Creative

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, ve...

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 c...

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....

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...

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 s...

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 ab...

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...

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 a...

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 s...

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 w...

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,...

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-w...

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...

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 st...

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 w...

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...

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 a...

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...

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 son...

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...

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 m...

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...

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 I...

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...

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 socia...