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Today I'm Having a GAS with Meanwhile. Founded by James Cross, Tim Jones and Alastair Marchant, Meanwhile describe themselves as "a creative company for people who'd rather set agendas than follow them". - Having a GAS™ is the podcast that talks to the great and the good of the creative industries, and in particular finds out what makes great music for film, for TV, for advertising; for dancing to...

Shaun McIlrath is Global Chief Creative Officer of Iris Worldwide. Shaun has been listed in The Top 10 Most Creative People In Advertising by Business Insider. He began his career as a script writer at the BBC before stints at impactFCA, HHCL, Heresy, VCCP and now Iris where he leads the agency’s creative output from London, winning over 200 industry awards for brands like MINI, Dominos, Adidas, P...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Laura Jordan Bambach, President & Chief Creative Officer at Grey London. Laura is also founder of SheSays & Oko, a speaker, author and artist. An award-winning creative with a long history of innovative commercial work, Laura is a firm believer in the power of creativity to make positive change. In her role at Grey London, she leads one of WPP’s most creative agencies....

Today, I'm having a GAS with Franki Goodwin, Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi London and Executive Producer at Western Edge Pictures – her Feature Film Production Company.  After graduating from Glasgow School of Art, she started Franki&Jonny – a design and digital agency for entertainment brands. For ten years, they developed integrated, award-winning movie campaigns. Franki was recently cr...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Shawn Everett, a six-time Grammy Award-winning producer and mix engineer. I genuinely believe that Shawn is one of the architects of the sound of pop music between 2010 and 2020. Not that his career ends in 2020, just to say that the huge, deep, wide and saturated sound of that decade is certainly exemplified by his productions. -- After graduating high school, Everett...

Today I'm having a GAS with John Paterno, a Grammy-winning music producer, mixer, composer, engineer, mastering engineer, and musician. Dubbed ‘Mr Meticulous’ by industry writer Mr. Bonzai, Paterno is known for his attention to detail while at the same time allowing artists to feel uninhibited in their creativity. John moved to Los Angeles two weeks after graduation from the University of Miami MU...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Mark Elwood Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett London. Mark began his career as a typographer at Leo Burnett in 1998, before returning as ECD 22 years later. Past roles include; head of design at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, partner and creative director at Fallon and founding partner and executive creative director at 101 London. 101 merged into MullenLowe in 201...

Today, I'm having another GAS with Andrew Scheps. Andrew has worked with a number of incredibly successful artists on chart-topping albums such as By the Way by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, 21 by Adele and Beyoncé by Beyoncé. These days Andrew resides in the UK, where he enjoys a peaceful life in the English countryside. -- More from Andrew Scheps: Andrew Talks to Awesome People: https://bit.ly/3BS47Fk...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Pedro Bromfman, a prolific music composer working in film, TV and video games. Pedro's most well-known work is arguably the score for the recent triple-A game 'Far Cry 6'. However you could be forgiven for only being aware of his score for the smash hit Netflix series 'Narcos'. -- Having a GAS™ is the podcast that talks to the great and the good of the creative industr...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Jason Spencer, ITV's head of business development. In a nutshell, Jason is responsible for selling ITV's advertising space. There were two big areas I wanted to discuss with Jason: 1) The viability of TV advertising in an age where more and more users are switching to on-demand providers like Netflix, Disney+ and Prime; 2) How the sausage gets made on broadcast TV and...

Today I'm having a GAS with Rory Sutherland and Rob Henderson. Rory is the vice-chairman of Ogilvy UK and the author of 'Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense'. Rob is a PhD Candidate at Cambridge University specialising in human behaviour. -- Having a GAS™ is the podcast that talks to the great and the good of the creative industries, and in particular finds out what makes...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Elliot Scheiner, a prolific and much-loved studio engineer and producer. Elliot began his career working with the legendary producer Phil Ramone. Scheiner has since produced and engineered a range of artists, including Foo Fighters, Toto, Jimmy Buffett, Beck, Faith Hill, Steely Dan, Band of Horses, Ricky Martin, Sting, Bruce Hornsby, Paul Simon, B.B. King, George Benso...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Reuben Cohen, a mastering engineer at Lurssen Mastering. Reuben has worked on a number of hit records, perhaps most notably the 2014 international sensation 'Happy' by Pharrell. However, Reuben's prolific output is far too extensive to list here, which is an impressive thing to be able to say of someone who's only 35 years old. -- Find Reuben's full profile here: https...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Laurel Stark and Sheila Judkins, Creative Director and Director of Brand Management respectively at The Sims. Laurel is a relatively recent appointment at The Sims, so I was keen to find out what it's like shouldering the weight of such a celebrated global brand. Helpfully, she invited Sheila in so we could get multiple perspectives! -- Having a GAS™ is the podcast tha...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Bill Schnee, one of the music industry's most beloved recording engineers, with more hit records under his belt than many could ever hope for. He's just released his memoir: 'Chairman at the Board: Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation', available here: https://amzn.to/3B3Rsyr -- Having a GAS™ is the podcast that talks to the great and the good of the creative indus...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Katy Sumption, the newly established Executive Creative Director at Atomic London.   Katy, who previously worked agency side at Iris and as Creative Director at Exposure, was cofounder of The Elephant Room. She has also worked client side at Dyson. -- Having a GAS™ is the podcast that talks to the great and the good of the creative industries, and in particular finds o...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Yoad Nevo. Yoad is a prolific mix engineer, having worked with artists including Sia, Giggs, Pet Shop Boys, Goldfrapp, Moby, Air, Morcheeba, Girls Aloud, The Dandy Warhols, Bryan Adams, Duran Duran, Sugababes, Sophie Ellis Bextor, KT Tunstall among others. As an audio technologist, he's worked on over 100 product releases for Waves Audio. -- Having a GAS™ is the podcas...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Rob Henderson, a promising young intellectual at the University of Cambridge. Rob grew up in foster homes in California. After working as a busboy, a dishwasher, and supermarket bagger, he joined the Air Force at the age of 17. Most of his enlistment was spent abroad, stationed in Europe and deployed in the Middle East. After serving , he attended Yale on the GI Bill a...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Kalle Hellzen, the Chief Creative Officer at 180 Amsterdam; one of Europe's most renowned creative shops.   Kalle joined 180 after an eight-year European hiatus. He served as executive creative director at R/GA and helped build the company from scratch to over 75 employees in just two years. Previously he established the creative arm of ACNE in the US as partner, creat...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Andrew Scheps, one of the most respected and well-reputed mix engineers in the music industry. Andrew has worked with a number of incredibly successful artists on chart-topping albums such as By the Way by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, 21 by Adele and Beyoncé by Beyoncé. These days Andrew resides in the UK, where he enjoys a peaceful life in the English countryside. -- More...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Digby Lewis, a branded content creative director in London. Digby is a Swiss-army knife when it comes to the media. He began his life as an accomplished musician studying at Eton College. He then embarked on a career as a producer / director for MTV and VH1, before movinig through a some of the coolest tech content businesses of the last decade like Dailymotion and Buz...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Eric Valentine, a renowned record producer with a wealth of best-selling albums under his belt, perhaps most notably Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age. -- Having a GAS™ is the podcast that talks to the great and the good of the creative industries, and in particular finds out what makes great music for film, for TV, for advertising; for dancing to, for cook...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Hermeti Balarin, the outgoing Creative Partner at Mother. Hermeti is a superstar of the London ad industry who, along with his wife Ana, has been a key figure in shaping the culture at Mother. Under their leadership, Mother became one of the hottest creative agencies London has ever seen. Since our conversation, it has been announced that Ana and Hermeti have made the...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Karen James, the commercial director of Chief Productions, one of Manchester's most respected and prolific film-production companies. In the advertising world, Karen has seen it all - with the possible exception of media planning. Before Chief, she worked as an account manager for Ogilvy Sydney and McCann Manchester before a stint as a brand manager for the Little Gree...

Today, I'm having a GAS with Dan Watts, the executive creative director at Pablo, one of the fastest rising independent agencies in London. Dan's had a varied and successful career. He's worked on and around famous campaigns like Channel 4's relaunch of the Great British Bake-Off. So I was keen to get a handle on how he plans to distill the lessons learned over his career so far and use them to cr...