Gonzalo Santamaria is a Spanish circus artist, producer, director, and Kaotic Cirkus festival coordinator from Valencia who trained in Bristol, UK, at Circomedia. This interview took place end of September 2020, so it has taken us a while to get it out to you, but it is a lovely interview none-the-less, with music from Spandex Moose, La Trocamba Matanusca, and yet another fabulous tune from The Invisible Circus' house band The Carny Villains.  Support us: ko-fi.com/monkeybusiness and please leave us a review, or a star-rating wherever you get your podcasts from: apple podcasts is the best ..read more

Francesca (Chez) Dunford is a clown, performance artist, musician, theatre-maker, acrobat and aerialist. She sat down with Miss Radida last week to chat about life as a multi-disciplinarian, share some of her own stunning original music from her album 'Of Forest', and talk about a new show she is in with Bristol-based clowning/ improvisation company 'Beyond the Ridiculous'. Their show 'The New Normal' airs live online at 8pm THIS SATURDAY 10th Oct, 2020, supported by Bristol's very own Wardrobe Theatre. You can watch the show online by buying a ticket at https://thewardrobetheatre.com/livethea ..read more

PART 2: Mike Finch, founding member of Australia's Circus Monoxide and ex-CEO/ co-Artistic Director of Circus Oz, sits down with Miss Radida for a nice long chat. Here is Part 2 of the  interview, took a bit longer than a week to get this out to you all as work has been pretty hectic lately. We suggest going all the way back to EPISODE 6 to listen to the first half of the interview first. In this episode we ask Mike about his addiction to working in circus, how he views circus life moving forward in the current pandemic crisis, and of course once again we have some more brilliant music fr ..read more

Here is the second part of the Interview GracieB did with the incredible Swedish performing artist David Eriksson.  In this episode David talks about his award winning show; Pink on the Inside, authenticity as an artist and he shares reflective stories about being onstage that also highlight the amazing colourful career he has.   We suggest if you haven’t already go back an listen to Episode 8: David Eriksson (part 1).  This episode will make more sense! We have a wickid track off the new Father Funk album (thanks Will!) David also shares a piece of music he did the vocals ..read more

In this episode GracieB chatted with incredible Swedish performing artist David Eriksson.  David mixes circus, juggling and acrobatics with absurd comedy making shows with characters that are bizarre yet wonderfully funny!  He has won awards, travelled the globe for the past 22yrs,  worked for some of the most renowned circuses and cabarets and made work that is deep and thought-provoking.  This was a long interview so we have decided to release it in two parts.  In this first part we chat about what it's like performing in the current climate, the need to address and ..read more

Kaptin Barrett, aka AAA Badboy, head of music at Boomtown Fair, DJ and self-confessed music addict joins Miss Radida and Gracie B for a chat about music, Boomtown Fair, and how festivals are coping during these uncertain times. We also play a bunch of great music of course, including the Invisible Circus's fabulous house band The Carny Villains, The Allergies featuring Andy Cooper, Gardna, and a track produced by Kaptin himself for the Big Swing Sound System. This episode was produced by Miss Radida and The Amazing Gracie B, and Gracie did the editing. Support us: ko-fi.com/monkeybusiness Link ..read more

Mike Finch, founding member of Australia's Circus Monoxide and ex-CEO/ co-Artistic Director of Circus Oz, sits down with Miss Radida for a nice long chat. It was such an entertaining conversation that once again we have split the interview into two halves for your listening pleasure. Here is Part 1, where we chat about how Mike got into working in the performing arts industry, life on outback Australian roads with a fledgling circus in the 80s, having meetings rudely interrupted by Australian fauna, and finding himself applying to be artistic director of Circus Oz- by ACCIDENT. As usual, we in ..read more

Julian Bracey, co-artistic director of Bristol-based performance company Cirque Bijou Ltd, sits down for a chat with Miss Radida and The Amazing Gracie B. We talk about his life as an artist and director, being known as the guy who can achieve huge things in a short amount of time, and how he sees the future of the arts industry given the current Covid-19 crisis. We talk about what it was like to build spaceships and 7 metre robots for rock-band Muse's tours, working with Taylor Swift and Take That, as well as featuring brilliant tracks by female world beatboxing champion Bellatrix, the soulfu ..read more

Artistic Director and performing artist Chelsea McGuffin from world-renowned Australian circus company, Company 2, joins Miss Radida to talk about life as an artist, running a circus company, and what that looks like in the current world climate- including yet another tale of a circus company stuck on the other side of the world when the Covid-19 lockdown came into effect. This time, they were stuck in Berlin with the full cast and crew of their current touring show "Le Coup". We also talk about past shows, including 2012's London South Bank Spiegeltent hit "Cantina" and finding herself on sta ..read more

Episode 3: Gracie B sits down with Australian musician and performing artist Ben Walsh.  We chat about Ben's passion for live jungle , his career with The Bird that spans over 2 decades and some memorable highlights of a very multi-dimensional career. We do swear a little, and there is also a drug reference and nudity warning for this episode! I really enjoyed this episode, Ben is very funny and his stories are excellent. SUPPORT US:  ko-fi.com/monkeybusiness Podcast FB page:https://www.facebook.com/amonkeyonyourback/ Podcast insta: @amonkeyonyourback Ben Walsh: www.benwalsh.info Mu ..read more