Tuesday, 23 December 2008

A bit more about my radio gig

Biggles FM

On Christmas Eve at 8:00 pm UK time I will be appearing live on BigglesFM, Biggleswade’s largest independent radio station…. Ok, only independent radio station… Oh OK, and it only broadcasts for two months a year within a 7 mile radius of, well, Biggleswade (Potton actually). However I will be singing and playing some of my latest songs as well as some well chosen covers. At least I think so, but I have bit of the lurgy at the minute and I’m not sure how well my voice will stand up to it.

So how and why is this happening? There was a local newspaper article advertising for bands to appear and I rang up offering the three bands we have on our community record label and Alan (the main man) made space for them even though he only had one slot left. He also asked whether anyone would be prepared to be a reserve for Xmas eve, so I volunteered. And it turns out the guy they have on Xmas eve will only be playing for 45 mins or so, so I am on for the rest of the show.

How do you get BigglesFM? Well if you are within about 7 miles of Biggleswade / Potton you can tune in on 87.9FM. If not you can log in and stream the station live at the BigglesFM website – http://www.bigglesfm.com/ You’ll need a computer that can play sound and then you can choose which application to listen in – windows media, itunes, default MP3 player etc.

The quality is really pretty good – and that’s even before I have started playing! If you let me know that you are going to be listening, let me know and I’ll try to say hello.

The other record label bands have also played – First of all The Jamlinjays (one of our Battle of the Bands winners played on 3rd December. It was bit tricky as we could not get a decent vocal monitor set up and therefore for the band it was quite tricky to hear what was going on. Jay was cool, as he had the phones on and could hear pretty much what was being broadcast. They played a good set, interspersed with hilarious band interviews. The two best lines being “As fresh as an air freshener” from Rich “Air Freshener” Jamlinjay and “We put it in a sweaty box and it comes out funky” from Jay “Sweaty” Jamlinjay. Top performance guys and Chris took some fantastic pictures.
The following Saturday 6th December Noize played on Frank Williamson’s afternoon show. They did 3 songs and got a great reception from our radio show hosts who really enjoyed it. Monitoring was easier as I took a headphone amplifier along which meant we didn’t have to rely on the room monitor, and we could keep Noize’s Noize to a relatively low level (that’s a first as I think they are the loudest band in the world!). They played a couple of their own tracks and a cover of Nervana’s “Territorial” !?!?!. Best interview question – “Would you describe yourselves as a poor band, looking at your equipment?”. One comment I would make is that Will’s amp sounded awesome that day – great sound. Wayne, Chris and Ashley came along as well and managed to get a request played for Debbie while in the studio with Frank.
Then on the following Saturday Phoenix Impact played. They played 3 of their own and two covers (I think the radio station manager was expecting just 3 in total, but they managed to keep putting off the one he wanted to hear until 5th!). We used a different room monitor, which fared better, but Paul, the lead singer, still used head phones. Great set guys. I took some pictures and will give them to Chris to see whether he can do anything with them. I’m not sure that all band members were particularly comfortable playing the last cover, as they had not all played it before!!, however it worked pretty well and went down a storm with the audience (that is me, two of my daughters, the station manager and the DJ).

Check out the pictures page to see some photos from all radio sessions. We look forward to continuing our partnership with BigglesFM when they are next on the air in the summer.

On the radio!!

Phil Hunt - live on BigglesFM



I'm playing live on air on Christmas Eve. At about 8:00 pm (after someone called Chris Martin) I will be singing and playing some of my songs and some covers. It's on BigglesFM, a really local local radio station with a station coverage of about 7 miles from Biggleswade (Beds). If you are in the area you can listen on 87.9FM. if not you can listen live on-line at http://www.BigglesFM.com/ . If you want me to dedicate a song to you, let me know. I'm already dedicating one to someone in Ireland and one in France (and Jen, of course).



It should be a great laugh. I have been rehearsing quite a lot - it's not the songs, but the guitar changeovers which I'll get wrong!! (Oh and, of course, some lyrics.) So you'll find me playing a guitar line on a bass or vice-versa.



Check back here for a report after Christmas

Saturday, 11 October 2008

Royal Parks Half marathon

I'm running a half marathon tomorrow in London. Wish me luck!!

Tuesday, 16 September 2008

I went to France at the weekend to see an old friend



It was his 40th birthday a couple of weeks ago and his wife had organised a surprise for him. His mum, dad, sister and me were to visit them for the weekend. I took the day off work and flew from Birmingham. After a nightmare journey to the airport taking 4 + hours and involving 2 major traffic hold ups I arrived and boarded the flight with my usual flying trepidation. It was a small 52 seater jet operated by BritAir for Air France and was pretty comfortable. I’m fine on an aeroplane – I just don’t like the thought of it. The plan was full and I only heard 2 other English voices as we headed south to Lyon, a few minutes late.
I was to meet his parents and sister at Lyon airport, though we had not arranged a time or place – they should have arrived 30 minutes or so before me. Once through passport and customs I searched the small terminal (Terminal 2 I now know) and couldn’t find them so headed to terminal 1 and met them looking for me. We had a pizza in the airport and waited for the daughter to arrive. She was a little late so we had 2 ½ hours to wait. My friend’s wife had organised for a taxi and we met the driver with whom I had a conversation about Lyon airport (they are building there at the moment) Scotland (we had both just been) and Anglo-French relations, and my French, which is normally OK felt very rusty.
The taxi took 35 mins from Lyon to his village (Mornant) and we were dropped off away from the apartment so that we could creep up on him. His sister rang the bell and from the top floor his wife’s head appeared whispering “he’s asleep”. It was 11.30-ish. She came down and opened the door and we went up into the apartment where Tim and his children were fast asleep.
His sister led the way, followed by me and then his parents as we crept into his bedroom to find a leg, back and boxer shorts. Marie-Line his wife woke him up and took a picture of him as he clocked his surroundings. His only words were “Oh” several times, dusted with a few light expletives.
I hope to get a copy of the picture soon.
We had a cup of tea with him and gave him some birthday presents (a good single malt and a picture of him with our entire day’s catch at Blenheim palace fishing lake some 20 years ago – one tiddler).
We went to bed, secure in the knowledge that the surprise had been total – his boss had given him the day off and come up with a plausible excuse when Marie-Line had requested it.
The next day we went and bought croissants and pains-au-chocolat from the bakery on the main square, played with his train set(!) went and had a fantastic lunch in a local restaurant – paid for by his parents and had a general catch up and natter. It was so good to see him and his family. It was as if we had never had 10 years without any significant contact. We also went to the local sports centre to sign his sons up for gym and tennis. All the sprts clubs from the areas were holding a type of “Freshers’ Fair”. What a great idea for Gamlingay. I will suggest it to Bridget. In the evening Marie-Line’s mother and her friend came around and Marie-Line prepared a fantastic meal of caviar, chorizo, guacamole, cheese, vegetables, mini sausage roles and, of course, champagne. That was a little tricky as they speak very limited English and Tim’s mum, dad and sister speak limited French, and mine was still very rusty (though it wouldn’t take too much to get it a little more fluent I think), but we all had a great time.
On Sunday we spent the morning eating, talking and eating some more. This include learning from Colin about some of the projectors that both he and Tim collect. You can see some of his that he has donated to a museum here. Tim then drove me back to Lyon airport where we talked about all sort of things before I got back on the 52 seater jet and headed north to Birmingham, where I struggled to get out of the car park and noticed a horrible noise in the car when going round corners or bends at anything above 30 mph… must get that looked at.

Highlight moments
Kath’s howlers
Tim’s arrival reaction
Marie-Line’s hard work and hospitality
Sue’s sunny disposition and laugh
Colin and Kath’s laughter
Trains and projectors
Tim’s butterflies here

Love and peace
Phil
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Monday, 8 September 2008

Gamlingay Rock Festival


Gamlingay Rock Festival
Current mood: breezy
Category: Music


I played at the Gamlingay Rock festival yesterday. I also did the sound. It was an interesting day as it was in a field, it rained and was quite windy too. And there was limited protection for the sound equipment. The event was organised to raise money for a local hospital ward, however so few people turned up that I would be surprised if there was not rather a large loss overall.

Set up
I got there at about 10.30 to find two lorries in a muddy field. Some people were trying to erect a gazebo to put the sound equipment in, but t would not stand up due to te wind. It was very flimsy. We set about setting the stage area up. The two lorries were not quite touching and were arranged to make a deep stage area… however there was a gap between them which made an 18" hole running the length of the stage in the middle – the drum riser was on one lorry and the rest on the other. Over the next hour or so some expert carpentry was deployed to get rid of most of the hole.

Meanwhile the gazebo had broken, so Wayne, star that he is, went to get another one (with sides) that would be more solid. This arrived with no instructions, so 4 of us worked out how to put this together and half an hour later we had some shelter for the sound equipment. Meanwhile Wayne called the owner who kindly came along to help us, but arrived after we had just finished.

Sound set up (fairly technical bolony)
I ran two mixers in parallel with one feeding the other (a Peavey 14 channel and a Yamaha 12 channel) which gave us enough i/o. I ran the drum mics (6 or 7 depending on the number of bass drums!) into the Peavey and submixed them to a stereo channel on the Yamaha, and then had vocals and guitars into the Yamaha which fed the PA and monitors. I also ran some reverb / echo from the Yamaha. We had 9 bands playing (including me) so by the end of the night, while I still had the drums submixed from the Peavey to the Yamaha, other tracks were pretty much all over the place – as we moved from 4 vocalists to 1; from 2 guitars to 1, an acoustic and a keyboard, to a Mac, a minidisk player etc. with microphones switching from instrument to instrument and the floor box getting increasingly deluged with rainwater. The monitors were soaked through and the PA took a hell of a weather pounding. All the electrics on stage survived, though it is remarkable that no-one got electrocuted. On reflection the organisers should have cancelled it, but once we were there and setting up we all wanted to play.

Sound check and running
Once we had sound checked we had some problems with many of the drums clipping, as well as the voices. I had applied a limiter to the main outs to control the overall volume level, as well as some equalisation. With the 3rd last band I ran into severe difficulties, as we had terrible crackling on one side of the PA, which we thought was water getting into the line somewhere. Wayne tried various things on stage, I tried various things at the mixer end. Eventually I worked out what the problem was – I was distorting the final output by pushing the limiter too hard. I got Wayne to turn the PA up to full while I cut out the limiter and dropped the mixer output volume and got rid of the problem. It also meant I could have a greater volume for Wayne's band (next up) as their back line was not mixed (except the drums) and the vocal levels could be pushed up. Had I had more time on the set up I would have compressed the main vocals and the drums, but it wasn't to be.

Bands
9 of us, from 2.00 until 10:30 in the rain on a stage open to the elements with wind and rain making a mockery of the late summer billing.

The first band up were called the Why Birds / Y Birds (can't find them on myspace so not sure what there name was). They were a four piece who looked a bit like Kings of Leon and had a great American rock sound. They were quite tight and charismatic and had the small crowd (30 people at that stage?) tapping their feet and moving a bit – not bad for a wet and windy outdoor gig. I don't know anything more about them, bit would certainly see them again. They were lead by their drummer but all four shared vocals and made a good job of it. I didn't recognise the songs so don't know whether they were their own or covers, though I suspect their own. Great to see.

Then we had a band whose name I didn't catch – a young three piece. They were fronted by their bass player, who had a terribly trebly sound, though he played pretty well,with some fast and accurate fingerwork. They were rather immature as a band and played the gentlest version of Pretty Vacant I have ever heard – the singer's voice was just far too nice. They wanted to be punks but were far too middle class I'm afraid. Their own songs were immature and simplistic and didn't work for me. Not much audience reaction either. But they had fun and they were quite a good spectacle.

We then had Noize – one of the bands on the Gamlingay Record Label. They were great as usual – playing their own brand of garage grunge which was loud and infectious. Will makes an enigmatic front mad with real rock star attitude – and the drums and bass were tight. I thought Will's guitar sound was over the top, but I think he did too, as he finished by smashing his guitar on stage which brought a brilliant reaction from the growing crowd – the guitar ended up smashed and its going on Ashley's wall – signed by Will I hope.

A real treat followed – Wayne and Paul (from Phoenix Impact) did a 15 minute acoustic set covering some classics, and once I had sorted the sound out (sorry about the feedback guys!) they sounded fantastic. They looked the part as well. You'll see that from some of the pics.

Phoenix Impact were next up (another or the bands signed to the record label). They sounded tight and seem to have come on quite a lot since I first heard them – Paul's unique voice sounds more mature and flexible and the bass and drums worked well together. They played some covers and some original material and their original songs sounded pretty polished.

I played next – my computer just about surviving the rain. It's always difficult to judge your own performance but it went down OK – it was lighter than everything else, so made quite a change from the day so far. I played 4 covers and 2 of my own – remembered nearly all the words (sorry George) but forgot to play Wayne's favourite "Feel" because the playlist names had not come onto the CD I used so I couldn't see it. Disappointed.

After me we had a band called Slippage (I think). A rock covers band who were quite professional. They were fairly tight (though the bass and guitar were not always in with the others – both together and separately) and their singer had a good rock voce – they played some later Rainbow, Whitesnake, The Who etc and did a good job.

Now, for me, the highlight of the evening. Wayne's band. Don't know what they are called cos they're not the Victims. They were awesome – this was my first experience of Wayne on stage and he's wild. They played AC/DC, Sabbath, Zeppelin and Wayne's voice was great- the lad guitarist who played a left handed SG was great, as were the bassist and drummer – the bassist getting a great sound from his Laney stack. Wayne never stands still and loves the whole deal – in fact he is the real deal. Loved it. There was also a cameo performance from young Ashley who played a bit of guitar on one of the tracks.

Finally we had the Abba tribute band, headlining (AbbaMax (?)), though we only had the singers and minidisk player. But they were great – the sang about 10 classics and had the whole of the meagre audience singing along and copying their dance moves. They spoke accented English and had all their moves off perfectly. All in all a great evening's entertainment.

I was also given a CD of Helen Penfold - interesting acoustic music - check her out and let us know what you think????
With better weather and a bigger audience this would have been a great event – the music was pretty awesome and the facilities pretty good. Thanks are due to Barry and Laura for organising it all, as well as to Debbie, Jen and our long-suffering children who sat and stood in the wind and the rain for many hours feeding us, watering us (pardon the pun) and doing any odd job we had forgotten about.

Lots of love

Phil

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Monday, 4 August 2008

13.1 miles

So I'm doing a half marathon in October in London for Asthma UK. Please come and sponsor me. You can find me at www.justgiving.com/phil-hunt

Culture!

I’ve been a bit cultured recently. I went to see King Lear at the Globe a couple o weeks ago. I organised a trip from work and met a couple of Blue Alumni members as well. We had standing tickets in the Yard (£5) which was hard work, but fantastic value. You are 2-3 yards from the stage and feel right in there. Great music with a pure-voiced singer, a Sackbut player and someone playing a dragon headed trumpet. Fantastic. Excellent play (obviously) and excellent cast. The Globe is amazing – intimate, authentic and colourful. Next time, however, I will get a seat and hire a cushion.
Today I went to the Bridewell Theatre to see a 50 minute version of Romeo and Juliet. Again it is a great play (obviously) and the cast were good with Emma Powell (Lady Capulet) particularly striking. The theatre is small (it holds about 150) and there were about 100 people there. The set was minimal, with adders and planks. The lighting was OK but there were times where it got in the way. There was one scene that didn’t work or me – they did a dance scene (can’t remember which pop song they used now) which looked a bit self-conscious from many of the cast. Three of them were recent graduates.I feel quiet cultured up now and it also re-inspired me to get gigs. I’m building a list of locations to contact… watch this space.

Monday, 23 June 2008

Prison Blog


I wrote this song at the weekend. I’d had the guitar pickings in m mind for about 4 weeks, so decided that I would record them and see where it took me. The first thing I did was added a solo ad lib guitar over the top – all on my Crafter acoustic so far, to which I added some reverb and delay as well as a light metalizer effect from Cubase. I added some bass – all along to a click track at this stage. I then, with a crappy dynamic mic, ad libbed some vocals. The chord progression was quite melancholic so I came up with the theme of being a prisoner deprived of his liberty and just took it form there. I was quite comfortable with it without drums but then I decided to add some from an electronic kit set from Proteus the synth. I varied the bass snare and HH sounds to be a bit different form normal for me.

Now where am I with it? Well it’s too long – nearly 9 mins – I think I can cut out 1-2 mins easily, but it will still be a long song. I need to change the bass sound as it is quite ugly and needs to be rounder. I also want to find some interesting synth sounds (from AbSynth?) as background moving pads and perhaps some lead synth bits.

I’d be really interested in your views on the song length and the other things I mention – you can find it as the first song on www.MySpace.com/HuntPhil and leave me feedback as well. Let me know…
Phil
xAnd a BIG sorry to Jen and my other girls – apparently I was a bit grumpy and huffy this weekend – it comes with being in prison and away from them, but I’ll try not to be as bad again xxx.

Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Scamb Records

Yesterday, Easter Monday, I ran the first recording session for the new record label. The first thing we are doing is putting together a compilation CD to showcase the five bands who have initially signed up. When I say 5 I mean three, plus songs from me and Wayne to give a bit more diversity and substance. I will put two of mine on – My Destiny and a shortened version of When I was a boy. Anyway, I had two bands yesterday – The Jamlinjays – funk rock rap and Phoenix Impact – Rock. The sessions were a bit slow in getting started but were sweet by the end.

The Jamlinjays put together three tracks, two of which worked really well.

We got a good drum sound and recorded 6 tracks of drums, 1 x guitar and 1 x bass directly with guide vox put out in the live room through a monitor which spilled a little, but considering the lack of acoustic treatment little enough not to notice once we overlayed the main and backing vox. I’ll add some reverb, delay and a bit of chorus to the chorus(!) and also have a play with some weirder FX on a double track of the main vox. I eq’d quite high, as the guitar was quite bass heavy and I didn’t want to lose that depth. Jay has a great lyrical sense and sense of rhythm and timing in his delivery and raps well. His lyrics are great too. Jon on bass (mostly, with some guitar) was great – he’s been playing 2 months (guitar before) and put in some impressive slapping. Guitarist Will was talented as well and dead cool. The drummer is excellent as well – real sense of funk and jazz in his playing, which all adds to an impressive overall sound.

Jay also played a CD he’s done the previous day with a mate in Biggleswade – hip hop – great beats and rap delivery.

For phoenix Impact, we recorded 3 tracks as well. Again, got a good deep drum sound. Overall not bad for a community centre recording. The bass sound was a bit flabby on early takes, so we tightened it up a bit at the bottom end and took the top end off that was creating too much noise. It was a full, bass-heavy sound that reminded me of a Rickenbacker on bass pickup only. Paul has a good voice – interesting and different from most – if we can capture that properly in the recording that could make the difference between a good recording and an average one. His guitar playing is good rock style. Again, good drumming, which makes a difference to the overall quality of the track.

Piston Head were unable to make this recording session, due to work commitments, so we’ll have to get them at a later date, so we can put the compilation together. I also need a couple of tracks from Wayne – could do a session recording Mayhem at same time as Piston Head?

Next step is to mix the tracks we laid down and prepare rough mixes for the bands. Once happy we’ll then master them.
Now, if only we could agree on a name……

Monday, 18 February 2008

Two weeks on...

Ok, so I got a lot done on my last list. So here’s another:

GOC



I’d like to try to set up meetings in the bank and outsourcer for the clown company as I think they would find the proposition of interest. It is getting to the right people that is key and telling the right story. I may have identified the right people
With the bank, I need to summarise some Irish ARD requirements into intelligible bites and help the aristo with his plans.
With the outsourcer we’re in final proposal mode, so I may need to do some last minute / late night stuff.
I also got a call from an ex-client (the boffins) who want me to spend a fw days running a workshop for them. Tops.
Other than that it should be an OK week or two.

GOL



Very little progress – still need to do John’s and Vicky’s stuff and also Chris has given me an old reel to reel of a singer to transfer onto CD. I need to get some tape head clearer solution though as the reel to reels sound rather dusty! I met a lovely lady called Laura who is setting up in business as an OD consultant, but she also does a lot of work with the Prince’s Trust and thinks my team building / recording services might go down well there. I will follow up with her in a few weeks to get some introductions.



GOM



So much to do, so little time. I have entered a band competition. Hope to get selected to play and had to submit a CD and something to entertain them while they listened to the CD. I designed a cross word – see below, so you can have a go at completing as well: not the best perhaps….but my first attempt since O Level French I think! I did quite a good CD face (see picture on right), but need to get some proper pictures done if I am to go anywhere with this. Been toying with moving to Protools LE and am just working through the benefits / drawbacks compared to Cubase SX.

Things are moving on apace with the record label. I drafted a 10 month plan which involved recording a compilation CD and 3 EPs. I think I have daunted everyone. I also want to mock up a website as well and talk to iTunes to fund out how to get on there for the recorded bands. The Gaffer is exploring all funding options, including for some equipment. It’s looking good; though I am concerned that trying to develop a commercial recording facility is barking up the wrong tree. We’ll discuss that at a meeting tomorrow.

Home



Went to Ipswich v Watford and we lost 1-2. Watford didn’t play pretty but were effective. We were a little unlucky in that Alan Lee hit the bar and Walters had one just miss, but Watford deserved to win. Good crowd, good hostile atmosphere to Watford’s tactics – good game all in all. Have also started a house clearing programme. Anyone that’s been round will know what I mean!

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

So here's this week

GOC
I have to draft 4 plans for the bank by the end of tomorrow – that’s going to take some doing. This week is also the one where I start to get some feedback from the Outsourcer and expect comment and interaction on my proposal documents. I am going to try to spend Wed and Thurs doing that. I expect I have a Blues meeting on Thursday evening. That’s GOC.

GOL

I must finish John’s stuff. It’s done with one query, the CD cover and also I need to find the tape I have lost. I will then put aside next week (evenings) to do Vicky’s CD. I must ask her for photos for the cover. I also should talk to Sheena about GOL training, though I think she’s on holiday this week, so should plan it for when she’s back.

GOM

I need to record a couple of my songs acoustically (BG and HPF), and then I need to add vocals to a couple of others (RM and perhaps do a better mix for SMMWC). I need also to finish the Loser and his Friend EP songs. Quite a way from that yet. Then I must enter the Cambridge band competition by 15th Feb., and drive the record label stuff along. I’d like to be MD of that. I also need to upgrade Cubase SX to v4 and make sure I can run it on both Macs, as well as getting hold of a software sampler to run on my older Mac and make sure I understand how to sync it (through midi) with SX running on the newer Mac.

What I really want to do is start doing some more radical stuff. Imogen Heap has inspired me to get a lot more experimental, together with Feist and Cat Power on Jools last night (through BBC iPlayer). Clearly I am not getting all that done this week. I will prioritise getting my current songs done first (BG, HPF< RM< SMMWC, and The Loser and his Friend) and also researching the SX issue during February and then take stock at the end of Feb.

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I must finish the last camcorder tape putting onto DVD. Should get that done by Wednesday.
I think with all this and Jasmine’s birthday next Sunday I should can the idea of going to Ipswich v Watford on Saturday. Also Jen's poorly with Flu

I wonder of writing all this down and publishing it will help me achieve more and get a little more focussed?

Thursday, 31 January 2008

General update




I haven’t posted for a while. I’ve been concentrating on myspace.com/huntphil and facebook. Difficult to know which to continue with when you have limited time. Anyway, the ankle is much better. I am running once or twice a week on it and it doesn’t give me any problems; however I have a serious calf problem which, according to my physio Lucy Haith may well be related to the ankle problem – I am probably over-compensating for my weakened ankle, thereby putting more strain on my calf. Whatever: it is it is painful.

Music-wise I did a gig a couple of weeks ago at the Man on the Moon in Cambridge. I also ran the sound for a local Battle of the Bands with a great Allen & Heath desk and things that we hired in for the occasion. You can find more pictures at my Myspace.com/huntphil site.

I’ve started two new contracts on the consultancy side with two brand new clients, one through my mate Howard and the other through Collette Harrison, who I was introduced to by my friend Susan (who I really must get back in contact with). One of the contracts is in the City, where I haven’t worked for 5 or 6 years. The other is in Hammersmith. Lots of travelling and too much time. But I get to go to the top of the very tall building in Canary Wharf which, by the way, sways wickedly in the wind.

My goal for this year is to play c. 1 gig every month - the Cambridge one was the first of these. I saw a post on Myspace asking for a band to fill a slot as a booked band had pulled out. Normally I would have not bothered, but I contact the guy and said I’d be happy to do it. He persuaded me to try and find a support band and bring as many people as we could. I found two bands to support me and we had a great night, though the audience was small – really just what we brought ourselves.

Have recently discovered Imogen Heap. Her song Hide and Seek has jumped towards the top of my favourite ever tracks. You can hear it on her myspace site at the minute myspace.com/imogenheap. Truly excellent – perhaps even genius???? Tell me what you think.

Saw a couple of bands at the Man on the Moon. Nothing very exciting, so I won’t bore you with the details.

Oh, I am also part of a group that is setting up a community record label to promote local talent in Gamlingay following on from the success of the Battle of the Bands competition. Watch this space for further details, but local bands should make themselves known to me if they are interested in getting signed an making an EP. And anyone local who wants to get involved talk to me or Bridget, Wayne or Chris.


Chris ad Dizz throw a great party - see dancing photo...

Love and respect

Phil

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