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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S1E31: Imelda May

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy caught up with Irish singer, songwriter Imelda May. Championed by artists from Bono, Jeff Beck and Ronnie Wood, Imelda has enjoyed critical acclaim and success. Her new album ’11 Past The Hour’ is due out in April and she can sure tell a great story…sit back and enjoy another worthy guest to Rockonteurs.

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0:00.0

All right, Gary. How's everything with you? How's your week been?

0:03.4

My, well, it's been, you know, like every other week, just down here, you know, daily prescribed exercise and the odd trip to the shops.

0:11.8

I can see your, you've got the tourist base

0:14.2

pedals out in the background. Yeah I have. But they may... That's because I'm gonna have to

0:18.8

start learning how to use them in case we actually go on tour. Yeah, absolutely.

0:23.5

And to explain what they are, what do they do?

0:25.5

They're tourist base pedals.

0:27.5

Well, they're, therefore, they're the progiest of prog, accoutraments, aren't they? They're when the bass player is so busy that he's got to actually play the

0:36.8

base with his feet because he's playing mandolin or a 12 string or something.

0:41.6

John Jones. John Jones played the place.

0:43.6

Everyone had them.

0:44.4

They were and it's they're actually they're a nightmare.

0:47.1

Let's be honest.

0:47.7

I mean, anyway, you can't be because obviously,

0:50.4

I mean, you can't be flash or anything because you've got to stand up at the same time.

0:55.0

But anyway, but actually we're going for something, we're going in a more traditional direction today, aren't we?

1:00.0

We'll have a fabulous Irish artist with more than do.

1:03.2

Yeah, who's brought out two albums since lockdown or an album of poetry that was amazing and

1:09.4

I mean she's a really fantastic person. A powerful voice. She's a really fantastic person.

1:12.6

A powerful voice, she's a very powerful voice,

1:14.8

I mean in every regard.

1:16.7

So let's get her on.

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