And the Hello and welcome to the first soda jaker on songwriting of 2024. Happy New year to you all, this is Simon and this is Brian and

joining us for our 260th episode is a very fine singer-songwriter, musician and producer

hailing from the whirl, aka Over the Water.

He first made his name as co-founder and original lead guitarist for Hoylakes' finest of the

choral before going on to become a highly respected solo artist and over the years has collaborated with

the likes of Arctic Monkeys, the last shadow puppets, Saint Xavier, Graham Coxon, Paloma Faith,

Yardact and Mickhead.

As this episode Graces your Feeds, he's just released his fifth solo album, The gorgeous

Jackie Dar, which was self-produced and recorded at his very own yawn studios in West Kirby.

We're very happy to welcome the brilliant Bill Ryder Jones to the show.

Regular listeners might recall that Bill's name came up in our interview with Mick Head a little while back.

That's right, yeah, Bill produced Mick's 2022 album, Dear Scott, and a lovely job he did too.

And this new record features a Mick Cameo, in fact, which you'll hear about shortly.

That you will.

Bill was born in 1983 in Warrington Cheshire. He and his family

eventually settling in West Kirby on the Leisure Peninsula when he was six.

That's a Gary Newman album, isn't it, prior the Leisure Peninsula?

See what you did there.

Our guest's first instruments was the violin and he also played piano from an early age.

Later on his dad bought him his first electric guitar from a shop on London's fabled Denmark streets during a visit to the capital.

His earliest six-string influences included the verbs Nick McCabe,

Blares Graham Coxon and Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmore.

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