Studio shots

Three days out of five in the recording studio, with the other two involving a gig and a radio show... thats a pretty good weekend... Black Italia wearing black, Red Italia wearing red & Paul's turn in the fish tank.

Loads more to do, but we're getting there; the third album is happening.

Riotous assembly

The latest 'What's The Alternative?...' night saw The Jade Assembly play to an appreciative audience

at The Kings Arms, new sound man Andrew did a superb job.
We wheeled out a couple of still evolving songs again, we change things round, we play things differently, we improvise and explore them; doing that in rehearsal is very different from live, released into the wild is where they mature and take on lives of their own.

This was gig twelve for Paul, achieved in under four months and while he was unable to play for a four weeks of that. He's settled in now.

Real music for real people.

The Speed Of Sound set list:

Overlooked
The Changes
The Moment Is Now
Checkpoint Charlie
I Can't Say
Checkered Land
Only Everything
Maid Of The Grey
Day In Day Out
Shut All The Clubs
Love
Girl On The Roof
Sit By The River
There's No One There

recording and radio

Its intensely busy at the moment and as a lot of that is recording it is exceptionally good, we're back in the studio again twice this week starting work on some more. Its been a triple dose of radio with Radio Woking, 6Towns Radio and IURFM (in Northern Ireland) all getting in on it, thanks to Sean Cooke, Alan May and Gerry Martin for playing us. Comparisons to Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and David Bowie were/are all acceptable and entirely welcome. We have one more gig in October and then we'll be concentrating on the recording side for a month and hopefully we'll have a new video brewing soon too.

A large part of the last week has looked like this, with the amps mic'd up and recording in progress. We still managed two gigs in the same day at The Station in Ashton-Under-Lyne and The Thirsty Scholar in Manchester as part of We Shall Overcome festival, last weekend. Big thanks to Pauline Town and Martin Mellor for organising the two WSO gigs we that played and it was a pleasure to be involved. Severe backlighting ensures Paul won't be recognised from that photograph.

set list: The Station

Uhrwerk

Checkpoint Charlie

The Changes

Girl On The Roof

Overlooked

I Can't Say

Sit By The River

There's No One There

set list: Thirsty Scholar

Checkered Land

Love

Little Miss Restless

The Wargame

Day In Day Out

The Moment Is Now

Seen It All Before

Sit By The River