First Impressions - Gareth Stevens

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First Impressions

Peter Humphreys

32 episodes

5 days ago

First Impressions blends storytelling, humour, interviews, music and more. It's a bit all over the place, but then so is its creator, award-winning writer and editor Peter Humphreys. He claims the aim of the podcast is ‘to spread a little mirth during these difficult times, with an emphasis on the arts and all things literary’, but it could just as easily be a case of bandwagon jumping in the name of shameless self-promotion. It wouldn’t be the first time…

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First Impressions - Gareth Stevens - Episode 7

First Impressions

53 minutes

7 months ago

First Impressions - Gareth Stevens - Episode 7

Episode 7 of First Impressions features the writer and musical maven Gareth Stevens. Based in Saint Leonards on the sunny south coast of the UK, Gareth writes for Hastings Independent Press and in 2019 covered both the increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong (8:36) and climate justice in Mozambique (17:00) for Perfect Bound magazine. He is also a skilled conga player and drummer who has played with some of the best in the business, here and in Hong Kong (where he was part of Banda Orbita). Gareth’s son is the drum and bass maestro Workforce, half of duo SpectraSoul, and host of the Must Make podcast.

In the rich musical accompaniment to the pod, you will hear Workforce (37:45), the Mozambiquan hip-hop artist Azagaia (24:00), and Latin jazz from Gareth’s former bandmate Alonso Gonzalez (33:57).

All this and we haven’t even mentioned the ‘Frank Off’ that forms the middle section of the show between myself and another Frank Spencer impersonator (25:55), nor the extract from Look Twice Down Ladder Street (15:52), my crime yarn set in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, which was published as part of the Hong Kong Gothic anthology in 2014. Gareth also provides his book recommendations (43:00), an introduction to transcendental meditation (40:30) and relays encounters with the great and good ranging from Motorhead to Tony Adams. Pour yourself a glass of something nice, and enjoy!

Gareth’s writing in the Hastings Independent Press:
https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/?s=Gareth+stevens

Gareth performing with Banda Orbita in Hong Kong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyTU3AoouEw&t=34s

Richard Avedon (photographer)
https://www.avedonfoundation.org/the-work

Nicola Longobardi (photographer)
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Nicola-Longobardi-Photography-472784846432249/posts/

Hong Kong Gothic (fiction anthology)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hong-Kong-Gothic-Edmund-Price-ebook/dp/B00Q9F6U8G

Justicia Ambiental (organisation campaigning for climate justice)
https://www.foei.org/member-groups/africa-2/mozambique

Mauro Pinto (photographer)
https://www.afronova.com/artists/mauro-pinto-2/

Gonçalo Mabunda (sculptor)
https://www.artsy.net/artist/goncalo-mabunda

Azagaia (hip-hop artist)
https://www.dw.com/en/azagaia-the-undisputed-hero-of-mozambican-hip-hop/av-52016880

Alonso Gonzalez (Latin jazz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE4OyMkGqMo

Workforce (drum and bass artist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2PnBnx6BVQ

Must Make (podcast)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkGGLJixmLLnUKzxqcN8tDQ

Maya Angelou (poet/writer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0

Frank Spencer (comedic creation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFLpwRMS00g