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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S5E12: Clare Grogan

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year from Rockonteurs. This week join Gary and Guy for a chat with the delightful Clare Grogan. Clare is an acclaimed actress, best known for roles in films like Gregory's Girl and the TV show Red Dwarf. She is also the lead singer of Altered Images. This week she chats to Guy and Gary about her influences as a singer and songwriter and even how she influenced a certain smitten Mr Kemp to write some of the best songs from his catalogue on the 'True' album.

Rockonteurs Live is coming on Feb 22nd at Battersea Power Station - A Quadrophenia special. Get tickets at https://www.thecinemainthepowerstation.com/film/RP-Quadrophenia

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions


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0:00.0

Hello I'm Guy Pratt and I'm Gary Kemp and we're getting ready for the next rock on tours live.

0:05.0

Join us at the iconic Battersie Power Station in London for a special screening of Quadraphina,

0:11.0

greatest youth cult movie ever made, followed by a recording of the

0:14.2

podcast where our guests will be director Frank Rodham and the star, Phil Daniels.

0:18.8

Yep, it's happening on February the 22nd, tickets are now on sale, go to the cinema in the power station. dot com. on the

0:23.0

cinema of the cinema in the power station.com

0:25.0

celebration of British Classic quadraphina.

0:28.0

See you then. Hello Gary.

0:30.0

Hello guys. So you've been working with one of the world's greatest drummers?

0:33.4

I have it's you know it's this is the good thing right about being a musician rather than

0:39.8

an artist is that rather than just going back and revisiting stuff all the time for me

0:45.9

there's always a new box to tick because for me I'm not done till I've played

0:50.8

with everyone that I want to play with.

0:53.0

You know, that's a good thing about being a side man.

0:55.0

And yes, yesterday, finally, it was,

0:58.0

I got to play with Manu Kache,

1:00.0

one of the great drummers and band leaders.

1:04.0

Yeah, yeah.

1:06.0

Yeah. And it was in Paris as well.

1:08.0

I first met Manu years ago because he used to have his own TV show like a Jules Holland later type thing in France.

1:16.0

Yeah, yeah around for four seasons.

1:18.4

It was very cool and he's written a great book about basically about being a drummer and the musicians placed in society.

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