Pop, Pop and more Pop!

Yes, folks it’s all gone Pop here at Terry Towers and it’s definitely NOT a dirty word! I have 3 great shows coming up in the next few weeks. First up is a “Living Room Scene” special on May 21st, featuring the great David Myhr from Swedish Power Pop legends, The Merrymakers. Tickets for this event are a double-dip, recession busting £7.50 and are available right here, but hurry as they are going like hot cakes! Next up sees the return of David Bash’s world famous IPO festival in London and I’m opening this year’s show bright and early at 6:30pm on Friday May 24th. Tickets available here. Last, and by no means least, the “Living Room Scene” returns to The Betsey Trotwood on June 12th and joining me on stage will be two great singer/songwriters in the form of Henrik and Jamie Lawson. I’m really looking forward to sharing the stage with these 2 guys and the Pop flag will certainly be flying high on the Betsey’s flagpole that night. I’ll be playing lots of new songs from my, almost finished, 2nd LP, so please try to make it out to one, two or, if stalking floats your boat, all three of these shows.

Peas and Fluff, MT x

Whilst my new record continues to bake in a moderate oven, I shall be previewing some of the new material over the next few months at various shows in London. I’m going to be playing with some great artists and I can’t wait to hit the stage with these guys. Below is a quick snapshot of the all the dates and , as usual, the finer details can be found on the shows page. Be seeing you!

08/05/2013: Living Room Scene with Matthew Boulter & Alex Lipinski

@ Betsey Trotwood 8:30pm (Upstairs)

 21/05/2013: Living Room Special with David Mhyr

@ Betsey Trotwood 8:00pm (Downstairs) – tickets £7.50

 24/05/2013: International Pop Overthrow festival

@ Surya, 156 Pentonville Road, N1 9JL

Early show (on stage @ 6:30pm) – tickets £7.00

 12/06/2013: Living Room Scene with Henrik & Jamie Lawson

@ Betsey Trotwood 8:30pm (Upstairs)

10/07/2013: Living Room Scene with Greg Humphreys

@ Betsey Trotwood 8:30pm (Upstairs)

14/08/2013: Living Room Scene with Tony Poole & Robin Bennett

@ Betsey Trotwood 8:30pm (Upstairs)

March Madness

Hey Folks!

A little update on all things happening in Terry World!

I’m playing 3 shows in March kicking off with the 2nd instalment of  The Living Room Scene on March 13th at the Betsey Trotwood with the lovely Rosalie Deighton and Matt Boulter on the bill.

I then play 2 shows with good friend, musical guru and soon to be, trusty producer Jim Boggia. The first is a “Rock ‘n” Rioja” special on Tuesday 19th March at the Tapas bar in Wanstead. Tickets are £15 including food, but, you’ll have to be quick on this one as it’s almost sold out!

The second date is on Monday 25th March at the 12 Bar Club in London’s “Tin Pan Alley” or Denmark Street as Google Maps insist on calling it. Tickets are a meagre £5 for this one and I play a set at 8pm, with Jim hitting the stage at 9pm. A nice little special guest lined up for the 10pm slot too!

And, as if that wasn’t busy enough, I head into the studio on 15th of March with the aforementioned Mr Jim Boggia (wearing his natty producer’s hat) to record the follow up to “The Grown Ups”. To say that I am a little excited is probably the understatement of the year. I can’t wait to see that little red light start blinking. “Standby Studio”………..

As usual, all the gig details can be found on the shows section of the website.

Hope to see you out there somewhere along the road.

Peas and fluff,

Mick

Please take your seats!

Yes, Yes, and thrice Yes!

Yes, folks it’s finally time for the Living Room Scene show to go live. We kick off at 8:30pm at The Betsey Trotwood on Wednesday 13th Februaury with Tony Poole, Peter James Millson sharing the stage with me and it’s promisies to be the pre-valentines day show to end all pre-valentines day shows. Now there’s a great tag line if ever I saw one!

Also, I’m playing at The Boogaloo in Highgate on Monday 18th February as part of the Terry Callier “Under the Influence” show. These shows are a great chance to see songwriters put their own spin on a track by the chosen “influence” artist of night, as well as performing their own songs too!

As usual, all the finer details can be found on the shows page of this site.

See ya out there!

New year! New venue! New LP!

Happy New Year Folks!

Well, it looks like 2013 is certainly shaping up to be a busy one. First up, I will be hosting a new monthly Songwriter Circle show, upstairs at The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. The show is called “The Living Room Scene” and the opening night on Wednesday 13th February  promises to be a belter. Joining me on stage will be the 12 string legend from Starry Eyed and Laughing,  Tony Poole. The last time I shared a stage with Tony, we ended the night with a cover “Teenage Kicks”. To this day, I still get mistaken for Feargal Sharkey whenever I wear my parka. Also on stage to complete the circle will be ace songwriter, cool photographer and all round good guy, Peter James Millson, whose debut album is being recorded and produced as we speak by “the hardest working man in showbiz”, one Mr Danny George Wilson. As always, admission is free with a voluntary donation at the end for the artists. It all kicks off at 8:30pm, but, why not head over early and try out the Betsey’s award winning food and drink.

I’m also writing a few articles on songwriting for the lovely folk at Introversechorus.com. This has been a lot of fun and I’m really enjoying the chance to geek out about the pleasure/pain that comes from putting pen to paper. In a perfect world they would have a sister publication called album liner notes where I would wax lyrically about who played bass on The Four Tops “Main Street People”. On second thoughts, perhaps I should quit while I’m ahead?

Free stuff! Yes, I actually have some new material available, well, ok one track, but, did I mention it was free? Yep, that’s right, it’s totally free and only a mouse click away. Head your pointing device of choice towards the always excellent, folk over  at Real Gone and you can download my track “River Bend” which is a duet with the lovely Miss Rosalie Deighton.

Click here to download.

Last, but, by no means least is the small matter of the proper follow up record to The Grown Ups. The “difficult’ 2nd album seemed, for no apparent reason,to have stalled midway through last year and so I did what any sane person would and simply blamed the Tories (I would have blamed Nick Clegg too, but, he has enough on his plate). Then, I had the bright idea of asking Jim Boggia if he felt like donning the producer’s hat and, being the crazed fool absolute star that he is, he said yes! So, fast forward to the present day and you find me trying to arrange studio time, flights and extortionate loans, whilst continually pinching myself to make sure I haven’t dreamt the whole cockeyed scheme up! Recording is scheduled for March and we’re going for a “Phil Spector meets Tony Visconti meets Bernard Cribbins” vibe. I think you’ll all agree that we’re onto something special……

As a very drunk, Patrick McGoohan once (probably) said: “Be seeing you in the Living Room Scene”

Peas and fluff,

Mick

Unreleased, unheard and free!

From me to you, via the lovely folk at Real Gone and their free “Breaking Horses” 2012 sampler LP, is a unreleased, unheard and brand spanking new track of mine called River Bend. It features the sublime vocal talents of the lovely Miss Rosalie Deighton from Danny and the Champions of the World. This track is not available anywhere else (apart from at my live shows) so click on the link below, download the LP and get happy!

Happy Christmas folks xxx

Real Gone “Breaking Horses” Sampler