L'Etacq

My friend Tom came up to L'Etacq and took some photos of me playing my lovely little Farida parlour acoustic. Here are a few.

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Irresponsibly in the middle of the road.

Agapanthus Lyrical

I played at the 'Agapanthus Lyrical Festival' this weekend, which is a festival for songwriters and poets. They put on two music events, called the Dusk & Dawn Concerts. As you can guess, one was at dusk out the West of the island, for sunset, and one was at the crack of dawn on the East side of the island, for sunrise.

For some reason, I opted to go for the early dawn concert, thinking it would be really cool to play as the sun was coming up, but not really considering that I would have to be playing at 4.45am.

Anyway, I played just two songs of mine, and so I thought I'd do a little video of one of those songs, unfortunately this was very late last night, so I was very tired and my face looks stupid.

Ekatron

In my efforts to a) turn my hand to as many instruments as I can/can afford and b) annoy my parents, I recently bought myself a 3rd, 4th, maybe even 5th hand fan driven chord organ!

The only info I can get on it is that it was made in Italy by a company called Giaccaglia, and it's an Ekatron Chord Organ.

The thing is rad. 

It has a set of pipes for the keys, and a separate set of pipes for the chords/bass notes.

There's a volume control on it, that, when turned to 'Loud', makes the fan in the bottom whir up to a higher speed and give a  little squeak of joy.

Hours of fun/noise to be had.

On Tuesday night we played at Calva Bar for BBC Radio 1's One Big Weekend Warmup party for BBC Introducing.

My very talented friend Frankie Davies made a nice video of us playing Bottled Dreams.

First Post!

Well. This is my first post.

I've been playing a lot as part of Laura James & The Lyres recently. 

I was even allowed on the banjo for a song...