Every guest, the same eight questions.
Eight themes, every interview, no dodging. Pick one and see how different working lives stack up against it. Clips land here as each episode goes out.
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The eight themes
The Road In
How they actually got started. The first breaks, the lucky ones and the grafted ones, and why there's no single way in.
See the numbers on this theme →The Craft
Practice, prep, reading a room. What it actually takes to be the one who gets the call back.
See the numbers on this theme →The Gear
The instrument itself: guitar, bass, cello, voice. What they play, why that one, and the one they'd never sell.
See the numbers on this theme →The Money
How the money actually works: sessions, royalties, touring, teaching, and the gaps between paydays nobody warns you about.
See the numbers on this theme →The Body
Hearing, hands, backs, fatigue. What a working life on an instrument actually does to your body.
See the numbers on this theme →The Head
Nerves, pressure, identity. Looking after your head in a job that mostly doesn't look after it for you.
See the numbers on this theme →The Machine
AI, technology, and what a human musician is actually for. What the machine can't do, and where the craft goes next.
See the numbers on this theme →The Reckoning
Looking back and forward. What they'd tell their younger self, and what they actually make of it all now.
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