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Reaching The Crescendo with Ben Mussell

Ben Mussell

Arts

Frequency: 1 episode/43d. Total Eps: 26

Chatting with creatives trying to progress towards their crescendo of their industry and all the highs and lows that happen along the way.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts
14/01/2026
#84
🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts
21/09/2025
#64

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EP#23- Mark Aspinall: 15 Year Journey from Music Assistant to Olivier Award Winning Musical Director #23

Friday, September 5, 2025 • Duration 40:38

Benjamin Button Tickets (before it closes): https://shorturl.at/vk8LE

Fiddler On The Roof UK Tour Tickets: https://shorturl.at/qg6Hd

Into The Woods Tickets: https://shorturl.at/35c9I

Award winning musical theatre maestro Mark Aspinall joined me to chat about his 15 year journey from being a music school assistant to becoming one of the best in the biz when putting the music into musical theatre.

We chatted about:

< Mark’s original career plans before he pivoted towards the theatre world

< How he got his foot in the metaphorical stage door of the industry

< His experiences of being on the creative team for both 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'Fiddler On The Roof'

< Being x2 Olivier nominated in the same category, and winning his first award in the process

< Going ‘Into The Woods’ for his next project

< Advice for theatre up and comers

< The future of musical theatre both on and off stage

Follow the podcast, Ben and the guest on social media:

Reaching The Crescendo Podcast:

https://www.instagram.com/reachingthecrescendopod/

https://www.tiktok.com/@reachingcrescendopod/

https://www.facebook.com/reachingthecrescendopod/

Ben Mussell:

https://www.instagram.com/ben_mussell/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmussell/

Mark Aspinall:

https://www.globalartists.co.uk/artists/composers/

https://www.instagram.com/masps_snaps/

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EP#22- Amy Shepherd: Deli Worker Turned Copywriter, ‘‘it still seems to be…an enigma’’

Friday, August 8, 2025 • Duration 41:24

Freelance Copywriter Amy Shepherd joined me to chat about the relatively unknown art of copywriting, so much so her Nan doesn’t really understand what she does for a living.

We chat about:

< What copywriting is

< Brands she’s worked for in the past e.g. @thecalmzonenet and @LUSH

<Life in the freelance world

< Her stance on AI

< What she's currently working on

< Brands she wants to work for and with in the future

< Her future Crescendo

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Reaching The Crescendo Podcast:

https://www.instagram.com/reachingthecrescendopod/

https://www.tiktok.com/@reachingcrescendopod/

https://www.facebook.com/reachingthecrescendopod/

Ben Mussell:

https://www.instagram.com/ben_mussell/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmussell/

Amy Shepherd:

https://www.amyshepherdfreelance.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-shepherd-172a391a1/

https://www.instagram.com/amy_shepherd_freelance/

EP#13 - Tor Da Force: Female DJs, Festivals, Frau & Breaking Free

Friday, February 9, 2024 • Duration 56:47

Tor Byrnes aka Tor Da Force has been an indie DJ for the last 15 years and over that time has become a staple of clubs, festivals and venues inbetween.

Her career as a DJ has since turned her into an events promoter with her company We Broke Free, making her a force to be reckoned with as a 'Good Time Dictator'.

Tor chats about how she got to where she is today, being a female DJ in a male dominated industry and her previous and present work at some of Europe's biggest festivals.

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Tor Da Force

https://www.webrokefree.co.uk/

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EP#12 - Will McNicol: Playing Fingerstyle, Antonio Forcione, Album Formations & Favourite Guitars

Friday, January 26, 2024 • Duration 58:08

Will McNicol has been playing fingerstyle guitar since aged 6 and enjoyed it so much, he never stopped. It has taken him all over the world and counts his mentor Antonio Forcione as a friend.

Will chats about first picking up a guitar, his love of recording, his favourite gigs and his love of passing on his pearls of fingerstyle wisdom to his fellow guitar player through his workshops and online college.

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Reaching The Crescendo Podcast

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Will McNicol

https://www.willmcnicol.co.uk/

https://www.willmcnicol.co.uk/teachingbooks

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EP#11 - Elspeth McBain: From Lambeth Council to Lighthouse; Running the Largest Arts Centre outside London & working in Pantoland

Friday, December 22, 2023 • Duration 43:41

Elspeth McBain is the CEO of Lighthouse in Poole; the largest arts centre outside of London. However, if her parents had had their way, things would have been very different. So in true rebelious young adult fashion, she ended up at a holiday park in the Isle of Wight and the rest is history.

Elspeth speaks about her journey from the Isle of Wight - Croydon - London and ending up in Poole in 2009. She also details the behind the info on the year long preparation to put on a pantomime for young and old that runs for just 3 weeks.

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Lighthouse, Poole website - https://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk/

Aladdin 2023 tickets - https://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk/event/aladdin/

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EP#10! - Abi Logan: From Footlight to taking FLYT as a choreographer

Sunday, November 26, 2023 • Duration 43:00

Abi Logan started dancing lessons at age 3 and it all spiralled from there. The rest is history!

Abi chats about her beginnings at her local performing academy, getting the choreographer bug through the Rock Challenge competition, using the Covid lockdown as an excuse to start a dance troupe and now going full circle by choreographing her first panto (oh yes she is...)

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Abi Logan

https://www.instagram.com/abilogann/

Tickets to Sleeping Beauty at South Hill Park - https://www.southhillpark.org.uk/shp-events/sleeping-beauty-2023-christmas-panto/

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EP#9 - Emily Young (Founder & Editor in Chief) @ Square One Magazine: Uni project to printed publication, capturing gigs, interviewing artists & the future of physical music media

Sunday, August 27, 2023 • Duration 33:35

Emily Young has been a photographer since 2014, starting in portrait mode. Then at university, she switched to live music photography, created a specimen magazine for a group project and has run with it ever since. even as far as Texas.

Emily explains how her group uni project spiralled a tad out of control and in the process led her to meet some of her favourite bands, connected her to her now team of volunteer photographers both in the UK and across the pond, create PR connections that would make Scooter Braun's jaw drop and give her stance on the future/revival of physical music media.

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Reaching The Crescendo Podcast

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Emily Young

https://www.squareonemagazine.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/itsSquareOne/

https://www.instagram.com/emilyjadephotos/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyjadephoto/?originalSubdomain=uk

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EP#8 - Totally Music Blog: Meet Tracey; the brains behind the blog, how her passion for music started, and using her blog to provide a platform to the best unseen and up-and-coming musical talent

Sunday, July 23, 2023 • Duration 07:40

Tracey started Totally Music to act as a digital scrapbook to collate pictures from her gig experiences. However, when the Covid lockdown hit in March 2020, she saw an opportunity to use her blog to provide a platform to the best unseen and up-and-coming musical talent when they were not allowed to perform. It has been growing ever since.

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Totally Music

https://www.totallymusicofficial.com/blog

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EP#7 - Lee Townsend: Living and playing in Spain, being a wedding singer, YouTube, AI & having your hobby as a job

Sunday, July 16, 2023 • Duration 01:28:05

Lee Townsend saw his Dad in cover bands from a very early age so it was inevitable that he would pick up a guitar eventually. His parents then moved to Spain when he was 18, so he followed suit and the rest is history.

Since then, he has become a reputable wedding singer, has built a YouTube channel to nearly 12,000 subs being a go to guy for loop covers/tutorials and musical gadget reviews.

Lee chats about living in Spain, the life of a wedding singer, YouTube BTS, his opinion on AI entering the music space, having a hobby as your job and his plans for the future.

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Lee Townsend

https://leetownsendmusic.com/

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EP#6 - Imprints: Sunny Bristol, being space pirates, thrash fiddle, Zelda being a Tory & what's next for them as a band

Sunday, June 18, 2023 • Duration 33:57

Imprints started off as a University project and spiralled from there as many bands do. Ever since then, they have found their unique gypsy/folk-rock sound, their space pirate hats, potentially invented the coolest fiddle playing style ever and even got Michael Eavis' (yes that Michael Eavis) phone number in the process!

Andy (frontman) and Vince (thrash fiddle) talk about their humble beginnings, inadvertently starting crowd fights, Feeder being their support act, wanting to headline Glastonbury and the all important next studio album.

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Imprints

https://www.imprintsuk.co.uk/

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