Made In Chesterfield compilation CDs launch

Aaron Brown and David McPhie talk about the creation of the Made In Chesterfield compilation CDs project.

Transcript

00:00Three, four years ago we'd had this idea about compiling some CDs of Chesterfield

00:07bands, solo artists, going back to the 1930s basically, so all genres, dance

00:13bands, to rock, to folk, to blues, to everything. And we spent that time compiling it

00:20and persuading people to write 200 words about themselves, which has been a bit of

00:24a pain sometimes, hasn't it? Yeah. But we finally got there and this is now two

00:29CDs and a booklet, and we're quite proud of the booklet, aren't we? Yeah, really proud of it, yeah.

00:34With 200 words from all the 40 artists and some words from you, from me, from

00:39yourself, in fact. Phil Bramley. The person behind the camera. Yeah, Phil Bramley, Kevin Blankley,

00:44Stuart Smith, Roger Book, Pete Dartie. Yeah, it's, it's, you've been

00:52absolutely overwhelmed, thanks to the Derbyshire Times help actually. Yes, thank you for that.

00:56So yeah, absolutely overwhelmed. At one point I went down to Torquay and took

01:02everything and put an Excel spreadsheet together and we thought, my

01:08God, this is gonna be like 15 CDs or something by the time it's done. So

01:12anyway, I had a bit of a meltdown. We kind of... You went to Mexico. I went to Mexico and

01:19forgot about it for a little bit, but then we realised, let's just do a bit at

01:24a time. So, so we've, we've compiled, we've put 40 of some of the best on there, but

01:32there's some of the best to come as well. There will be subsequent future

01:37albums as well and yeah, we just can't wait to get it all out there for everyone.

01:42What interesting things have you found out about the Chesterfield music scene?

01:46Diverse, very diverse. And on these two CDs, we've got 1935 Yodeler, we've got a country artist, we've got you in a choir.

01:57Yeah, yeah, I'm in the choir. Yeah, I'm in the choir on there in Washington, yeah.

02:00Football songs and obviously lots of rock bands, punk, wand, jazz band. Bit of folk. Folk, etc.

02:09Basically, all across the genres. Were you amazed at the depth of musical talent in Chesterfield then?

02:15Not really, because I go back a long way, so I've seen a lot of it, but yeah, we were quite surprised, weren't we, how much was available.

02:22Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah.

02:25And this afternoon's a celebration of both the CDs and musical heritage in Chesterfield.

02:30Yeah, the legacy.