Phil McWalter - The Lockdown BBC Radio Interviews

BBC Radio Essex DJ Juggy Sohal played "Don't Ask Me" and interviewed me afterwards, I was speaking from a pitch black river bank as we were packing up after a day's salmon fishing...  a slightly surreal experience!

Original music track is here: https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/dont-ask-me-baby-with-janine-levinson-rick-medlock

BBC Radio Essex Interview with Phil McWalter + 'Don't Ask Me'

BBC Radio Essex DJ Rob Jelly played 'Three Have Come At Once" and talked to me...

Eyes Closed for MIND: https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/eyes-closed
https://www.mind.org.uk

Previous interview and track: https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/radio-essex-interview-for-dont-ask-me

BBC Radio Essex Interview + 'Three Have Come At Once'

This is a BBC Radio Essex Interview (broadcast 25 Jan 2021) about a track called "Don't Look Down" - a collaboration between myself and the huge talent that is Bruce Conover. 

Unfortunately the delay on the telephone line from Manhattan Beach, Calif., to the UK meant that Bruce didn't get to say anything until after the interview had finished. Which was a great shame, as he has a truly great voice for radio. I have a great face for radio but not really the voice.

I forgot to mention in the interview that it was a tribute to the fifth Beatle: Sir George Martin, oops! Also the Exhibition was Anselm Kiefer's in the R.A.

BBC Radio Essex Interview + 'Don't Look Down' by McWalter & Conover

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Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.