A few more photos of rehearsing action from the blue door – this time a rehearsal inside.
Amy is doing her playing three instruments at once thang… who’d have thought you could play a glockenspiele with one foot whilst on bass and tambourine too!
Photos from Barbara’s blog – http://basiabartz.blogspot.com/2009/09/music-music-music.html
As well as being quite the violin player, Barbara is also big into her photography. Here are some shots she took a while back of a rehearsal we had on the roof of my studio.
a bit of fun in one take with two of my guitar students – not quite sure why it goes out of sync but hey… this is not hollywood…
i think this song is going to be the first track on my next album. happy days.
oh and you can download it free from here as long as you give a copy to your mum!
Joseph’s in the forest looking for the man that they call Peter.
I am in the bathroom looking for the marbles that I’ve lost.
The pig if flew out of the window, landing deftly in the garden.
Elly is in Hampstead desparately hunting for some moss.
I don’t like your fashion business, mr.
I don’t like those drugs that keep you looking so thin.
I don’t like your fashion business, mr.
I don’t need no cream to give me younger looking skin.
Ruth is down in southern spain, talking to my long long twin brother.
I just washed my eyelids and hung my blue coat high upon a cross.
The fish and spoon returned with plans for getting married in the autumn.
Jakob’s leaving puddles in the bathroom for the bugs to skate across.
Making sense of wedsnesday is only rivalled by making sense of tuesday.
Tuesday’s only rivalled by monday and perhaps sunday too.
A drink, a fuck, some luck and maybe we might keep the boat a floating.
Patching up the scars with some cardboard and some karma just might do.
Fensepost did a featured artist article on me a few weeks back which I am going to take the liberty of printing below
After last years wonderful EP release, I Love Leonard Cohen, the time has come for London’s Robin Grey to go all out and show why he is truly one of the greatest hidden treasures in the European underground. Hard at work on his sophomore full length release due this fall (follow up to 2007’s Only The Missile), this man seems to be at his best. The transformation of his character is more than impressive. It would certainly not be premature to say that he is at the top of his game.
The charming track “Younger Looking Skin” spills out from his veins like a severed history. He sings to the fools, the damned, and the loved. With every word, every sound composed, he speaks of only the truth on the matters of life that often go unnoticed and the travesties of inadequacies. The most beautiful part of a Robin Grey song is the power of understanding you can feel without actually relate to his experiences at all. Just crack open your finest four dollar wine, and suffer through life with the greatest of ease. Mr. Grey can help you through it all.
Wow. Someone likes my music then. Thanks Ron. The original can be found here – http://www.fensepost.com/main/2009/07/17/robin-grey-feature-artist/
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
