Versonic is a 5-Piece Indie Rock Guitar Covers Band from Epsom UK. We play a pulsating heady mix of anthemic, crowd-pleasing and some might say singalong rock guitar covers. With the band having 5 gigs in the month of December we thought we had better get festive and include a few Christmas songs to our set. We thought long and hard about which songs our audience might like, and of course staying true to the indie rock 'bangers' vibe that Versonic is renowned for we headed down to the Versonic Music Studio and smashed out these four Christmas Crackers for your delight and delectation;

1. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

2. Step Into Christmas

3. Last Christmas

4. Merry Christmas Everybody

We play these tracks live as part of our December shows and they have proved to be extremely popular with our audiences. You can grab yourself a personal copy on CD at Versonic gigs, or you can stream for free, but do yourselves a favour and download your very own copy for future Christmas' - or gift it to someone special for a Fiver on our Bandcamp. https://versonic1.bandcamp.com/album/have-yourselves-a-rocking-christmas-ep

Don't be a Scrooge now!

Happy Christmas from all at Versonic

https://feelingversonic.com/

Delighted to welcome Music Producer Andy Brook as my guest on Series 3, Episode 001. Andy has produced, engineered and toured with the likes of Status Quo, Bonnie Tyler, Ginger Wildheart, Uriah Heep, Francis Rossi, Mel Gaynor, Greg Jackman, Del-Amitri, Travis, Tiger Lillie's, Towers of London, Hayseed Dixie, Million Dead, Breed 77 as well as Universal, Sony & WMG. He is also involved in film and TV, location and media post production and is a registered member of PRS, APRS, PPL, MU and the MPG as well as being a 2020 member class of the Recording Academy as a full voting member for the Grammys.

Andy studied acoustic composition and composition with electronics at the University of Hertfordshire, graduating with a BA(hons) in Electronic Music in 2001. Whilst professionally active he gained an advanced C&G in Music Technology with distinction at the City of Westminster College and an MA in Audio Production from the University of Westminster.

He established himself as a producer building Studio Sonic in Wallington, Surrey in 2002 before relocating to larger premises in London’s Denmark Street from 2004 – 2009, where he also produced live sessions for Total Rock Radio. He then became the resident producer at Scream Studios, Croydon 2009-2011 before building Strummers Recording Studio, Holloway 2012-2013 and then moving onto his current studio at The Brook in Wallington in 2014.

Andy currently freelances as a producer, mix engineer and recording engineer. After some years teaching BTEC Diploma in Music Technology Levels 2, 3, 4 & 5 he is now a visiting assessor for JAMES. Current live projects he is involved in include playing for The Middlenight Men, Rich Ragany & The Digressions, Shush, Scott McFarnon, Toccata Music Group and he also runs a local community choir.

Hope you enjoy the Episode.

https://www.andybrook.com

Delighted to welcome the ebullient 'The Yin' (Adam Perry) as our very special guest on Episode 048 of The Feeling Versonic Podcast 'A Band called A'.

Adam is an award winning, mega-talented, experienced music industry professional with a wealth of experience in pretty much everything that a career in the music business can offer. From being a major label artist as the drummer in rock bands 'A' and 'Bloodhoung Gang' to being a music entrepreneur, business start-up CEO, tour manager, festival promoter, producer and celebrity ambassador with the Prince's Trust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Perry_(drummer)

Feeling Versonic is an Indie Hub which includes the increasingly high profile Feeling Versonic Music Commentary Podcast. The podcast features news, views and interviews with notable creatives on entrepreneurial lifestyle, health (very much including mental health) and original independent music.

The Feeling Versonic brand introduces a range of fashionable clothing, tantalising fragrances, enticing body sprays and energising health products.

Look Good. Smell Good. Feel good.

https://feelingversonic.com

Delighted to welcome Rapper/Singer-Songwriter Jay Dagley as my guest on Episode 046 of the Feeling Versonic Podcast 'Lead the Way'.

Jay, from Leicestershire found a great passion in music from a young age. His early influences were Robbie Williams, Maroon 5 and Justin Timberlake. In 2002 Eminem released ‘Lose yourself’ which drew Jay’s attention to rap and the art of song writing.

At 14 years old Jay started to write his own lyrics to grime instrumentals, shortly after he was given the opportunity to record music with a local singer beginning his ambition to become a recording artist.

In 2009 a collaboration with Kev Bland, a friend and mentor, led to producing 3 acoustic albums over 5 years.

Jay then invested in his own home studio allowing him to expand his knowledge of the recording and production of music whilst also working with a Nuneaton based producer.

2014 sparked a collaboration with up and coming producer ‘Hive’ which began with freestyling to acoustic guitar riffs and has developed in to a long working relationship releasing numerous singles. Jay and Hive produced their first music video in 2019 launching their online presence leading to features on Hive sessions vlog.

https://www.instagram.com/jaydmuzik/

https://www.instagram.com/hiveaudioproduction/

https://hiveaudioproduction.com

Delighted to welcome indie rock duo singer-songwriter Paul Hipson, and guitarist Hugh Frizell who make up the band 'Hippy' as my guests on Episode 045 the Feeling Versonic Podcast 'Falling in Love with Being Alive'.

Hippy formed in September 2019. Paul and Hugh met via a mutual acquaintance in Glasgow and hit it off both musically and personally. A studio was duly booked by October '19 with the boys recording and releasing their first single 'Aries Girl'. Subsequent songs and releases Feelgood, Junkyard Babies and Volunteer were released thereafter in early to mid 2020.

Paul is an established singer songwriter within the Glasgow community and beyond, and has played many gigs building up a solid following of his own. Hugh is an experienced guitar player and artist of many years with a background in touring, live, studio and writing within the blues, rock and indie genres.

An album 'Behind Every Song Is A Story' was released to critical acclaim in October 2020. The band also received national radio airplay via Billy Sloan at his BBC Radio Scotland show with Billy regularly playing the band on his Saturday night slot. The band have also received local airplay throughout the UK on various stations and music commentary podcasts.

New album 'Falling in Love with Being Alive' will be released globally on 27th August 2021 and it's a cracker.

https://www.instagram.com/hippy.music

https://youtu.be/TOMvKVuwtg4

Delighted to welcome Singer-Songwriter Kit Bennett AKA Miss Kitty as my guest on Episode 044 of the Feeling Versonic Podcast - 'Kiss and Tell'.

A fierce believer in equality and defier of authority, Miss Kitty grew up a wild child of nature, predominantly in the southwest of England and Wales, though her first few years were spent aboard a 52 ft schooner, sailing around the Irish Sea.

Since taking up guitar as a teen and walking out of school at 15, life has been one crazy musical adventure after another, from winning a battle of the bands in Newquay aged 20, to spending two years in a cabin in South Wales with nothing but candlelight and an upright piano, to performing all over the UK and US with folk-pop band Wildflowers. Now we find her back in Bristol, with a string of singles and her DIY debut album Kiss & Tell under her belt.

Winning the hearts of listeners all over the world with the support of radio stations such as Resonance FM, Great Music Stories and Exile FM, Miss Kitty’s fast-growing fanbase is testament to her singing and songwriting prowess.

https://www.iammisskitty.com

Charles Fernyhough is a writer and psychologist. His non-fiction book about his daughter’s psychological development, The Baby in the Mirror, was published by Granta in 2008. His book on autobiographical memory, Pieces of Light (Profile, 2012) was shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His latest non-fiction book is The Voices Within (Profile/Wellcome Collection, 2016). He is the editor of Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves (Unbound, 2019), with net profits supporting refugee and anti-hate charities.

Charles is the author of two novels, The Auctioneer (Fourth Estate, 1999) and A Box Of Birds (Unbound, 2013). His fiction has been published in several anthologies including New Writing 11 and New Writing 14. His books have been translated into thirteen languages.

Charles has written for Scientific American, LA Times, TIME Ideas, Nature, New Scientist, BBC Focus, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Literary Review, Sunday Telegraph, Lancet, Scotland on Sunday, Huffington Post, Daily Beast and Sydney Morning Herald. He blogs for the US magazine Psychology Today and has made numerous TV and radio appearances in the UK and US, including BBC2’s Horizon, BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week, Woman’s Hour, All in the Mind and The Digital Human, and BBC World Service’s The Forum. He has acted as consultant on theatre productions on Broadway and the West End, numerous TV (BBC1 and Channel 4) and radio documentaries, and several other artistic projects.

He has played guitar in a variety of musical projects, most recently the ambient collective Improvizone.

Charles is a part-time Professor of Psychology at Durham University, where he leads the interdisciplinary Hearing the Voice project, investigating the phenomenon of auditory verbal hallucinations. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles on topics such as inner speech, memory and child development.

Further details are available at www.charlesfernyhough.com.