Ian
Appearances
The Planet Reigate Podcast
55: Stories from Run Reigate runners as they crossed the finish line, the big Redhill Arts Takeover week… and more
Hi, it's Ian. I raced a 10K. It was okay until I got to lap eight when that hill kicked in, and that was... I won't swear. It was evil. For me, it wasn't such the hill. I'd gone a bit too quick in the first 8k to save a little bit of time knowing I had the hill. But as a result, my legs were fatigued. So it was a double whammy, really.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
55: Stories from Run Reigate runners as they crossed the finish line, the big Redhill Arts Takeover week… and more
But at least when you got to the top of it, you knew you had an easy last k. I went for a range of emotions out there. But yeah, once I hit the stop button, yeah, it's happy. So all good.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
I call it roots folk pop. So it's a mixture, really, of lots of different influences. A bit of country in there, a bit of Americana, a bit of folk and a bit of pop.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
No, great. We'll go for that.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
Very lucky, yeah. We were driving up this morning, it looked a bit cloudy, but yeah, it's been sun and bright blue skies at the moment and while we were playing, so that's brilliant.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
That's essential for us because we write original stuff pretty much. We put a few covers in on longer sets, but it's about keeping music live, keeping it original in that we're trying to write, you know, reflecting what's currently happening in the world. truly in it together in a community fashion.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
Well, I went down to the Eden Project about ten years ago, took my two daughters down there, and we learned all about how plants and trees communicate. with each other through a mycorrhizal fungal system, network they call it, and they call it the wood wide web. I started to research that and read lots of books around that area including Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life and
The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
I wrote an album a couple of years ago called The Wood White Web, and we're playing songs from that. And that's kind of an underlying theme of ours is environmental concern and community actions that we can take.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
41: The Light’s first birthday, a look back at Reigate’s Summer Festival and Horley carnival… and more.
IanRoland.com. That's I-A-N-R-O-L-A-N-D. There's loads of links to our music videos up on YouTube. And we've got our latest single called Living in Sound. out on Spotify or iTunes or actually any digital store you care to take.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
My name's Ian. Her name's Pepper, and she's two and a half... and she's a Siberian Husky. She's a good dog, apart from the fact that she runs off. She goes walkabout almost every week. She gets bored, crosses the field through the flats into the graveyard around there, and then she comes back thinking she's very clever. She is clever, yeah, but she's naughty. But she loves playing with other dogs.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
She's gentle with all dogs. She doesn't bite. She's very good with children. When she molts, they pull her fur out of the back. She just stands there and lets them pull handfuls out. She likes to go for a walk three times a day. She likes to be chased by other dogs mostly. She likes them to jump up on her and rough her up. She doesn't care.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
She was rehomed from pets for homes. Two girls had her as an inside dog and she grew into a husky. They could never inside anymore. So I took her over. She wouldn't have made a good inside dog. As a puppy, she chewed everything in sight. And she wanted to go out and run. That's all she wants to do. She's been running since she got here. She's only just stopped when I put the lead on.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
I'll let her off the lead and then I'll call her to come back. I can't go with her. I've got a tracker on her. I'll take her up to the park with Felons Cops. And she runs off into the woods or the other fields. A tracker measures her doing six, seven miles. And I do two or three miles chasing her. She just runs around in circles. She gets in the woods and chases anything that's in the woods.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
Then she comes back, but only when she feels like it. She doesn't come back to command. She means hard work. Plenty of exercise and hard work. But I broke my leg and got