Stereo Embers The Podcast 0027: Andy Wickett (Duran Duran)/David Haskell ("The Outdoorsman")

"Andy Wickett Is Sick Of Talking About Duran Duran" Well, after all this time, you probably would be, too. After leaving the Birmingham outfit TV Eye in 1979 Andy Wickett replaced Stephen Duffy as the singer of Duran Duran. What did Stephen Duffy do? Well, he replaced Wickett in TV Eye, naturally…With Wickett Duran Duran cut a series of tracks, including Wickett’s “Girls On Film.” That song was the standout on the demo that got the band signed, but Wickett saw the way things were going artistically, and wasn’t interested in heading down that path. Over the course of his career Wickett played with the Xpertz (the first band to fuse electronica with dub) and World Service. He found himself opening arena tours for the likes of Culture Club, The Clash and—you guessed, it: Duran Duran. With the original demos unearthed, Wickett tells Alex about teaching Simon LeBon how to sing, who the best musician was in Duran Duran at the time, and his new album Creatures Of Love. "David Haskell Gives Great Advice" He really does. The first-time director of the indie comedy “The Outdoorsman” tells Alex that if you want to get something done, the secret is to set a schedule. It sure worked for Haskell. For his first feature film he secured funding and was able to cast Sasheer Zamata (“Saturday Night Live”) and Brent Morin (“Undateable”) as the leads. A lighthearted look at how we face our demons and how we learn to let them go, “The Outdoorsman” is one of the sweetest, smartest and funniest films of the year. Haskell tells Alex about the rigors of getting the script right, how Zamata and Morin found their way to the film and writing a movie about punk legend Atom and his Package.