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Independents played on BBC 6music

Last month, Tom Robinson had the debut radio airplay of Adam Wedd & The Independents new single ‘The Differences We Display’. It was also featured in his weekly podcast, which you can hear a shortened version of below (copyright owned by BBC etc etc).

The track was recorded on my home studio setup (bar drums & bass which was done at MI7 studios in Acton then transferred over). We spent quite a while tweaking it, re-recording bits, bringing in fancy violin ideas and messing around with banjos! I can’t remember the full names of all 8 musicians playing on the track, but special note to Tara Flynn (as seen on Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle & The Omid Djalili Show) for her backing vocal “icing”, and to the excellent Luke Sital Singh who provided backing vocals and a bit of common sense in the production department. Adam is getting married next month, so best of luck to him, but I’m sure you’ll be able to catch Adam & us Independents playing another gig soon-ish…

Hope For Planet Earth

Hope for Planet Earth was a national tour and resource DVD featuring leading experts and thinkers on the subject of climate change; what it is, how bad and what our moral response could be. The 2009 tour finished very recently, and whilst there are currently no plans to tour again there is a resource DVD you can buy from here hopeforplanetearth.co.uk.

The show kicks off with an introduction video played on a big screen. Footage was put together by Tearfund to a piece of music I had partly created, and partly adapted from a song by Flight School that I had recorded and played on (hear them here – myspace.com/myflightschool – credit to a certain Ed Priestnall for that cool piano riff)!

It’s not exactly HD, but you can see the results below:

A few recommendations…

There’s a few things I need you to know. Three.

First – as it’s a new year (academically speaking), I have a number of lesson slots available. If you, or anyone you know might want guitar lessons, do get in touch!

Secondly, this is a recommendation to any other struggling musicians out there – head to UK Music-Jobs. It has a lot of job listings on there, and looking back, it has been pretty helpful in getting me into many of the things I’m now involved with.

Thirdly, we’ve started Music Room again in Wimbledon at the YMCA John Innes Youth Centre. If you know anyone of secondary school age in the South West London – they can try guitars, drums, bass, DJ decks and audio production with us for free! See flyer to the right for details!