In this episode of podcast Creative I'm interviewing Erin Neelands who is an artist, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and flautist. We talk about growing up in Alaska and California and what effect it had on her artistically.

First played in Oct 2019 

In a second replaying of Matt Ogden's Christmas podcast with me. Enjoy Matt's wonderful comic episode. 

Joseph of Nazareth Carpenter, Saint, Father, and Protector of Virgins In a special Christmas edition, I have the pleasure and the honour to speak to Joseph of Nazareth Joseph speaks about being a Carpenter in a Roman province and the pluses and minuses that affords him. He spent some time talking about the lineage and a little bit about the life of his famous son. According to the Matthew's Gospel, Joseph agonized over Mary's apparently illegitimate pregnancy but protected her and the unborn Jesus by accepting her as his wife after an angel appeared to him in a dream and directed him to do so. Receiving rich presents from mysterious eastern magi at Bethlehem after Jesus' birth, he then fled to Egypt to avoid the wrath of Herod the Great, returning to the land of Israel after Herod's death and settling in Nazareth. In Luke's account, Joseph travels to Bethlehem for a census and returns to Nazareth without going to Egypt, after presenting Jesus publicly in the Temple of Jerusalem. Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas and new year To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Anna Shepherd Artist, Gardener, Tarot, Witch, Cleaner Clootie Campaigner

I am joined by Anna to discuss living in the seasons, old cottages, being and embodiment in the creative process,

Anna started the cleaner clootie campaign which is the folkloric votive offerings often left on trees but making them ecofriendly.

We discuss how we create a creative environment as a form of alchemy, this was a very interesting chat with Anna and you can check out more about her if you visit

The cleaner clootie campaign on facebook.

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To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Tom Collins, Plant Science, Travelling, Boats

I am talking to Tom Collins about his world of Plant Science the extraordinary biodiversity of South Africa, what we need to grow food for a burgeoning population and the very well real risks that we face in the future.

This veers into very interesting territory, Tom also discusses his sailing, building boats and just generally navigating the seas of science, commerce and being creative.

This is brilliantly interesting for amazing ideas.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Shazzie, TV presenter, raw food guru, online business Wizz

In this podcast I am talking to Shazzie the presenter of the Sky TV series Raw Kitchen and founder of Detox Your World superfood business, which she created in 2000 and sold in 2012, after turning over $20 Million.

Shazzie is also the author of five groundbreaking books, including the world’s first book on raw chocolate, Naked Chocolate with David Wolfe. She is also the author of the Sleep Easily Meditation app which has been listened to over 36 BILLION times and she has been helping people to build online businesses since 2014.

This is a great chat with Shazzie, and she discusses many entrepreneur ideas that are worth following.

For further details visit Shazzie’s excellent website

https://shazzie.com/about-shazzie/

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

This interview is with the flautist Paul Cheneour we discuss how he got into music and his interesting path to be a virtuoso player.

I consider Paul to be one of the greatest creative people I know. I hope you will enjoy this.

Originally published in Dec 2019

Dr Rich and Me, Cut Up Creativity

I am talking again to the amazing Dr Rich about my forthcoming book Music Magic and NLP

This one is about Cut Up the crazy and extrodinary technique promoted and used by William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin

These ideas have developed over the 45 years of being a musician and teacher, and my interest in the paranormal and psychological trickery

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Andi Skipsey Bass Player, Explode the TV

I'm talking to Andy Skipsey bass player of Explode the TV. We talk about songwriting and creative processes, playing in a massive Christian rock band who played Wembley Arena, Wembley Stadium and European venues including Berlin.

Andi was in Red Touch with me during 90s and we also talk about the role of faith in music.

https://linktr.ee/explodethetv

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

John Levett agent and promoter of live music jazz funk and soul

Today I'm going to be talking to John Levett who runs the listening room music agency. Twenty three  years ago his children were budding musicians but they were struggling to find gigs and he wanted to help them nurture their talents. So he started getting them bookings, from there on he worked with more musicians, bands and venues.  Today he books for events, restaurants, pubs, weddings funerals etcetera but also shares in the risk of that booking which is especially important in today's climate.

Great chat with John who I first met nearly 20 years ago. John talks about important points to do with aspiration for both musicians and footballers, and their being led to believe within society that there is a career path and how we can help in securing a creative environment for young talent.

Visit http://thelisteningroommusicagency.com/

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Paul Green Music Philosophy Business Consciousness and Magic.

 On today's programme I'll be talking to Paul Green. This is a fantastic chat with Paul that goes very deep and includes the effects of having a superpower of implicit learning and successive approximation! This is the lost wisdom of the ancients. We also talk about philosophy degrees and the power of playing Samba. Music is just walking.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Bernadette Russell, author, storyteller, hopepunk, tree planter.

 Bernadette and I have a great chat about stories and creativity her cabaret work at Madame JoJos and finding stories o the lesser heard and lesser known.

Bernadette is a co-creator and lead artist for the South Bank Centres monthly salon "The Skylark Cafe" - hosting and telling stories and a storyteller for Trees for Cities with stories, myth and magic about animals, plants, trees and wildness.

She is a regular story teller of stories at Butser Ancient Farm, "Wild Stories, Witches and Wonder" - with sessions for adults only as well as family sessions.

Bernadette Russell is in a BBC documentary about the power of kindness which you can watch from the links below

 She is an Alumni of the School of Myth and a Certified Happiness Facilitator with Museum of Happiness and author of “How To Be Hopeful"

and there is now an audio version which you can find here: https://www.audible.co.uk or here https://www.bolinda.com

Please come and say hello!

www.bernadetterussell.com

twitter @betterussell

facebook https://www.facebook.com/bernadetterussellwrites/

instagram @bernadetterussell

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Chris Penfold Getting Gigs in France Bluescampuk 

that is a welcome return to Chris Penfold and this time Chris and I will be talking about getting gigs in France and how we set up Bluescampuk and the French experience 

Lots of very interesting information here for musicians who want to gig outside of the UK

Heather Bentley Strings, From Classical to Improvisation, Composer, Trailblazer.

I am chatting to the multitalented Heather Bentley today. This is a great chat about her journey in music. There are some amazing insights here from a wonderful musician.

Seattle-based violist and composer Heather Bentley has trailblazed a career as one of the West Coast’s most visible improvisatory musicians, specializing in creating evocative atmospheres and textures.

Classically trained, she has shifted to an unabashedly experimental artistic output: As a performer, she can be seen performing on instruments like her electric seven string and five string violins or her electronic pedal board in numerous chamber ensembles that utilize improvisation, electronics, and often both.

As a composer, her work for chamber ensembles and orchestras has been performed by organizations across the US. Relentless in her pursuit of creativity, she continues this work as co-founder of Kin of the Moon, a 501(c)3 organization which fosters collaboration between artists in service of creating unique art.

Check out Heather’s work at https://www.hbentleymusic.com/about

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Antony Holloway: My Life So Far 2022 Psycho punk in the Medway, Sculptures, Cellos and living in France.

This was a blast ..

The show notes have been provided by Antony so I have kept them in his voice.

I was born in 1963. Grandad on my mum’s side had been a professional violinist, playing on cruise ships, in orchestras and silent movies. I have vague memories of visiting his family home, an East London terrace house with his brothers standing around singing and him rattling off “Roll out the barrel” and “My old mans a policeman” on an upright piano.  My dad was born in a horse drawn caravan into the family of a traveling theatre. He was orphaned when young and the company broke up before he was old enough to join in the vaudeville shenanigans.

When I was a child, my dad would call in to pay bills and leave money for food shopping, otherwise he was absent. My mum painted and played the piano but also spent long periods of time in bed depressed. During one such depression she was seduced by a visiting neighbour and shortly moved in with him. My eldest two sisters both left home around this time so I was left to bring myself up along with my remaining sister, Louise. I was eleven and had just started secondary school, Louise was three years older.

There were advantages and disadvantages to an unconventional childhood. Nobody ever mentioned school or homework, there was never any talk about qualifications or careers. The only thing that had been pressed upon us was musical instruments. I started playing the cello when I was seven years old and throughout all of the chaos I always managed to go for a music lesson on Saturday morning.  At school I was quite bright but found rules and regulations difficult. It all seemed rather irrelevant and the only lesson that really interested me was art.

In 1978 I was fifteen and my sister Louise went to art school in Rochester, at this point I was living in the house of my mums chronic alcoholic boyfriend which soon became my personal hell. Then, I think it’s fair to say that post punk counter culture saved my life. I had always worn jumble, had a home cropped mop on top of my head and just generally didn’t relate to other peoples experiences.  Having generally been an outsider, I started visiting my sister and suddenly felt right at home. The Medway garage band scene was just kicking off, the Pop Rivets had released their first LP and I was there for the first Micky and the Milkshakes gig. I went back to Folkestone, nurtured myself on the John Peel show, got hold of an old Woolworths guitar (Satelite?) and started writing, playing and singing three chord songs.

I played guitar and sang in bands (punk/rockabilly/skiffle) around Folkestone and Dover while I got myself an Art A level at the local Tech College. I then headed off to art school in Rochester and found that the garage band scene was now thriving. I came across a busker, Tim Webster and started playing with him. Tim had a Johnny Burnette album, so we learned all the songs and played them on the streets of Kent. I soon started playing bass guitar in a band with him and Martin Waller, sax player from the Gruffmen and very early Milkshakes gigs. Originally called The Outerlimits we later became The Sputniks. We played so many gigs at pubs, art schools and parties, practically every week for three years.

The cello lessons had remarkably carried on in parallel with gigging, I think I stopped just before The Outerlimits. Even during my Foundation Course at Rochester I thought that I would probably go to music school.  However, the rock and roll was just too much fun, so art school seemed a better place for me. The flexibility of Art school hours gave me the opportunity to slope off and play music and again it was somewhere I felt at home.

When art school finished and the Sputniks broke up I was briefly at a loss for what to do. However, following the birth of my first daughter I was obliged to earn some money and through relentless searching and endless job applications I quickly got myself a commission to make a public sculpture in Swindon. Following this I had a commission at the prestigious Grizedale Forest Sculpture Trail which was my passport for back to back public sculpture commissions all over England.

Thirteen years, three more daughters and god knows how many sculptures later I found that I was spending all my time on motorways or in meetings with councils and local community groups, this was not where I wanted to be.  In 2000 we moved to France, I carried on knocking out sculptures for a few more years but became more interested and occupied with restoring ancient buildings. 

In 2006 I had a chance meeting with Bart Coles who had played with The Escalators back in my Sputnik days and was living nearby in France. Although our paths had never crossed we had been playing the same venues and had been on the same scene. I’d never played double bass but bought one, learned how to play and started to play and sing Rockabilly music with Bart on guitar and a variety of local drummers. As The Gruff Cats we played plenty of local gigs over a six year period but eventually with no permanent drummer we packed it in.  Around this time I made the decision to restart playing the cello. After a 35 year gap it took a while to get up to speed but now, six years later, I’m probably better a cellist than when I was at 18, certainly a more experienced artist and performer.

So now in 2022 I play my cello every day and have regular concerts playing baroque, blues, rock and roll or swing on cello or bass with a variety of musicians.  Sculpture is on the back burner for now, but I’ve started on a long awaited project printing T-Shirts. Lino cuts to begin with but hopefully moving onto wood block printing and screen printing before too long. We also recently finished the 22 year renovation of the farm house we bought in 2000 so last year we moved into another ruin and have started all over again.  I don’t really see much difference between making stuff or playing music, all that matters is that I don’t stop.

Nassos Conqueso Multi Instrumentalist

In this episode I talk to the wonderful Nassos Conqueso about mixing contemporary and traditional music and the wonderful world of Greek instruments.

Nassos is a singer/songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist from Athens. Nassos released his single Under the Endless Sky in January of 2017 and two months later he released his debut album Love in Crisis.

He studied electric guitar and music theory with Pantelis Gertsos (guitarfor → MusicFor) until he passed the Associate Diploma of the London College of Music in Music Teaching (Upper Level). He also studied music harmony & modern composition with Nikos Panagiotakis, vocals & piano with Lia Hide and jazz harmony with George Argyropoulos at the Musical Praxis Conservatoire where he successfuly completed his Harmony Degree.

Occasionally, he had acoustic guitar and songwriting lessons with Max Milligan. He holds a Master's Degree - MMus in Songwriting - from Bath Spa University, under the tuition of Davey Ray Moor. He's currently working towards his PhD, under the supervision of Professor Amanda Bayley and Dr Matthew Sergeant. While his main instrument is the guitar, he enjoys playing other instruments, such as piano, baglamás, ukulele, blues harp, bass guitar, banjo, lap steel guitar, tzourás, stylophone, bouzouki… In any case, the sound is what matters the most!

At the same time, Nassos started working as an administrative assistant in the LCM and RGT examinations representative office in Greece, as well as for guitarfor. He has undertaken the promotion, online publishing, photo shooting, web design and he has contributed in organising concerts and seminars with musicians like Larry Goldings Trio, Kurt Rosenwinkel New Quartet, Larry Carlton, Adam Levy, Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet, Paul Gilbert, Al Di Meola, Andy McKee, to name but a few.

In January 2017, Nassos released his first single Under the Endless Sky, under the pseudonym Nassos Conqueso. In March 2017, he released his album Love in Crisis, which is also available in Compact Disc. He's responsible for music, lyrics, arrangement, production, vocals, piano, ukulele, baglamás, tzourás, harmonica, guitar, stylophone and programming. At the same time, he became the 6th member of Bound Affairs as an acoustic guitarist and keyboardist, until September of 2018.

Between 2019 and 2021, he represented Greece, along with two other artists, in the European Union's Introspection Music Experience project. His contribution involved the production of the song 'A Moveable Feast', as well as recording various instruments for the song 'Collateral'. Based on this experience he released the double-track single A Moveable Feast in October 2022, in the International Mental Health Day.

Check out http://www.nassosconqueso.com/

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Maddy Glen Softwood Self-Publishing, Writer

Softwood Self-Publishing was founded in 2017 by Maddy Glenn. Since then, it has gone on to be one of the most successful small business of its kind with awards and accolades from the Surrey Enterprise Awards 2018, and the Daily Mail in 2019.

In 2022, Softwood was announced the Self-Publishing Specialists of the Year in London and the South-East by the Prestige Awards and was a finalist in the Mid Suffolk & Babergh District Council Innovation Awards.

Maddy has a degree in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Reading and is a member of the Society of Young Publishers. In 2022 she has been a guest speaker at the UK National Centre for Writing, the Atlanta Writers Conference (USA) and at the Prima Donna Festival. Her second novel, In the Dark was published in July

For more details

https://www.swspublishing.com

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

At a French Studio

In this episode I should be speaking to Chris Penfold. I just spent time with Chris at his lovely studio in France and he was asking me whether it was musical snobbery to feel that some musician fell short of ones aspirations.

This is a very interesting conversation that I'm sure would be familiar to many musicians at some point in their career. We go into quite a lot of depth about the feel and groove in music and how the drummer in particular can be the source of it being successful.

For details of Chris visit https://www.dreamfrance.co.uk/

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Oliver Turnbull Management Consultant Podcaster Stand Up Comedian

Although Oliver has a “day job” as a management consultant specialising in Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence, the urge to show off has never left him, since he discovered that impersonating teachers impressed the cool kids at school.

Eventually this led him to writing comedy shows, a lucrative side-line on the London Stand-up Comedy circuit in the 90s and a specialisation in hosting corporate events, with humorous verve, once he grew up a bit.

Oliver also plays rhythm guitar and his style has been described as “limited” but nowhere near as limited as his singing voice. This has not stopped him fronting a bunch of eclectic bands at Blues Camp, which has allowed him fulfil many a performance fantasy.

Oliver continues to bring much needed laughter to dull business conferences, has recently acted professionally, and is the host of three podcasts:

• “Why The Long Face?”, which brings a little levity to the serious business of maintaining good mental health;
• “The Wine List”, in which a wine expert guides Oliver through the mysteries of the production, selection and consumption of wine; and
• “The Media Beat”, where Oliver discusses the world of media with two renowned experts.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara of the Chaps for the music

Stage Performance Techniques, Bluescampuk 2023

This is a live recording of a workshop that Chris Penfold and I conducted at this year's BluescampUK at Tonbridge School.

As this was only recorded with contact lapel microphones there is some external sound with people playing drums at parts of the recording but there are some brilliant ideas here that if you're involved in presentation, you would find useful.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Mini Kingman, Prog Rock, Coming to Art Late, Occultist and Success in Male dominated Business.

I am delighted to be speaking to Mini Kingman on today’s podcast. Mini has a varied and interesting life working as a rep for her father’s highly successful business for over 20 years but her other interests include lifelong interest and connection to the occult and the Prog Rock scene working with some high-profile artists. 

Mini is a poet and artist working in a variety of mediums and she talks about the challenges of coming to terms with identifying herself as an artist and how coming to art later in life has a positive effect. 

For further details visit

https://www.facebook.com/HedgerowAlchemy

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Chris Dagger bass player for Emeli Sande, George Ezra amongst others and all-round nice chap tells tales of touring, meeting Stevie Wonder and spending time at Paisley Park. 

Good for you would be rock stars fresh from college to listen to. 

First played in June 2020 

Ravi Sawney Music from France India and Britain

I am chatting with Ravi about his involvement in folk music particularly the French music of the …

Ravi was born on India to an English mother and an Indian father after his father died the family moved back to England.

We talk Indian music, punk, and his love of the hurdy gurdy, fiddle, guitar and French folk music with all its intricacies.

This is a great chat, and we explore the health benefits of music as we age

To find out more visit

https://www.facebook.com/ravi.sawney

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Marc Galea Session Guitarist, Teacher, TV Presenter.

In this episode I am talking to the wonderful Marc Galea. Marc has achieved amazing things due to his tenacity and we talk about being able to think outside the box. This is a great chat.

Marc is a session guitarist, RGT Registered Tutor with 13 years teaching experience ,published his own method books and released 2 ep’s and 2 albums. In 2008 and 2009 Marc was awarded the internationally-acclaimed RGT Guitar Tutor of the Year Award Finalist award

Marc started learning classical guitar at age 11 but immediately exchanged it for an electric guitar after hearing Brian May play. Following a trip to Cardiff to see Joe Satriani in concert when he was 16 years old, he decided to take up guitar professionally and set about studying with intent and practicing with his first serious band Juicy Affair.

During 2001 Marc held a teaching post in a state school in Malta and in that same year he produced and presented the innovative successful TV series B’Sitt Kordi (with six strings ) on Local Television where he taught basic guitar and interviewed established guitarists in Malta.

In august ’07 while working as a session guitarist with Ivan Filletti, Marc shared the stage with Italian singer songwriter Claudio Baglioni performing during widely publicized O’SCIA concert in Valletta waterfront.

In December 2008 and 2009 marc worked with Guitarist Phil Hilborne and and bassist Neil Murray (Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Brian May, Gary moore ) on two guitar master class at the Euro Institute and a concert. . Marc was also featured teaching guitar during a TV series called Bands. This program was aired every week on TVM between October till December 08.

Marc together with guitarist Steve Delia opened for legendary acoustic guitar player Gordon Giltrap during the second half of his concert, organized by Masquerade theatre company at the Manoel Theatre on the 6th may 08. In September 09 Tech Music schools became partners with the Euro Institute of Music; They organized a master class at the euro institute where marc worked with legend guitarist John Wheatcroft.

Marc has played in many events and musicals and The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and recently was part of Rockestra. He also works as a session guitarist in the studio for various local artists and currently plays with Versatile Brass band under the direction of Mro. Paul Borg. Together with his band he was part of the Malta Jazz festival 2011 and in August same year played in Jazz festival in Sicily.

In 2012 Marc published a guitar method book titled A Step by Step Approach for the Modern Guitar Player. Spread over 30 lessons and divided into 6 chapters, the book is unique in that it covers 4 years’ tuition, from beginners to advanced level.

Visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UzjDqZJjJw

www.marcgalea.com

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Walking on sand

This is a short solo show about finding the source of your inspiration. I go to my personal source and explore how that can relax and give space for ideas.

The ideas can be creative or restorative. My personal source will not be yours but the way of finding them might be.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Nick Kenyon, Musician, and running the Manchester Venue The Peer Hat

Nick talks about his musical life an running the amazing music venue The Peer Hat.

This is a great chat about creativity and some of the bizarre synchronicities that surround us, if we are observant enough.

We are talking getting rid of ones nihilism and opening the doors to creativity.

This was a brilliantly engaging chat, at times deeply funny and other times deeply meaningful and often both.

People can follow Nick’s  gigs at the_manifestationgroup on Instagram.

 https://politburo.bandcamp.com/album/barrington-way

The Peer Hat is on Facebook and Instagram. mid new website being constructed.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

When less is more

There is an adage in the musical community that is an accurate scale of one's creativity. "Less is more".

We overcomplicate things. It seems that the most effective way, through my experience, is to question whether you need something. Can you drop something out of the equation? Does that improve things? Often, it does.

Through systems such as mathematics, drawing and stories, we can explain the world in such a way that we can manipulate and that all comes down to simplifying the world around us.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Mike Kilgour Taking back creative control improving mental health.

 Today's conversation is with Mike Kilgour who runs the Bluescamp project with me.

We talk about mental illness caused by the lack of control and what's going on in society.

Because of everything being online we are unable to talk in person about problems in insurance, banking, health and numerous other things including booking a flight!

We talk about how this can be overcome with creativity, empowering ourselves to be able to control environments by our ability to think differently of the situation presented; we can do ourselves a healthy favour.

This is a great chat with some fantastic ideas.

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Replay Jerry Stevenson, Guitarist, Peter Green, Chris Rea Barbara Dickson  

 Jerry Stevenson is a guitarist and singer who has worked with Peter Green Barbara Dickson and Chris Rea amongst others and has with his bands Gambler and B Sharp (I love that name) impressing us with his playing over the years. Lovely interview lots of things that I found I have in common with Jerry many interesting anecdotes in this interview, enjoy

First released Aug 2019

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Steve Delight guitarist singer and getting to music 

Today I'll be talking to Steve delight. Steve is a guitarist and singer who travels, and his life has informed his music. His recordings and videos are very well produced.

We talk about collaboration and how Steve got involved recording audio books.

A Taj Mahal cover – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChNc_Yz6vI

An Elvis Costello cover – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1qinqNL3wc

Oh, an attempt to record a song and video myself with a friend (Roger Walker) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1L7eddBrkw

A six song EP just about to be released.

The audio book is obtainable as a single file – here’s the link – http://www.fachwen.org/resources/Raven_Audiobook_2_normal_quality.m4b

There was also a guardian article that mentioned the work - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/19/country-diary-the-ravens-are-in-the-quarry-nest-building-already?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Tom Greenwood Drum and Bass DJ Radio and Clubs

On this episode I am talking to Tom Greenwood DjWizhard about being a young DJ.

Tom has had an amazing couple of years, he is now DJ for a couple of Clubs and features on radio networks including Rough Tempo and Code Red.

We talk about social media use and how it can make or break and how The Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme can help Drum and Bass.

So for links I will let the DJ speak…

I’m DjWizhard, an 18 year old up and coming drum and bass dj and producer from the south east, follow me on Instagram @djwizhard to see updates !

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Taylor Ellwood Joanna Brook Mediumship, Magic, Poetry, Cut Up

This episode is a double header with the wonderful team of Taylor Ellwood and Joanna Brook. This is packed with great ideas and stories about creativity and the processes involved, including writing books, poetry and painting.  Their work includes writing, classes on magic, divination, celebrant work amongst others. This is a vibrant chat, good times. 

Taylor Ellwood is the magician. He’s been practicing and experimenting with magic for over 30 years, designing innovative and original systems of magic that help people get results and transform their lives. Taylor has been reading Oracle and Tarot cards professionally since 2004. Taylor has been writing books on magic and teaching classes on a variety of spiritual topics including spirit communication, manifestation practices and inner alchemy since 2003. At Brightheart Alchemy Guides Taylor offers a variety of spiritual services designed to help you manifest results as well as provide answers around the issues you are dealing with. He also teaches classes both solo and with Joanna on spiritual topics.

Joanna Brook is the priestess. She began professional Tarot consultations in 2007 and mediumship in 2012. She is an ordained minister in the Seven Sisters Circle, where she studied eclectic modern paganism, ceremony, astrology, path working, divination, and spiritual counselling.

Joanna officiates hand-fastings, funerals and customized ceremonies.  She also facilitates a New Moon ritual open to all in Eugene, Oregon each month.

Joanna teaches classes on magic and the pagan path, both solo and with Taylor. Joanna is also an accomplished poet.

https://www.brightheartalchemyguides.com/

https://www.magicalexperiments.com/

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Charlie Kish Guitarist for Another Day Rescuing Phones and Being Very Cool on Social Media

It's great to talk to Charlie Kish who is the guitarist for the rock band Another Day.

Charlie is oozing with enthusiasm for playing and gigging which comes across in this interview and a cracking guitarist to boot.

This was great fun chanting to Charlie as he talks about playing the guitar from the age of four and how a visit to a music shop can transform your life.

Another day or a superb young band who are worth checking out if you're in the London area, and they have some fantastic ideas about social media promotion.

Follow this link for further details on gigs etc

@another.day.official on Instagram.

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Bob Brooker Tracing Ancestry and Creating Songs, Guitars on the Beach.

In today's episode I'll be talking to Bob Brooker. Bob will be talking about his involvement in music including Guitars on the Beach and his wonderful project tracing his ancestry which has culminated in his song Me and Mr Torch which traces his links back to Antonio Tocci who was an organ grinder in Tooting and many other hitherto unknown relatives.

Bob talks about his early musical involvements and interests which involve one of the early Isle of Wight Festivals and collecting guitars from his past which I can really resonate with.

https://soundcloud.com/user-697416925-364789297/sets/an-ordinary-life/s-zl4DsCjripv?si=e91b88ddc6ff4f5598b98242702581a4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&fbclid=IwAR3_Wd915Rn4zGouYnbLyLQckHrHh62QDhDMGZQl5oBApARI1Lk_qsyDXOITo

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Steve Peach - Architect, designer, an artist of life

Steve Peach has over 30 years’ experience covering a wide range of project types in the commercial and private sector and has worked in architectural and interior design practices in Portsmouth, Bath, Leeds and Harrogate in the UK. 

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His core work is the architectural transformation of existing properties and the design of distinctive new build dwellings for private clients.

Steve has the ability to redevelop an existing shell and footprint and use this as a catalyst to create an updated scheme: recycling the past into the present often with unexpected and highly unique results.

We talk about the creative process and there are some very interesting ideas in this episode for the creative, great chat

For further details go to www.stevepeach.co.uk to check out Steve’s work

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Seeing What Is Unseen

Have you ever lost your keys and spent ages looking for them and then miraculously they appear to be in a place that you’ve already looked? Sometimes we are surprised by the things that are right under our noses. Part of creativity is looking for opportunities, so in this episode I will be exploring ideas from being a musician and the world of NLP. Here are some techniques to help you; • The idiot check. • Looking at the world through different eyes. • Coming back from a holiday travelling of road that you’ve travelled many times, but because you’ve had two weeks away the road looks different. • Sometimes changing one aspect of what you’re doing or how you look can reveal something new. • Changing what you believe. • Challenging what you believe about a person or a place. Make the Music Happen with the Rock and Roll Circus https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-the-music-happen-with-the-rock-and-roll-circus-tickets-463568183917 To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Mark Hewitt Snowshill Manor, Charles Wade, Skateboarding and Magical Objects.

This episode is with the wonderful Mark Hewitt. We talk Skateboarding, the magical world of Snowshill Manor and its link with the Museum of Magic in Boscastle and Mark’s forthcoming book on the artifacts of the Snowshill Manor and the eccentric life of Charles Wade.

We explore the links between music and skateboarding which I thought was fascinating and also the deep dive into how objects change their nature from items of curiosity to objects of magic.

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Elise Oursa Card Reader, Creator, Witch, Artist

A welcome return of Elise Oursa to the podcast this time we talk about the creative process, creating prints, and the magical process in art along with the patron of printers who is a demon.

Elise is a card reader, artist, practicing witch and creator of The Blood & Ink Tarot. Her magical practice, rooted in traditional witchcraft focusses on personal sovereignty coupled with an evolving relationship with land and spirit.

She teaches on the tarot and designs individual bespoke rituals for transformation and empowerment. Elise runs the coffee and cards Facebook group for cartomancers

You can find Elise by visiting

https://linktr.ee/eliseoursa

http://www.eliseoursa.com

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cardsncoffee

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Simon Bradbury Heavy Rock Guitar Blacklight Vice

Simon Bradbury from Southampton is the Rhythm guitarist and one of the songwriters in Blacklight Vice . Guitar player of over 20 years and music enthusiast for the 70s &n 80s. Music is his religion and has been part of his life for along as he can remember. Having been in several originals and cover bands over the years, BLV is the culmination of everything learnt and experienced over the years.

BLACKLIGHT VICE FORMED IN 2019. THE SOUTHAMPTON HEAVY ROCK BAND IS A SONIC ONSLAUGHT OF RAUNCHY GUITARS, FILTHY RIFFS, AND THUMPING RHYTHMS, THAT EVEN YOUR MOTHER WOULD LOVE!

2023 BROUGHT A LINEUP CHANGE, HEAVIER SOUND, AND A 1ST PLACE WIN AT THE RADIOWIGWAM AWARDS, TAKING HOME “BEST HARD ROCK & METAL ACT 2023/2024🥇”, MARKED BY THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SINGLE "VULTURES" HAILED AS “THE F*CK YOU SONG” RECEIVING EXTENSIVE RADIO EXPOSURE, AND GAINING POPULARITY NATIONALLY & INTERNATIONALLY, NOTABLY ON BBC INTRODUCING, TOTALROCK RADIO, HARDROCKHELL, VOICEFM & RADIOWIGWAM. 

WITH THEIR ENERGETIC SHOWS ACROSS THE UK AND SWEATY LIVE PRESENCE, BLACKLIGHT VICE HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED AS A "HARD ROCK BATTERING RAM THAT IMMEDIATELY OPEN FIRE WITH ALL GUNS BLAZING” 

Gigs 2024

Railway - Winchester - 6th July (headline show)

Rockvibes Festival - Nottingham - 31st August (supporting Kicking Valentina on UK tour)

Suburbia - Southampton- 10th September (supporting Kicking Valentina on UK tour)

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CHECK OUT

https://www.facebook.com/blacklightvice/

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Bluescamp France , Gigs in unusual places, what makes a great performer, James Brown, Prince and a Little Black Dress

We're in the studio with the Blues camp team Chris Penfold Mike Kilgour and I are looking at venues and gig ideas for next year’s summer school in France.

We talk about looking for band members, getting direction as a musician or an artist and what makes a good performer.

We namecheck Rory Sutherland, Prince, the little black dress, James Brown amongst others and what about using gestures in a performance? We break down ideas for interesting places for gigs, exhibitions and raves.

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Maria Harle Amazing Animal Encounters

Born and raised in rural Kent, Maria fell in love with wildlife and animals early on. Nature was respected and encouraged on her parent's smallholding and long before it became fashionable or mainstream to rewild, go organic or be sustainable, the gorgeous overgrown wildlife haven that was the farm they both worked on. Now a parent herself living in a shepherd’s cottage on their smallholding in the Kentish Weald, Maria has been teaching her own children, and countless others, to love and respect animals and wildlife since 2005, when they started accepting unwanted animals into their home.

 Amazing Animal Encounters was born to support pets in need leaving her job in youth work at the county council to concentrate on a new calling.

From Maria

I run Amazing Animal Encounters which provides uplifting, educational and therapeutic low risk animal experiences that are accessible for all and prioritise safety of the participant and the welfare of the animals. We focus on improving mental health, and providing services for SEN, the neurodivergent community and those with chronic and life limiting conditions. We work with groups and one on one, for organisations and for private individuals and families. In schools we provide educational workshops delivering animal welfare courses. Musical Menagerie the pre-school group is currently available to hire for groups. The animal encounters we run entirely fund my animal sanctuary which provides a loving family forever home for a range of animals from farm to domestic to exotic to rescue native wildlife. Our regular clients include KCC, behavioural needs schools, SEN schools and day centres, local primary and secondary schools, hospices and care homes.

www.amazinganimalencounters.co.uk

facebook.com/AmazingAnimalEncounters

Instagram is @mobilemenagerie

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Adrian Reynolds NLP, Collector of Boxes Physical and Metaphorical

This is a great chat about Neuro Linguistic Programming with some brilliant ideas about storing ideas and information using the toolbox of NLP.

I loved this chat with Adrian a brilliant thinker.

If you are interested in Adrian’s work contact me vichyland@msn.com

This episode is one large rabbit hole, in the shape of a box.

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Pete Turner of Pete Turner Guitars

This episode i am talking to Pete about those fantastic guitars and how he started, and we contemplate how much the guitar he made for Peter Green will be auctioned for at Bonners.

As a left-handed guitar player, Pete Turner was frustrated at the lack of choice available in acoustic guitars. So a few years ago he decided to make his own. Impressed, the partners at lefty shop Holiday Music each bought one, and enquiries started coming in from the local musicians' community on what else he had available.

I am lucky to have two of his guitars!

https://www.peteturnerguitars.com/about

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Old Grey Guitarist: meet the school guitar teacher who has over a million followers on TikTok with his solo covers

John Wines has devoted his life to teaching young people to play guitar – now his Queen, Randy Rhoads and Pink Floyd covers and lessons have made him a hit online

John Wines is our kind of guitar hero; the UK guitar teacher has spent years passing on his love for the instrument to others. He played in bands for years and makes a living teaching guitar in three different schools in Dorset where he's based, as well as working as a guitar tutor privately. And that was his life, until recently when he woke up and found he was going viral on TikTok and Instagram.

John currently has 17.3 million likes and 1.2 million followers on TikTok. Not bad for a player who only joined social media to pick up a few new student for private lessons.

John is passionate about the guitar's power to help young people. He's seen the effect learning to play an instrument can have on special needs children. And he's got a gift; he's not only a fantastic player, but the kind of teacher a lot of us will wish we'd had growing up. His rise also undermines the assumption that TikTok is a place where younger people find shallow success; John's content has connected with people.

For more details

https://www.musicradar.com/news/old-grey-guitarist-meet-the-school-guitar-teacher-who-has-over-a-million-followers-on-tiktok-with-his-solo-covers?fbclid=IwAR3hC3pzFFumAfIIT_n69_2X5WrZJXPefFoTc8q6MpLPNXBvbZyEiFBls4o

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Julian Vayne, Psychedelic Occultist, Writer, Teacher and Artist.

Great chat with Julian, I thoroughly enjoyed this. A very, very interesting guy. Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over four decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft. Julian is the author of books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. He sees his work as part of the process to help re-imagine an earth-centered, non-dogmatic, open-source spirituality. He shares his practice through mentoring, workshops, online teaching and retreats. Julian’s style is highly collaborative. With an academic background in teaching and learning, and as co-author of numerous texts, Julian’s style emphasizes curiosity, collaboration and creativity. His approach is informed by chaos magic, deep ecology and lineages within Wicca and Tantra. Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and a Trustee of The Psychedelic Museum Project. A founding member of the post-prohibition think-tank Transform, Julian sits on the academic board of The Journal of Psychedelic Studies, and has been a visiting lecturer at several British universities. He is an advocate of post-prohibition culture and supporter of psychedelic prisoners through the Scales project. Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony, as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. He is the author of the celebrated Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. Since 2011 he has been sharing his work through The Blog of Baphomet. For further details visit https://julianvayne.com/ To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at BluescampUK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Replay Dee Dee Wilde, Pans People, TOTP, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and many more.

I am super excited about this….. Dee Dee Wilde In 1966 Dee Dee co-founded the dance group Pan’s People, resident dancers on the highly popular TV show Top Of The Pops. Over the next ten years, due to their weekly appearances on the show the girls became a household name and worked with some iconic artists, The Who, David Bowie, Mark Bolan, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson Five which included a young Michael Jackson, Cilla Black, Lulu and many others Dee Dee and I talk about her amazing life as a dancer and what made Pan’s People such a phenomena and she tells stories about meeting Jimi Hendrix and Michael Jackson. To find out more visit www.deedeewilde.co.uk Dee Dee Wilde | Facebook Dee Dee book ‘You May Now Kiss The Dog’ https://amzn.to/3ptJ0Ty

First played in 2021

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Paul Green returns AGAIN  Magic in practice, Sigils, Blending the imaginary and the ‘real’

 Paul Green returns to the show; we go as a deep dive we take a deep dive into the technique in psychology of magical thinking, we look at time distortion and what is time anyway?

As always this is a deeply interesting chat with Paul, uncovering ideas which have practical applications in creativity and life.

We talk at length on construction and theory behind sigils, implanting a seed in the imaginary that casts a shadow in the mundane. We also look at the ripple effect.

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 For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

 Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Bruno Migliorini Traveler Coffee Drinker Micro Finance

In this episode I'm going to be talking to Bruno Migliorini. I met Bruno when I was studying for my NLP master practitioner in London. A group of us used to hang out after the sessions in a little pub across the road from the venue and Bruno made a statement that he was going to travel the world and be photographed drinking coffee at various locations. This episode is about his amazing journeys and over 90 pictures taken that's some extraordinary exotic places.

Bruno talks a lot about NLP early on in the interview which a lot of people will find very interesting as well as it be great for me to catch up with him again after so long.

For the pictures

https://www.facebook.com/bruno.migliorini.585

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Jerry Stevenson Success Secrets for Musicians.

Jerry returns to the podcast, and we look in depth at what makes a successful creative musician.

The points raised work for any artist gleaned from many years of experience of working as a top guitarist.

This gets very deep and very interesting, and I my opinion are the things not taught in college and go to the very essence of what makes an artist.  

Jerrys credits include Chris Rea, Barbara Dickson and Procul Harum and well as playing for the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Phil Copping, Being Freddie Mercury

Phil Copping is a vocalist from Tonbridge in Kent. He performs as Freddie Mercury in the touring band ‘Supersonic Queen’ – the UK’s most dynamic Queen Tribute act whose ethos is to recreate the most thrilling live experience possible, with the same dynamic sound and look of Queen in their finest live concerts.

Phil is one of the most authentic Freddie’s currently on the tribute circuit. As well as an accomplished singer, Phil is also a talented actor and has been in the performing arts scene since he was 7 when he appeared in his first show. Over the years Phil has performed in musicals, theatre and ballet as well as in bands and duos as a singer and guitarist. Although he has been a Queen fan since 1980, he had been channelling his inner Freddie for three years with his solo act, before joining Supersonic Queen.

Certainly not where Phil ever imagined he’d be! Despite a love affair with music that has lasted his entire life, he never set out to make a living from music. He ‘gave it a go’ as guitarist with UK indie band Slipstream, before side-stepping and touring Europe as Buddy Holly with the popular show ‘Rockin’ On Heaven’s Door’. His journey in music has been an amazing education not just in the music itself but in how life has a remarkable habit of making crazy things happen!

It is his great privilege to honour the music he originally grew up listening to by doing continuing the legacy of Queen and bringing it to a new young audience…

In his Wife’s words: “he is living his best life”

www.supersonicqueen.com

Supersonic Queen | Facebook

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Bluescampuk 

It is the music summer school next week held at the prestigious Tonbridge School in the UK.

Today, while on a walk I share how we make this creative project work and let you into some of the secrets of forming bands, performance training and songwriting skills that we share with the Bluescampers

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Bradley Mason – Drums, Playing Stadiums, Web Development, Dubbing Mixing for Film

In this episode I'm talking to Bradley Mason and his work with Noel Richards playing massive stadiums around the world. Bradley talks about his experiences over the couple of decades of being a pro musician.

I worked with Bradley in Red Touch and we talk about having a dream that becomes reality.

We also discussed man caves and the good points of lockdown and advice to young musicians.

For more info on Brad

https://www.amazingcreative.co.uk/

Calling All Nations - Noel Richards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiAcHW8ZOR4

I Could sing your love forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WJby1S9EPI

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Richard Edwards Returns, Moelyci Farm, Synchronicity Osman Spare Psychogeography

This episode sees the welcome return of Richard Edwards and we go down a number of rabbit holes.

We talk about when the weird becomes not so weird, we discuss the Kogi Indians and the impact on Richard's psycho geography.

We question belief in what is possible and  not possible and the importance and metaphorical nature of gardens in myth and ancient history.  We also discussed the very unusual case of the water and ink experiment and Osman Spare.

https://www.moelyci.org/

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Richard Edwards Recovering Entrepreneur, Information Security, Science Computers and Programming Mavericks.

Today I have a great friend of mine, Richard Edwards on the podcast. Richard has the great ability to mix creativity with scientific logic.

Today we talk the Peter Principle, the skill of running a business, start-ups, getting into flow state.

Richard talks about his post punk, Goth, Industrial music, the avant-garde, found sound and the wonderful Genesis, P Orridge and Psychic TV.

We discuss Hildegard Von Bingen, the importance of heresy and the wonderful Jake Stratton Kent before wrapping up with mediaeval Christian Mystics.

This is a blinding episode with some great ideas from a very inspiring mind.

One of Richards Projects

https://www.moelyci.org/

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Chris Holdham Foraging Rewilding Us

In this episode of Creative I am talking to Chris Holdham who I meet whilst walking in a woodland!

Great chat with Chris about his work, foraging and teaching others.

I will leave it to Chris to explain

Hi, I'm Chris and have been developing the projects at Rewilding Us for a number of years. You'll be joining me on our wild walks.

A little about me... My deeper wild food journey stemmed from being on a plant based diet for 8 years. After spending years seeking the healthiest diet for my body and the environment, my journey turned into an all round rewilding experience, foraging my own water, plants and meat for the benefit of my body and the the rest of life on earth. This is a journey that is reflected in the courses, the majority are vegan orientated, however, we do cater for all walks of life.

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To find out more about myself and Rewilding Us visit https://www.rewildingus.co.uk/

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Mark Fitzpatrick Overnight Success that takes 20 years

In today's episode I'm talking to Mike Fitzpatrick about his book that his just been published. We talk about becoming an overnight success 20 years in the making.

We also talk about the hero’s journey versus the carrier bag theory, we mention Ursula Le Guin, Jordan Peterson and being on a solitary writers retreat and what effect that can have.

We talk about the first technology, which is not what we think first-hand, but involves weaving. we also cover, men, women and chainsaws and mistakes in classic songs and of course, important to all creatives, how to like your own work.

It's a brilliant conversation as always with Mark and for further details of his work follow this link

https://linktr.ee/malachasivernus?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=efd8fc89-8cf3-46e2-977e-f8f4c6f274bd

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199964736-unreal-city?fbclid=IwAR2zXB30tyKnwKk3MmR5mwzE1WIgLxCxZtfKH8msRdGydRxa3COKD7SuQT4

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Guy Cresswell Musician, Product Demonstrator, Exhibition and Conference Productions

Great chat with Guy Cresswell who has been successful in many areas of music. There is much to be learnt from this Guy

Guy started musical life on the south coast of England playing in function and original bands, completed a 6 month tour of US airbases in Europe before moving to London in the 80’s working as a song writer, multi instrumental freelance musician and Product demonstrator for Roland.

He has played with a variety of artists from Jools Holland, Midge Ure and The Sweet before setting up a successful exhibition and conference production company. Guy graduated from Berklee College of music in 2000, his midlife crisis saw him learn to play double-bass and study classical composition in a London Orchestra.  Guy and his extremely tolerant wife (His words not mine) now splits his time between The UK, Caribbean and the US where he plays keyboards with the soul band Mama T and The O.G’s, plays bass, co-writes and produces original band The Rejects, and plays surf guitar in the festival band Los TacoCats … wherever he goes in the world he takes an assortment of musical instruments – just in case!

All this from a food fight in a Chinese restaurant in Birmingham ….

guy.cresswell@promusproductions.com

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This is such an amazing story that it needs another listen. One of the inspiring tales that is very weird. 

I am really pleased to be talking to an old friend of mine, Kevin Lee. 

Kevin was a school friend, who from humble beginnings, has lived an interesting life. His amazing story  involves music, martial arts, famous musical families and vintage cars. 

Great insights into how things happen, seemingly by chance but how luck can be stacked in your favour. 

What if we are wrong?

Solo show, looking and questioning our assumptions. What if what we believe is wrong? What does this do for us creatively? Does the ability to foretell create interesting dimensions to our creations? I talk about the excellent podcast The Witch Trials of J K Rowling on free speech and the historic witch trials in Salem Massachusetts

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-k-rowling/id1671691064

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Matt who had become part of my seasonal festivities died recently and as a tribute for the next two episodes I will be rerunning our previous frivolities. 

Santa Special It’s the time of year when our thoughts turn to things festive, to the sharing of love, the sharing of joy, of light and happiness. But this doesn’t happen without a bit of effort from all of us. Not least the jolliest of the jolly. In a world exclusive, I manage to track down and grab a few minutes of very precious time to talk with the big guy himself during a quick coffee break. I learn a little about what it really takes to make the festive season happen, how long it’s actually been happening, and in this social-media-driven world, what hashtag Santa thinks best describes the true nature of the season. Many thanks to Matt Ogden for putting me in contact with the Big Man,

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Miles Grindey Guitarist

I am talking to Miles about guitar playing, recording and  his collection of Tokai guitars.

Miles Grindey was born and raised in Warsash, a small village in South Hampshire, UK. In 2016 he joined The Bones And Arrows where the band recorded the Bones and Arrows EP, writing solos for “Slow Light” and writing the chorus riff and solo for “Muddy Sunshine“. Later that year, he left the band and pursued a solo career and over the course of 2017 he wrote, recorded, produced and composed his debut album, Caught in a Storm, released in 2018. The album features tracks such as a cover of Joy Division‘s hit “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and fan favourites such as “Caught in the Act“, “Staring Competition and “It Gets Better“. Miles also wrote, composed and produced “Ethereal Bollocks” which was released on May 4th 2018.

Miles went to Atlanta, and during his time met vocalist Ian Michael Bruh (Bumpin’ The Mango, Backroad To Brooklyn), drummer Wayne Viar and was put in touch with bassist Enrico Galetta (based in Bolonga, Italy). Working on “Make Up Your Mind” and “Stride” , Make Up Your Mind was released a little while after Miles’ return to the UK on May 31st 2019.

For further details visit

https://linktr.ee/milesgrindey

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Elliott Peek Bass Player Sound Engineering and DJ

Elliott talks of his journey from the Toons through various bands and then Covid to work in crews managing sales DJ work, sight reading bass gigs.

Elliott’s story shows how flexibility and the ability to take a challenge has really created his life in music.

This is an amazing skill that Elliott possesses, and I have seen him transform himself a few times over the years I’ve known him.

Www.boujeemusic.com

Https://www.instagram.com/e_milespeekmusic/

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Make Good and Mend with Chris Penfold

Today I'm talking to Chris Penfold, who has just purchased a new, old car. We reflect upon buying second-hand musical equipment and looking for the bargain and how that affects our creative processes.
Chris and I talk about the British army and 'make good and mend' and how that reflects on innovation. We have another look at the differences between French and British music and how the British rock scene and contemporary music in general benefit from that scarcity principle.
Just as a heads up, Chris's signal was not particularly good today, but I'm sure you will find lots in the interview to give you food for thought.

https://www.dreamfrance.co.uk/

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Sally Maynard the importance of teaching of languages in schools

I am talking to Sally Maynard about the teaching of languages in UK schools and the problems that are inherent in the education system and society in general regarding teaching and learning of foreign languages.

This has many parallels to the position of the arts in education and I certainly learnt something from this conversation.

Sally is an Educational Lecturer at Coventry University and has been Head of International Development and Senior Lecturer at York.

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Joseph of Nazareth Carpenter, Saint, Father, and Protector of Virgins

In a special Christmas edition, I have the pleasure and the honour to speak to Joseph of Nazareth.

Joseph talks about being a Carpenter in a Roman province and the pluses and minuses that affords him. He also talks about the lineage and a little bit about the life of his famous son.

According to the Matthew's Gospel, Joseph agonized over Mary's apparently illegitimate pregnancy but protected her and the unborn Jesus by accepting her as his wife after an angel appeared to him in a dream and directed him to do so. Receiving rich presents from mysterious eastern magi at Bethlehem after Jesus' birth, he then fled to Egypt to avoid the wrath of Herod the Great, returning to the land of Israel after Herod's death and settling in Nazareth. In Luke's account, Joseph travels to Bethlehem for a census and returns to Nazareth without going to Egypt, after presenting Jesus publicly in the Temple of Jerusalem.

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas and new year

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Alexandre Tilmans Entrepreneur Baz-Art South African Street Artists

Alexandre Tilmans is the Director and Co-founder of Baz-Art, and has numerous years of business expertise running a thriving internationally active arts organisation.

Baz-Art’s annual flagship event is Africa’s largest public art festival - the International Public Art Festival - which has expanded Cape Town’s economic and social development. Baz-Art’s success is tangible with the NGO receiving the award “Business of the Year” at the Cap40 annual Business Awards, with Alexandre Tilmans subsequently also being the recipient of “Entrepreneur of the Year”.

In 2019 Baz-Art received the BASA award and was also featured in the 2020 CNN street art documentary titled ‘Street Arts in Africa’. The new addition to Baz-Art’s offering - the Public Art Conference - launched in March 2022, will also feature on a Momint’s documentary.

Baz-Art employs close to 200 people annually.

In our chat we cover lots of aspects of the interface between art and business which I am sure you will find interesting.

For further details

https://baz-art.co.za/

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Back in Kent, Solo Show, Creative thinking stimulus of knowing the land.

I am walking the footpaths in my old stopping ground in Kent and I ponder environment and what it does to your creative thinking and wellbeing.

I consider the impact of moving back and hearing from past contacts.

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Nat Martin Musician, Teacher, Songwriter, Transcriber, Arranger...

Nat is a freelance musician and guitar tutor at The Academy of Contemporary Music, Guildford and Lecturer at ACM London

Nat also plays for Toyah playing alongside Robert Fripp and has for several years worked with the wonderful Joe Harman

We talk about playing, teaching and developing a guitar style from early blues influences to modern technique.

for further information check out

instagram.com/natmartin2020

https://www.facebook.com/NatMartinGuitar/

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Charlie Robinson Rock Guitarist Guitar Tech Blacklight Vice

Charlie Robinson, Southampton based, blues influenced rock guitarist of the heavy hard rock 5-piece Blacklight Vice.

Charlie’s musical journey started from a very young age in Maidstone Kent, a country boy turned South Coast Les Paul Slinger.

Playing in bands throughout the mid to late 00’s, touring the UK with jaunts to Europe.

Drawing Influences from the ROLLING STONES, AC/DC, MOTÖRHEAD, GUNS N ROSES to OZZY OSBOURNE & PANTERA. Its great to catch up with Charlie and listen to his new music.

Charlie is the owner of ROBBO’s Guitar Care & Maintenance.

Blacklight Vice Socials: https://linktr.ee/BlacklightVice

Robbo’s Guitar Care & Maintenance https://www.robbosgcm.com

Instagram: robbogcm

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Andreas Kornevall Storyteller, writer and planter of trees

A welcome return of the wonderful Andreas Kornevall

Andreas grew up in South America, Sweden and Switzerland (Swedish by nationality).  After spending several years volunteering with charities around the world, he co-founded www.workingabroad.com - a non-profit volunteering and travelling site.

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Andreas also directs a charity called the Earth Restoration Service Charity, the charity aims to enhance ecological integrity, by planting new woodlands around the world. Under: www.earthrestorationservice.org  - he has signed up over a thousand schools across the British Isles whose students have planted over two hundred woodlands.   ERS's work has been endorsed and recognised by “the elders” which are made of world leaders and set up by musician Peter Gabriel.

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ERS also provided trees and ideas for the Andover United Programme that won the Environmental Observer Prize.

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In response to the sixth mass extinction Andreas co-founded the Life Cairn movement: memorials for species rendered extinct at human hands, more about that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_Cairn

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Andreas’ new book: Waking the Dragons, is out with Green Magic Publishing. 

As a storyteller and independent scholar of mythology, he works with old myths and fairytales that shine a torchlight on life’s difficult and mesmerising journey; his stories tend to gravitate around the Northern and Greek mythological landscapes.  You may find Andreas telling a story on a hillside, by a fire, in a woodland somewhere, at a festival, or in a school.  

www.kornevall.com

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Adrian Reynolds part 2  Winning on the scratch cards, searching for the Lambton Worm.

Parks, Bipolar, screens flattening perception, winning on the scratch cards, searching for the Lambton Worm

Stories having power to affect our reality it the weirdest ways like meeting someone on the 6^th of the 6^th 2006 called Damian.

This is a great chat about Neuro Linguistic Programming with some brilliant ideas about storing ideas and information using the toolbox of NLP.

I loved this chat with Adrian, a brilliant thinker.

If you are interested in Adrian’s work contact me vichyland@msn.com

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Nina Keturah Vanns Music, Beauty, Pole Fitness, Yoga

 This is a great chat with Nina which covers an extraordinary creative journey which is still underway. Nina combines lots of a life experience into her work including shamanic skills but we're going to leave that for another podcast.

 Nina became a beautician after finishing school, but her story includes singing and piano, playing in bands, including a Pink Floyd tribute, working at Ronnie Scotts, running Pole Fitness Classes and yoga training in India.

 Along with Stacey she runs Girl Viking which allows her to​ combine Beauty, Pole and Yoga in Kent and Portland in Dorset.

 ​Check out

https://www.girlvikingportland.com/

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Johnny Turnbull Blockheads, Geldof, Dave Stewart, and many more 

In this episode I chat with the wonderful Johnny Turnbull. Johnny plays a few tunes and a few instruments as well, great fun!  

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England on 27th August 1950

Motto: I am always in the right place at the right time doing the right thing.

In Johnny’s own words

Some of the bands I have enjoyed working with are: Skip Bifferty, The Chosen Few, Loving Awareness, Glencoe, Nick Lowe, Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys, Eurythmics, Talk Talk, London Beat, Paul Young, Bob Geldof, World Party, Kaos Band, but most of all 'The Blockheads'.

I have also sung and played on film soundtracks since 1960's, most famous film being 'Get Carter' starring Michael Caine.

Pastimes and hobbies:- Yodelling / Skodelling / Whistling.

Also whilst you are here... why not visit www.sandraturnbull.co.uk?John Turnbull (musician)

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Sian Sibley Teacher Pagan Witch Dragon Oak and Welsh Occult Conference

Sian is the leader of DragonOak Coven in South Wales. Sian has been practicing for around 40 years now and have experience in running a coven for around 25 years. She is currently studying for an MA in Spirituality and Ecology in University of Wales Trinity St David’s; Sian has recently completed a Post Graduate course in Cultural Astrology and Astronomy which includes a great deal of study on the Graeco Roman magical Papyri and the impact of astrology and star lore on cultures around the world.

In DragonOak they teach traditional witchcraft, using toolmaking, astrology, herbalism, working with the PGM, Kabbalah, animism and working with the spirits of plants, genus loci and the dead.

Sian organises the Welsh Occult Conference In Welshpool and the South Wales Occult Conference in Cardiff.

https://www.dragonoak.org/studying-with-dragonoak

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Stuart Wheaton, Guitar, Teaching, Examining, Composition and Creating a Syllabus

Today I'm talking to Stuart Wheaton senior examiner for LCME. We talk about music college, Carlos Bonell and various guitar examination boards from Trinity rock school to LCME.

We also discuss how great players have very different ways of approaching music and teaching.

Great chat with Stuart

Check out his Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/people/Stuart-Wheaton-Guitar-Lessons/100063951765867/

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Alkistis Dimech.

On this episode I am talking to Alkistis Dimech about her work in dance, magic and publishing.

This is a wonderfully deep and encouraging story and illuminates the incredible work that she does.

Alkistis Dimech is an artist, dancer-choreographer and writer exploring the occulted dimensions of the carnal body and its subtle anatomy. Her art and praxis is grounded in ankoku butô (dark dance), which she has practised since 2002. Alkistis considers herself as a dancer after Nietzsche, and pursues a vision of the dancing body and its technique as the final place of resistance.

With Peter Grey, she is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, an independent press which publishes practitioner-oriented works on magic, esotericism and the occult.

Alkisitis has performed in the UK, Europe and the United States, solo and in collaboration with musicians and artists, notably Z’EV, Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert, and Anji Cheung – and spoken of her practice and given workshops, at conferences and events in the UK, Europe and the United States.

Selected works from 2008 to 2018 are documented in The Brazen Vessel (Scarlet Imprint 2019). She is currently creating  Antimony – a work of texts and images on the transfiguration of the body – and secunda creatura, a dance of evocation and exorcism.

https://www.alkistisdimech.com/profile

https://scarletimprint.com/

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Mark Fitzpatrick Unreal City

We talk Unreal City and carry the burden of art. We discuss some of the twists of the narrative and how this of occurs in the real world. How the Parisienne venue really stepped up to the mark.

Such a great read with layer upon layer of symbolism in this gothic edged story with some great modernist tricks in the telling.

It's a brilliant conversation as always with Mark and for further details of his work follow this link

https://linktr.ee/malachasivernus?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=efd8fc89-8cf3-46e2-977e-f8f4c6f274bd

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199964736-unreal-city?fbclid=IwAR2zXB30tyKnwKk3MmR5mwzE1WIgLxCxZtfKH8msRdGydRxa3COKD7SuQT4

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Dr Rich and Me What makes a Magical song?

What makes a Magical song?

We are continuing our discussion on the book Music Magic and NLP and cover various topics including internet search phenomena, does tarot reading and vagueness increase accuracy?

Keeping it in flow, front of mind back of mind, David Bowie and East German punk rock, how to write an effective protest song, and showing the gods shame.

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Adrian Matthews, Freud, Harry Potter Zen and Professor Umbridge

 This was such a great chat with Adrian we dive into the rabbit hole of Jung, Freud, Harry Potter and what is a WWOOFer?

We talk about landing after deep revelatory experiences, anarchy, Zen, building communities, the collapsing of personal realities, the deeper meaning of Professor Umbridge from the Ministry of Magic.

 Adrian lives in a caravan in North Wales. He was meant to become a Freudian analyst, but he stole some corn and was kidnapped by the Fae. Now he spends most of his time composting, walking back in the dark, and digging holes. He has a MSc in Cyberpsychology, and this thesis (and interests) still centre around the morality of groups when exposed to psychological pathogenic distress.

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Dr Rich and me Number 3, Robert Johnson and the Crossroads

Continuing interviews on aspects of the book Music Magic and NLP this time we look at

Robert Johnson, the crossroads, the man in black, and what do we do for money now the music industry has collapsed.

Putting the mystical and magic back into music, NLP and Richard Bandler and how wonderment can drive creativity

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Sean Drummond Filmmaker, Screenwriter Musician.

 In this episode I am talking to Sean Drummond filmmaker, screenwriter and musician.

Sean talks about his work including the excellent Five Fingers for Marseilles.

Five Fingers for Marseilles is a 2017 South African Neo-Western thriller film written by Sean Drummond and directed by Michael Matthews.] It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

The films dialogue is in the African languages of Sesotho and Xhosa which still managed to get American back by sticking to their vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Fingers_for_Marseilles

First Teaser Trailer -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tUAfrzgGw

Full Theatrical Trailer -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWT0hJhMZwk

Great chat .

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Paul Green returns! Magic, Cooking, Ian McGilchrist, Symbols as Power

Paul Green returns to the show; we go as a deep dive into the work of Ian McGilchrist and his work on the two hemispheres of the brain and how we operate in the world.

We talk about our experiences, the editor function of the brain which is important at the end of the creative process, and we talk about naming as power and the mechanics of magic.

The idea of representation of objects with symbols as magical process and the psychology of magic looking at the intrinsic paradox.

What's all this thing about evolution? Our journey also takes us into the Vikings and their relationships with the gods and the fairy world.

Just to round off we took us of cooking 's magic planting a seed in the mind, and we come up with a definition of magic.

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Helen Wilson Nursing, End of Life, Consciousness

In this episode I am talking to Helen Wilson about her life in nursing, working in end of life care and what we can learn from our elders regarding consciousness.

This is a fascinating talk about people’s lives whether that is someone involved in the Dam Busters Raid to those who are spritely at 104 to those suffering from dementia at 40 and those who have profound experiences and how an ordinary life can contain such extraordinary meaning.

This is a great chat and we were only scratching the surface so I am looking forward to chat with Helen again. It was also very good to meet Doogie the dog who makes a grand entrance.

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Tommie Kelly on Stuart Wilde, New Age, Occult, Predictions

It is great to have the multitalented Tommie Kelly back on the podcast and today we're talking about Stuart Wilde.

Stuart was one of the biggest and well-known writers in the new age movement back in the 1980s and early 1990s but he's more or less disappeared from view today. Stuart died about 10 years ago but if you talk to anyone now, very few people will know of Stuart Wilde.

Both Tommie and I consider Stuart to be an important writer with lots of ideas that are relevant today. We discuss his books, what he was like as a person and some of the interesting events that happened around him. We also discuss his ability to shock, as well as being one of the funniest guys that you could meet.

Tommy talks about some of his new projects including his music, his comics and his oracle cards. For further details visit.

https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/

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Emily Peasgood Composer, sound artist, artist, author

Awards Ivors Composer Award for Sonic Art (2018)

Emily Anne Peasgood is an Ivors Composer Awards winning English composer and sound artist. 

Emily creates research-led and site specific interactive artworks for galleries and outdoor public spaces, ranging from large-scale community events to intimate sound installations. Her work aims to transform how we perceive our environment by creating invitations to connect with people and places that are forgotten, overlooked, or surrounded by histories that can be remembered and celebrated through sound and music. She is best known for her work in outdoor public locations with specific communities of people, often using innovative technology and design that visitors can interact with. Her work is magical, evocative and memorable.

Emily was profiled by the I as the Hip Op Composer. In 2017 she delivered the TEDx Folkestone talk "Emily! Don't do that!".

Emily  was awarded a PhD by Canterbury Christ Church University for her thesis Leading with Aesthetic: Creating Accessible, Inclusive and Engaging Musical Artworks Through Experimental Processes in the Community and is a composition tutor at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Dr Peasgood is a co-author of The Work of the Military Wives Choirs and The perceived effects of singing on the health and well-being of wives and partners of members of the British Armed Forces: a cross-sectional survey.

Works

In 2014, Emily created Landscapes a choral work responding to the landscape artworks of J. M. W. Turner and Helen Frankenthaler. It premiered at the exhibition Making Painting: J.M.W. Turner and Helen Frankenthaler at Turner Contemporary.

In 2016 she premiered Lifted at Turner Contemporary. In the same year she premiered BIRDS, a sung and spoken word piece observing feminine ritual and behaviour through the lens of a documentary film narrator and Crossing Over, a piece commissioned by Turner Contemporary to premier as part of its event commemorating the Zong massacre as depicted on J.M.W. Turner's painting The Slave Ship (1840).

Halfway to Heaven won the prize for Sonic Art at the 2018 British Composer Awards (renamed the Ivors Composer Awards). In the same year, the "eerily evocative" Requiem for Cross Bones featured at MERGE Bankside and created The Illusion of Conscious Thought for the East Hill Cliff Railway and West Hill Cliff Railway in Hastings as part of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival.

In 2019 Never Again was nominated for an Ivors Composer Award in the category of Community or Educational Project. In 2017 Emily Peasgood was nominated in the same category for BIRDS and other Stories and Crossing Over.

Visit www.emilypeasgood.com for more info and links

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Harry S Green Singer, Songwriter, Recording and Music Producer, Magician.

This is a great chat with a very creative young man. There are lots of interesting examples within this podcast oh Harry adapting to situations and coming up with interesting new ideas, very enjoyable.

In Harry’s Words

“So I’m Harry Green, I’m a singer songwriter as well as a recording and music producer. As well as being a magician.

My passion is music. From when I was very young I started playing the drums and then realised that I couldn’t go busking with a drum kit so I taught myself Ukelele from tube and began busking and writing my own songs and recording them. Currently I am helping others to realise their musical talent and potential and help them to get their music out in the ethos.  I have my own website which is based around my recording studio active4udio.com

I am starting to put up pages for each artist with links to their material and songs. My own material is available throughout all streaming media under the name of Harry S Green my most prevalent songs current is Layla’s song which I wrote for my daughter’s funeral and my later song of Baby Blue eyes which was about my girlfriend. I have recently released a formal video for Baby Blue Eyes which is out on You tube.”

Visit www.active4udio.com

Baby Blue Eyes https://youtu.be/Qwigp5JsZPU

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Trish Nichol, writer, poet, singer and player of the ukulele.

I chat to the wonderful Trish Delish Nichol about her fascinating creative life.

Trish’s biog is so good I have left it in her words.

Born and raised on the west coast of Canada, though her forays into the world outside a small island in the Pacific have taken and will take me far from the place I once called home.

I’m on an adventure, a journey of the in and the out. A quest of sorts, to find quintessence.

Fortunately Satori is everywhere.

So there shouldn’t be too much trouble.

I’ve been writing for a long time, that classic tale of “since I could hold a pen”, etc.

I’ve been talking about my feelings on the internet via this blog since 2009.

In 2018, I published my first book with the help of a grant from the CKCA (Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance) which gave me the kick in the pants I needed to actually get it done.

Never underestimate the benefit of a well-timed kick in the pants.

It’s a book of poetry called the Mechanics of Dreaming, available in physical and digitally via Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon

I wrote and published a horror novella called Tales from the Busmeat Cafe Volume One: The Secret in the Sauce as a collaborative effort with my cohort, Mr Dark. It is available exclusively in digital form on Amazon and Smashwords. We are currently working on Volume Two.

Poetry, horror, rambly meanderings, silly videos of drunkalele antics, art, musings, there are all sorts of things within this site to amuse, befuddle, and engage.

I hope you find something that makes you smile – Trish

Visit

www.trishnichol.com

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REPLAY Ben Thomas Guitarist, Adele, Sam smith, how to make great choices

I talk to Ben about being the guitarist for Adele, Sam Smith and may others, great chat about starting out at Brit School and the meteoric rise of Adele and Sam Smith Ben makes great choices and listen to how he does it. This is a must for people looking to get into the music business.

This was first released in 2019 enjoy it is fascinating.

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Bob Plimer Ancient Greek, Latin and Egyptian and their Occult practice and Jazz Piano.

Bob Plimer is an extraordinary guy. He is an expert in Classics and has written several excellent books on alchemy, Mithraism, and Hermetica, and he is a fantastic Jazz Pianist.

We go down the rabbit hole of creativity, mysticism and music.

This is a cracking episode.

Bob runs the excellent Black Lodge Publishing

Www.blacklodgepublishing.com. Check it out

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How to Bootstrap with No Bootstraps.

Today I reflect on developing an idea whether that's for business or art or both when you have no funds. Even when bootstrapping an idea is difficult because you don't even have any bootstraps.

This comes out of the conversation that I had with two previous podcast interviewees, Tommie Kelly about Stuart Wilde and his book The Trick to Money, and Trish Nichol who came up with the no bootstrap idea.

I am recording this while walking in Kent, England.

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THE BONNEVILLES, A 50's & 60's ROCK n ROLL Band,

In this episode I shall be T talking to the entire line up of the Bonnevilles.

We were talking about how they came together and what makes him such a busy band.

Also there is a recording of the band at the end of the podcast.
5 piece Band, we've been together for 3 years, as The Bonnevilles, 1 year previous as Reborn 59, Hannah, Denise and Craig were part of Reborn 59, Phil joined as we formed The Bonnevilles, Mike has been with the Band for a year now,
Hannah Bowie-Carlin, Lead Vocals.
Phil Gilbert, Lead Guitar.
Denise Greenwood, Bass Guitar.
Mike Emery, Keyboard.
Craig Clark, Drums/Vocals.

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Paul Cheneour Flute, music improvisation, strands of income, addiction to thinking.

Paul is one of the greatest musicians that I know. He is awesomely creative with over 60 albums to his name with fabulous collaborations with musicians world wide.

The addicted to thinking – we go down the Sufi, Taoism and Zen path to liberate ourselves.

How to unlick your thinking – this is brilliantly expressed by Paul.

Paul has a way of expressing the process of thinking and not thinking in the creative process

Teaching - allowing you to be in touch, if you want to learn.. teach

Technique - how to make your skills

Paul is creating original music with flutes for CDs, films, videos, theatre, television and games as well as working with other composers. Collaborating with great musicians and artists on projects is his delight

Check out Paul’s work

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-c-302a4626/?originalSubdomain=uk

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Bet Huws Welsh Folklore and Magic the power of the Welsh language Mabinogion.

I'm talking to Bet Huws about the importance of language rooted in the soil and the importance of using Welsh for running events on magic and folklore.

We talk about the enchanting nature of the Welsh language and the Science of Awe.

We talk about the Mabinogion, the Bardic tradition, Awen and how words affect change.

This is a great chat with someone who's passionate about her language and her country and that many of its traditions of healing and folklore are pretty much continuous, unlike England.

Bet has set up the Welsh Magic Day,  check this out they have some amazing speakers.

https://neuaddogwen.com/en/events/welsh-magic-day-2024/

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Dave Swift, Bass Man with the Jools Holland Big Band

In 1991 Dave Swift heard that Jools Holland, ex-Squeeze keyboardist and TV presenter, was searching for a bassist who played both double bass and bass guitar. With the renowned bassist Pino Palladino then holding the “bass chair” in Holland's band, this was a bold move on the young bassist's part. The advantage from Swift's position was that he also played double bass and was already skilled in sight-reading. Swift auditioned, was hired on the spot, and has been Holland's bassist ever since.

Thanks to his talent and growing popularity, Swift is often invited at shows and camps. Recently, Swift was invited to appear at the annual Warwick Bass Camp in Germany in 2016 as a VIP guest, along with numerous popular bass luminaries from all over the world. The 2016 Warwick Bass Camp was held in Markeneukirchen, Germany, and had a roster of outstanding bassists. Attending professors included Alphonso Johnson, Felix Pastorius, Anthony Wellington and Steve Bailey. Swift was also a guest lecturer at the March 2016 Bass Guitar Show at Earls Court Olympia that filled the room to capacity.

Dave Swift is still an in-demand session musician outside of Holland's band and has also played double bass for American soul singer Gary U.S. Bonds, Ben E. King and on ex-Kinks frontman Ray Davies's album, Other People's Lives.

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

In 1991 Dave Swift heard that Jools Holland, ex-Squeeze keyboardist and TV presenter, was searching for a bassist who played both double bass and bass guitar. With the renowned bassist Pino Palladino then holding the “bass chair” in Holland's band, this was a bold move on the young bassist's part. The advantage from Swift's position was that he also played double bass and was already skilled in sight-reading. Swift auditioned, was hired on the spot, and has been Holland's bassist ever since.

Thanks to his talent and growing popularity, Swift is often invited at shows and camps. Recently, Swift was invited to appear at the annual Warwick Bass Camp in Germany in 2016 as a VIP guest, along with numerous popular bass luminaries from all over the world. The 2016 Warwick Bass Camp was held in Markeneukirchen, Germany, and had a roster of outstanding bassists. Attending professors included Alphonso Johnson, Felix Pastorius, Anthony Wellington and Steve Bailey. Swift was also a guest lecturer at the March 2016 Bass Guitar Show at Earls Court Olympia that filled the room to capacity.

Dave Swift is still an in-demand session musician outside of Holland's band and has also played double bass for American soul singer Gary U.S. Bonds, Ben E. King and on ex-Kinks frontman Ray Davies's album, Other People's Lives.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

In 1991 Dave Swift heard that Jools Holland, ex-Squeeze keyboardist and TV presenter, was searching for a bassist who played both double bass and bass guitar. With the renowned bassist Pino Palladino then holding the “bass chair” in Holland's band, this was a bold move on the young bassist's part. The advantage from Swift's position was that he also played double bass and was already skilled in sight-reading. Swift auditioned, was hired on the spot, and has been Holland's bassist ever since.

Thanks to his talent and growing popularity, Swift is often invited at shows and camps. Recently, Swift was invited to appear at the annual Warwick Bass Camp in Germany in 2016 as a VIP guest, along with numerous popular bass luminaries from all over the world. The 2016 Warwick Bass Camp was held in Markeneukirchen, Germany, and had a roster of outstanding bassists. Attending professors included Alphonso Johnson, Felix Pastorius, Anthony Wellington and Steve Bailey. Swift was also a guest lecturer at the March 2016 Bass Guitar Show at Earls Court Olympia that filled the room to capacity.

Dave Swift is still an in-demand session musician outside of Holland's band and has also played double bass for American soul singer Gary U.S. Bonds, Ben E. King and on ex-Kinks frontman Ray Davies's album, Other People's Lives.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Aoife Anastasia Nally

Aoife Anastasia Nally is an artist, performer, and theatre producer, who for the last few decades has been performing in the West End, London, but is currently based in rural Ontario, Canada. Today we discuss her research into the cursed play ‘The Spancel of Death' penned by her Great Uncle T.H. Nally, Abbey Theatre playwright and personal friend of the great poet WB Yeats. She is also a psychic medium, Seer, trance channel and occasional oracle.

The notorious play was interrupted by the Easter Uprising 1916 and subsequently abandoned by WB Yeats eventually giving rise to the belief it was cursed. Not helped in part by the content of the play, for the Spancel that lends its name to the play is nothing less than a necromantic spell of the blackest magick and based on actual events that took place in Balla, County Mayo, Ireland in 1777.

You can contact Aoife

Instagram: https://instagram.com/strengthdrawing?igshid=xdmiw2or374t

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/strengthdrawing

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Adam Duncan A Band of Brothers The Power of Ageing Life-Stage Project

Adam trained in Drama and Education at Goldsmiths before writing scripts for the BBC and many other organisations. He ran a media company for twenty years and designed training programmes for large organisations such as Amnesty International.

For the last ten years, Adam put a lot of energy into working with a charity called A Band of Brothers (ABOB), doing rites-of-passage weekends for young men involved in the Criminal Justice System in order to help them move on from adolescent behaviour to healthy masculinity.

But at the age of 70 came a new question, what did growing old mean to him?

As luck would have it, he was offered a place on a brilliant course in supporting people at the end of their lives. Through being alongside people who worked with the dying, Adam started to come to terms with mortality, being able to let go of some of the old attachments and this gave him a new lease of life and a surge of creative energy that he hadn’t felt for decades. 

In 2018, Adam wrote and rehearsed a show called The Seven Ages of the Dance of Life and Death with a community of actors, dancers and musicians. The show attracted an appreciative audience.

In isolation, he was able to publish The Power of Ageing.  It sold around a hundred copies, but more importantly, it brought together a small group of like-minded people who felt passionately about the subject matter. Starting a monthly discussion forum from which the Life-Stage Project was formed.

Find out more about the Life-Stage Project at  www.life-stage.org. 

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Montserrat Ruiz Puigdomenech

Spanish-born Soul worker, Mentor, Doula, Childbirth Activist, Singer & Psychotherapist running a private practice in the conservatory of a wooden self-built house at the end of some woods in Brighton UK, since 2012.

Personal human deepening has always been at the core of her purpose and commitment in life since she was very young.

Before Montserrat arrived in the UK in 1993, she pursued a career in acting after graduating from Drama school in Madrid and Buenos Aires.

In 1996 after becoming a mother, taken she became a Doula and a Holistic Childbirth Educator (Birth assistant) that was my contribution to reclaiming Childbirth out of the Medical profession hands and back onto Women’s bodies and wisdom. 

From 2002 till 2012 while a single parent of two, Montserrat managed, directed and fronted a nine-piece international musical project called LaXuLa who achieved great success with gigs all over Europe including the Roundhouse in London.

Since 2013 when she finished her studies as a Therapeutic Counsellor she has been running a private practice at home. With a wealth of clinical work experience in a wide range of issues like Death, Bereavement & Grief, CPTSD, Narcissistic Abuse, Women’s issues, Men’s issues, Couples therapy, Grief Groups, Wilderness rites of Passage, Initiation, Crisis, Psychodelic Integration.

With interests in Shamanism, Psychedelic & MDMA guided Therapies, Eco-psychology, Mythology and Jungian Archetypal Psychology, she has taken part in and begun to facilitate Wilderness Fasting rites of passage.

In Montserrat’s words

‘I’ve had the honour to have learned by the feet of great human Maestros and Elders of our times some in person like Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr Martin Shaw, Stephen Jenkinson, Michel Odent & Meredith Little, to just name a few, and many others that equally have influenced my life and work greatly through their written legacy like Petruska Clarkson, Francis Weller, Antonio Escohotado, Carlos Castaneda, Fritz Pearls, R.D. Laing, Alan Watts, James Hillman, Starhawk, Vicky Noble, Khrisnamurty, Martin Prechtel, Eric From, Carl Jung, Antonio Machado among many many others to which I am eternally indebted.’

For further details please visit http://www.theliminaltrails.com/

and the Facebook page for her wonderful music. https://www.facebook.com/jaggedmountainlaxula

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Steve Niner , Art, Permaculture, Bowie Derek Jarman

Today I'm talking to Steve Niner about his incredibly interesting life this includes working with David Bowie in the Art Lab days, a fight with Hawkwind, living in Notting Hill in the 1960s and going to the first Glastonbury.

We talked Derek Jarman art and gardening and Steve work in theatre design.

Awesome

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Alisa Jaffa Glass Artist, Singer, Songwriter.

This is a great chat with Alisa, it demonstrates that life experience feeds into interests that become artistic projects and then in turn helps others to be creative and to develop self confidence.

Since turning 50, Alisa Jaffa trained as a Glass Artist and in 2018, has been running small-group, glass fusing workshops from her home in Maidstone, Kent. Alisa is also a vocalist in a band and started her singing journey within the last five years and occasionally writes and produces songs. Her philosophy is “It’s never too late to try something new.”

GlassAlisa Website and Workshop Information: https://glassalisa.co.uk/

GlassAlisa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlassAlisa/

GlassAlisa Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassalisa/

Alisa Jaffa Music Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlisaJaffaMusic/

New Groove Band: https://www.facebook.com/newgroovesouth

Alisa Jaffa Songs: Spotify Playlist

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Using what you've got

 This follows from my chat with Chris Penfold about making good and mending. This one is about using what you've got. We can talk about this from a material point of view, where you're using equipment that you already have, but it's also about your skills, and you have many of these placed within other areas of activity; bringing these on board will benefit you.

I spoke about something that Michael Breen said during an NLP training. The story was that his wife was very good at interior design; she could change colours and items in a room in her head, but it made her a nightmare to take out for dinner because she would do the same thing with the items on the menu. She would make endless comparisons between different dishes in different courses.

So look at all the skills that you have as a musician. You may also be a good people person, being a good communicator. That may be evident within your music, but it might not be. If you're not a very good people person and you're trying to be a teacher, then that would be a problem.

However, if you're not good at that but may be good at organising or something else, you could bring those skills to the front to help with project management.

As he was in the army, Chris was talking about the British Army having to be inventive because they didn't always have the equipment to fix the problem. They have to think it through and work out how they could accomplish the task with the gear that they have.

So, for instance, if you have a guitar, a music stand and a computer, you could set yourself up as a teacher. If you've got a car, you can travel to people. You don't need to go and buy a more expensive guitar or equipment to accomplish that. Now that on the face of it is obvious, you'll be surprised because I have coached people who would become teachers who had the idea that they needed new equipment so they could set this up. It's unnecessary, but you could also look at that from the point of view of what you require to be a performer. You only need what you have.

I interviewed Billy Childish, the artist and punk musician. Billy comes out of this aspect of using primitivism in what he does, particularly musically, so the idea of limitations is good. He has a couple of old amps, one which dates back to the 60s, possibly even earlier than that and a couple of old battered-up guitars, nothing new, and he has managed to produce well over 150 albums. It all comes from the perspective of keeping it simple, even the recording techniques. This idea of garage recording is playing in an ample space with the band and then just going into a studio and putting the vocals over the top.

He has done this for years, and it enabled him to produce a lot of albums with that very raw sound, and it influenced many bands, including the White Stripes.

So another aspect of working with what you've got also involves people; obviously, this presents a sharp focus on how good your networking is.

You probably know The people you need to form a band or the people who know them you already know. I think it's always problematic when you audition people because you don't know their personalities particularly well; the chemistry between various members makes a band, so working with the people you already know will lead to a better lineup.

I would also say this is true of running a team for business. If you're starting something new, you can headhunt the people you know; that's a good way forward.

The excellent book by Tony Buzan is called Genius, and it's all about such genius and Mastermind groups.

This book sites that many geniuses didn't do the stuff on their own they had help from very influential people, and that enabled them to develop not the way that history is taught; we always go for the grand man narrative, and to some extent, there is an element of that you know the great person that focuses attention. Still, they can't do this independently, and there's often more than one great mind that goes into creating and achieving.

You need to be able to work with others and be flexible with that, and again, if these people already know, then you're more likely to do that because I'll be friends of yours

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Dr Rich and Me Music Magic and NLP

In this episode, I'll be talking to the amazing Dr Rich about my forthcoming book Music Magic and NLP

I will explain how I've arrived at some of these rather crazy ideas within the book and the format.

These ideas have developed over the 45 years of being a musician and teacher, and my interest in the paranormal and psychological trickery

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