Hello people! Welcome to the When In Yorkshire Podcast, I hope you are all well. This is episode 50, we made it to half a century of face to face conversations held in venues, houses, tour buses, tents, festivals, coffee shops, hotels and pubs around Yorkshire.
I want to thank everyone one who has given their time to have a conversation, Alun, Kieran and Mosh for their help with the recordings and everyone that has listened, got in touch and shared this podcast to help spread the word - it is massively appreciated. None of these episodes would have happened without the various PR companies who have dealt with my many, many emails, artist managers and tour managers who fit these conversations into the busy day of the touring party. Which moves us on to my guest for episode 50, the wonderful Tre Stead, tour manager extraordinaire for Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls.
I first met Tre in January 2019 as she got me past security and through the labyrinth that is the First Direct Arena in Leeds in order to record episodes 10 and 12 with Frank Turner and Nigel Powel during the mammoth Be Kind tour with amazing supports of Grace Petrie and Jimmy Eat World.
It was clear from our brief interaction that day that she was shit hot at her job of ensuring smooth running of day to day life on tour including rounding up members of the bands, crew and as happened that day, facilitating multiple interviews and pulling people out of said interviews to go and sound check! My bad on the timing, sorry Tre!
We have then crossed paths a few times and I heard through other people that Tre can legitimately claim the title of best tour manager as she has won an award for this exact reason. Having seen the impact the pandemic has had on the non performing side of the live music industry as was highlighted by the #wemakelive movement, it felt right to chat to someone who has got through this and is back on the road.
Unsurprisingly, Tre was a delight and gave a really fun conversation.
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