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Text: 19-yr-old Callier was introduced to Madcap by James.
CALLIER
[00.05] It’s a nice happy friendly area where you can come where everyone is nice and smiling, you feel really welcome when you come here definitely.
Text: Like many young people, Callier had previously felt a lack of motivation.
CALLIER
[00.19] It’s motivation that can be lacking I think. It’s like, like what has happened here, it’s like, here you go, and it’s like your motivation then gets kicked off a bit whereas if nothing is really around, you haven’t heard much, no one’s come up to you, you keep a bit quiet but you need to go out there and actually find it yourself as well. You get more confidence so you can actually go out there after to get stuff
CALLIER
[00.40] It’s very old. Probably as old as my dad.
Text: The cost of a similarly equipped commercial recording studio would have been prohibitive.
CALLIER
[00.45] It’s nice being in the studio, getting to use all the different equipment, learning about the set up and also personally, we play together better now, and we’ve got a live gig and everything like that out of it so we’ve really come together more than we were before playing in the bedroom!
Text: Working with Steve has proved very different to Callier’s experiences at school.
STEVE
[01.03] Basically right, as I see it we’ve got the amp for the track almost finished yeah
CALLIER
[01.07] Oh I’ve loved it, Steve’s hilarious, he just brings you together. He brings out the best in you as well, builds you up and makes you play to the best of your abilities I think, definitely. I’ve learnt a lot.
CALLIER
[01.18] Teachers don’t really understand that's what you want most of the time whereas normally what they give you is like you have to do this, you have to do it along these lines whereas here is it what have you got, I like that, let’s keep that, let’s do this, you just need to change this a bit. You know, just a bit of creative influence into what you have already got I think, definitely.
Text: So what effect has his involvement with Madcap had on on Callier and his self-esteem?
CALLIER
[01.14] Well um I think more really it gives us, the more you can do it if you put your mind to it , you can actually go out there you can do it, there’s nothing holding you back, if you get the time you can actually go out and get yourself a CD, you know you can play some live music, get together as a group, it’s pretty good actually, definitely.