Misadventures in Music with Ian Prowse & Mick Ord

Tommy Scott, the main songwriter and guitarist, from the iconic Liverpool band "Space" is our highly entertaining guest in episode 42 of the Misadventures in Music podcast.
The band scored 8 UK Top 40 singles and had great success with their albums 'Spiders' and 'Tin Planet' in the 1990's and they're still going strong today.
Space' has a new album out later this year - "Ten Neurotic Fairytales" - and a UK tour.
Tommy's imagination and enthusiasm sparkles in this podcast and his wild tales of playing live in China, boozing with Tom Jones and throwing stones at the Prime Minister - when a self-confessed scouse "urchin"- provide genuinely laugh-out-loud moments in the podcast.

It's 1977 and punk has just hit Liverpool.  
The legendary Eric's club is home to the city's rebels and posers - many became pop stars.
Penny Kiley became a music journalist.
Atypical Girl - Punk rock, Liverpool and trying to be normal' is Penny's homage to the city's re-emergence as a musical force which had lain dormant since the Beatles upped sticks and left in the 60's.
The book is also the highly personalised tale of an autistic woman in the male-dominated world of music journalism - working for Melody Maker, Smash Hits and the Liverpool Echo, reviewing gigs by Echo and the Bunnymen and Dead or Alive, and interviewing Jonathan Richman and the rest.
"If anyone can paint a true picture of those glorious days, Penny can." - says Will Seargent.

In this we hear from Mike Badger - one of the founder members of the legendary Liverpool band The La's and an established artist in his own right.
Mike recently released  'Devils, Ghosts & Firearms', his first studio album in 5 years.
Mike's continues to have a successful career as a film-maker (cult folk-horror movie,"The Vaden") and as an acclaimed sculptor whose current exhibition with Jeff Young at the Kirkby Gallery has received rave reviews.
You can hear Mike's and artistic passion in every word he speaks.

The latest episode of the 'Misadventures in Music' podcast (number 39) with Ian Prowse and Mick Ord features some of the highlights from the last 12 months including revealing and controversial comments from some of their top guests including Mike McCartney, "Nasher" from Frankie Goes to Hollywood and the brilliant Merseyside-born singer Beryl Marsden who's been wowing audiences since the early 60's when she supported the Beatles on tour and played in Hamburg aged just 16.
The guys also discuss Ian's own musical highlights from past year and reveal some of the exciting plans they have for the podcast in 2026, with a few meaty teasers thrown in about his forthcoming album due for release in the summer.

James Campion is the author of a new fascinating and revealing book about Prince - one of the greatest songwriters and musicians of his era who passed away much too soon in 2016 aged 57.
His new book 'Revolution - Prince, the band, the era" focuses on his prolific and ground-breaking music from the 80's when he and his band took the music world by storm.
James makes a really strong case that Prince should be considered one of our greatest ever pop artists - in the same league as Bowie and The Beatles ; crucially, he emphasizes the huge influence that the other members of the band, The Revolution, had on the music.It's a warts and all portrait of an enigmatic, hugely gifted individual who drove himself and his musical family to the limits and beyond.
Prince and the Revolution's is a tale worth savouring, told by a master storyteller.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UQLDLxQBRnal3O8hq8r0V?si=ce35dc720aea440cBook:  https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/revolution-9781493080847/