Grassroots Music Venue Special • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #523
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by SAM DABB of Newport's finest venue LE PUB!
Being that this is a Grassroots Music Venue Special, who better than to Sam to join Pip to talk about everything that is truly unique, awesome, and hugely important about indie music venues. As you'll hear, Sam has been on a huge lifelong journey with music facilitation, promotion and production, and it is people like this who build up the arts and creative culture to be what it is. You'll hear everything about the mission, the passion, the quest and all that is important and inspiring about these places, as well as what the National Lottery intitatives bring to the table too. It's massive - there are so many reasons why their involvement is crucial and it allows for tons of opportunities, so definitely make sure you peep this ep - massively inspirational and exciting stuff right here. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast. Thank you for joining us today for this very special episode |
| 0:07.2 | Which is made possible by the National Lottery now. I'm super excited to do this one because |
| 0:12.8 | This is basically all about the National Lottery's gig offer and how they're supporting grassroots venues and a lot of you will know |
| 0:21.3 | I've been part of live music in many different levels of venues. So |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah, it's a cause that's close to my heart and then when I got the brief on who I was going to get to talk to about this |
| 0:34.2 | I was buzzing because today I'm joined by a Sam dab who's been holding things down at Newport venue La Pave for over 25 years |
| 0:42.0 | And she knows her stuff when it comes to grassroots music venue. She's seen it all in her tenor at this |
| 0:50.0 | Prized venue and like why she knows the real struggle of keeping these small businesses |
| 0:54.8 | Alive a story begins in the Midlands |
| 0:57.3 | But she found herself in Newport at the age of 13 and then |
| 1:02.2 | Fast forward |
| 1:04.0 | To the night reason she was signed to a label wherever banned this go and even had a record deal and dropped a few records |
| 1:10.5 | But her journey with La Pave started as a teenager where she started as a 17 year old wannabe punter |
| 1:17.2 | And we talk about that and all these years later she found herself as the manager |
| 1:21.7 | knocking on the door of a 25 year tenure |
| 1:25.7 | Which is mad and yeah, there's so much that we got to talk about |
| 1:30.3 | I think you're going to really enjoy it as much as I did |
| 1:33.1 | I really enjoyed hearing about La Pave and just how it's run like how it's how communities so important how grass roots |
| 1:42.2 | how |
| 1:43.4 | Accessibility is important to all classes |
| 1:46.9 | To all people I went and had a bit of a look at on Sam's page and them |
| 1:52.9 | Our views align greatly on many a thing |
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