The Skinny, an underground Scotish culture blog, gives me a nice mention in a review of a Forest Records compilation I featured on…
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/101009-various-artists-forest-records-presents
The Forest is currently in danger of closure after the bankruptcy of its landlord – you can find out more about this and how to help here… http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/
My track ‘Ninety Days‘ from Strangers With Shoes has been featured on volume 29 of blocsonic‘s netBloc series.
You can find all the other info and tracks including some lovely artwork by clicking on the cover image above.
I had a lovely email today from a lady called ‘Joelle’, the assistant producer of a daytime music show called ‘Radio Paradiso‘ on RSR La 1ère which appears to be Switzerland’s equivalent of BBC Radio 1.
It seems they have been playing my music a bit and are wondering if I might pop by to play for them on their show next time I come to play in Switzerland.
Wow.
Anyone got any thoughts on venues to play in Switzerland?!?
I love The Forest. A lot. A lot a lot.
On a number of occasions over the last ten years ago being able to go and hide there whilst freaking out in Edinburgh during the festival has kept me on the rails; and it still makes the best veggie/vegan burrito I have tasted.
It has grown a lot over the last ten years; once a small cafe tucked away off the Grassmarket, it is now occupies pretty big premises just by the student union and is a hub of all things I cherish. I have had the privilege of playing there many times as bassist with The Jonny Berliner Band, performed solo once and recently took my lovely band there.
I am truly honoured to have a track on it’s tenth birthday compilation ‘forest-records-presents-x’ and over the moon that they have chosen ‘Roses From Africa’.
More info here – http://forestrecords.org/forest-records-releases/forest-records-presents-x/ or have a listen below:
I have got back from spending the most divine three days with the band in an enchanted music studio tucked inside a mill in deepest sunniest norfolk. You can see the studio’s site here but it really does not do justice to the place.
There are loads of photos knocking about which I will post as they land in my inbox.
Barbara took this one of me emerging from the gimp-like vocal booth after the last take of the sessions and was able to email it to me straight away from her hi tech new phone so I thought I would post it up now.
A few years ago I uploaded my first album ‘Only The Missile’ to a load of different websites connected with the Creative Commons movement.
The simple plan was, any website which was forward thinking enough to know what creative commons licenses were seemed like a good place to have my music.
Fast forward a few years and I am still very happy to have all my music released using the cc license ‘BY-NC-SA‘ and have had some lovely little moments such as today when I discovered that I have reached the top of the pile on Audiofarm.
‘These Days’ is featured in their most popular tunes by month and day despite my having added the song nearly two years ago which had led to a few new faces finding out about my music – welcome to you!
Screenshot of Audiofarm taken today featuring three of my songs.
Whilst it is nice to get to the top of the pile in this pretty democratic way it is worth mentioning that I am definately in the minority as a male folk artist singing in english using creative commons licenses for my music – so it is quite a small pile to get to the top of! (… so much cc licensed music seems to be electronica or kraut rock!)
