Here's a new song 'My Flame', which was recorded live at practice this week. I'll be popping some more of these live recordings up over the next few weeks, to give you a taste of my new stuff before I set off to play festivals in the summer.
 So it looks like being a very busy weekend at the end of July. On Saturday 26th you'll find me at Herofest, Red Lion Gravesend, a charity event helping to raise money for Help the Heroes. I played last year, duking it out with a metal band that was playing alarmingly close to the acoustic stage. This year the stage has moved, presumably after I left said band feeling slightly inadequate, as my sound guy cranked it higher than their sound guy did. If you happened to be listening to BBC Radio Kent on Sunday afternoon, you might've heard the line up for Create Festival in Ashford. I got a very nice little mention, and I'm really looking forward to playing this year (27th July). Loads of cool bands and soloists playing, including Nizlopi, who had a massive hit with JCB Song (I kept referring to them as 'the digger people' until I looked that up), The Intermission Project, and lots of very lovely local acts like Coco and the Butterfields, One Day Elliott and Sirens and Shelter. This is a free event, and a very popular one. Last year they had 13,000 visitors, expect that number to at least triple now it's been announced that I'm playing...  On Monday I'm heading into the towns for an interview with Digital Video Revolution. Head honcho Dave Proud is producing a documentary about creative types, how they started, the creative process and so on. I'll also be playing some stuff in there too, just deciding on song choices. Dave has kindly offered his services for some live videos too, so expect my desolate YouTube channel to burst into life over the next few weeks! I'll post some exciting behind the scenes shots soon! A few dates for your diaries: 6th March - Bar Mondo, Dartford, w/Sirens and Shelter 17th March - Tin Tins, Hastings 6th June - Quiet Riot 2014,Tenterden w/everyone 26th July - Herofest 2014, Gravesend w/everyone More stuff on the way soon, along with a proper update Alex x I'm writing at the moment, and in the process of booking shows for the rest of the year. My first is 20th February in Canterbury. More dates as soon as they're confirmed, I expect you'll be refreshing the page in anticipation for the rest of the day, unable to achieve the simplest of tasks, completely fixated on where the bloody hell I'm playing next. I'll try not to torture you   Last week, I had the pleasure of appearing on Live Sessions With Alan Hare, at Medway Hospital. I performed 6 songs, had a good chat, and we played some of my favourite songs from bands like Seafood, Wintersleep and Little Comets. Alan also played Formative Teenage Years, from my new EP, and did a solid bit of plugging of all my websites and so on.  Tomorrow, courtesy of Hot Vox, I'm playing at this lovely looking eaty place on London's Portobello Road. Here's a little more about Acklam Village Market: "Acklam Village Market is a venue of collaboration of London's best in street food, drink, entertainment and art. Our street food market vendors are sourced at the highest level, and only serve organic ingredients and authentic, traditional recipes from all over the world. OurFuller's bar, aims to bring you all the traditional drinks, but also unique mico-beers and ales not readily available at all pubs and bars in London. We are supporters of local communities and projects in London - bringing to the market each weekend: street entertainment, a variety of live-music from jazz to blues, to rock and roll, as well as art displays from paintings to sculptures. Our aim is to bring back a sense of the local community." If you're coming down to see me, or to have a feast, I'll be playing some songs from 5pm. You can also have a copy of my EP, because free things are good. Alex  Oi Oi assorted saveloys! Firstly can I say thanks very much to anybody who tuned in to my EP launch yesterday. I had terrifying technical difficulties, as the Awdio (name and shame, AWDIO.COM) servers all died in the evening, preventing me and about a hundred other poor folks from streaming. My plan B was Ustream, which is mainly for video, but it ended up working quite nicely. Apologies if you were stuck with a few adverts here and there, if there was anything I could do about it I would have. I popped the EP up on Soundcloud shortly after the stream, so you could listen again if you missed it. That has now been taken down because.... The EP is out! It went live at midnight on the 28th October, on iTunes, and Amazon. Soon to be up on Google Play too. I know some of you have already bought it, thanks so much for that. I've sent it off for review at a few reputable establishments, will post links to those when they come in (good or bad, all publicity is...) along with any other press stuff that comes along. I'm considering putting up the live stream on Soundcloud in the next couple of weeks, once the EP has been out for a bit, in case anybody would like to listen to my interview again. For now though, I'd like to say thank you all for your continuing support, and hopefully I'll see you at a show or two soon. x  In the lead up to my new EP "I Lost Every One Of You" coming out on Monday 28th October, I'm having an online launch show on Sunday evening. It features an interview about the EP, and a play-through of all 4 songs. The event is streaming live on awdio.com, you can listen HERE. Be lovely if you could tell your friends about it, here is a link to the Facebook event, and a little more information about it: "I Lost Every One Of You" is available on iTunes/Amazon/Google Play on Monday 28th October. To celebrate this, I'm putting together a little half hour radio show, with an interview about the EP and a play-through of it. This'll be the first time the EP is played to you yokels, and I'm very excited for you to hear it. The show will broadcast live on awdio.com. So settle in at 9pm on Sunday 27th and listen to my songs. If you like them, you can buy them in the morning. x" |
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