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It's Time For Something New We've had a great time with our friends in Loudhailer Electric Company, and as the Loudhailer duo over many years. But it's time for something new! We have a new music project with a new name to announce very soon, for our next release. So it's time for our last Loudhailer … Continue reading Loudhailer signing off!
This is our new Loudhailer song, 'Three Hundred Kinds of Blue'. The poetic '300 kinds of blue' are the blue gosu porcelain glazes made in Japan. The song reflects me and Rich heading down the road of life together. It is illustrated in the video by Hiroshige's 'Fifty Three Stages of the Tōkaidō' woodblock prints. … Continue reading 300 Kinds of Blue
We Have News! We have a new Agent Starling album coming out in spring, and the preview track and video, Jokul Frosti, is released today. It's our story of the Norse mythological character, who embodies the cold winter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYclRuVdUlc Down load from Bandcamp here: https://loudhaileruk.bandcamp.com/track/jokul-frosti Agent Starling: Quentin Budworth hurdy-gurdy and Lou Duffy-Howard other instruments, … Continue reading Jokul Frosti
I was invited to talk to Texas podcaster Greg Shanks for his Pale Blooms And Beyond show the other weekend. So, here I am burbling away about various musical escapades. Thanks to Greg for the invitation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fegSd-zd7dc I watched a few of his videos, very entertaining and insightful, There's plenty to see on his channel. … Continue reading Texas Talk
Here we are, Loudhailer Electric Co, recording new music. Mark's in the driving seat, after getting the drums down and sounding great last week. Another fab session today, guitars, bass and vocals in the can! If you'd like to come to our next gig December 13th at The Back Room Cottingham, we'd be delighted to see … Continue reading In The Studio
This is Beverley Circus, the 9th track from my solo album of train journey music and videos, 'There and Back'. It was originally 'Beverley Fires' because I set the town on fire for the video. It morphed into Beverley Circus when I added the circus story. So the fires had to go - for now anyway. If … Continue reading Beverley Circus