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well, well, 2010.
despite disruption and strangeness in the admin department and the inevitable anti-climax after the high of 2008, 2009 was good. our second album bugs in amber got great reviews and we had some great live shows. jazzwise (yes, jazzwise) declared “…they may well be the most original and exciting band on the British scene at the moment.” and, if we say so ourselves, live we’ve just been getting better and better. we had our sell-out debut at ronnie scotts, a return to the london jazz festival playing at the jazz cafe, and a set on the main stage at the colston hall (with string quartet and others) on the same bill as andy sheppard and abdullah ibrahim, boyhood heroes both. we played in spain, ireland, sweden, norway and germany. and scotland. so hard to argue with. and music style product was used as continuity music for the 2009 world darts on telly. and you can’t say fairer than that.
so what are we up to now? writing, writing. we have new blessing tunes in the works, we’re starting to work on vocal tracks so we can get the dulcet tones of clive deamer and tammy payne (and guest others?) into the set. we’re working on a contemporary classical crossover set with elektrostatic, working with an expanded band and boxes of electronic tricks. we’re near to completing an album’s worth of remixes.
livewise we’re playing in bristol on feb 27th (my birthday!) and have a steady string of dates up to the summer, including an appearance on a double bill with Led Bib at the London Word Festival on march 12, a return to sunny sligo in ireland for the st patrick’s day festival on march 19, the elektrostatic gig in bristol on may 12, tours in hungary and france in May and the US in june, and an acoustic gig at st georges in the autumn, which will be part of a uk tour.
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