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Thought it about time for a bit of an update, just so you know we’re all still alive and the band does still exist!
We left you a couple of months ago with the news that Emma had given birth to a baby boy. Well we’re pleased to say that all concerned are doing very well. Baby Robert seems remarkably good so far, so credit to him. Emma seems to be taking to motherhood like she takes to most things – extremely smoothly and as if she’s been doing it for years. She’s even had time to start dabbling in a completely new musical project, alongside the good ship ATC. Who says parenting is difficult!
Our now former bass player – Mr Ben Halls, is we believe doing well for himself in his new home of Boston (USA, not Lincolnshire). We can’t confirm this as we have barely heard from the bloke nearly 3 months after he departed – but we hear these things on the grapevine.
The big news for us is that we have started working with a new bass man. Ian Greening is an extremely affable chap, a very good bass player and seems to like folk music, which is always a plus. We’ve so far worked on some of our old material with him, as well as working on the last bit of new stuff we need for the album, and all is going swimmingly so far, which is good. We’d like to welcome Ian to the fold, and hope his stay is a happy one.
So, plans are slowly beginning to be put in place to actually get back gigging. We have missed it badly, but know we need to make sure we are 100% ready before venturing back out. In the next couple of weeks we will start to name a few dates for early 2012 – which we will no doubt keep you posted about. There is currently a slow burning urge to get a show in before Xmas, but with the album being the absolute biggest priority currently, this will likely be a last minute thing if it does happen. We will of course give you as much notice of any shows as possible.
The album is starting to sound great. We are now finishing off songs and can start to visualise the finished product. We’re still a fair way off, but the plan is to have the recording finished by February, and it being ready to be duplicated by March/April, ready for a May/June release. There’s a few exciting things in the pipeline including working with a promotions company to help push the record, along with some big shows we’ll be lining up.
So, as another taster of the new album, we now have a really nice bit of video shot at one of our favourite nights, The Icarus Club in Hither Green, London. It is footage of the song 'Grasslands', which will be appearing on the new record, and it was recorded back in the summer. Head over to the video section of the website where you'll find that, and a few other older ones you may not have seen. It's worth 10 minutes of your time we think!
So, that’s about it. We’re very close to all systems go again and there is a real buzz about the band currently which is good to be a part of. Watch this space everyone – ATC will be rising again very soon!
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Sunday, 20 November 2011
Thursday, 13 May 2010
An ATC Blog Post - As Rare As A Goal From Emile Heskey......
Yep – I know, it’s been at least a month since our last blog post. Hardly prolific we’re well aware so again I’m sitting here saying to myself (and the others) that we’ll rectify that and update this far more frequently, but I doubt any of you would believe us…..
Rest assured – if we had anything worthwhile to say we would say it, promise!
You’ll be pleased to know I can think of a few worthwhile things to talk about this time, which is good as this post would be pretty damn pointless if I couldn’t.
The big project some of us have been working on over the last few weeks is putting together the music for the inaugural Headspace Youth, Disability and Communities Festival which is due to take place at Long Hill Park in Bracknell on Saturday June 19th. (http://www.headspacefestival.co.uk/index.html - not quite a completed website but it’ll give you the jist!)
We’ve managed to put together a really solid line-up of music on two stages, with a broad cross-section of different genres, from young up and coming acts to the more seasoned pros (we’ll let you make your own minds up where you think we fit in to that).
Highlights will include a rare local performance from our good friend Rory Ellis from Australia, one of the brightest acoustic prospects around today – Lou Brown and also a set from the brilliant prog-rock band Heights, who have as their guitarist our producer Al Heslop.
It’s gonna be quality – although bloody scary as this is the first one, so anything could happen! Stick the date in your diary – at £5 entry on the gate (with all proceeds going to Headspace), it’ll be well worth your time. And yes……there is a beer tent.
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For those that haven’t yet – please look us up and become a fan on our Facebook page. A lot of us have been working hard to get this medium going properly so would be great if you could link to us – even if you get this blog having signed our mailing list at some random gig and you’ve forgotten who we are – sign up anyway!
You’ll find us (so I’m told) at this link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/All-Things-Considered/14405050679
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Finally, we have a gig at Jagz in Ascot tomorrow. We’re doing a short opening set for the band Grey Matter, on at about 8pm or thereabouts.
The gig is significant because it marks the end of our winter/spring gigging run, as we’ll be off the circuit for about 5 weeks due to Emma flying out to Cyprus to get married!
Now some of us in this band have known Emma for a long time now – she was basically still a kid when me (Phil) and Adrian started writing with her back in the summer of 2003, so we’ve seen the odd geezer come and go, most of whom were the stranger side of weird.
However – a couple of years ago she introduced us to Darren, the flame haired cockney who actually seemed reasonably normal…… Could this be? Well yes – it appears it is, as in less than two weeks time they fly out to get wed, and then spend the following 3 weeks in the sun, while the rest of us poor bastards who couldn’t afford to go hope for the best we might get a day in the next month where the temperature reaches double figures……
So – as this will be the last blog post (going on our current updating efforts) before she jets off – I’d just like it to go on record to say we all wish them the very, very best. Darren is an absolute diamond geezer and the two of them are perfect together. Whether or not things go quite as swimmingly if and when she pops a sprog and we’re still gigging 6 times a month is anyone’s guess……….
But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Rest assured – if we had anything worthwhile to say we would say it, promise!
You’ll be pleased to know I can think of a few worthwhile things to talk about this time, which is good as this post would be pretty damn pointless if I couldn’t.
The big project some of us have been working on over the last few weeks is putting together the music for the inaugural Headspace Youth, Disability and Communities Festival which is due to take place at Long Hill Park in Bracknell on Saturday June 19th. (http://www.headspacefestival.co.uk/index.html - not quite a completed website but it’ll give you the jist!)
We’ve managed to put together a really solid line-up of music on two stages, with a broad cross-section of different genres, from young up and coming acts to the more seasoned pros (we’ll let you make your own minds up where you think we fit in to that).
Highlights will include a rare local performance from our good friend Rory Ellis from Australia, one of the brightest acoustic prospects around today – Lou Brown and also a set from the brilliant prog-rock band Heights, who have as their guitarist our producer Al Heslop.
It’s gonna be quality – although bloody scary as this is the first one, so anything could happen! Stick the date in your diary – at £5 entry on the gate (with all proceeds going to Headspace), it’ll be well worth your time. And yes……there is a beer tent.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For those that haven’t yet – please look us up and become a fan on our Facebook page. A lot of us have been working hard to get this medium going properly so would be great if you could link to us – even if you get this blog having signed our mailing list at some random gig and you’ve forgotten who we are – sign up anyway!
You’ll find us (so I’m told) at this link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/All-Things-Considered/14405050679
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Finally, we have a gig at Jagz in Ascot tomorrow. We’re doing a short opening set for the band Grey Matter, on at about 8pm or thereabouts.
The gig is significant because it marks the end of our winter/spring gigging run, as we’ll be off the circuit for about 5 weeks due to Emma flying out to Cyprus to get married!
Now some of us in this band have known Emma for a long time now – she was basically still a kid when me (Phil) and Adrian started writing with her back in the summer of 2003, so we’ve seen the odd geezer come and go, most of whom were the stranger side of weird.
However – a couple of years ago she introduced us to Darren, the flame haired cockney who actually seemed reasonably normal…… Could this be? Well yes – it appears it is, as in less than two weeks time they fly out to get wed, and then spend the following 3 weeks in the sun, while the rest of us poor bastards who couldn’t afford to go hope for the best we might get a day in the next month where the temperature reaches double figures……
So – as this will be the last blog post (going on our current updating efforts) before she jets off – I’d just like it to go on record to say we all wish them the very, very best. Darren is an absolute diamond geezer and the two of them are perfect together. Whether or not things go quite as swimmingly if and when she pops a sprog and we’re still gigging 6 times a month is anyone’s guess……….
But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Friday, 17 April 2009
When illness strikes...
Oh dear, this whole bank holiday thing seems to have completely thrown all of us - two late posts in a week, what is this coming to... We promise to try harder next week! Anyway, the post:
As you may have seen (and hopefully heard!) we had our first ever radio session on Monday. We had been hoping to play a few tracks live, but unfortunately Emma seems to have contracted some sort of mutant super-cold that has been plaguing her for weeks now, and resulted in her virtually losing her voice! So, no radio appearance it would seem... But, being the hard-working types, we managed to cobble together a selection of just-about-finished tracks from our album, and turned up armed with that and a bass player who can talk for England and managed to get through the session without any major hitches!
Anyway, you might be wondering while I'm rehashing old news. It's probably mainly because it's 3:30 on a Friday afternoon, so I'm bored almost beyond belief at work, but also because Emma's throat has meant that we haven't rehearsed or really done anything of note since Monday!
But... We've decided that we're bored of being bored, so are going ahead with our gig this evening at Artsbar in Wokingham, which should be lots of fun, with lots of great friends (Anthea Neads, Liz Williams, Philippa Berry and a few others to boot) playing as well, so come along if you're free. We can't promise that there won't be the odd mid-song cough, but we can promise a great evening of local, live music, and also the opportunity to get hold of tickets for our album launch!
So, see you this evening hopefully...
As you may have seen (and hopefully heard!) we had our first ever radio session on Monday. We had been hoping to play a few tracks live, but unfortunately Emma seems to have contracted some sort of mutant super-cold that has been plaguing her for weeks now, and resulted in her virtually losing her voice! So, no radio appearance it would seem... But, being the hard-working types, we managed to cobble together a selection of just-about-finished tracks from our album, and turned up armed with that and a bass player who can talk for England and managed to get through the session without any major hitches!
Anyway, you might be wondering while I'm rehashing old news. It's probably mainly because it's 3:30 on a Friday afternoon, so I'm bored almost beyond belief at work, but also because Emma's throat has meant that we haven't rehearsed or really done anything of note since Monday!
But... We've decided that we're bored of being bored, so are going ahead with our gig this evening at Artsbar in Wokingham, which should be lots of fun, with lots of great friends (Anthea Neads, Liz Williams, Philippa Berry and a few others to boot) playing as well, so come along if you're free. We can't promise that there won't be the odd mid-song cough, but we can promise a great evening of local, live music, and also the opportunity to get hold of tickets for our album launch!
So, see you this evening hopefully...
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