The James Kennedy Podcast

Mar 06 2025 73 ep. 57 mins

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The official podcast of musician and author, James Kennedy. Exploring music, politics, society, books and whatever else happens along the way. Featuring awesome guests every week. Subscribe and join the conversation! Check out James's other pages at : https://linktr.ee/jameskennedyuk
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#73 - Toby Sebastian - making Eyes Light Up

Mar 06 2025 38 mins

Toby Sebastian is a singer-songwriter and actor known for his roles in Game of Thrones, the Music of Silence, Trading Paint and Perfect Match. Here we chat about his brand new album, 'Eyes Light Up', being an independent artist, the music industry, Hollywood, songwriting and what's next. Toby can be followed at : www.instagram.com/tobysebastian1Support the podcast at : https://www.

#72 - Ginger Wildheart - Recovery, mental health & songwriting

Feb 20 2025 60 mins

Ginger Wildheart is a prolific songwriter, singer and musician known mostly as the frontman of The Wildhearts. We chat about their latest album 'Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts', Ginger's recovery and spiritual transformation, mental health, his songwriting process, the music industry and living in The Now. 'Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts' is out on March 7th. Ginger can be follow

#71 - George Monbiot - How we beat The Invisible Doctrine

Feb 05 2025 52 mins

George Monbiot is a renowned journalist, author and activist working mostly on environmental, political and social issues. He writes a regular column in the Guardian and has published many books including Regenesis, Captive State, Feral and many more. Here, we chat about his latest book with Peter Hutchinson, 'The Invisible Doctrine', neoliberalism, capitalism, human nature, oligar

#70 - Steven Donziger - Fighting Big Oil & the price of justice

Jan 16 2025 35 mins

See the video on Youtube! Steven Donziger is a lawyer and environmental rights defender who successfully represented victims of oil dumping in Ecuador by oil company Chevron and paid the price with an unprecedented retaliation by Big Oil, which included being sued for 60 billion dollars, spending 3 years under House Arrest, 6 months in prison and the loss of his right to work and t

#69 - Amanda Krieg Thomas - Music Sync uncovered

Oct 06 2024 66 mins

Amanda Krieg Thomas in an Emmy nominated Music Supervisor behind the soundtracks to Big Mouth, Pitch Perfect 2, American Horror Story, The Patient, The Jeffery Dahmer Story, The People vs OJ Simpson and many, many others. She is also the author of book, 'Thinking in Sync', a regular speaker at music conventions around the world and a former member of the Board of Directors for the

#68 - Jean-Ken Johnny - MAN WITH A MISSION

Aug 07 2024 22 mins

Jean-Ken Johnny is the singer and guitarist in the Japanese band, MAN WITH A MISSION. On this episode we chat about the bands recent US tour and upcoming European shows, the bands popularity in anime, the Japanese music scene, advice for new bands and what's next. MAN WITH A MISSION can be found at :www.mwamjapan.infoPlease subscribe to the podcast for more episodes every week!Supp

#67 - Darick Robertson - The Boys & Transmetropolitan

Jul 10 2024 75 mins

Darick Robertson is an artist and comic book illustrator who has penned many iconic characters including Wolverine, Spiderman and Deadpool amongst many others as well as being the co-creator and original illustrator of the Amazon hit, 'The Boys' and the legendary 'Transmetropolitan'. In this extremely fun chat, Darick shares inside stories on the making of 'Transmetropolitan', work

#66 - Kym Staton - Julian Assange is free - what happened?

Jul 03 2024 61 mins

Kym Staton is a musician and documentary film maker from Australia who's latest movie 'The Trust Fall' charts the story of Julian Assange and the campaign against him in blistering detail. Here, we discuss Julian's recent release from Belmarsh Prison, stories from the making of the documentary, why this case is so important and how he got Roger Waters to narrate the voice-over for

#65 - Zack Polanski - The Green Party for a better future

Jun 19 2024 65 mins

Zack Polanski is the Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. We chat about the Green Party's policies for the NHS, the cost of living crisis, energy, housing, immigration, tax, Universal Basic Income, the climate and much more. We also discuss the problems within the Labour Party, Israel and Gaza, the state of the country after 14 years of Tory rule and why we desper

#64 - Mikey Doling - Snot, Channel Zero and Woyote

Jun 08 2024 32 mins

Mikey Doling is a guitarist, songwriter and producer known for playing in the bands Snot, Channel Zero, Soulfly and Woyote as well producing countless bands throughout his career. We chat about Mikey's thoughts on the music industry, the difference between the US and European rock music scenes, he shares inside stories about Channel Zero and Snot and we talk about his latest releas