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Calum is a singer and performer with over 20 years of experience in the music industry beginning as a chorister at Wakefield Cathedral Choir and eventually going on to study music performance at both Leeds College of Music and Wakefield College. Early in his career, Calum worked his way across Europe as part of a three-piece with residencies in Rome, Nice, Barcelona and currently is the host of an open mic night at Brick & Liquor, in his hometown of Wakefield and the frontman of Southwest Band, an award-winning function act. We spoke about development as a singer and a performer, motivation, confidence, comfort & risk, the purpose of creativity, anxiety & mental health, putting one's self in someone else's song, resisting fear, disincentives in the creative industry, time and money economy, respect & ego, emotions in art, singing lessons, theory and technique, warmups & breathing exercises, talent, different kinds of music, lyrics writing, unique questions singers are asked, the intimacy of singing and good songs with bad lyrics. Find Cal @Calumwhelanmusic, @SouthwestBand and @Brickandliquor  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove.com, @Arthurdoveteaco.com or by reviewing it on iTunes. Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Catherine is a PhD student at the UCL Institute of Education, London, where she is exploring concepts of mind, rhythm and rationality. In 2019 her collaboration with Professor Paul Standish, Displacing the one: dislocated thinking in HigherEducation was published by Routledge. It appears in the book Conversations on Embodiment across Higher Education. She also tutors English and drama and is an examiner for English Language. When she’s not playing with words, Catherine spends her time performing and teaching drums, which she started learning alongside her PhD. She lives with her jazz-musician-partner, Andrew Christie, in Bristol and an ever-growing collection of percussion instruments. We spoke about rhythm in philosophy, embodied time, linear & circular concepts of time, The Greek Gods, measurability, productivity & efficiency in education, dichotomies & misunderstandings, purpose & meaning, perfection, collaboration, Antonio Damasio, the trolley problem, creativity, education reform. Read Catherine's work @ Displacing the one: dislocated thinking in HigherEducation in Routledge.  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove.com, @Arthurdoveteaco.com or by reviewing it on iTunes. Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Jess is a self-taught baker and founder of Jess Bakes Vegan, a made-to-order baking business which specialises in vegan cupcakes and cookies. Jess has been a vegetarian for 18 years and a vegan since January 2020, has a degree in Fashion design with textiles and has worked as a garment technologist for Boohoo and New Look. Find Jess and order cupcakes, cookies and cakes @Jess.Bakes.Vegan Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove.com, @Arthurdoveteaco.com or by reviewing it on iTunes. Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Ed is a songwriter, music producer and mix engineer based in Yorkshire, primarily working from his custom-built home studio The Coalrooms, Leeds.  With now 2 decades of industry experience behind him, Ed has worked with an eclectic range of artists, genres and styles throughout his career. From the avant-garde acoustic singer-songwriter Jon Gomm, to the electronic hip-hop of Fold to the explosive noise-rock of Narcs and back again. More recently, Ed co-founded Feel Good Music Publishing, a music licensing company specialising in music for sync.    We spoke about songs for sync, musical tastes, signature & style in music, the role of a producer, self-knowledge, novelty & familiarity in creativity, collaboration, trust, songwriting in music production, the purpose of a song, synaesthesia, writing to a brief, prosaic art, meaning in art, character & performance, validating taste, emotion in music, arts in education and the hope of youth. Find Ed @Edheatonproducer, on his website Edheatonproducer.com or as @Feelgoodmusicpublishing on Instagram or through their website Feelgoodmusicpublish ing.com. Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove.com, @Arthurdoveteaco.com or by reviewing it on iTunes. Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Georgina is an expert vocal tutor, specialising in teaching children and young adults in singing and musical theatre. She has worked with the likes of The Saturdays for MTV, Natasha Hamilton of Atomic Kitten and on shows such as Just the Two of Us for the BBC, The Worst Witch for ITV and many more. Georgina is the founder of Vocaltutor, the UK’s largest vocal and singing tuition network, The New Foundry Studios and is well known for her reaction videos on Youtube. We spoke about vocal coaching and Youtube success, honesty in critique, live performance vs recorded, trends & sell-outs, polymaths, clickbait, style & substance, healthy data, entrepreneurialism in the arts, mindset, misleading motives, the myth of starting young, cultivating creativity, perfectionism, reality TV, the music industry, luck, what makes a good singer, common issues of voice. Find Georgina @Thehonestvocalcoach, her Youtube channel & on her website Thehonestvocalcoach.com  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove.com, @Arthurdoveteaco.com or by reviewing it on iTunes. Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation 

Rich is a musician, multi-instrumentalist and the Level 3 course coordinator in Wakefield College's Music department teaching music performance, songwriting, aural perception, recording and composing for film. Rich writes and performs in ambient-pop duo KMRS and as the drummer of Trancend, a covers band specialising in rock reinterpretations of 90's dance anthems.  We spoke about taste in music, Bond songs, discovering new music, nature & nurture, algorithms in music, qualification in art, trusting your gut, realism in education, theory & experience, adapting to the modern world, defining creativity, critical skills for creatives, intrinsic motivation, guess the riff, self-awareness, home instruments, replication & mimicry, cover bands.  Find Rich's music @__KMRS__, @Trancend or play Guess the Riff.  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove.com, @Arthurdoveteaco.com or by leaving a glowing iTunes Review. Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Simon is a perfumer and founder of Ånd Fragrance who is best known for his work at Lush Cosmetics developing many of the companies most popular scents along with his father Mark as one half of Gorilla Perfumes. Until last year Simon was the head buyer at Lush and is currently pursuing his own interests as the main perfumer at Ånd Fragrance and restoration project Careys Secret Garden.   We spoke about growing up around creativity, working with family, blurring boundaries in art, the Lush Spa, Synaesthesia, music & scent, creativity in perfumery, the brain and the hemisphere differences, writer's block, analysis & intuition, failed experiments, the creative process, flow and Breath of God. Find Simon @Sigorilla and his perfumes @andfragrance or andfragrance.com.  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove.com, @Arthurdoveteaco.com or by leaving a glowing iTunes Review. Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Eddie is a professional photographer and one half of Kaboom Images. Eddie's work is largely focused on capturing natural landscapes, pin-up models and cars. We chatted about the etymology of photography, lighting, opportunity & luck, colour & mood, depression in self-portrait, Instagram vs reality, instant gratification, the phenomenology of ideas, cyborgs & futurism, novelty & innovation, danger in art, the value of music in a digital age, literal vs metaphorical truth, technology in art and the value of art. Find Eddie @Kaboomimages  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast | Arthurjohndove.com Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Adam is a tattoo artist specialising in American Tradionalitional and Black-and-grey, currently working from Diamonds & Dusters in Huddersfield. Adam is also a proficient vocalist, having performed with RF, Last Days of Vengeance & Whiteboys For Gay Jesus and is currently writing and performing with two quartets; post-rock outfit Iamomega and hardcore/metal band Choose Your Destroyer. We spoke about migrating from music to tattoo design, professional development, collaboration in tattoo design, idolisation in art, the emotional entanglement in ideas, trust & freedom in creativity, imposter syndrome, safety & risk in art, originality and the lowest common denominator, selling out, the psychology of ideation, cancel culture, authenticity & self-expression, discourse & disagreement, generalisations & stereotypes.  Find Adam @AdamAhab Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast | Arthurjohndove.com Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Lauren, otherwise known as Bimmling, is an independent 2D animator and visual artist based in Sheffield who is best known for her vibrant and colourful, cartoony storyboard and character work.  Lauren has a first degree in Animation and Motion Graphics with the Chancellors Award for best in show and has hosted workshops and lectures for Nottingham, Huddersfield, and Sheffield Hallam Universities. She was recently awarded a ToonBoom Ambassadorship. Topics included defining animation, the web of skills, the problem of creative freedom, referencing in art, the illusion of unique ideas, myths & monsters, The Overton Window, the uncanny valley, noticing motion, modern animation controversies, mood & emotions, AI and the Turing test, modernisation and realism in art, impressionism and readability.  Find Lauren @Bimmling or on Bimmling.com  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast | Arthurjohndove.com Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation

Rob is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist who has written and performed in bands from a young age, most popularly in the pop-punk band More Than You'll Ever Know. His most recent musical venture finds him with a more mature, developed, electronic sound, which you can hear in his new single 'what do I know' . We spoke about music and growing up in the pop-punk scene, lyrics and meaning, sympathy & empathy, escapism & exploration in creativity, intentions and consequences in art, self-producing a record, the mother tongue in songwriting, talent & skills, good habits in creative practice and individuality in music. Find Rob @Robbarracloughmusic   Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast | Arthurjohndove.com Support the Brain & Behaviour Foundation  

The Turning Tides is the performing name for songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Ben Brentnall. As a guitarist of over 23 years, Ben has performed and written for many of his own bands in addition to working professionally as a guitar tech for the Happy Mondays, Naughty Boy, Emili Sande, Micha B and Sam Smith. We spoke about experimentation, the necessity of error, trust in creativity, collaboration vs individual songwriting, the phenomenology of songwriting, the frequency of ideas, how to structure for creativity, education & careers in the arts, meaning & music, understanding your art, emotional attachment to art, perfectionism, the art & the artist and the sound of silence.   Find Ben @Theturningtides  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast | Arthurjohndove.com

Cutthroat Confections is a family-run bakery fronted by Ele Romana and partnered with Death Metal Chef UK, an online recipe book and culinary guide presented on Youtube. Ele is the primary baker at Cutthroat who specialises in Italian desserts and anything with unusual flavours and ingredients. We speak about baking and gardening, the age to learn, the language of taste, perception, universals & particulars, aesthetics and beauty judgements, rumination & overthinking, social media & mental health, public discourse, the negative bias and the function of art.  Find Ele @cutthroat_confections_  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove   Support the Podcast | Arthurjohndove.com  

Jack is a record producer, self-professed coffee enthusiast and frontman of alt-rock band Furr. When making records Jack is best known for his devotion to fuzz pedals, hiss and noise, features which remain prominent throughout his recent production work with Brooders, SLOUCH, Bad Idea, Brawlers and ACTOR.  We spoke about cooking, emotional connections in creativity, taste & value, the visual bias in language, the narrow & broad views in art, synaesthesia, regularity & repetition, meditation, the question 'is X too Y?', teaching creativity, workflow and healthy practices and the Pareto principle.  Find Jack @Jacksbyrne and Jackbyrne.co.uk Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove  Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove and Arthurjohndove.com 

Jamie is a performing theatre actor for In On The Act, a young actors theatre company based primarily at Wakefield's Theatre Royal. With an interest in drama and performance from a relatively young age, Jamie has since gone on to achieve an honours degree in performing arts in addition to assuming the role of Billy Casper in a stage adaptation of the often praised, British cultural mainstay 'Kez' and as 'Bottom' in A Midsummer Night's Dream. We chatted about acting as a mask, comfort and challenge in creativity, acting and mental health, the 'magic if', identity and character, the act and the actor, intrinsic and extrinsic inspiration, risk, sympathy & empathy, fear and safe spaces and connecting with an audience. Find Jamie on stage @ In On The Act  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove Support the Podcast @Arthurjohndove and Arthurjohndove.com

Ric is a songwriter and performer with four live piano albums under his own name, including Ric Neale Does Pet Sounds, a Beach Boys cover album, and Lullabies For Parents, in addition to several records with his previous band; The Housekeeping Society. Collaboration lies at the heart of much of Ric's creative output. He was the musical director and a performer in Dancing Bear, a sell-out theatre show with Jamie Fletcher and company, a co-writer and performer of Never Worn, an Ernest Hemingway inspired theatre piece with spoken word artist Rob Reed and 45RPM a piece written in partnership with visual artist Pete McKee for the art exhibition Thud, Crackle and Pop. Ric also hosts a monthly piano residency; Monochrome at Wakefields Jolly Tap and has lectured the craft of songwriting, across the world, for over 10 years. We discuss the relationship between teaching and learning, the make and play states, the science & magic of art, finding good problems in songwriting, honouring the instrument, the humans in the room, the variables of music, the natural progression of an artist, ownership & art, the effect of external factors on success, the function of music, false perceptions of craft and muscle memory in craft. Find Ric @Ricneale  Podcast Music | Lull by Arthur Dove | http://bit.ly/2mwDXon  Support the Podcast | https://bit.ly/2AifWK7

Joe is the head chandler at Worship the Scent, an independent, soy-based candle and wax melt patisserie. Joe's primary interest is in fragrance and perfumery but is also a keen supporter and advocate of LGBTQ+ rights. As a result of these two motivating forces, the truest picture of Joe's creative output is one that keeps both scent and charity in the foreground. Joe is also colourblind, often working in tandem with his partner; concept artist Storm Bilton (Inktinkboy).   We speak about ethics in candle making and tea blending, the process of candle making, experimentation in craft, intentions and consequences, the role of timing in craft, puns, neologisms and nomenclature, the origin of ideas, the psychological experience of colour-blindness and personality in text. Find Joe @Worshipthescent  Music | Lull by Arthur Dove | http://bit.ly/2mwDXon  Support the Podcast | https://bit.ly/2AifWK7

Gus is a producer, mixer and mastering engineer based out of Gafro Studios in Elland, Leeds. Despite opting out of any formal training in music technology Gus has since gone on to design, build and equip his own purpose-built, professional-quality recording space completely from scratch. Gus is an experienced vocalist with specialist training by industry experts Ken Tamplin, Jaime Vendera and Eli Prensen and has competed in various amateur bouldering competitions.  We spoke about creativity as problem-solving, simulating experiences, defying stereotypes, the illusion of easy successes, simplifying things and removing unnecessary obstacles, experimentation in the recording studio, articulating the idea of art, the recording studio as a tool for songwriting, collaboration, writing music outside of your genre and science & art.  Find Gus @Gafrostudios  Music | Lull by Arthur Dove | http://bit.ly/2mwDXon  Support the Podcast | https://bit.ly/2AifWK7

Storm is a freelance print artist predominantly working on brand identity, content creation and web design. Much of his work has been inspired by the work of traditional tattoo artists, which remains to be the theme permeating Storms more recent collaborative work with Worship the Scent; a candle and wax melt maker in Yorkshire. Storm is a qualified coffee shop barista and a member of the LGBTQ+ community.   We spoke about learning your art, the innateness of creativity, the creative brain, interpreting the meaning of art, tattoos, signature in style, the utility of stereotypes, earworms, the effect of mood on art, habitualizing creativity and prosaic art. Find Storm @Inktinkboy  Music | Lull by Arthur Dove | http://bit.ly/2mwDXon  Support the Podcast | https://bit.ly/2AifWK7

Harry is the drummer for punk rock band Sunliner (ex-Jake & The Jellyfish) but has been a persistent face in the UK/US music scene in bands like Keeper, Celestial Green and Adore/Repel. Harry's music has been featured in Kerrang! magazine and BBC Radio 1 and has a string of international tours under his belt, both in the UK and in the US; performing most notably at Punk Rock Festival in Slovenia last year. Harry is also a capable multi-instrumentalist releasing electronic music under the banner of Shamata. Sunliner are currently signed to Lockjaw Records (UK) and Paper + Plastic (US) and are due to perform at Fest in Florida later in the year. Topics included switching instruments, the role of boredom in creativity, break-taking and hyper-focus, personality in art, unhealthy practices, genre and the self, the function of music, rhythm and writing drum parts, the benefit of arts in education and some other stuff in between. Find Harry @_Shamata  Music | Lull by Arthur Dove | http://bit.ly/2mwDXon  Support the Podcast | https://bit.ly/2AifWK7