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…
Posted by on 05/09/2010 at 13:26 in gigs, misc and tagged animation, anton hunter, graham south, owen bryce, paul strachan, pictures, sam healey, tim cox, video, youtube. Leave comments here.
(via A Blog Supreme)
Posted by on 25/08/2010 at 20:52 in misc and tagged jazz, jazz boyfriend, youtube. Leave comments here.
Thanks to everyone who came to see us last week at the Marlborough jazz festival – apologies again for the slightly delayed start, circumstances out of my control! We really enjoyed the gig though, and hanging around at the festival afterwards as well. Continuing the recent theme of posting videos of gigs I’ve been to, here’s a track from Polar Bear’s set – ‘Happy For You’, one of my favourite tracks from their latest album (which is possibly my favourite album of theirs too!):
Also here’s a nice picture of Sam and Anton taking a quick paddle in the river with the ducks, isn’t that nice…
Posted by on 16/07/2010 at 12:13 in misc and tagged ducks, marlborough, polar bear, youtube. Leave comments here.
I went down to Birmingham on Saturday for the Mostly Jazz festival, which was a really great event – highlights of the day were Led Bib, Polar Bear and headliners the Sun Ra Arkestra. Thought I’d put up some of the pictures and video I took of the Arkestra’s set, it was awesome…(video bit shaky in places as I was dancing, sorry!)
The Arkestra are at Cafe Oto in London tonight and tomorrow (5th and 6th) so if you’re in the big smoke make sure you’re there!
Posted by on 05/07/2010 at 18:47 in misc and tagged birmingham, festival, led bib, mostly jazz, polar bear, sun ra, sun ra arkestra, youtube. Leave comments here.
Probably should have posted this a bit sooner (sorry…) but wanted to write to say what an amazing time we had in South Wales last Tuesday and Wednesday! Thanks to Alistair and the team at Dempseys in Cardiff and to Dave and everyone at Swansea Jazzland for having us, we really enjoyed ourselves and hope you and the audience did too – hopefully be back soon…
We spent the day in between the two gigs camping and hanging out in the countryside outside Carmarthen at Sam Andreae’s uncle’s amazing house (thanks again for hosting us Mike & Celia!), complete with ping-pong, pool, darts, bbq, campfire and lake – equipped with rowing boat and kayak. Hopefully more photos of our exploits to come, but these videos of Sam Healey (saxophone) and Paul Strachan (bass trombone) attempting to get to grips with the kayak should give you some idea of what we got up to!
Once again, cheers to everyone we met – can’t wait til we come back!
Posted by on 16/06/2010 at 20:16 in gigs, misc, news and tagged cardiff, carmarthen, dempseys, jazzland, kayak, paul strachan, sam healey, swansea, tour, wales, youtube. Leave comments here.
Like I say, in the end a gig’s a gig (especially a solo with an orchestra) – but were the years and years of training really worth it? Really?! (via A Blog Supreme via Matana Roberts)
Posted by on 26/02/2010 at 19:08 in misc and tagged angel, saxophone, youtube. Leave comments here.
Posted by on 04/11/2009 at 13:08 in misc and tagged army, baritone, youtube. Leave comments here.
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