, Chad is responsible for James's signature guitar tone and everything you hear from his amps when Metallica grace the biggest and best stages in the world. Chad also goes back in his career and talks to us about how he started in the industry with alt-rock band The Breeders, and then his time looking after the guitars of Courtney Love and Hole.
We are delighted to have had the support this season of our good friends over at Signature Brew who have been brewing music-inspired beers and supporting live music since 2011. If you'd like to try any of their superb beers, head over to www.signaturebrew.co.uk and put in the code 'RoadCrew' at the checkout which will earn you an exclusive listener 10% Discount on any order.
Thank You for all your support this season. Please Subscribe & Follow the 'We Are The Road Crew Podcast' over on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, leave us a little review, and be the first to hear about the launch of SEASON THREE! Coming Soon!

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22/09/2020

TPi ❤️

Made At Last’s Ben Firth discusses the company’s latest podcast, which shines a light on the road crew behind some of the biggest bands on the touring circuit.

15/09/2020

This week for the penultimate show of this season, we are going down under to speak with Dan Hawcroft, who for over 8 years was the Road Manager and Personal Assistant to Ian Fraser 'Lemmy' Kilmister. We were honored to hear Dan's story of growing up in the north of England, attending local, punk, and hardcore shows, promoting gigs, and working with bands such as Capdown, Kasabian, and Nick Oliveri's Mondo Generator before getting hired for what was surely a 'once in a lifetime' job of becoming Lemmy's Personal Assistant. Dan shares his engaging, funny, and at times emotive stories of his time on the road with Motörhead, and his experience of looking after arguably one of the most iconic figures in music ever...
We are delighted to have the support this season of our good friends over at Signature Brew who have been brewing music-inspired beers and supporting live music since 2011. Their award-winning core beers include their fan-favorite All-Night IPA… fittingly called Roadie, which, much like this podcast, is dedicated to road crews around the world! If you'd like to try this or any of their superb beers, head over to www.signaturebrew.co.uk and put in the code 'RoadCrew' at the checkout which will earn you an exclusive listener 10% Discount on any order.
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01/09/2020

This week Stephen is joined by New York's finest live sound engineer, Steve Lagudi. Steve is probably best known for his work with bay area giants Machine Head but has worked with bands such as Exodus, Ill Nino, Na**lm Death, Vision Of Disorder, God Forbid, Possessed, 5FDP and many many more. He is a guy who takes no punches and candidly opened up to Stephen, telling the journey through his career, from being a Metallica superfan at a young age, all the way through to staying at Dimebag Darrell's house whilst mixing the 5th year anniversary of the Ride For Dime Concert.
Steve passionately talks about his fantastic work with Machine Head and his part in helping make the 25th Anniversary Burn My Eyes shows happen... And yes... We do get Steve's first-hand account of THAT night at Brixton Academy when Steve saved the show from every sound engineer's worse nightmare.
We are proud to be partnering this season with our friends over at Signature Brew who have been brewing music-inspired beers and supporting live music since 2011. Their award-winning core beers include the Nightliner coffee porter, which shares its name with sleeper busses used by touring bands across the world. There's the equivalent of a shot of espresso in every can – definitely a beer to keep you going throughout the podcast! To get your hands on this & any of their beers head over to signaturebrew.co.uk and put in the code 'RoadCrew' at the checkout which will earn you an exclusive listener 10% Discount on any order.
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25/08/2020

This week our guest is Live Concert Engineer and co-founder of Soundgirls.org, Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato. We go on a journey of her career to date beginning with early 90's American rock giants Spin Doctors and their rapid journey from small clubs to huge arena shows, and Michelle's equally successful progression to working with Styx, Mr. Big, Gwen Stefani, Melissa Etheridge, Goo Goo Dolls, Adam Lambert and many more. Most recently Michelle was working with the legend that is Elvis Costello when COVID 19 cut short her run with him after a triumphant London show at the Apollo Hammersmith.
We are proud to be partnering this season with the team over at Signature Brew who have been brewing music-inspired beers and supporting live music since 2011. Their award-winning core beers include the Backstage IPA which is named in tribute to all the backstage antics that go on and, it turns out, a band-favorite for tour riders. If you'd like to try this or any of their superb beers, head over to www.signaturebrew.co.uk and put in the code 'RoadCrew' at the checkout which will earn you an exclusive listener 10% Discount on any order.
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20/08/2020

Belated Birthday Wishes to Queen legend John Deacon! Revisit a fascinating insight from Peter Hince, the man who stood in the wings for 13 years ensuring every Queen show cemented their reputation as one of the greatest live bands ever.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-1-peter-hince-queen/id1481579080?i=1000451437667

19/08/2020

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