The 'Indie Heaven' podcast, episode two, ECHOBELLY

The James McMahon Music Podcast

Welcome to Indie Heaven, the part of the James McMahon Music Podcast where I – that’ll be James McMahon – connect with the bands I adored as a sapling and ask… what happened next? It’s a spin-off of sorts of my Indie Heaven website – you can find that at www.indieheaven.co.uk – and on this episode I’m speaking to Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson, Echobelly’s ever constant singer and guitarist since their inception way back in 1992. Which isn’t that long before I became a fan.
I was well onboard by the time their debut album, Everybody’s Got One swung around in 1994 – I think that album is a dark, broody, swirl of noise and I still find myself listening to it to this very day - and by the time album number two, the extremely successful On, was released the following year, the London band had become one of Britpops most iconic groups. It was a no brainer to feature the band on Indie Heaven and I’m hugely gratefult to Sonya and Glenn for finding time to speak to me for this episode, about race, the 90’s music press, Echobelly's fall from commerciality and – buoyed by Britpop nostalgia – their return to prominence.
The intro music on this episode is by the band Mavis. Any other music is by the band Imp.
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