Almost There Blog

Here’s a video Matt Trinder and I made as part of a competition, please watch it! If you like it maybe share it about?

This is the first finished painting from the New York series for P&O.  185 x 145 cm - Oil on Canvas.
More to come soon… 

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 [...]

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 [...]

A new flash banner has been made, particulary for myspace users to put on their page and spread the word about the upcoming exhibition.

http://www.myspace.com/almostthereproject
To put it on, just copy and paste this code into your ‘about section’:
<br /> <span class=”mceItemObject” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowScriptAccess=”never” allowNetworking=”internal” height=”155″ width=”450″ data=”http://www.joe-simpson.co.uk/almostbanner.swf”></div> <span name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”never” class=”mceItemParam”></span> <span name=”allowNetworking” [...]

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, [...]