Some music updates to start with, first of all, some sad news, but
owning to a variety of reasons I won’t go into here but me and my good friend
Amanda Silbernagel have had to put our joint project Audio Poesis on hold for
at least the foreseeable future.
We do have a EP or two hanging around of unreleased tracks
which I need to speak to Amanda about to decide what we are going to do with,
but while this is sad news, I am hopeful we will get back together in the
future and work on some new material.
My gigging band for
the past four years, A Means to an End is also about to finish off but not
before playing our what is likely our final gig tomorrow at the Tyldesley
Chapel in Tydlesley at 2pm. We will have some 4 track EP’s ready for distribution
on the day too, which contain demo versions of 4 tracks from our up and coming
album which is currently been remixed and will be ready shortly.
I’ll upload the demo tracks on Sunday on bandcamp and
hopefully some live footage from the gig also of us.
In good news, it can be revealed that me and Jeff will
hopefully carrying on with hopefully a new friend or two (whose name I won’t
reveal yet) in a new project called Passover which will start rehearsals in
January. I’ve wrote a few possible pieces and I’m looking forward to seeing
what direction we go, as I suspect it will be a bit different to what we have
done as a Means to an End.
There is also a possible chance of a second live band coming
in the New Year with a former guitarist from a very old band I fronted Words
& Music many years back who has got in touch. I hope to arrange a meeting
with him soon over this and see what happens.
Ocean in a Bottle will be carrying on into the New Year too.
The last few EP’s have been going down really well ‘Circling Winter’ and ‘The
Midst of Winter’ and is signalling in a direction as a project this shall go.
A few titles floating around for future EPs include:
Heart of Winter (January 2015)
Reflecting Winter (February 2015)
The living dead of Manchester Morgue (March 2015)
And so on..
Writing wise, things are looking promising for my next book
with Nick Armbrister, following on from 2014’s Europa with Europa II. I’ve
currently wrote 14 pieces for this book (Aiming for 20 to 25) and if all goes
well, should be out by next Spring or so if I can get a good burst of
inspiration over Christmas.
I’ve recently help edit the debut book by my friend, Gray
Nicholls ‘Waiting for Nancy’
and wrote the blurb at the back of the book. I really enjoyed reading this and
helping him, must admit.
Link to follow soon on that.
I believe he has a second book in mind too but no doubt
he’ll tell you about that himself.
More towards 2017, I guess my third full length solo book
‘From the Diabetic Ward’ will follow I guess. Currently that’s going ok too
with maybe drafts of I guess 15 or 16 pieces done (Aiming for pushing 40 for
that) and without giving away spoilers, the tone should be completely different
for this book too.
More soon guys as always.
Andy
