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Fed up of the plain old form with Iggy Pop, Anna Calvi, Jason Williamson and Leron Thomas

Iggy Pop, Anna Calvi and Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson discuss innovation in music with Leron Thomas.

This week, we’re going into the holiday season with a bang. Trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and producer Leron Thomas (Pan Amsterdam, Iggy Pop) is joined at the world famous Maida Vale studios in London by: the godfather of punk, David Bowie collaborator, actor, singer, and all-round legend Iggy Pop; singer, composer, producer, three-time-Mercury-Music-Prize-nominated guitar shredder, and now a soundtrack artist for the hit TV show Peaky Blinders, Anna Calvi; and punk poet, and an all-round musical rebel from Nottinghamshire in the UK who writes and shouts about everything to do with 21st Century Britain, it’s Jason Williamson from the band Sleaford Mods.

Led by Leron they’ll be discussing innovation in music, how they implant different genres into their work, and how it feels to be an artist in the current political and social climate.

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29 minutes

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  • Sat 21 Dec 2019 12:06GMT
  • Sun 22 Dec 2019 20:06GMT

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