big ideas in conversation

We made this little video with some of us chatting about the album and the band in general, hope you enjoy…

If you like whats on the video, you can hear the rest of the album (and purchase the CD or mp3 download) here.

Posted by Ben on 15/05/2012 at 16:09 in misc, news and tagged big ideas, video, youtube. Leave comments here.

videos from Burghausen

Part of our prize as winners of the European Young Artists’ Jazz Award was the opportunity to give the opening concert of the Burghausen International Jazz Festival playing before Chick Corea & Gary Burton in a gig that was filmed for German TV station BR-alpha. Some of the tracks from that gig are now up on youtube! Take a look below…

Posted by Ben on 22/05/2011 at 20:13 in news and tagged bake, burghausen, european young artists' jazz award, everything in its right place, just, radiohead, video, yafw, youtube. Leave comments here.

germany photos: best of

Following the round up over the past few days of photos from our recent prize winning trip to Germany, I thought I’d post a round up with full size versions of a few of the best ones…

This first one was taken by Robert Piffer, a photographer from Burghausen. Think its great how he’s managed to fit the entire band into one shot, and especially with me being mid air at the time!

This one I like for the posing going on – all very boy band…

I think this one captures how we were all feeling whilst watching the other bands in the competition after we’d played our set – pretty nervous to say the least

…whilst this one captures how we were feeling after it was announced that we’d won! (photo again by Robert Piffer)

And I like this one as you get a feel for how beautiful a place Burghausen is – sun was shining, by the river, castle at the top of the hill… Nick and Owen just look like they’re taking it all in!

Finally wanted to put up this video of us walking down the main street in Burghausen, which has plaques of all the jazz greats that have played at their festival over its 42 years – its incredible the names that are there. Playing over the video is some audio recorded when we played before Chick Corea and Gary Burton, recorded by Bayern2 radio.

Thanks again to everyone at B-Jazz for treating us so well, and thanks to everyone we met in and around Burghausen! Hopefully be back soon…

Posted by Ben on 08/04/2011 at 21:18 in misc and tagged burghausen, germany, photos, video, youtube. Leave comments here.

tour pictures

Over the bank holiday weekend I finally managed to get some pictures uploaded from the tour over the summer – a couple of selected favourites are below but there’s loads more in the gallery. I also got bored and made a video of what we got up to in Wales between the gigs, I’ve been told its vaguely entertaining so check it out… Also who knew ‘sustenance’ was spelt like that?

groove on the green, liverpool 05/06/10

Graham in Wales

bridgewater hall, manchester, 01/07/10

I also made these little animations from the Bridgewater photos, mainly for my own entertainment. Each is a little disconcerting in its own unique way…