The Counterforce with Aug Stone

EPISODE 63 - FIGHTMILK Round III

Always a blast to chat with Lily & Alex from Fightmilk. No Souvenirs is one of the best albums of 2024

 

https://fightmilkisaband.bandcamp.com/album/no-souvenirs

https://x.com/fightmilkband

https://www.instagram.com/fightmilkisaband

https://bsky.app/profile/fightmilkband.bsky.social

 

Excellent read from their label boss Giles Richards https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/27/i-set-up-my-own-indie-label-from-brexits-brutality-to-the-joy-of-diy-music-heres-what-i-learned

 

EPISODE 62 - KIMAYA DIGGS

Aug Stone chats to Kimaya Diggs about her lovely songs and the challenges of making music these days

 

https://www.kimayadiggs.com/

https://kimayadiggs.substack.com/

https://kimayadiggs.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/kimayadiggs/

https://augstone.substack.com/

 

EPISODE 61 - STEVE AYLETT II

Aug Stone chats to one of his favourite authors, Steve Aylett, about his dazzling and hilarious new book, The Book Lovers

https://www.steveaylett.com/

https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-51-bauhaus

 

 

EPISODE 60 - GLASS RECORDS DAVID BARKER

Aug Stone talks to the man behind Glass Records, David Barker, who has brought much excellent music into the world by the likes of David J, The Jacobites, The Pastels, The Jazz Butcher, Spacemen 3, The Perfect Disaster, and even a mini-LP by The Replacements

https://glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/glass-remade-remodelled

https://glassmodern.bandcamp.com/

https://glassredux.bandcamp.com/

https://glassminiature.bandcamp.com/

 

 

EPISODE 59 - MIKEY GEORGESON III

Aug Stone chats to one of his favourite songwriters, Mikey Georgeon, about Mikey's recent The Middle People album, his adventures in Athens & Georgia (the OG ones), the art of making moments, and much more

https://mikeygeorgeson.com/

https://themiddlepeople.bandcamp.com/album/revenge-of-the-killjoys

https://www.alldonebykindness.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mikeygeorgeson/

https://augstone.substack.com/

 

EPISODE 58 - JOHN PATRICK HIGGINS

Aug Stone chats with author John Patrick Higgins about David Coverdale, P.G. Wodehouse, The Smiths, and of course his new novel, Fine 

 

https://johnpatrickhiggins.blogspot.com/

https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/fine/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/johnpatrickhiggins/

Twitter: https://x.com/JohnnyMuggins

 

Aug's Substack: https://augstone.substack.com/

 

 

EPISODE 57 - LOU MATHEWS & JIM GAVIN

Aug Stone chats with Lou Mathews & Jim Gavin about the funniest books they know, Lou’s new novel Shaky Town on Jim’s new publishing imprint Tiger Van Books, Los Angeles, Thomas Pynchon, Lodge 49, and a whole lot more 

 

https://www.tigervanbooks.com/shaky-town 

https://bookshop.org/books/shaky-town/9781735303802 

https://twitter.com/tigervanbooks 

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EPISODE 56 - MIKEY GEORGESON II

Aug Stone talks to Mikey Georgeson about his new record Simply The Best, dressing up, trusting the creative emergent process, felt intensities, fortuitous ice cream vans and other cosmic coincidences, David Bowie, & much more  

 

https://www.mrmikey.net/ 

http://mikeygeorgeson.com/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mistersolo 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikeygeorgeson/ 

 

EPISODE 55 - RACHEL LOVE

Aug Stone chats to Rachel Love about her first ever solo album Picture In Mind, getting the Ramones’ autographs, ping pong, Dolly Mixture, and much more  

 

https://rachellove.bandcamp.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/racheldollymixture/ 

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EPISODE 54 - LANA BASTAŠIĆ

Aug Stone chats to Lana Bastašić, the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature winner, about her debut novel Catch The Rabbit, visiting the places James Joyce lived, the works of Vladimir Nabokov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Aglaja Veteranyi, Magda Szabó, Per Petterson and many other authors, tips for writing, Bosnian curse words, and much more 

 

https://lanabastasic.com/ 

https://restlessbooks.org/lana-bastasic