What is it like filming professional wrestling highlights?

In this episode, Ben sits down with cinematographer Ash J who went from knowing nothing about cameras to shooting live wrestling events.

Ash chats about how he got started, practised and turned a passion for wrestling from a side-hustle to a proper freelance thing.

If you’re into filmmaking, content creation, or just love behind-the-scenes insight of the wrestling industry, this has your name written all over it.

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In this episode Ben chats to percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Guy Courtie who opens up about the hidden pressures of building a creative career in a self-promoting economy in a small music scene, why rest can be a creative taboo equal to failure, and how musicians and creatives try to protect their headspace without losing momentum and opportunity.

Ben and Guy chat about:

< Escaping London & finding clear headspace as a creative

< Social media overload & the pressure to always be “on”

< Short-form & social media being your business card

< Creative accountability in small scenes

< Freelancing, burnout & never switching off

< Obsession, passion & finding healthy balance

< Music as a process, not perfection

< The complication relationship between music & AI

< Why music matters for accessability & community

< Growing up in a musical household

< Training, privilege & creative opportunity

< Life after study & surviving as a creative

< Guy's Crescendo

< Anything else that cropped up

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In this episode Ben sits down with West End drummer and percussionist Dan Day to chat about a career that’s taken him from learning drums at age 3 to playing on major theatrical productions like Evita, Mean Girls, Sunset Boulevard, Come From Away just to name a few...

Ben and Dan chat about:

< Dan starting to learn drums aged 3

< Falling into musical theatre by accident

< Earning your chair through depping, being good and just being nice

< Life as a working drummer in the orchestra pit both in London and on tour

< Surviving high pressure auditions when you really want the job

< COVID

< Getting the gig and behind the scenes of Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Sunset Boulevard and Evita

< Working with some of the biggest creative names in musical theatre today e.g. Pasek and Paul, Alex Lacamoire and Alan Williams MD

< Working on The Greatest Showman Musical

< His Crescendo

Strap yourselves in for nearly 2 hours of drum and musical theatre goodness.

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