Sound Affects Podcast: Music & Mental Health, with Katy Georgiou
Katerina Georgiou
43 episodes
8 months ago
Welcome to Sound Affects Podcast – featured in NME's Podcasts for the People series. A music & mental health podcast exploring all crossovers between music and mental health: how music and sounds affect us somatically and psychologically, the songs that see us through, what drives people to music careers/a life on the road, the music industry climate, music therapy as support for mental illness, music fandom, music journalism and research in all these crossovers. I speak to well-known musicians and figures, experts, therapists, academics, researchers, authors, journalists, charities, and music fans. Each episode is an interview with a guest centred around a specific theme of music and mental health.
Sound Affects is produced, edited and hosted by me, Katerina – a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist working professionally in both the NHS and private practice. I'm also a freelance sub-editor and writer published in The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and Wellcome Collection. Before becoming a therapist, I was a Samaritan helpline listener supporting people struggling to cope with suicidal feelings, and I worked full time as a copywriter and editor for Samaritans during the time of the charity's male suicide research launch. I've worked in magazine and newspaper publishing for many years and spent a lot of time during this time speaking to musicians and creative people.
The idea for Sound Affects came while writing about and interviewing bands – I noticed a theme emerging around existential identity and just how sad some of the so-called "rock n roll" stories of excess were. I was also aware of just how much music impacts me, and in particular, specific bands and sounds. It is no secret that I'm a huge Oasis fan, and this theme features regularly in this podcast as alongside my interviews, I occasionally pause to reflect and consider what draws me to this music and how it has shaped me. When I trained as a psychotherapist, I drew together all my interests, culminating in this podcast. I often see musicians as clients for therapy, and I routinely appear in the press and radio commenting on various aspects of therapy and emotional health. I've been a guest on BBC Radio, and appeared in OK! Magazine, Psychologies, Stylist, Grazia, The Independent and more.
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Welcome to Sound Affects Podcast – featured in NME's Podcasts for the People series. A music & mental health podcast exploring all crossovers between music and mental health: how music and sounds affect us somatically and psychologically, the songs that see us through, what drives people to music careers/a life on the road, the music industry climate, music therapy as support for mental illness, music fandom, music journalism and research in all these crossovers. I speak to well-known musicians and figures, experts, therapists, academics, researchers, authors, journalists, charities, and music fans. Each episode is an interview with a guest centred around a specific theme of music and mental health.
Sound Affects is produced, edited and hosted by me, Katerina – a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist working professionally in both the NHS and private practice. I'm also a freelance sub-editor and writer published in The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and Wellcome Collection. Before becoming a therapist, I was a Samaritan helpline listener supporting people struggling to cope with suicidal feelings, and I worked full time as a copywriter and editor for Samaritans during the time of the charity's male suicide research launch. I've worked in magazine and newspaper publishing for many years and spent a lot of time during this time speaking to musicians and creative people.
The idea for Sound Affects came while writing about and interviewing bands – I noticed a theme emerging around existential identity and just how sad some of the so-called "rock n roll" stories of excess were. I was also aware of just how much music impacts me, and in particular, specific bands and sounds. It is no secret that I'm a huge Oasis fan, and this theme features regularly in this podcast as alongside my interviews, I occasionally pause to reflect and consider what draws me to this music and how it has shaped me. When I trained as a psychotherapist, I drew together all my interests, culminating in this podcast. I often see musicians as clients for therapy, and I routinely appear in the press and radio commenting on various aspects of therapy and emotional health. I've been a guest on BBC Radio, and appeared in OK! Magazine, Psychologies, Stylist, Grazia, The Independent and more.
Sound Affects Podcast: Music & Mental Health, with Katy Georgiou
1 hour 39 minutes 52 seconds
3 years ago
Episode 26: Danny McNamara, Embrace
In this episode, I speak with Danny McNamara, lead singer of Embrace, ahead of the release of Embrace's 8th studio album How to Be a Person Like Other People (out 26th August 2022), and upcoming tour.
We talk through the psychology behind him becoming a rockstar, his search for meaning and purpose, falling in love, and his experiences with PTSD and Pure O variant of OCD.
Intro: Ashes, Embrace9.50 All You Good Good People, Embrace13.30 Movin' On Up, Primal Scream17.40 Retread, Embrace18.10 We Are It, Embrace1.25.50 Clip of Richard Ashcroft interview by Jon Doran on NoiseyOutro: The Terms of My Surrender, Embrace
Get in touch with Sound Affects Podcast at:
@SoundAffectsPod on Twitter or Facebook
@sound_affects_podcast on Insta
Send voice notes and messages to:
soundaffectspodcast@gmail.com
Support Sound Affects Pod: www.ko-fi.com/soundaffectspod
All things Embrace:
Embrace: @embrace on Twitter
http://linktr.ee/embraceband
Join Embrace's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/embracethesecretlist
Follow Danny McNamara on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/dannymcnamara
Get tickets for upcoming tour: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/embrace-tickets/artist/740832
Buy How to Be a Person Like Other People: https://embrace.tmstor.es/
Links to things mentioned by Danny in this episode:
PURE by Rose Bretecher/Cartwright
Channel 4 series adaptation, Pure
https://www.channel4.com/press/press-pack/pure-press-pack
Get help and support
Samaritans: 116 123, or https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/symptoms-of-ocd/#WhatIsPureO
Black Dog: https://www.myblackdog.co/
To find a therapist in the UK:
https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/find-a-therapist/?Distance=10
https://www.bacp.co.uk/search/Therapists
UK
Addiction: https://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/
Anxiety UK: https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/
Beat, eating disorders: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/
CALM, male suicide: https://www.thecalmzone.net/
Combat Stress: www.combatstress.org.uk
Homelessness: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/housing/
Mental Health Foundation, reducing stigma: www.mentalhealth.org.uk
MIND: www.mind.org.uk A-Z and guidance on any mental health issue
The Maytree sanctuary if you’re suicidal: https://www.maytree.org.uk/
OCD: www.ocduk.org
Samaritans: www.samaritans.org , 116 123, jo@samaritans.org
Solace Women’s Aid, domestic abuse: https://www.solacewomensaid.org/
Rape Crisis: https://rapecrisis.org.uk/
Rethink: www.rethink.org
If you’re sectioned: https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/treatments-and-wellbeing/being-sectioned?searchTerms=being%20sectioned
https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/living-with-mental-illness/treatment-and-support/going-into-hospital/
Self-referral through the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service: http://www.lets-talk-iapt.nhs.uk/make-a-referral/.
If you're outside the UK:
https://www.thecalmzone.net/international-mental-health-charities
https://www.wheretotalk.org/charities/
Asociacion Argentina de Salud Mental: https://www.aasm.org.ar/eshttps://www.aasm.org.ar/es
Canadian Mental Health Association: https://cmha.ca/
CVV (Brazil): https://www.cvv.org.br/
Ibunda (Indonesia) https://www.ibunda.id/
Tell Japan: https://telljp.com/lifeline/
12 step programmes: https://www.addictioncenter.com/treatment/12-step-programs/
Addiction: https://atforum.com/related-websites/international-organizations/
Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation: https://www.bbrfoundation.org/
Jed Foundation, teen and young adult suicide prevention: https://jedfoundation.org/
Rethink: https://www.rethink.org/
StrongMinds: Treating depression in Africa for women and young people https://strongminds.org/
TalkLife, 16-24 peer-to-peer support network: https://www.talklife.com/
The US
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): https://na
Sound Affects Podcast: Music & Mental Health, with Katy Georgiou
Welcome to Sound Affects Podcast – featured in NME's Podcasts for the People series. A music & mental health podcast exploring all crossovers between music and mental health: how music and sounds affect us somatically and psychologically, the songs that see us through, what drives people to music careers/a life on the road, the music industry climate, music therapy as support for mental illness, music fandom, music journalism and research in all these crossovers. I speak to well-known musicians and figures, experts, therapists, academics, researchers, authors, journalists, charities, and music fans. Each episode is an interview with a guest centred around a specific theme of music and mental health.
Sound Affects is produced, edited and hosted by me, Katerina – a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist working professionally in both the NHS and private practice. I'm also a freelance sub-editor and writer published in The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and Wellcome Collection. Before becoming a therapist, I was a Samaritan helpline listener supporting people struggling to cope with suicidal feelings, and I worked full time as a copywriter and editor for Samaritans during the time of the charity's male suicide research launch. I've worked in magazine and newspaper publishing for many years and spent a lot of time during this time speaking to musicians and creative people.
The idea for Sound Affects came while writing about and interviewing bands – I noticed a theme emerging around existential identity and just how sad some of the so-called "rock n roll" stories of excess were. I was also aware of just how much music impacts me, and in particular, specific bands and sounds. It is no secret that I'm a huge Oasis fan, and this theme features regularly in this podcast as alongside my interviews, I occasionally pause to reflect and consider what draws me to this music and how it has shaped me. When I trained as a psychotherapist, I drew together all my interests, culminating in this podcast. I often see musicians as clients for therapy, and I routinely appear in the press and radio commenting on various aspects of therapy and emotional health. I've been a guest on BBC Radio, and appeared in OK! Magazine, Psychologies, Stylist, Grazia, The Independent and more.
