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Dec 6, 2011
Greetings people!! Apologies for being away for so long; I have been exceptionally busy touring Germany with the legend that is Nigel Kennedy. We were on the road for 35 (count them!) days and travelled around 8000 miles playing 25 performances!!! We are talking about 2 hours on stage playing Nigel's new album "The Four Elements" (featuring me as Earth), having a 20 minute break and then playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons for another 2 hours.
Let me tell you, if that doesn't get your technique together, you need to find a new job!!!!!
The experience was nothing short of amazing especially as the other musicians on stage were killing!!!! Having the experience of seeing Nigel 2 feet away from you playing solo violin to a packed concert hall is an experience I will never forget.
Nigel's musicians, The Orchestra Of Life being our collective name, has got an amazing mix of string players, marimba (The great Orphy Robinson), Electric Guitar (Doug Boyle), Electric Drums (Damon Reece of Massive Attack fame), Acoustic Drums (Krysztof Dziedzic), Electric Bass (Adam Kowalewski) Moog synths (Piotr Wylezol) and voices (Z-Star, Lucy Potterton, Kakie Taylor- Black and yours truly). The Orchestra was led by Lizzie Ball http://www.lizzieball.com/ and a great job she did.
Imagine hearing Vivaldi with that line up! That's not mentioning Nigel's Acoustic and Electric violins with Distortion, Phaser, Wah Wah and God only knows how many other pedals.
If you live in the UK you won't have to imagine what that sounds like 'cos we will be touring the UK in Januaruy 2011. Stay tuned here and I will be posting the tour dates shortly.
Much Love!!
