Already fiercely championed by a slew of highly esteemed collaborators and tastemakers across the UK and US, independent, Soul newcomer Mica Millar’s debut album – “Heaven Knows” was released in June 2022 to critical review. 'Heaven Knows' is self-written, arranged and produced with inspiration drawn from a plethora of vintage soundscapes, notably, soul, blues, gospel and jazz. Respectful nods are paid to girl groups of the 60's and 70's and classic Motown, giving her songs a timeless quality that is both reassuringly familiar yet distinctively hers.
Those fortunate enough to have witnessed Mica on stage will have a clear idea of who she is: a bold, authentic talent with an ageless tone to her voice and an artist with an authentic ability to capture hearts and minds with her powerful performances delivered with passion, grit and class in abundance.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Kami Kane, a bilingual rapper / songwriter (Punjabi-English) with Rolldeh being his eighth release in the last twelve months. Previous songs from Kami Kane has surpassed 100K views and streams with regular radio plays, interviews and performances up alongside the likes of Imran Khan, F1rstman, Sama Blake, Tasha T, Metz & Trix and many more.
Joash Gill comes out of his previous 4 track EP release in December 2021, an artist who crossed various live-wires of culture that underpinned his sonic appetites, resulting in something explosive. Since then Joash’s releases have regularly been playlisted, received widespread radio play including BBC Radio 1 and spoken highly of by the likes of Bobby Friction, Harpz Kaur, DJ Limelight, Jasmin Takher and more.
With Rolldeh, Kami Kane and Joash are firmly stamping Greater Manchester on the map of a strengthening cultural hip hop wave. A mix of British urban and Desi vibes that will set the scene for a rising group of artists incorporating a mix of cultures in their creative output.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Chloe Lawrence is a Manchester based, Essex born and Spanish bred singer-songwriter and street musician. From her bohemian roots in the mountains of Spain, Chloe has been forged in the folk revelations of the 60’s. Her natural wanderlust led her to revelously dance barefoot with her audience at beach parties and juxtaposed this with contemplative intimate sets, where the ethos of her style showcased the classical elements of folk music whilst syngergising it with her own fierce independent modernity.
Chloe began playing on the street regularly in Cardiff, where you could hit Queen Street and be charmed by the vulnerable optimism of her honest story-telling matched by the poetically dynamic intricacies of her voice. Chloe released her independently produced EP 'Cafe' in May 2020, which is available on Spotify, etc and plans to release new music in autumn of this year.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Solis is an Irish songstress based in Manchester who is captivating audiences with her alluring, harmony-soaked melodies. Influenced by Kate Bush and Jeff Buckley from a very young age, Solis has placed her original touch on folk/ pop music. Solis’ ethereal vocals carry a profound, elegant charm and her upcoming releases are sure to raise the hairs on the back of your neck.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Run Remedy is the brainchild of native New Jersey'ian, Robin Melinda Koob: songwriter and indie rock operative with a penchant for equal parts irreverence & candor. She was born and raised on the classic rock radio stations of suburban America by two recovering church leaders and started hymn-singing and violin'ing from an early age. Now an openly queer defector, Robin's songs show a reluctant love for her yesteryears, as she dabbles with influences of Americana, early 90s indie, grunge, post rock, and ironic evangelical worship.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episod
Cold Comforts are a trio tearing Alt Rock kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. In their short time together, they have released their debut album "Living in Relative Obscurity" which they promoted on their recent UK tour. The band have also been longlisted for Glastonbury's Emerging Talent Competition and have played support slots for artists including Thumper and Mother's Cake.
"Cold Comforts thrilling wall of sound is instantly vibrant and energetic, evoking images of live crowds jumping and singing along" - Indie Buddie
"A tremendous offering which leaves us all the more excited for the album which, going off this, is going to be explosive" - RGM
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Caoilfhionn Rose (pronounced Keelin), is a singer, songwriter and producer who was born in Manchester, England, with family roots in Northern Ireland and Yorkshire (UK). Emerging from a diverse music scene, she ties together remnants of Manchester’s musical past with its evolving present. She has collaborated with musicians from around the world and is perhaps best known for her work with Vini Reilly of The Durutti Column Collaborating on four songs on the Chronicle LX: XL Caoilfhionn released her long-awaited sophomore album ‘Truly’ on Gondwana Records which was co-produced by Keir Stewart of The Durutti Column. It moves through a tapestry of curious musical inflections; nods towards folk, jazz, ambient, electronica and even a subtle influence of psychedelia. Rose’s song writing draws from a diverse palette of influences, including Building Instrument, Rachel Sermanni, Alabaster DePlume and Broadcast. Rose also professes to a love for beautiful, stripped back, piano based music, such as Dustin O’Halloran and label mate Hania Rani.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham and musician Sam Parry. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
May Payne is a 20-year-old singer-songwriter and pianist based in Manchester who blends the deliberate songwriting of Bob Dylan and the nostalgic sounds of Van Morrison and Rex Orange County for new refreshing take on the Singer-Songwriter genre. Whilst honing her skills at the Royal Northern College of Music (and previously at the Berklee College of Music) she has formed the perfect band to help her realise her sound.
May’s distinctive vocals are augmented by her own piano playing alongside Alex Bresh on bass, Reuben Savage on guitar, and Gemma Watson on drums. The group of friends have been described as a ‘one-minded, eight-armed unit’, transforming her songs into something truly unique and vibrant.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham and singer William Jaquet. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Chesqua is a Manchester based, vocalist with a vibrancy and enthusiasm for creating fresh song writing, whilst maintaining authenticity. She kicked off her musical journey working with Members of Grammy award winning band, ‘Snarky Puppy’ and has since collaborated with some of the UK’s best up and coming musicians on various projects and genres ; neo soul - trip hop, dance and pop. These collaborations allowed an exploration into writing and recording, working with renowned international producers, Lost Frequencies, Ryan Blyth, Max Liese and Akshin Alizadeh. Over the past 12 months, Chesqua has been working on new solo material for a new EP 'City of Doubt'. Crafting her sound and Creating original, timeless tracks to compliment her first EP 'The rain'.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham and musician Ali Roocroft. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
A versatile voice, flare for performance and addiction to being class clown has led Amy Webber to have a diverse career as a classical and pop singer, a songwriter, an actor-musician, and a musical comedian. Born in Kent but spending her primary years in Japan, Amy has performed as a soloist across the country as well as live on air for BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Scotland and ITV’s This Morning. During lockdown, she started writing and releasing her own music under the name, Eimie. Amy is also writes commercial music for production companies for leading ELT Publishers including Oxford University Press as well as jingles for BBC Radio and Youtuber Max Fosh. In June 2021, 2 years after starting musical comedy Amy won the ‘Audience Favourite’ Award at the 2020 national Musical Comedy Awards and was also shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Awards 2021. As well as having a monthly feature writing and singing a ‘News’ Song’ for BBC Radio Manchester, she wrote and performed a song on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Amber Jay’s delicate emotive vocals and innovative production toys between alternative and bedroom pop, weaving amongst dark unearthly concepts and heartfelt lyrics. Her debut EP 'Never Too Far from a Dark Thought' blends genres from the likes of electronica to alt-pop sounds to create her own atmospheric cinematic musical universe. Amber Jay has gained support from the likes of BBC Introducing Merseyside and Radio 1 along with tastemakers such as Earmilk, who named her debut EP 'golden' and music that will ‘bounce around in your brain for days.’ While also securing major spots on Spotify Editorial playlists such as Salt, Fresh Finds: Pop and Rainbow UK, leading to Amber Jay’s EP gaining over 80,000 streams across all streaming platforms. The past six months has seen Amber hit the live circuit heavily, having supported Tik Tok superstar Michael Aldag, along with support slots with GIRLI and Georgia.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Equal parts ethereal and abrasive, KRISTRÚN combines flowing melodies with explosive soundscapes. An Icelandic native, she is currently based in Liverpool, U.K. where she developed a passion for underground dance music and honed her futuristic sound. KRISTRÚN describes her music as "dark electronic music for star-crossed lovers." KRISTRÚN will appeal to fans of James Blake, Banks, Portishead and the avant-garde.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Karman is an avant-garde art-pop musician based in Liverpool. Inspired by the Japanese visual kei movement, 90's trip-hop, industrial and other subcultures; Karman creates distinct worlds and moods by welcoming the weird and wonderful. Combining haunting vocals with hard-hitting, experimental electronics, Karman calls for change in the current musical philosophy of the Liverpool scene. In her recent EP Akuma, she explores our inner demons and the shame surrounding woman hood and emotional trauma. She opens up a conversation about taking control of your own destiny by looking at the past and the isolation of the queer, female experience in the music industry.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
This weeks podcast guest is singer Wayne Ellington. Behind the beautifully seasoned tones of his voice though, stands a humble and modest, yet quietly confident man, with a burning passion for music and song that stretches throughout the wonderful city of Manchester and reaches the grateful ears of the world. Having founded the internationally acclaimed gospel choir ‘Manchester Inspirational Voices’ in 2006, Wayne has touched the lives of hundreds of Mancunians, who have joined, rehearsed and performed under his dedicated leadership and master class orchestration. Capturing hearts and captivating minds.
From humble beginnings, singing his heart out every weekend in church as a child, Wayne has followed the road his voice has forged for him, the road that he was always supposed to take. He attended Brunel University, studying a BMus in Music and Art, where he was awarded with the prestigious Sheridan Instrumental Prize for Outstanding Singing and Musicianship along the way. The road has led him to some beautiful places around the world and allowed him to meet some incredible people too. Wayne has performed alongside Brit Pop idols Blur and has taken to the stage in front of millions of worshippers in Krakow, with Pope St John Paul II amongst the esteemed attendees. As part of the Kingdom Choir, Wayne helped to create a musical landscape that will be remembered for decades, whilst performing at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Whether he is in front of his beloved choir, or performing his masterful renditions of Nat King Cole, Wayne gives it everything. His passion and love. His heart and soul.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham and co-hosted by singer Kim McKenzie. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Jack Horner (AKA Leon the pig farmer) is a Manchester based Yorkshire beat poet. As an ex-serviceman who began writing verse to help him deal with a PTSD diagnosis, Leon has an assertive take on spoken word with fast firing rhythmic verse and a sharp outlook on both his mental health recovery and other social topics and observations that catch his eye. An energetic delivery that has been compared to both a belt fed mortar explosion and a staccato assault full of energy and emotion which can silence and mesmerize an audience.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Shunya aka Alan Keary is a Limerick born multi - instrumentalist, producer and string enthusiast. Keary has been carving a name for himself under Shunya as a growing influence in the underground jazz / electronic scene in Manchester. Shunya’s sound is an amalgamation of influences, ranging from his early musical background of classical and Irish tinged violin to the sounds of Manchester's electronic music scene which compliment his highly accomplished abilities as a jazz bassist in his years of studying music at Salford University. Most recently Shunya has received notable reputation for being part of GoGo Penguin’s unique remix LP ‘GGP/RMX’ which was released on Blue Note Records earlier in May this year.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
Jon Gomm, based in Yorkshire in the UK, is an acoustic singer-songwriter with a revolutionary virtuoso guitar style, where he uses one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, bass lines and twisting melodies all at the same time. The emphasis is still on the soulful vocals and songwriting, and his original material is influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead. Jon is a truly and fiercely independent artist, with his own label and no mainstream industry support, but using mostly online social networks for promotion, he has defied the odds with a huge, truly supportive fanbase resulting in headline tours on all 5 continents, from Australia, Canada and Europe to China and South Africa and South America.
Rob Gomm is a vegan chef at Upside Down Cafe, a specialty coffee shop in Blackpool on the North West coast of the UK. Blackpool usually specialises in penny arcades, inflatable beach balls and hot, sugary doughnuts on the promenade, and it does not have a coffee culture…yet. Upside Down are the beginning of that, and hope very much not to be the end.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
In the summer of 1965 a chance meeting between John Howarth and the brothers Larry and Gerry Kearns in the Highfield and Park pub in Waterloo Street, Oldham, saw the beginning of years of fun and music for the Oldham Tinkers, and indeed for Anybody who happened to listen to them. When asked to describe their own music, the Oldham Tinkers are uncertain. Some people call it simply “folk”, but does that word sum it up? It involves a wealth of children’s material, gleaned mainly from their own childhoods, a host of airs and lilts bequeathed by their family backgrounds, narrative songs, music hall songs, dialect songs and poetry, pub songs, daft songs, and deeply sincere songs, often sad.
Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.
In this weeks very festive episode we celebrate the year with all our hosts from this year!
We play a gameshow to see who will win a delightful christmas tea pot, be prepared for laughing, crying, drama and betrayal!! this is definitely an episode you don't want to miss
Featuring Bradley Ingham, Matt Campbell, Kim Mckenzie, Sam Parry, Ali Roocroft, Adam Bidgood, Will Jaquet and Alex Dineen.
The music of Manchester based pianist and singer-songwriter Ollie West has shifted dramatically since his formative years playing at open mic nights aged 14. Initially inspired by the music of Billy Joel, Elbow and Joni Mitchell, Ollie’s writing has explored jazz, folk, world music, pop, rock, prog and classical music to create a unique sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Their debut album “Time Stood Still” from 2019 took the band around the UK on a 16 date tour that included sell out shows in Manchester, London and The Wirral, and the success of single “Home” from that record saw them become “Young Artist Of The Week” on classical music station Scala Radio, with multiple plays on the station from Simon Mayo, Angellica Bell and Sam Hughes. Ollie's latest single “Count To Four” tells a heartfelt and moving story from the perspective of a person who has been left by someone they love, and might be one of the band's finest works to date.
Produced by Rec Rooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.