What Goes On.... 

Here's my quick update:
 

Dave Haslam/Music Matters

Thankyou to everyone who came out in manchester last night. We had a great chat, Dave was a brilliant host, and hopefully we can do this again sometime.

Waves

Waves Audio have published my list of tips on recording guitars. Hopefully there is something there to try or at least argue about:) You can find my list here.

BB & The King

Our radio show is now up to 23 episodes all of which are archived on our Mixcloud page. You can also share our playlists on the Spotify page. There are now 569 songs up there. Every week we do a themed show LIVE from a North London pub so please listen friday 2-4pm on Boogaloo Radio or download their app. 

QTY

The QTY record we finished at the end of last year is slowly coming out. Please check them out.

Shows

I will be doing a couple more shows with Mark Eitzel when he returns to the UK next month. You can find the dates on the LIVE page. 

I keep popping up with The Magic Numbers during their Green Note jam nights, but their will be another similar night popping up in London next month so please keep an eye open for a ticket announcement!

 

BB & The King on Boogaloo Radio 

Boogaloo Radio have asked me to host a show on their new station. Each week, along with my co-host Mark Kingston, we take you on a themed journey through music that we love, and music that we are discovering. With The News on the hour and special guests to come in future shows listen to our amateur ramblings and let us share some amazing music with you.  "BB & The King" airs every Friday from 2-4pm, repeats Sunday 8-10pm and is archived at boogalooradio.com with all the other great shows. You can also avoid us and just catch the playlists each week at our Spotify page which also includes a continuous "Complete" playlist of every song featured on the show plus many extras that we don't have time for each week.

Mark Eitzel - Sheffield 

I will be performing with Mark Eitzel in London tomorrow night (7/3/17) and as a late addition will also be doing the Sheffield Greystones show. The Greystones is always a great show which i put down to the lovely pies. We have had such a great response to Mark's album "Hey Mr Ferryman" so it's a pleasure for me to be invited to join in on these songs live. 
Tickets and links via the live page.

New dates..... 

Happy New Year!
I have added some new dates to the LIVE page, all in Europe, one in Paris with Mark Eitzel, and 3 in Italy with Ben Watt. I can't even remember the last time I played either of these places so i'm very excited. Come!

Records! Records! 

I've been busy in the studio this year in between tours with Ben Watt. Records from Mark Eitzel and Pace will be due in the new year. You can hear the first track from Mark here on the Merge Records site. "Hey Mr Ferryman" was recorded in London at Studio 355 in March this year and is due out in Jan 2017.

For the meantime QTY have released their debut single this week. "Rodeo"/"World Breaker" is now on iTunes Spotify and Soundcloud. They are a duo from NYC comprising Dan Lardner and Alex Niemitz, signed to Dirty Hit, and we recorded these tracks at Studio 355 in London last year. In between Ben's tours we recorded an album which I am waiting to mix as soon as I am home again. 

I have also completed an album with Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress for release in 2017.

Last show in Dublin tonight......

Record Store Day 2016 

I will be performing a free show with Ben Watt this Saturday 16/4/16 outside the Rough Trade shop in Talbot Road, London as part of Record Store Day. Please come along & hear songs from Ben's new record "Fever Dream" & say hello. Performance around 2:30 pm.

U.S. Tour 

Ben Watt has now announced me as part of his band for his June tour of the U.S. Contrary to a few bizarre reports this is not my first time in the US in 20 years ( ! ) as i did two trips with Ben in 2014! Anyway we wil be playing songs from Ben's solo records including the new "Fever Dream" which is receiving amazing reviews at the moment so I hope you can make it if you are nearby.

All the dates including the UK and Japan ones this week are as always here on the Live page

Kate Jackson 

Kate Jackson has released a taster from the album we made together. "British Road Movies" was produced by me and written with Kate mainly around 2010 but we only got around to finishing it recently. It's a beautiful,yearning and fuzzy English record which I'm very proud of and have waited a long time for people to hear. Find out more at The Quietus , follow Independent Music Monday  to hear "Metropolis"  and more on their great playlists, and pre-order the album here . 

Ben Watt "Fever Dream" 

Ben Watt releases his new album "Fever Dream" on April 8th on his own Unmade Road label. It is Ben's 3rd solo album and the follow up to 2014's Hendra which I also featured on. It was recorded in a short live session last autumn at Rak's small and wonderful studio 2, one of my favourite rooms, where I recorded with McAlmont & Butler, The Libertines, The Tears, Kate Nash and many others. The band comprises Rex Horan on bass and Martin Ditcham on drums. The first cut "Gradually" can now be found on Spotify and the lovely accompanying video can be found here . I played my gorgeous cherry red Gibson 295 Memphis for most of the record through a half cocked wah-wah on its lowest setting, and through both a Lazy J J20 and 1964 Vox AC10 Twin. 

Read more from Ben on his website and check the live page for all the live dates.
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