1. My daughter’s album, Red Handed, is now officially available and I encourage anyone and everyone to buy it. It goes without saying in way because she’s family but I am genuinely impressed with her singing and writing and I believe in informing people about what they might be missing if they don’t check it out. It is very hard to promote a new artist these days.
Limoges, early hours. We have just finished the first French tour of 2007. The sold out venue, the Zenith, was superb; a new multi-function building with great acoustics and facilities and a fitting end to this section of the tour. From Tirana, Albania through southern Italy to France, this has been a lovely experience. In three weeks or so we’ll be in the UK but for now we have a break and all fly off in different directions.
Gillian Glover, a member of the band Beat:Root, has recorded a solo album called Red Handed and I was very happy to have played a small part in it.
Tom Wilcox, whom she met whilst working at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, generated the project after hearing Gillian sing The Bargain Basement on my album Snapshot (2002). He encouraged her to write and record with a few friends.
The last gig of the year, and of all places, Bangalore, India. Of all places? What does that mean? Anywhere could be ‘of all places’. When asked, “ What are you doing here?” my reply is invariably, “Well, everyone’s got to be somewhere!” So, Bangalore – now it all makes sense.
We have traveled a year’s worth of gigs to get here and what a diverse and wonderful twelve months.
Here we are in April and as usual I am surprised that the year is nearly a third over. Does everyone go through that? Then again, I have to acknowledge that I’ve been rather busy lately, to say the least. The European tour was a blast, Rapture Of The Deep hitting stride through many countries, and the youth of the audience continues to impress.