60 Minutes or less - Episode 6 - Steve Davis (The Utopia Strong)

Finally - a world class sports star on '60 Minutes or less', the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast! For our sixth episode, we welcome royalty - the only guest thus far with an OBE, former world number one in snooker, Steve Davis.

Amassing 71 major titles over his playing career, Davis remains one of the world’s best-known snooker players. Not content with such a glittering career though, Davis shifted gears dramatically when he retired, moving into the world of music, first as a DJ and radio host, then as one third of The Utopia Strong, trading in his snooker cue for a modular synth.

As you can imagine, Steve didn’t come on to talk snooker, nor did he come on to talk about his brief appearance on TV show 'The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret', rather The Utopia Strong have just released a new record - ‘The BBC Sessions’. Capturing a live session the trio recorded at Maida Vale for Marc Riley’s BBC Radio 6 Music show in September 2022, the record - with its brilliant old school cover - is out now via tastemakers Rocket Recordings.

I first met Steve on a night out in Manchester with local lot Trojan Horse almost a decade ago, drinking beers of varying percentages. Not long after that night, I somehow soon appeared on his radio show, The Interesting Alternative Show. Regardless of his credentials, it really didn’t seem that big of a deal having him pop round to our flat in Whalley Range in his lovely motor to record the show, because Steve was so affable and down to earth. Something which I’m sure you’ll hear yourself from our most recent chat.

Just a heads up, we had a few audio issues with this one - not the fault of Steve, mind you. Nothing major, but there were some niggles. Such is the joy of recording over Zoom. Anyhoo, enjoy!

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