Martin Atkins | Owner, Musician at Invisible Records and Teacher at Millikin University - a podcast by Wayne Cheong

The most punk The CMO Asia Podcast episode ever! I got the nerve to ask Martin Atkins how new bands should market themselves in 2020 and which artist he get each other the most: Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd), Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Al Jourgensen (Ministry), oHgr (Skinny Puppy), Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke: Official) or Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks). Listen to the episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Anchor and hear him speak about:

- How he lost 27lbs since January by working out but “it is nothing compared to playing drums several hours with Pigface!”
- Why musicians trying to making a living only playing music “are so f@cked!”
- Why he wasn’t in Barcelona many years ago solely to play drums with Pete Shelley from Buzzcocks
- Why bands are not supposed to make financial sense but to inspire
- How he felt about Pitchfork voting “Fook” as one of 33 best industrial albums of all time, and why he see similarities of that record with “Flowers of Romance” a PIL record he did with Johnny Rotten, Jah Wobble and Keith Levene
- Why without Johnny Rotten from Sex Pistols, they wouldn’t be as dangerous or made sense for the record companies
- Why he considered himself very lucky to have worked with ohGr, Trent, Jaz, Johnny, Al Jourgensen and more
- How Pigface accidentally ended up performing half of Fook album live this upcoming tour
- How he came up with a book on touring, deliver keynotes and lectures and coming up with curriculum for students and the response from the audience during the 25th anniversary show inspired him to continue drumming and Pigface
- Why bands should worry more about broadening their toolkit and helping other people, creating a positive energy instead of focusing only on playing music and making a living
- Why he might tell his 18 year old self to be careful with people and also work on his shyness
- Why the best compliment he ever received was from his kids that “he did an okay job after all iof raising them” and which Tool member recently made him cry
- Why he wore a striped shirt on stage and why he would like to finally meet Alex Harvey and former members of the Pigface community who has passed on

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