Stereo Embers The Podcast 0021: Brennan Hester (The Sextants)

“Terrorizing Peter Murphy”

While on tour with his band The Sextants in the early 90s, Brennan Hester and his bandmates kept running into Peter Murphy. So they did what any band would do when staring down the Goth legend: they kept slapping Sextants stickers on his tourbus. Brennan tells Alex about running into Peter Murphy in a speedo, opening for Jane’s Addiction, his disdain for Morrissey and working at the Fillmore and drinking dusty booze left over from the ‘70s. “We just siphoned off the flies with a funnel,” he says. Hester also talks to Alex about being on the same record label as Kylie Minogue and Henry Rollins, the demise of The Sextants and his first solo album Tell Me Where You Are Today. Alex also reveals he’s the one who invented podcasting and Brennan claims to have invented Shazam…