Well that was a wild June...
1. Sunflower Song Contest - I was one of 4 judges on a packed night of young songwriters. Storm Thieves Dave Everitt's daughter Meri won it.

2. Hinckley ACT club - (left - top) stonking gig with with Dan Britton at this great club. Great to play a duo set again with Dan.

3. Robbie Murphy CD launch party - wow over 100 people - a great launch to a great CD. Govannen were his backing band. "My Inspiration" CD can be purchased on the Oblong Music label page

4. Quadelectronic 13 - our first birthday - yay! One year of strange soundmaking...

5. 4 x Govannen gigs - including one with original line-up with Bridget McMahon joining us (left 2nd from top).

7. Big Session Festival - solo set - I was up against Oysterband and Adrian Edmonson and I still got a crowd! (left middle)
setlist - Finally, Alien Salad Abduction, Lifespell, Proud Of You, Rainbow Real, Alien Jellyfish Song

8. played at the final ever Phoenix Foyer Folk and Phoenix Foyer Jazz events as the Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester closes. For 20 years this has been a fave place to play. I will miss the place and these clubs - hopefully they will rise again. 2nd from bottom and bottom left)

9. Halo, London - Dan & I ventured to London for a 30min set

non-work-wise was busy too
1. brother and nephew came from Spain to stay for 5 days - Space Centre, movies, restaurants, parks, etc...

2. London to see Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen on stage in Waiting for Godot and also to see As You Like It at the Globe Theatre - both shows fantastic and highly recommended!!!

3. went to see Steely Dan at NIA, Birmingham

Groovy times just around the corner - Big Session, Weyfest & Gloostenbury festivals, opening for Eddi Reader and Dean Friedman.

Chris Conway solo
4th July - Criterion, Leicester
5th July - Allexton, Leicestershire - 2 jazz piano numbers with Leicestershire Chorale choir.
9th July - Loughborough Acoustic Club
23rd July - opening for Dean Friedman - 30min - The Musician Leicester
15th August - Paradise Theatre concert - songs and new age concert

Chris Conway & Dan Britton
31st August - opening for Eddi Reader at Leicester Cathedral
6th September - opening on main stage at Weyfest -

Govannen
8th August, 12th Sept - Joules Yard, Market Harborough
10th July - Smiths in Bourne, Lincs-
18th July - Ceilidh at Stamford Arts Centre
5th Sept - Gloostenbury Festival, Gloosten, Leicestershire

India CD
The Rain Garden - namely myself and Carl Peberdy finished our first album together in 10 years. India (see cover art left), part of Paradise Music label's Spiritual Journeys of the World series, found us back as a duo and with a brief to create the said Spritual Journey of India for the new age label. 2 of the pieces were old TRG classics from the 90s we never got round to recording. It is also our first album recorded multi-tracked in a studio. (Practical Candle Magic had a couple of overdubs only - other albums were all recorded as live). India should be out in a month or two.

Remasters of "Live" and "Cosmic Engineers"
With all the excitement of a new album it seemed a good time to get on with finishing the remastering and re-releasing of remaining classic Rain Garden music that was digitally recorded but released only on cassette. Carl and I met and decided to blend the best of our Live and Live 2 albums from '92 & '93 to make 1 new Live CD. Our quite avant-garde Cosmic Engineers live 5 piece album from '95 will be released in it's entirety.
Work has started on the live album and it is hoped to get both albums out on iTunes & CDBaby soon.

Escape Route - Columns of Herakles - more live electronics from this quartet - is now out on Auricle Music - more info here
This came out before Electronic Flights withoutn me knowing making Electronic Flights officially my 60th release.

1. The Rain Garden - Sacred Journeys of the World - India
- Album is now mastered and is at the artwork stage.

2. Judith Silver - Gathering
- mastered album for singer-songwriter Judith Silver |(left top) and created an piece combining excerpts of her vocals with electronics. The album is a collection of ostly accapella songs, many of them Hebrew.

3. Bridget McMahon
- Bridget (left middle) flew over again from Ireland and there were more recording sessions in June for her songs album.

4. Web TV Series
worked more on the theme song and closing credits music for web tv series Raising Kayn. (left bottom) Shooting has begun and I am providing score music for 15 episodes.

5. The Rain Garden - Live
- mastered the album made from combining best tracks from digital masters of Live and Live 2 cassette albums.

6. Moonchants
- awaiting more vocals from Llewellyn & Juliana

7. Live Song Album
- recordings were taken from The Donkey gig in May but the Live songs album project is still on hold.

Radio Fox did and interview feature with music. - I am working to get this available as a podcast on this website.

Demon Radio interviewed me at the Big Session Festival.

Celtic Reiki was runner up best new age album in the INATS new age awards (like the new age oscars.)

Spotify - do you use this free streaming music machine? Spotify.com. 4 albums of mine are available to hear on Spotify at the moment with more to follow. Ayurveda, Contact Light, Storming and Chocolate Bossa. Yes I get a royalty :-)

Electronic Flights CD is now available to buy and/or download from CDBaby and

Quadelectronic 13 - a groovy first birthday.
- 16 players - our first birthday - things were a little busy, and the music reflected this with a greater emphasis on sounds/noise than the previous ambient sessions.

a brief survey of the players present....
Lee Allatson, Steve Auxilex, Citizen Baxter, Victoria Bourne, Julian Broadhurst, Stuart Chalmers, Lucie Chapman, Robin Chapman, Chris Conway, Mel Fernandes, Simon Ferraby, Alan Freeman, Steve Freeman, Dylan Menzies, JP Smith, Jim Tetlow

Quadelectronic 14 will be on Tues 28th July
which will be our 1st birthday!!!
at 8.30pm the sumptuous Quad Studios, Leicester.
- it's not easy to find but here's a map
- it's free to get in (and out!)
- you might need to bring your own alcohol.

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new Quadelectronic webpage

Christo trivia

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Frederik Pohl
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