EP36 | Tom A. Smith | Personas, Performance and Prawn Cocktail Crisps | Local Heroes Podcast

EP36 | Tom A. Smith | Personas, Performance and Prawn Cocktail Crisps | Local Heroes Podcast

This week on the Local Heroes Podcast, your increasingly average hosts, Chris and Dan, sit down with Sunderland’s own Tom A. Smith, a 21-year-old already making waves on the UK music scene.

Tom’s story is anything but ordinary.

He started playing live shows at just eight years old, found himself on stage at Glastonbury by the age of ten, and has already clocked up over a thousand gigs. Now signed to Fiction Records, Tom talks us through the whirlwind of festival slots, record deals, and what it feels like to finally be stepping into his own as both a songwriter and a performer.

But this isn’t just about the music. Tom shares how performance, visuals, and identity matter just as much as the songs themselves - drawing inspiration from the likes of Bowie, Talking Heads, and The Cure, while carving out his own style alongside his band (which now even includes his sister Hannah).

We get into the highs and lows of writing music under pressure, the reality of streaming versus live shows, and the power of building a community of fans - including the infamous “Weirdos” WhatsApp group.

We hear about Dave Stewart casually walking on stage mid-set, Robbie Williams leaving a crowd without Candy, the nightmare of being forced to eat a prawn cocktail crisp sandwich live on TV (spoiler: Tom actually hates crisps), and his all-important Greggs order.

This conversation bounces between ambition, identity, and the pure joy of creative freedom.

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EP71 | Carley Armstrong | Hendon, Hustle and Heart | Local Heroes Podcast

EP71 | Carley Armstrong | Hendon, Hustle and Heart | Local Heroes Podcast

This week on the Local Heroes Podcast, Chris and Dan sit with Carley Armstrong of Sunderland - producer, filmmaker, and one of the hardest-grafting people in North East film right now. She's gone from...

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EP70 | Andy Haddon | Bees, Bread and Belief | Local Heroes Podcast

EP70 | Andy Haddon | Bees, Bread and Belief | Local Heroes Podcast

<span;>This week on the Local Heroes Podcast, Chris and Dan sit down with Andy Haddon - beekeeper, baker, accidental troublemaker, and the man Charlotte Crosby once crowned "the David Attenborough of ...

20 Juni 1h 26min

EP69 | Bobzilla | Murals, Music and Mercury Missiles | Local Heroes Podcast

EP69 | Bobzilla | Murals, Music and Mercury Missiles | Local Heroes Podcast

This week on the Local Heroes Podcast, Chris and Dan sit with Bobzilla - artist, muralist, DJ, photographer, and a man whose own mum still refuses to call him anything but Robert. The name itself is a...

13 Juni 1h 32min

EP68 | Solo | Diaries, DIY & Dread | Local Heroes Podcast

EP68 | Solo | Diaries, DIY & Dread | Local Heroes Podcast

This week, Chris and Dan set out to talk about what’s been happening in their lives and somehow end up covering everything from decorating disasters and DIY injuries to family diaries, old letters, ho...

6 Juni 46min

EP67 | Cal Byerley| Gordon, Gastronomy and Great British Menu | Local Heroes Podcast

EP67 | Cal Byerley| Gordon, Gastronomy and Great British Menu | Local Heroes Podcast

This week on the Local Heroes podcast, Chris and Dan sit with Cal Byerley of Restaurant Pine - and Gordons (plural) steal the show. Gordon, the podcast mascot, is named after a rock star, carved from ...

30 Maj 1h 30min

EP66 | Rob Sampson | Shields, Shandies and Sausage Rolls | Local Heroes Podcast

EP66 | Rob Sampson | Shields, Shandies and Sausage Rolls | Local Heroes Podcast

This week on the Local Heroes podcast, Chris and Dan sit with Rob Sampson, the man behind "Gan for bait, like?" One of the North East's most-followed food voices, the conversation that wanders from Ca...

28 Maj 1h 37min

EP65 | Jo Feeley | Forecast, Fashion and Trend Obsession | Local Heroes Podcast

EP65 | Jo Feeley | Forecast, Fashion and Trend Obsession | Local Heroes Podcast

This week on Chris and Dan sit down with Jo Feeley, co-founder of TrendBible, the Newcastle based trend forecasting agency helping some of the world’s biggest brands understand what people will want n...

28 Maj 1h 43min

EP64 | Laughs, Life and Lady Parts | Lauren Pattison | Local Heroes Podcast

EP64 | Laughs, Life and Lady Parts | Lauren Pattison | Local Heroes Podcast

This week Chris and Dan are joined by comedian Lauren Pattison, one of the sharpest stand-up voices to come out of the North East in the last decade. From doing her first gigs at 18 in Newcastle to be...

9 Maj 1h 54min

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