Edinburgh’s own ‘Song by Toad’ just reviewed my new album here… http://songbytoad.com/2010/01/robin-grey-strangers-with-shoes/
…and I just had my first spin on a german radiostation here… http://trackback.fritz.de/2009/12/26/trb-160-mixtapes/
…and lemonjohn reviewed ‘Strangers With Shoes’ here – http://lemonjohn.blogspot.com/2009/12/robin-grey-strangers-with-shoes.html
Well perhaps more ‘uploaded’ than ‘launched’ but what the hey… you can now hear and download it. I have just had an almond slice to celebrate.
The cd will be available in the new year, in the meantime you can order it from bandcamp and get an immediate download of the album included in the price.
It features the talents of Barbara Bartz, Iain Macleod, Joe Allen, Lawrence Williams, Ben Oliver, Beth Dariti, Madelaine Hart, Victoria Couper, Tom Pie and me. Full credits on bandcamp.
1. Younger Looking Skin 05:31
2. Till Dawn 04:21
3. I Love Leonard Cohen 04:00
4. The Suitors Ballyhoo 04:56
5. Montreal 04:38
6. Shakes & Shudders 04:59
7. Ninety Days 03:36
8. Roses From Africa 05:15
My good friend Ryan Van Winkle and his friends at The Forest Cafe in Edinburgh are releasing their second poetry and music compliation this week. I have a track on the cd which I am hoping to receive in the post soon.
Here is the link to the official website with full info – http://www.forpub.com/
If you are in the area and have some free time this friday you should head down to Blackwells for the launch. Hopefully they will do a London launch some time soon too.
THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH:
At Blackwells on South Bridge, Edinburgh
Friday – Sept. 25th – 6.30pm – 8pm
– Readings by Aiko Harman, Alan Jamieson, Alan Gillis, Julia Boll and Andrew Philip.
followed by:
THE After Party / CD Launch
8pm – Late at The Forest, Edinburgh
Featuring: Poor Edward, Black Diamond Express, Withered Hand and more more more.
i have some gigs coming up in the next few weeks which i thought i should mention given all the photos of rehearsing!
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tuesday 6th october
permaculture picturehouse @ passing clouds, dalston – 8pm
should have full band for this caberet harvest festival love-in.
see http://www.naturewise.org.uk/
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friday 30th october
robin and friends @ lemon monkey, stoke newington – 7pm
this gig has been CANCELLED… well postponed really…
i have the whole night – will probably get others to play too to keep me company – postponed for now
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sunday 27th september
the wired festival @ the vortex, dalston – 2.30pm
another wonderful bill from the delightful kevin molloy and friends – i can’t wait to see fiona bevan and roxy rawson play again
http://www.myspace.com/wiredfest
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…as you can see these are all pretty local to me – if you want me to come and do a show near you (or perhaps in your front room?) please hollar – i have just done a house gig in hampshire and it was divine!
oh… and check out Brian Hooper – he blew my socks away a few days ago – http://www.myspace.com/brianhoopersouthampton – listen to “you made changes”
My music has been popping up in some new places on the web the last month… Younger Looking Skin was played on an american internet radio show ShockPop! which is aired on scrubradio.com every Sundays at 5pm.
It was also featured on CD-RWu podcast in Poland here… http://cd-rwu.blogspot.com/2009/07/0037.html.
Most randomly, German online Magazine http://www.chip.de used the track “These Days” in a ScreenCast-Video presenting new Desktop-Technologies which can be seen here: http://www.chip.de/c1_videos/Gnome-3.0-Revolutionaerer-Desktop-Video_37308944.html and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_B7VpIwdiY
Mr Lemonjohn has just put a little compilation mix together on his blog and I am pretty chuffed he chose my track ‘These Days’ to start it off…
It also includes a track of Maddies which I recorded at The Blue Door too. Happy days.
You can find it here – http://lemonjohn.blogspot.com/2009/06/lemonjohns-harvest-nr-1_15.html
