Where's My Freaking Dressing Room?!

For the final episode in Series 2 (can you believe it?!) Alex and Helen are honoured to be joined by good friend and esteemed colleague, Richard Robbins. Richard is an in-demand tenor who has soloed …

This week Alex and Helen have a laugh discussing what it's like to study and work abroad. Alex has extensive experience performing across Italy and in September 2021 Helen moved to Switzerland to joi…

Opera as an art form requires our imagination. Whether we be entering into the world of Die Walküre, The Cunning Little Vixen or Tosca, each opera asks us to leave behind the every day and suspend ou…

This week Alex and Helen mythbust some of the common misconceptions surrounding diet and singing.

Caffeine

A huge topic in the vocal world, there are many conversations about caffeine being a vocal irr…

Nobody likes talking about it, Alex and Helen certainly don't like talking about it, but in this episode they get into the uncomfortable topic of money.

Money is hard to come by in the arts. From the …

New year, same dressing room, and this week Alex and Helen have a double bill for you.

To start, they discuss the seasonal nature of the career as a performer and how it often involves intense periods…

It's our last episode of the year so we decided to take a look back at the New Year's Resolutions we made back in series 1 on the pod in January and see whether we stuck to any of them or just totall…

It's Christmastime, for many performers it's audition time, which also means it's acceptance/rejection time.

Performers in the creative industries have to audition for opportunities in order to furth…

The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting colder and it's almost an acceptable time of year to be eating mince pies which can only mean one thing: Christmas is on its way! There's no denyi…

Although we don't care to admit it, almost all artists experience crises of confidence. From panicking during the final minutes before you go on stage, to experiencing a few weeks feeling slightly un…

With the Christmas audition season just around the corner Alex and Helen thought it was about time they revisited this topic. In this week's episode they discuss the advice they wish they'd been give…

To celebrate the first anniversary of 'Where's My Freaking Dressing Room?!' Alex and Helen decided to organise a dinner party and were delighted to be joined by their close friend and food and fine-w…

There are three ps that come with a career in music and no, we don't mean pianississimo!

Practice. Performance. Pressure.

In every aspect of a musician's career there is an undeniable element of pressu…

Every September Alex and Helen get that same ‘back to school’ feeling. For Helen, it’s a period of excitement as she buys far too much stationery and looks forward to getting stuck in to a new artist…

This week Alex and Helen discuss how to make the most of your contacts.

The classical music industry is a small, small world. No matter where you go or what you do, everyone seems to know everyone! Al…

As musicians and performers we are trained throughout our careers to develop a critical ear, one that can assess the quality of a performance and decide what needs to be worked on in order to improve…

Most people think that football and classical music have nothing in common. Alex and Helen are here to debunk that myth, opening series 2 of 'Where's My Freaking Dressing Room?!' with an episode on t…

SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE!

This week Helen is taking over the podcast to present the research project she's been working on over the last year:

"As I hope many of our regular listeners know, one of the m…