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George Ezra & Friends

021. Kurt Vile

George Ezra & Friends

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week George records with one of rock’s most captivating frontmen, guitarists, and songwriters, Kurt Vile. Travel can inspire in surprising ways and Kurt discovered as much making his new record, the eclectic and electrifying 'Bottle It In'. These songs show an artist and songwriter who can make you laugh and break your heart, often in the same line. George & Kurt talk about this new record, his journey through music and life growing up. This podcast was edited by Warren Borg. The animations and visuals are thanks to Oisin Griffin. Thank you to Josh Sanger and the Closer Artists team. Thanks to Kurt for chatting with George. And of course, thank YOU for downloading and supporting this podcast.

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0:00.0

Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to George Ezra and friends the podcast where

0:20.6

our guest this week is the one and only Kurt Vile. Now Kurt released an album last year

0:26.7

and Kurt has a number of amazing albums but last year he released Bottle It in and it is an amazing

0:32.2

record from start to finish it is a brilliant record to sit back and listen to. If you haven't

0:37.1

done already I would go and listen to that for sure and it was just an absolute pleasure

0:42.2

to sit down with the man himself and talk about how this record came to be and we also

0:46.2

spoke about you know his experiences before this particular album and how he got into

0:50.3

music and where he sees himself where where he sees it heading and it was just lovely we were

0:57.4

actually myself and Kurt we were on tour and we were playing kind of we were chasing one another

1:04.2

around Europe I don't think he was aware of this as much as I was but essentially every venue we

1:08.7

played he was either playing the night before or the night after or he was in the same town the

1:13.0

same night we were and then finally we managed to get together in Glasgow so and he was the perfect

1:19.2

guest thank you very much for being so welcome into me Kurt thank you for that if you're listening of

1:23.8

course and if you're listening to this at the half time break the interval of this podcast we will

1:29.6

hear a word from our partners at mind charity and mind a group of people lovely people who have

1:36.0

set out to help all of us with our mental health so there is no problem to people too small they want

1:41.2

all of us to be happy and healthy so thank you very much mind we will hear a word from them and of

1:46.4

course there might be one or two swear words in this episode so if you are listening with young

1:51.1

people around just the heads up there might be a naughty word or two and I'm not going to say anything

1:57.0

more let's jump into the conversation ladies and gentlemen Kurt Vile

2:01.0

hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this week's episode of George S.R. and Friends where I

2:16.7

am joined by Kurt Vile hey yeah we were very official how are you I'm good good

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