My First Contract as a Cruise Ship Musician | MSC Poesia Cabin Tour & First Shows — Transcript

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1. 0:01Throughout history, mankind has shown an
2. 0:04insatiable thirst for knowledge. Driven
3. 0:07by our desire to understand the universe
4. 0:09and our place within it.
5. 0:12We've pondered the origins of life, the
6. 0:15nature of consciousness, and the fabric
7. 0:17of space and time. We seek answers to
8. 0:20questions like, "Where do we come from?
9. 0:25What is the meaning of existence?
10. 0:28Where are my keys? And is 3 in
11. 0:32considered small?
12. 0:34Yet amidst these profound inquiries, the
13. 0:38biggest mystery remains.
14. 0:40>> What's it like to be a guest entertainer
15. 0:42on a cruise ship?
16. 0:45>> Well, today
17. 0:47we finally have an answer.
18. 0:52>> Hi, my name is Joel. As we speak, I'm
19. 0:56engaged in my first ever contract as a
20. 1:00guest performer on the MSSE Poisia
21. 1:04cruise ship.
22. 1:06MSE.
23. 1:07My role is a solo guitar vocalist and I
24. 1:11perform typically four to five sets a
25. 1:15night, 7 days a week as we cruise around
26. 1:19Northern Europe.
27. 1:22I thought I'd record a little bit of my
28. 1:24life on board the ship to give an idea
29. 1:26of what's involved. Whether you're
30. 1:28considering pursuing a career in this
31. 1:30field yourself
32. 1:32or if you're just interested in what
33. 1:34daily life is like for a cruise
34. 1:36entertainer. When I was researching this
35. 1:39job myself, I watched quite a few
36. 1:40YouTube videos uploaded by cruise
37. 1:43musicians, and I found them really
38. 1:44helpful and informative. So, I'm hoping
39. 1:47maybe this one can be added to the list
40. 1:49and can be of interest to somebody out
41. 1:52there in the worldwide
42. 1:55world.
43. 1:58So, to start off, here's a little bit of
44. 2:00info about the particular cruise that
45. 2:03I'm on at the moment. As I already
46. 2:05mentioned, it's the MSC cruise line and
47. 2:09visits five different countries in a
48. 2:11oneweek loop. One, two, three, four,
49. 2:15five.
50. 2:16>> What's unique about this particular
51. 2:18cruise is that people can embark in any
52. 2:20one of the five cities. So, there isn't
53. 2:23just one embarcation city, which is what
54. 2:26you get with a lot of cruises. Those
55. 2:28five places are Southampton in the UK,
56. 2:33Rotterdam in the Netherlands,
57. 2:36Hamburg in Germany.
58. 2:39>> Say bugger
59. 2:40>> in Belgium,
60. 2:42and Laav
61. 2:44made that sound Spanish. It's It's not.
62. 2:46It's in France. Laavah.
63. 2:50>> It's La Havra. You
64. 2:53>> all right? During the time that I've
65. 2:55been on the cruise, there's been a
66. 2:57couple of very specific special weeks,
67. 3:00namely the European Christmas markets
68. 3:04and the New Year's cruise.
69. 3:08So, I've had lots of fun getting festive
70. 3:10and playing Christmas songs and also
71. 3:12getting to see in the new year with
72. 3:14people from all over the world. Anyway,
73. 3:17that's the boring details out of the
74. 3:19way. Time to get on with the fun bits. I
75. 3:22say fun.
76. 3:24That's quotation marks because it might
77. 3:25not be fun.
78. 3:33Now, I know a fair amount of people are
79. 3:35interested in cabin tours on cruise
80. 3:37ships, so this is for you.
81. 3:55Nice big double bed. That's for sleeping
82. 3:58in. Who's that handsome chap? What's he
83. 4:00doing in my cabin? Yeah. Hello. Yeah.
84. 4:03All right. Trying to do a tour here.
85. 4:06This is a bunk bed in case I have a
86. 4:08guest, which I haven't. Some art. One
87. 4:12art, please.
88. 4:14Nice chair.
89. 4:17Handy coat hook there.
90. 4:21And over. Yeah. All right, mate. We get
91. 4:24it. Yeah, it's a reflection.
92. 4:29So, over here we have the storage. Nice
93. 4:31big double wardrobe with coat hangers
94. 4:33for hanging things. That's my life
95. 4:35jacket.
96. 4:38And we'll open this one.
97. 4:42How did you get in there?
98. 4:47Well, you've already seen in here
99. 4:49because you've just been in there. But
100. 4:50more shelves with nothing on apart from
101. 4:52some beach towels I never use because
102. 4:54it's too cold to go in the pool.
103. 4:57By the way, the reason that I don't have
104. 4:58anything on my shelves is because I have
105. 5:00to move cabins quite frequently because
106. 5:02I'm a guest performer. And sometimes
107. 5:04other guests need the cabin that I was
108. 5:06in because they paid for it. So, I don't
109. 5:07even bother emptying my suitcase most of
110. 5:09the time.
111. 5:11We got a safe and more life jackets.
112. 5:13Basically, if there was a problem at
113. 5:15sea, I wouldn't need a lifeboat. I could
114. 5:16just collect all my life jackets that
115. 5:18I've got in this room together to sit
116. 5:19on. TV, which is nice. And most
117. 5:22importantly, tea making facilities. They
118. 5:25get hammered. I use those a lot. Nice
119. 5:29little stool there. A mini fridge, which
120. 5:31they lock me out of because obviously I
121. 5:34would abuse it considering I don't drink
122. 5:36at all. That's where I keep my guitar
123. 5:39and my music equipment.
124. 5:43And the bathroom. See, it's quite big.
125. 5:45Pretty sizable.
126. 5:51Toilet for toileting.
127. 5:54The shower. It was pretty powerful. It's
128. 5:57It's a good shower. And then these
129. 5:58little handy racks for the one toiletry
130. 6:01item that I brought with me. And I
131. 6:03needn't have bothered because that's
132. 6:04shampoo and shower gel right there.
133. 6:07Hot water apparently in the shower. Who
134. 6:10would have thought it? some towels and
135. 6:12some shelves. I'm not sponsored by
136. 6:14Nivea, just just so you know. The sink
137. 6:17that is a razor, by the way. Don't go
138. 6:18thinking it's anything else battery
139. 6:20powered. And that's pretty much it. So,
140. 6:22if you don't mind, give me some privacy.
141. 6:24I'm going to bed.
142. 6:31>> Good morning.
143. 6:34So, it wasn't actually a mirror. It was
144. 6:35a window, but it was too dark to see out
145. 6:37of it. And look at that for a view. This
146. 6:40is a lifeboat. This cabin is called an
147. 6:43obstructed view cabin. So, you expect to
148. 6:45not really be able to see out of the
149. 6:46window, but it lets some daylight in, so
150. 6:48you can't complain.
151. 6:55For my first time off the ship, I got on
152. 6:57a bus and headed to downtown Hamburg in
153. 7:00Germany to see some of the beautiful
154. 7:03classically European style architecture
155. 7:05they have in the city center.
156. 7:10We'll come back to that building in a
157. 7:12minute.
158. 7:14Now, I've been to Hamburg before, maybe
159. 7:1620 years ago, when I played a show
160. 7:18nearby, but I don't remember much about
161. 7:20it, and I don't think I came to this
162. 7:22part. So, it's nice to spend some time
163. 7:24down by the river here with these
164. 7:26gorgeous buildings and these lovely
165. 7:28reflections.
166. 7:37Here I was standing on one of the
167. 7:38bridges that crosses the river.
168. 7:48Now with my expert German, I can
169. 7:50translate that for you. It means new
170. 7:53wall. You're welcome.
171. 7:56Now this is a very rich, very opulent
172. 7:59part of the city and every single shop
173. 8:01was firmly beyond my financial
174. 8:03capabilities. So I didn't go into any of
175. 8:05them.
176. 8:10And here we have the pestto resistance
177. 8:13as they say in Germany which is the rat
178. 8:16house which is basically the town hall.
179. 8:19So this is where the local council meet
180. 8:21in this beautiful building that was
181. 8:23constructed between 1886 and 1897
182. 8:27obviously under the direction of
183. 8:28architect Martin Hala in the neo
184. 8:30renaissance style.
185. 8:34Its tower at 112 m high is a prominent
186. 8:37landmark in they're just facts that I
187. 8:39know. I didn't look them up or anything
188. 8:41on a very famous encyclopedia website.
189. 8:44That's not even a word
190. 8:47inside. Apart from the incredible roof
191. 8:50because it was Christmas, they had this
192. 8:52amazing Christmas tree set up.
193. 8:59Although I was disappointed to discover
194. 9:01there were no rats in the rat house. Get
195. 9:04it? Rat. Rat house. Rats.
196. 9:08>> They're not funny.
197. 9:10>> Yeah, fair enough.
198. 9:13After the rat house, I decided to go for
199. 9:15a little unplanned wander around, see
200. 9:18where I ended up, and I saw these
201. 9:20beautiful trees lit up for Christmas.
202. 9:34some very nice art sculptures. Now, this
203. 9:38is St. Nicholas Church, which is again a
204. 9:40very old building, as I'm sure you know.
205. 9:43The original chapel was built in 1195,
206. 9:45but then of course there was that fire
207. 9:47in 1842. So, they completely rebuilt the
208. 9:49church in 1874. And it was the tallest
209. 9:53building in the world until 1876,
210. 9:55obviously, but I you already knew that.
211. 9:58And that concludes my wintry walk around
212. 10:00Hamburg. Now, it's time to go back and
213. 10:02get ready for tonight's show.
214. 10:06Okay, time to get ready with me.
215. 10:15I'm not ready.
216. 10:21Right.
217. 10:22That's more like it. Let's go.
218. 10:52This is the bar that I perform in every
219. 10:54night. Bar do the poet, the bar of the
220. 10:57poets. Even though I'm not actually a
221. 10:59poet.
222. 11:01>> It's not a cry that you hear at night.
223. 11:04It's not somebody.
224. 11:07It's so cold and it's so broken.
225. 11:11Hallelujah.
226. 11:14Hallelujah.
227. 11:18Hallelujah.
228. 11:21Hallelujah.
229. 11:25Hallelujah.
230. 11:31>> It's colder. That's where it ends.
231. 11:36So I told her we still be friends
232. 11:42and we make our true love.
233. 11:53Summer dreams ripped out the seas.
234. 12:09Tell me more. Tell me more.
235. 12:21Wow, that was great.
236. 12:23Great singing.
237. 12:30Let's have a look at the outside of the
238. 12:31old ship, then, shall we?
239. 12:34Now, first thing to mention is it's
240. 12:36quite a small ship compared to a lot of
241. 12:38the other MSSE ships in the fleet. So,
242. 12:40this tour won't take long. I like to
243. 12:42spend time out here on the outer deck
244. 12:44just to breathe in the sea air and watch
245. 12:46the world go by,
246. 12:49although it was r freezing most of the
247. 12:51time. Some pipes. Don't know what they
248. 12:54do. They look important though. So, this
249. 12:57is the top deck anyway, deck 13. Because
250. 13:00I'm here as a guest performer, it means
251. 13:02I'm fortunate enough to have full access
252. 13:04to all the guest areas on the ship. So,
253. 13:06I'm a very lucky boy.
254. 13:10This is where the pool is up on the top
255. 13:12deck. Obviously, I didn't go in it. It
256. 13:14was freezing, as I say, but some people
257. 13:17did. I did see some people swimming in
258. 13:19there.
259. 13:21They don't have a lifeguard. They just
260. 13:23have this guy sitting there watching
261. 13:24everyone all day. You could have put
262. 13:26some pants on, though. Come on. Short.
263. 13:29And they also have the hot tubs, which
264. 13:31are actually very popular. Don't worry,
265. 13:33there's no nudity in this scene. Don't
266. 13:35Don't even bother checking. This is a
267. 13:38stage. During the warmer months, artists
268. 13:40will perform up here. So, it would have
269. 13:42been really nice to play up here myself,
270. 13:44but no one wants to be out there in
271. 13:46these temperatures.
272. 13:54the tennis court,
273. 13:57which is also a football pitch,
274. 14:01and the mini golf. Right, that'll do for
275. 14:04now. I'll show you the inside of the
276. 14:05ship later on.
277. 14:16Here
278. 14:24we are in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
279. 14:27Although I was a bit confused when I
280. 14:29woke up and looked out the window and
281. 14:30saw this. Thought we'd maybe traveled a
282. 14:32bit further in the night than I thought
283. 14:33we had. But it turns out it's just a
284. 14:35hotel. I was walking towards the city
285. 14:37center and happened to catch this
286. 14:39rainbow as I crossed the bridge, which
287. 14:41felt suspiciously cinematic.
288. 14:45Now, I wasn't entirely sure what to do
289. 14:47on a budget in Rotterdam in the time
290. 14:49that I had. So, I decided to Google
291. 14:52things to do and found this map somebody
292. 14:54had put together that leads you around
293. 14:56all of the street art in the city
294. 14:58center. I've credited the person who put
295. 15:00the map together down there in the
296. 15:02bottom corner with a link to their
297. 15:03website. So, here's a little collage of
298. 15:05a very small percentage of the street
299. 15:07art in Rotterdam. Enjoy. Oh, and I
300. 15:11credited the artist as well. Heat. Heat.
301. 15:54After my little street art tour, I
302. 15:56thought I'd go and check out the
303. 15:57sculpture park. So, these are all on the
304. 15:59same stretch of canal that flows through
305. 16:01the center of the city.
306. 16:40After my obligatory hot chocolate break,
307. 16:42I walked back to the ship and found a
308. 16:44couple more points of interest, POIs, on
309. 16:48the way back, like this sculpture here,
310. 16:50which is apparently quite a
311. 16:51controversial piece because a lot of
312. 16:53people just don't like it. It is Father
313. 16:55Christmas, but it wasn't specifically
314. 16:57there because it was Christmas time.
315. 16:59It's there all year round. And I'm told
316. 17:02that is a Christmas tree he's holding,
317. 17:04even though it does look like something
318. 17:05else. A bit more dodgy. Right next to it
319. 17:08is this guy. Don't exactly know who he
320. 17:10is. I could Google it, but I like the
321. 17:13fact he played guitar. Could be me in a
322. 17:15former life. Right, back to the ship for
323. 17:17another show.
324. 17:48Lucky baby.
325. 18:09Every little thing is going to be all
326. 18:12right.
327. 18:14Rise up this morning.
328. 18:18Smile with the rising sun.
329. 18:21Freedom of mercy
330. 18:24reach by my doorstep.
331. 18:49Oh [ __ ]
332. 19:12outside. I take a deep breath and I get
333. 19:15real high and I scream on top of my lord
334. 19:35again and I say Hey,
335. 19:44I said.
336. 19:56>> All right, that's it for this video, but
337. 19:58join me in part two where things get
338. 20:00festive. Christmas Day, New Year's Eve,
339. 20:03more performances, and at one point I'm
340. 20:06wandering around in the snow. I know you
341. 20:08wouldn't want to miss that. Don't forget
342. 20:10to
343. 20:10>> like and subscribe.
344. 20:12>> Sorry, I mean
345. 20:13>> like and subscribe.
346. 20:16>> Cheers, me dear.