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 🙂
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.
Since my last release in 2012 I have stayed on the road for the majority of time trying out new material.
I am not overjoyed and a little nervous to present to you the 1st new material in 4 years.
I hope you enjoy 🙂
My thanks to all the crew for their hard work:
Mark Garvey, Jorden Harvey, Jessica Gray, Al Jones, Ashley Wintle, Gemma Westwood, Alex Macey, Harry Oxborrow, Jack Richardson, Kieron Musicka
My Pet Junkie return to the live Fray once again tomorrow following 18 months out while members toured or begun a family.
We will return to play 2 shows over the next couple of weeks:
Club 85, Hitchin (Headline slot 10pm) 30/12/15
Horn Reborn, St Albans (Opening slot 9pm) 5/1/16
For any folks who have not heard of my band Here’s a a bit of info and some videos:
We formed originally in 1998 with Leon Camfield, Richard Porter and Scott Harrison. In 2001 Julia Bell joined what became the line up that still exists today.
We released our first 4 track EP in 2000.
Our second EP got released in 2001 and led to us getting a deal with RiverRun Records.
RiverRun released two discs with us. The Single ‘Overhanging’.
And The Album ‘When You’re Not Busy’
You can hear live recordings of us on HERE and HERE
Having rehearsed for the first time in a long time today I can honestly say I can’t wait 🙂
Our last show took place in Camden town early into 2014, Here’s a couple of photos from that night.
All shots taken by Porthole Photography.
If anyone wants any of our music please message me and I’ll endeavour to send you some mp3’s.
In a nutshell Horizontoer is a touring festival that travels around by boat.
30 people per boat – 6 boats = ……lots of people!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_hPY7MmtY (the video is a sped up lazy day on the boat. I am briefly rushing through the shot to make it to my gig on time)
In 2012 I was invited for the first time to participate and I had a frankly amazing time. What really stuck in my mind about the experience was how as the festival unfolded a sense of community began. To spend a long weekend or even a week sharing the space with the same people allows the time to really get to connect. Add to that the fact the tour is 10 days and the festival is spent travelling together.
2 years later and I am back involved and relishing the thought not just of experiencing the journey once again but also to reconnect with some of the wonderful souls 2 years down the track.
All the details of when I will play are listed on this site. But for the details of the whole festival and more please visit here. (sorry it is all in Dutch)
And learn of all the performers on this teaser video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nQru37KlQ
Following the completion of the Horizontoer I will embark upon a mainland Europe tour finishing in October.
Working with friends from The Dan Tien in Watford
http://www.imaginewatford.co.uk/#/dining-al-fiasco/4576401739
A part of the Imagine Watford festival season
Fri 20 Jun –Â 1.55pm, 6.45pm
Sat 21 Jun –Â 2.50pm, 5.15pm
A 20 min dance performance set with music and narrative.
A restauraunt beginning an ordinary evening service discovers that every table has been double booked! The solution? Share the tables around between courses without the customers realising… Set to live music, this specially choreographed dance performance sees the staff desperarely distract, deter and detain their eclectic mix of customers.
As with the topsy turvy touring life things shift and heave in directions without control or warning.
Not the best start to the year I thought when I found out my debut show of 2014 in Holland has been cancelled 2 days prior to performance. But this is the nature of the beast.
I will still be venturing to Netherlands to perform a private show and hopefully the Friday night show which was scheduled to take place in Tiel will be be either rescheduled for the Sunday or a new location will be found.
Either way it’s a reminder of the unpredictability of this job.
More news as and when.
Stu
After an afternoon hanging out in Verona with the folks at Italian Label Starquake Records I made my way with Andrea to Vicenza where we readied for my return show there. Andrea again was mindbogglingly patient and respectful as we wrestled for a while with getting the sound right with the room.
The venue itself has been open since shortly after the 2nd world war and is now run by the grand daughter of the original owners. It maintains that cool vintage mystique and feel. There are Vinyls lying around next to gramaphones. Which can by utilized in a number of ways 😉
The vibe that night was mellow and I played a super long extended set more focused on the mellow. Rare performances of Time Lost Tradition, City at Night and a Solo version of Dare We Claim Victory also got a dusting down.
A lovely warm and friendly crowd. We even got drunk and talked politics after the show. A Bad Idea!!!
Setlist:
Before Your Very Eyes (Atoms For Peace Cover)
Stuart O'Connor 