S8E6: Matt Johnson

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome Matt Johnson to the podcast. Matt grew up in a pub that played host to the Faces, The Kinks and even David Essex. Matt started ‘The The’ in 1979 and as part of the band worked with a wonderful rotating cast of fellow artists such as Johnny Marr, Gail Ann Dorsey, and Sinèad O’Connor to name but a few.

Matt’s new album ‘Ensoulment’ is out now on Cineola / earMusic.

The The are currently touring North America.

Find out more at www.thethe.com/

You can also watch some of our latest episodes on our Rockonteurs YouTube channel. Matt's episode is COMING SOON!

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0:00.0	Players of People's Post Code lottery have raised over 1.4 billion pounds for good causes, helping
0:06.2	deliver good news for charities like Battersea.
0:09.7	Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust.
0:12.4	Trussle, ending hunger together, and riding for the Disabled
0:16.3	Association.
0:17.3	See, even Bobby says thanks.
0:20.7	Because what the world needs now is you.
0:23.0	PPL manages lotteries for 20 charities, a minimum of 33% of each ticket price goes to charity, not available in Northern Ireland conditions apply 18 plus.
0:32.0	Hello Gary.
0:33.0	Hello Guy.
0:34.0	How was the show last night?
0:35.0	You were at the Royal Albert Hall.
0:37.0	I was at the Royal Albert Hall.
0:38.0	Yeah, sorry, I must be, it's been weeks of just going on about this.
0:40.0	That must be really boring for everyone.
0:41.0	It was fantastic. It was fantastic. Actually there's one funny thing
0:44.8	there's a particular thing you get with David which is Gilmore. Gilmore. No, no, and it's we had that you know we did six nights in Rome last week and there'll be, there'll be these people who, where David will be playing some beautiful, quiet passage, you know, and it's just really lovely, and then someone goes, I love you, David!
1:07.0	People just scream at the top of the voice, and it's just like, you're not helping.
1:11.0	That's not very loving thing to do. I was at an Arsenal match when I was a kid.
1:16.4	And Arsenal got a free kick. And do you know how people on your own team, supporters,
1:22.4	still hate someone on their own team, supporters, still hate someone on their own team.
1:25.0	Yeah.
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