Episode 11 - Tom Stone - Hand Fulla Soul/Online Game Show Host/ENTREPRENEUR!

Tom Stone — quick profile (as provided)

Tom Stone is a musician, events host, and entrepreneur based in London, UK. After studying saxophone at the Royal Academy of Music, he built a live music business supplying bands and performances for events worldwide.

Countries his bands have performed in include: Iceland, USA, India, Singapore, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, and Denmark.

Online/event formats

Recently, Tom expanded into online entertainment formats so audiences can be entertained virtually. His formats include:

• Live music quizzes
• TV-style gameshow formats
• Other virtual event styles designed to “delight audiences” without global travel.

Bands

• http://www.wandering-hands.co.uk/
• https://www.handfullasoul.com/

Host: Warren Adams — show info (as provided)

Host: Warren Adams (Warren Telling Tales)
Website: https://www.engagetheatre.com/

Support / donation links (as provided)

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Hey, hello everyone. Today we have Tom Stone on the podcast. It's a pleasure to have you on. Thanks so much for coming. Good, good, good. How are you?

SPEAKER_00 0:13

I'm well, I'm well. Yeah, all uh all is good here. Life is sort of a bit wild at the moment, but under control, just about managing. Yeah, all good.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Thanks. Everyone's saying the same thing. Life is a bit wild at the moment. It's the life that we're all leading right now, I think. A crazy time. But anyway, um, good. So for those that don't know, Tom Stone is a supremely talented musician. Uh, he plays multiple instruments. He's uh he's I've seen him on the saxophone, and he is incredible on that and on the piano, in fact. Multi, multi-talented. Uh, you are an online game host, which is incredible. Uh, you've got a series of events going on all around uh in various different places, uh, which we're gonna talk more about later. And prior to that, you were also running a series of bands, and you it was like a music business with bands going all around the world, various countries, and that must have been well amazing, but also I imagine quite challenging to make happen, uh, which I'm sure everyone's gonna want to find out more about later. But um so uh let's move on. Let's let's talk about how we actually know each other. Uh, for those that don't uh are unfamiliar, Tom Stone and I, we um we are buddies from back back in London. We we're in the same social circles. Uh we spent a fair bit of time together, and uh I was very delighted when you agreed to come on today. Um let's go let's go right back to to when you were initially training. Whereabouts did you train to be as supremely talented as you are?

SPEAKER_00 1:54

You're too kind. Uh well I uh I did uh I did my degree at the Royal Academy of Music, which is up in Marylebone, North London. Uh lovely place to study. Uh four-year course there on the jazz course, which is uh a very small course. There's only when I started, they there were just four people in my year, so very tiny on that course. There's a few more people in the place, not just four of us there, uh different courses. But yeah, the jazz course quite quite small in uh a bit of a niche area, but yeah, it was really great, amazing place to study, uh, incredible teachers, and really just sort of set set the foundations for my musical uh career, my musical life, really. Felt that it it it put a really solid base under under what I want to do, what I've been doing for the since then.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

And had you wanted to do music prior to that, or was that the sort of the kick the kick for you to to drive you into this into this world of music?

SPEAKER_00 2:47

No, I'd I'd been been uh pretty obsessed with music for uh forever, really. I mean, I was sort of gigging, doing paid gigs from when I was about 15, 16, still at school, um, which was pretty good, earning a bit of cash at school, which was lots of fun. And then yeah, always wanted to to go into performing and and playing. So that's that's what ended up uh that's what led to taking me there, really.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

Wow, super cool. So and how long were you on that course for? What how many uh how many years was that?

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Uh it's a four-year course. I actually I did two years at a different college and then transferred to the Royal Academy. So I went to Trinity College of Music, uh, which is in Greenwich, and uh did two years there and then transferred across. Pretty much the reason was because I I wanted to get more original music, playing more uh composition and original music, but I wasn't felt I wasn't getting that at Trinity at the time. Um having said that, uh it was a great couple of years, met a lot of my long-term musical partners there, and then transferred and did some more time at the academy. So that's what happened, if you really want to know.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

No, I do, I do. It's interesting because I mean you are you are very talented, and uh it's good to know that you had a successful time training because not not everyone does. I've spoken to a few people that have not really enjoyed that particular experience, but um and others have. So it's it's nice to know that you're you're one of those that had a positive a positive time there.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Yeah, I loved it, loved it.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

And then after that, you then went on and you you developed a uh a music business and you had bands going or you know, playing, performing all around the world. Uh what countries were were they all working in?

SPEAKER_00 4:21

Well, over the time over the years, so pretty much from when I left music college, which must have been oh, I should have sort of remembered this, about 2010, I think, when I left college and started becoming a sort of a grown-up. Nah, I haven't become a grown-up yet, actually. I'm still working on that one. Uh left uh and and was always I've always been the one who sort of instigated or organized things. So I'm a bit of uh that kind of a person. So even from while I was at college, I'm organizing bands to play at gigs, playing at events, and that just sort of developed into organizing uh bands for for events such as for the more sort of commercial events like corporate dues, weddings, and parties and that stuff. So I sort of built the business on that and uh was lucky enough that it all went really well and and always has done, and then we ended up playing all over the shop. So I've put bands out uh as far afield as Singapore, Delhi, uh, and then across Europe as well. Yeah, we've we've done most most of the places in Europe, I think. Yeah, France, Spain. I don't think I've done Germany. I've still not done Germany.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

I'm surprised. I imagine the Germans would would would lap that up. They love a good old party over there, don't they?

SPEAKER_01 5:30

Still waiting, still waiting.

SPEAKER_02 5:32

Yeah, still waiting, yeah, yeah. Nice, nice. And and so when you I imagine it would have been quite tricky to logistically deal with you know, be in control of all that going on. Did you have any particular challenges with that in terms of managing bands if you weren't there? Because I I presume you couldn't be in every country at the same time. That would be very, very tricky.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Um I am a huge control freak, so that kind of goes to my advantage for that. Uh well, uh advantage, and then sometimes not. Uh no, I do like to uh to be on top of things like that. So I've I've always been quite on top of the organizational side of it. That's just who I am, what I'm into. So yeah, I would I've quite regularly put multiple bands out, different countries or different places or across the UK, mostly um all on the same night. So I might have four or five out on the same night, and that would be uh obviously I wouldn't be at all of them. So you you find your your people, your trusted people, your your guys you work with a lot, and and you you delegate a little bit, as much as I could delegate, you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

Just a little bit. But so i in each of the bands you had did you have one person that was sort of responsible for making sure that everything went according to plan when you weren't there?

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I would I uh nominate someone in charge. Yeah, they would they would be the the boss on the night if I'm not there and uh report back to me, hopefully. Uh and uh yeah, that that was how it sort of worked. And I caught it I sort of developed the overall idea of what it is and what the show wants to be and and what we're gonna play and and organise and deal with the clients, but then pass over to them for the actual show if I wasn't there.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Okay. And what do you prefer performing or being doing the all-round managing of of the events and the proceedings? What's your do you have a preference or do you just love it?

SPEAKER_00 7:15

Uh I love to be on stage, that's where I want to be. I love it, it's great. I absolutely just putting on a show for people is what I've always loved. Uh, and it's just yeah, there's nothing better. The organized stuff is I actually enjoy it, it's fun, but it's not, it's not the same. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

And how many um how many instruments do you play?

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Well, it depends. Do I play them well? That's the question here. Um I play the saxophone. Yeah, the saxophone is the main one. I play all right piano, pretty decent piano keyboards. I'd say there's my top two. Uh I can I can uh I can sing notes in tune, so that means I can sing pretty decent backing vocals, but I am not a singer. So uh yeah, and on top of that, yeah, yeah, a few chords and a guitar, a bit of bass and all that, but but those are um, I guess there's a few more. I play a bit of clarinet, you know, I've got one of those.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

You're being very you're yeah, you're being very modest, I think. You're being very modest. This guy can play many, many instruments for sure. Um good, good, good. And and how long were you doing that for? How long did that did that run for?

SPEAKER_00 8:19

That that period of managing that well, it kind of developed properly into working as a business that I was running from 2010 up until March 2020. Yeah, it was going very well.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I I have a feeling, I have a feeling that uh our lovely friend COVID may have may have had a bit of an effect on things. Um we're gonna talk a bit about that. Uh well, we may as well jump into it. It's a nice smooth transition. Um, yeah, so so 2010 to 2020, that's 10 years. Wow, incredible. Um, and then in 2020, obviously uh COVID came along. And and how was that? Let's jump into it. How was that particular time for you?

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Not gonna lie, it was not the best period. Uh I'm not sure that many people who say it would be. Uh, but no, it's it's it's been it's been tough pretty much overnight. My entire work, all of my my income, everything just like stopped. Yeah, and that was pretty hard to take. Spent a lot, a long time just sort of reeling in that, which is not healthy and it wasn't helpful. So eventually, with a lot of help from my wife, lovely Chloe, who's uh looking after children downstairs right now, but a lot of help from her, uh, managed to sort of get my head in a better space, really. I did I did get into a bit of a rubbish place with it, you know. It was it was strange at the beginning because you felt, well, is it gonna come back? Oh, let's hold out, is it gonna come back a couple of months? And that sort of kept just developing and increasing, and that it just took me to a bit of a rubbish place uh mentally, which I've I've never struggled with mental health up until now, but it was one of uh the darkest times for a while. But you know, got myself out of that and and and really decided and worked out how to push forward. And I I mean the business side of that, I've I've not I've not put it aside, but I've put it on hold as such, really. And you know, I don't feel like things are coming back straight as they were anytime particularly soon. So I made it I made a conscious decision to make a bit of a change, make a bit of a pivot of direction, and uh and that's where I am now, having developed a new sort of path a little bit. It's still basing on what I have been doing, but now I I'm doing a lot of online events, uh, in particular moving slightly away from music specifically and into kind of uh entertainment and games and just fun things that work online, really. So that that's where I've moved to and developed over the last three or four months.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Yeah, yeah. I mean you showed immense like uh your resilience and um it's it's impressive to see how you can just you know make that change. And um because I know for me when when setting up this podcast and setting up a YouTube channel, I I faced challenges as well because I prior to this was doing a lot of performance, like you know, yourself and performing on stages and you know, screens and this, that, and the other, and then to then you know, all of that kind of stuff. Plus, I moved countries during the worst possible time to move countries. Um, and everyone was like, Why did you pick now? But it wasn't like we deliberately said, Oh, COVID's here, let's move countries. It's sort of it was just awful timing, but yeah, you know, it it I had to work very hard to to learn a lot of new skills. I'm not, as I've mentioned to some people, I'm not naturally tech savvy. I think you might be more tech savvy than I am, but it for me it was quite a challenge. How was that for you, just making that that shift and and learning? Uh you know, did you have to learn some new skills or certainly did, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

I mean, you mentioned tech savvy. I've always been a little bit of a geek with that kind of stuff. I'm into that. I've I've also uh when I've been doing the live music stuff, been into sound engineering, uh setting up all the PA gear, the lighting and stuff. You can see a single light in the background over there. Which I love lighting out of it.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

I'm enjoying it. And the nice behind you as well.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

Yeah, Aretha Franklin, actually. Oh, that's a bit of inspiration there. No, I've always been into that side of things. So uh I did enjoy the the sort of process of getting set up for online stuff. I I quite enjoyed that, all the tech side of it. I'm lucky that I have a lot of equipment here already. You can't see out of shot uh just over there, but I've got uh like a great big mixing desk and uh all these cables and stuff going on. So there's a lot going on. Oh I've unplugged my headphones. Hang on. No worries. There we go. Just as you can mixing desktop in.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Perfect, absolutely perfect. That was gold, that was gold. We're keeping that in, we're keeping that in.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Uh where was I? Yeah, got the mixing desk over there, uh, lots of gear, lots of tech. So I've enjoyed the process of of going uh that route. Uh but skills-wise, it's been it's been a steep learning curve, yeah. So I I now basically, for those who don't know, am doing lots of uh online events. So maybe companies will get together instead of coming together in real life, they'll come together on Zoom or whatever platform. Uh, and they'll want some entertainment, they want to have some fun. But that's obviously you can't do the same thing as you would do in a room. Uh so I've had to learn how to kind of host online, which is a different kind of skill to talking to people in a room. It's a lot of similar things, but but small little changes, you know. You have to multitask even more, I think, because you're you're dealing with all the people, but then there's all the stuff over here on the other screen here that you're dealing with like this, you know, typing, clicking, dealing with the Zoom meeting, all at the same time as trying to make sense when you're talking. So I have a lot of respect for TV presenters all of a sudden, you know.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Right, right, right. But also you're doing, um, I imagine you're working with, well, I know you are because you did one for a Swedish audience quite recently, and I know you're doing for different countries uh around the world. So I presume there are potentially communication uh barriers as well, like when you're trying to do all the tech stuff, but you're also trying to be you know comprehensible and you know make people understand what it what it is you want them to say. And it seems like it's uh it's a monster of a of a gig, like to bring it all together. But um, I was very impressed. I've not seen you, I hadn't seen you do that before. Um and uh it was uh it was really enjoyable, and you got some super good feedback off the back of it as well.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

So yeah, no, it's it's gone really well, and it's sort of kicked off in uh late November, early December with Christmas parties and things like that coming up. So I I managed to sort of get it all together in time for that, put myself out there and and ended up being so busy in December, having been pretty much had no work from March until December. Well, we had I well we had four gigs from March in 20 after March in 2020. We managed four. Normally we do about 250 plus in a year, and yeah, it was it was down at four. So, you know, it was a real change. And then suddenly December comes along, and I was I ended up doing sort of seven seven events a day throughout most of December. I kicked to like 40 plus events in in one month, which you wouldn't be able to do in real life. So actually, in real life, yeah, so actually it's real life.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Yeah, oh hang on a minute. I thought it was a game show.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Uh yeah, actually it's it's a totally different thing, but in some ways it's it's got so many benefits, and it means you can you can entertain and bring together a lot more people than you would have been able to do uh in a in the same room as those people, uh doing seven events to multiple countries in one day is is fantastic. There's so much good things to do.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

It's kind of a little bit of a blast, blessing in disguise in there somewhere, I'm sure of it. It's uh it's it's really cool. And um, so this is uh this is do you think when things move back to some sort of normal, which is gonna happen uh for all those out there that believe that maybe it won't, it is going to happen. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Um, will you continue down this path, do you think? Or will you jump back to what you were doing before, or will you combine the two?

SPEAKER_00 16:10

That's a good question, actually. It's a question that I uh ask myself quite a lot, actually. I I don't know the definite answer. I'm kind of just gonna see what happens, but I'm pretty confident online events are staying. I don't I don't think that even once everything's all back to normal, I think the convenience and the the so many benefits that it does have are they are still there. The fact you can you bring people from across the world together, you can you can deal with so many different groups within uh such a small amount of time. Also the fact you don't have to leave your house, you know, to do that, which is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Uh so I think plenty of the of that means it it will stay, uh, and I and I will keep doing that, and it's just gonna be a branch of of um of what I can do and what I enjoy doing. But I think if if live events are out there, if there's stages to be uh boards to be trodden as such and uh and uh audiences to be entertained, I will want to jump up on the stage and be there. So I think it's gonna be an element of both.

SPEAKER_02 17:10

I imagine that the the the buzz is slightly different at the end of a show, like when you've done an online show compared to when you're surrounded by people jumping around and screaming and woo Tom, we love you.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Yeah, well, I I do uh I do crave the applause, and that is why with all my uh with all the show stuff I have various uh sound cues, music cues. I also do have an applause button, so I I can enjoy applause. It's it's better actually whenever I want it, you know. Even if I make a bad joke, I can still get a round of applause. So, you know, there's many pluses, really.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

As you wake up in the morning, you know, congratulations for getting out of bed. Woo! Yeah, brilliant.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Yeah, it gets old pretty quick. No, I love it.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Nice, nice, nice. All right, let's talk about. Can you give us any sort of um words of wisdom for other people out there that that may be going down this difficult or maybe struggling at the moment, let's just say, and and and looking for a uh an angle or a yes, things you could you could tell our tell our audience that would help them sort of just get get out of this, like because you mentioned you went through quite a dark period yourself and and you found a way to get out of that. Yeah. So any any bits of advice?

SPEAKER_00 18:22

Well, I'm certainly not an advice guru, but but I can all I can say from my my personal experience and what I've uh done this throughout this last year and now is that when I made the decision to move forward and come up with a plan uh and and then just go with it, uh suddenly my mindset changed. When I was wallowing in the uh and what could have been and what we shouldn't, you know, I was dealing with uh countless cancellations, postponements of events every day. That's a that's just a depressing thing on its own. Every day, multiple conversations, people saying, Oh no, we're cancelling, oh no, we're not doing that anymore, we're doing this, we're not doing that. That was exhausting, and really just just every conversation was like wedding couples having to cancel their weddings. That's just so sad. Yeah, uh, and just doing multiple of versions of those a day was really rubbish. So when I made a more conscious decision to come up with a plan, work on something, something new, and just go for it and commit to it. Suddenly I was like, right, I'm happy, I'm positive, I've got a focus. I had no focus for some time, and that was so strange for me. As you can probably tell, I'm a bit a bit all over the shot. I want to be in control, I want to do stuff, I want to move forward. Uh without any of that focus, I was just like, what am I doing? Ah, I'm lost. Uh but suddenly I had my focus. So, my if I had to uh offer advice, which I really don't think as I'm the person for that, but if I did, I would say it's it's it's just come up with something, write down ideas, uh bounce things off other people and and and and pick something and push with it forward and just focus energies on on something forward rather than thinking about oh well this we should have been doing this on this day, or you know, that it's not happening anymore, we're doing something else. So that's that's my waffly advice.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

No, I love it, I love it. Very good, very good. All right, so um if people wanted to reach out to you, Tom, if they have enjoyed your your chat and they find you truly inspiring, or they want to hear some of your music, or you know, they want to jump on and and be involved in one of your your online uh events. Um how should people get in touch with you?

SPEAKER_00 20:33

Uh well, for online events, it's still so fresh for me that I haven't got a website or anything up and running. Uh I just have my email, which uh can I give that? And people can I go for that? Yeah, if you want to give that, you can check that out. If you want to know anything more about online events that I offer, you can get in touch at tomstone251 at gmail.com. Uh so that's me. And then uh if you want to see the bands that I run, uh they still exist, they're just on pause. So, you know, when things do come back, we will be playing. In fact, I haven't even mentioned, but we we have played online uh together. We've done live stream gigs with the bands. Uh we've we've also worked out a secret way, and I cannot tell you my secret technological uh way of doing this, but we've got a way that one of my small bands can play together online from separate locations in sync. So it's it's amazing. So that's my I've got two bands. One of them is called Handfuler Soul. That's uh you can find the website www.handfullersoul.com. Uh and the other band is uh the wandering hands. So that's when we were used to wandering around. Don't worry, it's perfectly safe. Uh so yeah, search for wandering hands, but keep your safe filter on. Yeah, that would be fun.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

And what about social media? Do you have any uh social media that people could follow you on or what's social media?

SPEAKER_00 21:47

No, yeah, we've got social media.

SPEAKER_02 21:48

Yeah, we are in the 21st century, I'm sure of it.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Yeah, we're on the usual Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. You can find us there, search for Handful of Soul, or you can search for Wandering. Hands. Okay. And you'll find us, I'm sure, hopefully. If you look hard enough.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

Very good, very good. And at the end of the episode, we are going to play extracts of Tom in action on his uh online hosting of events. And he is truly brilliant, super talented, uh, and definitely, definitely worth uh taking a look at for sure. Uh right, Tom, before we let you go, uh, because I know you're a busy man, you've got young kids at home, I believe, uh, somewhere in the house.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

So um hopefully you can't hear them screaming.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Oh, I don't no, no, no, no, no, not yet, anyway. Yeah, it'll be like that YouTube video where they come rushing in and Chloe will be there pulling them out. And um, yeah, good. All right, so we're gonna play a little game. Uh, would you rather?

SPEAKER_00 22:45

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

Yes, if you love a bit of would you rather? Uh five five questions. Uh, don't give it too much thought. The first thing that pops into your head, are you ready to go? I don't know whether.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

I am ready. Yes, let's do this.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

Good, good, good, good. All right. Would you prefer snow or sunshine?

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Oh, it's tricky that when I'm looking out the window at an inch of snow. So uh I'm gonna say snow right now because it's so rare. So we're going for snow, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

Good, snow, I like snow. All right, number two, would you rather be the CEO of a company or another executive?

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Oh, let's go CEO. I like to be in control, that's me.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

Number three, would you rather work in a big city or a small town if you could have the same job in both places?

SPEAKER_00 23:29

Um uh I go city, I love the city, yeah. I've always lived in London my whole life, so yeah, that's that's who I am.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Do you have a plan to move out at some point and live in the countryside, or do you think you'll be London for life? That just randomly popped into my head. It's more a personal interest than anything, but uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Well, I I have I'm literally born in London, so I've that's all I know, it's all I know. I can't currently I still can't imagine not living in London. That's the hardest bit. You know, my wife comes from from outside of London and she's like, you know, we we talk about it quite often, but for me, if if there's stuff happening, if there's gigs, if there's real events going on, I want to be there, and the only way to do that in my head, anyway, is to to be here in London where the uh where it's happening. But maybe one day, who knows? When it's all completely online forever, maybe I'll disappear. But exactly.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

You can be anywhere in the world on a beach and all sorts of bands can be playing, you can be lying back drinking cocktails, whatever. Anyway, yeah, that's a lie, that's the goal. Uh all right, number four. Would you rather get paid your entire salary plus benefits all at once for the year, or get paid little by little throughout the year? So all in one go or little by little?

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Well, if we went into detail, I'd want to know about what my salary is, actually, if I'm honest. But no.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

Let's say it's a big chunk of money. How much are you paying me, Warren?

SPEAKER_00 24:50

How much you paying me?

SPEAKER_02 24:52

Um, um it's in the post.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

Um I think all at once. You know what? I like it all at once. I like to plan what I'm doing, I like to see what I've got and work with it. Uh, that's how I I've financially I don't like you know borrowing stuff. I like to see where I'm at and and work from there. So that's my that's what my answer is.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

There we go. Very nice. And last but not least, number five. If you could survive with either and were trapped on an island forever, would you want food or your saxophone?

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Oh, definitely food. Oh god, I'm sick of my saxophone. I've been playing it way too long. Yeah. Oh, there we go. I go for food. I'm a love food. I'm a big fan of food. You know, we need it anyway. So saxophone. Obviously, I love my saxophone, but you know what? You have a love-hate relationship when your your work is sort of so heavily based on this sort of this thing, this object.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Right.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Uh so some days I really hate it. So maybe let's go with food. I'll leave it behind. Um, I can I can leave it, it's fine.

SPEAKER_02 25:51

Very good, very good, very good. Um, and you sort of uh you sort of answered this earlier on, but uh any any lasting final thoughts for our wonderful audience out there? It can be uplifting about life, about work, about approaches to negative, positive change, that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Yeah. Uh I forgot that one was coming. Uh approaches, uh happiness. Um, what's the question? Say it again. I've lost it. I've gone. I'm off.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

We were doing so well.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

Um, something uplifting and inspiring for our audience. Something that they could take with them into their next day, their week, their month.

SPEAKER_00 26:36

Yeah, all right, I'll go for that. So, yeah, something uplifting and inspiring. Uh, for me, it is, and I've only rediscovered it recently, actually. Uh, get some music on, stick it on, turn up the volume. I like that. Uh I I uh be when you are a musician, uh, and and back uh you know a year and a half, two years ago, I would hardly ever listen to music because every day I'm playing music, I'm doing stuff with other people with playing, and you sort of get it's just it's works like a busman's holiday, that's what they say, isn't it? Uh but as soon as I wasn't gigging and I wasn't playing so much, I uh realized I was missing it. And when I put music on now, I stick it on, I turn it up, dance around the kitchen, love it. That's my advice.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

I love it, I love it. We haven't had that yet, that's a good one. Play lots of music, and I actually agree with that. I feel considerably happier when I have music on, particularly if I'm doing the dishes, you know, cleaning the kitchen. It really helps me get through those sort of mundane tasks.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

Um only after you've listened to the podcast, though.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Podcast first, then the chicken. Podcast first, then music. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, so what Warren telling tales for life, everyone. There you go. You heard it here first. You got your plug, yeah. Good stuff. Thanks, Tom. Uh, good, thanks for coming on, mate, and uh have a good day, and I will speak to you soon.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

Absolute pleasure. Thank you for having me, Warren. Uh, see you soon. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the B Flat Quiz of the Year, the music quiz with a difference! Hello! Welcome, thank you, welcome, welcome, welcome. That's enough of that. Thank you very much. Right, what can you expect from the B Flat Quiz of the Year? Well, you can expect live music performances. Tasty visuals. And plenty of unique quiz rounds. Right, here we go. Question one. Remember, I want the name of the song and the artist. Anthony, name something that has a tag on it. I'm thinking a sofa. Sofa. A sofa tag. The classic place to have a tag. The sofa. Is it up there? It's not up there. Unlucky, unlucky, unlucky. Can you name something that you might spray on yourself? Um fake tan. Fake tan. Fake tan. Do you do you use a lot of fake tan yourself, Dave?

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Yeah, all the time.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

Good, good. Well, you're looking very healthy over there. Let's see if it's up there. Fake tan. It's the tough answer. Very, very good work from Patrick. Well done to you. Let me check. There's no one else left in. Oh my goodness. Amazing. David, you received the full five points, and you are quite clearly the best at predicting the future. The decorating of the giraffe absolutely takes you to the short list straight away. Well done indeed. Is that a giraffe or is that. Oh, look at the tail. Oh, is that a balloon? Yes. You've brought it right back with the balloon tail. Let's see those votes coming in. And we will see who has the best giraffe. I want you to stick that mug somewhere at least two meters away, and you've got to get that teabag into the mug anywhere you see fit. For more information, do get in touch, and all that's left to say is thank you very much and good no.