Lionel Lodge is our guest this week on the Masterlink Podcast, Season 2 | Episode 25. Lionel talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan (Redtenbacher's Funkestra). Lionel is CEO of Synclodge - a sync licensing management system. He is also a recording engineer and musician. We talk about his passion for fair usage in the music industr…

Stacey Haber is our guest this week on the Masterlink Podcast, Season 2 | Episode 24. Stacey talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan (Redtenbacher's Funkestra). Stacey is wearer of many hats: Lawyer, Judge, Publisher, CFO, Manager and everything in between. Check out this fascinating chat as we delve into neighbouring rights, NFTs …

Jesse Hoff is our return guest this week on the Masterlink Podcast, Season 2 | Episode 23. Jesse talks to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan (Redtenbacher's Funkestra). Jesse is a renowned amplifer designer and well known for his line of Lazy J guitar amplifiers, used by all the greats (Eric Clapton, Nalle Colt (Vintage Trouble), David Gilmo…

Jesse Hoff is our guest this week on the Masterlink Podcast, Season 2 | Episode 22. Jesse talks to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan (Redtenbacher's Funkestra). Jesse is a renowned amplifer designer and well known for his line of Lazy J guitar amplifiers, used by all the greats (Eric Clapton, Nalle Colt (Vintage Trouble), David Gilmour, Mar…

Dan Coggins is our guest this week on the Masterlink Podcast, Season 2 | Episode 21. Dan talks to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan (Redtenbacher's Funkestra). Dan is a renowned electronic design engineer and well known for his now legendary Lovetone FX pedals, Dinosaural guitar effects and as of recent Thorpy FX. He also has an impressive …

Aynsley Lister is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 20. Aynsley talks to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) about guitars... and a few other things, like guitars and pedals. We had a lot of fun also talking about touring and being a young musician in the late 90s. Learn more about A…

When Rivers Meet are our guests on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 19. Husband and wife duo Aaron and Grace talk to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) about how they said no to a major label, making social media work for them and how to rock up a mandolin. Learn more about When Rivers Meet HER…

Ben Mark is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 18. Ben talks to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about his recording process, inspiration and some choice bits of gear he's picked up along the way. Learn more about Ben HERE. Click HERE if you want to see this podcast as a …

Chris CJ Hillman is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 17. CJ talks to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about his incredible instrument, the pedal steel guitar, touring and his varied record collection. And on top of it all Chris is treating us to playing the 'steel' live…

Gabriella Swallow is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 16. Gabi talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about her incredibly varied and busy schedule, her beautiful cello and managing a family (whilst being a single mum). Learn more about Gabi HERE. Click HERE if…

Tim Debney from Fluid Mastering is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 15. Tim talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about his long and varied career in audio and specifically mastering, gear and the loudness wars. WARNING: this episode contains lots of tech talk…

Troy Redfern is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 14. Troy talks to guest-host Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about his career, his thoughts on playing vintage guitar, religion and the art of music. Learn more about Troy HERE. Click HERE if you want to see this podcast…

Mollie Marriott is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 13. Mollie talks to guest-host Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about her long and varied career, her thoughts on the music industry and her rock and roll roots being the daughter of Small Faces front man Steve Marriot…

Will Todd is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 12. Will talks to guest-host Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) about being a composer, work-life-balance, his seminal work 'Mass In Blue' and how not to put a sock on. Learn more about Will HERE. Apologies for the audio dropouts in thi…

Greta Lovisa is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 11. Jono talks to guest-host Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) about her dispute of the label 'singer/songwriter, her journey in music across different continents and being a young and up-and-coming artist. Listen to Greta HERE. Apo…

Jono McNeil is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 10. Jono talks to guest-host Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about his coaching of new and upcoming acts, building relationships with people and social media in the new music industry. More info on Jono McNeil HERE. Apolo…

Jennifer Robb is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 9. Jennifer talks to guest-host Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about her extensive career as a vocalist, educator and being Frida in the internationally renown pop group Björn Again. More info on Jennifer Robb HERE. Cl…

Kim Chandler is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 8. Kim talks to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about her extensive career as a vocalist, educator and all-round super human! More info on Kim Chandler HERE. Click HERE if you want to see this podcast as a VODCAST join u…

Ian Edwards is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 7. Ian talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about his guitar education platform Guitar Breaks, being an educator and music in general. More info on Guitar Breaks HERE. Click HERE if you want to see this podcast …

Simon Allen is our guest on this week's Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 6. Simon talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about composition, musicianship and being head of jazz at the Purcell School of Music. More info on Simon Allen HERE and more info on the Purcell School of Music HER…

T.I.G.Y. are our guests on this Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 5. The dream pop duo of Bailey Tzuke and Matthew Racher talk to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about living life in 3D, navitaging the music industry, songwriting and we try and answer the unfathomable question: are we hum…

Alice Armstrong is our guest on this Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 4. The musician and songwriter talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about her love of performing, drawing, fine art history, songwriting and her love of dogs! More info on Alice Armstrong HERE. Click HERE if you wa…

Leoni Jane Kennedy is our guest on this Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 3. The musician and songwriter talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about crafting her songs, her recent move to London and starting her masters degree and about getting endorsed by PRS! More info on Leoni Jane …

Helena May is our guest on this Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 2. The vocalist, singer and songwriter talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about living in Vienna, writing her album, making a living as a musician and finding love in the city she now calls her home. More info on Hele…

Dean Parker is the first guest on this Masterlink podcast, Season 2 | Episode 1. The guitarist, singer and songwriter talks to James Welch (Masterlink Productions) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) about inspiration, Sam Fender, making a living as a musician, about writing lyrics and his views on digital streaming. Oh yes, and his …

In this 'Part 1' of our special two-part episode James and Stefan have curated the best bits from all 49 podcasts for your listening pleasure. Thank you for listening. Also a BIG thank you to all our guests for spending some time with us and sharing their stories: - Mark Ede - Connor Selby - Sophie Ackroyd - Ben Edwards - Tony Remy - Laura Evans - …

In this 'Part 2' of our special two-part episode James and Stefan have curated the best bits from all 49 podcasts for your listening pleasure. Thank you for listening. Also a BIG thank you to all our guests for spending some time with us and sharing their stories: - Simon Johnson - Clovis Phillips - Joel Pike - Carter Arrington - Nicholas J Lockewo…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk - for the second time - to Mark Ede. Mark is the successful manager of international touring artist Jo Harman, partner in consultancy firm BiGiAM, proud champion of the ‘über-indie’ artist and lover of cricket. *we thought this was our 50th episode, turns o…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to musician and music creator Mike Mayfield. Stef, James and Mike talk about the important things in life like how bad are hotel scrambled eggs? And thankfully we quickly move on to Mike's astonishing career being guitarist alongside Emeli Sandé, Leona Lewi…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to music artist Joanna Cooke. Jo talks passionately about the importance of "saying it how it is" - something very prevelent in her upcoming release 'Kaleidoscope'. Jo talks frankly about her journey in the music industry from creating a dance vocal pack, d…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to vocalist and song-writer Eddy Smith. Visit the Masterlink Sessions. Feel free to support us on Patreon if you like our podcast. Support the showDi Eddy Smith

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to podcaster, DJ and lover of the funk Michael Bendure. Michael is an award-winning writer, photographer, and singer/songwriter who performs regularly throughout the Norman, Oklahoma, area in bands Heartbreak Rodeo and The Whiskey Gingers. He is also an avi…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to guitarist and band leader Nigel Price. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, award winning jazz guitarist Nigel Price has become widely acknowledged as one of the hardest working musicians in the business. Musically, his blend of flowing bebop lines…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Jihad Darwish. Jihad talks us through his incredible career to date including his recent post on bass guitar playing Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On?' tour with 23-piece orchestra. We talk a lot about gear, bei…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to music journalist and broadcaster Gemma Dorsett. Gemma is a Country/Blues/Rock singer who has spent the past 15 years developing her voice finding influence in gut-punching artists such as Melissa Etheridge and Joe Cocker. Gemma talks about her journey fr…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to guitar visionary Nicolas Meier. Nicolas is a guitar virtuoso, concertist and artist spanning many genres of music. In our podcast he describes his passion for learning and and improving on his instrument, his love of playing live or, in his words, being …

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to music journalist and broadcaster Paul Sexton. Paul contributes to The Sunday Times, Billboard, Music Week and many other titles, and presents and produces shows for BBC Radio 2, Virgin Atlantic and Emirates. Paul walks us through his vivid and varied car…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to drumming legend Mike Dolbear. Mike is first and foremost a drummer but also educator, co-ordinator and all-round industrious being. As you can hear Mike hijacks our intro (brilliantly) and kicks off explaining how Covid-19 has been affecting him and his …

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Gemma Stoddard. Gemma is a Teacher, Singer, DJ, Dancer and all-round Hype Machine. She talks us through her career so far in the music industry ranging from singer in two funk bands and travelling across Europe, teaching music in secondary schools, start…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Jenn Clempner. Jenn is a Singer-Pianist, Music Director for theatre and choirs, an Independent Vocal Coach, Multi-instrumentalist, Mental Health advocate & Lecturer in Music. She talks frankly and openly about her struggles with mental illness throughout…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to illustrator Mark Wilkinson. Mark is an English artist, illustrator and airbrush wizard. His combination of incredible technique and vast imagination has led him to create iconic cover art for bands like Iron Maiden, Marillion, Judas Priest, Fish, The Dar…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Louise Clare Marshall. In this episode, Louise tells us (in technicolour!) her life in music, from playing piano and singing in Oldham, Manchester, moving to London and becoming a regular singer with the Jools Holland Band. We get a free mini-warm up ses…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Andrew Kingslow. In this episode, Andrew talks about his life as a musician, composer, producer and artist manager. He talks about his love of keyboards and synths and walks us through his early days as a classically trained pianist and percussionist to …

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Francis Hylton. In this episode, Francis talks about his life as bass player, artist, record label owner, steel drum player and DJ. He goes back to his early days at university, how came to play with Incognito and what he's been getting up to over lockdo…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Roger McCormick. Roger McCormick is the presenter of 'The Blues Spectrum' on Brooklands Radio. "Two hours of the best in blues and "bluesy" music, old and new. The genre continues to thrive and the show covers the best of the new releases but also harks …

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Marianne Windham. In this episode Marianne talks about her love for Jazz, its community, the double bass, teaching, her university days, jazz promotion, her charity work and why she left a succesful carreer in software consultancy. The founder and drivin…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Nicholas James Lockewood. Nicholas is a musician, bass player, artist and educator. He has a Degree in Jazz studios from Leeds College of Music, a Masters in Music from The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and is currently undertaking a PhD also at…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Carter Arrington. Carter is a guitarist, live performer and composer and has worked with the likes of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Progger, Peter Rowan, Eric Johnson, Alejandro Escovedo, Bernard Purdie and Fred Wesley to name a few. Carter also has a…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Joel Pike (aka Tiny Leaves). Joel is a composer and goes under the moniker Tiny Leaves he has developed his sound as a solo artist alongside years of writing and performing in bands. He describes his music as being rooted in narrative, but is often surpr…

Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher's Funkestra) and James Welch (Masterlink Productions) talk to Clovis Phillips (Add a Band). Clovis is a multi-instrumentalist, studio owner, producer and lover of wine. His studio is just outside Newtown in Wales. Clovis, Stef and James have a very interesting chat about how Clovis started the studio, learning guit…