Bella Union on the London Eye

I’ve been wanting to be able to post this here for a long time, but it’s been taking FOREVER to get it through the edit suite at work… (this is one of those things you don’t complain about – it’s a luxury problem to have too much to do in our industry). Anyhow, only a [...]

Station Sessions

So I’ve been running the production on a new set of sessions for St Pancras Station, called, oddly enough, The Station Sessions. It’s been a lot of fun to set up and get going the last three weeks, and oddly enough there’s been a huge amount of overlap with the artists I used to book [...]

Nina Nastasia

We’re in session with the wonderful Nina Nastasia today – can’t wait to film it. The rockfeedback sessions are my favourite thing to film, especially when it’s just one person, and especially if that person is as talented as Nina. We spend most of our time, before the act arrives, perfecting minute details. We’re contstantly [...]

IKTOMS Cornwall

Just over a year and a half ago now I organised what is probably still the silliest (and most awesome) event I’ve yet to be involved with. I took 11 singer-songwriters (and a poet!) on tour in a minibus, starting with a gig in London, moving up through York to then do a three-night residency [...]

“All About The Vocals”

I’ve been to two gigs just recently that have been ‘powered’, as it were, by a front-woman with a voice in the calibre that verges on ‘ridiculous’. What’s been confusing me is the reaction to those voices. People seem to be fine with women either having softly-softly vocals, throaty whispers, delicate breaking high notes etc… [...]

Spotify Playlist

I’ve just made my first Spotify playlist! It’s for the bands from the last blog. If any of those verbose and praiseful descriptions I wrote interested you, then check out a couple of songs from each of the bands here: http://bit.ly/2010spotify The only ones mysteriously missing are Surfer Blood. Their album isn’t available in the [...]

New Bands of 2010

I think most people write these at the end of the year before, to appear more prophetic should the recommendations come through. Having just made a few compilation CDs for friends, however, I thought I’d share a couple of the bands that are exciting me at the moment, a couple of months into 2010.

ToneMatrix

I’ve been having waaaaay to much fun with this to not pass it along… I obviously need to get myself some kind of sampler. But then, I want every gadget I come across, and I’d probably never use it. For now I’ll stick to the online version… Give it a shot for some musical divertisment [...]

Golden Hour Book Two (and CD!)

I’m very pleased to say that, having been asked to contribute a track a good few months back, I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of the Golden Hour Book Two on my desk on Friday morning (I’m on the compilation CD, slipped into the back cover). The book is put out by the [...]

Fanfarlo / First Aid Kit Duet

I had the good fortune to record this duet with Fanfarlo and First Aid Kit (covering Devandra Benhart) at Field Day Festival, 1st August 2009. It was a gorgeous day (in between sporadic showers), and it was a perfect one-take, five minute shoot. Hope you enjoy! (courtesy of the day job, btw, with rockfeedback)