Staying above a venue in Gerardmer, France I decided to record this little vid.
0 From the Vaults: Revelation – Solo Piano, Gerardmer, France.
0 (Acoustic Show) Au Baugyte – Baugy, France
Au Baugyte,
Lieu Dit Le Bourg
71110 Baugy (En face de L’Elise)
Also playing are Guillem + Nathalie + Nicolas
0 From the Vaults: My Pet Junkie – Time Stop Clock / Food Flavour Fades – Stevenage 2009
One of my Fave videos of My Pet Junkie in action. Yet another unreleased song and in my opinion one of our strongest. When I recently uploaded this we had a copyright claim from a metal group who said we were ripping them off. Anyway we fought it an have won back the right share this with the world. Also it helped that this was filmed before the group had ever released their song. So now Who is ripping off who?????
Anyway I hope you enjoy our Power Prog Trio goodness 🙂
0 Le Magasin des Possibles (Acoustic Show) – Semur en Brionnais – France
180, la grand’rue
Semur-en-Brionnais 71110
Music Starts about 10 AM
FREE ENTRY
A lovely place I played at in Dec 2019.
Happy to be returning 🙂
10:30 Start – 180 La Grand’rue, 71110 Semur-en-Brionnais
FREE Entry
0 From the Vaults – Interview from Thailand 2011
While on the road promoting my 3rd album ‘Good Times with Evil’ I was approached by The Web Show who happened to be filming in Thailand at the time. They interviewed me and made this short film about me being on tour.
0 From the Vaults – Modern Life – Japan – 2011
The life on the road is full of coincidences. This one still blows my mind. 2007 and I am touring New Zealand for the 2nd time. I get booked to play the 121 Cafe in Auckland and spend the day hanging out with the awesome barman Shinya. We get on well drinking coffee and talking music and travel. Cut to 2010 and I am playing a club in Chiba, Japan. I’m chatting to this cool guy after the show who speaks great English and plays the Sitar. He mentions living in New Zealand and at the same time we realise the reality.
One year later and I am playing the same club and Shinya and I share the stage together for the 1st time. What a wonderful experience it was. We jam out an improvisation and then I segway into my (at the time) unreleased song ‘Modern Life’. Shinya skilfully follows along like a boss 🙂
0 From the Vaults: Been Smoking Too Long (2006)
Probably the oldest video of me performing solo on You Tube dating back over 15 years this is from a one my shows prior to the release of my 1st album.
Weirdly my route through this song led to me discovering the work of Nick Drake who covered the track. My take on this song is a lot closer to the version I first heard of it which was by ‘Placebo’. However one of the first recordings to come out was that of Nick Drake and eventually it came to light that the 1st recording was by his friend Robin Frederick.
Anyway cut to March 2006 and I am playing the sun out in a South London Club which is recorded and ends up on youtube. I was reminded of this song when a friend recently asked if I still played it.
0 From the Vaults – Pish – Thailand – 2011
Most of these from the vaults videos are ones that have been documented by me or by audience members and have not been online before or have been removed for whatever reason years ago and some of them are ones I’ve found through searching youtube. This video is the latter.
As a part of a 9 month tour across Asia and Australasia to promote my 3rd album ‘Good Times with Evil’ this video comes from a show in Bangkok in March of 2011.
Playing the song Pish from the same album I had the great fortune to be joined by the incredibly talented and awesomely enthusiastic Jean-David Caillouet (JD Mosaic).
I still remember this night well as we jammed and jammed for long time lost in the loops and sounds occasionally locking into a song.
0 From the Vaults – Playing Piano from Inside my Tour Van in the Middle of a Storm
I couldn’t sleep one night while touring the South Coast of England. so I switched on my Camera and played Piano for a couple of hours. This is a little snippet of a tune called The Watcher (that has not been released).
0 From the Vaults: Pish, Time & Places, Streetlight Song, Bugscope (Unreleased Song), The Opinion of Money (Unreleased Song), Alaskan Sky, Time Lost Tradition, Sleep Tight – Canterbury 2017
While touring almost constantly through 2017 I begun to piece together sounds that would eventually be recorded for ‘The Realignment Session’.
Here my entire concert was filmed by a member of the audience and I was lucky to have 2 performances of songs here that didn’t end up being used. The 2 songs from that session played here ‘Bugscope’ & ‘The Opinion of Money’ were ones not released in the end. So in a way they get their first and possibly only airing here.
