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Highland have been told that they'll have to reserve own legal claims against the health authority for any financial compensation a meeting of the n.h.s. Board heard today that an employment tribunal is the established route for individuals and it's high and says the health authority isn't equipped to deal with financial the approaches being criticised by Brian Devlin a spokesman for the whistleblowers who 1st aired the bullying claims we're going to have to lawyer up that's basically what. If anybody is seeking compensation they have to sue the board and unfortunately most people can't afford to do that and also there are legal issues that I. Prevent people like me given the board for about 10 years from Pershing the option. 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All different cultures Yeah together singing to celebrate the birth of a child is one of the most beautiful things that you can listen to yet he absolutely loves Christmas dessert John Barrowman after 3 o'clock our Choose to review trio of critics who share their views on Icelandic superstar Bjork's cornucopia show which took over the Glasgow Hydra last night the 1st major retrospective of the work of artist color a go to be shown in Scotland a new drama on Channel 5 its 1st original scripted series in 5 years called Call You're listening to the Afternoon Show with Jon its 1st time on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. Yes indeed and if you shoo in the hydra. It is a good time I could not be there but we shall have a review of it in the 2nd from our lucky choose to the viewers who could make a long unsettling I was having a look in social media and it looked quite spectacular not just me looking at it through the prism of a mobile phone so quite extraordinary. Visual effects sound documented by Iceland's hammer. Choir and you may also have heard about it and been following social media can us opera. Stage at the weekend in elite to see a mixed reception amongst other things featuring his Sunday service choir so we've decided on today's show we need a choral finale for the softer did so over to you to stink of our topic after your suggestion of a song featuring a choir that we can close the show with so to kick off the proceedings Here's my choice the Blue Nile. Oh boy that would. The Blue Nile and happiness and an unexpected and rather beautiful addition of a Choir Song adding to the emotional hefts over to you as a cracking song that features a choir and we may well close the show with it you can text in a 2 to 95 tweet me at b.b.c. . Or via the afternoon shows Facebook page I'm a continuous music because my 1st guest Well she comes from a small coastal town in Norway She's only 23 she is doing so well and absolutely has her sights set on reaching the top of the music business it's going to happen her debut e.p. Don't kill my vibe was everywhere in 2017 and she went on to win the b.b.c. Music signed of 2018 she is secret and let's have a quick boss of that truck to remind us. To. Be a damn. Can. Kill my vibe from Seeger. After winning the b.b.c. Music award the accolades kept coming with the release of a debut album sucker punch to perform to thousands of fans over the festival season this year including just the $80000.00 to capital's summer signing Bowl and the 30000 strong try to Glastonbury and then she's about audiences at the Royal Variety Performance played at a bit of Peace Prize concert you'll see her on television today and later with Jools Holland on The Graham Norton Show the great news for fans as she is on the road seekers in Edinburgh for sure whole gig tonight and she joins me know that calm and secret. Thank you very much for introduction Oh yeah I feel a little well could only write a diary but that was like a very good summary actually and I've reminded you of what's been going on because sometimes if you don't write a diary actually it I so wish I had done over the years and all the people I've met because I wrote one for a tiny little Peter said discovered recently which was just a thought my 1st trip to New York I forgot all of that if only I had continued to presumably you're just too been busy to do it yet to be honest I don't really write it because I feel like it's enough just taking in all the impressions after my day in Edinburgh today I feel like I almost need to write something because it's all beautiful here I'm so glad that you've had a bit of time because this is the saying sometimes with tuning isn't the doing of time to just go in and soak up the atmosphere it's a little bit I'm in Glasgow it would it's a bit damp and. I was in Edinburgh is today it's really nice Well in my mind yes great because it's raining and it's a bit foggy and you could see the castle in the misfit I love it and so cool. So how does the tour been going so far because you started off the couple of mainland Europe gigs I think and then you get off to. The u.k. Yes We started off in Brussels and then tracked and then we went over to our linen we did Dublin tonight's Out in rock. It's been really amazing beautiful places they're always in it to 2 years ago and I just absolutely love to another very atmospheric place surely later yeah my booking agent is doing a great job. Well done and well. Now we're having a great time and it is this extraordinary thing though isn't it I mean we're all used to this is well he's doing the actual physical tootin clumping eyes in your audience you are one of those sort of streaming say and say sions with something like a meeting I don't even know what it means global streams they were up to 850000000 what is that is that people streaming tracks or walks outside is insane I said I should know something I have to ask my label about this so you know people streaming yet we are that is how I guess about it on the must be like collected from all the $300.00 service yeah I must be like the amount of time let me play the songs that's incredible yeah wow because I just wondered what was all of that because Is that part of the job now you have to sort of keep on top of that and be in touch with people in that way and keep getting the music or actually interacting with folk or in line well I guess the music industry has changed forever since streaming came onto the market with the fact that we consume music so fast and I'm one of those consumers I listen to new songs every single day and I usually listen to songs rather than albums Yeah. And you know that changes things for the artists and the bands and the writers and producers that are going to make these records and you know there's demand for music quicker than it used to be before maybe before I started doing this but I don't know there's great stuff to it and also frustrating things but I've just figured out I can really change anything but I'm not going to let it change the way I create music and I'm going to take my time with it know that you're always been this mature and you're going to tiny tiny little secrets you know by. Yeah I'm really sensible and I've got everything sorted . You know I've always been a bit what's the word for that in English you know region we would say best of oxen It's like when you try to be a bit older than you are go yeah yeah I like that word say again live oaks none of us live in quite the negative words of like I don't know maybe can be but we can see here old head on young shoulders yeah maybe that you know I've always been a bit like I have older siblings that I've always looked up to the I guess that's where it comes from and also where the interest in music started was a household with his music being played whether I actually instruments or you have a good record collections yet so I grew up in a really old house and there was the black piano in the center of it in the living room an old old piano from like last like 1910 or something like that like really old and my parents wanted someone to play it and they never pushed any of the siblings to like be good at playing they just wanted someone to like use it because it was just cause it to listen to yeah and I ended up playing it and everyone thought it was really nice sometimes a bit annoying I would guess and then we had guitars because my dad plays a bit guitar. My sister is a great singer my brother sayings and plays guitar so everyone's a bit of you know I'm you know interested but I am I mean they want to does it like a profession must be thrilled to actually see what's happening for you they are so proud and you were talking about you know consuming music quickly and I wonder if something isn't going to plea the new track home to you which is going to get a lot of attention because it's the soundtrack of or has been actually for the film even though it was a great mean and Felicity Jones So is that one of those ones where you do ready the track existed and then the thought comes we want this for the film or did you write it specially for it yet no that's a song that I roll with Steve Mock in here you know in London oh my how long is it you go like I want a year ago yeah. When we were just were writing a song and then we just started talking about our life and it was a really really nice session and we had some really good conversation about you know how it is to grow up in a move away from home and how that changes dynamics but you know how it's how it's all love and sometimes you miss your parents even though you want to be full grown up and I could do this myself have independent of them really Yeah exactly exactly so we wrote as we were about thong and then it was just in the bank in the folder firm for a while and then suddenly the movie the aeronauts approached us and asking if we had any music that would suit and we were like oh actually this song could we get it. And I was lucky enough to see the film before it was completely so exciting yeah and Felicity Jones and had to read mentor her Mayfair like I level her garters Yeah it's all good it's a great subject a daredevil balloon pilot teams up with a meteorologist in Seoul of advancing human knowledge of flying higher than anyone in history will look let's have a little flee home to you from secret. Ladylike . Knew I had. Soon. But I see. Where. There's you. See. When There's a. Way I think. I think. They were just. Not good enough oh my goodness the parsonage emotional punch was sitting there with them in motion people who've seen the film in cinemas in the weeks to. Film in the extraordinary visuals Yeah so interesting just thinking about heating your voice which seems so pure and so effortless but do you even it you young is you have to kind of like be sensible and look after the voice. I have to but by the way this is pretty amazing I just realized I've been playing this song wrong the whole tour. I forgot so I what I do and I'm really glad you played it obviously along and then the 1st chorus I under 1st night of the tour I play the full chorus and I was like This sounds a bit wrong doesn't it and the night after I played the Hoff the length of the 1st chorus I'm like oh yeah this sounds more right and I realized it's actually wrong see here we go I don't use stuff so they added that what I consider interest she is going to get it right for them tonight I'll do the remakes I've been doing the hold or I kind of like it that's what's fun about playing this song myself I'm sure that yeah I decide exactly what I want to do on the night do you want to go and in a way that kind of echoes how you so if you could you since you were a teenager. I enjoy that because of the other people you know what I want to hand over all everything else other than the performing to other people but I get impression you you'd like to be to have a focus over everything yeah I am like. I am a bit yeah are not having control busters the way it's good but I have a great team and I wouldn't do Hof of what I do without them. But back to your question regarding to like the voice and stuff of course I have to take care of it but I try not to get too complicated about it because I think I would. I don't know it's that could be borderline unhealthy sure you know I mean if you go if you try to think too much about what's good for my voice what's good for my family blah blah but you know smoking a pipe that's the main thing. Sigrid we should let you go all because you get a busy day ahead of you I'm glad you've had a chance to see the entire capital city and it's been lovely talking to you thank you for joining me likewise to talk to you thank you secret the gig tonight it was a shit hole sold. Into links to music program page program being the afternoon show with me Janice for size and we're talking to a familiar face from stage screen and music John Barrowman who as I'm sure you know spent his early years in Glasgow before the family moved to the us say nothing if not versatile he cut such a splendid dash Siphesihle Captain Jack Harkness and the revamped Dr Who made an incredible impact so much so that he was given his own spin off C.D.'s Torchwood He is also a musical theatre star and television presenter and I was doing something that many people want to do releasing a Christmas album it's coming out this week and he's taking the face divide on the road too so I spoke to John bottom of their lives today I asked him if he'd been wanting to be a Christmas album for a while this is a kind of a passion project for me in the sense that you know I've always been involved in pantomime at Christmas and shows that are kind of family festive fun and there for me with that you know I go back to when I was in East Kilbride in going to church with my mom and dad my brother and sister my gran and everybody and we'd go to a Christmas Eve Cervus and everybody would sing Christmas carols and Christmas songs and it was that kind of feeling of togetherness in you know a community in the celebration that you were having. Together and for many many years I can't I lost that because I always felt that you know being part of the. Plus. Unity that for a long time those kind of celebrations we were unwelcome into so I wanted to do a Christmas album where many people who don't feel they can go into those situations to reclaim that festive feeling to reclaim the family to reclaim the togetherness and that was why I have always wanted to do this at this kind of album to put my twist on and to put the songs I love the most is really interesting especially with the title a fabulous Christmas I mean I can understand you know the element of yeah let's embrace the fabulousness But yeah goes beyond the surface glitter and tinsel if you like into something deeper yet does it goes into the heart it goes into the community if I can see that because one of the great things that I used to love when I would do pantomime with Jeanette mean crying and go was legend Absolutely and we you know we we brought the kind of that feeling of family and celebration to the s.e.c. In Glasgow and yeah and one of the big things that we used to do in Christmas Eve and we never used to say much about it but we just did it we would always saying you know jingle bells and then we would sing as with the audience we would at the end of the evening and Christmas Eve would sing Silent Night and yeah to hear an entire audience of 3000 people singing Silent Night and everybody from every different background all different cultures you know together singing to celebrate the birth of a child is one of the most beautiful things that you can listen to in Jeanette and I used to burst into Tell her that it is halfway through just looking at each other go this is a bit it's not thing as you say it's a community of people coming together which is a lovely thing and we do do often enough but also this year those hidden and songs and cattles I know that you do a whole bunch of different kinds of songs but you know any limits talked about this really well when she did her album of Christmas songs to her straight back to you know growing up in Aberdeen and heeding those and if you don't have to have religion so to speak and that can be a you know a point real poignancy about. That's it and I agree completely with irony in the fact that you know you don't have to have a religious grown to enjoy the beautiful music and the score in the way that that you're picked up and swept away with the stories that are you know encapsulated in the songs and in fact one of the ones that is really close to my heart and it's I tried to put something a little bit Scottish into every album that I do and the one where I did my vision which is an old Scottish him and that's one of my favorite hymns and I remember that as a child and sang it and high school and when we went to the States but to combine that with the way in a manger though the there is at least Yeah it's to be really when I was recording Oh my musical director Bryn comes from a very religious background his family his dad and mom and dad were missionary preachers and when he and I were doing the album and I started singing be there my vision I actually couldn't get through the 1st part of the song and I looked up through the window into the studio where he was and he was in tears and I just stopped and I said let's just bring him back a wave of emotion isn't it is bringing back everything from your childhood that you remember and that you've kind of lost and forgotten sure and that you that you loved but you were kind of taken away from so if that's what it is reclaim this play this in your car play in your kitchen play it Christmas leave play it wherever you are and reclaim your Christmas fabulousness and part of that Christmas fabulous for me and this is a to do with the try I'm going to place the most wonderful time of the year because part of the joy of growing up in the seventy's is watching the Andy Williams Christmas show yeah it's like and I want to live there with that pertained sort of real family without That's right the only thing the only thing they didn't do was fight but we knew what went on behind the scenes that we let. Don't go there Joe No no no no but that you've got you're absolutely right that song for me again it brings out our say this song you know the most wonderful time of the year brings together again kind of the feeling of Christmas to the to celebrate but also I wanted to do a little bit different Yeah so we tried to bring in a more modern feel to it you still get the lush big sound of the song however at the beginning we give you kind of a feel of the movie a la la land so we've tried to put the John Barrowman twist on all of these songs and yeah just have a listen and see what you think. Good. It's the most one. With. Big old Joan bottom and fabulousness all over the. Top that try it's quite difficult to say fabulous n'est most wonderful time of the Irish so that one of my faves and I'm sure for most people listening there will be a sprinkling of the air faves through this album which clearly Jordan a heck of a lot of thought is going into as you say there's the bottom and twist but just embracing all the different sides of Christmas because it can be a fabulous time for people and also it can be a difficult trying to pass right in the there's a there's a lot of poignancy and a lot of the songs that are in the album for instance you have a Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas which is extremely poignant and then you go into things like you know celebrating the birth of a child when a child is born Silent Night or holy night so yes I mean I don't want everybody to think that Christmas is not always perfect for everybody but it doesn't mean you can't celebrate exact hand you can have the challenges that Christmas bring you know some for some families and some people out there but it's how you deal with it and as I've said to people over the years we have a great time at Christmas in our family but we've had some terrific rows too. But the best part of it is to accept everybody for who they are what the are if you have the right have the road get over it and continue to celebrate on and doing exactly and I and you do such and situations because you're recalling Allie memories of the Scottish Christmases but then when you went to the States again for me growing up and seeing the states through movies and television and everyone had those big 3 G.'s and the kind of the groceries and brain paperbacks and they had massive Christmas trees and we did much more Exchange now of course the years go into has absolutely Christmas but it used to be much more new year how were you struck by a contrast when it came to Christmas in the states yeah we were and I member the 1st time we went over to the states and it was 1771 and we. Came back to Glasgow in 71 and the 1st thing I did when I walked into our kitchen and most Veron and I walked in and I said to my Mother Gee Mom What a cute little fridge that is. So yeah everything was bigger everything was in a much grander scale our Christmas tree had never been you know we had a name food I think 7 to 9 foot Christmas tree in the house in the States when we when we went over. The grandness of all there's a complete difference but you know the one thing that. We still when I'm back in Glasgow when I was doing panto and living in a hotel room you know I had a small Christmas tree so yeah it's all relative to what we're used to and what you just get in for some tinsel and something and it's fine and you're going and this is the day because you're tutoring as well and you are so you know doing a Pontiac Christmas show with a cranky. Armadillo with the kind of stage version of this what's it like for you being a we you know in the run up to Christmas is just me if you support organized with all your shopping and everything well I actually it's super stressful However I'm one of those people that I have got everything in a cupboard in the gallery just got to cupboards in the garbage where I pick Christmas gifts and I buy them through the year hole so I'm going to Christmas cupboard and then when I go back to the states Oh and I think it's the 17th of December Yeah I take one of the cut we've got a 4 car garage and I think one of the cars a big table in the middle of it I put tape down in the middle and I block off into sections put people's names on it and that's startling the present so this can and we show well you hate you little by little Christmas wrapping come come come wrap a package with baramin And there you go. So we do that and then I've got all that done and then that goes under the tree and then when family members come they've got the wrapping station in the gallery where they can go and not be bothered and no one can see the presents that everybody's bought for each other yes so I'm slightly organized in that way to be I think I was always going to be very organized No I had my own special if you don't 2 and other but also sort of slightly face to be because of ice news I t.v. And I'm sure returning to Dancing On Ice is one of the the judges that's right is there is a dream gig for you given that you get practical experience as a contest. Well the thing is that I love the fact of I was a judge also ordered some of their Andrew Lloyd Webber Yes the programs if you remember of course do anything and things like that. So I love being a judge I love giving critique to people I love also celebrating when they do something really whale and it's you know I love being entertained so Dancing on Ice for me brings all of that into one and the fact that I do as you said have practical experience having been on the ice I know what the contestants are going through I know what they're expected to do and I also know the pain yes they're in when they're doing it so I'm really really looking forward to it and I think I'll be a lot of fun and thank you Payne you know ankle injury in the jungle this time last year exactly right oh oh yes it was and in fact I've just been back in the jungle I was doing the extra countdown there for a few days to launch this new season in series and yeah it's amazing to think that a year ago today I was going to spiders and you know doing all sorts of stuff in the jungle and actually sitting if you think about it sitting in isolation not knowing what's going on in the world yes the most bizarre feeling but yeah I found it to be one of the most honest if I can say cathartic well to Michigan the state of the world trying to lead me to being away from all might be quite refreshing and incidentally congratulations a big thumbs up for the not sure here no doubt here shortened 3 yes so insecure men and women just making that decision to do it but have reactions been I think great thank you very much reactions have been absolutely you know if I can say fabulous prior there's been a couple of people who have said go back to the dark here but I am when I had the conversation I was in the kitchen in our house in Palm Springs with my husband Scott and 2 friends of ours were there and we were discussing it and during the discussion I was just you know seeing why I wanted to do it and turned and looked at my husband Scott and he was in tears and I said why are you crying and he said well because he said I find emotional talking about it he said and I said well you're fine. Emotional because you're seeing a part of me that you know that's going to go away and it's not going to be like the Paris and I'm still going to be that same Paris and however just with a different color hair. You know so anyway later that day away and had all died and came back and. Ah. I see the complete opposite you know as a new pair of. Freshly relation you don't live in an old biddy Yes exactly but the funny thing is and I'm not saying this to toot my own horn but people have actually said to me they've said you actually look a bit younger with the gray here because you've got a younger feast with the older looking as a thank you very much I think the contrast that is supernatural coloring look if you go into the subject here but you know John how the. Sunday night I have a brilliant time and happy Christmas when it comes Happy Christmas to you and I'm looking forward to the Glasgow audience because they get it and we have a blast oh there you go John Bowman his album a fabulous Christmas his own Friday 2 singles when a child is born in the one we played the most wonderful time of the year we sing in lieu songs and best of show the s.e.c. Armadillo in Glasgow on Sunday night don't forget to keep your suggestions coming in for a cracking so concludes the show with that pieces a choir a 2 to 95 in the text. Afternoons or via the afternoon shows Facebook page and the secondary we're going to be doing a lot of choose reviewing and hearing about an exhibition of work by pushing just Paula so here's some music from Portuguese Scotia musician Sue show otherwise known as she she's got a lot on on Saturday and in-store gig in Edinburgh in the afternoon and then the evening she says some a whole host of interesting artists in a moment from she this is amah. a she that is. The good news is she is taking part in an event called fair play at summer hall and Edinburgh and this is part of. The fear Saturday the don't get confused if you live in what the fear holiday in the middle of the summer nothing to do so punch in every day I'll explain as best I can this Friday is Black Friday the Internet going crazy with deals for Christmas shopping frenzy buying stuff we don't need and the antidote to that is a global movement which wants to improve the world through arts and culture and it's known as fear Saturday f.e.i. So this year there's a double whammy because it falls and soon which is great for us to go and celebrate and see some terrific artists some of the whole of it and such and it's called fair play and Osho case the work of some of the musicians writers and artists that the venue has supported over this year. Jenny Fagan a musician maker Reagan a little king which is how does it come about is if the show is produced or something they're both with me Jenny is an editor and welcome both to be here. You're so busy so we're delighted that you joined us today so what you make of this is an interesting concept isn't it because it's so much. Diversity about Black Friday absolutely is kind of the antithesis to that and it's really great because a lot money goes towards the r.s. Development programme so are as they need time or space or some support some are Hall all of the proceeds will go back and so that and as the global movement is trying to make sure that people you know need access to time to make our music our . Can can get that yeah and some a whole journey is important to so many different people because you don't recently talking about cannot use the stage adaptation of your book but another big focus for years been working as a writer in residence at summer whole this year the Galvin Wallace fellowship tells a wee bit about yes I'm there for the feel here is the poor in residence and I've been. A huge builder and there's so many talented people there and I can go and meet people and chat to them and then I find out they had a bone liability and some are Hall because it used to be the biggest that and every train and police and you tip when it was the deck that the royals like that and so I find a whole bunch of bones up in the answer that could have been given with poetry have been right in and the bell done in I've been working in the workshop with the workshop guys who actually look after you know the boy. And I am in the car night and believe in my bones of poetry but you know it's a that I mean isn't going to do and it's a brilliant build and to work and news just loads loads of stuff to be inspired by is one of those buildings as soon as you walk in whether you're going to see a show or be on stage it's just like you just feel this extraordinary atmosphere in all the rooms actually it's very atmospheric here you can imagine all of the shows that have gone before for the walls could talk about veteran Walls Could Talk Never mind that I'm sure To me the number of thrillers and stuff like that and interesting interesting bits that could come from the so you you've been associate musician summer hole so what does that encompass I just wonder what the what the place has meant for you that's a scheme. I'm not sure how long it's been going on but myself and Harry Harris a really brilliant songwriter from Edinburgh are part of it and we've been part of it for about a year we heard it just the start of the year we heard report of it on really really good to be really really helpful it involves some rehearsal space and involves being part of these gigs that are coming up but the most useful thing really is being part of summer holds building on having like a stamp of approval and we know the people say and some are whole is interested in what you're doing as an artist and that's been very very helpful it's a really important scheme I hope it keeps going on for as long as it can because getting something off the grind takes a lot of energy and it takes a lot of goodwill and takes a lot of patience and sobbing Somerhalder kind of guy yeah and keep you on track and have some gigs in the diary that keep you on track has been really helpful so keeping track just the yaks it must be dispiriting at times if you're working largely on your own I mean obviously collaborative artists to be a musician see to make it a fight you're on the show companies it's to a 16 at the Edinburgh Festival one of our life shows with a show grease or Belfast and I mean just. Example you are just for folks who don't know about it you know it doesn't fit neatly into any particular category Yes I have to explain myself at the end again and with great difficulty but I write poetry and I use instrumental music and I use songs to make concept albums really and the 1st one was a pipe Belfast and it fitted best in a theatre space really so composer but then I sort of find myself being called a theatre maker but all I want to do with it was make a weird gig really and people miss T.V.'s and make a theatrical gig and this time from a 2nd album I'm really interested in going down the music route to me and I'm regarded as you know recording artist and running doing these gigs that are slightly theatrical and I still use talking and things and poetry Well let's actually. A little moment from Chris or Belfast so should I just play that and whiz you back to your past yet here we go. It's like a. Sorry Odyssey like. It's some. It's like a long but it's this kind of turf. Stories I guess Clay. Sat. Next to me. Like it already you know I mean the people there they know what it is that the very foundation of the things that houses the I'm. Sorry. The very. Slack. Not just the surrounding in s.w. . And in. Every. Place. But here changing for some in the service that. Sometimes this. Black. City searches. Of building. Each ship is just fantastic I love the idea of some driving along the car just made a cup of tea and that comes on I you know that works so well no not really does this very beautiful and that's so that she did the live show but that's on the album. It was a live show and because it's such a music focused experience we recorded it like an album so we sold it I can all of them and the 2nd up. And that I'm working on now is more of a straightforward kind of gig experience I love doing the theatre thing but as you say a composer and didn't really expect it and it was such a gift that to say 2 years ago to do things like that but I always I always wanted to do the gay thing as wanted to be in spaces that Somerhalder are Kriti and very glamorous and go on very late at night with a big crowd and a very lively crowd I always want to do it out there then get to scratch that itch so so that's what this is all come back to the album a moment Janie It's just when you are as the writer and so much of this is on your own and you just had to talk about just that feeling of support you get from some a hole but you know had absolutely a flavor of things I mean you do collaborate in all sorts of things including film and and all those things we don't pigeonhole you specially with that stage adaptation or Panoptic and that must have been just a glimpse of a of another world I think really embrace that I adored working on a national theatre called my brilliance of our growth and all of the people of Arts and it was so talented and just so committed to you know it was there it was it was a brilliant thing to do in and I love being in summer hall and chance of people you know watch at the post sometimes he's been there 45 years really all kinds of things and I find there is a there was a shooting range in the basement and whittled were 2 in the vets used to go zone it in their lunch out apparently after they be drunk I don't know and I know and then there was another demand is rumored to have been registered to Egypt so way back because the things that the region in the Arab are not technically legal and debts and so I'm always failed at these interesting things and I've been and attend. A big piece based in the 1980 s. And and some a whole when it was the royal deck and I am a bit novel next year lock in this so it's been really nice to be able to get separate shit from lots to different species and lots of different summer holders can be more support of their just brilliance they weren't worth. I think we just. Soak up the atmosphere right know people. And what's going on but not tell us a little bit of the street forward musical part of the new album it's been really really interesting the differences have been huge and to reiterate some or all of them is so important in helping me you know graduate and move into the music field that I wanted to very different beasts that they're both them take a lot of time and effort to do but it's I'm learning I want to be an artist with a foot in each comp in that regard I want to possibly just alternate make a theater show and make an album that's what I'm most interested in and this album is still kind of sort of theatrical it's where's it's framing quite lately it's a bit of a train journey really by 2 points Longdon we open up in London and then we get to go much or in the end and go much as you know most recently nobody to beautiful Scottish island quite remote just off the coast of all over which is off of mole. And I had those 2 points in mind when I was making the album and I was all I want to just kind of a bookend to places began and and and and and it's the journey in between those 2 places that kind of what the album is about. And. Some a whole being supportive of each other musicians working with us still very much you know invite I work like I love when my favorite band is Divine Comedy and we have this kind of centerpiece neon and he you know is just absolutely wonderful and he works with this roster of musicians so thankfully I've been able just to work with my current setups to violence piano and myself and it's like a little small tight on song and we have different musicians coming in a night but it's the it's the same material and again thanks to some or all of been able to say I kind of old call musicians and go I've got this thing associate artist would be interested and generally people are like Oh Ok you got that thing out I'll check your I'll give you go people love it I could listen to the Peter g. Oldie and it says this is something called the 3 O'Clock news happening in just a few. 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