Join us this week for a zencast to sunnier climes as we chat to Artistic Director of Les Arts , Valencia Jésus Iglesias Noriega. Jésus has been doing brilliant work at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía - the incredible building in Valencia which is home to Les Arts , with a huge focus on social responsibility. There are productions specifically for Under 29s, prison performances, opera in a truck heading to remote villages, performances in homes for the elderly and so much more. It is a breath of fr...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 8
You join your two hosts on a car journey between Plymouth and Bath, just over a week into the Rob Brydon tour 2024. What better time than now to discuss in detail Seb's list of items he has packed for this trip? How many pants is too many? Can you re-use socks for multiple gigs? Can he maintain his rigorous skincare regime while away from home? All these questions are answered, and deep-rooted memories unearthed in this week’s episode of Three In A Bar (or Two In A Car). With a supply of Devon-t...
Mar 11, 2024•49 min•Season 2Ep. 7
What? Another podcast with the thoroughly excellent Jeremy Pritchard? Oh yes….we couldn’t pack it all into one episode so here’s an extra slice where we chat to Jeremy about his time on tour with Foals , some Kent conversation and comparing notes on small venues across the UK. If you are one of our excellent Patreons and you are listening to this early, thank you and well done! If you aren’t a Patreon and are listening on Thursday also thanks (but maybe just smidgen less!) Hosted on Acast. See a...
Mar 07, 2024•27 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In this week’s episode we are joined by bass behemoth (yep, it’s been too long since we used that word) and Everything Everything band member, Jeremy Pritchard. Jeremy dropped in for a chat ahead of the band’s UK tour and release of their new album Mountainhead - it’s an absolute belter btw, check it out if you haven’t already! We discuss early performances, making music videos, sartorial choices, hair bleaching and how the heck you put together a set list with 17 yrs and 7 albums worth of music...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Greetings from sunny Edinburgh! This week’s episode finds Seb & Verity on the Scottish leg of the Rob Brydon tour enjoying the delights of Edinburgh… Join them on a walking tour - not necessarily one that’ll make the Rough Guide any time soon as they reminisce about past Edinburgh festival experiences, answer more listener questions and take in the sights and sounds of the city. SUPPORT THREE IN A BAR ON PATREON Join our Members’ Club for a bonus podcast feed plus many more rewards. Click he...
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 1 min
In this week’s episode we welcome back the brilliant Rachael Lander to chat about her recent ADHD diagnosis. Rachael is cellist on the West End production of Frozen and is a busy freelancer & session player as well as being a mother of two…..Chuck ADHD into the mix and her journey as a recovering alcoholic and life isn’t always straightforward. Rachael speaks about getting her diagnosis and how this has enabled her to make sense of elements in her life that have previously caused difficulty ...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In light of the recent announcements of redundancies in the Orchestra and Chorus at ENO and the extraordinary circumstances surrounding them we felt compelled to record an episode to chat through what on earth is going on. On 15 February orchestra & chorus members started receiving formal redundancy notices - some reporting they’d heard in the interval of their final performance of Handmaid’s Tail, having to then go on and complete the show. This comes in light of the MU recently calling off...
Feb 17, 2024•28 min
In this, the first of our regular Q&A episodes, we asked listeners to send in their questions, to which we gave answers. You know how it works, we don't need to explain the concept to you, do we? Just how do we both balance being parents of two whilst being busy freelance musicians, when our other halves are also busy freelance musicians? What do we wish we could say to our 20 year old selves? What's the best way to approacvh working with people when you're starting out in the music world? A...
Feb 12, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 2
We're back at long last for Series 2 (can we call it that after 108 episodes?!) and what a fabulous guest to kick off 2024 - It's none other than West End leading lady Carly Anderson. Carly recently starred as Polly Baker in Crazy For You at the Gillian Lynne Theatre and her extensive list of credits include Glinda in the International tour of Wicked and Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum. Seb and Verity caught up with Carly pre show at the Gillian Lynne in late 2023. Conv...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Merry Christmas podfriends! Verity & Seb make a brief return for some seasons greetings, 2023 reflections and plans for 2024…. Thanks for listening to TIAB this year and for your continued support. Back with much more in ‘24! You can follow Three In a Bar on Instagram @threeinabarpod https://www.instagram.com/threeinabarpod/ We are on Twitter @threeinabarpod https://www.twitter.com/threeinabarpod Anything you’d like to share with us? Any guests you’d love to hear or anything you’d like us to...
Dec 22, 2023•15 min
This week's episode features prolific artistic rollerskater - possibly better known for being one of the most prolific conductors of his generation, Duncan Ward. Duncan is Chief conductor of Philharmonie Zuidnederland and Music Director of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra. This November he makes his Barbican debut conducting the LSO in two exciting concerts featuring Abel Selaocoe and Isabelle Faust (ticket link in show notes). Seb and Verity meet up with Duncan in a very lovely room in the dep...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Welcome harmonious hooligans to episode 107 of Three In a Bar! (Thanks for that chat GPT) In this week’s episode Seb and Verity chat to founding members of the Neoteric Ensemble Toby Street and Adrian Miotti. It’s exciting times for Neoteric as their debut Album ‘ Volume 1 ’ has its launch night on 8 November at The Pheasantry (link to tickets below). With entirely new compositions written for the group by composers including TIAB pal Charlotte Harding and Misha Mullov Abbado, this album is an a...
Oct 13, 2023•40 min
In Episode 106, Seb and Verity are joined for a chat (and some top grade pastry based products) by drumming titan, Darren Beckett. Darren has worked with countless artists including Brandon Flowers , Madeleine Peyroux , Van Morrison and Lauryn Hill and was a member of the band Ambulance LTD . Equally at home across a multitude of styles and genres, recently Darren was the drummer for The National Theatre’s multi award winning show Standing At The Sky’s Edge. Seb and Verity shared a highly enjoya...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 13 min
In this week's episode Verity teams up with another guest presenter, well more of a TIAB regular in fact...it's old pal of the podcast Phil Donnelly. Phil has worked his magic and fixed up a chat with Nashville based singer/songwriter Jill Andrews. As luck would have it, he will be joining her on tour in just a few weeks time when she heads over for the UK leg. (Tour dates in link below) Jill chats about writing her new album Modern Age and some of the themes and inspirations behind it. We disco...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Look who’s back for round two! It’s the sickeningly talented singer, songwriter, composer, trumpeter, arranger, member of PSB (the list goes on!) and friend of the pod JFAbraham (Jonny Abraham). He first appeared way back in Episode 5 when he was in the process of recording and finalising 10 tracks he’d written…it was proving tricky for him to unlock them and he was struggling to work out a way to get them from his head into the world. Fast forward three years and the album A Different Kind of L...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 12 min
In episode 103 we join Verity on a day trip to the seaside to meet Bear’s Den’s drummer and multi instrumentalist - proud Brighton resident Jools Owen. As luck would have it, Journalist, author and broadcaster Rachael Taylor is a fellow local and kindly agreed to guest co-host this episode…don’t you love it when a plan comes together?! Verity and Rachael chat to Jools about all things Bear’s Den, touring & festivals….they touch a raw nerve when Rachel brings up the ‘ Highlands & Islands ...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Who’d have thought it? Back in 2019 when two fresh(ish) faced, young(ish) podcasters headed off to South London for their first recording, armed with all the gear and little to no idea, that they’d be hitting the 100th episode mark and still be going!! No one? Thanks a bunch…. So here it is, episode 100 and for this special edition Seb and Verity are joined by multi-instrumentalist legend and dear friend Hannah Lawrance. Hannah stipulated from early days that she would only come onto the pod if ...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 20 min
In this bonus edition of TIAB, Seb and Verity chat to cellist, arranger, composer and the brains behind Map a Muso Susie Winkworth. Susie discusses the inception of her new business, what the catalyst was and how it works - Map a Muso helps match players with fixers and gigs in their area…a kind of musical speed dating if you will! There is chat about gigs from hell, shared experiences of journeying around the country both good and bad and Verity tries out another of her ill advised quizzes. Wil...
Jul 27, 2023•54 min
Hot on the tail of our episode with composer Aileen Sweeney we've got another Cheltenham festival special with BBC Young Musician of the Year, percussionist Jordan Ashman. Jordan is performing in concerts in the festival on 11 & 12 July so if you are speedy you can still catch him there! (link below) Seb and Verity chat to Jordan about the whole BBC Young Musician process, brass banding, music college life, making instruments with his dad, future plans, Glastonbury and much more. There are s...
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min
In the first of two special episodes linked to the Cheltenham festival, this week’s guest is composer Aileen Sweeney. Aileen has written a piece which forms part of the site specific work ‘Byrdwatching’ which premieres on sat 8 July. Even by TIAB’s usual standards this is a brilliantly bonkers episode which careers around a whole host of subjects - with a smattering of music chat thrown in for good measure! Aileen talks about taking an extended break from composing, getting the rage at Ceilidhs,...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 20 min
In Episode 99 it's 'bring your husband to work' day as violinist, journalist and long suffering spouse of Verity, Rob Simmons guest hosts. What a perfect opportunity to thrash out any domestic issues...just kidding, it's all very amicable. Their guest is THE go to man for all things electric violin Benedict Heaney. Ben has spent his career and studies recording, performing and researching the electric violin and has pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved with the instrument. He also runs ...
Jun 17, 2023•1 hr 16 min
This week’s episode comes to you from the sweaty underbelly of the Bridge Theatre… glamour all the way! It’s a double guest week featuring viola player extraordinaire Abby Bowen, and filling in for Seb is friend of the pod and wunderkind violinist Millie Ashton. Abby (and Millie) can currently be heard performing in the incredible new production of Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre - ticket link below. She is juggling her 8 show weeks with trials at various orchestras which has armed her with...
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 6 min
We're back! Did you miss us? We missed you....and what a belter of a guest we've got to kick start this new series. It's none other than newly crowned Ivor Novello winning composer, artist, producer and broadcaster Hannah Peel. Hannah is truly hot right now with a plethora of awards and nominations to her name. She is a critically acclaimed film, tv and theatre composer - her Ivor was awarded for her score for The Midwich Cuckoos. She is an artist in residence at Kings Place where she will be cu...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 31 min
Hello podfriends! We’ve recorded a little ‘bonus’ chat directly from our Instagram live this week where Seb phones in from Brisbane. Conversation covers Seb’s adventures around Australia with Rob Brydon and his merry band, his quest to find Harold Bishop, birdspotting, Verity’s dream month at the National Theatre and an excruciating medical procedure…. Back very soon with new episodes and an exciting selection of fabulous guests! You can follow Three In a Bar on Instagram @threeinabarpod https:/...
Mar 31, 2023•56 min
This week’s guest wins the award for most glamorous location for a live link up - It’s internationally renowned ‘cellist Matthew Barley and he’s in the rainforests of Brazil! Matthew kindly took time away from his holiday to chat with Seb and Verity about his soon to be released album Electric . This album brings together a unique collection of works for cello and electronics from the last 40 years and features compositions by the likes of Anna Meredith, Joby Talbot, Jonathan Harvey and Oded Ben...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 10 min
This week Seb and Verity head to central London for a chat with British composer and conductor Jacques Cohen. TIAB regulars may well have heard our episode with esteemed arranger, violinist and educator Michelle Taylor Cohen - Jacques’ wife, in which he was oft mentioned so we were delighted to get the man himself! This episode is particularly monumental for having the (unverified) longest answer to a question in podcasting history….well done Jacques. We must point out it is both fascinating and...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 15 min
He can sing, he can dance, he can act….and he’s a dab hand with yer dahlias - it’s West End leading man Charlie Stemp. Seb and Verity caught up with Charlie in his (very lovely) dressing room at the Prince Edward Theatre in December, towards the end of his run playing chimney sweep Bert in Mary Poppins . Charlie chats about Crazy For You where he soon to be reprising his critically acclaimed role as Bobby Child when the production to the Gillian Lynne Theatre in June. They discuss how he plans t...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 16 min
This week’s guest is queen of the harp and all round magnificent human Camilla Pay. Milly is hugely in demand as a session player - the extensive list of artists she has worked with includes John Legend, Bette Midler, Beyoncé and Morrissey . She is on countless film soundtracks - most recently Matilda the musical , and had performed on many major TV shows. Warning: If you are hoping for some hardcore harp chat this might not be the pod for you - having listened to Nate Williams’ excellent In Ses...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 23 min
This week’s episode features British-Chinese composer, Alex Ho. Alex was the winner of the Critic’s Circle Young Artist Award 2021 , is the recipient of the PRS Composers’ fund 2023 and is a BBC Music Magazine Rising Star of 2022 . He also happens to be a flippin’ great guy! Seb and Verity met Alex back in November 2022, days ahead of the premier of his new work Carved in Gorton Stone , performed by the Manchester Camerata at Gorton Monastery. They discuss the premise of this piece and it’s site...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 13 min
We are going full steam into 2023 with a belter of a guest for you…it’s comedian, actor, broadcaster and acclaimed jazz singer Charlie Baker. Charlie has appeared on shows including The Last Leg , Never Mind the Buzzcocks , Richard Osman’s House of Cards and starred in the leading role of Tony Blair in Harry Hill’s Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) Seb and Verity met up with Charlie back in late October 2022 - you’ll understand why it’s taken so long to release when you hear the hair brained pla...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 23 min
