Show Notes
This weeks big interview is with Yann Tiersen. Yann is a French musician and composer whose musical career varies from studio recordings, musical collaboration and film soundtracks. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers, and the violin, but he also includes instruments such as the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, piano accordion, and even a typewriter.
We talk to Yann while he is in the Faroes on his tour onboard his yacht "Ninnog" . Under sail power Yann, his wife Emilie will be taking in the Faroes, Ireland, Scotland, Liverpool and Wales. Designed to be both ecologically and culturally in tune with their environs, the tour, titled Celtic Circuitry and Faroe Frequencies, boasts a manifesto translated into all the Celtic languages of the places they will visit on their tour.
Also on the podcast we chat about Jaggers 80th birthday, review Blur new album and gig at Hammersmith and Michael reviews Siouxsie & The Banshees at Kelvingrove.
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