'News' Category
The Fallen website
Ah, the amusements come thick and fast with Dave Simpson’s new book. He’s created a website for it at http://www.thefallen.co.uk on which there’s a gallery with a mugshot of yours truly, with the caption “Fallen after one song – Stu Estell“. Never once did I suggest to the esteemed Mr. Simpson that it would be [...]
The Fallen
Don’t you just love the attention to detail paid by the journalistic profession? A couple of years ago, I was interviewed by Dave Simpson for an article he was writing for The Guardian newspaper, which involved his tracking down all former members of The Fall. Now, I have never been in The Fall, but Simpson’s [...]
Goodbye, old paint
To those of you who have listened to my music and only know me through this website and from gigs, either solo or with my previous group, this may come as something as a surprise. To those of you who’ve known me longer, it’ll come as no surprise at all. No-one ever said I had [...]
Sam Hall on Dandelion Radio and other news
Sam Hall has been played on the very marvellous Dandelion Radio. I’ll be announcing some news here shortly about future musical plans, for all half-a-dozen people who might be interested… needless to say, I have a new venture in mind…
Will Beckett’s March (reprise) on forthcoming compilation
A Place In Space, the new compilation from Invisiblegirl Records features Will Beckett’s March (reprise) from the album Mother’s Thinking Bath. The album will be an iTunes release; here’s a trailer featuring all the artists.
Interview in Halfcut magazine
While I’m here updating the site… there’s an interview with me about Mother’s Thinking Bath in the current edition of Halfcut Publications’ magazine. You can get a free copy of the magazine from their website, halfcutpublications.com There’s also a sample of the track “West Hagley” from the album on their Leper Colony page.
Electricity
I’ve been working through a few ideas for the next set of recordings and I’m now pretty certain it’ll be a mostly electric set of traditional songs. There’ll undoubtedly be some acoustic material as well, but for the most part it’ll be guitars turned up to eleven, bass, and drums, probably with quite a bit [...]
“I Can’t Find Brummagem” featured on Created In Birmingham blog/album update
Many thanks to Pete Ashton of the Created In Birmingham blog for running an article about my version of I Can’t Find Brummagem and also for giving the album a plug – cheers Pete! A brief update on the album, Mother’s Thinking Bath – thanks to all of you who have bought it it’s now [...]
Frank is… fantastic!
The internet is a wonderful thing. Over on MySpace, I decided to chance my arm and ask the very fantastic singing phenomenon Frank Sidebottom if it was OK to record a cover of his song “Free Download” in a music-hall style on concertina as long as I put it up on my website as a [...]
Wolverley Festival, 23rd June 2007
I’ll be playing at the Wolverley Festival in Worcestershire, this Saturday, the 23rd of June – early evening (ish) I believe. It’ll be an acoustic set featuring various concertinas, dulcimer, guitar, and autoharp, with my good mate Bert Priest joining me on various percussive thingummies. It’s a slight change of plan – originally I was [...]