Young people are a key part of our gig-theatre show Lost in Music. We’ve recruited local young musicians for each venue on the tour who will perform with the professional cast. Young people are also involved with the marketing campaign for the show. Here’s the next written piece from our ‘Young Marketeer’ Jodie Rae:
I interviewed Jamie Haining, co-owner of Ellis Music Studios. Ellis Music Studios is a recording studio and rehearsal room complex in Irvine. Jamie is also co-owner of the events company, Bring It On Events.
How does music play a part in your life?
“Music plays a part in most aspects of my life. Obviously, a career, but also personally. I think there’s very little time in my life where I’m not listening to music.”
What do you use music for?
“I use music to wake up. I use music to drive, work, to chill out. I use it to create, as a hobby and pretty much to go to sleep.”
What is your favourite type of music?
“I would normally say a bit of anything except… terrible pop music. Not all pop music, but just some of the badly done stuff. But my core favourite music would be alternative rock, grunge, metal, and post-hardcore. And I think I’m a punk at heart.”
How do you feel when you listen to music you love?
“It kind of depends on the situation or the scenario. But an adrenaline rush, I think, would be a good way to describe it. Generally, happy. Music equals happiness in my life.”
What has been your favourite musical experience in your life?
“Too many. They’re all my favourites and change on a daily basis. I think just playing live. A specific instance is difficult to pick but, the buzz you get… You just feel invincible when you play live. There’s a total rush.
I think from a ‘claim to fame’ point of view would be that we played with Incubus at the Cathouse before they made it really big.”
Why is live music important to you?
“I like seeing people create something. I like seeing four or five people, or one person even, creating something that they’ve written and come up with and playing it well.
One of my top three live bands that I’ve seen live is the band Thrice. How they performed… was just incredible. Note perfect. The sound was perfect. That could actually be one of my favourite musical moments.
It’s people creating something in front of you, as opposed to a studio where they’re tweaking and fixing as they go. From a social point of view, you’ll go to see something with your pals and if the artist blows you away at the same time, it’s just one big, good experience.”
What are some of your earliest memories of music?
“When I was growing up, I was absolutely obsessed with Simon and Garfunkel, and I really don’t remember why. My dad always used to listen to bands like The Eagles or Eric Clapton or whoever. I’d be given a record and it would be something like Black Sabbath, The Who or Small Faces and it just kind of started me off my musical path there. But I think the thing that sticks out for me, when I was younger than that, was Simon and Garfunkel. I don’t know where it came from, but I had vinyls of ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ and I remember my mum’s friend would come and visit and always give me a new Simon and Garfunkel record. I was absolutely obsessed. I still am, to an extent.”
How do you think music can help benefit people?
“Where do you start? I think emotionally and socially. I was in a situation where I had a disabled and ill child. He had music therapy. He wasn’t able to do much of anything on his own. But we always felt like the music and just putting that tambourine in his hand, we felt that he enjoyed that. We felt that he got it. So, I think it’s important for so many reasons.
I would find driving to Glasgow difficult without Tool playing in the background or Nirvana on the train etc. I think for me, it’s secondary to air. Most people would say music is important, you know, for dancing or for listening to, or for going to see gigs, but I think I would take that a stage further. It’s what I want to do for work, for hobbies. It’s what I want to do for fun.”
Jodie Rae is a singer-songwriter, musician, and actor from the West Coast of Scotland. Jodie uses her music as a raw, unfiltered outlet that reflects her own experiences with love, self, and loss. She has gigged and performed theatrically across Scotland, at events such as Celtic Connections, DMC’s The PLAZA, and the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival.
Lost in Music
Touring Scotland from 16 Sept – 7 Oct 2022
Tickets on sale now.