Creative

Steve White

Steve was given a small drum as a child by his uncle and upon joining his local Boys' Brigade he began to learn his craft. As with White's band mate Paul Weller, he was given full support from his parents who went out of their way to help their son develop. Steve spent his youth having lessons from the late George Scott of Wanstead and learning from recordings of Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson. He later took lessons with drumming teacher Bob Armstrong at Bob's Masterclass studio, then in Hornchurch, Essex. White complemented his work gigging with local bands with part-time work, spending any spare cash on updating his collection of jazz records.
In 1983, White auditioned for an unnamed band which turned out to be Paul Weller's new group, The Style Council. Weller was impressed with the 17-year-old drummer's jazz background and asked White to come back the following day. White stayed with the band for some years but was never actually invited to join, even though he appeared in most of their videos and on all but a few recordings. He became the youngest drummer on stage at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in 1985. He also performed at Live 8 with The Who at Hyde Park in 2005. The Who's regular drummer, Zak Starkey (Ringo Starr's son), had left to join Oasis on their tours and recording sessions.
White left The Style Council in 1989 to pursue other projects and went on to play with many well known acts, such as Ian Dury, The James Taylor Quartet, The Redskins and the Jazz Renegades. When The Style Council reformed for a one off gig for Japanese TV in 1990, Paul Weller invited Steve to his studio to hear a few demo tracks. He was soon back full-time behind the kit for Weller's solo projects.

You can reach Steve White on
Steve White | Drummer | Percussionist | Educator | The Official Site (whiteydrums.com)
(3) Steve White (@drummerwhitey) / Twitter

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Anne Lynn

In this episode I am in conversation with Anne Lynn. Anne is a plant spirit practitioner who is also an initiated Mara'akame healer.  Anne also runs community and Women’s sacred fires.

Anne and I discuss her long years of training and the interesting synchronicities that have led her to travel to Mexico over a period of a decade to learn of the ways of Huichol people.

This is a truly fascinating story with lots of interesting twists and turns.

You can reach and at [email protected] if you are interested in the Community or Women's Fires, Plant Spirit Healing , or traditional Huichol healing.

 

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Chris Corcoran

This was fun, we get  guitar nerdy which was nice ….

Chris Corcoran is the guitarist's guitarist. He is one of the UK's finest Blues and R&B players and has been performing across the UK and Europe for the last 20 years.

2020 saw the release of Chris's second 'big band' album, entitled 'Coolerator'., which follows on from his 2017 CD release ‘Blues Guitar Grooves’, which was awarded ‘Instrumental Album of the Year’ by US magazine, Blues Junction Productions.

Widely respected as one of the UK’s finest Blues guitarists, he was profiled in Issue 406 of Guitarist Magazine (May 2016), with examples of his signature licks and accompanying video on the Guitarist Youtube channel. The magazine followed this in 2017 by inviting Chris to produce a series of Jump Blues articles and videos.

Chris runs regular Guitar Workshops which are popular among Jump Blues Guitar aficionados, and holds the guitar seat for the highly rated Laura B & Her Band.  He is also a registered composer for Soho based, Felt Music.

Chris also has a new album ‘Inferno’  due out later this year and. been nominated for a UK Blues Award again this year. https://www.ukbluesawards.com/finalists-2021/

Find out more by visiting www.chriscorcoranmusic.com

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How to write a song, the quick way

Here is a very short solo show about creating a song using other peoples music Cheating? No this is what happens in your head you just don’t realise it It is all explained in the show Your turn to write a masterpiece

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I am super excited about this…..

Dee Dee Wilde

In 1966 Dee Dee co-founded the dance group Pan’s People, resident dancers on the highly popular TV show Top Of The Pops.  Over the next ten years, due to their weekly appearances on the show the girls became a household name and worked with some iconic artists, The Who, David Bowie, Mark Bolan, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson Five which included a young Michael Jackson, Cilla Black, Lulu and many others

Dee Dee and I talk about her amazing life as a dancer and what made Pan’s People such a phenomena and she tells stories about meeting Jimi Hendrix and Michael Jackson.

To find out more visit

www.deedeewilde.co.uk

Dee Dee Wilde | Facebook

Dee Dee book ‘You May Now Kiss The Dog’

https://amzn.to/3ptJ0Ty

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Ruby Taylor

Ruby is an artist, maker and educator with over 30 years experience. Appreciated for her ability to teach techniques of basketry and pottery with clarity, patience  and humour. Her courses are relaxed and inclusive atmosphere.

 With a BA honours in three-dimensional craft majoring in ceramics she trained as an art and design teacher and taught at secondary school level, later developed her work with a diploma in therapeutic application of the arts and went on to receive formal basketry training in London with a number of UK basketmakers.

She was a team member of East Sussex archaeological museums partnerships teaching ancient craft and technologies to all ages and co-constructed prehistoric-style dwellings.

We discussed how the creative process works and how early influences and subsequent life informs artistic work.

 

For YouTube

 https://youtu.be/Q86xHQI7bak

https://nativehands.co.uk/ruby-taylor/

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Steve Taylor – Herbalist

During his 25 years of practice as a herbalist, Stephen Taylor has explored the traditional foundations of Western medicine, drawing inspiration from the Ancient herbalists Hippocrates and Galen, and the medieval herbalist Nicholas Culpeper. Whilst exploring the surviving folk traditions of Europe, he has also trained in Eastern and African traditions of ancient medicine. Having made extensive visits to learn from the traditional healers of Africa, he eventually became initiated as a traditional healer and diviner himself. He continues to practice herbal medicine, teach and research, and grows and produces many of his own medicines.

In this episode we look at how life experiences lead us to, or maybe what we will become is already present in who we are. This is a very deep and informative chat about health and healing in the context of a life lived.

To contact Steve visit

www.medicinegarden.co.uk

NLP Timelines- Magic it up    The NLP timelines are process developed by Tad James in the 1980s, they used the concept that we store memories in a linear fashion. However, things get really interesting when we use techniques such as dowsing or shamanic journeying, on these timelines which is not part of NLP.(well they are disguised)  If making a map is a magical act where you are going is also magical, NLP timelines create an imaginary map in time. To discover the directionality of your time think of something that you did yesterday, where is it situated as a memory? Is it behind you to the left? Or is it directly behind you? Now think of something that you plan to do tonight and then something for tomorrow, then connect those thoughts. Where they are situated to the thoughts of the past? This becomes the timeline that you can walk. listen for how you can apply these ideas creatively    To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland
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Aidan Wachter

Aidan was a talismanic jeweller (now retired) & author, living in the mountains of New Mexico.

His approach is both informed and driven by my magical practice and spirit contacts.  Aidan works from the viewpoint that magic, sorcery, shamanry, witchcraft and related practices are the root of human spiritual culture. As Western societies grow more fundamentalist (particularly in the USA), in their expressions of both religion and materialism, there has been strong pressure to move away from the magical approaches which are,  he believes, the birth right of humans.

His aim as author, sorcerer, and artist is to facilitate this communication between ourselves and these others.

In this episode we discuss this and the way that art and magic are the same and the information that Aidan shares I believe is fundamentally import for artists and musicians. I have found his books, Six Ways and Weaving Fate inspiring.

Find out more by visiting

http://www.aidanwachter.com

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John Etheridge : Guitarist, composer, bandleader, educator

John Etheridge rightly enjoys a glowing reputation throughout the jazz world and beyond and has been described by Pat Metheny as, "One of the best guitarists". He is a prodigiously gifted and creative player whose approach to music can only be described as 'eclectic' as he refuses to accommodate or even acknowledge artificial musical boundaries.

In today’s episode John talks about his inspirations and meetings with Jimi Hendrix, being in Soft Machine and touring with Stephane Grappelli. There is a lot in this even John playing a very cool intro. It is a tough job, but someone has to do it.

For more on John visit www.john-etheridge.com

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