Hi all;
Hope you are
good and enjoying the what I hope is the beginning of Spring as
Certainly after
the constant little bits of snow and frozen I have had enough of winter totally
for this time.
Creative wise,
it has been quite a active month in several ways.
First of all,
probably in March viva bandcamp a series of old recordings (I think around the
2010 mark) with one brand new recording will be released as a free download of
me with a ambient band called Poortosh. Hopefully over Easter – I will start
work on some other tracks with it as I have a better studio set up now.
Also, my work
with Amanda Silbernagel although currently quiet (Amanda is
Busy with her
studies). When she finishes for half time probably next month, am hopeful we
will be able to crack on further with this and get a EP on the way fairly soon
(ish).
My main band ‘A
Means to an End’ finally made it back to the stage at the beginning of the
month when we did a 15 minute set at Guitar and Verse in Manchester which can
be seen here.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4z7d28xTXQ
(Next stop for
the band will be doing a set in April for a night called Words V Music)
I haven’t done
anything performance wise by myself this year now (solo poetry).
Didn’t end up
going to Write out Loud, Stockport last month but I will be back there on
11/03/2013 with at least three new poems with me (one of which I am currently still
working on).
After that, I
will be performing in Tyldesley at a night called ‘Performance’ on Friday 22
March 2013 where I’ll be doing probably 15 minutes or so of poetry and I am
hoping my band will also be there to sneak in a few songs. (Not decided on the
setlist yet).
Writing wise, I
have managed to write a few poems this year including ‘tracing planes’ which
will be debuted shortly with A Means to an End and a major rewrite of a old
Words and Music (my first band) called ‘The one that got away’ is with the guys
and I am hoping will be finished with the guys over the next month / three
whenever. Hopefully both of these will be in A Means to an End book two (Out
next year I think).
I am still
progressing work slowly on my next poetry book ‘the end of summer’. I did a
test print of the book at the end of last year which had 28 poems listed for it
and since then, I’ve now added another two, maybe three for it and have a few
ideas for a few others in my head besides wanting to do a bit of re-editing to
it (in particular one called ‘Open Door Closed’ which looks almost completely
different and has been submitted to Best of Bolton 2013).
I’ve also just
had a pretty successful writing workshop for the workshop I co run with Manda
Lee, Writers of the third kind last week which produced drafts of 4 poems, 3 of
which are likely to appear in either Love Songs for Cathy V or maybe The End of
Summer with a nice comical one which I will hold back for a comedy book maybe
in the future. Next workshop is 27/03/2013 @ the Sweet Green tavern near Bolton train station from 7pm.
All welcome as
normal and as normal there will be no admission!
Publishing wise,
two poems have been accepted for publication. One in a publication called
‘County of last things’ who at the end of March will be publishing ‘The End of
Summer IV’ and in April I think, Puppywolf Press will also be publishing a new
poem called ‘Bodies in open tombs’ for their annual Best of Manchester Poets
Volume 3 (Will hopefully be at their launch).
As soon as I get
more news with confirmed dates etc, I will of course be attending but don’t
forgot in the meantime, Guitar and Verse a week tomorrow (7th March
2013) headlined by the excellent Shaun
Hunter's Quiet Rebellion with a poetry slot
from Indigo at Gulliver’s,
Manchester.
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