Author Archives: Amongst The Pigeons

Smokey JoeOn Monday evening my cat Smokey was hit by a car near my house and sadly passed away.I was in the middle of making a new song and it seems fitting to dedicate it to him. He was after all the true Cat Amongst The Pigeons.He will be missed greatly – RIP little man.http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F23818451ContinueContinue reading “Smokey Joe – RIP”

This song will feature on ATPLP2 and is one of my favourite’s on the album

It has been quite a while since I did a blog update and for that I apologise. I have been pretty busy over the last few weeks working on a number of things. I played a set at the Secret Garden Party and have been working non stop on ATPLP2. The last week has seenContinueContinue reading “Progress”

Last week I was at Glastonbury Festival and am pleased to say I got to play on the Greenpeace stage on Saturday evening.I have been going to Glastonbury since 1995 and it’s always been a dream of mine to say I played there – well now I can say I have!The whole week was great,ContinueContinue reading “ATP:LIVE008 : Glastonbury Festival”

Whilst heading home last night I received an email saying ‘just heard you on 6 music’, I was rather chuffed to later find out that Steve Lamacq played ‘The Return of The Red-eyed Raver’ on his show.I sent Steve a copy of my Summer demo which has 3 tracks on and he opened it overContinueContinue reading “Raving on 6Music”

Hello folks.It’s looking lovely outside today and I have just read that Glastonbury is going to be hot hot hot this summer which puts me in a great mood. So I am feeling festive and wanted to update everyone on my upcoming festival shows.First up is BurnBake Calling which I am playing on Sunday 12thContinueContinue reading “Festivalicious & August gig details.”

So last Saturday I had the pleasure of playing at The Great Escape festival in Brighton.I was on the open air ‘Hub’ stage which was by the library in Jubilee Square.My set was at 3.30pm and playing before me were the very excellent ‘Dry the river’ who had totally woo’ed the crowd with their lovelyContinueContinue reading “The Great Escape / Midday Ravers”

ATP:LIVE @ The Great EscapeSaturday 14th May 2011> 3pm – 4pmAmongst The Pigeons will be playing this years The Great Escape Festival on the open air ‘The Hub’ stage in Jubilee Square – right by the Library.It will be a hour long set with yet more new songs from the forthcoming ATPLP2 and a fewContinueContinue reading “ATP@LIVE @ The Great Escape”

It’s a lovely day down on the Brighton coast and it’s almost the weekend, so all in all, thing’s are good.This week I have been battling a horrible cough-cold-flu thing, but did manage to make it out on Tuesday to see Primal Scream perform Screamadelica at the Brighton Centre.Screamadelica is one of my favorite albumsContinueContinue reading “The sun is shining – the weather is sweet”

It’s a bit of an odd time for me at the moment. I am in the middle of making ATPLP2 and on the surface it does not like there is much going on – but that’s very wrong.I am about 67% of the way through the new album – I am hoping to have theContinueContinue reading “It’s been a while”