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A queen

Another belter 🙏

Love the band, but give your balls a tug. Touring “breaks you”. FOH. You play music. You’re a jester. Don’t like it? Find another job, drive truck and pursue music as a loving hobby.

Impressive content, UPRAWR Podcast. Looking forward to seeing your next upload. I smashed that thumbs up button on your video. Keep up the fantastic work! Your insights into the Warp Tour's impact on emerging artists are truly enlightening. How do you think the absence of such an incubator affects the evolution of new genres within the alternative music scene?

If you found this interesting be sure to check out the full podcast with leander available anywhere you listen to them (or on the channel!) we go over how he found neck deep and how they got signed!

Chris Turner is the real deal 👊🏻

They turned a blind eye to his blatant sleeping with underage fans?

That over sold warped tour story doesn’t mean anything. They must have known he was sleeping with underage girls at least. Everyone talked about it online at the time, on forum’s etc

Love when these episodes get uploaded. Great podcast lad 🤘

"Talent is just a made-up word" you mean like a words 😂

Solid interview Jack. Been wanting to hear Leanders story for many years.

Linkin park festival - Projekt Revolution?

I got major creep vibes from Watkins for some reason when this band first started. Dude just had a dark aura, even at that early age. In time their songs got softer and more geared towards attracting young girls to their show. I figured it must just be business and they were just appealing to a particular market for £££. I was shocked by how psychotic the dude turned out to be.

Rock on🤘 …You Magnificent Bastard.

While, I really appreciate Julie’s honesty and frankness the one group that she hasn’t acknowledged how tragic this was for was for his victims. There were teenage girls and mothers being groomed and there were babies being r worded. Surely these are the people who have been damaged the most by this rather than any financial impact to herself the label or his band mates. Obviously, they all suffered but I would first and foremost be acknowledging the pain caused to his victims

Food for thought: Get the band back together, with a decent vocalist (won't be hard to superceed watkins imo) re-record a greatest hits album and donate some of profit to charity.

Sick Green Lung shirt!

LAYLA FROM FUTURAMA

Phenomenal album 🙌

Start Something was such a huge part of my life when that came out. Album was a masterpiece. Realizing now why Ian pushed the band into making such banal pop music after that album is just so cringe realizing it now and the video with all the kids... I still feel terrible for the other 4 members who dedicated their lives to this band. I saw them live for the first time mere months before that news dropped and you could clearly see a disconnect between Ian and the other people in the band and he sounded terrible also.

Ahhh mate top marks for handling with grace and dignity here - what a shit situation to talk about, or ask about but you gave her the appropriate space without prying beyond a appropriate level. Shout out to Julie by the way - having met her a number of times, the industry really lost a real one when she stepped away from VN, one of the best people to have ever graced the scene.

So cool!!

It would be awesome to hear a DS song where Jessie can just go all out heavy \m/\m/

loving this podcast, really interesting & insightful guests!

Loved lostprophets what a shame he was a part of it feel so sorry for everyone affected by his wicked crimes including everyone involved with the band. Hope he rots in jail forever

Is this the person who Karl Pilkington interviewed about trapped souls on the Ricky Gervais XFM show?

And nothing but thieves are still free to roam the streets. Disgusting

Interesting chat she's a good person to have in your corner!

Everyone needs to go and check out Leander's old band Hiding with Girls ❤ great band way back in the day

Lee Gaze is a bang average guitarist

Fair play, this didn't feel like a gotcha interview either. You really let her outline how this impacted everyones lives. More people should see this.

Good interview

Nice one matey

OG brighton lads, hands up

I remember seeing Leander side stage at an Architects show 2007/08 triggering the bass drops for the songs with a SPDX. The minute the show was over, the guy rand faster than the speed of light to the merch stand to make sure he didn't miss one single T Shirt sale

Ian screwed it up for the rest of the guys in the band

Great interview

Check out the full podcast with leander over on our channel. He went on to work with bands like Neck Deep and has had a very successful career!

Such a different time back then. I remember running a small fansite for HWG back in the day, but really exciting to see Leander making a career in music since then and to be involved with such talented artists.

Horrible man. Many years ago, I was part of the Leeds hardcore music scene. Before Lostprophets took off, Ian Watkins would attend shows but kept completely to himself with odd, closed-off body language. Even as the band gained success, he’d still turn up alone, showing little interest in the music but constantly observing the bands’ performances, almost like he was trying to imitate them. He may as well have sat with a notebook and pen, clearly studying how musicians expressed themselves and what worked for them. It was bizarre-he’d come in, sit alone, and leave without ever interacting. Even in the few moments I was in a room with him, I knew something wasn’t right. The community was friendly and welcoming, but he chose to isolate himself. I just hope his victims manage to recover. As Corey Taylor said, ‘there isn’t enough pain in the world for that piece of sh*t.

See LP at ozzfest in 02, wasnt really my cup of tea but i remember them going down pretty well.

Oh man Jess. (You probably wont see this but maybe other people will..) - thank you so so much for the honesty in this interview. It has reset my expectations in alot of good ways. I've have also never heard anyone sum up some of those "female performaner" life milestone fears so well. And The "i didnt get it cos I don't have a dick" problems. When I was gigging in my late teens early twenties (im 32 now) -the time when your meant to be networking playing in as many original bands as possible it was a huge huge issue to try a navigate to bring anyone on board. I mostly ended up playing in bands with at least a 50/50 F/M gender split for that reason. Ive experienced female singers not being let in to the venue cos they "look like audience", being asked if I know how to set up my own pedal board. Routely blanked from conversations because the dudes in the room couldnt even comprehend the guitar they were talking about might me mine. At one point I had a guy from an disbanded touring band no show on a bass audition after he found out everyone else currently in lineup was female. Literally thats the reason he gave. "Im going to look out of place" - like my guy what do you think its like for us women? Your worried about being the only guy? *laughs intensely* I've met some good guys as well on this journey that wouldn't stand for that type of crap. And will talk me up in situation where they think Im being overlooked because Im female. But Maan it was haaard. Between strugginling to find drummers, that and the sexist joinmyband ads. I kind of stepped away for a bit. That bit turned into years. ... until the pandemic. 2 years later we track an EP with Oz just because we needed to finally do those things we wanted as teenagers. I was determined just to have something in my hand to prove to myself where I was at and even though only maybe 100 people have heard it at this point. im glad we did. So thank you for bringing all this stuff up. It goes without saying the job juggiling and management talk was insightful too. It means my expectations are realistic. - signed female guitarist who until this interview very much felt like she missed the boat and was too old.

Another great found footage would be Gonjiam Asylum and a home invasion film called Hush

Awesome interview and yes he should hold on to the positives of helping the Architects to become what they are now. 🤘🏻

Good old marketing, eh?

Starland ballroom?

Lovely to have no mention of the actual victims in the situation... 🫠

My welsh school teacher had posters of Ian in our classroom because she really fancied him. I've always wondered how she reacted when the news came out. And it's still gives me the ick that we had posters of him in a school children classroom.

Crap band

Really interesting, great episode.