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Alison Moyet – New Album, 2017 Tour Dates
Listen to the gorgeous title song from Alison’s new album “Other”. Sean McGhee and myself co-wrote TWO songs on this album. I’m beyond proud, and ridiculously excited for this record to come out. Alison is writing some of her strongest material, and it’s a huge honour to be working so closely with such a talent…
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Tales of King Arthur, Tales of the City; From Glastonbury to New York
This month sees TWO reunions; the first reunion is of my old band Mauve la Biche. We are supporting the Cary Grace band at The King Arthur, Glastonbury, Saturday March 25th. Founder member Andy Budge and myself will be joined by David Payne on drums and Victoria Reyes on Keys and Vocals. I’m also playing…
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Dyads and Triads – are your chords “Too Jazzy”?
Something that I picked up from working with great singers was that harmony is there to support the song and the singer. When I first worked with Alison Moyet in 2002, I had been playing a lot of jazz, so my natural impulse was to fill out harmony with three-, four- or five-note voicings. Alison…
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Reaper for Live Playback – updated Videos, Feb 2017
Here’s an updated playlist of videos outlining a method of using Reaper for live playback (backing tracks) on stage. There are five videos: Import Template: multi-channel routing for your audio interface and setup for midi program change. Import Audio: how to import multiple tracks to your playback session Import Audio Custom Actions: explanation of the…
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Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15th Oct 2016) My experience.
It’s Baby Loss Awareness week (9-15th Oct), and bereaved parents are being encouraged to speak up and help break the silence around baby loss. I am a bereaved father. I would like to share something of my experience. *trigger warning – baby loss* In January 2014, we went into hospital expecting to give birth to…
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Hard Times – Part Three: Personal Challenges
Here is the third and final instalment of my blog about enduring and overcoming “Hard Times”. I didn’t want it all to be from my perspective, so I asked around for some input from friends and colleagues. The following shows my questions in bold, their responses in italics, and my thoughts in plain text. If…
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Hard Times – Part 02: Working With Difficult Clients
I wanted to write a piece about enduring and overcoming “Hard Times”, but I didn’t want it all to be from my perspective, so I asked around for some input from friends and colleagues. The following shows my questions in bold, their responses in italics, and my thoughts in plain text. If it sounds like…
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Hard Times – Part One: When There’s No Work…
I wanted to write a piece about enduring and overcoming “Hard Times”, but I didn’t want it all to be from my perspective, so I asked around for some input from friends and colleagues. The following shows my questions in bold, their responses in italics, and my thoughts in plain text. If it sounds like…
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New Handmade Pedal from Muyte!
My mate Chris McGrath, aka Muyte, has made me a very special “warm overdrive” pedal, which might be a clone of a well-known three-letter pedal… But this one has a couple of extra nobs. There’s a 9v/18v charge pump, high peak/low peak switch and a bass cut. I have already had a play with another build of this…
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DO WHAT YOU LOVE, DO IT EVERY DAY, NEVER GIVE UP
To some people this may seem impossible. Or maybe one of these things is possible, but not all of them. I agree. Some days I look at a statement like this and think – “that’s just not possible”. But the point is, what else is worth striving towards? Part of the problem that I have…
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