Lanre Bakare's guest appearances

Lanre Bakare

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My Teenage Band

Dolly Alderton

Phoebe Robinson

Hussein Kesvani

Philip Pullman

Malorie Blackman

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Mark Gatiss

Lou Diamond Phillips

Alex Goldman

Sam Claflin

Callum Turner

Amber Anderson

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

Fiona Shaw

Steven Knight

OwlTail

This week, to end series one of My Teenage Band, Nick talks to the brilliant arts and culture writer for the Guardian Lanre Bakare about his guitar-playing days in post-rock outfit Lou Diamond Phillips.  Named after the Filipino-American actor and director, and based in Bradford, Lou Diamond Phillips were part of a healthy alternative community in and around Bradford that included putting on several gig nights. Lanre talks about these nights, his role as rhythm guitarist and occasional keyboard player in the band, and how the days of playing instrumental post-rock eventually lead to singing Weezer's Buddy Holly at his own wedding.Hear Lou Diamond Phillips' songs in full on Soundcloud Follow Lanre on Twitter and Instagram @Lanre_BakareSERIES 2 ANNOUNCEMENT - MY TEENAGE BAND NEEDS YOU!The podcast will be back in a month or so, and I’d love to hear YOUR stories about attempts at teenage musical stardom in the form of voice notes for me to play at the end of episodes, so if you’ve got any anecdotes from your teenage band days, ideally between 1 and 3 minutes in length, then just record them in to your phone and send it my way to myteenageband@gmail.com. CREDITSJingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitarThe debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out nowLead vocals by Imo BermanArtwork by Eloisa Henderson-FigueroaInsta: @eloisaillustratorWeb design by Imo VeeInsta: @imo.veePresented/Produced by Nick Taylor@nick_tea

This week, to end series one of My Teenage Band, Nick talks to the brilliant arts and culture writer for the Guardian Lanre Bakare about his guitar-playing days in post-rock outfit Lou Diamond Phillips.  Named after the Filipino-American actor and director, and based in Bradford, Lou Diamond Phillips were part of a healthy alternative community in and around Bradford that included putting on several gig nights. Lanre talks about these nights, his role as rhythm guitarist and occasional keyboard player in the band, and how the days of playing instrumental post-rock eventually lead to singing Weezer's Buddy Holly at his own wedding. Hear Lou Diamond Phillips' songs in full on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/letsdoparty/tracks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud </a> Follow Lanre on Twitter and Instagram <a href="https://twitter.com/lanre_bakare?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Lanre_Bakare</a> SERIES 2 ANNOUNCEMENT - MY TEENAGE BAND NEEDS YOU! The podcast will be back in a month or so, and I’d love to hear YOUR stories about attempts at teenage musical stardom in the form of voice notes for me to play at the end of episodes, so if you’ve got any anecdotes from your teenage band days, ideally between 1 and 3 minutes in length, then just record them in to your phone and send it my way to myteenageband@gmail.com. CREDITS Jingle and beds composed by Anya Pearson - Insta: @anyaplaysguitar <a href="https://dreamnails.bandcamp.com/album/dream-nails" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The debut album of Anya's band Dream Nails is out now</a> Lead vocals by <a href="https://trills.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Imo Berman</a> Artwork by <a href="https://www.eloisahenderson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa</a> Insta: @eloisaillustrator Web design by Imo Vee Insta: @imo.vee Presented/Produced by Nick Taylor <a href="https://twitter.com/Nick_Tea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@nick_tea </a>

Lanre Bakare from 'Lou Diamond Phillips'

Anna Lewis

It's finally here, Laurence Mozafari is joined by Entertainment Editor Anna Lewis and Arts and Culture correspondent Lanre Bakare to analyse and chat about the debut episode of Peaky Blinders series 5.

Peaky Blinders S5 E1: Black Tuesday