Just some pictures from a week ago when I went to see Deerful at the Shackleton Arms.
Deerful at the Shackleton Arms
Category: Music
Music is a huge part of my life so it’s almost certain that this category will have a lot of stuff in it.
Whilst I’m at it, there’s this too
This is a set of pieces I did for a children’s show at the end of last year / the beginning of this year. All the tracks were done in Ableton Live.
Old music from me
Or at least stuff that’s been around for a while and is now collected together. I thought it made a nice collection as I’ve been listening to it whilst walking around and enjoyed it.
Jóhann Jóhannsson with Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe End of Summer
End of Summer
A beautiful album and beautiful music.
New stuff on bandcamp
Just to let you know that I’ve got some new stuff on bandcamp now. You can find it here. It’s the soundtrack to a show that I worked on. It was a children’s production of the Jungle Book (the Kipling version not the Disney version) and I wrote some pieces for it. I thought you might be interested.
And an update on what’s happening with the new Heaven 17 Album
@IamAshleyElsdon 2 more tracks coming soon
— martynware (@martynware) April 7, 2016
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I do love how twitter can get you answers so quickly. This is of course excellent news.
And new things coming from Mr Arthur then!
It’s good to hear that Neil Arthur is doing even more music. Hot on the heals of the latest Blancmange album ‘Commuter 23’ (I’m still listening to it and thinking about how I feel about it), he’s into a new musical exploit called ‘Near Future’. I just missed out on getting a signed CD of their first single, which was annoying. Never mind. I’ll have to wait for it to come out later in the month.
And another thing, what’s happening with the next Heaven 17 album?
I’m sure that this was coming a while back now. As far as I can remember they mentioned it at one of their live shows ages ago. When I say ages I mean over a year ago. Even so, I’m sure it was coming out soon and I’ve heard nothing about it since, which is a shame really as the one or two tracks they played at that gig sounded really promising.
Whatever happened to Ian Craig Marsh?
I’ve been a fan of Heaven 17 for years and years, and I’ve really enjoyed their recent shows but it does make me think of a few things, one of which is, whatever happened to Ian Craig Marsh? He was a big part of Heaven 17 and of course The Human League before that, but now, according to Wikipedia, he’s a music teacher. No more information than that.
That’s fine, but a shame for fans on H17.
Vinyl: Strawberry Switchblade, Since Yesterday
Another purchase from yesterday, and in fact, from yesteryear! I love this song almost as much as their other hit ‘Trees and Flowers’, which was brilliant. So, for £1 I had to pick it up really.
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