Making Creativity Pay

Aug 11 2024 49 ep. 32 mins 20

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Welcome to ‘Making Creativity Pay’, this isn’t a podcast about making millions, more about speaking to people in creative industries whether that’s music, literature, art or anything that relies on creativity about how that ties in with making a living from it. The aim is not about selling out any creative endeavour but to ensure that there is at least some way to pay the bills and keep the lights on, money can be seen to be a vulgar part of the process but getting fairly paid for the time, effort and expertise you put in to something shouldn't be a bad thing.

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Fringe Thoughts Part 02 - 11th August 2024

Aug 11 2024 7 mins

"It's sort of about famous women who have died tragically throughout history and how many of them have ended up in rivers" - Laura Thurlow In our second episode at the Fringe we hear from another three performers who are taking part in the Fringe. Links River Time! Tickets: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/river-time Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurelb

Fringe Thoughts Part 01 - 1st August 2024

Aug 01 2024 9 mins

With the Edinburgh Fringe up and running (for many it's been going since January or earlier with Work In Progress shows), I heard from a number of performers about their preparations and also tips for making the most of the Fringe experience. If you're performing at the Fringe and you'd be interested in being on the podcast during August get in touch. Links Girlhood Ti

Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield

Jul 22 2024 60 mins

"You can't interview a ghost on this show. But you can have a woman who has swallowed her whole forearm" I spoke to Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield about a range of subjects including their Radio 4 show Time of The Week which you can currently catch up with on BBC Sounds. We also chat about their experiences with character comedy, drama and improvisation as

Queen of Breakups - Rosie Wilby

Jun 09 2024 47 mins

Rosie is a musician who's played Glastonbury, a Comedian who has taken multiple shows to the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as a British Podcast Award nominated podcaster for her Podcast 'The Breakup Monologues' as well as the author of 'Is Monogamy Dead?' and 'The Breakup Monologues'. We discuss her experiences in these areas, the high and low points of each

800lb Gorilla - Promoting UK Comedy

May 27 2024 46 mins

This episode is with Ian Adkins and Laura Rouxel of 800lb Gorilla a comedy media company who produce, distribute, and market stand-up comedy video specials and audio albums around the world. We talk in particular about the work of 800lb Gorilla in the UK, filming and promoting specials for comedians such as Stuart Goldsmith, Fern Brady, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, Ivo Graham and ma

I Hope You Fail - AI and Art

Apr 21 2024 13 mins

It’s impossible to move at the moment for think pieces about the future of AI and for better or worse you’re getting another one here. In this episode I’ll talk a bit about examples from art, music, writing and coding and how what could be an incredible advance for some will bring consequences for others. I show how with text to speech advances it's hard to tell real and

Award Winning Journalist Rachael Healy

Mar 24 2024 29 mins

“It feels like people do have to almost have a second career to support themselves. And it's not clear where the kind of goals or the safe spot is anymore where you can just fully concentrate on that thing” Rachael Healy is an award winning journalist and the current British Journalism Awards Journalist of the year for Arts and Entertainment. Rachael is a freelance journali

Comedy and Medicine - Matt Hutchinson

Mar 18 2024 37 mins

“...people who go into medicine, often it's not so much just pure science people, it's people who've got maybe a bit more of a broader interest range than your standard person who just wants to be a scientist or a mathematician or something like that. So I think often you find people going into it who've got a bit of a second interest, even at the point of sort of

Jay Lafferty and Kathleen Hughes - Comedy in Scotland

Mar 11 2024 59 mins

Ahead of the Glasgow comedy festival which runs from the 13th to the 31st March I spoke to comedians Jay Lafferty and Kathleen Hughes two Scottish comedians who are performing at the festival. We talk about Kathleen’s experiences as a relatively newer comedian who after a two week run last year is currently preparing for her first full Edinburgh Fringe run in 2024. We also discu

LMAOnaise - Crowdfunding, Journalism and Newsletters

Mar 03 2024 36 mins

“Finding out information about comedy, if you don't already know what you're looking for can be ridiculously overwhelming” This episode I spoke to Zoë Paskett founder of LMAOnaise a website, newsletter and soon to be newspaper that covers some of the less mainstream areas of comedy. The ethos of this podcast has always been that even if your art may not be driven by mo