Episode 30: Success after TTW with Joshua Millard-Lloyd

In this episode, Alice chats to Josh. A student who has been with us many years. they chat about college, university and exciting opportunitues after TTW 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Now, following on from BOA, you have something exciting going on, don't you, Josh?

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Yes, I do. I do very much so. So in September I will be going up to uh Liverpool to study at Lippa. Mm-hmm. Which is I was very shocked about when I got the news.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Hello and welcome to Theatre Workshop Talks. My name is Alice and I'm a teacher here at the Theatre Workshop. We have a theatre school based in Birmingham, Barnt Green, Blackwell and Bromsgrove. Here you will gain an insight to what it's like being a part of the theatre workshop. Along the way, we will be talking to TTW students, parents, teachers, and also some very special guests. Make sure you hit that subscribe button so you know when a brand new episode drops. Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of our podcast. Today I'm joined with one of our theatre workshop past students who was with us for many many years. Um he's going to talk to us a little bit about his theatre workshop journey, the shows he did with us, and now what he's up to at the moment. So today I'm joined with Josh. Hello, Josh.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Hello, Alice.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

How are you today?

SPEAKER_00 1:14

I'm alright, thank you. Just struggling with the heat, but apart from that, I'm okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

It's very, very hot, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 1:20

It's too hot. It's way too hot.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

So you have been a part of the theatre workshop for a very long time, haven't you?

SPEAKER_00 1:28

I have. I've been been there since I was five and I'm nearly 18.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

Wow. So so it's been a journey.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

It's been a very long journey.

SPEAKER_02 1:38

It has. That's great. Did you start in grade one?

SPEAKER_00 1:42

Yeah, it was. Yeah. Yeah.

unknown 1:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Because the because the the the win the wheenies wasn't a thing when I started.

SPEAKER_02 1:49

Yeah. So when you were with us, do you remember what shows you did with us?

SPEAKER_00 1:54

I did. I remember I remember being outside the council house.

SPEAKER_02 1:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

And seeing outside the council house. Um I remember doing that. At one point in time we did I can't remember where it was, but we did we did We Will Rocky. And it was like this full sale. Um that that would have been probably about ten years ago now. I don't actually think we actually did the German markets at that point, at least I didn't anyway. I remember doing this thing on a field somewhere for Christmas and singing Mistletoe by Justin Bieber. I don't know what I remember. But I I I I remember I think it was for some I remember it we stood up do you know, like in i in a a race where there's like this the inflatable thing and the line that they went through.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

Yes. When you sang outside the council house, was that for a Christmas light switch on?

SPEAKER_00 2:51

I think it would have been, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

I think I did that one. Um did ya? I think I did because I remember doing a light switch on outside the council house and we had to wait inside.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

Oh, I remember I remember that one as well.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

That's another one.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Yeah, because the one that I rem I'm remembering, we did. Do you remember Georgia?

SPEAKER_02 3:17

Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_00 3:19

Georgia was there. And she sung what was it now? I think we did um I think it was run by um Leona Lewis. And I remember the one you're on about because that would have been the time frame that you were there.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

I remember that one so vividly. There was a there was a truck as well.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

Was it like a Coca-Cola truck or something? Or Santa was in there, or I can't, but I just remember seeing a truck and it was opposite us. I remember it so clear, so weird.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

I remember which one you're on about. Yeah. No, it the one I was thinking of at first was a different one, but I remember that one as well. Obviously, I've done all the barricade boards stuff.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

And Joseph at the brand.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

All the summer shows.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

What was that? Yeah, all the summer shows. The first summer show that I actually remember doing I think it was We were Rocket. We did the Brighton Dome. We performed at the Brighton Dome with I think that that was I I was about, I think I was about six, and we all went on this coach down to Brighton.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

I can't I can't remember what we performed, but I remember we did that, I think that was for Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

You were at the theatre workshop for how many years training with us? It would have been about twelve years. Twelve years, okay. And in that time you did all those shows, all those performances. And you still do come to the theatre workshop, don't you, on a Saturday?

SPEAKER_00 4:50

I do, I still come. Um but I I work with the weenies now.

SPEAKER_02 4:56

How's that?

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Oh, it's very fun. It's very r it's very rewarding.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

But uh sometimes I can be very cheeky. Very cheeky. Very sweet and innocent. Very sweet and I love doing it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

No, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

I do love doing it.

SPEAKER_02 5:17

Good. And you sang you played the guitar at our summer show, didn't you, this year?

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Yeah, uh I sang uh what song was it? It was U2. Uh I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Yeah. And I did that with Ava and Chloe.

SPEAKER_02 5:35

So after you left the theatre workshop, what did you sort of get up to?

SPEAKER_00 5:39

I went to study at Boa, which is if if you don't know Boa, if everyone listen, uh I assume you do, but it's performing arts. Um would you say would you say school?

SPEAKER_02 5:51

I'd say school slash sixth form.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Yeah. Um yeah, it's it's a school slash six form in in the middle of Bron.

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Yeah, and what did you train in there?

SPEAKER_00 6:06

I I studied music there, which obviously is not what Theatre Workshop offers, not the musical theatre and acting wise. But um during my time with his workshop I I uh got massively into music. Um so I I went to study music there and I've just left and that was some of the best years of my of my life.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

Um obviously you also went there, Alice, so you can you know v vouch for so now following on from Boa, you have something exciting going on, don't you, Josh?

SPEAKER_00 6:46

Yes I do. I do very much so. Um so in September I will be going up to uh Liverpool to study at Lippa.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Amazing.

SPEAKER_00 7:00

Which is I was very shocked about when I got the news. Um because I didn't expect it at home. Um because it's obviously a very prestigious place or I wasn't expecting me to get an offer from there at all, but I'm very excited about that. Um I'm going to study songwriting and performance there.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Um yeah, some wise performance in vocals, which shocked me even more that I got in for singing. Um but yeah, which I I'm but I'm I'm so excited. I I'm excited about moving up to Liverpool.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

Liverpool is so lovely.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

I love it.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

It's it's a really, really nice city. I went there last summer and it's just great. Everyone's just so friendly up there, so I'm sure you'll have an amazing time.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

Yeah. Mm-hmm. And I it's because it's right smack bang in the middle of the city. I'm like at a max 20-minute walk from everything.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

So it's it's it's very exciting.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

And I think it's the one city where I I I I would have wanted to be. And and I got in. So I'm very excited.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

There you go. And alongside all of this, you have a band, don't you, Josh?

SPEAKER_00 8:16

I do, I do. Um I do have a band. Uh we're called The Lost. Um we've been together for a while now. Um and we three of the other band members as well have gotten to lipper. Actually, two of them. Two so two of two of the uh two of the other band members have gotten to lipper as well, which is good because we can all move up there together.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

That's good. So are you gonna continue the band when you're up there? How are you gonna do like rehearsals and shows and stuff?

SPEAKER_00 8:47

I think I think because other band members are going to different places, so I think I think we'll we'll we'll definitely try and figure something out because w we all really do get on. Um not only it's just like a group of mates, but like musically as well. Um so I I think we we've gotta carry it on somehow.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Um and it's it's kind of we'll we're we're all gonna try and find collective time where we can, you know, book a gig far in advance and say, look, we can't take anything else of this day. Um and what's good about Lippa is that even if say if you're in a band outside of Lippa um and say only one band member gets in, all of the rest of the band members can use it can use the the the the facilities.

SPEAKER_02 9:43

Oh that's great, that's good.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

Yeah. So and it's open 24-7. So we can literally rehearse at like Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

Oh that's amazing. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

Yeah. So like there's not like a uh an eight o'clock curfew. We can literally rehearse at half two in the morning if we wanted to.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

And annoy all the neighbours.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Oh, that's great. Have seen did you just have a show recently? Correct me if I'm wrong.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

Yeah, we just we just did a gig at the um Dark Horse in Moseley. Um which was which went a lot best better than better than we expected. Um and uh our keyboard player um bought out his his guitar for the first time.

SPEAKER_02 10:33

Yeah. A key tar? What's a keitar? A key tar. Well Is it a keyboard and a guitar?

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Guitar come together. So it's think how a guitar comes across someone, like with the strap and everything.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

But where you press down with with your left hand, yeah, it's it's um stuff like pitch shift and modulation.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

That's a big word, Josh.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

So it it's keyboard stuff with that hand, and then with the right hand, obviously you play the keys. Um but you you obviously you don't play them down like you would with an old keyboard, you play them onto your body.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Okay, so it's a keyboard in the shape not in the shape, but in like the way that you would play a guitar. Yes, exactly. Okay, I'm with you now.

unknown 11:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Exactly. I've never heard of one of those.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

Well, you don't see many people using 'em.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

Why not?

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Honestly, I don't know, they're really cool. I don't know. We w we should see more catars.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Wow, well, I've learnt something new today. A kitar.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

Interesting. And have you got any shows coming up?

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Yeah, we have. We've got um we're playing on the fourth of July. Um at somewhere over in Brom's Grove.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

Oh nice, okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

Um yeah, that's that's that's an all covers gig, um, because it's for it's for the fourth of July. We've been booked for Independence Day.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Um just to play like um pop punk covers and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Cool.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

So that's that's gonna be very fun because we we we we we don't really do that. Um and that's been exciting to learn all the new parts. Um and then we've got we've got the 17th of July. Um that's over in I think the place is called Shoreditch, I think.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Um yeah, uh I think that's right. Um and that will be that'll be us mainly doing original stuff and with the with a few with a few covers in there and stuff. Um and right now, as of now, we haven't got any other gigs, but we may have some more later in July or in or in August because of the kind of gotta contact the promoter that we work with as well.

unknown 13:32

I see.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

So if people want to come and watch your gigs, Josh, how do they get tickets? Do they get them through the venue?

SPEAKER_00 13:40

So I think for the 4th of July you should get you should be able to get them through the venue, which I never actually thought, but I think it should be through the venue because they've they've arranged the 4th of July thing.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

And it isn't just us one. There's other there's there's we're doing like three hours and then there's a DJ and stuff, so it's a full event.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

So um the venue is about to ask the Crown Inn. That's in Bromsgrove.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Yeah, I think it's the Crown Inn. Let me just double check.

unknown 14:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

I'm pretty sure.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

You can go and watch him on the 4th of July.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Yeah. Yeah, it's the Crown Inn in uh Catson in Bromsgrove.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

Um and then on the 17th, it's at I think it's Shaw Ditch Labour Club. I think.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

Shoreditch Labour Club. Amazing. So if you do want to see Josh, that's where you need to go.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

Tickets for the 17th, yeah, you can get through any of the band. I'm not sure if they're online yet. Um but any of the band, contact our social media. Which is um the dot lost dot official on Instagram and on TikTok, it's the Lost Official with No Dots.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Amazing. So we'll tag all those on our socials for you, Josh, so people can go and check it out, drop you a follow, have a look at some of your work.

unknown 15:14

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Alright, amazing. Well, thanks, Josh. It's been a pleasure talking to you today. It's been really interesting.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

Thank you for having me on. I've loved it.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

No, you're welcome, and we'll see you soon. Enjoy the weather.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

You too, Ali.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

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