Author: Robin Grey

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Gigging from home

I had a lot of fun performing from home last week as part of my history of land rights show Three Acres And A Cow. We had around 500 people in the audience which was mind blowing including people from Canada, Australia and Orkey!

Below is my front room set up for the show including webcam on a tripod, mic into audio interface into pc and a tv for monitoring the show. Below is a photo someone shared of my face broadcast on their massive tv! There was another hillarious photo of someone watching from a laptop in sunny Portugal but I can’t seem to find it right now.

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Hitting the 5m streams mark on Jamendo

In November of 2008, I uploaded a collection of recordings to a website called Jamendo. Back then it was a myspace-type music social networking site for people who released music using creative commons licenses.

It was peak Napster and some bands were trying to sue fans who shared their music online. Embracing creative commons licenses felt like an appropriate response to this.

I uploaded my music to lots of websites back then, many which have since sunk without a trace, in the belief that some might survive and if my music was any good, someone might listen to it.

Last month I passed 5m streams on Jamendo. I have no idea who most of those listeners are; all I can say for sure, is that it’s not just my mum who listens to my music anymore. Thank you if you are one of those people.

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Supporting Cinder Well at Regather in Sheffield

I am doing another little local Sheffield show to ease myself back in to performing next month supporting Cinder Well at Regather.

Tuesday 29th May 2018 @ Regather, 57-59 Club Garden Road, Sheffield, S11 8BU

I’ll be joined on stage by the lovely Ella Sprung, who will be playing fiddle and singing some harmony bits.

Cinder Well is the haunting folk project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, of eco-anarchist folk-punk act, Blackbird Raum.

Tickets from – https://tickets.partyforthepeople.org/events/3980-cinder-well-bethan-robinson-robin-grey

Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/1081754138644736/