WELCOME!!

EggTête Podcast’s are conversation with musicians/ poets/ actors/ dancers and quite frankly anyone with grain of creativity from the North of England.  

 I’ve invited Artist to my to my narrowboat in the centre of Leeds, where we have a tête-à-tête about their lives, creative process and anything else that pops-up!  It’s informal sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but never never boring……

My aim is to shine a light on these ‘characters’ from the North in my podcast and a  special cast with visiting artists that wash up on the river Aire……

Quick biog of your host:

I’m a singer songwriter born & bred in Leeds.  I played guitar for a goth band in the capital of goth in the 80’s & went solo in the 90’s.  I supported some of the greatest songwriters that ever lived - yeah I know, that’s a big statement, but in my opinion they where/are (Bowie/ The Cranberries/ Vic Chestnutt/ Townes Van Zandt, blahbalhblah). I still get a buzz playing live and writing and releasing my own songs.

In the ‘90s I moved to London, then to Brighton, then to Paris for several years, then back to Brighton then back to the middle of France.  In 2022 I returned to the UK with the plan of getting to know this island and its people again. 

I  bought a narrowboat and went everywhere I could in all seasons for nearly 5 years.  Only stopping for two weeks at a time then on my away along the canals and rivers…..   

On my odyssey I met a lot of people and to be honest I bad mouthed the North and particularly my home town of Leeds. There was a bad toast in my month that I couldn’t get rid of.  However,  forced by personal reasons to headed back north and finally dropped anchor in my birth town and then something strange happened - I fell in love with the place!!

Don’t get me wrong we still have problems ‘UP NORTH’, but there’s a kernel of something magical in some of characters, especially in the artistic community’s, that I felt impelled to document.  

This isn’t really about me, it’s an insight into the good, the bad and the ugly of THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.

Enjoy.

Paul