Spin The Wheel Podcast with The Edi Johnston Bit

So here it is…The Spin The Wheel Podcast with The Edi Johnston Bit   

Episode #09 is with a young man who seems older than he actually is! Ben Mark Smith has been a regular on the Nottingham Open Mic and gig scene for the past few years and plays great acoustic songs which crowds have gotten used to singing along with. He's a lovely guy and a good promoter too, putting on shows in and around Nottingham as well as being one of the organisers of the D.H Lawrence Festival in Eastwood.  

Ben sings really popular covers sets which folks seem to like singing along with but writes his own songs, and has been busy during Lockdown putting together his debut album, produced by Ben Marshall (Fine Art Society) with his new band - The Balancing Acts. He is a varied and interesting songwriter with songs that tell stories and tales of our modern society. With a following within Nottingham of both punters and performers, he always has good audiences and puts on great gigs throughout the town.  

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Paul is a Stand Up Comedian who has had an interesting and erratic past but manages to put all his life experiences into use when writing jokes for himself and for others to bring onto a stage. Paul is a comic artist too and has put together cartoons for a book (But Doctor, I am a Collection of Comic Strips by Paul Savage) as well as putting them out on his socials.   

Paul and I chat about many things which didn't make the edit, alongside these ones that did! - his fave roast and birthday, as well as how he got into Comedy and what music to play to a 4 year old to get them hyper before giving them back to their parents!  

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Anchor: https://anchor.fm/spinthewheelpod​​ 

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-Spotify​ 

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​ iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-iTunes

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Episode #07 is with a very old friend of mine (that's the fact that we've known each other for ages... not a slight on his age!!) Joe Fisher. Joe is one of the people that has encouraged me the most in pursuing my musical comedy and has been a great friend since we met compering at Greenbelt Festival in the early 2000s. He is a constant chatterbox which made this episode very difficult to edit!  Joe is a lovely feller and we talk about so many things - only some of them really relating to the questions. We chat about his childhood and his early years touring in Canada, him working at the Olympics and my part in that, his hero Roy Castle, as well as Joe reminiscing about his past life as a breakdancer!  

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Anchor: https://anchor.fm/spinthewheelpod​ 

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-Spotify 

Google: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-Google 

iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-iTunes  

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A while ago I bought a spinner wheel from IKEA because… well, why wouldn’t you?I haven’t really found a proper use for it until now. So here it is…The Spin The Wheel Podcast with The Edi Johnston Bit 

Episode #04 is with the whirling dervish (is that spelt correctly?) of a guitarist from Yorkshire's own rock & roll troubadours Hope & Social

Rich is a guy I've met a few times simply on the fact that I LOVE HIS BAND!!! (full disclosure) I've been lucky not only to see them play a bunch of times, but spend time drinking and chatting nonsense with them which makes him perfect Spin the Wheel fodder!

From running their own Garden Party, to organising bus trips to the Seaside, to Christmas gigs on trains, to Glastonbury, to the Tour de France - Hope and Social manage to get their infectiously positive outlook and joyous charm to their fans, local area, and local communities - see their Youtube Channel for video evidence!

Rich not only writes, plays, and performs with H&S but is also involved with musical projects of various kinds around Yorkshire - whether it's delivering seminars and lectures about business models at Universities or encouraging people to find their joy through music and performance. Rich has what he refers to as a "Portfolio Career" (which means he does bits of all sorts of things) which has meant that he's managed to forge a career path out of doing what he loves.... and is a grand feller to have a natter of a Friday to n'all!

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Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-Spotify

Google: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-Google

iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-iTunes

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A while ago I bought a spinner wheel from IKEA because… well, why wouldn’t you?I haven’t really found a proper use for it until now. So here it is…The Spin The Wheel Podcast with The Edi Johnston Bit 

Episode #03 is with the Nottingham born, 6'7" forward from the Leicester Riders Basketball team, Jamell Anderson  

Jamell is a great guy from Clifton in Nottingham who worked his way up through the British Basketball system to being one of the most established players within the Riders professional team in the BBL (British Basketball League)  Having played for Essex, Leicester, Cheshire as well as for England and Team GB, Jamell began to take his talents overseas and has played for teams in Spain and Australia. He represented England at the Commonwealth Games and even proposed to his long time girlfriend (and Manchester's WBBL star Georgia Jones) on the court after the tournament which was captured all over the BBC Sport website.  

Jamell is a great role model to young players, and a great guy to boot!

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Anchor: https://anchor.fm/spinthewheelpod 

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-Spotify 

Google: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-Google 

iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/Spin-the-Wheel-iTunes 

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I haven’t really found a proper use for it until now. So here it is…The Spin The Wheel Podcast with The Edi Johnston Bit.  

A random interview with random questions, chosen by the spin of the wheel! 24 questions, (one per each section on the wheel) focussing on everything or maybe nothing from any person’s life, loves and livelihood.  

Episode #02 is with the front woman from the most ecological band on the planet, the Weapons of Sound - it's Hannah Jordan!  

Hannah has been the inimitable fearless & fabulous front woman of WOS for a number of years and plays everything - including the Kitchen Sink! She has played gigs and done workshops with schools, youth groups, students, bankers, businessmen and has got all of them to realise the importance of teamwork and working together through the medium of hitting some rubbish with some plastic pipes.  

She's performed at Buckingham Palace, The Albert Hall, Wembley, Twickenham, the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, Glastonbury, Reading festival - and that's just in this country! Having travelled throughout Europe, Hannah and the band have spread the message of recycling and reusing rubbish far and wide and continue to do so wherever possible (worldwide pandemic permitting!)   

A bandmate and workshop leader with Edi for a number of years, Hannah is also a youth worker in Plymouth and helps young people in her work on a daily basis. Hope you enjoy the chat and natter and work out why "Hannah is Gravy" should be on the next band merchandise!  

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Welcome to the Spin The Wheel Podcast, with The Edi Johnston Bit!  

*THE IDEA* 

A while ago I bought a spinner wheel from IKEA because… well, why wouldn’t you?I haven’t really found a proper use for it until now. So here it is…The Spin The Wheel Podcast with The Edi Johnston Bit  

*WHAT IS IT?* 

A random interview with random questions, chosen by the spin of the wheel! 24 questions, (one per each section on the wheel) focussing on everything or maybe nothing from any person’s life, loves and livelihood.  

I’ll be having a chat with a guest from all areas of life and we'll Spin the Wheel 6 times – (one of those may well be rigged if there’s a question I REALLY want my guest to answer) – and then see whereabouts that chat might take us.  

That's it!  

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Episode #01 is with the man they call Hobbit.

Hobbit is a World Champion Beatboxer as part of the Beatbox Collective as well as being a multi time winner of both the UK Team and Loopstation Championships. He has performed with so many artists across the world and performed in front of huge crowds simply by being able to make a bunch of noises with his mouth! He now works with a bunch of other performers to run an agency called 5th Element as well as running the UK Beatbox Championships themselves. He's been a stage performer, working with theatre groups on tours where he has been the entire sound effects department, and has more recently paired with Jarred Christmas to create a Beatbox/Comedy show which has been not only a sellout show at the Edinburgh Festival, but toured throughout the country.

In addition to all this stuff, Hobbit was in The AFC alongside Edi for a number of years and is one of his oldest friends so this was a lovely chat between guys who have not seen each other for far too long - enjoy the random-ness of this interview/conversation in all it's glory!