BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello and welcome to another Midnight

Meets podcast part of what we do Monday to Thursdays on weeknights and BBC

Radio 5 live from 10 or 10 30 to 1 a.m. But Tuesday night at Midnight we do this

and we absolutely love it. And this Midnight Meets guest was and is the lead

singer and songwriter shed 7. A band who were definitely lumped in and were

part of that whole Brit pop explosion in the mid 90s. But I think we underestimate

just how successful they were. From 94 to 99, here's the scores on the

doors. 15 top 40 singles, four top 20 albums in the UK and to this day the

fanbase is one of those really ultra devoted fanbases as well. So I had them on

standby. He was ready to speak easy and we chased a few rainbows with Rick

Whitter.

I could deny, but I'll never realize I've been chasing rainbows

on my life.

Rick Whitter, welcome to Midnight Meets. Well, hello mate, how are you? Good, how

you keeping today? I'm good, thank you very much. We're just getting back onto

the treadmill. We're very, very busy all of a sudden so it's nice to be able to

talk about us again after so long. Well, I'd like to start on November the

28th, 2018. When Darren tweeted you, send that his car had been broken into, two

windows were smashed, his radio was nicked, and the worst thing was your 2017 album

instant pleasures was in a CD player. You replied, Thieving scumbags, Darren, I'll

follow you. You send me your dress and I'll send you a signed copy to save you

buying it again. And hopefully that will make you think there's still some

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