{"id":465,"date":"2024-05-20T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedbackmag.co.uk\/?p=465"},"modified":"2024-05-31T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:24:12","slug":"music-and-travel-expanding-your-audience-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/feedbackmag\/2024\/05\/20\/music-and-travel-expanding-your-audience-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and travel: expanding your audience overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Certain sounds are synonymous with the UK and this nation has produced some sensational guitar talents over the years. But that doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t go down well abroad. Meet Ize Neal<\/em><\/strong>, a young lad from Cornwall who has combined travel with music, and brought his vibrant indie-pop sound to the Far East.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 4:15 on a Sunday afternoon in the Phi Phi islands. Over 12,000 kilometres away from home, 21 one year old Ize Neal, from Saint Agnes in Cornwall, returns from the Thai sea and takes a seat on the beach. After a crazy week and a half which saw Ize bump into an old Cornish friend tying his shoelaces on a Bangkok side street, reuniting with the Thai busker who grew his fanbase in the first place and an unrelenting period of gigs and recording, Ize takes a moment to reflect on his travels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was two years ago when I came to Thailand for the first time. That was just purely travel and getting to see the country, having time off after studies and that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverywhere I go I want to play music, if I go to a bar and see a guitar I\u2019m just itching to play it. So if I can play music on the other side of the world, why the hell wouldn\u2019t I. It\u2019s all about the experience of playing on the other side of the world and maybe growing a fanbase.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This attitude speaks volumes – it is no wonder music became such a big part of Ize\u2019s travels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI stayed in Bangkok for a little bit (2 years ago) and met these 3 guys that were all travelling together from Amsterdam, we instantly connected like brothers and we were pisssing around like we\u2019d been mates for years.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019d been getting absolutely slaughtered for a few nights so we agreed tonight we\u2019ll have a really nice meal. We got to this restaurant but the service liked us so much they started giving us free booze. What was meant to be a really lovely meal ended up being us staggering out. There was a busker playing at the side of the road and I ended up playing with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNext thing you know the whole place has stopped, cars have stopped and people have stopped walking. Someone took a video and it went viral overnight and got to 13.2 million views. Another video got to 3.4 million. I got put on the news and got a very large Thai following on Instagram.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a drunken moment that opened so many doors for Ize, attracting the attention of a Thai producer and making another visit to Asia almost inevitable, if nothing else, to visit his new busker friend and fellow musician, Tewter Thanawat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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