Creative

Mike Kilgour Taking back creative control improving mental health.

Today's conversation is with Mike Kilgour who runs the Bluescamp project with me.

We talk about mental illness caused by the lack of control and what's going on in society.

Because of everything being online we are unable to talk in person about problems in insurance, banking, health and numerous other things including booking a flight!

We talk about how this can be overcome with creativity, empowering ourselves to be able to control environments by our ability to think differently of the situation presented; we can do ourselves a healthy favour.

This is a great chat with some fantastic ideas.

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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

Nick Kenyon, Musician, and running the Manchester Venue The Peer Hat

Nick talks about his musical life an running the amazing music venue The Peer Hat.

This is a great chat about creativity and some of the bizarre synchronicities that surround us, if we are observant enough.

We are talking getting rid of ones nihilism and opening the doors to creativity.

This was a brilliantly engaging chat, at times deeply funny and other times deeply meaningful and often both.

People can follow Nick's gigs at the_manifestationgroup on Instagram.

https://politburo.bandcamp.com/album/barrington-way

The Peer Hat is on Facebook and Instagram. mid new website being constructed.

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

Elliott talks of his journey from the Toons through various bands and then Covid to work in crews managing sales DJ work, sight reading bass gigs.

Elliott's story shows how flexibility and the ability to take a challenge has really created his life in music.

This is an amazing skill that Elliott possesses, and I have seen him transform himself a few times over the years I've known him.

Www.boujeemusic.com

Https://www.instagram.com/e_milespeekmusic/

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

Steve Niner , Art, Permaculture, Bowie Derek Jarman

Today I'm talking to Steve Niner about his incredibly interesting life this includes working with David Bowie in the Art Lab days, a fight with Hawkwind, living in Notting Hill in the 1960s and going to the first Glastonbury.

We talked Derek Jarman art and gardening and Steve work in theatre design.

Awesome

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 Green Music Philosophy Business Consciousness and Magic.

On today's programme I'll be talking to Paul Green. This is a fantastic chat with Paul that goes very deep and includes the effects of having a superpower of implicit learning and successive approximation! This is the lost wisdom of the ancients. We also talk about philosophy degrees and the power of playing Samba. Music is just walking.

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 Bootstrap with No Bootstraps.

Today I reflect on developing an idea whether that's for business or art or both when you have no funds. Even when bootstrapping an idea is difficult because you don't even have any bootstraps.

This comes out of the conversation that I had with two previous podcast interviewees, Tommie Kelly about Stuart Wilde and his book The Trick to Money, and Trish Nichol who came up with the no bootstrap idea.

I am recording this while walking in Kent, England.

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

Walking on sand

This is a short solo show about finding the source of your inspiration. I go to my personal source and explore how that can relax and give space for ideas.

The ideas can be creative or restorative. My personal source will not be yours but the way of finding them might be.

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

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, very few people will know of Stuart Wilde.

Both Tommie and I consider Stuart to be an important writer with lots of ideas that are relevant today. We discuss his books, what he was like as a person and some of the interesting events that happened around him. We also discuss his ability to shock, as well as being one of the funniest guys that you could meet.

Tommy talks about some of his new projects including his music, his comics and his oracle cards. For further details visit.

https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.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 BluescampUK 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

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 chat, good times.

Taylor Ellwood is the magician. He's been practicing and experimenting with magic for over 30 years, designing innovative and original systems of magic that help people get results and transform their lives. Taylor has been reading Oracle and Tarot cards professionally since 2004. Taylor has been writing books on magic and teaching classes on a variety of spiritual topics including spirit communication, manifestation practices and inner alchemy since 2003. At Brightheart Alchemy Guides Taylor offers a variety of spiritual services designed to help you manifest results as well as provide answers around the issues you are dealing with. He also teaches classes both solo and with Joanna on spiritual topics.

Joanna Brook is the priestess. She began professional Tarot consultations in 2007 and mediumship in 2012. She is an ordained minister in the Seven Sisters Circle, where she studied eclectic modern paganism, ceremony, astrology, path working, divination, and spiritual counselling.

Joanna officiates hand-fastings, funerals and customized ceremonies. She also facilitates a New Moon ritual open to all in Eugene, Oregon each month.

Joanna teaches classes on magic and the pagan path, both solo and with Taylor. Joanna is also an accomplished poet.

https://www.brightheartalchemyguides.com/

https://www.magicalexperiments.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

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.

He studied electric guitar and music theory with Pantelis Gertsos (guitarfor → MusicFor) until he passed the Associate Diploma of the London College of Music in Music Teaching (Upper Level). He also studied music harmony & modern composition with Nikos Panagiotakis, vocals & piano with Lia Hide and jazz harmony with George Argyropoulos at the Musical Praxis Conservatoire where he successfuly completed his Harmony Degree.

Occasionally, he had acoustic guitar and songwriting lessons with Max Milligan. He holds a Master's Degree - MMus in Songwriting - from Bath Spa University, under the tuition of Davey Ray Moor. He's currently working towards his PhD, under the supervision of Professor Amanda Bayley and Dr Matthew Sergeant. While his main instrument is the guitar, he enjoys playing other instruments, such as piano, baglamás, ukulele, blues harp, bass guitar, banjo, lap steel guitar, tzourás, stylophone, bouzouki… In any case, the sound is what matters the most!

At the same time, Nassos started working as an administrative assistant in the LCM and RGT examinations representative office in Greece, as well as for guitarfor. He has undertaken the promotion, online publishing, photo shooting, web design and he has contributed in organising concerts and seminars with musicians like Larry Goldings Trio, Kurt Rosenwinkel New Quartet, Larry Carlton, Adam Levy, Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet, Paul Gilbert, Al Di Meola, Andy McKee, to name but a few.

In January 2017, Nassos released his first single Under the Endless Sky, under the pseudonym Nassos Conqueso. In March 2017, he released his album Love in Crisis, which is also available in Compact Disc. He's responsible for music, lyrics, arrangement, production, vocals, piano, ukulele, baglamás, tzourás, harmonica, guitar, stylophone and programming. At the same time, he became the 6th member of Bound Affairs as an acoustic guitarist and keyboardist, until September of 2018.

Between 2019 and 2021, he represented Greece, along with two other artists, in the European Union's Introspection Music Experience project. His contribution involved the production of the song 'A Moveable Feast', as well as recording various instruments for the song 'Collateral'. Based on this experience he released the double-track single A Moveable Feast in October 2022, in the International Mental Health Day.

Check out http://www.nassosconqueso.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