Sounds Like These by ICMP London
Sounds Like These is an informal, insightful, and inspiring conversation with a variety of music industry professionals: from songwriters, producers, composers, and session players to people working in music for film, TV, and games, record labels, PRs, music charities, and more. Discussing their careers, showbiz anecdotes, as well as matters of equality, diversity, and inclusion in the music business and beyond, with a common denominator at heart: their devotion to music.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 22
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Jasmine Hodge | Head of PR, journalist, proud fangirl
Jasmine is a force of nature. At only 24 years old, she is The Music Federation's Head of PR, working across a wide roster of bands and artists. How did she get there? As a teenager, Jasmine was drea…
Jeremiah Gogo | Head of Data & A&R Analytics
Following a degree in Economics and Mathematics, combining his passion for Music, Business and Data, Jeremiah built a career that's been and still is going strong. Cutting his teeth as part of the co…
Saidah Blount | music curator, executive producer, epic playlist maker
Saidah Blount moved to NYC to study Political Science but soon realised music was really the industry she wanted to work in. Starting out as a music journalist, working for and with the first few web…
Sean Adams | music journalist, artist manager, social media producer
Sean Adams started out as a music journalist, launching a newsletter back in the late 90s, which then became Drowned In Sound, a pillar when it comes to online music magazines. Sean has also delved i…
Raissa Pardini | multi-disciplinary designer, type artist, art director
Raissa Pardini is a multi-disciplinary designer, type artist, and art director hailing from Tuscany, Italy, currently based in London but previously active in Berlin and Glasgow. As a musician, DJ an…
Charlotte Hatherley | composer, session guitarist, singer-songwriter
Charlotte Hatherley is a session guitarist, composer for the moving image, and singer-songwriter, also known for being a former member of the rock band Ash. Charlotte joined the ICMP faculty in 2019 …
Welcome to Sounds Like These!
Welcome to the Interview Series, a number of conversations between Lara Magnelli, a member of the Marketing team at ICMP, and a variety of guests from the music industry. From producers to marketers,…
Sam Jones | music consultant, event and festival producer, venue manager
Sam works as a music consultant, event producer, music educator, and creative producer. His career has seen him work both on a local and international level, producing events, setting up venues and r…
Megan O'Neill | singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
Obsessed with music since she was a little girl, listening to Stevie Nicks and Carole King with her mom, Megan really kicked off her career when she decided to move from a small Irish town to Nashvil…
Jason Bavanandan | songwriter, producer, lead singer of the band Battle
Jason took his first steps in the music industry as the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-rock phenomenon Battle, releasing two acclaimed albums and touring internationally throughout the mid-2…
Justin Boreland aka Merlin | rapper, producer, educator
Justin (aka Merlin, his artist name) joined the group Bomb The Bass at the age of 16 and a year later was signed to American label Sire Records (Madonna, Ice-T). With such great success also came som…
Audrey Riley | cellist, composer, arranger, and musical director
Lara asked Audrey to go through some of the work she's credited on (the list is endless), including her collaboration with The Smiths - the first of her career - Moloko on the amazing 'The Time Is No…
Mwen | DJ, producer, sound designer for theatre, Ableton-certified tutor
Mwen is a sound designer, producer, composer, DJ and Ableton tutor, who took their first steps in the music industry as a session drummer. Most of the conversation Lara had with Mwen revolved around …
Catherine Anne Davies (The Anchoress) | producer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
Catherine Anne Davies is a producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who's released two solo albums as The Anchoress and has worked with a wide array of artists, including the Manics Street Prea…
Xan Blacq | vocalist, composer, session player (Amy Winehouse, Nigel Kennedy)
Xan Blacq is a performer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and solo artist with a lot of stories to tell. Xan went through his career with Lara: from his first music steps at the local church to bein…
Charlie Thomas | producer, engineer, songwriter
Lara chats with Charlie Thomas, currently teaching on ICMP's BA Creative Music Production. Charlie started his career in the hospitality sector, soon realising music was actually what he wanted to pu…
Lia Mice | producer, multidisciplinary artist, instrument designer
Lara talks to Lia Mice, a multidisciplinary artist and producer who joined the ICMP faculty for the 20/21 academic year. Lia went from studying a BA in filmmaking to becoming a performer and now also…
Jamie Doe (The Magic Lantern) | singer-songwriter, educator
Lara chats with Jamie Doe, currently teaching on ICMP's BA Songwriting and BA Creative Musicianship programmes. Jamie is not only an educator but also a prolific songwriter, who's been releasing musi…
Francesca Confortini | vocalist, session musician, singer-songwriter
Lara chats with Francesca Confortini, currently teaching on a variety of ICMP's Vocal courses. Francesca also keeps busy with her session work, her private teaching, her singer-songwriter career, as …
