1 Year Podversary aka Happy Birthday To Me

Crazy Brit Asian

On 27th Sep 2020, Crazy Brit Asian officially launched and this just so happens to be the 27th episode. Trust me, this was not intentional, it just happened haha. So this episode I record and post on my actual birthday and reflect on the journey of the past year, how things have developed and what the effect has been on my life. It's a bit of a whistle stop tour of what the past year with Crazy Brit Asian by yours truly.
Addressing the elephant in the room, long time no pod episode! But that's because I've been super busy with organising, producing and hosting the Ripples In The Wave concert. A lot of work went into pulling this together so the episodes had to take a hit but it was totally worth it! A lil more on that later as before all of that and what led to it even coming into fruition is all the developments CBA had to go through to build such a foundation to take it on in the first place.
I talk about how this was an idea inspired by Dumbfoundead and the Fun With Dumb podcast 3 years ago, how the ESEA landscape back then was minimal and very poorly represented. Who was the catalyst that triggered me and a wave of other podcasters to pic up the mic and hit record. As you can tell, things have changed drastically now with greater awareness of the nuances of the ESEA community. A lot of steps have been taken but there's still a lot to do as a community. The podcast has also opened many doors and collaboration opportunities such as the interview with Dumbfoundead, which led to interviews and developing relationships with the rest of the FWD crew and recognition on Clubhouse to get further guest collaborations. As the ESEA community has grown immensely, it's been an honour to have been a contributor to it and met a large number of others who've helped with making great strides too at besea.n's celebratory birthday event and also the celebration of the UK's first nationally recognised ESEA Heritage Month!
So to wrap up this historic month in the UK I decided to make a bit of history myself by throwing a concert looking to the future. Together with help from WAV Collective and Sound of Plus 82, I organised, produced and hosted my first concert event which focused on up and coming east and southeast asian artists in the UK. The only other time this has happened outside of Asia is 88rising's annual Head in the Clouds concert in LA. As we know, the ESEA community is still massively underrepresented in the UK so this was well overdue and is the first ripple in a bigger wave.
As for what's next for this pod, you'll just have to listen to find out.
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