(Andy N and P.R.Mcdowell introducing Last Dance Saloon at 3MT, 18 Oct 2014)
Didn’t realise until before I haven’t done my latest news
and views in over 3 months so anyhow:
Work with Amanda
Silberangel:
Although the more eagle aged of you would have noticed we
did talk about doing an EP in July / August and it hasn’t yet appeared, this is
in part down to the artwork and not the music and the tracks are finalised and
it’s now a simple case of waiting for the artwork. As a stop gap, I likely will
be uploading a few tracks onto soundcloud soon.
Ocean in a Bottle:
Since the last entry, Ocean in a Bottle has released two EPs
– ‘Approaching Stretford’ and ‘EP for Alex Humphrey’ and ‘The End of Summer’ –
all of which are mentioned elsewhere in this blog.
My current EP The End of Summer Part II s was released on 03
October 2014, which I will provide a separate note on tomorrow. Two tracks from
it can be sampled at in the meantime here https://soundcloud.com/andynpoet/sets/the-end-of-summer-part-ii-sample-tracks
But the EP can be sampled in free (for free as always) https://oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-of-summer-ii
I also did a separate track (in two versions) as a tribute
to Jung ‘A Matter of the heart’ which can be heard https://soundcloud.com/andynpoet/ocean-in-a-bottle-a-matter-of-the-heart-after-jung-instrumental-version-for-sarah
and https://soundcloud.com/andynpoet/ocean-in-a-bottle-a-matter-of-the-heart-after-jung-for-sarah
After that, the next EP shall be a 6 or 7 track EP called ‘Hurricane
in a bottle’ which will display a much more fierce sound than either of the End
of Summer EP’s or the Alex EP, which again maybe be two EP’s again and I also
am playing with a different form again which may end up as a EP called
‘Movement in C’ which I will discuss further in future months maybe in December
or January of next year.
Distance / DIH:
After a gap of several years in both cases, the full line of
DIH recently got back together to record three tracks for the final Digit Vomit
on memories due out later on in the year.
Distance’s current line up has also recorded two tracks
after been asked for two other comps, and enjoyed them that much has also
recorded an album which end up been a collb with Ocean in a Bottle (Drones over
Piano).
And after discussion with my old partners in HICC, we are
considering re-launching HICC on bandcamp re-releasing old releases with
additional tracks.
A Means to an End:
After doing two really good gigs in June, July was quiet for
the band although we carried on meeting up.
In August, we played two gigs, one at the Inspire Festival
which probably was one of my favourite gigs (Have a storming version of Leaving
Belfast on youtube which can be heard at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCHagH4M5oE).
We then struggled two days later through another gig at
Bolton Food and Drink Festival where I wasn’t well, but we did okay.
We also did a short set at the Conscious Club in Manchester which
was a difficult gig I know some of the band felt but very enioyable and played
to around 500 people as a headline act on one of the stages at Wigans Diggers
Festival 2014 which was great fun.
After that, we should have done three gigs for Blackpool
Music Festival, but that alas turned into one owning to circumstances beyond
our control where I performed a new one piece with the band called ‘North Pier
Runaways’ and Petrova debuted a new song too.
Poetry:
Lot been published since I last wrote which can be seen on
my website, http://www.andyn.org.uk/index.php?p=1_5_Publishing-History
but some highlights from the past few months have been:
Red Bicyles (For Hebden Bridge Arts Festival) where I was
approached to write a bit on a poem which would have lines among it from lots
of other poets.
This can be read here - http://hebdenbridgeartsfestival.co.uk/pm-poems-red-bicycles/
Orgami Press also published a chapbook of mine ‘Mystery
Story’ which can be downloaded for free here - http://www.origamipoems.com/poets/211-andy-n
Healthywaterwaystrust published three of my boat / water
poems here http://www.healthywaterwaystrust.org.uk/index.php/about/36-poems
Twisted Promise
Productions:
Some developments here as the play now have a new working title
of ‘Last Dance Saloon’ and keeping with the original title, now we are called
Twisted Promise Productions.
We have been meeting up monthly on this and most of the main
parts of the play have now been completed. We performed part of it at
Manchester Poetry Festival last night which although didn’t quite go to plan
was enjoyable and more will follow from this in the new year.
