Hello and welcome to a very special one off episode of Tour Talk as I’m joined by Frank Bello of thrash metal legends Anthrax to discuss his brand new book Fathers, Brothers and sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment and Anthrax. It really is a fantastic read and what struck me most was that even though this a co-write with Joel Mciver this book is very much in the voice of Frank. The book is a fantastic insight in to Frank’s life and he is incredibly honest when discussing some deeply per...

Introducing 'My Friend Of Misery' editor & co-producer of Tour Talk for his On Screen / Mic debut... Rob Anderton. Here's a glimpse behind the scenes at what it takes to put an episode of Tour Talk together and the various strains our 'friendship' endures trying to create a podcast and getting it out to the world. Please join us over on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tourtalkpod for all the good extra stuff.Hosted by Dario Nikzad & Nate BergmanAll the hard work is done by ...

Please help Dave support War Child Canada by heading over to Cameo and have him create a video request for you! https://www.cameo.com/6010220c4a8626001ef4e3a8Hello this is episode 26 of tour Talk and this week I was joined by the awesome Dave ‘Brownsound’ Baksh from Sum 41We talk bar fights, crossing borders with paraphernalia on board the bus and how the band narrowly avoided not only the London bombing but also being on the flight that took off from Newark on 9/11. Being a geordie...

So here we are, Episode number 25 of Tour Talk and in honour of hitting this little milestone we’ve decided to do something a bit different this week as we take a look back at some of our favourite moments from the proceeding 24 episodes. We’re genuinely blown away that we’ve made it this far and the fact we have people tuning in from all over the world including Australia, Canada, Pakistan, Spain, The Czech Republic, Malaysia, the UAE it is crazy to think we’re reaching out this far so ...

Are You Ready?We talk what it takes to be mentally and musically ready... not just for touring but for the highs and lows that come with song writing, booking tours, working in difficult environments with testing personalities and being able to bring your best show when that phone call lands saying 'you're playing a show tomorrow.'New episodes go live every Monday so be sure to follow / subscribe / to Tourtalkpod at a safe and socially respectable distance on the Socials!Please join us ...

NEVER CROSS THE STEAMS… Unless you’re interviewing two awesome musicians who also run their own podcast… please welcome Ethan & Clint from Metal Up Your Podcast!The guys are ideal guests for us here on Tour Talk because as well as hosting their own podcast they’re also song writers, touring musicians / sessions musicians working out of Nashville and Ethan has also worked on the crew side of the industry guitar tech’ing for Kings Of Leon before actually going on to be part of their live ba...

It’s Monday so that must mean it’s time for a new Episode of Tour Talk and this week we’re delighted to have Carla Harvey from The Butcher Babies on the show! We find out what it’s like for her still getting starstruck at meeting her idols backstage which leads us on to an incredible story where Carla got to spend an entire evening hanging out with Mick Jagger. We also talk about the times we’ve ended up in places you shouldn’t be backstage, hosting pizza parties, how to make ...

Finally we're back on tour again!This week it's just myself and Nate chatting about what it was like for him to finally be back on the road, playing shows out in the States. We find out what it's like playing gigs post covid, how people are responding to seeing live music again and what's changed in general. Of course we find out what he's missed and what he hasn't and as always there's a couple of funny stories!New episodes go live every Monday so be sure to follow / subscribe / to Tourtalkp...

Would you believe it, this is Episode 20 of Tour Talk! This time around we’re joined by Karina Rykman an amazing bass player who’s done everything from America’s Got Talent, jazz trio’s, riff rockin’ with our very own Nate right through to fronting her own band. We start by finding out what Karina’s all about, how she cut her teeth in the industry and what she’s aiming to achieve with her own solo work. We learn how Nate and Karina met and how that led to a recent song writi...

Welcome to Episode 19 of TT and this week we’reDelighted to have Baz from Massive Wagons on the show. Wagons were actually one of the bands I used to play alongside on unsigned shows the best part of 10 years ago when we were all starting out and it’s been awesome to see them go from strength to strength, it’s amazing to see a brilliant and super dedicated band reaping the rewards of their relentless hard work!So we begin at the beginning and learn how MW started out playing covers in l...

Here we go again but not on our own this time, this week we’re joined by Per Wiberg. Current keyboard extraordinaire for Spiritual Beggars, rocking bass player for Kamchtka as well as being one of the Opeth alumni. I have to open this week with quite an embarrassing admission to Per and that leads us to discuss how the landscape of the music industry has changed since illegal downloading reared it’s head in the late 90’sWe discuss Per’s last touring experience before the pandemic hit, wh...

Hello and welcome to episode number 17 of tour talk, this week you’re stuck with just Nate and myself however we’re here to entertain you by getting deep into the gritty topic of Ego within the music industry. Drawing from personal experiences of handling our own ego’s at times as well as what we’ve encountered whilst being on the road. We also discuss our different approaches to instigating our creative processes and how different times of day can really impact that, which leads us into...

Hello and welcome to Tour Talk’s coming of age party, this is Episode # 16… and this week is an extra special one for me as I’ve managed to coerce my former bands mates from Hell To Pay to come on the show and discuss what life was really like being in a band with me. It was genuinely awesome catching up with the guys, we had a lot of great times together traversing the country and it was really nice being reminded of some of those stories. Of course being a young, unsigned band wit...

Come on in for Ep #15 of Tour Talk… and this week we have the fantastic Deborah Bond as our guest. Deborah is an amazing solo artist in her own right as well as touring and recording with legendary UK funk / soul band Incognito for the past 6 years. She’s also recently been working with Nate on material for his first solo album…more on that during the show. Oh and she also has a degree in journalism and hosted her own weekly radio show so hopefully we haven’t embarrassed ours...

We're giving you a little break from all the guest related content this week as our hosts dive into their favourite gigs... one's they played or worked at as well as shows they've attended as fans. We talk conga lines, being invited to jam on stage with one of your favourite bands, late night forrest festivals in Greece (including Nate giving us some of his best Greek), crowds setting of flares mid show, crowd surfing at your first ever metal show and a whole lot more!New episodes go liv...

Hello and welcome back to Tour Talk. This week we caught up with Matt Ward from Mason Hill… now this was probably an incredibly inopportune time for Matt as we spoke the evening before the bands debut album was about to chart! However he very graciously gave us his time and Mason Hill smashed their way in to the UK’s official Top 20 so good times all round. We cover first ever touring experiences and if they lived up to the guys preconceptions including Nate’s 3 touring essentials… turns...

Welcome to episode 12 of Tour Talk. I’m not quite sure how we’ve managed but this week we’re chatting with Charlie Benante of Thrash Metal legends Anthrax! Charlie was kind enough to give us an hour of his time so as you’d expect we used that hour to ask one of the best rock and metal drummers of all time predominantly about his love for playing guitar and his thoughts on the current state of hip hop and country music - We find out how Charlie put his free time to good use during th...

Welcome to the latest instalment of Tour Talk - if ever you needed a deeper understanding of why we’re all crazy enough to go on tour together then this is the episode for you. We’re joined by Tobbe Strandvick from Swedish band Camchatka and I’m sure it’s clear to everybody listening that the 3 of us had a great time sharing some tight and border line unpleasant spaces together on tour. Tobbe is not only an incredible drummer but he’s the very definition of what we refer to as...

The brain trust here at TT HQ felt the best way to celebrate reaching 1000+ views / streams and making it to our landmark 10th Episode was to give you all a little something - turns out the only gift we've got is more episodes so here... try this one on for size.A little while back Dario and Nate sat down and talked through their story of experiencing lockdown on the front line, while in the middle of a tour together. It ended up being an immensely difficult time for Nate especially... ...

Roll up! Roll up! It’s Episode #09 time and we’re delighted to have Danny Vaughn from Tyketto, Snakeoil & Harmony as our guest this week ! He takes us through the etiquette of being a headline act and an opening band based around his experiences of opening for Iron Maiden and Status Quo… sometimes wires can get crossed and Tour Managers can become very angry, very quickly. We get Danny’s must haves for travelling on a tour bus and multiple stories of how he’s nearly died on one…...