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22/5/09 : The Lost Cavalry web site

While everyone else was out enjoying the sun at the weekend I stayed in and created a web site... this one... www.thelostcavalry.com ...hope you like it!

And we also have www.myspace.com/thelostcavalry complete with a demo of our song 'Secret Steps'... take a listen and enjoy! :-)

We've also started booking gigs, take a look at the web site for up to date details...

30/6/09 : Acoustic gig and recording

Our first gigs have been going well... we're playing this Sunday at www.thefellow.co.uk near Kings Cross next, come along, it's free. Then we have various gigs booked over the summer, and more on the way not yet confirmed.

And most excitingly, we're going in to record some tracks properly next week with Paul from Stolen Recordings who I recorded the Fanfarlo 'Harold T Wilkins' single with last year, and who also has just produced the My Sad Captains album. It's going to be good to work with him again, and we're looking forward to having some properly recorded songs to let you all hear!

16/6/09 : Acoustic gigs coming up

We've got a couple of acoustic gigs coming up, the first as part of an all night party organised by the Wonderland Festival this weekend... it goes on until 9am the next day but we're very unlikely to last that long... we're playing during the day on the Saturday. Email us if you want an invite, as there's only 100 tickets available for the event. Then a couple of weeks after that we're playing a laid-back Sunday gig at The Fellow in Kings Cross, as part of the No One Died Sunday Flophouse... with a BBQ and Sunday quiz too. Plus it's FREE entry. Here's a link to the Facebook event. x

22/5/09 : The Lost Cavalry

So, since February I've been hiding myself away, working with my new band, who I can now reveal as... The Lost Cavalry. So far, there's four of us, and the nice thing is that they're all friends who I've been in band with before - Nick from my uni band 'Amber', Oliver from Xup and Dave from my first ever band at school. I'm playing mainly guitar, uke and concertina and most importantly - I'm singing too.

Our first gig was last night at a bar in Camden - we'd been keeping it quiet to see how it went, but it was a definite success so now we're ready to unleash ourselves into the world! ;-)

So expect some demos and photos on a new web site and myspace very soon...

11/4/09 : NME Loves Fanfarlo

Check it out! NME only went and gave our album 8/10... quite right too I say.

1/3/09 : Fanfarlo - Reservoir

The Fanfarlo album 'Reservoir' is now available both on CD and iTunes... featuring the creative stylings of yours truely on lead guitar. Buy buy buy!

Buy Reservoir on CD
Buy Reservoir on iTunes

07/2/09 : Upcoming gigs

Coming up this month for me... the Xup album launch featuring yours truely on drums: 21st Feb at Catch, Shoreditch... then a Mixedcases acoustic gig: 23rd Feb at Iambic Bar, Hoxton (plus, I will be DJing)...

4/1/09 : Plans for 2009

It's 2009 and I have a lot planned for this year, it's going to be a lot of work but I'm excited and ready for it. Step one is to form a new band, already underway... Step two will be to put together a great set of songs... also well underway!

21/12/08 : Fanfarlo: Goodnight...

I never really knew what bands meant when they said 'musical differences' but I do now - it's differences of taste that you only notice when you work really closely together. Not even causing arguments really, just an underlying feeling, like if you're going out with someone and it's good but somehow not -great-... and you realise it's the right thing to move on.

The last two years with Fanfarlo have been amazing and I'm incredibly, incredibly proud of the album we've made together. I think it's going to do really well. I'm moving on though, and I'm going to keep on writing music - my head is bursting with ideas at the moment! Stay in touch with me here! 2009 is going to be a busy year for me...