HIPCAST

About HIPCAST

Hastings Independent Press HIPCAST is a podcast offering local news, features, events information, interviews as well as music, poetry and spoken word from the local community. Please email content to: hipcast@hastingsindependentpress.co.uk

Publisher

Hastings Independent Press

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2020

Latest episode

20 Jan 2023

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Jan 2023

   HIP Biz 16 with Charlie Nelson from Fundi Signs

   Hello and thank you for listening to this latest episode of HIP Biz, the podcast where our roving business writer, Damien Pestell meets local business owners to find out how they find meaning in their work and what their journey has been to creating a business they love. This week Damien met up with traditional signwriter and generally good bloke Charlie Nelson. Damien first met Charlie while he was up a ladder, since then he has learnt more about his life and been intrigued by the choices he has made. Damien has a personal interest in Charlie’s line of work as both his dad and grandad were signwriters. For Damien stepping into his studio for the first time was like stepping back in time and he was looking forward to talking to him about the traditional craft which has seen a revival in recent years. In this episode Damien finds out that Charlie has always been passionate about food and left university wanting to be a chef, inspired by the TV programme Masterchef. However, he quickly found he couldn’t cope with the unsociable hours and decided to head in a different direction. Charlie talks about heading in the direction of design and landing a “great job” as a Graphic Designer for a food and drink magazine in London. How much he enjoyed it and why leaving to be a research analyst for more money was a mistake. But how it eventually turned out to be one of the most valuable lessons of his career. Charlie tells Damien about the negative effects of working a job he didn’t enjoy and feeling an urgent need for change. Deciding to do something completely different and moving to live in Africa. Where he got a job at an eco lodge in Mozambique and how the experience gave him a completely different perspective on life. While there he experimented with wood-fired cooking which sparked a business idea. He left Africa after a year and returned to the UK to start Fundi Pizza, a street food business with his brother in 2012. He describes how it was great fun and immediately successful. However as the business grew it became more complicated and less fun. He started to do some signwriting on the side. Charlie tells Damien about the pandemic closing Fundi Pizza overnight and how they managed to sell the food business. Charlie then used furlough to establish himself as a signwriter, starting Fundi Signs. Finally, Charlie talks about starting again and how it has meant learning again, something that he has missed as an adult. How he has always loved lettering and the enjoyment he gets from becoming more immersed in his craft.

2. 

   27 Oct 2022

   HIP Biz 15 with Ned and Charlie Braxton from Brewing Brothers

   The latest episode of HIP Biz is now available, hosted by our roving Business Editor Damien Pestell. In this series we tell the story of the people behind our local businesses, finding out how and why they created their business. This week Damien travels by bicycle (and up a very large hill) to meet the fabulous Brewing Brothers, Ned and Charlie Braxton at their sparkly new brewery up on the Ridge in Hastings. They talk about their first job as publicans, managing their family owned pub in East Sussex and the fondness they have for those formative years, where they made many mistakes but had so much fun. They discuss how those mistakes taught them invaluable lessons when it came to setting up their own business, and the West Coast road trip they embarked on in 2014 that inspired them, opening their eyes to the concept of micro-brewing, which celebrated the craft of beer making and the brewer. They talk about how their friend Bill, an amateur brewer, joined the team right at the start and how they started brewing their own beer shortly afterwards, before opening the doors to their first pub, The Imperial on Queens road in 2016. HIP finds out how the business was extremely well received in Hastings before Covid, and how they pivoted the business model overnight to a delivery service, quite literally getting on their bikes and personally meeting customers. They discuss the fantastic bond they have developed with their customers and how a creative crowdfunding campaign enabled their latest move to the new brewery site and tap room. By their own admission Ned and Charlie had no idea what they were doing when they first started their business and they’ve winged it on more than one occasion, but good fortune has followed them and they’ve had a fantastic time in the process. A lot of fun was had recording this episode and catching up with one of the most fun businesses in Hastings, we hope that you enjoy the show which is now available on most platforms including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

3. 

   29 Jun 2022

   HIPcast #18 - refugees, RNLI, People of Hastings and Tim Hoyte's song

   HIPcast#203 sounds great on headphones. Just saying. Sarah Milne takes a deep dive into the recent Refugee Buddy Week - the politics of representation, of inviting in to our homes, of the art and philosophy and psychology of the refugee experience - speaking to Ayah Bourghli, from the Refugee Buddy Project talking about the All Refugees Welcome panel discussion and Anna Derevianko from Ukraine, talking about her experience escaping from Odessa to Hastings and her first week here. Ben Bruges went online to look out for Community Ledge and found People of Hastings instead. Kathryn Sutter explains, and introduces Ben to Millie Rowland, CEO of Boathouse Arts and founder of ‘Millie’s Nightclub’ and Kate Rosie, owner of Teddy Tinker’s: an antique, collectables, vintage and fancy dress shop on London Road. Following on from the feature in Issue 203 ’Saving Lives at Sea. Hastings Lifeboat Women.’ Sarah Milne reflects on her own roles at Hastings Lifeboat Station and shares some safety tips. We daisy-chain feature our favourite song 'came to the city' from Tim Hoyte's new album Clouds are Full of Stories. Tim Hoyte - Clouds are full of stories - (Bandcamp download (https://timhoyte1.bandcamp.com/album/clouds-are-full-of-stories)). He is hereby (ie when this is posted) daisy-challenged to make a bed, ident, audio clip, news clip, art piece, or whatever he chooses. Anything other than a full-blown song, or existing piece. That's what we mean by daisy-chain. Tim Hoyte is hereby challenged. And is welcome to drop a musician friend into the same body-trap. Daisy-chain time: time for the next flower! The last podcast released was HIPcast#182. Bucking the 'pandemic project' trend, we made none. No excuses. It's just what happened. Or, rather, ... didn't. Yes, HIPcast is back. But we need help. We need you to contribute your audio stories, soundscapes, story-telling or performing. We're also looking to feature an original song from the Hastings scene in each podcast, to take part in the Daisy-Chain Challenge. We also need you to share. If you like the sound of this ep or think the basic idea is sound, then support us by sharing it. Simples. Thank you. HIP is out each fortnight in your local cafe or corner shop (list here (https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/where-can-i-get-a-copy/)) and can be downloaded or read online (https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/category/news/). Follow Hastings Independent Press on Facebook and Instagram. You can support independent community journalism by becoming a Friend of HIP. You can volunteer. We're all volunteers. We don't bite. Come to the next open meeting if you want to help sub-edit, write, photograph, distribute, shoot, record, fund-raise... Next Open Meeting: 7:30 @ The Nest, 5 July Find the section emails on page two. HIPcast is podcast@hastingsindependentpress.co.uk (mailto:podcast@hastingsindependentpress.co.uk) HIPbiz is business@hastingsindependentpress.co.uk (mailto:business@hastingsindependentpress.co.uk) news@ info@ art@ community@ listings@ Thank you to Jamwala for the title music. Sarah Milne is a writer, artist and psychologist here in Hastings. Ben Bruges is Features and Social Media editor for Hastings Independent.

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