This weeks podcast is an interview with my friend and fellow cabaret artiste Luke Meredith, or Mister Meredith as he is better known. Luke is a singer, pianist and cabaret host as well as being the CEO of PBH’s Free Fringe.
So the first part of the interview is about how it works and how you can do Edinburgh Fringe as an artiste through PBH’s Free Fringe. Peter Buckley Hill started it 25 years ago.
It is a wonderful community who support and work together with each other in their shared venues through the highs and lows of taking a show to the largest arts festival in the world. Plus without it costing you thousands in venue fees.
Luke talks through the application, the ethos, the bucket speech and even how
taking a card machine is becoming essential. We also discuss how many award winning comedians and artistes also do PBH’s Free Fringe and what is the next step for 2021. Applications are open for 2021.
www.freefringe.org.uk
@thefreefringe on both Twitter and Instagram.
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/free.fringe/
The second part which starts at 18 mins in is about Luke’s own journey as an artist ‘Mister Meredith’ runs the Magic Faraway Cabaret at the Voodoo Rooms at Edinburgh Fringe, is a singalong pianist, vocalist and cabaret host. He has a Singalong Pub Quiz and has also taught ‘delivering a song’ which is where I met him as part of a course I did many years ago.
Instagram @mistermeredithluke
Twitter @mister_meredith
Facebook @mistermeredith
Great advice includes ‘Be true to yourself, find out what you do well and keep doing that. Listen to people. Be nice. You get booked very often as much as what you are like to work with, as much as how you are on stage.”
Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make Money
This podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends.
The book on mental, practical and financial tips on ‘getting your art in gear’ is being launched the weekend before Christmas 2020.
About me, Marysia Trembecka
I am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.
Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.
My ‘THE SINGING PSYCHIC’ who ‘reads the songs in your heart’ also has a GAME SHOW version, and was a finalist in Best Show, Funny Women in 2016, and I have toured internationally since then.
I have also produced five webseries as the character including my 23 episode SONGS OF BREXIT webseries I made for the June 2016 EU Referendum, on the pros and cons of the EU, I started the web series singing The Clash’s ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now’. It was very well received due to the blend of education and entertainment, and I ended up on London Live and even a BBC2 Live Debate on the National Living Wage amongst other press of the back of that.
I also was awarded Arts Council funding for research on a solo show on how we are all judged by our sexuality, so as part of that, I interviewed people on the cutting edge of sexual politics. From this I then created another character ‘Queen Of The F*cking World’ which has also toured internationally from Glasgow WOFF film festival in the female perspective strand to sell-out London, Edinburgh and Adelaide runs. I sing and play the bass guitar and guitar in this show.
My film acting credits can be found on IMDB and indeed my projects are on my media gallery
http://marysiatrembecka.com/media-gallery/
Marysia Trembecka
www.loveyourcreativity.com
@MarysiaT
