Journeys In Sound

Original version

6 Music

BBC 6

Music

Nemone looks at the link between music and our minds.

Journeys In Sound: John Grant chats to 6 Music DJ and psychotherapist Nemone

John Grant chats to 6 Music DJ and psychotherapist Nemone

BBC Radio 6 Music - Journeys In Sound, John Grant chats to 6 Music DJ and psychotherapist Nemone

John Grant talks about the music that has sound-tracked the ups and downs of his life

Musician John Grant talks in-depth about the songs that have sound-tracked the ups and downs of his life, and how he expresses his emotions through his own music and lyrics

Nemone combines her roles of DJ and integrative psychotherapist to talk in-depth with American singer-songwriter John Grant about the songs that have sound-tracked the ups and downs of his extraordinary life. John also explores how he expresses his emotions through his own music and lyrics.

After recording six studio albums with his band The Czars, John embarked on a solo career. His albums 'Queen of Denmark' (2010), 'Pale Green Ghosts' (2013), 'Grey Tickles, Black Pressure' (2015) and 'Love Is Magic' (2018) have all received widespread critical acclaim. He has also collaborated with numerous artists from Sinéad O'Connor to Goldfrapp, and Elbow to Kylie Minogue.

John's fifth solo album 'Boy From Michigan', to be released in June, was recorded against a backdrop of the global pandemic and American Presidential election in 2020. It is his most biographical work to date. Moving from Michigan, aged twelve, his family settled in Denver, Colorado, shifting from the rust belt to the bible belt. At odds with his emerging sexuality, at high school John was, on occasion, bullied both physically and emotionally by his fellow pupils. He sings openly, often with caustic candour, about the landmark experiences that have pained and shaped his complex life to date; it took him until his mid-twenties to feel comfortable with his sexuality, having been raised in an environment where it was "clear that those people were going to hell".

John's work playfully experiments with mood, texture and sound. Described as the misfit’s misfit: too weird to be mainstream, too mainstream to be weird; too sad to be happy, too sharp not to crack a mordant joke about it, his song-writing combines impressionistic childhood experiences against their amplified adult consequences.

BBC Radio 6 Music

Classic concerts & sessions from the BBC's vast music store. It's your musical heritage.

BBC 6 Music brings together the cutting edge music of today, the iconic and groundbreaking music of the past 40 years and unlimited access

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Journeys In Sound

John Grant chats to 6 Music DJ and psychotherapist Nemone

Genres

Brand

6 Music

About BBC Radio 6 Music