Godfathers of Hardcore.  

On this episode we speak to Emmy Nominated and Award winning Film, Commercial & Music Video Director / Producer / Editor Ian McFarland. Having started his career as a professionally touring musician and then a film editor, Ian brings a particular understanding of structure, music, pacing and emotion to his projects. He started touring the world in bands at an early age, performing at a wide range of venues: from punk rock parties in backyards and living rooms to major European Open Air Festivals.  In the past 10 years he has directed numerous music videos for Grammy-nominated international acts, created Emmy-nominated and award-winning films aired on VICE, ESPN, MTV & LOGO. He has also worked with top brands, ranging from BOSE and Fidelity to The Boston Celtics and Bank of America.

Ian discusses he latest new feature length documentary, “The Godfathers of Hardcore”, which is an intimate portrait of two of the most influential men in underground music, Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma of the iconic New York hardcore punk rock band Agnostic Front.  The film has been on the festival circuit since November 2017 where is premiered at the DOCNYC 2017 Film Festival.  Since then it has gathered momentum screening and winning awards at multiple well known film festivals as well as receiving press / reviews from major publications like Rolling Stone and UPROXX.  

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The Shark is Broken. 

On this episode we speak to Ian Shaw. 

Ian's first role was in 1993 in an episode of Casualty. Since then he has appeared in the films Century, Moondance, The Boys From County Clare, The Contract, and Johnny English Reborn. He was also the narrator of House of Usher. He has also appeared in many TV series including EastEnders, Soldier, Soldier, The Bill, The Queen, Sharpe, Ultimate Force, Ghosts, Silent Witness and Medics. 

He is the son of actress Mary Ure and actor Robert Shaw. He is currently rehearsing The Shark Is Broken for the Edinburgh Festival, a play he has written along Joseph Nixon about the making of Jaws in which he plays his father as Quint.

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Halfnoise.

On this episode we speak to musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Farro 
Zac is the drummer for the rock band Paramore and front member of the band HalfNoise.

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Force of Nature.

On this episode we speak to Cody Carpenter. Cody Carpenter is a third generation musician. His father, John Carpenter, is a director and composer and his mother, Adrienne Barbeau, is a star of film, television and the Broadway stage. His grandfather, Howard Carpenter, was a founding member of the Nashville Strings.

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Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation. 

On this episode we speak to Funeral For A Friend singer Matthew Davies-Kreye. Funeral for a Friend were a Welsh post-hardcore band from Bridgend, formed in 2001. 

Funeral for a Friend's popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album, Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation. Achieving both a gold certification and three top twenty singles in their home country, Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation is often acclaimed as one of the landmark emo records of the 2000s. Hours featured a similar musical style to their debut, but also featured more melodic sensibilities, and Tales Don't Tell Themselves showed an evolution in Funeral for a Friend's musical style from the style which defined their debut, as the group began to diverge from their use of screaming vocals and post-hardcore influenced guitars, favouring a more melodic rock influence. 

Funeral for a Friend self-released their fourth album, Memory and Humanity through their short-lived record label Join Us, the album arguably being their most eclectic to date. Following this the band tied themselves to other independent labels for Welcome Home Armageddon, Conduit, and Chapter and Verse, which showed the band returning to the more metal and hardcore influenced style of their earlier work. In September 2015 they announced their break-up and final tour in 2016. 

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Helboy.

On this episode we speak to American actor and voice actor Ron Perlman. He played the role of Vincent on the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which he won a Golden Globe Award, the comic book character Hellboy in both Hellboy and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and Clay Morrow on the television series Sons of Anarchy.

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37 in a row. 

On this episode we speak to actress Marilyn Ghigliotti

Marilyn Ghigliotti comes from a Puerto Rican family background born in New York to Jeronimo and Luisa Ghigliotti and and raised in NY, Long Island and New Jersey. This Jersey New Yorican had to learn to survive many moves and many changes in surrounding cultures.

Marilyn got started late when it comes to acting, while going through life changes and decided to at least start to study acting at the Actors Training Institute in Red Bank New Jersey with John Eyd, a member of the Actors Studio in New York, where he brought those same techniques to New Jersey.

After studying for about 2 years, Marilyn then felt confident enough to start auditioning in the community theater circuit in Southern New Jersey, appearing in many classic plays. Being a middle child and after appearing in her first production and standing on that stage where people were actually listening to her words instead of being ignored as most middle children feel, she was hooked. During one of these many plays, is also where she met Brian before the two auditioned and landed their parts in Kevin Smith's Clerks.

Since moving to LA, Marilyn has worked as a freelance hair and makeup artist as well as keeping busy working both in front and behind the camera with hair and makeup, producing, and anywhere help was needed.

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Picture This.

On this episode we speak to Los Angeles based photographer and creative director Lindsey Byrnes 
Lindsey who freelances in time travel, world exploration and directional marketing. When it was discovered that Lindsey was an uncredited hand clapper on an Grammy Nominated album her representatives said that they cannot deny these allegations. 

Lindsey's specialty is her unique ability to blend in while simultaneously standing out.Along with documenting life of those around her she is an established commercial photographer and creative director with a pethora of campaigns under her belt for the likes of Chanel, Nylon, Hard Rock Cafe, Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Wildfang, Good Dye Young and many others. 

View more of Lindsey's work here www.lindseybyrnes.com

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My Hero

On this episode we speak to American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director Steve Guttenberg. Steve starred in 1984's Police Academy, and went on to perform in lead roles in Hollywood films of the 1980s, including Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby, Three Men and a Little Lady and Short Circuit.

This is a world exclusive podcast interview and I am so proud to be able to have recorded this for you all

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Mac and Me.  

On this episode we speak to British screenwriter and film director Stewart Raffill.

Raffill made his feature debut as director with The Tender Warrior (1971), starring Dan Haggerty. Raffill also helped write and produce, and handle animals. It was shot at the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Raffill sold it to Warner Bros, was unhappy with what they did with it, bought it back, and re-distributed it.

His second script was Napoleon and Samantha, which he sold to Disney. Raffill also worked on the film, which starred Jodie Foster and Michael Douglas, as a producer and animal supervisor.

He wrote and directed When the North Wind Blows. He shot animal footage for the documentary Wonder of It All.

Raffill directed and wrote Mac and Me, made to provide royalties to the McDonald's Foundation and to have a lead with spina bifida, which became a cult favorite and won Raffill a Golden Razzie for Worst Director

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