In this, the first music science edition hosted Professor Tom Solomon with Holly Ellis, our guests were International DJ, producer, promoter and Circus co-founder Yousef with Dr Eduardo Coutinho, founder and Director of the Applied Music Research Lab at the University of Liverpool which aims to harness the power of music to improve people’s lives.

In this episode, Yousef, a pivotal player in ‘The First Dance’, the official trial event forming part of the Governments’ Covid-19 Event Research programme tells us about how he and the team were told they had only 3 weeks to bring these first large-scale, public events together.

Eduardo speaks about his experience and research into music acting as an ‘emotional contagion’ and its role in our earliest forms of human communication and how it might have underpinned mating success.

Meanwhile Tom brings the exhilarating soundscape created by Yousef directly to the Scouse Science podcast attendees.