The last two podcast episodes have been fantastic, and I'm made up how season two is shaping up. We've had massive support for season two, and we have got a lot more great guest coming your way in the next few weeks. If you would like to be a guest on the podcast, don't hesitate to contact us here. For episode three, we brought back Dave Smith.

 In August, we recorded our first episode with our first guest Dave. Dave is a lighting engineer for Adlib sound and lighting. He's got an impressive list of clients he has worked and been on tour with, including; Bugzy Malone, Gerry Cinnamon, The Specials - to name a few. What struck me the most about Dave, through this episode and the last episode, it's brilliant to hear his passion and how genuine his love is for the arts and that it hasn't changed even what he has gone through. He was very insightful and very knowledgable around his field of work again, which spoke openly about the current circumstances surrounding the state of the live events industry, his personal development throughout this time of not being able to do what he loves.

For Dave and many other creatives, this new life must be a shock from touring everywhere, up at 6AM to not being in a routine that he is used too. He has done a few online gigs but its nothing better than live performance. This statement resonates through nearly every episode we have done to date of the podcast. We agree that you can not beat the live performance and experience the atmosphere that comes with it. It's heartbreaking that so many like Dave have been affected. We have got a long way to go, but we will all get there.

 It's a reason that we got Dave back on the podcast because we wanted to highlight the effect it has on not only production companies and theatres, but behind the scene creatives. They are an essential part of the creative process and significant to bringing a show to life. There is a sense of duty as a podcast to show and highlight the pandemic's reality/ destruction, and this episode is the harsh truth of that. Like many other people out there, Dave had to start again from scratch and adapt to the current situation that we all find ourselves. Overall it was brilliant to get Dave back on and it's an important episode to listen to. You will agree when you listen this Sunday.

Words by Christopher Woordward
Images by Andrew Smith