Spaceman Podcast - Guest - Independent Film Maker - Nick Bolton

Bit of a slasher, yeah.

I mean, at school, I was always in the school plays.

I did the Ice Dead Fods.

Do you know Ice Dead Fods? Yeah.

So I was always doing that sort of stuff.

And I was always the person, I remember when I was about 12, organising a garage sale for charity, yeah? Right.

I've always been that person.

As I got older, I was the person organising parties and raves and boat parties and things like that, yeah? So I've always enjoyed bringing people together.

Sure.

So when I was 16, we moved from Sheffield in the north of England to the south.

And this was 1988.

Right.

And...

I guess my creative life completely stopped because Acid House kicked off, Sub Pop kicked off, Manchester kicked off, right? And I was in the...

My dream, my dream.

Music became...

Music is my first love, right? Sure.

But as a 17-year-old, having these three amazing genres just explode, and we were in the epicentre of it, Wow.

So music from sort of 17, really up until 30 when I immigrated to Australia, my world was around music, right? And I didn't do any theatre or film or writing or anything.

But I was working in an ad agency.

So I did a marketing degree in Leicester and then I worked in Covent Garden in classic ad agency land.

And that gave me, I mean, the best grounding in producing because ad agencies teach you how to conceptualize, how to pitch.

how to budget, how to account service.

And it is creative occupation, right? And I was earning good money and having a whale of a time during the 90s in England.

But it was when I emigrated to...