Paradise Talks - Industry Insiders

In this episode live from The Ministry, SE London we talk about the excitement artists, events organisers, and venues have around mapping out killer schedules packed with incredible experiences across the next 18 months and beyond.Joined by, Owen Kent, Head of Events at Raymond Gubbay, a division of Sony Music, Suzanne Bayliss, Festival Director at Vision Nine Group, Creative Director Nick Jekyll, and hosted by Paradise Talks and Soho Radio presenter, Emma Bartholomew.

Today we’re having a power brief one-to-one with the founder of one of the most exciting and acclaimed non-alcoholic drinks brands on the market, Caleño. Caleño Drinks was born out of personal frustration. Founder Ellie Webb was on an alcohol-free night out with friends & felt uninspired by the alcohol-free drinks on offer, so decided it was time to bring some joy to not drinking. Fuelled by Latin positivity, Ellie set out to infuse the sun-drenched flavours of Colombia, her homeland, with her non-alcoholic spirits. 

When you think of sexy brands or even products that would be sexy to sell, life insurance probably wouldn’t be high on the list.Beyond being presumed dry or dull, there’s the taboo around the subject of death and a reluctance for us as consumers to face up to our own mortality and think about what happens to our loved ones after we’ve gone. So, today we’re looking forward to an open and candid chat with a guest who represents a life insurance brand that is so far from boring or corporate that it might just make you sit up and listen.Banishing taboos, opening up the conversation around death and what happens to the people we love after we’re gone, and doing it all in the cleverest of irreverent and appealing ways is the brand, DeadHappy. Joining me to tell us how genius branding is done when it comes to the unspeakable, is DeadHappy’s Head of Brand, Eddy Edwards

To say that this has been a difficult or unprecedented year for the festival community would be a cliche understatement. It doesn’t come close to describing the stress or chaos that the pandemic has impacted on the sector. We’ve now moved into a period beyond a full year in which organisers, promoters, crews and artists alike are grappling with more uncertainty than we’ve ever encountered. As this podcast is brought to you by Paradise, the agency for entertaining brands, we can’t expect or pretend to solve the mountain of issues facing the festival sector as we record this episode, from the daily cancellations to debates around Covid passports and the lack of government-backed insurance, but what we can do is to explore the resourcefulness, creativity, innovation and bravery of those operating in the festival industry as they approach solutions around planning and maintaining the conversation with their audiences, keeping their brands relevant and alive, in these strange times. Through our conversation, we’ll ask, is it possible for festivals to plan, promote & keep their audiences engaged & hopeful on shifting sands?

To mark International Women’s Day, we’re bringing you a special edition of Paradise Talks. We thought we’d celebrate this important day by chatting to some of the powerhouse women at the heart of Paradise.Today we’ll talk about life and work for women in the creative industries, how the landscape has changed and is evolving and pay homage to some of the incredible creative women who’ve inspired us to get to where we are today, those paving the way for the creative women of tomorrow and how we can nurture and encourage that next generation of creative women...

With a panel of TV industry professionals, Paradise will be discussing whether we have or could ever reach saturation point with premium streaming services. Are we drowning in them or just indulgently spoilt for choice?Guests in this series:Jamie Hall - COO of the Scripted Division - Pulse FilmsTom Dods - Relationship Director, Tech, Media & Telecoms - Barclays

Emma Bartholomew (Paradise), Paul Pacifico (AIM), Roy Lidstone (A&Gsync) will be discovering the goods, bads, successes & stresses in the music industry over the past 6 months. We’ll explore the new normal for artists, labels & sync teams, and get the experts’ take on how things look from here.

Hi, I'm Riva Taylor. I'm a singer songwriter and a founder of a small independent label Imprint. I started my career many years ago and I started singing when I was seven on the Westend stage, but I got my first record deal when I was 12 and so this talk for Paradise London is going to revolve around giving some advice for young artists or people considering a breaking in on the music industry, things to consider and maybe some things to avoid. So number one, be outside the box. The beauty of the music industry is that you can be champion for being as different as possible. Don't be boxed. Don't be genre specific straddle genres and be your own thing. It's something that I have learnt in adulthood and I certainly wanted to, to find my own lane and my own path when I was younger and I felt the music I was performing then wasn't quite right for me. So yes, if you feel it deep down, go with your guts and, and be yourself. Number two. Team, now team is everything. Your team are as good as you, and you were as good as your team. If it doesn't gel, move on. If it does gel however big or small or experienced or not your team are, if it's the right magic combination, you can, you can grow and you can achieve together.So, yes. If it feels right, then my advice is stick with the team, leave them if they're not answering the phone. Do not stay with them. Point three, take time to develop and find out exactly what it is that you are and hone the music style. I'm not saying you should take five years to develop an album like I have.But it can take that long. And you know, meeting new people, developing a relationships and a close core of musicians around you. Is so important. And when you feel like you've got that sound right, go and test the market. You never know what could happen. And the most important thing is you're confident in that sound. Point four, make lots of noise. And I don't mean going to stand on the top of a mountain and scream. I mean, get involved in as many things as possible. Again, if they remain, if you remain true to yourself and, and your, your values as, as a brand, which we all are as musicians, why not meet as many people as possible? perform at as many venues as possible.Write as many songs as you can, uh, if that's what you do constantly. Be working, be finessing, and be growing as an artist. Being an artist is all about development and you never know where these are different relationships, these different opportunities could lead you. It's all about the stars aligning at the end of the day.I'm a firm believer in that. And lastly, point 5, be happy. I know that sounds really simple, but if you're not happy as a musician, it's too hard. It's too hard to not enjoy what you do. Yeah. You have to wake up every day and love what you do, and we'll find the joy, even if days are hard and, and the paychecks aren't coming.And the longterm vision is so important and belief in yourself and that thought, they can you, yeah. Bring you joy. So yes. The happy music brings you joy. Well, I hope that's been a little helpful for some of you. If you're not in the music industry, maybe I've put you off, but thanks so much for listening. Bye.