Podcast opening pars. English male, warm voice. Ex BBC producer.

Mike Kinnaird

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Podcasting

Description

Iain Matthews was ex Fairport Convention and later Matthews Southern Comfort. For my podcast interview, he explained why he quit that band just as he scored a UK No1. How he became a rock star purely by chance and about his current music projects.

Language

English

Voice Age

Senior (55+)

Accents

British (England - Yorkshire & Humber) British (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
if you record it attract today, released as a single sales of 8000 would almost certainly get you into the UK told 40. The number one has probably sold 100,000 in Matthew's was selling 30,000 day when his huge British number one top the charts in 1970. His cover of the Journey Metro Track Woodstock made it on the 31st of October. That year, it replaced Frida Pains Band of Golden State at the top of the chance for three weeks before being replaced by the Jimi Hendrix track Voodoo Child. But it was the hit that very nearly wasn't as we'll hear later, it was a huge twist of fate and the pressure to come up with another hit to face the press to be part of the star routine. That he now undoubtedly was became intense, so much so that this lad from Sculthorpe, a small steel town in Lincolnshire in the UK still only in his mid twenties, had little choice but to call a halt very abruptly at a sound check in Birmingham in the November for Ian. At the time, there was no choice, but it wasn't the end of the band, in fact, fast forward, and he will formally be part of several bands and duos and, well, various projects over the years and bring back Matthews Southern Comfort in 2000 and five. And that's where our conversation begins. I wondered if it had been important to him to revisit and take that band where he probably wanted it to go in the first place.