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Busking – Covent Garden Style The Elusive Part-Time Job
‘Busking!’, the title above alone may make most opera singers turn their noses up and straight out of the room.
Muscle Memory
I did an acting class at the Actors Centre in London and the teacher, Nikki Flacks, said memorising lines is just a muscular activity.
Impulse vs Emotion
At the moment, I’m lucky enough to be doing a Meisner acting course with the Impulse Theatre Company. Yes, I know…an opera singer doing acting lessons?! Can this really be? Well, all I can say, is this is a new age of singing. Anyway, we had a talk, recently, about the difference between an impulsive […]
Part-time rant!
Ack, I know I’m not alone in the cash flow problems of working in the performing arts. Even after so many years in the industry I’m still working on ‘nipping this in the butt’. I’ve worked, honed and polished my skills and talents, but struggle to get the business side of things. The latest thing […]
The Audition
As I was walking to my audition, today, the themed music for the Death Star from the ‘Star Wars’ kicked into my head with a bit of ‘Spamalot‘ glitch thrown in for comic relief. Why is an audition so scary? In my head I can run through all the logic in the world, but all […]
A Delicate Balance – Work/Life
Well, this is not an original topic but, it seems to be one I’m always battling. I seem to spend a lot of time working at the administration work of being a singer and a lot less at the actual act of singing! It always seems like everyone else just gets work so easily, so […]
Boycott the Sony Radio Awards
There’s all the noise in the press about the Olympics and boycotting because of Tibet, well, there is something right here in the UK which needs to be boycotted and that’s the Sony Radio Awards. I’m saying this because I submitted 1 of my shows that I produced from the COMMUNITY radio station Radio Reverb, […]
A Singer’s Personality – what’s that got to do with it?
Well, I’ve read an article this month in the Singer magazine, Personality traits by Mark Glanville, about how the personality of a singer doesn’t always align with their voice type and the problems that can arise from such a situation. In fact, it goes so far as to say, “Many Singers less talented… and less […]