Right Brain Stories Larry Anderson

A great chat with Standing Phase, formerly known as Woodville. I interviewed them ahead of the release of their new album and their Brighton Fringe gig 21/5/22 - "Enlightened", a night of soul music at St Matthias Church Ditchling Road Five Ways Brighton. Bio from their website: Charly started her musical career playing saxophone in a number of jazz & funk bands. Her passion for songwriting developed in this time and she also performed regularly as a solo singer/songwriter.

Having met Luis, who was fully involved in the Gypsy Jazz scene, they continued individually doing various different music projects until whilst living in New Zealand they had the opportunity to start writing songs together.

The result is a compelling combination of both their musical styles. Since being back in the UK and basing themselves in Brighton, they met up with their good friend, renowned pianist/producer Mark Edwards, who was keen to get involved producing an album for them.

I interviewed Richard owner of The Pancake Guys Food Truck ahead of them serving their tasty fayre outside the Brighton Fringe Music and Arts Night at St. Matthias Church on Saturday 26th June 2021 from 6:30pm. Doors open at 7:15. On top of that Richard has one of the most interesting back stories I have come across. We discuss international culture, how the creative, travel and hospitality sectors can innovate post covid. They’ve been serving the most scrumptious pancakes in East Sussex since 2020. Their menu offers a wide variety of Sweet and Savoury options. Besides traditional
Sweet & Savoury Crêpes they also offer gorgeous Poffertjes - Dutch fluffy mini pancakes and Crêpedogs - A free range pork sausage rolled up in a savoury crêpe with all the regular hotdog toppings you can think of.

Their pancakes can be made gluten free, dairy free, egg free and they also offer vegan options for all our pancakes.

They believe in using sustainable, organic, free range and local products as much as possible and serving freshly cooked pancakes to our customers at a fair price.

They care about the food we make and our people and do everything with a lot of love and a big smile on their faces!

Bringing their own unique blend of soul with funky undertones and gospel influences, ‘The Woodville’ band consist of core members singer/songwriter Charly Wood and guitarist/co-writer Luis. I interviewed ahead of the Brighton Fringe Music and Arts night taking place at St. Matthias Church, Ditchling Road, Five Ways, Brighton on Saturday 26th June 2021 (Covid safe) tickets available https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/music-and-arts-night-148083/

In this episode I interview award winning film director and cinematographer, Pierre Deschamps. His work includes the feature documentary XV beyond the tryline about the 2015 world cup and Rugby the Lifeblood of New Zealand, co-produced with Canal Plus France. You can find him at www.deschampspierre.com

In this episode I interview Gareth Richards, who founded and recently launched his company Help With My Visa. I believe that this episode is important because building a sustainable business is often a barrier for innovators and creatives. We discuss a number of key topics such as the importance of being mentored as you build your business. We also reminisce about his trip to Silicon Valley and a process for creative problem solving called design thinking. According to design agency Ideo, design thinking "utilises elements from the designer's toolkit like empathy and experimentation to arrive at innovative solutions. By using design thinking, you make decisions based on what future customers really want instead of relying only on historical data or making risky bets based on instinct instead of evidence." Although, this episode is not a lesson, by this definition alone, hopefully you can see the value. So, enjoy and let me if you are a creative or innovator if you have done some follow up research into these tips and put them to work as you build your professional practice and business. Please like, comment and subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Follow on Spotify.

I have always been a lifelong learner, an information hound. Always asking questions; interviewing people and I love patterns and hidden stories. That's why I love documentaries especially about about the amazing and often unsung soul, jazz and funk artists of the late 1960s-early 1970s. I am not an expert, far from it; I just want to learn more. This is why I have started a series called 'Diggin' Docs: finding the soul of my early years.' In these shows I hope to achieve two things: find out more about the characters and stories behind the music documentaries of those genres and period of history and how documentaries can be told using different platforms. Who knows, it might be a success or not. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. This is episode #2 as episode #1 is an idea in development, so not for sharing right now. OK, enjoy and please subscribe on Apple Podcasts or follow me on Spotify.