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moogmemory on BBC Radio 6 Music
January 14th, 2016
Well, I’m very pleased that Daniziel was featured on 6 Music Recommends, with Mary Anne Hobbs yesterday evening. That, and it’s an honour to have followed on from David Bowie in the proceedings, too. As IF… Listen to the full programme, here.
moogmemory: London BFI Southbank Show Announced
January 8th, 2016I’m pleased to announce that the London date of the moogmemory tour will be at BFI Southbank, on March 5th, as part of their Sonic Cinema series. In the meantime, stay tuned for more news – and don’t forget; you can download a FREE track from the album, Daniziel, via Bandcamp.
RADIOLAND at Jumbo Records: Instore Q&A & Live Performance
January 5th, 2016To mark the arrival of Radioland in record shops across the land, I’ll be doing an instore Q&A about the album, and a little tour/demo of my synthesiser set up at Jumbo Records on January 15th. Jumbo Records is a Leeds institution – a proper independent record shop that, along with Relics Records, supplied me with so READ MORE
MOOGMEMORY – Album Release & Tour Dates Announced
December 9th, 2015It’s been a long time coming but, that ‘difficult’ second album, moogmemory, is finally due for release on The Leaf Label, available from March 4th, 2016. It is, quite possibly, the World’s first album to have been performed and recorded solely on a Lintronics Advanced Memorymoog (LAMM) synthesiser. The inimitable Graham Massey (808 State), has eloquently provided READ MORE
RADIOLAND – Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity Revisited: Album Release
December 1st, 2015At last, Radioland, the project with which I toured together with Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt earlier this year, is now available for download via Bandcamp – also made available via other digital music services on December 4th. In addition to the downloadable format, you can also pre-order the twenty-page hardback book CD and deluxe gatefold vinyl versions, which should be READ MORE
RADIOLAND: Album Release
December 1st, 2015As I began to write this post, I was en route to Luxembourg, and to the Philharmonie, where, together with Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt, we performed another Radioland show. Hopefully this will be the beginning of another series of live performances abroad. And, as I now continue to write, several weeks later, the album versions of this READ MORE
Fresh Yorkshire Aires – Notation
November 24th, 2015There have been some interesting submissions for The Fresh Yorkshire Aires project, curated by composer Jacob Thompson-Bell. There’s a little blog post I’ve written about playing from notation, along with a reminder that contributions are welcome – and there’s still plenty of time to submit your ideas for inclusion via the project website. Jacob and READ MORE
Fresh Yorkshire Aires
October 9th, 2015Fresh Yorkshire Aires is a brand new project collecting together graphic scores and visual representations of sound by artists and composers based in West Yorkshire. Devised by composer Jacob Thompson-Bell, it will involve work by the aforementioned; with myself, and fellow pianist Philip Thomas, interpreting the material in various live settings throughout the Yorkshire region. You can follow the READ MORE
Canals: The Making of a Nation
August 26th, 2015This Friday, the first episode in a new six-part series about the canals will begin on BBC1. Although it is not the first time I’ve worked on music for film and television, this is the first time that myself and fellow colleague, Sam Hobbs, have collaborated in a substantial BBC commission together – composing, performing, READ MORE
CAPSULE – concerts in Newcastle-Manchester-London
May 16th, 2015CAPSULE, is an intimate little chamber project featuring myself, Tam de Villiers (guitar) and Jean-Brice Godet (clarinets). We rehearsed together in Airedale and in Paris, wrote a few nice tunes, and now we’re going to play them in: May 17 The Bridge Newcastle 18 Cross Street Unitarian Chapel Manchester 20 The Vortex (Downstairs) London Come. Come see READ MORE