Almost There Blog

The concert was a great night, thanks to all the acts that played and to everyone that came!  Here’s a video and some photos from the evening:
 

Here’s some footage from a special warm up concert in preperation for the June 6th show.
Tickets now on sale for the show. At http://www.quaytickets.com or from the Box Office: 0161 912 5616.

Things are more than a little frantic at the moment, with moving house, learning to drive, trying to paint paintings three times the size of the ‘Almost There’ canvases in half the time etc.  So the blog is less of a blog, but more of a news bulletin board for the time being.  With that [...]

The exhibition is launching up North in two weeks, at the Waterside Art Centre, Sale.  It will run from April 4th - June 27th (an extended run), Open Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Admission Free.
There is a super duper launch night being held on Friday April 3rd 7.30pm - 9.30pm, featuring special live performances [...]

The exhibition has been on for seven days now, just the weekend left for the London exhibition.  I’ve been sat invigilating the whole time and it’s been a strange experience.  Really positive on the whole - lots of people have given amazing feedback, and seemed to have enjoyed the show.  A fair number of people [...]

The launch night took place on Friday night (20th February) - and it was a huge success.  I would like to thank everyone who came along, all musicians who played - Ric Neale, Jose Vanders and Matt Trinder and everyone involved in making it a really special night.  A serious amount of wine was consumed [...]

I had a little chat with Sam Walker on BBC Manchester last night, you can use the iplayer feature on the BBC website to listen again - it will be up for one week.  I’ll try to rip it and put an MP3 up.
The BBC also have a little feature up about the project, take a [...]

I will be talking about ‘Almost There’ on the Sam Walker show on BBC Manchester this Sunday (Jan 25th).  I’ll also be playing one or two songs from the soundtrack.  Tune in at 11pm to listen.   You will be able to listen online, and then again for one week after the show.
 

Songs for the ‘Almost There’ soundtrack are nearly all done and dusted.  I’ve got 10 of the 12 finished tracks and they’re sounding great.  I received a finished cut of Ric Neale’s track ‘Dotted Line’ today, which is for the painting above.  He also attached an assortment of demos, live sessions and images.  You can [...]

It’s promotion mania in the ‘Almost There’ camp (that’s me in my bedroom by the way).  I think I’ve settled on a design for the posters, check it out:

Also, a few nice people have mentioned the project on their blogs - check out lovely words and download a free track from the soundtrack, Matt Cameron [...]