Rob Townley Great chat today which leads to us listening to the song of various trees, yes played by trees! Awesome stuff. Rob Townley is a music producer, session guitarist and soundscape artist. As well as producing music for commercial artists, he spends time researching, experimenting and pioneering new sounds and frequencies, resulting in some unique signature soundscapes. His latest work involves recording the melodies of plants and trees, and creating organic textures from the environment.   For more information visit www.robtguitar.com https://www.facebook.com/rob.townley 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

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Rob Townley- Session Guitarist , music producer and soundscape artist, melodies of plants and trees

I am excited to be speaking to Paul Kingsnorth in this episode. Paul and I talk about the challenges that society faces and how we got here this journey encompasses education, capitalism and we discuss how the old stories warn us of such times. Paul is deeply insightful as always and it is good to speak to someone who wears his heart on his sleeve. https://www.paulkingsnorth.net Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. Kingsnorth's nonfiction writing tends to address macro themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. His fiction tends to be mythological and multi-layered. After travelling through Mexico, West Papua, Genoa in Italy, and Brazil, Kingsnorth wrote his first book in 2003, One No, Many Yeses. The book explored how globalisation played a role in destroying historic cultures around the world Kingsnorth's second book, Real England, was published by Portobello Books in 2008. In this book, he reflected on how those same forces of globalisation affected England, his own country, in the homogenization of culture. This was Kingsnorth's first successful book, resulting in reviews by all major newspapers and citation in speeches by both David Cameron and the archbishop of Canterbury. He has contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, London Review of Books, Granta, The Ecologist, New Internationalist, The Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Four, ITV, and Resonance FM. His first novel, The Wake was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, and won the Gordon Burn Prize.Film rights to the novel were sold to a consortium led by the actor Mark Rylance and the former president of HBO Films Colin Callender. Kingsnorth's second novel, Beast, was published in 2016 by Faber and Faber and was shortlisted for the Encore Award for the Best Second Novel in 2017. His third novel, completing a loose thematic trilogy beginning with The Wake, will also be published by Faber. Announcing the deal, Faber's editorial director, Lee Brackstone, said: "We are welcoming to Faber a writer who belongs in the tradition of past greats like William Golding, Robert Graves, David Peace and Ted Hughes. His sensibility sits comfortably with theirs and his literary achievement could well go on to be their equal. He is that good". 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 Kingsnorth-

Shane Hampsheir This was a fun chat with a great talent. Have a listen as Shane talks about his musical journey Shane has performed a number of highly acclaimed one-man shows in jazz clubs and theatres in the UK and Europe and is widely regarded as one of the country’s top swing singers and is in constant demand with many big bands and orchestras including the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra. Shane was asked by Universal Records to record Michael Bublé’s hit single ‘Home’ for the compilation album ‘You Raise Me Up – 2008’. In March 2009, the recording was re-released as the title track on a double CD featuring such artists as Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra, Russell Watson, Louis Armstrong, Boyzone, Lesley Garrett, Girls Aloud, Jamie Cullum and many more. Since then, Shane’s version of ‘Home’ has appeared on 6 top 10 albums World-wide, with more of the biggest stars in the music world. ​Shane has performed in London’s most prestigious jazz clubs such as Ronnie Scott's, Pizza Express and 606 Club, in his own right and with the Ronnie Scott’s Big Band, Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Peter Long Orchestra, Nick Ross Orchestra, The Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band, The Len Phillips Big Band and around the country with his own big band and swing band. ​In May 2016, Shane released his debut single, 'Brazil' - arranged by Evan Jolly - which reached number 1 in the iTunes Jazz Chart, above Frank Sinatra, Gregory Porter and Ella Fitzgerald. ​ In March 2017, Shane released his own debut big band album featuring the UK's top jazz musicians and showcasing arrangements by composer and master arranger, Evan Jolly. Shane recorded songs such as, 'I Put a Spell on You', 'Hallelujah, I Love Her So' and 'Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps' as well as original compositions, 'By Your Side', 'Take Your Chances', 'Cried Away', 'My Lover's Heart' and 'Save Yourself'. ​The Autumn of 2017 saw Shane embark on his next musical journey, performing his show for Celebrity Cruises, Princess Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). So far, Shane has performed on over 25 cruises travelling all over the world - from Italy to Greece, France to Morocco, New York to Copenhagen, Sri Lanka to Hong Kong, Florida to Lisbon, Taiwan to Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi to  Quote from The Upcoming - … Shane’s manipulation of the audience is certainly a sight to behold. Very few can create such an atmosphere of pure, unadulterated joy in the way that Shane can. “ To contact Shane visit http://www.shanehampsheir.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 ​

Shane Hampsheir- The British Crooner

Geoff Everett I this episode I will be talking to a well-known guitarist from my neck of the woods, we talk about Geoff’s collaborations with many great names from British music, Geoff also explains what impact the milkman from the Coop can have on your life. In the early 1980s, more UK and Scandinavian tours followed and Everett was asked by Tony Ellis to join The Cafe Racers which included rhythm guitarist David Knopfler, following the departure of his brother Mark Knopfler. At this time he joined Gerry McAvoy and Brendan O'Neil from the Rory Gallagher band in a three piece band called The Mosquitoes and played informal rhythm and blues gigs in pubs and clubs around London. In the early 1990s, Everett formed a rock funk outfit called The Absolute who attracted a large following. During the late 1990s he toured with "A Band Named Sioux", The Cruising Mooses and The Rob King Band. The Mosquitoes also reformed as The Fabulous Mosquitoes. He also began to perform with his own Geoff Everett Band, which includes bassist Pete Shaw, also various drummers including Paul Robinson who has worked with Paul McCartney and Sam Kelly who played a short stint with Gary Moore. During 2009 and 2010 the Geoff Everett Band performed in the UK, Greece, France and the Netherlands. During 2011 the band released the album Adult Show and kenttv.com broadcast an earlier concert recorded in Meteor, Greece. In 2014 The Geoff Everett Band finished recording a studio album The Quick and The Dead which featured guitarist Albert Lee, drummer Brendan O'Neil and vocalist Mollie Marriott (daughter of Steve Marriott), fiddle player Dave Swarbrick, keyboardist Tim Hinkley, harmonica player Alan Glen and saxophonist Gary Barnacle. The album was mastered by Jon Astley and released in the same year. 2015 saw the release of Geoff Everett's studio CD album "Cut & Run". Also in 2015 the song "Bad Bad Man" from the album "The Quick and The Dead" was included on the Sci-Fi Horror film Tremors 5: Bloodlines released by Universal Studios. The song is used as incidental music[1][2] as Burt Gummer is flying into the exotic location of South Africa to scenes of wild African animals to fight a new batch of Graboids. 2018 has seen the release of Geoff Everett's Album "Night Patrol". The Album features harmonica player Alan Glen and saxophonist Gary Barnacle. Everett appeared in the line up of Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages (after the departure of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page).[3] Other associations include Alan Lancaster, David Knopfler, Bob Henrit from The Kinks, Sam Kelly, Jim Russell, Carl Palmer, Gerry McAvoy and Brendan O'Neil from the Rory Gallagher Band, Jim Leverton, Kim Beacon from String Driven Thing, Ian Paice, Gordon Huntley and Bobby Millar an early member of Supertramp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Everett http://geoffeverett.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

Geoff Everett

John Scaife This episode discusses  ritual, what has happened the masculine in the West and it’s the implications for society, very engaging and very deep. John Scaife MA Cantab has walked twin paths of business man and ceremonialist for over 30 years. His business suited life culminated in floating a company he co-founded on the stock market, after years as an entrepreneur and banker, during which time he was lucky enough to stumble upon the nascent mytho-poetic men’s movement, learning from Robert Bly, Michael Meade, Malidoma Some, Robert Moore, James Hillman and Martin Prechtel. He went on to study extensively with Pretchtel and Some, developing his own deep sense of ritual and the sacred, which he has sought to weave with traditions of these lands, tapping into his skills as storyteller, writer and life coach. A sportsman and lover of the outdoors, as often as possible in his native Northumberland, he is also very aware, from his time in business, of the need to ground these learnings in the practicalities of the day to day world we live in. www.greenwavecoaching.com  https://www.facebook.com/Greenwave-Coaching-181000316110045 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 Scaife, Ritualist, storyteller and life coach.

Alistair Duncan In this episode I am talking to Alistair Duncan who is a trainer, ecopsychologist, and coach facilitating meaningful experiences in the more-than-human world. This is an incredible deep look at his influences of NLP and the natural world and how we create our internal representation; this is one of the best explorations into mind states and creativity that I have had on the podcast and this will change your view point Lots here for those interested in the development of NLP as well even he how shall not be named is … named. Alistair is deeply curious about how we humans can “live life well”. He says that means to live with heart, presence and pleasure. Alistair believes we lack wisdom if we attempt to explore our human nature separate from a place of attunement with the more-than-human world. For the last 15 years, he has worked as a trainer, Eco psychologist and coach/therapist helping people explore ways of living their lives well with an evolving approach that he calls “a way of natural being”. You can find out more about Alistair’s amazing work at https://wayofnaturalbeing.co.uk/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

Alistair Duncan - NLP, nature, a way of being in nature.

Matthew Ogden - A Creator of Stuff and reader of the Hitchhikers Guide ... This is great fun chat with the raconteur Mat Ogden, we talk creativity, jazz, reading books and why sometimes Lego is not fun. Matthew Ogden - The Bearded Wit - is a professional broadcaster, presenter, voice-artist and humorist. His podcast work has reached an audience in the hundreds of thousands around the world and can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Deezer, well... basically anywhere you like to get your podcast fix...  The Bearded Wit Podcast- Audiobooks and readings. The Faxe Podcasts - three seasons of Viking short stories written and performed by The Bearded Wit. You can listen to all the seasons here on Patreon by becoming a patron from as little as $5 a month. The Rats In The Walls- A Ghost and Gothic Horror Story Podcast (a new show currently in production). The Gigglefix Podcast- highly irreverent and (very occasionally) informative humour and interviews with special guests, presented and hosted with his fellow Gigglefixer Chris Jolly   https://www.beardedwit.com https://www.patreon.com/thebeardedwit 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  

Matthew Ogden - A Creator of Stuff and reader of the Hitchhikers Guide

Joe Sam Great to be chatting to Joe Sam the bass wizard. Joe credits include Incognito, Sister Sledge Son of Sam and many others. Sam and I talk about his playing and get to some of the mystery of what makes a great artist. Great to be chatting with Mr Funky Bass. You can reach Joe through my links but it is worth checking out his YouTube clips of his awesome playing by searching Joe Sam Bass 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    

Joe Sam

How to Deal with Impostor Syndrome I have interviewed many creatives; some are excellent musicians and artists, people, well known as the foragers, potters, storytellers, actors, and many of them feel like frauds waiting to be found out. There were several guitar players and saxophone players who, when asked to teach, panic because I did not know the theory, although they could do the stuff instinctively. Some artists failed at college, actors who bluffed their way into a stage role, drummers who were aware of better drummers waiting to take their place, all of these would've recognised themselves as having an impostor syndrome. So, where does this originate?  Who are these people?  Creative people tend to be more sensitive, and something like a lack or perceived lack in their education can affect them profoundly, even though logically it doesn't make a difference.     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

How to deal with Imposter Syndrome

Paul Shed Paul is one of the most well-known promoters / Event organisers in the industry and has worked with many of the top acts in the UK. Celebtime was established in 1998 offering both Management and event services. Paul has built up a wealth of experience in the staging of concerts, events and festivals with attendances of up to 30,000 for some blue chip top corporate clients. Most recently, apart from buying a share in a major music venue, Paul has been working with house hold names such as Gareth Gates, Bobby Davro, Jim Davidson, James Cosmo, Ray Quinn ,lemar, James Cosmo, Many Britain’s Got Talent/X Factor acts. Paul and I talk a lot about Chas and Dave which I enjoyed a lot! http://www.celebtime.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

Paul Shed

Richard Hill Today I am talking to Richard Hill who is a hiker and Vlogger and runs the YouTube channel Day Tripper. Richard talks about his interest in walking and explains the benefit of walking in the countryside and its health effects. We go down some VERY interesting rabbit holes here linking early life experiences and healthy effects on our mental state by getting back to good formative memories. There is a lot in the creative thinking area here that I enjoyed chatting about You can find Richards videos on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqO9HLIfFu0k2ettBS3OxXg   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

Richard Hill

George "Fowokan" Kelly George and I talk about Art, Music, Jamaica, Africa its spiritual traditions and how it influences Georges work and music and art in general. Great chat with an elder and artist. George "Fowokan" Kelly is a Jamaican-born visual artist who lives in Britain and exhibits using the name "Fowokan" (a Yoruba word meaning: "one who creates with the hand"). He is a largely self-taught artist, who has been practising sculpture since 1980. His work is full of the ambivalence he sees in the deep-rooted spiritual and mental conflict between the African and the European. Fowokan's work is rooted in the traditions of pre-colonial Africa and ancient Egypt rather than the Greco-Roman art of the west. He has also been a jeweller, essayist, poet and musician (a former member of the funk group Cymande in the early 1970s). He decided to become an artist while on a visit to Benin, Nigeria, in the mid-1970s. The philosophical aspect of his oeuvre came with his travels through various parts of Africa, exploring the spiritual side of his ancestral home. He believes the intuitive/spiritual aspect of reality that still abounds in Africa was his art school and university. Check out George’s work, it is wonderful http://www.fowokan.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

George "Fowokan" Kelly

Ben Cole Ben has been a freelance award winning professional for over 25 years. with 30 years experience working on feature dramas,  feature documentaries, short dramas, music videos, commercials and corporate video, seen on any sized screen; international cinema, on TV or on the world’s mobiles. He was DoP on a 90 min documentary on Bruce Springsteen and a similar film on Roy Orbison and his sons screened on BBC & channel 4 last Xmas. This year he is shooting on a doc about Steve Lukather a legend in the rock session world, from the Band Toto with interviews from Ringo Star and ‘Slash’. His youth: was spent as a professional actor working on Drama both on TV and Cinema and Commercials, as well as on stage in London’s West End Theatre, worked on $25m films in Italy,  and stared opposite Anthony Perkins and Carol Baker and Christopher Lee. In the early 90’s, he stepped the other side of the camera and his work has taken him many times around the globe filming a diverse cross section of society from hobos to celebrities. He has @I am comfortable  in any culture from Namibian Tribesmen to Buddhist monks in China’. Ben and I jam around the idea of creativity and Ben has the clearest exposition of creativity yet with stories of shaman, mystics and the meetings and filming of Sathya Sai Baba where very strange things happened. Ben also does a magic trick for those of you on YouTube.     BEN COLE: SHOW REELS AND KIT (bencolecinematographysite.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

Ben Cole

John Brice is a journalist who worked for the BBC for 36 years as a reporter, producer and editor. John was involved in local radio before moving to national radio and ending at BBC World Service. While in national radio he was employed on every news and current affairs programme on Radio 4, many on 5Live and  was an intake editor on BBC World Service for 10 years. Now he  owns  two pubs in Medway and runs one of them - the King George V in Brompton. Over the years he has run a restaurant and organised several major events including the Quadrathon and the Medway Food & Drink Fair and the Medway Beer Festival. John is one of the voices and names of the BBC so much so that his email is ‘thejohnbrice’ Great stories about the behind the scenes of news reporting. 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 Brice

Max Milligan has been a gigging guitarist since 1973, in that time he has played many styles of music working in Cabaret Clubs, West End Musicals in London, Jazz Funk/Soul bands and Rock and Roll tours. He is an experienced session guitarist and clinician. Max started teaching as a guitar tutor at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance - then known as 'The Guitar Institute' - in 1991. He is also a popular clinician and has worked with Jerry Donahue (The Hellecasters), Big Jim Sullivan and Gordon Giltrap at the London College of Music. Max is always busy composing incidental music for television companies and songwriting. He currently writes with Drew Ford & Jayne Taylor. He has recently toured with acoustic Roots and Blues artist Cherry Lee Mewis and Nashville recording artist Danni Nicholls. https://maxmilligan.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

Max Milligan

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