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Ian McNabb of The Icicle Works
“Music is everything,” says Ian McNabb, and after spending an hour chatting with him on the latest episode of Misadventures in Music, it’s easy to believe. The legendary frontman of The Icicle Works sits down with Ian Prowse and Mick Ord to talk about his career, songwriting, and his latest album 65 which includes a…
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Tommy Scott
Tommy Scott, the main songwriter and guitarist, from the iconic Liverpool band “Space” is our highly entertaining guest in episode 42 of the Misadventures in Music podcast. The band scored 8 UK Top 40 singles and had great success with their albums ‘Spiders’ and ‘Tin Planet’ in the 1990’s and they’re still going strong today.…
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Penny Kiley
It’s 1977 and punk has just hit UK. The legendary Eric’s club in Liverpool is home to the city’s rebels and posers – many became pop stars. Penny Kiley became a music journalist. ‘Atypical Girl – Punk rock, Liverpool and trying to be normal’ is Penny’s homage to the city’s re-emergence as a musical force…
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Mike Badger
In episode 40 we hear from Mike Badger – one of the founder members of the legendary Liverpool band The La’s and an established artist in his own right who’s recently released ‘Devils, Ghosts & Firearms’, his first studio album in 5 years. Mike continues to also have a career as a film-maker (cult folk-horror…
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2025 Highlights
The latest episode of the ‘Misadventures in Music’ podcast (number 39) with Ian Prowse and Mick Ord features some of the highlights from the last 12 months including revealing and controversial comments from some of their top guests including Mike McCartney, “Nasher” from Frankie Goes to Hollywood and the brilliant Merseyside-born singer Beryl Marsden who’s been…
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James Campion
James Campion is the author of a new fascinating and revealing book about Prince – one of the greatest songwriters and musicians of his era who passed away much too soon in 2016 aged 57. His new book ‘Revolution – Prince, the band, the era” focuses on his prolific and ground-breaking music from the 80’s…
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Ian Prowse
Born in Chester and raised in Ellesmere Port, Ian has spent decades refusing to slow down, fronting cult bands Pele and Amsterdam with the enthusiasm of a man who still believes every gig might change the world (It deffo can!).
A master of rabble-rousing, Celtic-tinged anthems and emotional sledgehammer choruses. Checkout where to catch him live here: amsterdam-music.com. A self-styled “typical left-wing gobshite”, he somehow also squeezed in a history degree and a masters in Irish Studies. Still touring, still writing, and still loud, he remains gloriously incapable of doing anything by halves, ever or otherwise.
Mick Ord
Born in Liverpool, Mick has spent most of his life on Merseyside. However, after jobs ranging from a jacuzzi deck-builder in California to tobacco-picking in Ontario, he joined the BBC in the 80’s, eventually becoming Radio Merseyside’s longest-serving manager.
Despite being dubbed “tone-deaf” at school, he developed eclectic musical tastes spanning Scott Walker to The Fall (and Ian Prowse, of course). He now runs media consultancy mickord.com, specialising in media and crisis communications training, and remains a frustrated musician, writer, presenter and perennially disappointed Everton fan.