'News' Category
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 raised [...]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 free [...]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 going [...]Debut album now available!
The debut album, on Swainsthorpe Records, is now available to buy. Go to the “Buy CDs” page to hear samples and order your copy now!
I Can’t Find Brummagem – on internet radio!
This week’s Brumcast podcast includes a new recording of my version of “I Can’t Find Brummagem” which I recorded recently – it’s played on acoustic guitars, acoustic bass, and mandolin.
It’s not available anywhere else yet, so visit their MySpace and get the podcast feed here: http://www.myspace.com/brumcastbirmingham
The words and a bit of blurb about the song [...]Website = podcast
Thanks to Dan (again) this site is now equipped to be a handy podcast without any work whatsoever on my part. Which is always nice. If you use iTunes or any other podcast-downloady software, then if you subscribe to this site’s RSS feed it will automatically suss out that it’s a podcast, and you’ll be [...]