Making Creativity Pay

Welcome to ‘Making Creativity Pay’, this isn’t a podcast about making millions, more about speaking to people in creative industries whether that’s music, literature, art or anything that relies on creativity about how that ties in with making a living from it.

The aim is not about selling out any creative endeavour but to ensure that there is at least some way to pay the bills and keep the lights on, money can be seen to be a vulgar part of the process but getting fairly paid for the time, effort and expertise you put in to something shouldn't be a bad thing.

Recent Episodes

March 24, 2024

Award Winning Journalist Rachael Healy

“It feels like people do have to almost have a second career to support themselves. And it's not clear where the kind of goals or the safe spot is anymore where you can just fully concentrate on that thing” Rachael …

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March 18, 2024

Comedy and Medicine - Matt Hutchinson

“...people who go into medicine, often it's not so much just pure science people, it's people who've got maybe a bit more of a broader interest range than your standard person who just wants to be a scientist or a …

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March 11, 2024

Jay Lafferty and Kathleen Hughes - Comedy in Scotland

Ahead of the Glasgow comedy festival which runs from the 13th to the 31st March I spoke to comedians Jay Lafferty and Kathleen Hughes two Scottish comedians who are performing at the festival. We talk about Kathleen’s experie...

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March 3, 2024

LMAOnaise - Crowdfunding, Journalism and Newsletters

“Finding out information about comedy, if you don't already know what you're looking for can be ridiculously overwhelming” This episode I spoke to Zoë Paskett founder of LMAOnaise a website, newsletter and soon to be newspape...

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Feb. 26, 2024

The Lancashire Hotpots - 21st Century Folk

"With the advent of social media and Myspace as was, we sort of got a bit of a following and we've been growing our audience ever since" This episode is with Sheldon Southworth AKA Dickie Ticker from the band The …

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Feb. 19, 2024

Beyond the Fringe to London and Bristol - Cowboys and Lesbians

“It’s a romantic comedy with added sexy cowboys” Eleanor Birdsall-Smith is producer of the sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Cowboys and Lesbians’ which is about to embark on a 3 week run at the Park Theatre in London and The W...

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Recent Blog Posts

Making the most of RSS - Transcript and Show Info

Although I'm not one of the RSS absolutists who think no RSS = not a podcast (I think language changes over time, for example for me any vacuum cleaner is a Hoover and any temporary building a Portakabin) I do totally agree with them about the power…

Elf Lyons - Comedy and Performance Episode Transcript

Below is the transcript for the episode with Elf Lyons, full podcast and related show notes available here: Dan: Hello and welcome to Making Creativity Pay, a podcast where we talk to people in creative industries about how they promote and market …

Podcasting Community Q&A - Vic Elizabeth Turnbull

With the Podcast Show London on 24th/25th May, we’re running a series of short daily podcasts and Q&A's with a variety of people in the podcast industry. Vic runs MICMedia and we discussed podcasting for social good and how to build a com…