If you've always wanted to work in music, but aren't sure where to start, then this episode is for you!

Back in July, VOCAL GIRLS was invited by Truck Festival to do a panel talk at their Tap Room stage: ‘Breaking Into the Music Industry with Vocal Girls’. Hosted by VOCAL GIRLS founder and music journalist, Megan Graye and VOCAL GIRLS content producer Dani Murden, the panel featured Cherym, Indy Brewer, and members of the VG team.

With different guests working in different areas of the industry (musician; management; PR; graphic design; and journalism), we chatted about how everyone started out, their fears, failures, and hot tips for those taking their first few steps.

We want to send a big thank you to all of our guests for being so gracious and honest and to Truck Festival 2023 for inviting us down! You can now listen to the full audio now from wherever you get your podcasts!

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The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This series is a collaboration with The Great Escape Festival, so for this series Megan will be interviewing four key artists from their line-up. This week, Megan's speaking to singer-songwriter, Rachel Chinouriri.

After recording some songs on a budget mic and her mum’s laptop aged 17, Rachel released her first ep ‘bedroom tales’ on Soundcloud. Since then she’s signed a record deal with Parlophone, had her music shared by her personal idols Coldplay, and most recently bagged a Hottest Record on Clara Amfo’s show on R1 with her latest single, ‘All I ever asked'.

Rachel’s sound is delicate, soothing and layered. Her lyrics touch on relationship struggles and personal darkness, but her vocals feel bright and sincere. Her acoustic version of her song ‘So my darling’ has been streamed almost 10 million times.

Megan and Rachel chatted a few weeks back about her stage fright, why she decided to speak out against unconscious bias in the industry and what we can expect from incoming new music.

Rachel's song choices:

Past: The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather

Present: Haunted House - Holly Humberstone

Future: Etta Marcus - Salt Lake City

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This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team.

This podcast series was created in collaboration with the Great Escape Festival - the festival for new music. The Great Escape is a three-day music festival in Brighton which kicks off this year’s UK festival season. It is renowned for highlighting emerging artists and for showcasing new music and this year is no exception with over 450 incredible up and coming artists from all over the world on the line up! The Great Escape will be running from the 11th - 14th May 2022 across 35 venues, all within walking distance of one another.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/vocal-girls-podcast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The VOCAL GIRLS podcast is the series where music journalist and VOCAL GIRLS Founder, Megan Graye, chats to artists about their past, present and future, and the music that intertwines these experiences. This series is a collaboration with The Great Escape Festival, so for this series Megan will be interviewing four key artists from their line-up. This week, Megan's speaking to singer-songwriter, Lola Young.

Known for her huge voice and relatable lyrics, Lola has had an incredible few years. She's been signed to Island records, been nominated for a Brit, named in the BBC sound of 2022 poll and also performed on The Graham Norton show and the Late Late Show with James Cordon. Writing songs from the age of 11, the now 21 year old has a big future ahead of her with managers of both Adele and the late icon, Amy Winehouse backing her.

Megan and Lola spoke over zoom and chatted about her cutting her teeth doing shows to an empty room, the importance of having a strong sense of self and how her songs have helped her process what she was going through when she wrote them.

Lola's song choices:

Past: Last Request - Paolo Nutini

Present: Dijon - The Dress

Future: ArrDee ft. Lola Young - Who Woulda Thought

@vocalgirlsclub

@megangraye_

Vocalgirls.com

@greatescapefest

greatescapefestival.com

This podcast is produced, edited and presented by Megan Graye. Music for this podcast was composed and recorded by Jessica Edwards and the graphics are by Alayna Hunte. They are both members of the VOCAL GIRLS team.

This podcast series was created in collaboration with the Great Escape Festival - the festival for new music. The Great Escape is a three-day music festival in Brighton which kicks off this year’s UK festival season. It is renowned for highlighting emerging artists and for showcasing new music and this year is no exception with over 450 incredible up and coming artists from all over the world on the line up! The Great Escape will be running from the 11th - 14th May 2022 across 35 venues, all within walking distance of one another.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/vocal-girls-podcast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.