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Three In A Bar Podcast A new episode published every Monday.

Seb Philpott (trumpet) and Verity Simmons (cello) meet musicians, music industry insiders and music enthusiasts for informal, insightful and lighthearted chats.

🎉New Episode!🎉This week’s guest is concert pianist and film star  🤩 ok, ok it was one film…but she was playing a young D...
08/07/2024

🎉New Episode!🎉

This week’s guest is concert pianist and film star 🤩 ok, ok it was one film…but she was playing a young Dame Maggie Smith so come on!

We chat to Clare ahead of her concerts (THIS WEEK!) about what you can expect in the programme, her learning process, new commissions, discovering incredible yet little known composers - have you heard of Hélène de Montgeroult?? We hadn’t but she wrote incredible music and has one heck of a back story as you’ll hear 😎

We also discuss the perils of prepared pianos, good/bad venues, Clare’s recent foray into acting - we try to push an idea for Netflix series onto her which we are definitely more enthusiastic about than her!!

Thanks to the excellent Dan Hartland for setting this very enjoyable chat up…

🎧 out now - link in bio



New episode, new season and a ruddy brilliant new guest!😎🎉🎉Kick starting our new season is the fabulous Oliver Zeffman w...
02/07/2024

New episode, new season and a ruddy brilliant new guest!😎🎉🎉

Kick starting our new season is the fabulous Oliver Zeffman who we took out and about for a stroll around the streets of London to chat about

This year’s event runs from 3-7 July - this very week!! Events include Classical Drag, a concert involving LGBTQ+ students from all the music colleges and culminating with Oliver making his LSO debut at the Barbican on Sunday 🤩

We had a lovely time chatting to Oliver - as you’ll hear in true TIAB fashion there were various calamities along route but we overcame them and safely delivered him to the BBC for his next appointment (potentially quite a different experience 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏻‍♂️🤣)



OUT NOW! - link in bio

Happy bank holiday weekend everyone!It’s been a while but we are back soon with a flurry of guests for your audible plea...
06/05/2024

Happy bank holiday weekend everyone!

It’s been a while but we are back soon with a flurry of guests for your audible pleasure🔥

This is a small selection of some recording day snaps set to ‘Rocky’ - which is what was playing to our trumpet aficionado guest 🤦🏼‍♀️ what could go wrong?! You’ll soon find out….

BACK SOON!!


🚨New Episode! This week’s guest is  winning composer, conductor, orchestrator, arranger and ruddy nice chap  🤩We caught ...
08/04/2024

🚨New Episode!

This week’s guest is winning composer, conductor, orchestrator, arranger and ruddy nice chap 🤩

We caught up with Ben at his writing room in Air Studios to chat about his incredible musical output - you’ll undoubtedly have heard his music if you’ve turned your TV on over the last twenty years including scores for Torchwood, Thunderbirds, Mog & the incredible Happy Valley to his name…

Amongst other things, we talk about building relationships with musicians over the years, life on either side of the desk as both conductor & composer, knowing when to switch off and the perils of a grumbling stomach 😱

N.B last year Ben wrote the string arrangements for The Beatles’ final single ‘Now and Then’…did we get round to asking him about it? We did not. Come back for round 2 Ben?!

Available now on in all the usual places 🎧



Out Now! ▶️This week’s episode features the brilliant and lovely Jésus Iglesias Noriega ✨ Jésus is artistic director of ...
18/03/2024

Out Now! ▶️

This week’s episode features the brilliant and lovely Jésus Iglesias Noriega ✨

Jésus is artistic director of where he is doing great things with the community at the heart of his work - Opera in a truck heading off to remote villages, performances in prisons, under 29s shows, Flamenco, pop, folk gigs to name but some of things that are in the schedule 😎 Not to mention an exciting and eclectic opera season with some of the top performers/directors/conductors in the world…

If you are in search of some much needed ☀️ take a look at the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia where Les Arts is based and listen to Jésus, close your eyes and imagine you are in beautiful Valencia!

Take a listen on your favorite pod platforms now for some AWFUL pronunciation (Verity) and some interesting business proposals (Seb) 🤣

Thanks to the wonderful Charlotte Connal and for setting up this meeting - happy to head over to Valencia aaaaaany time 😜

Happy International Women’s Day 🎉🎉Here are just some of the brilliant women doing amazing things that we’ve had the plea...
08/03/2024

Happy International Women’s Day 🎉🎉

Here are just some of the brilliant women doing amazing things that we’ve had the pleasure of chatting to on TIAB ❤️

OUT NOW! 🚨New episode featuring  bassist  has landed on your favourite pod platforms 😎Amongst other things, we talk to J...
04/03/2024

OUT NOW! 🚨

New episode featuring bassist has landed on your favourite pod platforms 😎

Amongst other things, we talk to Jeremy about the band’s new album ‘Mountainhead’, their early gigs, A.I influences and the difficult waistcoat era 🤣

He also discusses their current UK tour and future co-headlining tour to Australia with the Vaccines.

For our most excellent Patreons there is a second episode with Jeremy out now - available to everyone else from Thursday. So if you want to get ahead of the crowd why not join up? (Follow linktree in our bio or head to patreon.com/threeinabar where you can get the first week completely free 🎉🎉)

Out this week 👀In our next episode we are joined by bass behemoth (yep, it’s been too long since we used that word) and ...
03/03/2024

Out this week 👀

In our next episode we are joined by bass behemoth (yep, it’s been too long since we used that word) and Everything Everything band member, Jeremy Pritchard.

We chat with Jeremy about new album ‘Mountainhead’ (out now and its ruddy good btw), their current tour, the band’s early years, style choices, hair bleaching, making music videos and much more!

Enjoy this picture where we all appear to have massive feet and ankle swingers…

Back tomorrow wherever you get your pods 🎧

New Patreon episode! 🥳We’ve stuck to our promise of putting out consistent Patreon episodes and updates (at long last 🤣)...
02/03/2024

New Patreon episode! 🥳

We’ve stuck to our promise of putting out consistent Patreon episodes and updates (at long last 🤣) and this week’s offering concludes our ramblings - physical & verbal in Edinburgh.

Recorded on the first day of the Spring Tour, we go in search of Cullen Skink, talk about upcoming potential guests and discuss the tour ahead…

If you fancy an extra slice of chat and want to support TIAB at a mere £3.50 (plus a little bit of VAT 🙄) every month follow the link in our linktree or head to Patreon.com/threeinabar. Thank you ❤️

Behold! It’s our newly refurbished shiny Patreon… Three In a Bar+ 💥💥💥In its new format there will be;⭐️ at least one ext...
21/02/2024

Behold! It’s our newly refurbished shiny Patreon… Three In a Bar+ 💥💥💥

In its new format there will be;

⭐️ at least one extra Patreon exclusive podcast every week
⭐️ regular email updates
⭐️ Our new Discord channel where we can interact with members in scintillating & insightful conversation!!

All this AAAAND if you join up now you can have the first 7 days for free 🥳
But even after that it is a mere £3.50 (plus VAT 🤓) per month.

We massively appreciate your continued support and would love you to join our TIAB community over at Patreon!

To join up visit our linktree (in the bio) and follow the link to Patreon…..Thanks a million! Verity & Seb xx


Happy birthday  🥳🎉🎉For someone with a new found passion for photography here’s a beautifully framed photo of you     Cur...
20/02/2024

Happy birthday 🥳🎉🎉

For someone with a new found passion for photography here’s a beautifully framed photo of you

Currently to be found touring Scotland… treat yourself to an extra serving of haggis & a birthday battered sausage ❤️

🚨Crisis at ENO 🚨In light of recent announcements of redundancies in the Orchestra and Chorus at ENO we felt compelled to...
17/02/2024

🚨Crisis at ENO 🚨

In light of recent announcements of redundancies in the Orchestra and Chorus at ENO we felt compelled to record an episode to chat through what on earth is going on….

We collar violinist on the train to Edinburgh to discuss ENO, Northern Ballet and the state of the music industry in general. Not currently the cheeriest of subjects but a very necessary conversation musicians need to be having to support our friends and colleagues.



We’re stuck on a train and it smells of poo. But we’ve recorded some podcasts for you. Episodes coming thick and fast, e...
17/02/2024

We’re stuck on a train and it smells of poo. But we’ve recorded some podcasts for you. Episodes coming thick and fast, especially if you’re on our Patreon! Join via the link in bio x

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🚨New New New episode!🚨You asked the questions, we gave some answers and BAM 💥 it’s the first of our Q&A episodes landing...
12/02/2024

🚨New New New episode!🚨

You asked the questions, we gave some answers and BAM 💥 it’s the first of our Q&A episodes landing in the podsphere….

Just how do we both balance being parents of two whilst being busy freelance musicians, when our other halves are also busy freelance musicians?

What do we wish we could say to our 20 year old selves?

What’s the best way to approach working with people when you’re starting out in the music world?

And just how much baby vomit does Seb have on his clothes right now? 🤮

If you’ve got any questions you’d like to ask for the next Q&A sesh drop ‘em below ⬇️ or DM us or stuck over an email to [email protected]

What is this?! An actual full episode landing on your pod platforms at long last? 👀You bet it is!!! And what a cracking ...
06/02/2024

What is this?! An actual full episode landing on your pod platforms at long last? 👀

You bet it is!!! And what a cracking guest to kick@off this new series….it’s WestEnd leading lady 🤩

We caught up with Carly pre show at towards to end of last year and chatted about auditions, juggling work in London/family in Scotland, her relationship with co stars .stemp & .0 and theatre ghosts 👻

We are so glad to be back 🥰 so why not check out this episode on your favourite pod platforms - link@in bio

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Happy new year! 🥳 Thank you for continuing to listening to  us this year, we massively appreciate it! And a huge thank y...
31/12/2023

Happy new year! 🥳

Thank you for continuing to listening to us this year, we massively appreciate it! And a huge thank you to all@our brilliant guests! ❤️

Bring on 2024 and plenty more podcasting 🎉🎉🥳

🚨New Episode!Our guest this week is prolific artistic roller skater - perhaps better known for being one of the most exc...
01/11/2023

🚨New Episode!

Our guest this week is prolific artistic roller skater - perhaps better known for being one of the most exciting and sought after conductors of his generation 🤩

We met up with Duncan in a very lovely room in the depths of the Barbican to chat about two brilliant concerts he has coming up with featuring Abel Selaocoe and Isabelle Faust….his debut no less!

Duncan also chats about his early musical memories - Casio keyboards, writing and performing his own musical and the inspirational people who spurred him on. He talks about working with Sir Simon Rattle who created a job for him at 😎 and his approach to meeting and building relationships with different orchestras.

Thanks so much to Flora at for setting up this chat!

🎧out now on all your favourite pod platforms - link in bio



Out Tomorrow! New episode coming your way featuring founders of  Toby Street & Adrian Miotti 🙌We chat about their debut ...
12/10/2023

Out Tomorrow!

New episode coming your way featuring founders of Toby Street & Adrian Miotti 🙌

We chat about their debut album ‘Volume 1’ ahead of their launch show at on 8 Nov (tix available through our link tree)

As says, this photo looks like we are launching our architecture firm’s new podcast 🤣

Back tomorrow!


Always great to meet our TIAB zoom guests in the real world!! 😍Bumped into superstar violinist  at the   x  watch launch...
23/09/2023

Always great to meet our TIAB zoom guests in the real world!! 😍

Bumped into superstar violinist at the x watch launch (yes, I was allowed to be there….thanks 😍🤣)

Esther has a new album ‘Cinéma’ out now….check it out, it’s fab!

OUT NOW!Drumroll please (oh gawd sorry!) our new episode has landed featuring drumming legend  🤩Join us for a (heavily e...
22/09/2023

OUT NOW!

Drumroll please (oh gawd sorry!) our new episode has landed featuring drumming legend 🤩

Join us for a (heavily edited) chat back on July when Darren joined us in East London to talk about his incredibly eclectic career, from playing Jazz Clubs in NYC to musical theatre (yes, that is what we are calling it Darren!) at

We a great chat and unfortunately had to leave out the most scandalous convo but come and see us face to face sometime and we’ll probably tell you 🤣

Out now on your favourite pod platforms - link in bio 🎧



New Episode coming up 👀 is just making the final cull of slander and swears (well most of them) then episode 106 featuri...
20/09/2023

New Episode coming up 👀

is just making the final cull of slander and swears (well most of them) then episode 106 featuring drumming titan will be landing on yer favourite pod platforms 🎉🎉🎉

We had a great afternoon chatting with Darren back in July about his time studying in Germany & NYC, moving from pure blood jazzer (?!) to a variety of more eclectic career choices, being chased by crackheads and some strong work for the Eastbourne tourist board!!

Back soon with more info, links etc



OUT NOW!Ep 105 has landed 🛬 and features Nashville based singer/songwriter  🔥Along with guest host and friend of the pod...
09/09/2023

OUT NOW!

Ep 105 has landed 🛬 and features Nashville based singer/songwriter 🔥

Along with guest host and friend of the pod .phil we chat to Jill about her brilliant new album ‘Modern Age’ (check it out, it’s a belter!) and she gives a stunning performance of ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time’ for us.

We talk about writing for TV, how modern Jill really is (I’d say more than Verity/less than Phil 🤣) her upcoming tour….hitting the UK v. soon (tour dates in show notes) and her vintage Gibson Guitar 😎

We may have stitched up Phil quite badly re tour choreography & outfit….I’m going to say sequins,spandex and some complex moves all might now be on the cards after our chat. You are all welcome 🤣

🎧Out on your favourite pod platforms now - link in bio

.phil

🚨OUT NOW!Look who’s back….it’s the legend that is  🤩Rewind way back to episode 5 of TIAB and Jonny had written an album ...
30/08/2023

🚨OUT NOW!

Look who’s back….it’s the legend that is 🤩

Rewind way back to episode 5 of TIAB and Jonny had written an album but was struggling to get it out of his head and into the universe…

Now 3 and a bit years later ‘A Different Kind of Light’ is out and is thoroughly magnificent 🔥

Not only was it great to chat with Jonny again but we also play a specially arranged version of his song ‘Home’ at the end of the ep which is an absolute belter….

Also….JF Abraham’s album launch gig is at Stanley Arts next week on 7 Sept so get yer tickets now 🙌 (link in show notes)

Out now on your favourite pod platform - link in bio

.uk

Roadtrip! 😎In today’s new episode  heads to the seaside for a chat with  drummer & multi-instrumentalist  🙌☀️As luck wou...
11/08/2023

Roadtrip! 😎

In today’s new episode heads to the seaside for a chat with drummer & multi-instrumentalist 🙌☀️

As luck would have it journalist, author, broadcaster (and good friend) is a fellow Brightonian and kindly agreed to step in for guest co-hosting duties!

It is always brilliant to see Jools and this was a great conversation about all things , touring, festivals, silver banding, doubling on drums & horns (sometimes quite literally), Brighton life and a whole bunch more!

Jools & Rachael do some stirling work for Brighton tourist board….and Jools gives an in-depth guide to the competitive world of toads 💪

Thanks to the excellent for editing this episode!

🎧out now on your favourite pod platforms - link in bio

OUT NOW!In this bonus edition we chat to the brains behind Map a Muso,  🙌Susie discusses the catalyst for setting up thi...
27/07/2023

OUT NOW!

In this bonus edition we chat to the brains behind Map a Muso, 🙌

Susie discusses the catalyst for setting up this business, how it works and what it can offer musicians and fixers….

They discuss worst/best journeys, Seb tries out a new format for opening the show (😬🤣) and Verity attempts another ill advised quiz idea - never. learns.

There is a special discount code for TIAB listeners to join in our show description…snap it up now! (Link in bio)



Hi pod friends! 👋🏻Hitting your favourite podcast platforms shortly is a bonus TIAB episode with cellist, arranger and co...
26/07/2023

Hi pod friends! 👋🏻
Hitting your favourite podcast platforms shortly is a bonus TIAB episode with cellist, arranger and composer 🤩

We chat to Susie about her new and exciting venture which helps pair musicians with gigs and fixers in their area……say goodbye to those hair raising journeys round the m25 and 14hrs in a car for 2hrs playing 😎 (unless you fancy that of course!)

Back soon with more info….



There was a flurry of activity in the TIAB camp last week with not one but two new episodes landing 😎Have you heard our ...
12/07/2023

There was a flurry of activity in the TIAB camp last week with not one but two new episodes landing 😎

Have you heard our chats with .sweeney.music & yet?! Both fabulous, funny and entertaining people and it was a total pleasure to meet them. (Thanks for hooking us up)

In true TIAB style conversations range from nr death experiences and theme parks with Aileen to teaching Jordan about spam….with a sprinkling of music chat thrown in.

Listen on your favourite pod platforms 🎧 link in bio

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Sorry to shout 😎but hot on the heels of our ep with .sweeney.music our second  special is out featu...
10/07/2023

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Sorry to shout 😎but hot on the heels of our ep with .sweeney.music our second special is out featuring percussionist and Young Musician of the Year 2022 🤩

We’ve whipped this out as Jordan has two concerts at the Festival the week - a solo recital on 11 July and then featuring as part of the festival mixtape gig on 12 July.

We chat to Jordan about the whole Young Musician experience, Brass Banding, life at building instruments with his dad, plans for the future and loads more.

There are some excellent moments of missed references which really expose the age gap between the fresh faced Jordan and us two old timers!

Thanks to the wonderful Charlotte Connal for setting this up!

🎧Out now on your favourite pod platforms - threeinabar.com/listen



OUT TOMORROW!In the first of two  specials we chat to the magnificent .sweeney.music 🤩Aileen has written a piece which w...
06/07/2023

OUT TOMORROW!

In the first of two specials we chat to the magnificent .sweeney.music 🤩

Aileen has written a piece which will be premiered this Saturday in the festival so grab yer tickets now! 😎

This chat is bonkers even by our usual TIAB standards and we had a flipping hoot with Aileen…..theme parks, Lidl, near death experiences, hot air ballooning and Ceilidh rage all feature with a bit of music chat thrown in for good measure!

Landing on your favourite podcast platforms tomorrow 🎧 link in bio.

.sweeney.music

OUT NOW! Episode 99 features THE knowledge on electric violin and the mastermind behind the Music Health Service, Ben He...
18/06/2023

OUT NOW!

Episode 99 features THE knowledge on electric violin and the mastermind behind the Music Health Service, Ben Heaney 🤩

Ben chats about his one if a kind original 1957 Fender violin - it’s an absolute beaut! He talks about resistance to his studies at college, some ‘memorable’ performances, unwittingly meeting a hero & gives guest host a harebrained business plan 😬🤦🏼‍♀️

As a presenting team this week they are going for more Richard & Judy than Holly & Phil but we’ll let you be the judge of that….

🎧Available now on your favourite pod platforms - link in bio



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