If you've always wanted to work in music, but aren't sure where to start, then this episode is for you!

Back in July, VOCAL GIRLS was invited by Truck Festival to do a panel talk at their Tap Room stage: ‘Breaking Into the Music Industry with Vocal Girls’. Hosted by VOCAL GIRLS founder and music journalist, Megan Graye and VOCAL GIRLS content producer Dani Murden, the panel featured Cherym, Indy Brewer, and members of the VG team.

With different guests working in different areas of the industry (musician; management; PR; graphic design; and journalism), we chatted about how everyone started out, their fears, failures, and hot tips for those taking their first few steps.

We want to send a big thank you to all of our guests for being so gracious and honest and to Truck Festival 2023 for inviting us down! You can now listen to the full audio now from wherever you get your podcasts!

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This series is a collaboration with The Great Escape Festival, so for this series Megan will be interviewing four key artists from their line-up. This week, Megan's speaking to singer-songwriter, Rachel Chinouriri. 

After recording some songs on a budget mic and her mum’s laptop aged 17, Rachel released her first ep ‘bedroom tales’ on Soundcloud. Since then she’s signed a record deal with Parlophone, had her music shared by her personal idols Coldplay, and most recently bagged a Hottest Record on Clara Amfo’s show on R1 with her latest single, ‘All I ever asked'.

Rachel’s sound is delicate, soothing and layered. Her lyrics touch on relationship struggles and personal darkness, but her vocals feel bright and sincere. Her acoustic version of her song ‘So my darling’ has been streamed almost 10 million times.

Megan and Rachel chatted a few weeks back about her stage fright, why she decided to speak out against unconscious bias in the industry and what we can expect from incoming new music.  

Rachel's song choices:

Past: The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather 

Present: Haunted House - Holly Humberstone

Future: Etta Marcus - Salt Lake City

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

This podcast series was created in collaboration with the Great Escape Festival - the festival for new music. The Great Escape is a three-day music festival in Brighton which kicks off this year’s UK festival season. It is renowned for highlighting emerging artists and for showcasing new music and this year is no exception with over 450 incredible up and coming artists from all over the world on the line up! The Great Escape will be running from the 11th - 14th May 2022 across 35 venues, all within walking distance of one another.

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This series is a collaboration with The Great Escape Festival, so for this series Megan will be interviewing four key artists from their line-up. This week, Megan's speaking to singer-songwriter, Lola Young.

Known for her huge voice and relatable lyrics, Lola has had an incredible few years. She's been signed to Island records, been nominated for a Brit, named in the BBC sound of 2022 poll and also performed on The Graham Norton show and the Late Late Show with James Cordon. Writing songs from the age of 11, the now 21 year old has a big future ahead of her with managers of both Adele and the late icon, Amy Winehouse backing her.

Megan and Lola spoke over zoom and chatted about her cutting her teeth doing shows to an empty room, the importance of having a strong sense of self and how her songs have helped her process what she was going through when she wrote them.

Lola's song choices:

Past: Last Request - Paolo Nutini

Present: Dijon - The Dress

Future: ArrDee ft. Lola Young - Who Woulda Thought

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

This podcast series was created in collaboration with the Great Escape Festival - the festival for new music. The Great Escape is a three-day music festival in Brighton which kicks off this year’s UK festival season. It is renowned for highlighting emerging artists and for showcasing new music and this year is no exception with over 450 incredible up and coming artists from all over the world on the line up! The Great Escape will be running from the 11th - 14th May 2022 across 35 venues, all within walking distance of one another.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/vocal-girls-podcast.

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This series is a collaboration with The Great Escape Festival, so for this series Megan will be interviewing four key artists from their line-up. This week, Megan's speaking to esteemed rapper, ENNY.

Born and raised in South East London, ENNY grew up dreaming of becoming an artist. After being spotted by Hackney artist development programme Route 73, and working on releases with them, ENNY was introduced to Jorja Smith and later signed to her label, Famm. 

She’s since recorded a special colours show with Jorja of her enormous track, Peng Black Girls, released her own EP: Under 25 and has recently been announced to play the Great Escape spotlight show alongside Temms and Gabriels. 

In this episode Megan and ENNY chat about the music she grew up with, the vulnerability of putting your lyrics out into the world and the importance of being yourself.

ENNY's song choices:

Past: Cry - Swiss

Present: Middle of Eden - Maverick Sabre, Sasha Keable

Future: Work like - BXKS and Kish!

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

This podcast series was created in collaboration with the Great Escape Festival - the festival for new music. The Great Escape is a three-day music festival in Brighton which kicks off this year’s UK festival season. It is renowned for highlighting emerging artists and for showcasing new music and this year is no exception with over 450 incredible up and coming artists from all over the world on the line up! The Great Escape will be running from the 11th - 14th May 2022 across 35 venues, all within walking distance of one another.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/vocal-girls-podcast.

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This series is a collaboration with The Great Escape Festival, so for this series Megan will be interviewing four key artists from their line-up. This week, Megan's speaking to musician, poet, designer and so much more, Sinead O’Brien.

Sinead’s music has strong and clear intentions. Focussed on language, Sinead uses melody to add power to her words, making listening experiential. Combine that with the music of guitarist Julian Hanson and drummer Oscar Roberston and you have a distinctive and original sound that is instantly recognisable. Originally from Limerick, Sinead studied fashion design in Dublin before working as a full-time designer for Galliano in Paris and then Vivienne Westwood in London, until she felt a call to start creating in the music world. 

In this episode Megan and Sinead about the music that led her to becoming an artist, ‘responding to the room’ in a live setting and what we can expect from her highly anticipated debut album, Time Bend and Break The Bower.

Sinead's song choices:

Past: The Side of Man and Womankind - Tony Conrad With Faust

Present: The United Snakes of America - Faux Real

Future: Salt Coast - Kae Tempest

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

This podcast series was created in collaboration with the Great Escape Festival - the festival for new music. The Great Escape is a three-day music festival in Brighton which kicks off this year’s UK festival season. It is renowned for highlighting emerging artists and for showcasing new music and this year is no exception with over 450 incredible up and coming artists from all over the world on the line up! The Great Escape will be running from the 11th - 14th May 2022 across 35 venues, all within walking distance of one another.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/vocal-girls-podcast.

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This week, Megan's speaking to to pioneering Broadcaster and DJ, Jaguar 

Jaguar has had an incredible few years; not only has she been named Mixmag Broadcaster of 2021, but she’s also been given the award for Best Radio Show by DJ Mag for her BBC introducing Dance show. She’s also responsible for the launch of Future1000 in collab with Virtuoso, an amazing initiative designed to help more young women, non-binary and trans artists learn how to DJ. And aside from all of this she runs her night, Utopia which she’s just announced the UK tour of. 

We chatted a few weeks back and Jaguar told me all about how she broke into the competitive industry of doing and broadcasting, hosting the first ever introducing dance show on the BBC and trying sober DJing.

Jaguar's song choices:

Past: The Farplane Abyss - Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi

Present: Jasper Tygner & Joe Hertz - Equals

Future: Nia Archives - 18 & Over

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This week, Megan's speaking to Julie Dawson, the lead singer of Galway band, NewDad. 

NewDad are one of the most exciting bands of the moment; they have a distinct layered sound music which feels solemn yet upbeat, and they combine this with relatable and poignant lyrics. In this episode, Megan speaks with Julie Dawson, the bands vocalist and rhythm guitarist. As the NewDad are currently based in Ireland, this episode was recorded over Zoom shortly after the release of their new EP Banshee.

In this episode we talk about early influences, writing Banshee, and the new pressure on artists to be consistently creating. 

Julie's song choices:

Past: She Bangs the Drums - The Stone Roses

Present: circle the drain - Soccer Mommy

Future: Forever at Last - HighSchool

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This week, Megan's speaking to Glaswegian musician, Joesef.

Joesef's career is currently flying; he's already released two EP’s, made music with Loyle Carner, toured with Arlo Parks and sold out shows across the UK - including his first at the iconic King Tuts in Glasgow, before he’d even released any songs. Joesef is down to earth, hilarious and loveable, but it’s not just his personality that’s made him so successful, his velvety voice and self produced tracks are the perfect blend of happy-sad and have had numerous plays across Radio 1. He’s about to have his biggest tour yet in May at venues like the Shepherds Bush Empire, and is currently out in Texas at SXSW! 

In this episode we talk about pre show nerves, staying grounded and his anonymous admission box which he’s started for his fans.

*This episode contains strong language and drug references*

Joesef's song choices:

Past: It's Too Late - Carole King

Present: Red Room - Hiatus Kaiyote

Future: Etta Marcus - Hide and Seek

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/vocal-girls-podcast.

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. 

This week, Megan chats to Priya Ragu, who’s just released her new single, Illuminous. Born in Switzerland to Tamil parents, Priya grew up singing and playing traditional music with her family, but was deterred from pursuing music full time. After years of pursuing her passion around work, Priya decided it was time to take a chance on herself and teamed up with her brother, a producer under the name of Japhna Gold. Together they created her debut mixtape, damnshestamil which came out last year. Priya’s unique and seamless blend of traditional tamil music and modern Rnb and electro (Raguwavy) is original and attention grabbing. This authenticity hasnt gone unnoticed; she’s already been signed to warner, toured and made music with Jungle and been listed on the BBC sound of 2022 poll. 

In this episode we chat about her journey to pursuing music full time, what it’s like to work alongside her brother, and the necessity for more South Asian artists in the music industry.

Priya's song choices:

Past: Mellow My Man - The Roots

Present: You Save Me - Alicia Keys & Snoh Aalegra

Future: Point & Kill - Little Simz

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/vocal-girls-podcast.

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. 

This week, Megan is speaking to Baby Queen aka Bella Lathum. Baby Queen has had a whirlwind few years, signing to Polydor in 2020, dropping her debut mixtape ‘The Yearbook’ in 2021 and has been named one to watch on the BBC sound of poll in 2022. She’s also announced an upcoming headline tour as well as a supporting slot for Olivia Rodrigo across the European leg of her tour. In this episode Megan chats to Bella about the music she grew up with, her obsession with grammatically correct lyrics and the struggles of dealing with mental health whilst in the public eye. 

Bella's song choices:

Past: Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me

Present: The Wannadies - You & Me Song

Future: Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

Trigger warning: This episode contains strong language, as well as references to drug misuse, suicide and conversations around mental health. If you or someone close to you is struggling, you can call Samaritans for free on 116 123. There is more information on how to access support here:

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team. 

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