Three In A Bar

This week, Seb and Verity are joined by composer, arranger, keyboard player with the Hoosiers , long time Bear’s Den collaborator and old mate Paul Frith. In true Three In A Bar style this episode is full of twists and turns - we find out whether Paul has ever been in a fight, how he came to write a symphony about Shackleton and some super niche mouthpiece chat. We also find out why Paul and his H...

This week’s episode was a total pleasure to record as we are joined by Australian cellist, singer and songwriter Monique Clare. Monique is currently on a European tour and will be appearing at the Cambridge folk festival this month. Aside from festivals, she can frequently be found with her cello up mountains, on cliff tops and more conventionally in concert halls and jazz clubs across the world....

Here's a little catch up between your two co-hosts, as it had been a minute since they had last spoke. All a nice warm up really before tomorrow's blistering episode with Monique Clare. It's loose chat, in which they cover Verity's new show, Fiddler On The Roof at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, and Verity gives her frank opinions on every member of the band. Seb discusses his latest hyper-fixatio...

This week we headed back online to chat to internationally acclaimed concert pianist and film star Clare Hammond (ok, ok, maybe it was one film but she was playing a young Dame Maggie Smith so come on!) We chatted to Clare ahead of her concerts at this year’s Cheltenham Festival - thanks to the wonderful Dan Hartland for setting up this conversation. Clare talks about the exciting programme for he...

We’re back!!! We’ve missed you all….but what a way to kick off this season of TIAB than with none other than Artistic director and founder of Classical Pride Uk Oliver Zeffman. Oliver is an internationally renowned conductor, working frequently with orchestras including the CBSO, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France and U...

More questions from you and answers from us. Could we live anywhere other than London? Do we own our instruments? And what have we each started deoing recently that has changed our lives? All this and more in today's episode. To send in your questions (about absolutely anything), then please email hello@threeinabar.com or hit us up on the socials. SUPPORT THREE IN A BAR ON PATREON Join our Members...

What is our least favourite orchestral instrument? And why is it the oboe? How do you plan anything as a freelancer? What happens if you book a holiday and then a load of nice work comes in - what do you do? Should you start a pension? Or just keep working until you die. All this and more in today's episode. To send in your questions (about absolutely anything), then please email hello@threeinabar...

Quiz question for you - what links Torchwood , Thunderbirds , Happy Valley & Mog ? We’ll tell you what…some seriously great scores courtesy of this week’s guest Ben Foster. Ben is a BAFTA winning composer, but also a well renowned and much in demand conductor, orchestrator and arranger with a string of TV and film credits to his name. We met up with Ben in his writing room, tucked away at the...

Join us this week for a zencast to sunnier climes as we chat to Artistic Director of Les Arts , Valencia Jésus Iglesias Noriega. Jésus has been doing brilliant work at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía - the incredible building in Valencia which is home to Les Arts , with a huge focus on social responsibility. There are productions specifically for Under 29s, prison performances, opera in a truck head...

You join your two hosts on a car journey between Plymouth and Bath, just over a week into the Rob Brydon tour 2024. What better time than now to discuss in detail Seb's list of items he has packed for this trip? How many pants is too many? Can you re-use socks for multiple gigs? Can he maintain his rigorous skincare regime while away from home? All these questions are answered, and deep-rooted mem...

What? Another podcast with the thoroughly excellent Jeremy Pritchard? Oh yes….we couldn’t pack it all into one episode so here’s an extra slice where we chat to Jeremy about his time on tour with Foals , some Kent conversation and comparing notes on small venues across the UK. If you are one of our excellent Patreons and you are listening to this early, thank you and well done! If you aren’t a Pat...

In this week’s episode we are joined by bass behemoth (yep, it’s been too long since we used that word) and Everything Everything band member, Jeremy Pritchard. Jeremy dropped in for a chat ahead of the band’s UK tour and release of their new album Mountainhead - it’s an absolute belter btw, check it out if you haven’t already!  We discuss early performances, making music videos, sartorial ch...

Greetings from sunny Edinburgh! This week’s episode finds Seb & Verity on the Scottish leg of the Rob Brydon tour enjoying the delights of Edinburgh… Join them on a walking tour - not necessarily one that’ll make the Rough Guide any time soon as they reminisce about past Edinburgh festival experiences, answer more listener questions and take in the sights and sounds of the city. SUPPORT THREE...

In this week’s episode we welcome back the brilliant Rachael Lander to chat about her recent ADHD diagnosis. Rachael is cellist on the West End production of Frozen and is a busy freelancer & session player as well as being a mother of two…..Chuck ADHD into the mix and her journey as a recovering alcoholic and life isn’t always straightforward. Rachael speaks about getting her diagnosis and ho...

In light of the recent announcements of redundancies in the Orchestra and Chorus at ENO and the extraordinary circumstances surrounding them we felt compelled to record an episode to chat through what on earth is going on. On 15 February orchestra & chorus members started receiving formal redundancy notices - some reporting they’d heard in the interval of their final performance of Handmaid’s...

In this, the first of our regular Q&A episodes, we asked listeners to send in their questions, to which we gave answers. You know how it works, we don't need to explain the concept to you, do we? Just how do we both balance being parents of two whilst being busy freelance musicians, when our other halves are also busy freelance musicians? What do we wish we could say to our 20 year old selves?...

We're back at long last for Series 2 (can we call it that after 108 episodes?!) and what a fabulous guest to kick off 2024 - It's none other than West End leading lady Carly Anderson. Carly recently starred as Polly Baker in Crazy For You at the Gillian Lynne Theatre and her extensive list of credits include Glinda in the International tour of Wicked and Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard at the L...

Merry Christmas podfriends! Verity & Seb make a brief return for some seasons greetings, 2023 reflections and plans for 2024…. Thanks for listening to TIAB this year and for your continued support. Back with much more in ‘24! You can follow Three In a Bar on Instagram @threeinabarpod https://www.instagram.com/threeinabarpod/ We are on Twitter @threeinabarpod https://www.twitter.com/threeinabar...

This week's episode features prolific artistic rollerskater - possibly better known for being one of the most prolific conductors of his generation, Duncan Ward. Duncan is Chief conductor of Philharmonie Zuidnederland and Music Director of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra. This November he makes his Barbican debut conducting the LSO in two exciting concerts featuring Abel Selaocoe and Isabelle Fa...

Welcome harmonious hooligans to episode 107 of Three In a Bar! (Thanks for that chat GPT) In this week’s episode Seb and Verity chat to founding members of the Neoteric Ensemble Toby Street and Adrian Miotti. It’s exciting times for Neoteric as their debut Album ‘ Volume 1 ’ has its launch night on 8 November at The Pheasantry (link to tickets below). With entirely new compositions written for the...

In Episode 106, Seb and Verity are joined for a chat (and some top grade pastry based products) by drumming titan, Darren Beckett. Darren has worked with countless artists including Brandon Flowers , Madeleine Peyroux , Van Morrison and Lauryn Hill and was a member of the band Ambulance LTD . Equally at home across a multitude of styles and genres, recently Darren was the drummer for The National...

In this week's episode Verity teams up with another guest presenter, well more of a TIAB regular in fact...it's old pal of the podcast Phil Donnelly. Phil has worked his magic and fixed up a chat with Nashville based singer/songwriter Jill Andrews. As luck would have it, he will be joining her on tour in just a few weeks time when she heads over for the UK leg. (Tour dates in link below) Jill chat...

Look who’s back for round two! It’s the sickeningly talented singer, songwriter, composer, trumpeter, arranger, member of PSB (the list goes on!) and friend of the pod JFAbraham (Jonny Abraham). He first appeared way back in Episode 5 when he was in the process of recording and finalising 10 tracks he’d written…it was proving tricky for him to unlock them and he was struggling to work out a way to...

In episode 103 we join Verity on a day trip to the seaside to meet Bear’s Den’s drummer and multi instrumentalist - proud Brighton resident Jools Owen. As luck would have it, Journalist, author and broadcaster Rachael Taylor is a fellow local and kindly agreed to guest co-host this episode…don’t you love it when a plan comes together?!  Verity and Rachael chat to Jools about all things Bear’s...

Who’d have thought it? Back in 2019 when two fresh(ish) faced, young(ish) podcasters headed off to South London for their first recording, armed with all the gear and little to no idea, that they’d be hitting the 100th episode mark and still be going!! No one? Thanks a bunch…. So here it is, episode 100 and for this special edition Seb and Verity are joined by multi-instrumentalist legend and dear...