Making Creativity Pay
Welcome to ‘Making Creativity Pay’, this isn’t a podcast about making millions, more about speaking to people in creative industries whether that’s music, literature, art or anything that relies on creativity about how that ties in with making a living from it.The aim is not…
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Poltergeist - Charlie Vero-Martin (opens the original)
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"I've taken four solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe previously, which have all been multi-character shows, and slowly throughout, the very first show I did was just all characters, and then second, third, fourth, I started more and more each time being a bit more myself in the show. and it's interesting because a lot of the time, especially after my last show in 23, a lot of the sort of industry feedback I was kind of getting was like, we loved it, it was great, but sketch is dead. so maybe you
Juliette Burton and Gareth Gwynn (opens the original)
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“I did a sketch show that was on the free fringe that during that month, I walked so much that I actually put holes in my shoes. So I had to buy shoes in Edinburgh during the fringe, but it meant I had a pair of shoes with holes in. I could physically show the audience. To go, look, I need money. I have actual holes in my shoes.” “For me, it's leaning on the nerd culture thing. I think that there are very different types of nerds. There are nerds who really studied hard, got into maths and have
Hannah Platt, Ruby Carr and Kat Higgins - Episode 100! (opens the original)
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“Ruby is daft and funny and high energy and silly, and whatever the content of the show is, it will be through that lens. And same with Hannah, it'll be dry and witty and things. And people who know me and have seen my stand-up, like know what I'm like on stage. I think for me having done marketing and stuff for other fringe shows before, sometimes it's about making that clear what the content of the show is, because some people just want to see stand up, right? Some people don't want to see clo
Spooky Dookie - Cool New Planet!! (opens the original)
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“Maureen has learned piano in recent years and we had a scene where she sings a song and so she was playing piano, but because we're gonna be at fringe and renting a piano and then bringing it on and off stage just all felt too persnickety. Maureen has now learned the ukulele” This episode is with comedians Claire McFadden and Maureen Monahan who together are Sketch Duo Spooky Dookie. We talk about where the name comes from, their wide range of comedy experience between them writing for SNL, The
Eleanor Morton - The Mermaid (opens the original)
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“I have a Samsung TV, it will choose a specific channel to be the channel that's on and it's always something really random when you switch the TV on and for a while it was like the space channel, so was just like satellite images of Earth. At one point it was ITVX's comedy channel, and so very occasionally I would switch it on and I'd be on the TV and that was very surreal” Eleanor Morton who is performing her show ‘The Mermaid’ at the Edinburgh Fringe during August We talk about being on a two
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