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For Those I Love discusses his creative process and upcoming performances at the All Together Now Festival.

Today’s podcast guest For Those I Love has just been announced for The Circle by Jameson Music stage at this weekend’s All Together Now Festival. While I’ve written extensively about Dave Balfe’s For Those I Love project, right up to last year’s second album Carving The Stone, it’s been seven years since we chatted on the podcast. Listen on Apple | Android | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed | Podlink You may remember the original 2019 podcast - which was the first time that Dave talked deeply and intensely about the loss of his friend Paul Curran, a catalyst for making a devastatingly emotional album about love, loss, grief and friendship. On his return to the podcast this time around, the topics are a less weighty but no less interesting - a year after album two - Balfe can't stop building props, remixing his own work and creating films for the upcoming live shows at All Together Now, and he reveals he has been working on two distinct ATN live sets, and they couldn't be more different from each other. The Friday show at Some Kind Of Wonderful leans on the props Balfe has spent the last few weeks building himself, including a giant grass mound…

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Host: Nialler9

Guests: For Those I Love, Dave Balfe

Topics covered

• music festival
• live performance
• album remix
• emotional storytelling
• artistic creation

Keywords

• For Those I Love
• Dave Balfe
• All Together Now
• Carving The Stone
• live shows
• remix
• music festival

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: All Together Now Festival, Some Kind Of Wonderful, The Circle by Jameson Music

Books & works: Carving The Stone

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