Tuesday – 29th June 2010
Mexico City.
We just completed a small and yet fantastic US tour, which touched Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Great venues and great audiences.
I believe that this incarnation of Goldfrapp is possibly the best ever and we are proving it with some blinding shows.
Back home the Ships are productive and we are all working remotely at the moment.
Tonight we play for the first time in Mexico and tomorrow we will be heading home.
Saturday – 19th June 2010
London…
This past week has been a hard one: two production rehearsals with Goldfrapp to make sure that the show will be a cracker (and it will definitely be!), then seeing the boys at the Beehive and just jump in into a session with them.
It feels like I have so many families in this music world… indeed I am very lucky.
Sometimes it’s hard to keep on with the pressure of such high demands commitments, but the joy of being able to do this is remarkable.
Tomorrow off to the US for a series of concerts: looking forward to it!
Trentemøller – Into The Great Wide Yonder
I’m so lucky to be able to work with people I love and respect. Anders Trentemøller is a wonderful guy, a great friend and a super talented musician.
Since the first day we met, we immediately started talking about working together. This took shape during his headline gig at Roskilde festival and now onto two tracks of his wonderful new album.
Two strings arrangements for the songs The Mash And The Fury and Shades Of Marble.
I guess I will be doing gigs with him very soon!
Tuesday, 15th June 2010
I’m very happy to start a diary here on my site. This is going to be quite personal and perhaps boring to people who will venture into this section, but I felt it was needed to give myself, if nothing else, a sense of direction and of where I am going with my work.
A lot is happening these days: the start of a new Goldfrapp tour, being in the thick of making a record with my own first band (The Black Ships) and many more projects that are filling my professional and musical life beyond imagination.
I’m very grateful for this yet I sense the need of not stretching myself too much, as I sometime begin to feel the pressure more than necessary.
The cure for this is always working on some detail, on making sure that there is a list to do things and that these are actually getting done!
I’m home now, but soon will be away again, into the world.
Welcome to my world!