Tour Talk #15 - Deborah Bond

Come on in for Ep #15 of Tour Talk…  and this week we have the fantastic Deborah Bond as our guest. Deborah is an amazing solo artist in her own right as well as touring and recording with legendary UK funk / soul band Incognito for the past 6 years. She’s also recently been working with Nate on material for his first solo album…more on that during the show. 

 Oh and she also has a degree in journalism and hosted her own weekly radio show so hopefully we haven’t embarrassed ourselves too much here!

We discuss the dark art of live streaming performances during lockdown, what it’s been like handling the tech that goes with it and how it feels trying to connect to an audience via a stream… all of which inevitably segue into the guys views on being a performer and having to deal with the relentless demand for content from social media. And how people can manipulate your innocent content to create fan pages dedicated to your feet. I shit you not.  

Eventually we do get round to discussing life on tour and the guys look ahead and tell us what they think it’s going to be like working together on the road… and how rare it is finding personalities that you really enjoy travelling and playing music with.We also get the flip side of that and hear from Deborah and Nate of what it can be like working with artists you admire who unfortunately don’t live up to what you were expecting. 

There’s also an amazing insight into song writing, producing and arranging and it’s fascinating to hear both Deborah and Nate describe their different approaches to this. 

Deborah has an amazing personality and that shines through throughout the podcast, it’s doesn’t take a a genius to work out we had a lot of fun shooting this!

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