The Cowshed Talks

Mig Burgess joins Claire Morrissey to chat about Mig's career in lighting, advocacy promoting mental health awareness and the findings of a recent survey published by University of Surrey: The UK Technical Backstage Entertainment Industry Mental Health Evaluation.

Owen Fitzpatrick is a Psychologist, International Best Selling Author and Speaker and Trainer. Having a Masters in Applied Psychology, Owen has travelled the world to more than 100 countries and spoken to audiences in over 30 countries. His TEDx speech on ˜Mind Control” has been seen by more than a million people worldwide. He is creator of the Changing Minds Podcast and he is author of 8 books available in more than 15 languages. Having worked with more than 10,000 people as a therapist and coach, Owen has coached Billionaires and Olympic athletes helping them to perform at their very best. For more than 20 years, he has worked with tens of thousands of people helping them to achieve high performance in what they do and master the art of influential communication and engaging presentations. Owen is also an award winning filmmaker, screenwriter and actor winning multiple awards in Europe and America. He has also had one of his plays produced and shown around Ireland. Owen has featured as the presenter expert on his primetime television show 'Not Enough Hours' on Irish Television where each week he worked with someone to help them manage their time and lives more effectively.

Ken Binley talks with Ian Lamb about his new series here on Tech Check called 'Hidden Talents' and about his life and mental health whilst working in a diverse range of areas in the entertainment industry.

My name is My name Eddie Cumminsis. I have worked in the

television industry as a stagehand for over 40 years. I

love what I do and have the great fortune to work with

some truly great people, men and women. I am a father

and grandfather. I have two wonderful grandchildren

and a wonderful daughter. I have two brothers and

three sisters whom I love dearly and I have a beautiful

and very supportive wife. I like to spend my pastime

with my grandchildren, I do a lot of cycling, I love to eat

good food and I am not a bad cook.

Cummins. I have worked in the

television industry as a stagehand for over 40 years. I

love what I do and have the great fortune to work with

some truly great people, men and women. I am a father

and grandfather. I have two wonderful grandchildren

and a wonderful daughter. I have two brothers and

three sisters whom I love dearly and I have a beautiful

and very supportive wife. I like to spend my pastime

with my grandchildren, I do a lot of cycling, I love to eat

good food and I am not a bad cook.

Ian Lamb brief biog 2020 Age 56 I live on the North Devon Coast in a village called Appledore Married to Jennie, we have no children but we do have two furkids – Milly, an 11 year old Lakeland terrier and Mr Bingley, a 4 year old Airedale terrier. Interests – walking, films, cooking, our dogs (I am glad I put a comma in there between those two interests or else you would have been forgiven for contacting the RSPCA), I enjoy noticing faces in things (pareidolia), sticking googly eyes on things to make them into faces and entertaining people with them, making people laugh is always an enjoyment. Born in 1964 and raised in a suburb of Nottingham with my elder sister and parents. A mostly happy, loving and fun childhood with every possible spare minute spent outside. At school I was interested mostly in practical subjects, acting and cross country running and I enjoyed working on a farm during most school holidays from the age of 12 to 16. I Loved being in the Cubs and Scouts and enjoyed climbing……..anything really I have suffered with, what I later discovered to be, clinical depression from the age of 13 and since then I have learnt a lot about the subject on my journey along this ‘long and winding road’. Since graduating from the London Academy of Dramatic Art in 1984 my profession has been a stage manager in the conference and live events industry apart from a 10 year hiatus when I was a lampy and rigger.

Stephen is a writer and director of film and telly and, most recently, a book called SHOOTING & CUTTING: A Survivor’s Guide to Film-making and Other Diseases - about his journey with Stage IV cancer and trying to get back to a productive and creative life afterwards. He lives near the sea in Dublin with his wife, comedian and actress Deirdre O’Kane, and their two kids Holly and Daniel. There is also a black cat called Samba in residence. Stephen is looking forward to a pint of Guinness in an actual pub later this summer.

John ‘Jake’ Kennedy has more than 30 years’ experience in the management and delivery of large-scale

events across a diverse range of entertainment and cultural areas. He spent close to 20 years as a key

member of U2’s production management team and was Production Manager and later Tour Director on

Zoo TV and Pop Mart tours which played to a total of 10m people worldwide. He was Project Director for

the Woodstock 1994 and Woodstock 1999 Music and Arts Festivals in USA. Each event attracted approx.

500,000 people to two different small towns in up-state New York and commemorated the original

Woodstock Festival of 1969. Mr. Kennedy has managed arts events at Hannover Expo 2000, at the JFK

Centre for Performing Arts in Washington DC and for Stockholm 2000, the New Year’s Eve 2000 event

attended by 750,000 people in Stockholm harbour. He has considerable experience of project

management work in Third World countries, having managed the installation of power generation projects

for APR Energy LLC. Most recently he has been producer of several music led made for TV Programs in

Ireland, Germany and UK.

John’s tunes:

1. Streets - U2

2. Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair dom do Lamh – Planxty

3. Running on Empty – Jackson Brown

4. Woodstock – Mathews Southern Comfort (prefer this to Joni Mitchel original)

The Tech Check, Paddy Mc Poland joins John Kennedy to chat about mental

health on and off the road.:

Paddy is a Native of Belfast, Ireland but moved south with his family in his early years to Naas, Co

Kildare.

Studying in Carlow RTC, he became Ents Officer and then President of the Students Union,

becoming USI National Exec Officer in 1985.

From here he went full time into the music business.

Firstly as Promoter rep then as Tour Manager, paddies client list includes - Clannad, Imelda May,

Sinead O'Connor, The Stunning, Paul Brady, James Vincent McMorrow...there's tons of other bands

that nobodys heard of too!!

At the moment Paddy is on lockdown and busy rescheduling the Clannad Farewell World Tour for

2021…Well be talking about mental health and the stresses of tour life also how to cope with the

now and what the future may or may not hold for us…

Paddys tunes;

Long Balconies - A Lazarus Soul

Call Me Blue - A House

Hypnotized - The Undertones

Sing All Our cares Away - Damian Dempsey

The cowshed and Ancroo Live get together and shoot the breeze about mental health,