Muses

Oct 30 2024 9 ep. 54 mins 25
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Dan Smith (Bastille) and Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) discuss the people in the songs on Dan's new project, Ampersand. Each episode is a conversation about history, music, mythology and popular culture, and how those things overlap.
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KAOS, with guest Charlie Covell

Oct 30 2024 51 mins  
In this spooooooooky bonus episode of Muses, Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) take a trip into the underworld in the company of Charlie Covell - the creator of the Netflix series KAOS, a re-telling of Greek myths for which Dan wrote a song, Eurydice.This interview was recorded before news broke that KAOS would not be returning to Netflix, but they still cov

Oscar Wilde (Red Wine & Wilde)

Oct 29 2024 61 mins  
In this episode Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) are talk about Oscar Wilde, who perhaps needs no introduction: literary icon, celebrated playwright, convicted criminal. But how did he go from one to the other, and why did Dan write Red Wine & Wilde - which you can hear on Bastille Presents: Ampersand: https://bastille.lnk.to/ampersandstore - about him?

Zheng Yi Sao, with guest Dr. Leon Rocha (Zheng Yi Sao & Questions For Her)

Oct 22 2024 63 mins  
In this episode Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) talk about the world's greatest-ever pirate: Zheng Yi Sao, who rose from working in a 'floating brothel' to controlling the South China Sea and China's salt trade, and the inspiration for Dan's song Zheng Yi Sao & Questions For Her which you cannot hear yet - it's not out until the album "&" is releas

Leonard Cohen & Marianne Ihlen, with guest Nick Broomfield (Leonard & Marianne

Oct 15 2024 60 mins  
In this episode Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) are musing about a muse: Marianne Ihlen, who inspired Leonard Cohen to write many of his most famous songs, such as Bird On A Wire and So Long, Marianne. Their relationship inspired Nick Broomfield's documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, which in turn inspired Dan/Bastille's song Leonard & Ma

Edvard Munch (Blue Sky & The Painter)

Oct 08 2024 60 mins  
In this episode of Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) are talking about the painter of The Scream, Edvard Munch, the inspiration for Bastille's song Blue Sky & The Painter, which you can hear here: https://bastille.lnk.to/BlueSkyHow did his mental health affect his art? Did his work get worse when he was happy? Was he a Nazi?

Emily Dickinson (Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky)

Oct 01 2024 66 mins  
In this episode of Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Emma and Dan are talking about the American poet Emily Dickinson, who inspired Dan's/Bastille's song Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky, which you can hear here: https://bastille.lnk.to/EmilyThey talk about Emily's life and work, including her "friendship" with a "gal pal", and why she may not have been as much as a recluse as her r

Narcissus (Seasons & Narcissus)

Sep 24 2024 66 mins  
In this episode of Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) take a long, slow look at Narcissus, who inspired Dan's song Seasons & Narcissus, which you can hear here: https://bastille.lnk.to/SeasonsThey look into the different versions of the myth of Narcissus, and how and why it's changed over the years; they also look at the myth

Eve (Eve & Paradise Lost)

Sep 17 2024 61 mins  
In this first episode of Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) look at the life of Eve, who inspired Dan's/Bastille's song Eve & Paradise Lost, which you can hear here: https://bastille.lnk.to/EveEmma and Dan talk about exactly what the Bible (and the Qur'an) say about her; the different interpretations of her story; and the impa

Muses: An Ampersand Podcast

Sep 03 2024 1 mins  
Muses: An Ampersand Podcast sees Dan Smith (Bastille) and Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) take a deep dive into the lives of some amazing people from history and mythology, all of whom Dan wrote songs about for his latest project, Ampersand. Each episode is a conversation about history, music, mythology and popular culture, and how those things overlap. Muses: An Ampersand Podcast