more news

By all accounts by the speed I have been updating my blogspot as quick as I have been doing recently (which has been slow, I’ll admit) but as I sometimes find life has this terrible habit of simply getting in the way.

Take for example my website. Aside from the interviews page on “Setting Sun” – my website hasn’t really been updated in a donkey’s age. I have meant for ages to update all of the music pages. All of these pages aside from W@ (which I guess is now on perm hold), all need updating and I should also include pages on other projects:

D.J.Kicked (Andy N – solo dance project)

Distance (Andy N and Tony Moorstol from W@ in new free form noise project)

Indecent Sacrifice (One off solo project from Andy N in DIH mode)

Christmas Albums (Annual Christmas Albums)

“And the rest is Silence” (Many versions of the same song)

B.A.N. (A new forthcoming project - Andy back on M.A.N. territory with new female vocalist, Helen)

And I should also include a new poem / 2 and a extract from “Intermission” my forthcoming second book.

It’ll all happen – someday of course..

When who knows of course…

gig review

Gig Review:

Sunday 15th May 2005

Luiz Bonfiz Society: Tribute to Jobim

Joogleberry’s, Manchester Street, Brighton

With a venue on Manchester Street, when I was in Brighton it was almost natural I went to this gig considering it also featured my pal, Bela Emerson (as interviewed at the end of last year on Setting Sun) and continued a Brazilian Samba flavour.

As though who may or may not know Setting Sun would know, I know Bela from her wild experimental cello playing which is magical to watch and experience and would also know also that I love Brazilian music and I knew before the band even played this would be a magical night and sat in a full jazz club which only contained a capacity of 80, the audience fell quiet throughout each number which featured double bass, cello, wonderful guitar picking and beautiful singing on top of ever-changing flue, sax and god knows what else.

Considering I am familiar with Bela for her slightly wilder music and also near folk music with Caroline Martin and Leanne Hall, this was certainly a complete change in tempo but it worked wonderfully made possible by wonderful acoustics.

I have no idea of the song titles here but the quality of the artists allowed each member of the band to shine in their own different way from Bela who was described as possibly Brazillian with a surname like hers to an excellent guitar player called Paulo Richards who I can remember playing one lovely instrumental piece and the audience actually started singing along in the background which surprised more than a few people, but only succeeded in adding to the magic of the night.

Excellent stuff all round.

Deserves to come out as a live album.

single review

The Lodger – Many thanks for your honest opinion (Dance to the Radio www.dancetotheradio.com) (Catalogue Number – DTTR003)

Hailing from Leeds, UK – two-piece band “The Lodger” with additional help beat help have been described in the NME as “gloriously poppy” or in Sandman magazine “ A seemingly endless array of melodies knitted together into kitchen sink dramas without wasting a note.”

Although perhaps I found the more rocky first tracks perhaps slightly under produced I certainly loved the second and third tracks, the more largely acoustic / unplugged “Unsatisfied” and “Let’s make a pact” where I can certainly hear by the vocalist Ben’s style a young Paul Weller in his “The Jam” days which mirrored with a half decent tune certainly does suggest that this band have some real promise.

Let’s just hope they don’t next release a single in the style of “The Style Council”

Promising stuff either way….

a bit of prose

A bit of prose for you wrote at a bus-stop the other day….


A middle aged woman is walking on the other side of the road from me, dragging a bike like it was a spolit child while she led a dog on her other side which truth be told looked more like a wolf than a dog by the way it’s eyes lingered on me for a second before it’s owner clipped it around the head and screamed “No,no,no”.

I wasn’t sure who I was scared of more.

A bit more news...

Dear all;

Hi there! How are you? What have you been up to?

Since the last time I wrote, I have been busy as always.

I am thankfully working again doing a bit of temp work at Bury Council working as a housing receptionist / assistant. Truth be told, I am not really enjoying the job and will be glad when it is over… I am speaking to some other job agencies shortly and try and sort out something out for myself shortly…

However, on a nicer note I am about to go away on holiday at the end of this week to Brighton which I will be looking forward as it will give me chance to caught up with a few friends, of whom I have not seen for ages and ages and ages.

I have also been busy with my writing and stuff – I am about 130 pages into “Intermission” if my memory is correct… Am hoping to get some time to sit down and think about this properly over the next day or so…

I have also just posted a new interview by the lovely Priscilla Hernandez on Setting Sun – http://www.geocities.com/aen1mpo/priscilla.htm

Check out her website on http://www.yidneth.com as there is some excellent mp3’s available for download here..

And also a interview by a excellent Paris (France) based band called Women and Children, who make some music that is truly out of this world in places….

Check out their interview on http://www.geocities.com/aen1mpo/wc.htm

There will be other interviews hopefully coming up here over the next week or two also, but with “Setting Sun” I can honestly admit sometimes I never know who I will get interviews off or not…

Lastly, just for the record I have finally started work on the next D.I.H record. Entitled “Suicide”, this album I think will prove to be a very different album to the last album “Internal Conflict” as I will tackling this album by myself I think as my partners, Keith Hicc and Uk Dragon will be becoming proud parents later on in the year (I am so pleased for the pair of them!) and I think this will change their commitments completely.

However, I am also working on a few solo dance tracks under the name of “D.J.Kicked” and have co-wrote two new tracks with the other Andy under the name of M.A.N. We have roughtly co-wrote two new tracks (or is three as I am sure there is a third) and I will be sitting down and talking to Andy while down in Brighton about recording some new material too.

Lastly, one or two people have expressed a interest in sending abuse to my former employers “Commuity Conferencing” who shat on me recently – of course, while I cannot encourage you directly to send abuse to their website – http://www.geocities.com/commconfheywood/

Or through their e mail address – commconfheywood@fsmail.net

I can print their addresses and let you do what you want with them.

Regards

Andrew N x

A short thought discovered in my notebook...

A little thought found in a old note book

“Is this a thought
or something lost
along the way”

sad news...

I found out a few days that my mate Tony and Wika, my partner’s in W@’s mother died a few days ago.

Rest in peace, Carol.

Keep riding.

Andy N xx