We Recover Loudly – Personal Recovery and Mental Health Stories · Shell Righini

S3 Episode 07 Glen Rowe: Recovering Loudly … Loud Music, Quiet Healing, and Rewriting the Rules

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Shell opens the conversation with Glenn Rowe and gets straight to the music-world side of things. Glenn founded Kyoto, a music and arts management company built to give artists time, space, and support. He has toured the world with iconic acts and was most recently the tour director for Craig David's latest tour. Another part of his work is a charity that teaches practical skills for working behind the scenes in music. From there, the chat leans into festivals and how they have changed. Shell and Glenn compare the old genre-coded lineups with the more mixed, less tidy version people see now. Shell reaches back to the festivals she wanted as a kid and the comfort of knowing exactly where the guitar bands lived. Glenn follows that with his own memory of how festivals once made taste feel simpler. They joke about headline slots and the mild outrage that comes with getting older. The joke works because the point underneath it is serious. Not everything you hear once a week is a love. Some things are only a preference, even when people try to dress them up. Shell uses a friend's line about loving a child to show how different real love feels from casual preference. Glenn takes that idea and applies it to music without making it smaller than it is. He says plainly that he is a 51-year-old lover of guitar music. He also says he listens to plenty of other stuff, but the answer comes back fast when someone asks what he likes. The episode keeps using those small admissions to talk about identity, scene loyalty, and the rules people inherit around culture. Shell keeps it warm, quick, and human, letting the conversation build and then pulling it back to the emotional center. By the end, it feels like a recovery conversation hiding inside a music chat, and that is exactly why it works.

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A recovery chat that links taste, work, and identity without losing its human edge.

Shell and Glenn Rowe turn a music industry conversation into something a little steadier than nostalgia. It is really about how taste, work, and identity keep folding into one another.

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You want a recovery chat that turns into a candid debate over what you actually love.

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