May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Sorry for the delay in getting this uploaded to the blog. The day after the release of As We Once Were, Catherine was on Radio Wales speaking with Adam Walton about the new album. I like to get these radio appearances, esp. if they are on the BBC as know fans overseas don’t have access…
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It’s been a little hectic here of late. ‘Here’ being my humble abode, rather than the blog. Although I hope that you all enjoyed my recent interview with The Anchoress on the release of her new album, As We Once Were. In relation to that, I’ll be taking my first trip to London in almost…
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Five years from my last conversation with The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies) regarding the release of previous album, The Art of Losing, I had the privlege once again to speak with her. This time we discuss new album As We Once Were talking about; tracks on the album, the recording and production process, motherhood,…
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It’s been five years since the release of new material from The Anchoress (the musical moniker of Catherine Anne Davies). A half decade can seem an extensive period in the often fickle world of the music industry (can I just state at this point I do despair at the label of the creation of music…
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I’ve been a bit of a home body lately. Dare I say that at times the weather has been too warm, even for Glasgow, which usually has maximum temperates several degrees lower than what is experienced in England, especially southern England. And when the sun isn’t out in Glasgow, it’s dreich. There are only really…
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The weather has been wonderful in Glasgow lately. It was finally feeling like spring had arrived. But nothing lasts forever, and certainly that is true of sunny, warm conditions afforded this fair city. We were back to type – grey skies and the constant threat of rain (if not actual precipitation). It was an early…
I think I am going to find this a hard thing to do! So I think I’ll get the easier stuff out the way first. Thinking about all of the arts and culture there are things that I don’t partake in much, if at all. I don’t watch television, so it’s going to be hard…
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Simple Minds were a fantastic live band from the get-go, yet despite that, it took them almost a decade before they released their first official live album. The hunger was there from the fanbase as many bootlegs exchanged hands from the earliest days. Now, barely a year goes by without the band milking yet another…
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Paul Statham has been working on this project for a number of years now. At long last some new Dark Flowers music is coming our way. Statham has worked in collaboration with several artists for the album including Cilmi, Shelly Poole, The Anchoress …. and some guy called Jim Kerr *shrugs*. The album will be…
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Just a quick reminder that the yellow and black spatter coloured 12″ vinyl release of the Solstice Kiss single is officially out in the record shops tomorrow. I pre-ordered mine some time back so will most likely not see it until Monday (as I won’t be here for its delivery if it arrives either tomorrow…
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