Hello Friends!

It’s Podcast Launch Day at OneTrackMinds HQ, so, as promised, here’s our second episode, featuring two stories about friendship.

The first, from Scottish poet and author Michael Pedersen, celebrates his friendship with Scott Hutchison, lead singer of Frightened Rabbit, who died by suicide in May 2018. Michael’s book Boy Friends explores this powerful, creative friendship in more detail and is genuinely one of the best books I’ve read in years. You can get a copy from the OneTrackMinds Bookshop.

Our second story is from our lovely friend Jen Barley, a third sector engagement enthusiast and community builder who currently works at Genetic Alliance UK. We met Jen some years ago while we were doing some OneTrackMinds work for the sadly-now-defunct charity The House of St. Barnabas in London. We became fast friends, and Jen signed up to take part in our Hidden Tracks workshops for anyone who wants to learn more about storytelling. Jen told this story at our award-winning show at Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival in summer 2023, and we asked her back on to our MainStage show to tell it again.

For rights reasons, we’re not able to play the tracks during the podcast, but here are some Spotify links so you can check them out.

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And if you want to experience the life-changing power of music live in person, come along to our next live show at Kings Place in King’s Cross, London, on Thursday September 19th, when our guests will be Katherine Parkinson, Shaun Keaveny, Doug Naylor, Dorian Lynskey and Rachel Fairburn. Tickets are available now.

Huge thanks to our producer Haresh Patel.

KB.

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