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#106 – Telling Truths And Breaking Ties: Punk Trumpets, True Honesty & Doing Music Your Own Way With Millie Manders

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This week Mike is joined by Millie Manders of the alternative/cross-genre punk band Millie Manders And The Shutup for a talk on their latest album “Telling Truths, Breaking Ties”, songwriting, trumpets and more! 

 

For more detail, Millie talks about her music-orientated childhood, why trumpets are used in the band, that bands should create music they love, excitement for live performances, the immediate positive reception of their album, how Millie puts lyrics together and how certain parts of some songs were recorded, before discussing Mike & Millie’s mutual appreciate for Scroobius Pip, how people have disrespected Millie for being a woman, trust, social media and more! 

 

Their site (containing all show dates) - Spotify - YouTube - Facebook - IG & Twitter both @MillieManders – Millie’s artwork creator Dan Harris 

 

In the last episode of GCC; number 105, Mike spoke with the blind Australian filmmaker & creator of Beernuts Productions; Gough! Their chat starts with how the COVID lockdown affected Australia and when Gough got punched, then they discuss how his production company (Beernuts) dealt with lockdown, their newest mock-interview releases, filming on location, the character of the interviewer, making scripted conversations sound ad-libbed, what Gough has been up to during lockdown, reusing actors, Gough’s writing process and more! 

 

Mike was recently on the Scott Pilgrim Vs The World review for the TV & Movies show on Comics In Motion where he discussed the movie with Dave of CiM and Tony of Indie Comic Spotlight (dated 8th October), check it out here: https://spoti.fi/33I9N5L Mike also appeared on the second episode of Comics On Trial, defending The Phantom Menace against Scott of 20th Century Geek – found on the feed of Comics In Motion Mike appeared on episode 8 of Max Byrne’s Mandatory Marvel & DC show about The Killing Joke. Mike also appeared on Tony Farina’s Indie Comics Spotlight to talk about the comic series Second Coming (Episode 13). Check out the podcast ROOM where Mike is in episode 1 of season 2 called “All Roads Lead To Room” as well as the episode "Jen And The Blob"!

 

Mike has another show, called Star Wars: Comics In Canon – all episodes can be found on Comics In Motion’s podcast feed and episodes will be out every Saturday; episodes 0-31 are now out, 31 being about Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan’s one-shot comics, 30 being a discussion on Doctor Aphra with Tony Farina and 29 was the finale of the first run of Vader comics. Previous episodes topics include Count Dooku, Chewbacca, Galaxy’s Edge, Darth Vader and the Vader Down crossover event, Lando Calrissian, Mace Windu, Darth Vader, Doctor Aphra, The Rise Of Kylo Ren, Darth Maul beyond The Phantom Menace, how C-3PO got his red arm & more - https://apple.co/39mut2Y

 

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