Rehersals

Last weekend was The Glastonbury Festival and for the first time since 1994 I did not go. I was gutted. Added to this upset the England football team crashed out of the world cup. All in all it was a rather depressing weekend.

However! It was also the first ever ATP:LIVE rehearsal. The photo above is of my ATP:LIVE desk with my new ATP logo :)

My set up (for now) is me, my macbook, a roland 404sx sampler and a roland gaia. All of these sit on top of a keyboard stand with pasting table folded up on top. Rock n Roll!

I will admit there is some way to go in terms of perfecting the set but it was great to hear my music coming back at me through the speakers in my music room. I have over 140 samples which make up the beats and vocal samples in the songs and I am re working all the tracks with new synth parts and well ... its just fun doing it.

My aim is to start gigging around October time - I would like to do it before but am having a rather major operation at the end of July which will leave me flat on my back for 6 weeks. More on that in the future.

Anyway - I am feeling positive about ATP:LIVE and my hope is to not only return to Glastonbury as a punter next year but also play there too.

I live in hope ...

Repeat to Spotify

Repeat to fade is now available to listen to on Spotify.

If you are on Spotify - please help by staring the album and telling all your good friends (and bad ones) about it using networking tools such as Facebook.

In other news I am totally heartbroken I am not at Glastonbury this weekend - I never want to miss one every again.

ATP:LIVE is plodding on nicely and I hope to have some photos and footage available soon.
It will be like that Michael Jackson ' this is it ' film - but without me being dead!

Have a top weekend folks ... Coo x

ATPRMX007 - Turncoat RP

ATPRMX007 - Turncoat RP by Amongst The Pigeons

Hi Pigeon People.

Another remix has been completed and its linked above from my SoundCloud account.

Hope you like it.

The original song is by a Brighton band who I love called 'Turncoat', please do check them out as they are great. This was their song 'Recovery Position' - its now ATPRMX007.

Plenty more remixes coming up ... once I've done a dozen or so I'll be making a little CDR with them all on for people to buy/download etc.

In other news I waiting for some new bits of kit to arrive which will enable me to work on ATP:LIVE ... fantastic!

Cx

Repeat to iTunes

Ok folks the new ATP EP is now available from the good folks at iTunes. So you can now buy it on CD (recommended) or indeed a digital copy :)

Click to buy here from iTunes!

I have almost sent out the promo copies and look forward to the reviews coming in during July.

Also I have set up a Facebook event for the EP launch - click here!

Please join up and invite your friends telling them how amazing I am ... then hassle people on the radio to play my music. It all helps!

Ambition bites the nails of success.

Last weekend I went to The Great Escape 'festival' in Brighton. TGE for those of you that don't know is largely an industry based event in which bands from across the world come to Brighton to play gigs and be watched by delegates and fans.

I went along to a few gigs - the best of which was at The Dome on Saturday Night - I saw Unicorn Kid who I am really liking at the moment. He was supporting Chase & Status who were just amazing.

As such it has not become one of my ambitions to play on stage at The Dome in Brighton. It was just simply amazing watching the artists from the circle and seeing everyone dancing and going mental.

Following TGE I went out to Holland and on my flight back yesterday I was listening to some ATP tracks and working out in my mind how I can finally do ATP Live ... I have started making notes and looking into equipment - it will happen soon and boy oh boy - when it does it will be great.

There are 3 gigs I want to achieve: 1. Playing at Glastonbury, 2. Playing at Brixton Academy & 3. Playing at The Dome, Brighton.

It may never happen but without ambition nothing does.

Press / Release (and press again)

It's all go-go-go here at ATPHQ. I have all the EPs back and am currently sending out Press Release's to the Monthly Music Mags - once they are all out its the weekly ones and Radio Stations that need doing - In total there are about 150 Jiffy envelopes to write. Fun Times.

I am also working on some new-new music and it's sounding VERY different - think Classical vs The Streets - kind of .... then divide by folk and you are close.

Anyway - just wanted to say hello to the internet world and get back to this task. Bye x

REPEAT TO FADE - ON SALE

REPEAT TO FADE (EP)

Hi Folks - The new EP is officially out on 12 July 2010 but I am selling CD copies of it now!

It's £4.99 & p+p available from my ATP eShop.

Track listing is:

01. Mocha to go
02. Michael Jackson's Last Waltz
03. The Latin word for amusement
04. The darker side of ...
05. The kids of today
06. Urban Garden (pest control mix)

It will be on iTunes etc in July - but if you want a copy now - go for it!

ATPRMX006 - Wobbly Squadron WYA

I was spring cleaning my Macbook the other day and realised I never uploaded ATPRM006 to the ATP remix myspace page. So I rectified this and added it.

Its a remix I made for the Wobbly Squadron guys and gals and I believe it is going to be a B-Side on their forthcoming single. The original is called 'When You Awake' and my remix is a dark little ditty. To listen to it click the link below.....Ta,

ATPRMX MySpace Page

The wrong side of the screen

Today is Friday and I am having one of those moments where I sit at my desk and question my working life and how it takes it toll on music.

It almost feels like there is nothing happening with ATP at the moment - but thats wrong - the new EP has gone to get pressed and will be back soon and that means that I need to update my mailing list to send it out for reviews and radio play.

Being an independent artist makes this difficult as I dont have anyone to follow up or contact people on my behalf - so its all down to me. If I dont make the calls or send the CDs then nothing will happen. In thats sense I control my own destiny.

For me as an artist the hardest thing (as with many musicians) is getting that break or getting the CD into the hands of someone who will play it, love it and play it to the world to gain new fans and progress things.

I was on a train the other day and listened to the new EP for the first time in quite a while and I still enjoyed it. I am happier with it than the first album, but I know I have a LOT more to offer and just need time to sit down and create the best music I can. I know its in me and it will happen.

So I will be using my time at work today to update my mailing list - research who is the best new shows, blogs etc to send it to and then get the press release ready for the next few weeks.

If anyone out there reading this knows any radio djs or journalists please let me know as every bit of help i get is needed.

Many Thanks - C x

Costa Rica

Yesterday I got back from two weeks in Costa Rica. It was an amazing fortnight and a hell of a lot happened - hospitals, theft, broken down cars at the base of a volcano etc.

The downside of the week was Mrs Pigeons passport (and a shit load of other stuff) was stolen and she ended up having to fly back via Spain on a new flight as the US wont allow people to travel through the county on emergency passports. Even though on the way through we had to have our hands, feet, eyes etc scanned and logged. Anyway - I am not going to go into all that.

The country of Costa Rica is beautiful - if you have never been - I suggest going.

I have come back to a flurry of LP1 sales which is always nice and the new EP artwork is all finished - so I can get that sent off to get produced in the next couple of weeks.

At the moment although it seems like years (or months rather) away I think the release date will be August 2010 - There will be a launch party and a whole host of promotional activity.

I have also been writing to some songs - and I mean proper writing with lyrics - melodies - and stuff rather than purely electronic stuff - I think a new 4 track EP of very different sounding material could surface before the end of the year :)