Arts Wholed

Deep in the New Forest in his secret woodland lair, no one can hear your cries of musical help, except Captain George Mills, inspector of ships and master of the dark arts of amateur panto. Listen if you dare. "It's behind you!!!"

Hackney local Ken Flaherty chats with Barney about running a gallery in the heart of Dalston, working as a photographer and retoucher and now exploring music composition through software. We also find out that Col has built himself a cocktail bar, out of pallets… #thepalletandpineapple

Richard Thomas is a British musician, writer, and comedy actor. He is best known for composing, writing and scoring the award-winning Jerry Springer: The Opera with book and additional lyrics co-written with Stewart Lee. Thomas collected the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Score in 2004 .Starting on 25 February 2007, BBC Two aired his series, Kombat Opera Presents..., comprising five standalone musical parodies of well-known television programmes. This is where Colin collaborated with him as a singer in all the tv parodies . https://youtu.be/hdgCcECB3zQ https://www.richardthomascreative.com/

In Episode 5 of Arts Wholed, Barney catches up with Singer and Songwriter Samantha Whates. Her website at https://www.samanthawhates.me/ describes her thus: Scottish singer-songwriter and Rough Trade Records recording artist Samantha Whates is a hugely respected figure on the London folk & roots scene. Her beautifully crafted, poetic songs retain a strong affinity with her Scottish roots, cultivating a sound that is thoroughly contemporary, rooted in tradition, yet uniquely her own. Because we can't fit complete artist's music performances in to the show as a separate listening experience - as we would like - due to time constraints, some of the tracks from her album Waiting Rooms which she recorded entirely on location in various waiting rooms around the UK and out now at https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-rooms?fbclid=IwAR0SHAUax2BcV0sI6xiSshlusozgh-klanI9o4I_UnnthD-hLDc4e-lflls play underneath the interview to give you an "amuse bouche" of her material.   Enjoy.

This week Colin is joined by international mezzo soprano Rosie Aldridge who worked with Colin and London’s Royal Opera House last Autumn . Find out all about Rosie at www.rosiealdridge.com (Barney would like to apologise as this is the THIRD time he's uploaded this, finally having untwisted his lower lingerie well enough to get his act together! x) 

In this week's Arts Wholed episode Barney chats with saxophonist Stuart Dace. Stuart was Chief Designer at Chrysalis Records, played sax on Primal Scream iconic album Screamadelica, has worked on many different projects including his own such as Lodekka and is the owner of an immaculate vintage VW Camper that Barney would very much like to be his...

In episode two of our splendid venture Colin Judson interviews world class soprano Louise Alder who was the last person he worked with prior to the moment the world stopped spinning in March.  They were performing in one of the last west end shows running before lockdown.

So here it is...the first in a series of podcasts by International Tenor Colin Judson and local musician Barney Green. We'll be chatting weekly about music and other things (but mainly music!) and interviewing friends in the industry, the idea being that through these check-ins you'll get a insight in to what it's like working in the Arts, whether singer, musician, performer, stage crew, technical, promo or whatever.  The subjects and chat will be wide-ranging which basically means we will go off-map, digress madly, seem to show little consistency and ping off on tangents strange at any given moment but this pretty much describes what the Arts are about anyway so...strap in, enjoy this first offering and get Arts Wholed with us.