Are You Creative?

Craft brewer and founder for Radio City Beer Works and Radio City Social venue. Creating beer alchemy with just four ingredients to make loads of different flavours, colours, bitterness, gravities. Beer magic! Learning about wort and brewing process. Being self-critical for growth and improvement. Aromas, head retention, drinkability - all the factors to consider in brewing. Having a flavour vision in your head and working out how to achieve it. Hops and different fruit flavours in them. Knowing how to extract the different flavours from the hop oil at stages of brewing. Beer drinking as a hobby for craft beer drinking. Working with the correct yeast to get different flavours. Making beer from beard yeast. Is there a Chelmsford yeast? Graveyard yeast - for vampires? Achieving consistency in brewing. Climate change and hop growing in England. All about the Citra hop - it’s a popular flavour. Switching careers to do something that you love. The craft brewing revolution and spotting the trend in London, then bringing the vibe and flavours to Essex. Brewery culture in the US. Falling in love with the flavours of beer. Improving the beer experience. Starting brewing in Dan’s Dad’s shed with minimal equipment, a tea urn, and instructions from YouTube and home brew books. Moving beer to the airing cupboard for the right temperature. Using colleagues as guinea pigs developing the recipes. The eureka moment when the beer was good. The early adopters for Radio City Beer - Hopsters and Hot Box. Early adopters and supporters are vital for new businesses and creative ventures, both financially and for motivation. Scaling up the brewery. Control the controllables - yeast and hops can change because they are natural products. Writing down recipes and parameters - temperatures, timings, quantities, pH, gravity. Developing a consistent core range of beers for Radio City Beer Works. Cool To Be Kind beer to raise money for the homeless charity in Chelmsford. Making fruity beers. Untapped app and people reviewing beers, good reviews, bad reviews and weird reviews. Tasting Dan’s beers. Collaboration between different craft breweries - spreading the beer love. Collabogeddon with twelve breweries. Making beers with bands like Allfather’s ‘Take Their Eyes’. Branding beer and standing out in the craft beer market. Starting an independent community bar for craft beer, Radio City Social. The Chelmsford beer metre. Building a whole new community. Making sure that every band ghat plays the bar gets paid. Giving young bands a chance to play their first gig. Booking bands from Japan! Creating an inclusive and welcoming vibe at a bar. What’s an imperial stout and why does Dan want to brew one? Consistently challenging yourself to improve. Helping others to improve. Pride in your creative craft and output. Balancing being independent and professionalism. Beer can art, branding and marketing. Dan offers to brew a Gary Macaroni beer to honour the inventor of radio - Gary Macaroni - Pasta la vista BABY! 

Big up to Hopsters in Leigh on Sea. Hot Box. Aerograft Brewery. Allfather. Werewolf Beer. In The Abyss. 

Radio City Beer Works
Radio City Social

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford by Nick
Edited by Nick
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Adam is MUSIC BOY! Musician, music teacher, studio owner, producer, rockstar! Being in pop-punk tribute bands, and coming up with puns for names - Blinked-182, Dookie and Half-Real Lavine. Supportive parents, and living out their rock fantasies. Starting young and finding music. Is 8 too young to learn guitar? NO! Seeing Adam playing drums at Teddy Rocks with pyrotechnic flames on stage - ultimate rockstar. Starting to learn drums at 10 and getting Grade-8 by 13 - Yep, he’s a prodigy! Grades maketh not the drummer. The student became the teacher - doing a postgrad PGCE and learning to teach. Teaching a 44 year old to play drums when you’re 16. Is playing in a tribute band more satisfying than playing original songs. Tribute festivals. Why are Noasis better live than Oasis. Being on tour and buying your equipment its own seat on planes. The ideal Gregg’s snack stop strategies for touring. Where are the best service stations? Needing a wee on stage and liquid consumption strategy. Three wee central before stage time. You don’t want to be dehydrated on stage! What does a drummer do if they need a wee on stage? Why should you move to Derbyshire if you love live music. Being in bands where the members live all over the country. More big ups for Tom from Teddy Rocks! Finding a new singer for a Green Day tribute band. Setting up Card Trick Music studio with rehearsal and recording spaces, and music lessons in Chelmsford. Now with videography capabilities and a green screen performance studio. Are music live streams a vibe kill? Building the next generation of bands in Essex. Big up Hot Box, Chelmsford Theatre, Radio City Social, The Fleece for having live bands. What’s the best way to start to learn an instrument? Calling music shops about starter instruments - it’s scary but necessary. Music shops are AWESOME and professional. RIP Sound Attak. Big up Peach Guitars in Colchester. Do they sell Hello Kitty ukuleles? Adam commits to starting ‘Kitty Vacant’ a Sex Pistols Hello Kitty punk band with Nick. Learning the recorder - The only instrument that still sounds bad if you are playing it well. Taking music more seriously in school now compared to the olden days of the 80s and 90s. Versatility is key to making a career with music. Should Adam be the universal ambassador for music - he’s amazing and his energy is infectious! Nick and Sangita talk about ‘Sounds Good’ festival in Chelmsford - brilliant work by everyone involved.

Card Trick Music
Card Trick Music Instagram

Are You Creative? will be recorded live at Essex Podcast Festival at Chelmsford Theatre on 28th Sept 2024 co-hosted by Adelle Barker (Sangita is on hols) with special creative guest Andy Pilgrim - stunt coordinator for movies and TV.

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford by Jaiden
Edited by Nick
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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James's journey from photography into high-end film processing and printing. Owner of BlueSky Printing and London Film Lab. Working for Björk! BJÖRK the Icelandic music legend! Printing on special papers and hand finishing artwork. Being a paper expert and choosing the right paper for a print. Setting up colour managed environments (yeah we’re going deep into printing!) Does Bjork want paper made from swan feathers? James’s other premises London Film Lab off Brick Lane - a special analog film processing facility. Taking away snobbery and making high level film processing available to everyone. Colour grading photos. Making Nick’s kid’s face less red. Essex Photography Prize. Colour adjusting and correcting 8000 photos a day at Snappy Snaps. Buying a first camera from Cash Convertors for £1. Taking photos of cats. Studying photography at Arts University Bournemouth. Why people don’t use darkrooms anymore. Dev and scan. Making people look younger in photos. All about Essex Photography Prize. Is Central Park Chelmsford art directed by god? Can a phone photo stand up against a photo from a camera? The best camera you have is the one on you at the time. Esses Photography Prize entries are open until the end of September 2024. The amazing judges for the prize. Putting on the exhibition. Nick shows James a photo he might enter this year - of some deck chairs! The judging process and printing all of the pictures. Touring the exhibition. Who is Marc De’Ath? Does BlueSky print glittery frames? No! Famous customers printing prints on Brick Lane.

Blue Sky Printing
London Film Lab
Essex Photography Prize
Essex Photography Prize Instagram

Are You Creative? will be recorded live at Essex Podcast Festival at Chelmsford Theatre on 28th Sept 2024 co-hosted by Adelle Barker (Sangita is on hols) with special creative guest Andy Pilgrim - stunt coordinator for movies and TV.

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford by Nick (sorry about the sound quality)
Edited by Nick
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Sade’s journey from school teacher to author. Being a top 50 children’s book in the US - A Fun ABC (US edition: A Visit to Grandad). Leaving London for Nigeria. How Sade’s experiences growing up in both London and Nigeria built the foundation for her first book. Working as a Reading Consultant in Nigeria. Donated books and lack of representation of Nigerian children’s lives and experiences. Funding for books, but lack of appropriate reading material. Creating an example text to demonstrate creating stories, rhythms and rhymes. Any teacher can make up stories. Accidentally finding a publisher. Finding a creative need and a creative solution. Colonialism through literature and the effects. The importance of seeing yourself represented in literature. Writing local and having a global impact. Why does Sade’s book have different titles in the US and the UK? Write what is real for you. Boo to AI! Taking creative cues from life experiences. Dealing with imposter syndrome. Setting up a writers’ group. Full circle creative inspiration where Sade’s books are inspiring new writers in Nigeria. Meeting fellow authors on Zoom and then inviting children to join to hear them - The Children and Authors Literary Fanfare and Events (CALFE). Taking CALFE offline to hold it live at Chelmsford Museum as part of Essex Book Festival. Shout out to Marc De’Ath. Bringing Black authors to Essex. Look out for Sade and CALFE in Colchester, Chelmsford and Manchester. The importance of seeing representation in books for children, and the ownership of these books in their homes. Coming straight from choir practice makes you want to sing.

Next CALFE is at Chelmsford Museum on 26th Oct 2024 - Free Event

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Are You Creative? will be recorded live at Essex Podcast Festival at Chelmsford Theatre on 28th Sept 2024 co-hosted by Adelle Barker (Sangita is on hols) with special creative guest Andy Pilgrim - stunt coordinator for movies and TV.

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford by Nick (sorry about the sound quality)
Edited by Nick
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Photos for the first manned Moon mission. Photo finishes for horses. The first televised Queen's speech. Jack's done a lot! Making photographic film to send to the Moon. Being lead scientist of Ilford special projects. High speed cheese. Yellow light. Radiation. Seeing if it was safe for humans to land on the Moon. High speed film image quality trade off. Silver halide science! Testing film with all the bad radiation. Getting film back from the Moon without disturbing the results. Why isn’t the Moon photo on Jack’s wall? Was Jack’s photo the most important photo of that year? Did John F Kennedy look at the photo? Sending a tandoori lamb chop into the stratosphere - shut up Nick, it’s not as impressive as Jack’s photo! Making the film for Queen Elizabeth II’s first ever television broadcast. What went wrong with the first take of that film - and who had an awkward conversation with Liz? How did Jack get into chemistry? Moving to Essex and buying an expensive house for £2250 - WOW! Creating the first photo finish negative process for horse racing. Horse selfies! A quick turnaround process to see who won a race - the bookies nervously waiting. Why is Jack so humble? It was just a job for him! Photographic processes for finding blocked arteries. Using a green radioactive dye. Were any superheroes made from this process? Maybe Hulk! Is Jack part of the Incredible Hulk origin story? Artery blockage techniques are still used today using a digital version. How does Jack feel about being on a podcast? Not bothered obvs - he’s too cool.

Recorded at Jack's house by Nick
Edited by Nick
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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By order of the Peaky Blinders. What comes first - the button or the sweater? Knitted turbans. Is knitting like computer programming? Making sweaters for Wonka. Etsy costs for craft creators. Boo to fast fashion! Making handmade affordable. The 1930s and 1940s body shape. Decoding old knitting patterns. Finding the right yarn. Collecting a horde of buttons. Being born in the wrong decade. A creative journey through dance, film, fashion to becoming The Sweater Girl. The supportive retro knitting community. Knitting for mental health. Retro machines. And making sweaters for Peaky Blinders! WOW! What an inspiring guest. Thanks Maddy!

TheSweaterGirlKnits on Instagram
TheSweaterGirlKnits on Etsy

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford with Jaiden, Georgie and Paul
Edited by Nick
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Trigger warning: Early talk about s*lf h*rm. Gay jobs vs Day jobs. Being on a fancy video shoot for a TV ad. Coming out as a trans woman at work. Getting pro make-up. Unmasking. Identity. Air quotes in different fonts. Being in The Sims in real life. Is Sangita an energy vampire? Pretending to be geezer Dads to fit in. Adelle’s media empire of #not stuff. Adelle and Jordan Grey’s parallel trans journeys. Supportive managers at work. Deadnaming. The awkward teenage dressing up stage. 'My trombone is brilliant!' Nick. Tights filled with rice as boobs before hormones kick in. Cross dressing from the charity shop. Find your style - going from prologue self direct to Clueless. LinkedIn is Facebook for people with no soul. #IDontKnowHowToBeTrans. Rainbow honours awards. What happens in the VIP room! Meeting Russell Tovey. Finding your hairstyle. Staying positive and being your authentic self through negativity. Essex Pride is the cure for Lawrence Fox energy drain. Diversity breeds creativity. Equity vs equality. Getting styled by the Strictly stylist! Growing your own boobs and seeing them on the big screen. We love Adelle!

#IDontKnowHowToBeTrans on LinkedIn
Adelle on Insta

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford with Jaiden, Georgie and Paul.
Edited by Nick.
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Making belly button piercing inclusive for all body shapes. English sushi. Staring at people’s ears. Bespoke ear curation. Natural vs unnatural stones. Alan & Ron’s jewelry designs. Copycats copying Cat’s jewelry. Four dimensional jewelry shapes. Finding inspiration for designs in nature. Inclusive body jewelry. Ear transplants. Needles vs guns. A whole needle portfolio? Turning people away can be good for business! Cat remembers ears. Having multiple ear piercings is so hot right now on the red carpet! Naming jewelry after friends - jewelry friends! Pawsome! Snochs. Schnarvels. Tragus. Schnagus. Daith. Daves. All the bits of ears. Tiny little rat hands. School careers advisors. Getting started as a piercer. Learning and sharing knowledge between professionals. International customers traveling for Cat (from Wales)! Digital curation and visualisation of jewelry and piercing layouts. And find out all about Sangita and Nick’s ears… from the ear whisperer...

Piercings By Cat
Qualiti Body Jewellery
The Interbellum Tattoos

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford with Jaiden and Paul.
Edited by Nick.
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Becoming an actor. The journey from creative awakening to reality. Jaiden Smith in Karate Kid to Top Boy. We are Creative Gods! Is panto more fun than telly? Ice skating skills. The Brit school. Pretending to be a sausage like Benedict Cumberland. Music with Adele. Meeting Jessie J. Casual school visits from Tom Holland. Being a tree. Supportive teachers vs unsupportive teachers. Shrek auditions. Positive support networks. Coconuts for horse hooves. Finding an agent. Dealing with rejection from roles. Tips for a great first impression in casting. Carlos the Frozen Sausage. Being resilient. Being in Top Boy! Method acting. Rubber bricks. Electric boys on set are not little robots. Top Boy On Ice Xmas Special.

Carlos Byles
Carlos on imdb
The Brit School

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford with Jaiden and Paul.
Edited by Nick.
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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Building a supportive film making community with the Independent Horror Society. How much would it cost to make a feature film about a killer swan? What’s a DOP? Introducing Nickipedia. Do you need to go to University to work in film?  Advice for making your first film. Finding collaborators. Learning from YouTube. Dolphin impressions. Bill vs Ripper. Best gore in a horror film. Bill Kill 3: Triple Bill. Learning to make practical special effects ‘Just buy some bits!’ The problems of having a kid’s brain with adult money. Making fake sweat and tears. And making 6 minute 6 second films in 66 hours for the 666 Film Challenge.

Jim Dexter

666 Film Challenge

Indie Horror Society

Indie Horror Society Podcast

Walking Against The Rain - Scott Lyus

Recorded at City Sound Chelmsford with Jaiden and Paul.
Edited by Nick.
Artwork by Alpaca Antenna

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