Music Stories with Tony Lloyd

Apr 15 2024

Music Stories with Tony Lloyd Podcast artwork

The Podcast for the music industry

Having been a broadcaster for many years I've witnessed some great stories in the music industry and now I want to bring as many 'Music Stories' to you as I can in this series of podcasts. My goal is that these will inspire and maybe help 'up and coming' musicians and maybe some experienced ones too!
Feel free to share these episodes on your own social channels or sites.
If you or someone you know would like to be considered for an interview email [email protected]

Promotional Interviews can also be arranged on camera, these give even better publicity. Details at www.backstagetony.tv

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

Episode 122- Gary Moat - Heavy Rock Musician

Apr 15 2024 19 mins

Some great stories from Gary Moat of rock band Burnt Out Wreck, including about playing Wembley Stadium and Ozzy Osbourne !Gary tells me about how he rehearsed playing the drums years ago, sending vibrations to the neighbours across the street! He was part of the eighties rock band Heavy Pettin (no G)! I play a bit of the bands single ' Stand And Fight' and he tells me wh

Episode 121- Max Rae - R&B Singer Shot to Success in 7 Years!

Apr 05 2024 9 mins

Max was in Las Vegas when we spoke about her career, she tells me how it all started for her and how she has 150 million views / downloads! Max has only been a professional singer songwriter for 7 years and has had amazing success, I play a bit of her latest single 'Keep You Waiting' and you will understand why she is so successful. I ask her what the inspiration was behi

Episode 120 - Emma Stevens - Superb Singer Songwriter

Apr 02 2024 17 mins

Emma has had an incredible career already and to look at her you would struggle to believe that as she looks so youthful! She's opened on stage for amazing artists singing her own music for people like The Feeling, Sophie Ellis-Bexter and Take That! She tells me what that was like.One of her songs has had 3.5 million plays on Spotify so she's obviously doing something rig

Episode 119 - Bobby Wilson (Jackie Wilson's Son!)

Mar 25 2024 26 mins

Warning ! This interview has SO MANY stories and advice you wouldn't believe it !Bobby tells me his amazing story from when he was in the US Navy and how he got into performing his music, way before he discovered he was soul icon Jackie Wilson's son. I play a short piece of Jackie Wilson's Higher & Higher for you, and then some of his new single ' Lonely Tea

Episode 118 - Tom Webber - Busker at 16, now listen to him!

Mar 20 2024 14 mins

A pleasure to talk to Tom who has released a new single ' Keep Calling' (March 2024) and I play a bit in the interview, it's great!We talk about how he started busking on the streets of Oxford and what it was like, and about touring and the technology involved now in the music business.Tom has great advice for fellow musicians too.His music and tour dates can be foun

Episode 117 - Nathalie Miranda - Talented singer songwriter with a ton of great advice!

Mar 19 2024 25 mins

A great interview with the very talented Nathalie Miranda who gives a lot of valuable advice to other musicians during the course of our chat. Nathalie explains her policy of creating different styles of songs (which she does very well) and I play a bit of her excellent track 'Back to Life' to give you an idea of her professionalism and talent. It would seem she is psychi

Episode 116 - Vince Freeman - Talented musician with a personal story

Mar 15 2024 20 mins

I really got on well with award winning Vince, we ended up talking about tech so much before the interview we nearly ran out of time !Vince has a harrowing personal story to tell and I ask him if his experience has inspired his music.He has appeared on the BBC's 'The Voice' and I ask him about meeting Tom Jones and what he gained from the show too.I also ask him if h

Episode 115 - John Fishell - Awesome rock musician with new music and tour

Mar 11 2024 10 mins

John's single 'Carolina California is a brilliant rock song about a relationship breakdown, he explains all about it and I play a clip from the single. John is described on his website as 'Unconventional, Unexpected and a little Unravelled' which is really cool and accurately reflects his life and music. He gives me an explanation! Extremely talented he plays al

Episode 114 - Rachael Sage - Singer Songwriter from New York

Mar 06 2024 15 mins

An absolute pleasure to chat to Rachael about her music. She tells me she has played the piano since she was two and a half and is self taught too! She has worked with Howard Jones and Imelda May amongst others and her new single 'Darkest Deep' is available now. I play a bit of it and it's so good I played more than I should have ! Rachael has some really good advice

Episode 113 - Ninuca Tkeshelashvili - Amazing Young Concert Pianist

Mar 06 2024 22 mins

Ninuca is a 23 year old incredibly talented professional concert pianist, originally from Georgia and now based in Germany. She tells me what Georgia is like and apparently they make great wine there! I ask her how she started playing the piano. Remembering how myself and many others were sent to have piano lessons as children and didn't do particularly well, Ninuca however wa