#art #jobyhardwick #cxi #home # (Taken with instagram)
#jobyhardwick #livemusic #acoustic #cxi #home #moustache #trim (Taken with Instagram at Heckmondwike)
Last night was Liverpool’s light night, one of the biggest night for the city. All the art galleries open after hours and the people of the city come out to share in its vast culture and creative nature.
I was fortunate enough o be invited to play at Domino Gallery, owned and run by the incredibly lovely Felicity Wren. Her contribution to light night was the exhibition ‘21 Steps’ co-hosted by artist David Thomas Crawley. Both Crawley and Wren were exhibiting along with a carefully selected group of local artist.
As part of the exhibition Crawley invited the community to take part in hi work by asking them to #tweetyourfeet. The result was perfect. I couldn’t help but chortle at the response; people post there feet been manicured and all kinds of craziness. So if you want to take part in the on going fun then: #tweetyourfeet to @upandcomingarts
It’s that simple.
As well as my self there were four other musicians playing which included, the Celtic harp, piano, a professional busker and one of Finland most unusual, unsigned bands. Full detail o those who played can be found at www.upandcoming.org
CXI
It has to be said that Hampstead is one of the nicest places in London. I only know this due to my intoxicated confusion I ended up walking around the area for a while not really knowing where I was going.
The night before I is play a pretty enjoyable gig to an incredibly handsome audience. If you get chance ‘The Stag’ is the place to go.
#acoustic #livemusic #beer #hampsteadheath #london #cxi #food (Taken with Instagram at The Stag)
Taken with Instagram at Liverpool
#cxi #acoustic #livemusic #jobyhardwick (Taken with Instagram at Heckmondwike)
A week or so ago, I got the chance to record some live demos in a huge attic space at Red Brick Mill. My good friend Jon came along to add percussiony goodness and we got 5 tracks recorded. There as rough as you like but sound good. Any who you can download it here and if you get in touch I will send you a free code. CXI
Harvey Danger – “What You Live By”
The year was 2005. I was in my last year at middle school, and looking back, I was having a shitty time. It was nowhere near as shitty of a time I was about to have in high school, but in middle school I just wasn’t happy. I had just gotten into music for the first time, and I liked god-awful alt bands like every other eighth grader did; Breaking Benjamin and the like.
But in 2005, Little By Little dropped online for free, and by some providence, 13 year-old Adam stumbled upon the group Harvey Danger. Even though I was a huge Smashing Pumpkins rocker (still am) and didn’t give a flying fuck about music that didn’t cave your eardrums in, This super-clean alternative pop nonsense was so sweet to my ears and made me feel such a strong and pure happiness that I had to rethink everything I ever listened to (I think all of the SFTL staff had an album like this). From that I found a need to search for music that made me really feel things, and thanks to that one album I am the hipster asshole who is typing this into Tumblr today, seven years later.
Of course (since this story is tragic and unhappy) they ultimately failed. Being where I am today, I guess I just regret not doing something, anything to curb their demise. I mean, I was 13, but I didn’t do anything for years knowing that they were failing. I never told my friends about them, I never wanted to go to a concert of theirs, I never spent a dime on any of their albums, and, worse yet, I’m willing to bet that a lot of people didn’t do the same things that I didn’t do. And, so it goes, the first band I fell in love with turned into the one-hit-wonder that nobody ever cared about. I guess somewhere deep down I feel like I as a fan had the power to change that, and I’ve never gotten over how much I failed them.
I know this won’t do them any good now, but the last time I mentioned them we had like 150 folllowers and I was butchering the word “nostalgia,” so maybe airing out my grief in front of an audience of a quarter million people makes up for all those years of theft and negligence. Probably not, but it’s pretty much all I’ve got.
So, uh, thanks for the tunes, guys. Really helped me through middle and high school.
I’m sorry.
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Hi everyone. You may have notice non-Song #3 hasn’t been posted yet, this is due to some heavy consideration as to how me and director Chris Cronin are wanting to move forward with the videos. The next video will be posted soon but we have been writing concepts for music videos. So as of next month I will be posting video blogs in between video but we just need a little time as Chris has projects of his own which are more than likely to make him hugely successful.
I myself have began work with a percussionist and bassist to bring a full sound to the new songs, so when I do release the next chapter in my discography expect something special.
CXI
