Sirens ~ Live Chat # 4

cool so let's see does it say no viewers yet one chair is that you know i haven't said anything oh one viewer four people are watching that's nice five four people six viewers can somebody just pop in there that you can see and hear us all right 10 people fantastic 11. hello eleven people this is great good stuff tell everybody really good start oh four comments hello so hello david meadows hi hi ladies hello suzanne from germany hello david meadows yes and yesterday that means that you can hear us all right good hi olga hi i'm jonathan patrick and olga i can't say your second name okay hello i think that's all going poland hello there hello yes hello hi olga hello paul waring how are you all happy new year happy new year everybody happy new year do you want to um do the thing with the link heather yeah we were we were wondering today we'll keep mentioning it throughout the chat if anybody actually wants to [Music] um we mentioned in our possibly our first live chat didn't we we haven't done a chat via zoom since but we wondered if you wanted to actually join us on the zoom call and feature in this live chat which will be forever committed to facebook and youtube after the chat then we can drop the link into the chat here and you can join us at any time and [Music] i'm gonna drop it in there now no particular rules just be nice and wear clothes yeah yeah please there we go david jekyll hello david jekyll how are you how is andrea so who's got a story to share or what questions do you have for us i have we have one question from wuthering james should we start with angie there's a question from wuthering james who asks us if we once played at the oxen hope social club um as sodium dragonfly and the answer is no we did not so the alternative that you suggested was it may have been a band called odin's hammer so it must have been a thrash metal band and not um i was impressed that uh their street team were out flyering lampposts who knocks you know yeah um hello mark cotton bring them on camera oh how do we do that then oh hello bring them on camera click on the well you can or you can just click we're not we can't do that because we're screen sharing the zoom chat but if they want to come on then yeah click on the zoom link in the facebook facebook's trying to bring them on to the facebook camera yeah we're not sure but yeah we can't do that because we uh we kind of via facebook because we're monitoring facebook from a different screen so um but click on the zoom link that heather posted there and um yes if anybody wants to join when you when it goes bing bong will let you in and one other hello steve almaty one other question we had was from andrew green and he mentioned our how we arrived at our name again which is very popular question um and did we did we answer this in a live stream we have four gear in the waiting room shall we let him up for a chat who's who's here though gear gorgea boogie lawrence hello yes bring him on in this that's inviting icelander do you believe there we go how exciting i hope i can hear you live in germany sunday yes we hope so too [Music] so you should be able to um switch your videos on participants are allowed to start their video if you want to hi though how are you doing okay what's the weather like in iceland at the moment it's cold it's about zero but and been raining today but nice a very nordic looking icelandic jumper you have on there and yeah it's getting a bit older oh i like it hello [Music] hi you're right yes really good thank you happy new year to everybody who else once he's joining us hello sharon sharon and kevin in chile peterborough excellent anybody else like to join us in the zoo chat do you like to bring us your questions so um unfortunately um andrew and i have been a little bit underwear under the weather over christmas so um the prizes that we sent hello helm and pamentier um they've only just been sent out this week and we're just waiting on one uh that needs to be signed which i believe is andrew green's t-shirt i've signed it we just need to get it to angie but she's been isolating over christmas so we haven't done that yet hello brian taylor hello god foster who else is going to come on camera with us it'd be lovely to see some more of you always feels a bit one-sided we know you're there because of the chat so uh andrew green was asking us how we came about um our name odin dragonfly and i think it was mentioned recently in a lovely arter [Music] of tchaikovsky jacquelski um in an interview in a review that he made of sirens and um basically it was an anagram and it didn't take us very long we just put finlay and gordon um i don't even know if we tore up the letters and put them in the hat we just looked at it and scribbled on a piece of paper i think you were busy entertaining and cooking for us and i remember sitting at your dining room table angie and probably been rehearsing as well you're in the kitchen when i finally went ah what about this um then we kind of reverse engineered it to when we found out that the dragonfly was odin's muse and odin's considered the uh god of song as well as many other things and the dragonfly was his muse after his daughter freya brought it to him when he lost his song in a particular norse legend so um we kind of yeah reverse engineered its uh appropriateness to what we were what we were trying to do bringing and bringing the song so it fitted and fitted really nicely i think we came up with a few rude ones in the process there's um but i think you settled on that lens [Music] where are you joining us jerry zedd um in the usa fantastic fantastic hello so we're in america uk and iceland right now good to see you subscribe hello clive can't believe you didn't go with my suggestion of oh fiddly organ um yes this is true we didn't hello flowers yeah there were quite a few even more well there were quite a few rude ones that we pasted on our um dressing room door yeah tour managers have treated us too over the years yeah um so come on guys we we need your questions well who wants to uh i requested us hello jerry's dog brilliant so though in reykjavik yes my dear do you have a question for us though well basically i'm still waiting to get the siren cd no no really oh that's a shame you know god knows where it is i was talking with one of my boys about this at dinnertime this evening and they were surprised that the release date is actually on the 21st of january and he couldn't and why because all the cds have like been in the house and shipped out and it's like i thought you'd already released i said well that was the pre-orders and then i thought actually there's quite a big time lapse really between when we first started shipping them on sort of ninth something like that was that energy something like that oh simon we were signing them on the night no i'm sure pretty sure we started shipping them like on the sixth um but we knew the people overseas would probably not be getting their cds until sort of january especially with the december shipping but yeah i would have hoped by now it would have reached you um i did actually hear from some people in holland um earlier this week or the weekend asking where their cd might be and then they had letters from the customs people saying that they had them and um mark costa yeah hopefully thought um it will be with you really soon but yeah i hope so too yeah you said drop us a line if you're still still waiting you don't know what to expect because this is the first time we've chipped post brexit and you know obviously in the in the company a bit of experience that with that last year but but did everything go out by post or by courier they they all wouldn't be a real male okay fair enough yeah i'll probably get a message from the person people too yeah i think that's the way it seems to be going now with you but drop us an email if it doesn't around the next couple of days i'll look into it tomorrow anyway okay thank you darling yeah welcome you're welcome and then i'm going to wreck you back in february so i could take it over if it doesn't arrive oh thank you for that though that's fantastic thank you very much what are you going to reign for phil five day holiday oh nice good half years looking forward to it yeah excellent mark cotton is asking sirens is a great album when are we likely to see you playing it live well uh if you can get yourself to york and the fingers crossed everything goes to plan over the next few weeks we have a show actually on our release day um and opening for one iota is that right auntie yeah that's it yeah that's adam dawson's band one iota the round tree's theatre and um you know like i say it's all scheduled to happen and if the theater stays open and if angie and i are fitting well and and everything then you know that's certainly something that's on this on the schedule at the moment um but in terms of the touring aspect again i think we're just gonna have to watch and wait because uh everything's just a little bit too unpredictable at the minute but we'd love to you know it's um this this is actually probably our first live chat since most people watching maybe have had their album delivered sorry to wind anybody still waiting on the album or they bought it on vinyl we have to wait a little bit longer but does anybody have any questions now you've heard sirens or any comments or anything anybody want to know anything about how the songs came together there's quite a few of you there dropping messages in he felt everyone is very very quiet in january auntie yeah so have we had any more questions in advance no not this time in fact we have because of christmas and everything we haven't actually asked people to um deliver us any questions this time but if you do have any questions for us people please drop them in the um in the comments below okay well i'll ask you a question then heather okay um so sirens related question so tell us something about the artwork it looks a bit coastal some of the photos and some of them look like they might be in ruins so um i think or some others certainly some of the images that have come out around the album release what's going on there then uh okay well lovely howard rankin i'm a very talented friend and photographer and was kind enough to come up during the sessions and um we drove out to the coast north yorkshire coast to flambert where we wanted to find a lighter house because angie had this vision for um the song come right to me that there it was actually playing from inside a ruined lighthouse um and you know we even sort of envisaged the footsteps walking up the steps to the lighthouse and then it was playing and somebody was like tuning in the radio and then tuning the the song out at the end you know retuning the radio after the song and um so we knew there was a lighthouse upon the coast there at flamborough that howard wanted to photograph um sorry didn't is this okay um please do interrupt the flambe ahead flamboyant we're ahead yeah we started out i think the actual coastal one was that not whitby just down from whitby at the um oh okay so what was that um what was the oh the big the you found blower hornblower cottage that's right and that was our across the sea image looking out to sea yeah and then we drove up to flanders for the beachy picture yeah has that actually have we published that picture yet i think it's been used on something hasn't it oh i think it's using a vinyl sleeve now you haven't seen that yet people it's like a beachy shot from flamberhead so people were all thinking what are you talking about yeah i don't even think the lighthouse features in the end um oh there is one like a broken down lighthouse in the artwork and i think that's um yeah and where else oh we first we began the day before taking pictures in new york so we went to the museum gardens and the beautiful ruined abbey in the near the yorkshire museum in in the museum gardens in new york and uh that really kind of relates to across the sea did you want to say something about the the bell tolling and across the sea and yeah sure look at that hello clark so there's a there's a bell tolling coming out of the dimming into across the sea and it and it returns as well doesn't it on the is it the start of the second side um this is the final and um yeah so halfway through it comes back sort of halfway through it's just yeah beneath your armor yeah um and that bell is um it's a it's an idea from marion zimmer bradley's the mists of avalon which um as a sort of you know romantic teenager i was obsessed with that book completely obsessed with that i thought it was absolutely brilliant um i came across it because the mission had um see some of wayne hurst's lyrics were inspired by it in the mission and i and i read that in an interview and and was and read the book and passed it around all my friends um and we and it was just yeah amazing then there was a film made of it with some famous actresses playing the uh the lead roles there but the the idea for across the scene was basically the idea that you have this um this journey and um in the midst of avalon in the old days you travel through the mists and you get to avalon and the priestesses are there and it's the old religion and all the all the goings on and then in in as time passes and christianity comes and invades and takes over the you're trying to get to the isle of avalon but you're going going through the mists but instead you you hear the spell and then you realize that actually you're arriving at the holy either as people think of it of um you know sort of glastonbury tour and where there are christian monks and a new a new uh world order really basically the old ways passing on and struggling to get to the old ways and the new ways now have taken over and it's more of a struggle to get back to where you were and [Music] so that's that's the idea of the song and for anyone that's sort of had a chance to have a listen to that and absorb that it's really you know somewhere that you've been and it meant something and then you went back there and it was really different and i've kind of put a sort of romantic twist on that sorry about the scratching that's my dog's pores on the floor there um and the and the romantic twist on that is that you were here with someone and because you've gone back there and that someone's not there you know in the midst of avalon it's a religion a way of life that's no longer there and so the place is different and in the song it's that manifests as a person in a relationship and you go back to a place some years later some months later or whatever and that place doesn't feel like the same place because you're not there with the person that you were there with originally a long way around of saying that and so and the hearing of that bell makes you realize that i'm not i'm not going to the place that i was once at i'm going somewhere new this is different now and and you know you can sort of interpret that in in in many ways um so yeah that's kind of um what that comes about and so that although it's a very old song i started working on that back in 97 when we first moved to york um and didn't really do anything with it and it kicked around at the time of offerings and we didn't do anything with it then and um as sirens developed we talked about this in the last live chat out of an idea of a cover song that we were going to put on the idea of sirens and the nautical element and the idea of travel and renewal and and you know all the all the things that we've talked about already um and suddenly across the sea fitted with that theme really well so we sort of dug out blue off the dust off an old song and and it ended up being right there at the beginning of the album yeah love it and i i love the way that that beneath your armor kind of talks about that settling down and going within and um that sort of duality of like going within and then being out there and sort of you know differentiating between the two and sort of like settling into your soul and like being in the world and i like the idea of bringing the bell back into the intro of beneath your arm for that reason as well so yeah beautiful thanks sanji no worries and also just on a more um oh i was just gonna put that little link as well there um also on a more sort of practical level um i love me an acoustic guitar solo i think it's just one of the nicest things and i'm i'm constantly surrounded by acoustic guitarists and and they rarely solo they accompany both me and other and each other and and there's just something i really like about it and so when it came to the instrumental break you know there's a million things we could have done on there how they could have played a low whistle solo i could have done a flute solo or you know i toyed with the idea of something on the mandolin at one point which is my new baby you can see my little mandolin up there but actually it was like no i need heather to play just that just that you know couple of touches style acoustic solo and that's and soloing is is not something that has done loads off so it was a real put each other outside our comfort zones type challenge and it's beautiful i'm sure if anyone's heard that they will agree with me it's a real beautiful little little few bars of um yeah acoustic solo there it would have been the source of much leg pulling had it been mostly awesome i thought it would never have happened but um yeah i i had scribbled on my song sheet for across the sea the uh the key that the solo would need to be and now it's like hoping that andy might forget about that actually i was like and so what are you are you gonna put some like your flutes out no you're gonna do a guitar solo um so anyway yeah my famous one string solo um but it does what's required it absolutely does it's beautiful yes put words in the chat to describe how lovely you think um heather's guitar solo on across the sea is so we've had some more questions we've got a question in here how did you get the rowing through water sound oh that's really interesting question the road through water sound was sourced with the help of my eldest son harlan and he just knows literally everything about where anything could be sourced and all all uh all technicalities which is how he ends up in the credits on under album for helping them with some crazy sound that they needed for something and he directs me to a website and i wish i could remember the name of the website but basically so it's a website where creators of um and there's a name for this sorry that's all right i'm just going to mute our guests until they unmute themselves um there we go there we go oh i thought it was um if you want if you want to say something that you can probably unmute yourself but just while we've got that background noise yeah and yeah these kids they're just brilliant at finding stuff yeah aren't they super power sound designers there's a website where sounded designers deliver their um sound creations and there are just basically in the search box anything you're looking for and you know on there we found our oars rowing through water and the seagulls weren't from there were they they were our engineer yeah our engineer nick bryan designed the seagull uh sounds and he actually sort of re-pitched them as well didn't he so they moved with the melody yeah yeah really beautiful wow um yeah so that there are three different sound designers credited um but yeah i particularly like that one and it was chosen because it's stereo and you can you can when you if when you listen to the album on headphones you can hear the orbs going left and right so we wanted people to to feel like they were in that boat with us like because the sirens were sailing along the uh waterway so yeah thank you that was a great question yeah that was good that was um sharon thanks sharon back now yeah um all right no problem [Music] [Music] is jenna's sunscreen we're taking the zoom length vinyl's becoming more popular are you a fan of this format yeah big time um yeah we love it that's why we it was really important to us that i mean heather already has her um solo stuff on on vinyl well live wild white horses is a beautiful beautiful vinyl thing i don't have it here but yeah i have my record player on my desk current listening is the snow patrol album uh which is good i just put the christmas music back up on the shelf that had been uh katie miller's christmas christmas album terry amos's christmas ep and thais van leer um his beautiful one from the 70s which has got him in a beautiful chamber orchestra playing arrangements with christmas carols on so yeah we're big fans of vinyl so yeah it was it's and it's going to be beautiful as well you've seen the the pictures of that and the in the uh press stuff um it's going to be unique and really beautiful it is that's what's so nice when you use the blue splash design like of every single vinyl lp is unique so nobody else was one like yours um and i i was just thinking that um andrew you might want to share your um hello john eaton nice to see you see your name at least join us in the chat if you wish anybody that wants to join us in the chat is welcome here click on the link click on the link that's it you want to join us in the chat don't you what's this in the chat can you tell her there we go can you see oh yeah i don't know he's going for a walk now so we've got to let him um i um wondered if you might want to share your tyson leo's story angie oh yeah um okay can you remember the year i can't remember the year where where did you guys meet that might help us was it um input where did we support flippers yeah so odin dragonfly was supporting focus um we've done it a couple of times actually um but this particular time um we we were chatting at the end of the night i think and so ty's van leer said some really nice things about my playing and said do you um are you busy tomorrow uh not if you're asking you know massive massive fan already just like super privileged to have been able to support them um and and i'm sat here hanging out after the gig and this is lovely but then also um you know getting the opportunity to uh hang out yeah and i was thinking he meant like for a coffee or something talk about music and stuff and he um said well you know i have a day off and we're in new york and what i really like to do on a day off is going to a studio and record some music i was like so i thought that he meant can you hook me up for that to which of course the answer is yeah absolutely new york music sound engineer scene and and immediately got onto the venue guys and said right you know who's got studio space and a day tomorrow where they can record tesla liam i don't know what's going on presumably he'll have his flute and the rest of it anyway we chatted we got it sorted and he said okay and i said right well let me let me write down the details for you and he said oh don't worry about the details i'll pick you up from here at ten o'clock in the morning and i was like oh you want me to come with you oh okay no that's fine i'll show you where it is that's fine so um and i just genuinely thought it was going to be a show him where it is leave him to introduce him to the engineer jenny jenny great word was the engineer actually brilliant engineer um and we got this studio that a couple of the guys that i think actually were in the in fibers for the show that night and and we and we got it all sorted out um and so i was like yeah sure absolutely we'll do that instead i'll meet you at 10 i'll take you around there it's not far from from here and so i arrived at 10 in the morning i had my flute with me so he must have said at some point we'll do some playing um and i remember he had the tiniest car it wasn't like a reliant robin but it was like the equivalent it was tiny and i remember him like opening the door for me and like and i sat in the car and he walked around and it was like hagrid getting in the car with you it was just brilliant it was just huge and this car was tiny and it was like me clinging onto my flute thinking thank goodness i don't play the cello and just oh it was brilliant and so we squeezed into this little car and i directed him around to the input studios and we went and we went through and set it up and so he asked for a keyboard to be set up he didn't even get his flute out and he asked for a keyboard to set up and he started playing this just really cool jazz riff and um i was sat with him in the control room i think had made us coffee and and um and he was like okay go on then go and uh do you do your thing and i was just like oh you know i don't i don't really know what's going on here and i remember stumbling and being really nervous and and like oh i i don't really this is like a bit outside my genre this is a bit jazz and oh um and anyway in the end i can't remember how it came about and then we ended up doing like a question and answer uh like seven minute jazz blues prague flute jam um which was brilliant and then he um i think it was i can't i'm pretty sure you weren't allowed to smoke in the studio but they weren't having any of that and so the dutch the band had come down to hang out at that point and everyone stood around in the studio this non-smoking studio just smoking and drinking really strong coffee and and then he said something about wanting me to sing a song and i remember saying to him oh no i think you're mistaken i'm not the singer i'm the flute player and he was like no no i heard you singing i want you to sing this song and he'd got this song that he that he'd written for a partner i think and he uh wanted a piece of paper and i particularly remember he couldn't find a piece of paper so we went to the studio diary it went flicked to like november and just tore a page about the studio diary and wrote these lyrics on it and i just remember thinking oh it's okay it's twice from layer it's okay i'll buy them a new diary and i'll pop it in later it's fine it's all right and i still have them in the cd cover and he wrote these lyrics down and i went in and sang the song and uh yeah it was amazing absolutely amazing and then johnny burnt off a couple of cds for us and we went our separate ways and since then we've um come across crossed paths at festivals loads and and stuff and i and i i know that he does that you know i've spoken to other people that he's done that sort of just like get creative and and and meet people and just get on with it and just like make have no barriers to your creating and do what you love to do on your day off and and he's done that with other people and we've talked about it and i don't know if he remembers that it was angela from mostly autumn when he's seen me backstage at a festival i've been playing at or you know if he remembers this at all or the me or the songs that we sang or whatever but um yeah it was amazing and i still have it on an old ipod an old like you know dial ipod that you no one can remember how to use anymore because you keep trying to touch the screen um but yeah i really definitely must like get that off there before it actually dies and keep hold of that yeah and you still have the cd i think i do somewhere yeah i remember here it was like kind of really jazzy it was really jazzy blue scene just like um electric piano it was on my myspace for a while i don't even know if my myspace still exists i also i have to look that up and i know it's on my i know it's on my ipod my offline ipod but yeah he was he was just so focused on the creative process and no ego and not really interested in making small talk i remember like not sort of saying anything about anything and now sarah really joining this is a really great story mark cotton yeah i'm i'm glad um the song on your myspace was just like eddie yeah david meadows money for that cd find that cd i would love to hear that is it still there focus recorded it on the next album right i love that you know that just like eddie yeah i had to sort of say a line in it and i was really out of my comfort zone with the vocals um but yeah fancy that they recorded it for the next album i should know that i'm embarrassed that i didn't know that yeah just okay and i had to sort of like it was like and then or something and i was just like oh i don't know if that's right but yeah it was brilliant this beautiful song and he also went out later on and then oh the next trip they came we did chat and he did remember and he went out and recorded the minster bells and i know that they appeared on an album that might be the same one i don't know david will no doubt tell me but um yeah he was really into uh the minster bells hey sarah hello hello are you happy new year sarah lilly happy new year are you all right how was your moment she'd been all shy [Laughter] um yeah she's across the room [Laughter] oh nice that was so nice that was a real trip and down memory lane hearing that story angie thank you so was it mostly autumn that had supported folks yeah me and you mostly autumn have but that night was me and you because i remember distinctly saying to him because he said you know i really like your voice and i remember saying to him oh no no no you you've gotten you've been mistaken the one the voice that you really like will be heather's you know and i play the flute and he was just like no no no i liked your voice i want you to sing this song and i and i think that was the first time i'd sort of thought of myself as somebody that i didn't at the time even think of myself somebody that sings the lead song i sing the backing vocals and yeah so it was uh it was yeah it's me and you point and focus at an affirming moment yeah and good and and good memories really good memories it was like something you know when you're in a film and you and and they just know somebody who knows somebody that can pull that stuff together i do remember thinking if i can pull this off this is going to be brilliant you know if i can arrange for him a studio and an engineer where he can walk out the end of the day with a cd and he'll just think oh york's brilliant and so it was like i felt like i was ambassadoring for the little music community of york in that yes we do this we can we can make this happen in half an hour after 11 at night and i like to you know when i remember things like that it's like some of the things that we've been sharing in the um build-up campaign for sirens and you know that acknowledging your powers of manifestation and talents as well energy you know remembering how all of the excuse me excuse me and like the black malls night tour came together and that was really all pulled together through contacts evangees and andy just happened to know the right people at the right moment and then it all just fell into place you know and that wouldn't really have happened and mostly autumn wouldn't have been you know propelled into that whole different territory had it not been for those like moments of just you know manifesting the right thing at the right times right time yeah yeah were you there yeah hi jen yeah that was an amazing that was an amazing tour that i remember playing in that and that i was trying to sort of explain to brian and heather this is the liverpool philharmonic hold this is the home of the philharmonic orchestra this is huge this this venue you know and and what it's what it represents is absolutely ridiculous you know and we're going to get up there the three of us and do our thing it was i remember just i just wandered around in complete state of bewilderment during that tour the the opportunities that we were given and the things we were able to do was just incredible it was amazing hi jan hello okay don't meet me i failed with the text i've joined her oh no that's fair enough that's all right that's cool it's good to see you this is the first time we've done it we nearly had a harlem making an appearance then and it didn't quite happen these days how are you both well good good we're late but sarah's been having a massage i've been having a pedicure also oh nice very nice nice thing to do in january yes we thought we'd catch you we were very excited we managed to to drop in oh no it's brilliant we've been talking about it so it was nice to set that up yeah so you've got sirens then right here sorry we had background noises sorry you've got you've got sirens then yes it sounds good oh that's great yes good good we've we've had a few lessons yes brilliant thank you very much there's gonna be some background noise so i'll i'll mute again all right then no bother lovely to see you all and hear tony as well [Laughter] [Music] oh that's good have we had any more questions let's go back to that one i don't quite understand i think it was a joke oh we've got do you know more about dragonfire i can't find you on my basically myspace died yeah yeah yes i will definitely uh take it out yeah i'd love to hear it and who would you like to talk with and do you keep in touch with any of them what was that phil sorry who were the favorite or they've supported you and you keep in touch with any of them and who would you like to support or we keep in touch with blackmore's night don't we yeah in fact actually um that post sort of triggered a little flurry of chat with candies um i mean back when we were exploring with them candice and i were both you are both huge fans of stevie nicks so um there was always lots of you know talking about favorite albums and when when we first got back to the uk after the first tour we did over there with them comedies very kindly sent me a care package full of old newspaper magazine cuttings of stevie nicks that she'd collected over the years and little rarities things like that and there was also a gorgeous pack of sunlight wolfing uh oracle cards in there as well that i've still got i had them out the other day as well the kids like to go and like pull some cards sometimes and just lovely little um affirmation cards um and sulimuth wolfing is stevie nick's favorite um illustrator and she actually does a lot of illustrations herself and they're very much inspired by suleiman wolfing's um artwork her drawings um and yeah we used to exchange christmas cards for a long time and uh so that kind of seems to have gone wrong we still sent them i'm not sure if we got one this year maybe we usually get it they usually get there's mid january and we usually get one mid february because we're all a bit busy in december so that tends to not be quite as on the ball yeah and we kept in touch with that we kept in touch with um uncle trevor for quite a while after we toured with yura heap didn't we yeah trevor used to come and play hello howard rankin hey [Music] we do still keep in touch with the heap chaps um and yeah trevor would come over to the um what can we think of the spring heading hole and he used to he used to come and join us and play there with us sometimes uh we did spiders from mars with him and heroes um i even think he joined us for songs like caught in unfold um and phil lansen had a chat with him recently about artwork as well with another artist um and mick pops up now and then actually i think i saw nick made a lovely comment on our christmas post um who else have we toured with yeah mix my husband kept in touch with mick because they're both spurs fans um um actually that's um i just found out today you might already know people if you've seen it somewhere i've not really done a lot of social media over christmas but howie has actually sold all of the books yeah they're all now sold out so thank you so much for everybody who supported howie's warmth of the soul and first photography book and they've all now been sold so that's brilliant so all of those proceeds get split down the middle and shared between the two uh charities so thanks everybody yeah that's brilliant got a question heather from steve armitage what's your most treasured autograph from a famous musician most treasured autograph yikes well a special one i can think of is um well i'll just say that before it disappears again the chat's been a bit strange um howie raised about 1500 pounds for for the charities so that's amazing 1460. fabulous um well done congratulations howie um i was uh asked roy harper to sign his amazing photography lyric book um a few years ago and i think that was such a show in february it's a really beautiful book and i i really had my uh roy harper incredible lyricist amazing vocalist guitarist um and had some gorgeous photography in that um tequila book because i can't remember the name of the book now um um i don't really think i've got a great deal of things signed but um a really treasured book that i have signed is um my yoga sutras of patanjali which is signed by my brother and that's very special to me so that's probably one of the most treasured signatures that i can think of autographs that i can read there's sort of two angles on it aren't there there are things that are signed and dedicated to you at the time by the uh artist and there's the signed thing you know there's a bit of a joke in the little apple book shop in new york that if you can get a book in there that's not signed it's worth fortune and and those signatures they're not like when heather and i sign something and we actually write our name and scribble and doodle they're just literally and they obviously do a thousand of these things and send them off and i've got books that are allegedly signed and you just think that's not a signature that's just oh you showed me another one didn't you yes and um and somebody else as well oh the one that scarlett recently bought that was waterston's actually not little apple and that that could have been anybody that could have done that you know um but i think if you're actually like bucking up the courage like you did with roy harper to go up there and you know and say you know you sign this for me that's a bit of a different thing i have a i have a signed hounds of love album cover um but it i wasn't there when it was signed but it's a lovely thing that you know kate bush signed it but it was i wasn't there it doesn't say to angela love kate bush on it but it's still a lovely thing but they're two very different things i think the experience of getting something signed and you know all the the signed cds that we've sent out if you come and see us at a show don't think oh you know it's signed we'll we'll scribble your name on it and sign it again you know if you want because i just think that it's it's lovely to have something signed but it's really lovely to have something dedicated to you as well yeah yeah definitely and i don't know i i just think that the more um the more years the past um i think the less attached to stuff and getting so it's more like the experience of something you know or um you know when we can go out and view live music again or experience events and have experiences together that feel a bit more special but i've just noticed something lovely lovely people of life chatsville it's five to eight we have chatted and chatted this evening which brings us to surely the fact that we have an announcement to make this evening and it's really exciting and what it is is that tomorrow there will be a single from the album released none other than a radio edit of the amazing driving by mrs gordon and that will be available everywhere on streaming services and download sites from tomorrow so please stay tuned take a look at that there's more surprises related to that that we're really excited about and they will come over the next couple of weeks so um yeah stay tuned and check out the streaming services tomorrow hopefully we should have like a link from our distributors by the morning and we can pop that on the site and you can easily find your way to the song to check it out so yeah thank you very very much for joining us this evening yeah our howard same drive thing is so beautiful and um a bit like georgia asking you first first asking you to start yeah list yeah again like when you ask an artist to sign something for you um you know you can sort of really like that connection between you and them can evolve in a moment you know like as most of you know like george's best friend ever um and you know all started in that moment of rescuing me to to sign something so yeah um yeah special moments thank you very much everybody okay did we forget anything angie i don't think so i think we mentioned those things and thank you very much phil and thor and sarah and jan for being brave enough to join us on the screen somebody else is sharing are you all happy for us to keep this on facebook and for us to share it on youtube yeah well as usual everybody all right with that yeah yeah thank you for being such great sports really really lovely to see you all we've got sharon joining us here so let's we've just got a minute look at this accidental join yeah maybe okay well we'll maybe we'll maybe get oh there she is hey no sound though oh we'll maybe have to get you up for the next one sharon get you one a bit earlier really yeah thank you very much yeah we'll we'll be posting when our next live chat is soon um the name the day isn't springing to mind right now but it's probably before the 21st when we've got the show that things crossed yeah everybody's well enough and everything's all right we'll be you know be going ahead lovely to see you all take care and same to you darling happy 2022 yeah bye everyone everybody

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