Remix me!!!!!!!!

Join Judy Dyble and Tim Bowness in releasing a record.




Producers, remix wizards, musicians, here is your chance to work with a number of legendary artists, by remixing a track to be officially released as a B side..





Grey October Day – from the Mercury entered album Talking With Strangers, features Robert Fripp, Tim Bowness, Alistair Murphy, Simon Nicol, Ian McDonald and Julianne Regan amongst others, has been superbly reviewed worldwide, and this single will be issued as a download, CD EP and limited vinyl, and you could be involved...



From Saturday, 26th June, the entire file stems for this track will be available from www.cromerzone.co.uk, and YOU will be able to construct your own remix, in whatever style you like. It needs to be made 3 mins long (max), and the only rule, no 'effects' can be put on Judy or

Tim 's vocals.



Otherwise, the floor is yours, do whatever you think best, and see what you can achieve with this superb track...



Rules of remix,



# The 10 tracks that Judy and Tim consider best will be released as 'official B sides downloads' on MONDAY OCTOBER 18TH 2010, via Brilliant!/Genepool/Universal.



#The winning track will additionally be released on the CD, EP, and the limited vinyl



# Each version will count towards overall chart success, and the single will be heavily promoted to help achieve this.



# Each artist chosen will be accounted too, and paid a small % royalty of the tracks overall nett profits, 6 months after release. A simple one page licence release form will be agreed and signed.



# The closing date for mixed and mastered tracks is Friday 30th July 2010 at midnight. No late entries will be accepted, and Judy Dyble's decision, via her management company is final.



# All entries are to be submitted via email, to judydybleremix@gmail.com



# Any enquiries to the same address.



This is your chance to work with a superb recording, a phenomenal cast list, and be involved in a fully promoted, major release campaign.



Ends.



Jon @ Brilliant Management for Judy Dyble.



judydybleremix@gmail.com



www.judydyble.com

www.cromerzone.co.uk

www.burningshed.co.uk

Talking With Strangers launch at the 100Club review and an interview

A bit late but here is a review by Brian Hinton of the launch gig of Talking With Strangers at the 100 club back in August last year and an interview by Ian Maun

Both are here on the S.I.I.Y.E site of Geoff Wall   

Am I becoming big headed..?

Will I demand socks made from llama's eyelashes on future gig riders.. ? 

Anything's possible..  ;-)

Dirty Linen

You may have come across this magazine over the years, begun as a fanzine for lovers of Fairport Convention in the United States, it developed into a glossy magazine which promoted all sorts of wonderful bands and people. And all done for love..

Sadly it is now no more, and you can read about it's history here Dirty Linen

A shame.. :-(

They do have a certain amount of back issues for sale which you can find here back issues

Postage to the UK is expensive, but if you live in the US it's not too bad I guess...

I will get to Paris....

....I will.. Talking With Strangers is being released in France and I have been trying to get to Paris to do some early promotion for it, but every time it is all arranged, disastrous events beyond anyone's control cause it to be postponed.. My bag and that of Whizzy have been packed and unpacked and now they sit in the limbo status of semi-unpackedness just waiting.. like me...

It has been a very strange year so far.. The time has ticked away and the year is nearly half over. I don't feel as though I have accomplished much this year, although in fact the work for the Jude/Lee/Markus album that was begun at the end of last year is in the process of being transformed and translated into what I am certain will be something wonderful. But that all happens away from me so, apart from updates and snippets, it's all a bit disconnected and distant.. But the joy of hearing what has been created is lovely and worth the waiting..


Did I tell you that I sang 'If I Had a Ribbon Bow' in public for the first time for years at the Oxford Folk Festival with Roots Union?
Well here it is..:-)
It was fun to do in amongst my Festival duties as Artist Liaison.. There are very weird accoustics in the Town Hall and if you wonder why I am laughing as I sing, well there is a little orange bouncing blob on the left hand side of the stage and that is my dancing granddaughter in the arms of her mother. And yes I do do the sigh...

I sang it once more at the Oxjam gig at the Guildhall in Axminster, Devon and that was fine too, but twice is enough for returning to old songs I think..:-)

What else have I done since March? Oh yes I was invited by Ambassador Margus Laidre to the Estonian embassy for a reception where the English translation of one of  Dr Laidre's books was being launched and Tim Bowness was playing a short set.. It was lovely to meet Margus at last and it was weird to think that by stepping over the threshold of the Embassy, I had spent a couple of hours in Estonia.. Now that is the kind of travelling that really appeals to me.. just step through a door...:-)

I have been trying to buy new specs for the last few months, but as I can't see anything without my glasses and those photo things they have in opticians produce absolutely ghastly photos...I have been putting it off.. But yesterday I did buy some new ones. I think they are lilac  and I think they will look ok, but actually I haven't got the foggiest idea what they will really look like till they appear. Oh well. I could dye my hair lilac to match. Or maybe deep violet as a contrast.. I hate shopping for anything...

And on that cheerful note I shall stop. It's time for coffee and an invisible biscuit....

Grey October Day on Norwegian Early (Very Early!) Morning Television

Got up at 4.30 am. (3.30am by my brain) and off to the God Morgen Norge tv studio at 5.30 am

Sound checks and hanging about and make up by the ton and here is the result :-)

Grey October Day

Hope you like it.. I think it's pretty good :-)

Snowy in Norway

I was a bit worried you know... Talking with Strangers is about to be released in Norway by Termo Records on the 1st March and I had agreed to go there for a couple of days to do some interviews with magazines, if they wanted me to do so.. Suddenly the whole thing expanded to include two television and one radio appearances and quite a few interviews.. So instead of just going over there quietly with Jon the manager and nattering a bit, I ended up taking Tim and Alistair  as well to perform with three fantastic young Norwegian musicians, Norwegian Grammy nominated saxophonist Magnus Furu ,  bass player Ellen Wang,  and flautist Ketil Einarsen who all played sensitively and beautifully  on 'Jazzbirds' and 'Grey October Day'... and didn't seem to mind having to rush around Oslo and get up at ridiculous times of the day for two days.

We were recorded for 'Lydverket' Norway's premier music tv show (I guess the equivalent in the UK would be Jools Holland's 'Later'at the rehearsal studio and for God Morgen Norge the morning breakfast show (we had to get up at 4 am for that one) and for NRK P2 which is a cultural radio station a bit like Radio 4 in the UK .. interspersed with interviews for daily papers and rock magazines so it was all a bit of a non stop couple of days.and great fun... the Norwegians were so very kind and delighted that I was there that I was very relaxed and , I think, sang my best.. apart from when I totally forgot a line and had to make something up on the spot. Luckily it rhymed..;-)

Best of all was meeting Jacob and Lars from Termo Records who looked after us so well , and not forgetting Lars' parents who let three tired people stay at their beautiful farm and fed them magnificently. xxx's to you all

Radio Radio

I shall be nattering on  Wolverhampton Community Radio tonight.

It's on between 10pm and midnight on 101.8 WCR FM which is Wolverhampton's Community Radio Station available in that area on 101.8 FM and everywhere else at http://www.wcrfm.com/

I have no idea what I shall say - it depends on the questions... :-)

Otherwise all is going well the album is in repress and it has featured in two 'Best of 2009' critic's charts in Classic Rock presents Prog.. I am really delighted...

Harpsong is in the running for a much admired Hancock Award on the Talkawhile forum for 'Best Original Song' and that has delighted me even more..

The songs for the new album are coming together and plans are afoot for a one-off Trader Horne re-union gig later this year.. Gulp!

An Excellent Book

A very quick post to publicise a book that Search Press are producing to help their daughter's, (my niece) school to raise money to build a school in Ghana

Here is a link to Search Press and the book is only £4.99.

Excellent eh?

New Year - New Adventures

A very happy New Year to everyone (anyone!)  who reads this..I suspect it will be full of lovely things and possibly scary things, of joyful things and a few sad things, of daft things and annoying things...much like most years really, but with the added excitement of the unknown. So I will be very positive and say that I am looking forward to it.
My New Year's resolution is that I will stop using the word 'that' when I really mean to say 'who', unless of course when I really do mean that. Like just now for instance. I'm confusing myself now...

I have been doing a little bit of singing for one of the new album songs, but I have no idea how it will fit where it needs to be fitted...and I am impatiently waiting to hear the melody for another song. So I am in a kind of limbo. Waiting for things to appear and trying not to be too impatient because I do know that these things take time and drumming my fingers won't help at all. Or stamping my feet. Actually stamping my feet might warm them up . It's freezing tonight.. I took Whizzy on her last walk of the day just now and the frost was thick and sparkling under the moon.

Somewhere else, the question was asked. 'What were you doing 10 years ago?'
My children were away from home, both had sweethearts (who they subsequently married) I had been widowed for 6 years and was just getting the hang of being on my own with dogs for company.. I had no internet connection or indeed a computer that it could be connected to, for anything I wanted to type in a straight line, I used my trusty old BBC B computer with a huge printer..

I was working in the library as a casual assistant so I got called in when they needed extra hands. I loved that job, no responsibilities, books all over the place and lovely people to work with..and I had no intention of singing again, apart from the one speedy re-appearance at Cropredy to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band...
The island pond field where I had walked my dogs for years, had been bought by the village and the Woodland Trust from the developers that who had tried unsuccessfully for years to build 300 houses on it, and the whole field was now full of newly planted twigs in plastic protectors  that would in ten years time become a respectable young wood of forty-foot trees (or possibly more - I can't judge that sort of thing) and where I would find songs hanging in the wind for me to play with. But ten years ago that was all in the future.

So. Ten years later I am still on my own with a dog, smaller and scruffier than ever (me, not the dog,they just get more elegant and graceful), but with four albums created, the latest of which is the one I am most proud of. The others may see the light of day again one day. I may redo some of the songs because they are almost 'there', but not quite... but then againI may leave them as they are -  a snapshot of my past. And I did fall in love again briefly, but it was a fragile thing that had no air to breathe. But who knows what is in the future? I am continually curious....