Rough Trade Q&A

Salena Godden is one of Britain’s best loved poets and performers. She is also an activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist and is widely anthologised. She has published several volumes of poetry…

Harry Sword and Stephen Mallinder discuss Monolithic Undertow, a book which  alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to …

Mogwai join Ian Rankin to discuss As The Love Continues, an album which was originally planned to be recorded in America, but the pandemic led to a relocation to Worcestershire and with producer Dave…

 Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, New York Times best-selling author, actress, poet, philanthropist, and mental health expert, JEWEL, joins special guest host Lucy O'Brien for an intimate conversa…

Max Richter's Voices is a stunning orchestral dedication to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this podcast, Max is joined by Edith Bowman to discuss the making of the album, the inspirati…

Steven Wilson's brand new album The Future Bites explores ways that the human brain has evolved in the internet era, placing the listener in a world of 21st century addictions. It is less a bleak vis…

Isles is a record that encapsulates BICEP's 15 year career and the distillation of their passion for music and club culture while digging deeper into the sounds, emotions and experiences they had gro…

Hey Clockface was recorded in Helsinki, Paris and New York and mixed by Sebastian Krys in Los Angeles. The assembled album is “An Elvis Costello & Sebastian Krys Production” following on from their w…

Believe In Magic: 30 Years of Heavenly Recordings is a glorious celebration of Heavenly Recordings, one of the most iconic and admired independent British record labels of the past three decades, pub…

Serpentine Prison is soulful, poetic and understated.... produced by renowned Memphis multi-instrumentalist Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. and The MG’s fame) the record features contributions from a w…

When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days....

Ian Rankin chats to Tim Burgess and takes questions directly f…

Stephen Morris (Joy Division and New Order) joins writer, broadcaster and Hacienda DJ legend Dave Haslam, to discuss new book Fast Forward: Volume 2, before taking questions directly from fans in thi…

In his new book A Sound Mind, Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as the most rebellious genre of all. In this episode, he chats to th…

The trail-blazing lead singer of Skunk Anansie and global female icon talks to writer Lucy O'Brien and takes questions directly from fans. This Q&A celebrates Skin's new book It Takes Blood and Guts,…

Rob Halford, front man of the globally iconic metal band Judas Priest, answers questions in a very special Q&A, celebrating the publication of Confess, his full, frank and shocking autobiography.

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From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams were encouraged, to the award-winning godfather of electronica, Gary Numan has seen it all. (R)evolution is the rollercoaster ri…