December 2009
Goodbye year. So a bit of a roundup I guess…Well the end of last year I did one of the last ever gigs at the London Astoria with Jade Warrior. (I did all the guitars on their CD ‘Now’. ) Sadly that was the one and only gig. The CD got rave reviews and like most things in the current business went not a lot further! Check the links here to go to the site and hear some of the tunes. History repeating itself, it looks like I may be doing one of the last ever gigs at the similarly legendry Half Moon in London. There are efforts being made to save it and I suppose it is worth staying very hopeful and having zero expectations! I was also booked to play the Halo Bar which got award for bar of the year somewhere (Time Out?). It closed it’s doors, a complete surprise to the promoters, the day before my gig. That is the state of things folks! Whaddya gonna do? Heads down and keep on truckin’ is my only current strategy!
I recently heard the final mixes of another CD I played on for Rwandan artist Dorothee Munyaneza. This project is the brainchild of Martin Russell, one of the producers of the Afro Celts. These mixes were done in surround sound, the first time I’ve ever heard my guitars in that system and it is a great way to listen…huge! You can check out a few tracks on Dorothee’s Myspace via the links. In the meantime here’s a track where I’m playing some acoustic and some ghostly sounds done with echo and a volume pedal.
Did some gigs with Mike Lindup and Phil Gould from Level 42 around London. What a great set of loyal fans those Level boys have got!
Richard from the Fake Lazy Supernovas has gallantly emabarked on a follow up album, which seems to have emerged in an enormous creative spurt. One day polished off the guitars on 6 tracks with the remainder to follow soon. Let’s hope Mr Fake has a lot of luck in 2010.
Well, lets hope we all do.
