NB annA rydeR cannot accept any responsibility for mispronunciation of names in this video in particular that of Jonathan Waller which is pronounced ‘Wall’ (as in brick) followed by ‘er’. All characters represented in this work could be fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Hello! Last night I played with the Fairports at Birmingham Town Hall. They are my favourites and I played My Love Is In America with them on my accordion and done singing too. That is a song by Chris Leslie which is lovely. Also they played my song Bring Me Back my Feathers.
This was the final gig of their amazing Winter Tour what I done with them way back in 1999 as support. Cor! The support this year has been a singer songwriter guitar bloke called Roger Davies who is very good. You should check him out.
Anyway the Fairports sound really brilliant. And they do lovely harmonies and singing in octave unison and doing fast tunes and talking about custard and everything.
I done this and stuck it on their dressing room door. This is actually what they look like now they have done the tour. They are totally gorgeous.
We saw the Churchfitters at last at Edge Village Hall on Saturday! Hoorah! They are great because a) Their music is wonderful b) they play lots of excitfying and intresting instaments c) They are nice d) They have several banjos what are made of hubcaps and saucepans e) They have a saw f) They have disco lights g) They can play at lots of different speeds including fast and very fast h) There are only 3 of them but they sounds like them are 6 or 8 even i) Other things
I have played my bicycle pump with Chris’s saw doing Over The Rainbow at Birmingham Town Hall and also in Brittany. Tee hee.
We had a lovely time and Edge Village was very nice even in the dark.
Here is what they look like…
Hoorah! I am playing a song with the Fairports on the last night of their tour at Birmingham Town Hall on this Sunday March 6th…
I spect they will also play my Bring Me Back My Feathers song too.
Sometimes when I turned up to a gig this was the reaction I got…
Hello look who is coming to the Fourpenny Shop on next Thursday!
Yes it’s Pete Jones and if you forgot what he looks like this is what he used to look like but he’s alright now…
Please come along as he would like to see you all from thee olden days at Warwick Folk Club what used to go on at The Red Lion, The Black Horse and The Globe.
Today at Blue Moon Studio I invited Keith Donnelly, Marion Fleetwood and Gerry Colvin to sing backing vocals with me on my song Warm Me Up. Hoorah. It was fun and funNY.
We done manic laughing as well while we were about it.
Plus – there is another version of this looming which is going to be a surprise…Wait and see.
THE LATEST NEWS
This recording is shaping up nicely and I am hoping it will be out late March or early April (2016).
It has these songs on it: Musicians, Bring Me Back My Feathers, Watching The Waves, Just Come Home, Zero Inches, Company Shirt, Everybody Loves You, Fly Away Little Bird, Lay Down Your Worries, Life Is Never and two others I hope but we’ll see…
Artists on it so far are: Dave Pegg bass, Alan Thomson bass, Spencer Cozens keyboards, Clive Bunker drums, Chris Leslie native American flute, Noel Le Long Mandolin, Oonagh Ryder vocals, Mason Le Long drums, Chas McDevitt trumpet, Kelvin Leitch snare, Jonathan Waller guitar and there will be some more I reckon.
Engineering has been done so far by: Bill Bates at Heathcote Studio, Mark Lee at Blue Moon Studio and Spencer Cozens at Steinway Recording Studios.
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This below was written a couple of years ago and is the same project…
I’ve just started some recording after a break of nearly 10 years. Latest about recording news can be found on my blog as I go along…
I’m going to attempt to record all the songs I haven’t recorded and want to record.
Some I wrote a long time ago and others I’ve made more recently. I’ve made about 150 songs in total so far but there are probably about 50 or more which I regard as a bit rubbish or something not quite right with them. I’ve only recorded about 45 of my songs so I’m hoping to work through gradually and record – well – quite a lot!
As I go along I’ll be making some albums – it’ll all become apparent as I record which ones will go where.
So – recording started in November 2013 and it’s been great doing a bit of experimenting and creating with the very clever Bill Bates at his Heathcote Studios…
Hey Paul Elliott! Look what your bass has been doing at mine since you left it here…
Praps it needs to get out more. How about fetching it out to the 4Penny shop tonight?
Hooray! I’m playing accordion tonight with Fairport at Warwick Arts Centre…
I wonder if they will also play my song Bring Me Back My Feathers?
Yesterday was recording drummer Clive Bunker at Blue Moon Studios near Banbury (excellent). You already know Clive because he was the drummer for Jethro Tull from 1967 to 1971 and was on Aqualung.
Clive also played on my album Paper Girl and came touring with me in Germany in 2004.
Anyway – here is Clive in the studio playing on Musicians, Life Is Never, Watching The Waves and Just Come Home…
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In November Dave Pegg from the Fairports came to Blue Moon to record some bass on a couple of tracks. Peggy produced and played on Pockets On Fire which was released by his label Woodworm records, played on Paper Girl and now he will be on my new album due out Feb/Mar 2016. Hoorah!
Here’s Peggy doing Musicians…
All you do is go to Coventry and do some rights and lefts and then park on LORD STREET CV5 8DA and then go in. It look like someone’s house very nice but only with a bar and pub type things such as rugby shirts trapped behind glass etc etc.
Then you buy a nice beer and say hello to people and then sit nicely and see the gig which is not only me but some other people called Thru’penny Bits and Murphy who are going on first and then the other one last and I am in the middle.
I spect I shall play for about half an hour. It starts half eight.
Hoorah. It’s the Old FourPenny Shop in Crompton Street Warwick TONIGHT.
It’s awfully such fun and there will be our friends John and Ali going who are coming all the way from Cornish. Also Keith Donnelly. Plus lots of good and nice musicians.
Let’s all go.
Here’s what to do:
1. Enjoy selfs
2. Drink
3. No farting smells
4. Do try to smile
5. No builder’s bum
6. Be jolly
7. Nothing
8. Sing nicely please
9. No doing two songs in a row unless an emergency
10. Drink
11. Forgot what 11. is
12. Sit
13. Roll over
14. Drink
Love annA x
Look. Gig here tonight.
Hello
Maybe you are wondering what is happening with my recording? Well it is getting nearer to completion. Hoorah.
I am having a few guests to play which I’ll tell you more about later. So far I have played piano, keyboard, trumpets, guitars, accordion, banjo, French horns, and done harmonies.
I am recording these songs:
Zero Inches
Bring Me Back My Feathers
Watching The Waves
Musicians
Lay Down Your Worries
Fly Away Little Bird
Song For My Piano
Everybody Loves You
Company Shirt
Life Is Never
Just Come Home
Warm Me Up
Maybe they won’t all get onto the record… we’ll see.
What’s really great is that at last I have been able to use my 1913 Bluthner Drawing Room Grand Piano for the piano stuff. This is because Bill Bates recording engineer musician singer-songwriter has been able to do it. And because Chris Teuten piano tuner managed to get the piano in tune. Also I expect it’s because the piano appreciated having a 100th birthday party put on for it last September…
More news later – in the meantime here is a friend of mine called Keith in the shape of a fish.
