Long hot summer of blessing
So France swiftly followed by Colchester, Coventry, Copenhagen, USA and Slovenia. In little over a month.

Bloggue (le deuxieme)
Le petit speck de Blessingmobile continue a faire une route circuitous en travers de France enorme.

Bloggue (1)
Qu’est-ce que c’est? Oiseau? Avion? Non, c’est Le Blessingmobile, et il fait “le criss-cross”, avec beaucoup de Franglais, a travers FRANCE! Vachement cool, uh?

GTB in NYC!
We have our first ever gig in the USA coming up! We’re playing at Joe’s Pub in New York on 16 June.
Since we’ve never been to the US before we don’t know anyone. So if you’re going to be there or know anyone who’s in NYC on that date please tell them about it. They can get tickets from the Joe’s Pub website
We’re also playing the following day at the Rochester Jazz Festival in upstate New York, and before that at the Jazz House in Copenhagen on June 10. It’s all go…
Clive in fight with buttress
Tarte au citron
can’t sleep
Sooo, here I am, awake at 3am, without much excuse for insomnia except a few pints of normandy cider some hours ago and a moderately involving, if essentially tedious, book. And it’s funny how tunes pop into your head and won’t let go at this time of night.
wochupto ?
well, well, 2010.
progress report
Mornin all. Jake here. Been a busy few weeks. We had ein gutes gig at the Enjoy Jazz festival in Heidelberg. Jim got the t-shirt. Then a weekend at the Bodega in Cork for the jazz festival, spent investigating the hallucinogenic properties of guiness. Then back into the studio for the first time in a while. No less than five new tunes began their gestation. And the cakes were bleachy. Last night we were in Liverpool at the philharmonic. Good gig and a great hotel. London Jazz Festival next. See you at the jazz cafe for jazz coffee, jazz currant buns and jazz not jazz (ha ha) next thursday.
enjoy jazz
Jazz Cafe date moved to Thu 19 Nov
Just a quick note to let you know that our gig at the Jazz Cafe in London as part of the London Jazz Festival has been moved to Thursday 19 November. Better.
http://www.jazzcafelive.com/newsandevents/templates/bookings.aspx?articleid=790&zoneid=1
big gigs
the colston hall in bristol has a new staircase of awesome proportions.
new videos
ronnie scotts
sligo
Happy birthday Pete “The” Judge
Sir Gawain reviews GTB Bergen gig
The first course comes in to the fanfare and clamour
of blasting [ blasted?] trumpets hung with trembling banners,
then pounding double-drums and dinning pipes,
weird sounds and wails of such warbled wildness
that to hear and feel them made the heart float free…
[The bassist is] a mountain of a man, immeasurably high
a hulk of a human from head to hips…
(review translated by Simon Armitage)
bergen
like gold laden norse gods bloodied and returning … we arrive demanding a feast .
A short interview…
(For Cheltenham Jazz Festival)
Bertrand Russell
“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.”
Bertrand Russell
sneaky sneaky
yes I said yes two sneaky warm up gigs before the album comes out next month
50 million years
speen some time
the bugs have been languishing in the fossilized sap for some time now .
unaware of the impending weight of public opinions being courted by thier imprisoners
the excitement and warm glow is long gone .
whats kinna happened ?
Blog Español, Enero 2009
christmas blessing
all is yes greatest hits christmas special 2008
fidblesottoleakaibarane
nother gig nother dinar
blessing interviews daisy drums

jim’ll mix it

recording
Hovingham, and eating it
Clive belts us in and forces us to listen to Count Arthur Strong until we are weak with hilarity and in dire need of assistance from St Ann’s Jombulance. The Blessmobile follows a chain of Ms. Our in-depth survey of Europe’s service stations continues with Tamworth (4.3 on the Max Richter scale). We while away the miles knitting, basket-weaving, and lino-cutting.

all over germany
thermos bandoneon and aldi
big chill haaaaarse
hmmmmm
here we go … the plan is watery tight .
set awf in the pete four wheel scooter … it still has a wing mirror …yes !
soon it becomes apparent that clive has crashed in a field . ( his undercarriage collapsed )
The Bleegeessing
Pete says Jim looks like Barry Gibb in this photo:
WE HAVE WON
WE HAVE JUST WON THE BBC JAZZ AWARDS 2008 ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
SORRY FOR SHOUTING BUT WE ARE VERY HAPPY.
Oh, and here’s us on the BBC
Touring
Touring for us is a meticulously planned, smoothly operated, well-oiled machine.
York + Leeds
fibbers, york, 4 july / the wardrobe, leeds, 5 july
motorway, motorway, motorway, york.
soundcheck, food
(japanese bento box, thai green curry)
walk, gig

Glastonbury, Jazz/World and Jazz/Lounge
june 28

Return of the Paper Bags
Boileroom
June 12
Hey Suzie Satnav! Load up yer “in 700 yards, take the second exit”, cos we’re heading for Guildford!
Venn
June 7
a good salad nicoise is worth its weight in ….. food ? gold ? oil paint ?
BBC Jazz Awards Album of the Year nomination!
All Is Yes has been nominated for album of the year in the BBC Jazz Awards. You can vote for it (or one of the other albums of course) on the awards website. Click here to see the list of nominees and vote
So, err…
… Jim and Clive have been touring the world with the Potting Shed and Pete’s been flaunting his theatrical talents in South America with Kneehigh. I’ve been writing music for a new project with guitarist James Chadwick but I did get to do a gig with Portishead a few weeks ago on Taratata, the French equivalent of Later. I had fun screaming and honking on baritone sax. Was rather stressed by having to play cowbell.
Other than that the lovely people at Music Bridge have been very busy filling up our diaries for June, July and August. More to come. In the meantime have a look at us trying to look cool for MusFlashTV…
Cafe Jazz, Cardiff
Feb 14
After the stadium rock euphoria of The Thekla could we produce the smooth jazz appropriate for a cold night in Cardiff? Hmmm, Valentines Day. Maybe a set of smoochy ballads. All is Yes.
The Thekla, Bristol
Tuesday 12th February
Susie satnav is given the night off in her sexy zip-up neopreen style bag jacket thing!
Pressure Point, Brighton + The Cavern, Exeter
10/11 Feb, 2008
Loooong drive from ‘stol to ‘ghton but jump jive got us there in good heart. New mic still playing up. Or was that the battery? Or the pedal? Or the leads? But enough speculation and technicalisation, an evening jaunt through the labyrinthine Lanes took us past a shining Komedia and into Carluccios. Long meal meant we missed both support acts (sorry guys).
South Hill Park, Bracknell
2 Feb, 2008
Jake has a cold.
I forget my suit but manage to organise a panic-stricken reunion. Couldn’t play without it.
And so this is Bracknell. What have we done.
Matt and Phred’s, Manchester
30 Jan, 2008
well ……… the second hand missile guidance system weve hired to locate manchester failed spectacularly , we had to turn back on the outskirts of st petersberg and get there only using our rudimentary knowledge of northern star systems .
Taylor John’s House, Coventry
26 Jan, 2008
Mmmmm… No sign of Taylor John but lots of lovely people cheering us on in his living room. First gig on the first tour for the first album. Well, third, depending where you start counting from. But this is definitely the first blog entry.
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