Almost There Blog

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’m stressing out. After eating and drinking my way through the Christmas holidays and not doing much of anything else, I’ve put off a lot of work. Now I’m faced with preparing everything for the exhibition which will launch in about six weeks. There’s so many little jobs like designing the launch night invitations, posters, [...]

Here is the first in a series of trailers to be released in the lead up to my exhibition.  I’m really pleased with it, the song featured is ‘Answers’ by Nizlopi.  If you like it, please feel free to post it to your blog/website/facebook etc.
 Almost There - Trailer #1 ‘Answers’ from Joe Simpson on Vimeo. [...]

It’s a grey Monday morning in Manchester, with a hint of rain and doom.  To brighten up your start to the week, here are three pieces of graffiti that I saw on another blog that made me chuckle.
I’ve started making some mini trailers for my exhibition, I’m really excited about them…

The internet probably doesn’t need another blog, but I’ll give it one anyway.  There’s a lot going on leading up to the ‘Almost There’ exhibition - an album to make and launch, two exhibitions with openings nights to organise, funding to find and a gig in a theatre to put on.  And realistically, it’s pretty [...]