Once again I'm joined by Larry Flick (Vero) and Lee Bennett (Teases And Dares) to pick our favourite 5 songs of what has turned out to be a truly incredible year for new music. Hopefully some of your favourites will be in there and you might discover some new gems for your playlists too. Hope you enjoy listening and please check out all other episodes of the podcast streaming now!

It seemed very timely to be talking to the brilliant Iain James as he was a co-writer of the Christmas classic "One More Sleep" by Leona Lewis which has just been awarded the most streamed Christmas song of the 21st Century! So we talk about that as well as being part of the writing process for some absolute gems including "Shout Out To My Ex' for Little Mix , "Read All About It" by Professor Green and Emile Sande and songs with Craig David, Kylie , James Morrison ,Sugababes and more. He also gives some superb advice for new songwriters on how to get noticed and talks about his time as vocal coach for The X Factor and how his time in boyband Triple 8 helped him prepare the future stars of it including One Direction.

I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did and please discover more episodes if you have time. Thanks so much for listening and a very Merry Christmas 🎄

After the perplexing success of last years look back through Dave Seaman's Filofax prompting our somewhat distant recollections of what we actually did in the studio that year we decided to go back in time again. 1995 was such an incredible year for us including the release of Take Thats" Nobody Else" album and "Never Forget" single and some of our favourite remixes ever including "Where Is The Feeling" by Kylie and "Your Loving Arms" by Billie Ray Martin. In amidst this we also discovered that Dave had his kitchen done. So if you feel this is the sort of thing you might enjoy then here we are , I can't apologise enough but from the amount of listeners to last year it appears some people seem to enjoy it. Thanks for listening and please discover other episodes all streaming now.