It was a pleasure and a privilege to sit on the panel that chose ‘Papa do Plenty’ to open Sundays main stage at this years Isle of Wight festival. Wight Noize is an annual competition open to young bands from the Isle of Wight and alongside me on the panel were Andy Booth – drummer with ‘Go Audio’, Dan Swift (producer – Feeder, Ash, Snow Patrol etc), and Lindsay Weatherstone (Solo Promotions). Congratulations to all the bands and artists who took part, it was a great weekend of music and good luck to ‘PDP’.
This weekend i’ll be performing an acoustic set with singer Lizzy Parks (http://www.lizzyparks.com/) at the Spiegeltent during the Brighton Fringe festival. For tickets check the website http://www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/ticketing.Lizzy has a new album available called ‘This and That’ which features me on acoustic guitar.
Work cotinues to go swimmingly on the debut MAX album – we are now looking at a September release to co-incide with tour dates which are currently being scheduled – watch this space for more details. I’ve also been recording more tracks for the ‘Ganda Boys’ project. This is a band formed from the musicians who came together to make the soundtrack for the BBC2 drama ‘Moses Jones’ set in the Ugandan ex-pat community in London. ‘The Ganda Boys’ features the fantastic vocal talents of Dennis and Dan from ‘Da Twinz’ and we have our debut live scheduled for August 1st at the Almeida Theatre, Islington. More details soon.
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