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The amazing Ciaran Love started as a full time street entertainer, roaming around Europe. Since 1994 however, he has been carving out a fantastic career in Hong Kong: Performer, clown, prop comedy, producer, manager and bespoke events creator, I caught up with him at the AIA Great European Carnival, where he was working as a performer and manager for the entertainers. This is a great individual story of how someone became a phenomenally good professional entertainer and more!
You can find Ciaran Love online at:
http://www.nonamehk.com/
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COMPLETE CONTENTS:
00:01:30 to 16:00 Busking in Europe in the early 1990s
00:18:30 Performer and Event organizer
00:26:00 Fire juggling in the 1990s
00:33:00 to 00:45:00 Developing his Alfie Noname character, developing a gobbledygook/nonsense language
00:45:15 Back in England doing a “proper” job
00:52:00 Off to Hong Kong in 1994!
00:57:15 Clown gig at Harry Ramsden’s
00:59:30 First birthday party show
01:03:40 Lamma Island in mid 1990s – creative hub
Rob Rogers, Jeremy Dane, Mike Abbott, Zonko
01:08:00 the end of an era for old school style: mobile discos and storytelling magic
01:10:00 Corporate shows for Rob Rogers
01:13:00 the Hong Kong boom years for entertainers: c1995 to c1997
NAMES AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Check em all out. Google and youtube them!!! You will learn sooooo much
http://www.nonamehk.com/ AIA Great European Carnival, Alfie Love (aka Peter Love, drag queen), Graham Love (Santa Claus, see episode 41), great podcast: Stories from the Pot – the Buskers’ Hall of Fame, Rob Rogers (episode 24), Jeremy Dane, Mike Abbott (episode 42), Zonko
