Giving yourself permission to be creative - Matthew Caws (Nada Surf)

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Matthew Caws has been playing guitar, singing and writing songs in Nada Surf since 1994. He is one half of Minor Alps with Juliana Hatfield. He’s from New York City but currently lives in Cambridge, England. Find out more at http://nadasurf.com.

In this episode, we discuss how anxiety gets in the way of songwriting, the anomaly of artists being financially successful, what it’s like listening to the music you made a long time ago, how to keep writing interesting material when you’re happily married and ageing with your audience – when your existence is a mirror to their years gone by.

The Penfriend songs featured in this episode are:

Intro: Cancel Your Hopes
Background: Everything Looks Normal In The Sunshine
Outro: Seashaken

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I'm Laura Kidd, an independent music producer, songwriter and visual artist based in Nottingham, UK, making music as Penfriend (formerly She Makes War and Obey Robots).

My mission is to encourage creativity in others by sharing my artistic process, plus thoughts on the philosophy of creativity.

In my first podcasting era 2019-2021 I interviewed 50 of my favourite artists and comedians for my "Attention Engineer" episodes. I asked nosey questions about creativity, grit and determination and received some surprising answers...