New Spoken Label Podcast - Sheila Seal (The Man from Delmonte)

 

Fresh up today on Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features an exclusive chat with Sheila Seal from the recently reformed 'The Man from Delmonte'.

The Man from Delmonte are an independent band from Manchester, England, formed in the mid-1980s.

Band members included Mike West (vocals and acoustic guitar), Sheila Seal (bass), Martin Vincent (guitar and harmonica), and Howard Goody (drums).

They took their name from a series of 1980s television advertisements for Del Monte fruit juices, featuring the "man from Del Monte". In these, the man would visit villages to sample their fruit juices, to see if they were good enough to be included in his company's drinks. The tagline, shouted jubilantly by a villager on approval was, "The man from Del Monte, he say 'Yes!'" and at one point they were managed by the journalist Jon Ronson.

In September 2024 in a Facebook post it was announced that they were reforming to do a gig in Manchester, this was with the help of Iain Lee a former TV show host and comedian. The gig, to be held at the 500 capacity Band on the Wall in Manchester, sold out within 20 minutes.

More details about the band can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/44800212324/posts/10158613686167325/

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https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sheila-seal-the-man-from-delmonte-spoken-label/id1501847969?i=1000680714306

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Sheila-Seal-The-Man-from-Delmonte-Spoken-Label--December-2024-e2s20n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBuA1OKXEKg&t=57s (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzLcOblfQD4 (Part 2)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/4ba7b3c4-8325-41bf-b79d-d50163624c15/spoken-label-sheila-seal-the-man-from-delmonte-spoken-label-december-2024

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DD3_QS8OlOYzFyqYcA7lZ3HIck_QL28sMD4UG00/ (Part 1)

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DD3_hMxMg1QUaj8Sm5YndSjujXTn_FL9Zv76Jg0/

(Part 2)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6gArIc4lr3WWDaO3TOrjtu

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Sheila-Seal-The-Man-from-Delmonte-Spoken-Label-December-2024/B0DQQ6NTKW?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=K3SCKCBWB031D79JHNYB&plink=n2RcZvnJdrsxpSE1&pageLoadId=rasLmjr5uKyeu6pa&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

New Spoken Label Podcast - Eric Loveland Heath

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend tea buff, weird fiction aficionado and abstracted songwriter, Eric Loveland Heath, professionally known as E.L. Heath.

In this return on Spoken Label, we review Eric's releases on Plenty Wenlock Records and Wayside and Woodland Records over this year, and also his venturing into publishing with his first book "A Guide to the lore of Plenty Wenlock' and also Landnotes #1, which is published by Wayside and Woodland Recordings.

Some links include:

https://www.facebook.com/ELHeathuk/

https://plentywenlockrecords.bandcamp.com/

https://www.normanrecords.com/artist/19090-el-heath

https://x.com/PlentyWenlock

https://www.instagram.com/plentywenlock/

https://plentywenlockrecords.bigcartel.com/

https://plentywenlockpress.bigcartel.com/

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

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This can be streamed / downloaded from: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/eric-loveland-heath-spoken-label-december-2024/id1501847969?i=1000680453956

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Eric-Loveland-Heath-Spoken-Label--December-2024-e2s23q8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB7N_jDV7yE&t=20s (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8z7FgLbHo&t=68s (Part 2)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/74e328a3-9e2b-419d-9091-7393a7f44047/spoken-label-eric-loveland-heath-spoken-label-december-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Eric-Loveland-Heath-Spoken-Label-December-2024/B0DQJWVZSJ?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=9QD8TKHK7DX7SG8J41KZ&plink=ovd05vWaRmpC7vDu&pageLoadId=TuX0lMOOoQMLJ5qk&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_1

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vXfGdKucR3wdhP51Lo99D

New Spoken Label Podcast - Kateryna Kei / Casey Adams

 

Latest Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) is perhaps our strangest to date features Kateryna Kei talking about a real life mystery of a book behind by Casey Adams and a journal he left behind at the Hague Hotel.

The book is described as " Imagine stumbling upon someone’s stolen diary while traveling in a foreign country.

Imagine reading it and falling in love with the story within – a deeply moving story that someone lived through and wrote down to never forget.

Imagine spending months looking for the author of that diary, retracing his steps and meeting people he met on the way…

If you have ever stayed in a hostel, making connections with many different people only to never speak with them again, Casey Adams’s story will resonate with you. It will make you reappraise these brief encounters that always transform us in some way.

Let this hand-written diary take you on a unique immersive experience…

Kateryna herself is the Author of the books "Raven Boy" and "Two Parts of a Soul" and her bio advises "I love stories. Real or imaginary, sad or happy, containing life lessons or simply entertaining, stories make our whole life, we are stories."

The Hague Hostel is available on Amazon at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGSYR7WC

Kateryna's website is: http://www.katerynakei.com/

More additional behind the Hague Hostel can be found here -

http://www.katerynakei.com/hh/hh.html

Kateryna also has set up this special page with a bonus exclusively for Spoken Label listeners

http://www.katerynakei.com/spokenlabel.html

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Can be streamed/downloaded from:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/kateryna-kei-casey-adams-spoken-label-december-2024/id1501847969?i=1000679957146

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Kateryna-Kei--Casey-Adams-Spoken-Label--December-2024-e2relnr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ACYfdv-ss&t=282s

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/70e9f43f-43d3-429a-a0d2-b92c4b24cb33/spoken-label-kateryna-kei-casey-adams-spoken-label-december-2024

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DDjryfauRQDAV_4XYNQNvTUQq5wYZWdTCE1Qg80/

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Kateryna-Kei-Casey-Adams-Spoken-Label-December-2024/B0DQ3TD3QK?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=M7RS1SMTQ02436FCAQ2Z&plink=K03005LKbsEUMb9O&pageLoadId=Oh2LWz8payax2TVg&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6m2PfzpDbQYnwU1ijfEkU0

Spoken Label New Podcast - Lily Massey

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features the return of our friend, Lily Massey.

Lily Massey began writing poetry at the age of fourteen as a hobby, and has loved it ever since achieving the Young Laureate position for Staffordshire enabled her to really develop her craft and become a part of the poetry scene and community that spans across the county and further afield. Her poems are of many forms, genres, and lengths, but Lily lets her emotion diffuse into her words, and performing is when she feels they come alive.

This Podcast is primarily talking about Lily' recently released second full length poetry book 'My Fire' which is described

More about Lily can be found at her substack page:

https://lilymassey.substack.com/

My Fire can be purchased from:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/my-fire-Lily-Massey/dp/B0DK7MSNBH?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OM3TGiYSts (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7aY4n5shs (Reading)

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lily-massey-spoken-label-december-2024/id1501847969?i=1000679187089

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Lily-Massey-Spoken-Label--December-2024-e2r48ce

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/102b416d-3c17-41b5-98de-e889b782c8c2/spoken-label-lily-massey-spoken-label-december-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Lily-Massey-Spoken-Label-December-2024/B0DPKT5NR9?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=Y9RM50NMH4CR7XMNYKST&plink=DoF8XjwBeD8opThx&pageLoadId=HQxDXCXaPrNuKaqG&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DDT684JtYSEUDtCtE3kA5zMQfTqnq6JZlmHL_k0/ (Chat Segment)

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DDT64J7Oj737zK6z2QbFhTp16ehDc5bgNWQyKo0/ (Reading Segment)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4QmZsmBpMfA7ISNN06UUZj

Speak Easy thank you's - December 2024 / How to book February 2025

 

Thanks to everybody who attended Speak Easy (our spoken word open mic at Chorlton’s Dulicmer) last night. A truly dreadful night of weather didn’t stop a decent-sized crowd of around 47 – 48 people from attending.

Amanda has uploaded the full set of photographs here 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=speakeasymanchester&set=a.1091640062754777

Special thanks to all of the following for reading:

1) Andy Cash (Guest Host who did a great job) 

2) Norman Dearlove 

3) Annie Acre

4) Mark Quinn

5) Martin Elder

6) Linda Downs

7) Nigel Astell

8) Darren Lea-grime

9) Amanda Nicholson

10) Steve Smythe

11)  Andy Npoet

12) Noemi Scotellaro Massimi

13) Oliver H Baines

14) Anna Percy

15) Roy Page

16) David Bond

17) Martin Corlettmoss (Martin CM)

Next Speak Easy will be on Thurs 06 February 2025. We will be taking bookings from this Sunday from Sunday 08 December 2025 from 12 Noon by emailing Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk 

Spoken Label New Podcast - Emma Smith

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making her debut, the amazing Emma Smith.

Emma is an autistic and bipolar poet and writer from Bath, UK. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and has published work in Canary Collective, Lunate Journal, The Occult Digest, Vellichor Lit and many more. Her work is often confessional in nature, exploring themes of trauma, rebirth, neurodivergence and occasionally ghosts. You can read more of her poetry on Instagram @emzmariepoems

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Emma-Smith-Spoken-Label--November-2024-e2qgrvu

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/emma-smith-spoken-label-november-2024/id1501847969?i=1000678397097

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DfIUJ5H4Xs&t=182s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfkQcxbnJHw&t=39s (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/19a8f78d-66bc-42e7-98f5-92f49fc63142/spoken-label-emma-smith-spoken-label-november-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0DP4XDRWP?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=7ERT5JJJZPR5Y17NW4PS&plink=QVnIawdc198sluIW&pageLoadId=VO0Kmv1MyXJMsGmH&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DDACAlqRzLCBbpIK15S49yWruRnH_WvvBiFoME0/ (Chat)

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DDACAlqRzLCBbpIK15S49yWruRnH_WvvBiFoME0/

(Reading)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TAFU4lYk4thxXHtliGObt