CITY ISLAND PODCAST
A new lockdown podcast by creatives for creatives
East London’s creative and culturally-inspired neighbourhood London City Island has teamed up with onsite music production company Three Bears Entertainment to launch The City Island Podcast, a podcast series for creatives by creatives that promises to inspire, entertain and educate during this lockdown period.
The first series of City Island Podcast focuses on the narrative of ‘home’ and is set to welcome some of the UK’s hottest artists across six episodes, each hosted by musician and founder of Three Bears Entertainment Dantae Johnson, and co-anchored by award winning, Oscar shortlisted, London based music producer, Pete Boxsta Martin.
Kicking off during Mental Awareness Week, the first series will provide light-hearted, jovial, entertaining content underpinned by award winning talent sharing their tips to ease coronanxiety and their own diverse stories of getting through lockdown.
Each star guest will share their at-home essential Spotify playlist, discuss their charity of choice and encourage listeners to donate, and answer a series of questions centred around home.
Series 1: Home programme below:
EPISODE 1 - 14TH MAY:
THREE BEARS AND CITY ISLAND
EPISODE 2 - 21ST MAY:
DALTON HARRIS
EPISODE 3 - 28TH MAY:
NILE WILSON
EPISODE 4 - 4TH JUNE:
LILY MERCER
EPISODE 5 - 11TH JUNE:
CAGGIE DUNLOP
EPISODE 6 - 18TH JUNE:
DONEL & ANGELS N’ BANDITS
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EPISODE 1
THURSDAY 14TH MAY
THREE BEARS AND CITY ISLAND
The series will commence with an introductory episode with live call ins from LCI guests and residents.
Lilly and Dantae will talk about The Woods Studios, Three Bears Entertainment and London City Island as well as discuss why they decided to start the podcast.
EPISODE 2
THURSDAY 21ST MAY
DALTON HARRIS
Winner of X Factor in 2019, Dalton is a rising young star in the UK music scene. Poverty-stricken with very little clear prospect this talented young man defied all the odds despite facing more life adversity than most would endure in a lifetime.
Dalton’s chosen charity is Street Child, once especially close to his heart.
Supported by The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, who will be featured on the podcast, Street Child are fighting to help 125 million school-aged children who are out of education worldwide.
EPISODE 3
THURSDAY 28TH MAY
NILE WILSON
Episode 3 steps outside of the music industry with British artistic gymnast guest star, Nile Wilson.
He won an Olympic bronze medal in the men’s horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was a world medallist as a member of the silver-medal winning British team at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first world men’s team medal in British gymnastics history.
His nominated Charity is the Mental Health Foundation whose mission is to help people understand, protect and sustain their mental health.
EPISODE 4
THURSDAY 4TH JUNE
LILY MERCER
International DJ and Freelance Journalist Lily Mercer has been labelled a tastemaker by numerous artists, including Chance The Rapper, SZA and AndersoPaak.
She has played at festivals worldwide including Born N Bread, and for numerous brands, including Nike, Adidas and Billionaire Boys Club. She has been a regular voice on Beats 1 representing London, as well as her monthly show The Lily Mercer Show on Rinse FM/NTS (Friday 4-6pm GMT) playing the best upcoming and underground hip-hop.
As a journalist who graduated with a first class honours in fashion journalism from London College of Fashion, she had made contributions to Wonderland, Dazed, i-D and Noisey, interviewing the likes of WuTang Clan, Nas, Kendrick Lamar and many more as well as setting up her own magazine, Viper, in 2015.
EPISODE 5
THURSDAY 11TH JUNE
CAGGIE DUNLOP
Musician, entrepreneur and reality TV star Caggie Dunlop, has recently returned to the spotlight with her very own podcast series, Saturn returns.
One of the original cast members of the series Made in Chelsea, Caggie left the show in 2014 to pursue a music career in singing and signwriting which she has been working on ever since.
EPISODE 6
THURSDAY 18TH JUNE
DONEL
Popular music performer Donel Mangena, is a pop singer who competed on The Voice UK in 2018. This exposure led to him developing a fan base on his officialdonel Instagram account, with over 80,000 followers.
Donel will be teaming up with Angels N’ Bandits.
EPISODE 6
THURSDAY 18TH JUNE
ANGELS N’ BANDITS
Angels N’ bandits are a band of young teens including four girls and two boys aged 15 – 17 who are managed by founders of the very successful pop groups The Wanted and The Saturdays.
They have previously played the Avalon Café stage at Glastonbury festival 2019, Pub In The Park, Social In The City and various other prestigious venues including the Indigo at the O2, Cavern Club Liverpool, Hyde Park & Event City Manchester. Recently they have been working on their original music which is set to be released later this year.
