I’ve been thinking about launching a 14sandwiches podcast for a few weeks now.  It needed the right format though.  After all, me talking non-stop would be rather boring.  So, when the chance to interview UK hip-hop’s brightest star, Sway, came up it seemed like the perfect excuse to put those podcast plans into action.

Sway has done extremely well for himself, considering he’s done most of it entirely unsigned (unless you count his own label).  His first album, This Is My Demo, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and he won a MOBO award in the same year.  He’s recently signed to Akon’s Konvict label for territories outside Europe but he maintains his indepenence on his home continent.

As well as finding out about his new single and album, this podcast interview features Sway talking about the advantages of being independent and telling me why he might never discount entirely the idea of signing to a major label.

Future podcasts will feature interviews with interesting people from the worlds of technology, music and the media.  There’s a lot happening here in Manchester all the time and I hope I’ll be able to give a flavour of at least some of it on the podcast.  I’m not quite sure how frequent it’ll be yet but I’m aiming at a new episode being published every month.

So, without any further ado why not head to our podcast page and get downloading?