Conversations about Music

with Justin Lewis

About First Last Anything

This isn’t a podcast. It’s a textcast.

A series of conversations about music with people who make music, think about music, or simply love music. Or a combination of them.

I decided on a format that was a shift away from ‘all-time favourite records’, like turning one’s collection into a museum piece. I thought it might be more interesting to focus on not only the past but the present. Not only, where you’ve been with music, but also where you might be now. And where you might be going.

And so FIRST LAST ANYTHING came into being. (The working title was The First The Last My Anything, after the Barry White song, but that seemed a bit cumbersome.)

The rules – they’re not even ‘rules’ exactly – are so simple. I invite guests to select:

FIRST – The first record they bought (or remember buying)

LAST – The most recent record they bought (or downloaded)

ANYTHING – A wildcard selection, but broadly speaking: a record that expanded their taste or opened a door in music, or just something they changed their mind about.

Then we talk about those, and other matters relating to their life so far consuming music.

That’s it.

Between May and September of 2022, the first run of First Last Anything welcomed sixteen special guests.

A further eight special guests appeared for a second run in June to August 2023.

There are plans for a third run later in 2025. In the meantime, all 24 conversations will be reuploaded at this new location, and can be found under the category of First Last Anything.

Hope you enjoy them.

Justin Lewis

May 2025